Trivia / Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

• Acting for Two:
  • In the French dub of The City of Lost Heaven, Bruno Dubernat voiced both Lucas Bertone and the gas station attendants. Curiously, when Tommy's car is filled, he says "Thanks, Lucas!" to the gas station attendants (who all look the same), who clearly don't look like Bertone.
  • In the French dub of The City of Lost Heaven again, Philippe Dumond voiced both the Salieri gang's consigliere Frank Colletti and Dino (the Morello mook who wrecks Tommy's taxi at the beginning).
  • Besides their roles as Sam and Paulie, Don DiPetta and Jeremy Luke also did the motion capture for Vito and Joe in the epilogue, combined with an archive recording of Rick Pasqualone as Vito.
• Content Leak: A significant amount of gameplay and cutscene footage from the PS4 version of the Definitive Edition was leaked onto YouTube days before release, including the final mission and epilogue scenes. Not that 2K didn't have the scenes taken down though.
• Disowned Adaptation: Daniel Vávra, the writer and developer of the first game, criticized the game for its changes and animations. He was especially critical of the ending, finding it changed the meaning of the game completely, and wasn't fond of the song they used for the credits, either. He outright declared he wants to pretend it didn't happen. Whether fans agree with him or not is a source of debate.
• Dueling Works: The City of Lost Heaven came out the same year as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which also has an Italian-American mafioso as protagonist and an open world (the PC port of Vice City came out in 2003).
• Fake American: Tommy and Vincenzo were played by Italian-Australian actors Andrew Bongiorno and Paul Tassone respectively in the Definitive Edition remake.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The PC version of the original 2002 game was removed from Steam, meaning you'd need either a physical copy, or a pirated copy.
  • Thankfully no longer the case as of October 2017, the game is now legally available on GoG. The latter release however lacks any licensed music due to, well, licencing issues with the songs used in the original release.
  • As of November 2017 it is back on Steam as well, also without the licensed music.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Befitting its status as a clean-slate remake, the Definitive Edition is voiced by an all-new cast in the English version, with Italian-Australian actor Andrew Bongiorno lending his voice, likeness and motion capture performance to Tommy Angelo; the Czech dub however has most of the surviving cast members reprise their roles for the remake, one of them being Marek Vašut who returned to voice Tommy.
  • The French dub cast of the Definitive Edition is all new as well.
• Production Posse: Actors Glenn Taranto (Police Chief Earl Wilson) and Jordi Caballero (Santangelo) from Mafia III return for the Definitive remake as Don Salieri and Salvatore the locksmith, respectively.
• Prop Recycling: Many environmental assets in the remake were reused from Mafia III, though this is somewhat understandable given how the remake is more of a budget-priced side project by Hangar 13 rather than a full-blown installment.
• Release Date Change: The Definitive Edition was delayed from August 28 to September 25 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Said pandemic brought in complications with completing the game—the orchestra had to conduct several sessions when they recorded the iconic main theme, with select members having to perform their pieces at a time to comply with social distancing protocols and then mixing them all in post-production.
• Role Reprise: While the English and French language releases of the Definitive Edition saw all-new casts, the Czech dub has most of the voice actors from the original 2002 release return to reprise their roles.
• Shrug of God: When asked about rumours that he voiced a drunk taxi passenger in the remake, actor Jeremy Luke (who portrayed Paulie) neither confirmed nor denied the similarities in both characters' voices.
• What Could Have Been: A number of features were either completely cut from the game or dummied out of the final release, as shown in this video by Mafia series fan Cukier:
  • Traces of the racing mode which made it to the console releases in lieu of Freeride Extreme are still present and can be re-activated to a certain extent.
  • Said racing mode can also be played online as multiplayer functionality remains within the game executable.
  • Deathmatch and team deathmatch modes are also mentioned in the game files.
  • Illusion initially intended Mafia to be a driving game similar to Driver. They also initially utilised the engine used in Hidden & Dangerous, but this was replaced by LS3D when the previous engine didn't cut it for their needs.
  • Being built on top of the Mafia III engine, the Definitive Edition has some leftovers from the previous instalment, including the ability to swim—Tommy is indeed able to swim, all to the extent that his clothes do get wet, but attempting to dive in bodies of water results in the player being warped back to the nearest shore within the city map; the test map as shown in SliderV2's video allows said mechanic to be done ingame.
  • Day-to-night cycles appear to have been Dummied Out in the remake, but can be restored using a mod.
  • Dozens upon dozens of unused characters, some of which were leftovers from Mafia III can be re-enabled and used as a player model through a trainer. One standout is that of Yellow Pete, who was going to be featured in "Moonlighting" and "The Death of Art" but was ultimately cut in the remake due to time constraints.
• Woolseyism: In the Italian dub of the remake, Salvatore the locksmith speaks Sicilian.

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