The overall design is one of the game’s best features, as its construction is quite believable. The city design is inspired by both San Francisco and New York, and throughout, you’ll find many neighborhoods, buildings and other things that are reminiscent of the cities at that time. You could literally run (or drive) from one end of the map to the other without a loading sequence, and likewise, you always have a map of the city available to you at any time, and also the ability to create personal waypoints. The game takes place in one large city, Empire Bay, and load screens are minimal. ![]() Mafia II is often compared to Grand Theft Auto, and for good reason. For example, a $7 set of lockpicks at the start of the game are $10 down the road, so there’s good attention to detail here. To help add to the game’s realism, the cars and music available change over time, and believe it or not, so does the pricing of some things, due to inflation. The game consists of 15 chapters and covers the time period between 19. But Mafia II manages to kill two birds with one stone, because while it’s a game, it plays like a movie in many parts, and unless you couldn’t care less about the story, the cut-scenes found here are quite welcomed. Getting a hold of $2,000 in the 1940’s isn’t a simple feat, so Vito quickly found himself living the life of a gangster, and ultimately working his way into a Mafia family and subsequently working his way up.įor the most part, there has never been a large number of Mafia-themed games to choose from, so for fans of such content, movies have been almost the only real option. Due to an injury, he’s sent back home and discovers that his father, who passed away while he was at war, borrowed $2,000 from a loan shark and is required to pay it back. As a result of being caught by police after a robbery, he finds himself back in Italy fighting in the Invasion of Sicily. Vito is a man that is never far from trouble, and it’s been that way ever since he met his best friend as a kid, Joe Barbaro. The lead character is Vito Scaletta, a Sicilian-born World War II veteran that finds himself in the United States, thanks to a move that his family made earlier in his life. Like many Mafia-themed games and movies, the story of Mafia II isn’t too original, but there are enough plot-twists and misleading outcomes that still manage to captivate. That sure isn’t the case for Mafia II, though, which sees its release almost exactly eight years later.Īlthough the large gap between releases was undoubtedly difficult for fans to deal with, Mafia II does a lot of things right, and though I haven’t had the pleasure of playing the original, I found Mafia II to be refreshing, and one of the best and more interesting games I’ve played in a while. Most often, a developer will capitalize on the game’s initial success and release a sequel as soon as possible. ![]() But for Mafia II, things were handled a bit differently. When a game is released to some great reception, it can almost be assured that at some point in the future, a sequel will be released.
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