Move over GTA4, here comes Mafia 2

Well after going through the pain of having to actualy download a file (doesnt streaming download the file anyhow to your cache) - Fail.....! and then finding out its actually a .mov file - Epic fail!! I found that the trailer certainly intruiges me as to what the game will be like. (By the way I was joking with the fail/epic fail - some people astound me).

Since its fmv from the one I looked at and not game footage I'll reserve judgement after falling for the advert that made me think Mercenaries 2 would be good fun to play but I'm certainly hoping for a GTA4 beater :)
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Not seen above but the game looked like it used defered lighting too so aa might not be in this either.
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How can you see that?

What's wrong with deferred lightning, as long as they add dx10 support like R* initially planned, there is no problem with AA...

Actually just looked it up:
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=58081 said:
Mafia II, developed by the original creators Illusion Softworks, features a deep mobster-driven narrative packed with both behind-the-wheel and on-foot action. The Illusion engine was specifically written for Mafia II, and successor to IS' LS3D engine which was used in the original game. According to the few details out there the new engine will rival CryEngine 2 (Crysis) and support only DX10, use Nvidia PhysX, be twice as big as Mafia, and include various methods of transportation (card, subways, metros, bus..)
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So that means we should have aa :D, haven't seen one dx10 game yet without AA. Hope they make good use of Physx too.

Roll on saints row 2 tbh.
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I'm pretty sure the atmosphere in Mafia 2 will be better, because SR2 doesn't really have one, it looked a bit generic when I played it for 30 mins on 360... Can't judge it of course until I have them both on my pc :D. But I'm certainly looking more forward to Mafia2.
 
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Goldfingers said:
no streaming trailer? :mad::mad::mad:

Do i look like the type of mug that would spend valuble time and bandwidth downloading?What do you think I got broadband for? Not for pos waiting to watch trailers that's for sure.
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Oh btw (in case nobody realised) the above was just a major exaggeration, in a sarcastic joking way, of the feelings I have about downloading instead of streaming!!!
 
Story line in Mafia1 is 2nd to nothing really. Even Half-Life doesn't cut it.

At the time it ran about as well as GTA4 runs today, so I guess on todays machines it'll run like a dream!
You just have to remember, it's set in the 40s/50s? So the don't expect it to zoom around as if it was GTA:mindless fun.
 
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The first mafia was a gta ripoff...but i enjoyed completing it...the police were harder to outrun on mafia and the gun combat was harder...it seemed more realistic than gta but i love them both
 
Delvis said:
I never played the first one.

Probably a tad dated now :p Just seemed like a GTA 3 rip to me.
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NO! Play it now - it's one of the greatest story based games to come to the PC. GTA has nothing on effective story telling like this!!! The game engine has aged surprisingly well - just don't expect your 1930's era cars to handle like a Turismo ;)
 
Mafia was really nothing like GTA at all, which has always been, lets be honest, mindless violence which is fine but this is different. The GTA story lines are weak at best, general cliche'd generic missions if you ask me, its fun and great but its an arcade silly violence indulging game.

Mafia 1 was about the story and not about randomly running people over or finding all the jumps on the map. The story is one of the best of any game of all time frankly, the driving was to get you from one place to another not about fun really. It was beautifully designed and looked pretty superb for its time and ran pretty sweet from what I can remember which is difficult seeing as I've played it since in 10 times as powerful hardware so obviously that was smooth.

Some of the missions, some of that atmosphere its barely been beaten to date if at all. One mission in a roadside cafe in the middle of nowhere, with rain beating down on tin roofs, similar atmosphere on a farm out of town, just brilliant gaming start to finish.

The only thing I found less than fun was the cops, it was maybe a touch to realistic in catching and stopping you for speeding, would have been nice to have it as an option, experience the realism for a few levels then get turn it off and speed around a little more.

Been looking forward to a follow up since I finished the first. Its one of those games thats so good you should punch anyone you know who downloaded, played and didn't buy it and do the same with Mafia 2. Can only pray to god its not a dumbed down console version of the first game. IIRC the first was an out and out PC game that was later ported to consoles rather than the other way around, it was never built with consoles in mind.
 
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