History YMMV / MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven

* ThatOneLevel: The race level, even ''more so'' than in the original, due to it being only 3 rounds instead of 5 and the annoying commentary. As if the original wasn't frustratingly difficult enough, the one on the remake takes things UpToEleven.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: While most people praised the improved presentation and story expansion amongst other things, others, particularly those who grew up playing the 2002 original, weren't so sure about the changes brought on by the remake. For instace, the added emphasis on cinematic set pieces particularly that of the short cutscenes playing whenever the player uses the roadworks strewn throughout Lost Heaven to disable enemy cars in the first mission, especially as it interrupted the game's flow in favour of a more Hollywood-esque feel. Reception to the new cast was also mixed, with some who were more accustomed to Mike Sorvino over Andrew Bongiorno; the Czech dub tries to avert this however, as most of the surviving cast from the original reprise their roles.
** The Racing mission now has rubberbanding, which the original lacked. (at least on Easy, there's no rubber banding in the original but still in the remake.)

* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Former ''Mafia'' series head writer Daniel Vávra took to social media to express his, um, opinions about the remake, and they weren't exactly rosy; some fans and even a number of those so-called "Czech OG Mafia fanboys" did shoot back at him as a whiny, egoistic drama queen however.

** Some, including series creator Daniel Vávra, likened Jeremy Luke's face as Paulie to Franchise/{{Shrek}} or the notorious Pepe The Frog webcomic character (given Vavra's links to the Gamergate and alt-right movements, it isn't surprising.)

* ThatOneLevel: The race level, even ''more so'' than in the original, due to it being only 3 rounds instead of 5 and the annoying commentary-

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hoo boy... While most people did praise the improved presentation and story expansion amongst other things, some particularly those who grew up playing the 2002 original weren't so sure about the changes brought on by the remake, like for example the added emphasis on cinematic set pieces particularly that of the short cutscenes playing whenever the player uses the roadworks strewn throughout Lost Heaven to disable enemy cars in the first mission, especially as it interrupted the game's flow in favour of a more Hollywood-esque feel. Reception to the new cast was also mixed, with some who were more accustomed to Mike Sorvino over Andrew Bongiorno; the Czech dub tries to avert this however, as most of the surviving cast from the original reprise their roles
** Also not helping matters was with the quiet announcement on Steam that the remake will be using the oft-criticised Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM, which has been a recurring point of controversy due to its performance overhead and anti-consumer concerns.

* BrokenBase: Opinions are divided over the ''Definitive Edition'' remake, with some including series creator Daniel Vávra expressing his displeasure with the remake's gameplay direction; Vávra was however chastised, even by fellow Czech gamers, for his callous remarks especially when he ridiculed Paulie actor Jeremy Luke for looking too much like Shrek or Pepe The Frog.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hoo boy... While most people did praise the improved presentation and story expansion amongst other things, some particularly those who grew up playing the 2002 original weren't so sure about the changes brought on by the remake, like for example the added emphasis on cinematic set pieces particularly that of the short cutscenes playing whenever the player uses the roadworks strewn throughout Lost Heaven to disable enemy cars in the first mission, especially as it interrupted the game's flow in favour of a more Hollywood-esque feel. Reception to the new cast was also mixed, with some who were more accustomed to Mike Sorvino over Andrew Bongiorno; the Czech dub tries to avert this however, as most of the surviving cast from the original reprise their roles.

** "Tommy isn't a trained soldier."[[note]]In the July gameplay reveal, Hangar 13 president Haden Blackman made this claim to differentiate civilian protagonist Tommy Angelo from ''Mafia III'''s deadly Vietnam veteran protagonist Lincoln Clay, hoping to also reflect it in gameplay. The problem is that most of Tommy's animations in the demonstration were lifted directly from Lincoln, most egregiously the precise blindfire molotov. It made for some nasty GameplayAndStorySegregation and a fair share of teasing and mockery alike from the community.[[/note]]

