Our story starts with a fantastic intro that first up demonstrates the scope of the game engine before introducing the hero of the tale - you. At the beginning of the game, in true Tarantino style, you are ending your Mafia career - spilling your guts to a cop. It is through these free and frank confessions of your deeds to John Law that the game is played out - the "flashbacks" (they would be flashbacks if this were a film or tv show) are sequences where you get to commit the crimes / partake in the action.

You start out honest enough, a taxi driver trying to scrape together a living in the tough times that were the 1930's depression. Before you become a crim, you get to drive people all across town in your rather pedestrian little motor car. It is here that the true genius of the game first becomes apparent - the missions setup the style of the game brilliantly; you get to absorb the city in full flow (hearing its sites and sounds, careening wantonly through the traffic - that sort of thing) and you are also rapidly introduced to the layout of the city, which will come in very handy later. It is through sheer chance / an act of fate that your character and the mob become "acquainted". Our hero did not set out to be a bad guy, but to be honest, he doesn't exactly take his time when jumping the fence. And so the story proper gets underway. To avoid spoiling it, we'll leave the bulk of the story telling to the game itself - you will, after all, be buying it.