*****Official Mafia II Thread*****
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Going by the demo, reviews and comments...
If you want something that is extremely story driven and is effectively a linear game set in a sandbox world then the game is for you. Otherwise either avoid it or wait till its on sale.
I'm definatly gonna wait and see. The idea of a game where i spend half my time driving casually to and from missions doesn't sound all that appealing. And as good fun as the demo's combat was i can see it getting very repetitive quite easily.
its decent not amazing but very decent story. if you like GTA/ Saints Row 2 Youll like this game. weather you play it after the game is over is another story.
im gonna go through the game again when i'm finished (should be on last chapter very soon)
i would say its 7.5-8.0/10.0
it just needs free roam without modding & few more side mission to reach a 9 & Buying businesses etc for a 9.5
im gonna go through the game again when i'm finished (should be on last chapter very soon)
i would say its 7.5-8.0/10.0
it just needs free roam without modding & few more side mission to reach a 9 & Buying businesses etc for a 9.5
Just completed it - very much enjoyed it, especially the ending which most people seem to have a problem with.
Positives- nice story, beautiful graphics, car physics felt good (I know a lot of ppl will disagree), good cover system, awesome music!
Negatives- too short, too much aimless driving about, not enough variation in missions, no side quests worth bothering with (seriously just give me a random dude who offers you hits for money or something!).
For free roaming I much preferred GTA, but tbh I haven't enjoyed a GTA storyline since Vice City, so I preferred this on that basis.
Positives- nice story, beautiful graphics, car physics felt good (I know a lot of ppl will disagree), good cover system, awesome music!
Negatives- too short, too much aimless driving about, not enough variation in missions, no side quests worth bothering with (seriously just give me a random dude who offers you hits for money or something!).
For free roaming I much preferred GTA, but tbh I haven't enjoyed a GTA storyline since Vice City, so I preferred this on that basis.
i would say 12 hours maybe 14 if you die a lot like i did
but if you wanna get all the magazines for the women it take you lot longer
question for all, when you have to earn cash say you die do you lose the cash you've earned so far?
Just finished here - 12 hours (on 'easy' as I'm a casual gamer these days) - and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Such a beautiful city with tons of attention to detail, and a good story (if a bit rushed).
The biggest disappointments were the low quality of some of the pre-rendered cutscenes (hotel, for example) and the occasional magic bullet that would kill me instantly (I played the last 'mission' around 12 times because of random seemingly random hits).
I also disliked the police escapes. mainly because there were so many police around every corner and even on 'easy' they are extremely capable at taking your car out - Also, any mission that tells me to 'change my clothes' as I'm wanted, but leaves me no way to do that without being seen, isn't going to impress me.
The whole world is screaming out for side-quests and other interactions, which I think leaves some people disappointed, but it makes for one of the most immersive game worlds - Hopefully the DLC will use it some more.
There was a lot of driving, but I think they designed it well as often you'd be taking a different route around the city that you hadn't been along before.
I'd give it an 7/10, with the note that if they add a varied amount of DLC that utilised the city, it could become an 9/10.
The biggest disappointments were the low quality of some of the pre-rendered cutscenes (hotel, for example) and the occasional magic bullet that would kill me instantly (I played the last 'mission' around 12 times because of random seemingly random hits).
I also disliked the police escapes. mainly because there were so many police around every corner and even on 'easy' they are extremely capable at taking your car out - Also, any mission that tells me to 'change my clothes' as I'm wanted, but leaves me no way to do that without being seen, isn't going to impress me.
The whole world is screaming out for side-quests and other interactions, which I think leaves some people disappointed, but it makes for one of the most immersive game worlds - Hopefully the DLC will use it some more.
There was a lot of driving, but I think they designed it well as often you'd be taking a different route around the city that you hadn't been along before.
I'd give it an 7/10, with the note that if they add a varied amount of DLC that utilised the city, it could become an 9/10.
Just finished it off. Quite a mixed bag, there are some great touches, especially with the attention to detail like snow on the car roofs and the headlights in the rain. The lighting was impressive and so was the performance, which for the rich city environment was very well done. The story was engaging but leads me to the game mechanics of which there are 3 and only 3.
Gunfights (fairly robust, a bit ruthless sometimes)
Driving (very nicely done, the cars have weight and hold a real threat when travelling fast)
Fistfights (overly simplified for what is a key mechanic, no fight ever posed a threat)
Strange thing is, they seem to have left out aspects of the game that were great before. I remember being asked to beat up some guys car with baseball bats, took a crew of 4 guys and hammered his motor.. that felt like proper mafia stuff and it's just not in this one. The racing from before was left out too and those period racing cars were awesome. No gun stand-offs either. It often lacked tension.
