Mafia Tips & Tricks

As soon as you enter free ride mode, you will start in a car with a reddish gate directly behind you. Drive forward so that you are in the street, then reverse right back to the location you started. A car selection screen will appear, and you can select any unlocked car.

After finishing story mode you will unlock the day and night options in free ride mode.

Blow up cars for $100 each.
Drive taxis to earn money.
Kill the men in the all black suits with the black hat (gangsters) to earn $500 each.
Go into the country and speed in a fast car.

Aiming at tires and shooting where the bolts are, in the middle. This works best with the Tommy gun.

To get a baseball bat in free ride mode, look inside a taxi because someone will always have one.

While driving through the city, you will encounter many police officers. You can run one of them down and pick up his standard issued gun. Your wanted level will go up, but immediately diminish. This works best if there is only one police officer, on foot, with no police officer witnesses.

In free ride mode, taxi drivers and sometimes regular motorists will carry the small brown revolver and the small silver revolver. Pull them out of their cars and kill them to get the weapon.

Walk behind them and shoot them. This works best with the sawed off shotgun.

Use a car for killing them and run them over. When they drop their weapons, they are dead.

When they are on the street, use the machine gun to spray them in the back. If done correctly, they will not even have a chance to turn around.

Get to a rail station, elevated rail station, or trolley. Get in and wait until your wanted level goes down.

The most efficient way to evade the police is make a lot of turns. The best turns are in front of or behind another car or the trolley. The police will try to make your exact turn, but will run into the car or trolley. You can also make turns between light posts close to the curb if your car is small or short enough. This also works well during the first mission.