Have you ever heard of a game called Mafia? It’s a game frequently played at parties where everyone is given a role as either a townie or a mafia. The mafia knows who the other mafia are, but the townies have no idea. During the day phase, all players vote to lynch a player. During the night phase, the mafia decides which townie to kill. The game ends when one side is all dead.
There is a version being played on IRC even now. A game only takes about ten minutes to play, and goes rather quickly. It’s a lot of fun. There are a couple of variations on the game, and the IRC channel allows many of these. There are also additional roles, like townies who are cops or doctors. There is a very nice flash file that shows all the different roles available, and you should use this as a reference guide during the game.
http://mikeburnfire.sitesled.com/mscumB.swf
You can play this game on the IRC server irc.globalgamers.net in the #mafia channel. If you don’t know how to get IRC, use mIRC for Windows available at http://www.mirc.co.uk.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Mafia is a absolutely perfect classic PC game. Yet, a PS2 version is made and it sucks so hard core bad.
The Good: Nice story telling and dialog throughout; Graphics and Character models look good, the 30’s vehicles look pretty.
The Bad: Doesn’t hipe up to the classic version; Gun down an enemie or a cop, no blood and the rest of the bodies vanish and don’t lay around; Driving machanics are rusty; In Free Mode, without cops, trains, night time modes or gun shopping, it’s pretty worthless unlike it used to be.