It could easily have been any gang game if not for the time period and Americano/Italiano accents.
Gunfights (fairly robust, a bit ruthless sometimes)
Driving (very nicely done, the cars have weight and hold a real threat when travelling fast)
Fistfights (overly simplified for what is a key mechanic, no fight ever posed a threat)
Strange thing is, they seem to have left out aspects of the game that were great before. I remember being asked to beat up some guys car with baseball bats, took a crew of 4 guys and hammered his motor.. that felt like proper mafia stuff and it's just not in this one. The racing from before was left out too and those period racing cars were awesome. No gun stand-offs either. It often lacked tension.
It could easily have been any gang game if not for the time period and Americano/Italiano accents.
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I lost most of mine many times, you must have played on easy .
Very annoying I found ,you can only punch when it lets you ,so you taping the light punch and hard punch key and nothing happens also the dodge key only works when the game lets you use it .
You only seem to have limited control of your character which lets the game down ,also a shame its not first person .
Over all though its well worth buying and an enjoyable game .
The punches only work within a certain range, but the dodge is permanent if you keep it pressed ? I never found a single place where you couldn't dodge, and the fights become much easier after you're taught a bit more.
Also +1 on missing more traditional mafia beat-ups and extortion. That all just kind of disappeared into a long cutscene
Ok for anyone interested I've created the 40s and 50s radio songs as playlists on Spotify.
Link to the 1940s playlist
Link to the 1950s playlist
Link to the 1940s playlist
Link to the 1950s playlist
It's easy. Why change when you are set up on spotify?
Firstly I've not played the original Mafia. I thought this was a real mixed bag.
Game starts off very well, the atmosphere when you first arrive in the city, the attention to detail is brilliant. But no sooner has the game started those little details just stop. When you first go for a walk there is a couple arguing in the street about their broken car. If you hang around the husband walks off and you can fix it for the woman and she thanks you and drives off. There's only three of four more times this happens in the game and never to this extent. It's these details and side missions that make the city feel alive.
One of the stand out moments in GTA4 was me standing on the terrace outside PlayboyX's apartment in the early hours listening to the traffic and police cars on the streets below, the city felt truly alive, that around the city events were taking place without me witnessing them. In Empire Bay I never had that feeling, when I turned a corner in to some street and saw a pedestrian slip over on the icy 'sidewalk' it felt like he'd been waiting for me to arrive. The lack of of public transport is also really odd, there's raised railways, and stairs down to subways, not to mention bus's and taxis, and you can't use any of them! As I posted on twitter last night "You can flush the loo in your house, but you can't hail a taxi driving down the street!"
Story was solid enough, with some twists and turns along the way. I did wonder about after being in "the faaamilee" this group of 15 people who were supposed to be loyal and caring more for each other than their own real families was happy for me to be living a filthy flat.
The game engine is quite impressive, the softening of distant objects gives the city scale. Architecture of the 40s and 50s, exteriors and interiors are very good. As someone above said, the cars felt very heavy and travelling 100mph in one felt like an imminent death experience. Music was good, but towards the end I was getting a little irritated hearing the same stuff over and over again.
I'm expecting a lot of DLC for this, whether I buy it is another matter...
Game starts off very well, the atmosphere when you first arrive in the city, the attention to detail is brilliant. But no sooner has the game started those little details just stop. When you first go for a walk there is a couple arguing in the street about their broken car. If you hang around the husband walks off and you can fix it for the woman and she thanks you and drives off. There's only three of four more times this happens in the game and never to this extent. It's these details and side missions that make the city feel alive.
One of the stand out moments in GTA4 was me standing on the terrace outside PlayboyX's apartment in the early hours listening to the traffic and police cars on the streets below, the city felt truly alive, that around the city events were taking place without me witnessing them. In Empire Bay I never had that feeling, when I turned a corner in to some street and saw a pedestrian slip over on the icy 'sidewalk' it felt like he'd been waiting for me to arrive. The lack of of public transport is also really odd, there's raised railways, and stairs down to subways, not to mention bus's and taxis, and you can't use any of them! As I posted on twitter last night "You can flush the loo in your house, but you can't hail a taxi driving down the street!"
Story was solid enough, with some twists and turns along the way. I did wonder about after being in "the faaamilee" this group of 15 people who were supposed to be loyal and caring more for each other than their own real families was happy for me to be living a filthy flat.
The game engine is quite impressive, the softening of distant objects gives the city scale. Architecture of the 40s and 50s, exteriors and interiors are very good. As someone above said, the cars felt very heavy and travelling 100mph in one felt like an imminent death experience. Music was good, but towards the end I was getting a little irritated hearing the same stuff over and over again.
I'm expecting a lot of DLC for this, whether I buy it is another matter...