8 AGGRESSIVE NPCs Who Wouldn't Leave You ALONE

And finally, we have the dementedly over-eager police force in the original 2002 release of Mafia.

Mafia remains one of the better open-world action games released in the wake of Grand Theft Auto III, and while it's absolutely the job of the cops to get on your case if you break the law, in this game the po-po's aggression is just dialled way too high.

Even gingerly running a red light or going 1mph over the speed limit is enough to have the cops chasing you down as though you'd just killed one of their colleagues.

Furthermore, even if you're able to lose the cops temporarily, they'll miraculously appear on your tail soon enough totally out of nowhere.

It made for a miserable enough experience in the original release that the sequels made the police decidedly less hot-headed, and 2020's Definitive Edition remake even introduced a slider allowing players to tailor the cop aggression to their own preferences. Glory be.