** Some, including series creator Daniel Vavra, likened Creator/JeremyLuke's face as Paulie to Franchise/{{Shrek}} or the notorious Pepe The Frog webcomic character (given Vavra's links to the Gamergate and alt-right movements, it isn't surprising.)
* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Former ''Mafia'' series head writer Daniel Vavra took to social media to express his, um, opinions of the remake, and they weren't exactly rosy; some fans did shoot back at him as a drama queen however.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hoo boy... While most people did praise the improved presentation and story expansion amongst other things, some particularly those who grew up playing the 2002 original weren't so sure about the changes brought on by the remake, like for example the added emphasis on cinematic setpieces particularly that of the short cutscenes playing whenever the player uses the roadworks strewn throughout Lost Heaven to disable enemy cars in the first mission, especially as it interrupted the game's flow in favour of a more Hollywood-esque feel. Reception to the new cast was also mixed, with some who were more accustomed to Mike Sorvino over Andrew Bongiorno; the Czech dub tries to avert this however, as most of the surviving cast from the original reprise their roles.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The priest in the level of the same name. A [[GoodShepherd honest man of god]] who is just a little naive and sad to see Tommy go down his dark path or a {{Sinister Minister}} who is voluntarily whitewashing the crimes of the City Councilor's son and greedily takes Tommy's money.

* ThatOneLevel:
** The racing level, which thankfully has a helpful cheat to cut down the time you spend on it. An update to the game removed this cheat (by placing an invisible wall in front of the side road you needed to be on to use it) but made this level easier by slowing the opponents cars down a good bit, and another patch added freely changeable difficulty levels if the player feels the need to use it.
** Freeride Extreme mission three involves driving the Bolt, one of the most sluggish and unwieldy vehicles in the game, down a bridge and around a bend. Sounds easy enough - except there's a zeppelin overhead that inexplicably and violently bombs the bridge to try to wreck it specifically. It's possible with a little luck to drive on through unless you're playing above 30 frames per second, in which case [[GameBreakingBug the bombs drop so frequently that you cannot win.]] [[spoiler:Of course, you can always TakeAThirdOption, push the Bolt across the bridge with another vehicle, go back to accept the mission, and then drive ''that'' across the bridge at a faster speed to have a higher chance of survival, then grab the Bolt and finish the mission without any issues.]]

** Freeride Extreme mission three involves driving one of the more sluggish and unwieldy vehicles in the game down a bridge and around a bend. Sounds easy enough - except there's a zeppelin overhead that inexplicably and violently bombs the bridge to try to destroy the car specifically. It's possible with a little luck to drive on through unless you're playing above 30 frames per second, in which case [[GameBreakingBug the bombs drop so frequently that you cannot win.]] [[spoiler:Of course, you can always TakeAThirdOption, push the objective car across the bridge with another vehicle, go back to accept the mission, and then drive ''that'' across the bridge at a faster speed to have a higher chance of survival, then grab the car and finish the mission without any issues.]]

** Freeride Extreme mission three involves driving one of the more sluggish and unwieldy vehicles in the game down a bridge and around a bend. Sounds easy enough - except there's a zeppelin overhead that inexplicably and violently bombs the bridge to try to destroy the car specifically. It's possible with a little luck to drive on through unless you're playing above 30 frames per second, in which case [[GameBreakingBug the bombs drop so frequently that you cannot win.]] [[spoiler:Of course, you can always TakeAThirdOption, push the objective car across the bridge with another vehicle, then drive ''that'' across the bridge at a faster speed to have a higher chance of survival, then grab the car and finish the mission without any issues.]]

* ThatOneLevel: The racing level, which thankfully has a helpful cheat to cut down the time you spend on it.
** An update to the game removed this cheat (by placing an invisible wall in front of the side road you needed to be on to use it) but made this level easier by slowing the opponents cars down a good bit.
** Seriously YMMV on this, because [[ItsEasySoItSucks you can set the difficulty]] [[ItsHardSoItSucks to whatever you please]], and none of the difficulty levels are ever locked.
** It is worth nothing that the ability to change the difficulty was added in a patch.

* CultClassic: It's considered as one of the best story-driven games of the early 2000s by many.

** The French dubbing has been praised, with the likes of José Luccioni (the French voice of Creator/AlPacino) for Tommy, Patrice Melennec (the French voice of James Gandolfini) for Don Salieri, Creator/PhilippeDumond (French voice of [[VideoGame/{{Hitman}} Agent 47]]) and Creator/PhilippePeythieu (the French voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]) for Luigi most notably.

** The French dubbing has been praised, with the likes of José Luccioni (the French voice of Creator/AlPacino) for Tommy, Patrice Melennec (the French voice of James Gandolfini) for Don Salieri and Creator/PhilippePeythieu (the French voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]) for Luigi most notably.