Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Mafia series has long been a contemporary of franchises like GTA and Saints Row, but its focus has always been much more narrow than those ...

A poignant line from the early hours of Mafia: The Old Country states that we can choose who we are, not what we do. I kept that line in my head as I experienced this historical take on the crime ...

Since its debut, the Mafia series has steadily marched forward through the decades – the original is set in the 1930s, its sequel spans the ’40s and ’50s, and Mafia III unfolds during the late ’60s.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Mafia series has always been an outlier in the open-world action genre. While the 2002 original could have easily been written off as another ...