Saints Row 2 and Saints Row the Third, as mentioned above, are pretty much just GTA but with extra absurdity added to the mix. The first game is easy to overlook, seeing as it was only released for the Xbox 360 and is now only playable on the Xbox One via backward compatibility. At the moment, the franchise consists of five games: Saints Row is essentially what you’d get if you took GTA and turned the ridiculous factor up by 1000%. But apart from that, Mafia doesn’t have much new to offer that you haven’t already seen in GTA. Truth be told, the Mafia games will mainly appeal to those who like this particular setting, as few good GTA-like games take place in 20 th century America. Sadly, the Mafia games neither became quite as popular as GTA nor were they as well received by the fans and the critics.

Moreover, Mafia takes itself a bit more seriously than GTA does, so it lacks the kind of humor that GTA is known for. While the latest “ HD Universe” are set in fictional modern-day cities, the first, second, and third Mafia games take place in the 1930s, 1940s, and the 1960s, respectively.Īpart from that difference, which mainly affects the aesthetics and the narrative, Mafia plays more or less just like GTA – it features an open city to explore, various vehicles becoming of the period, and a plethora of criminal activities to take part in. The most obvious difference between the GTA and the Mafia games is the setting. The first Mafia game came out around the same time as GTA Vice City, and it has received two sequels, titled simply Mafia II (2010) and Mafia III (2016).

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