aggressivelly so-so
this is a game that wishes it was a movie, and i wish it was a movie too.
never have i realized how much some games wanna be other medium while trying their hardest to milk the platform they are in, here is a game that wants to tell a story with all its strenght but is so ashamed to be a ''game'' that it only does the bare minimun a game should have in order to sell it as one, i was wondering why i wasn't liking the open world in this game for a while, even if its small and rather thematically pleasing, the reason is that its padding, the entire open world is just padding, its so they can get away with making you spend a total of 12 to 17 hours driving from A to B and call it a game at the end of your experience, ocasionally you'll participate in the barebones shootout (around 6 to 8 times max) if you took off the padding of the driving, all you'd have is a bunch of cutscenes and very few shooting sections, its like it doesn't wanna be a game and it had to be one.
its not the map padding either, the game asks itself ''what do open worlds have ??'' then add small things to fill the quota.
open world has clothing ? add 6 or 7 clothing styles max
open world has car customization ? let them change the tires and the car number.
it also legitimatelly punishes you if you just wanna fuck around too, unlike other open worlds that know they are basically theme based toyboxes, this one will only allow you to stay in the mission path and if you try to have some weird fun, it will punish you by forcing you to go change clothes or change car because you can't just avoid the police, you gotta do a boring stealth drive to change everything then go back to doing missions like a very good boy player of gameTM that you are, compare it to something like yakuza 2 which didn't had half the budget this had yet knew how to be a compelling story AND a great game and you see where i'm coming from.
yet despite all that i was greatly invested in the characters and the story, even if it boils down to a mafia slice of life with really dumb protags. overall i don't know what to think so i think it sucks but i would watch the cutscenes on youtube anytime
this is a game that wishes it was a movie, and i wish it was a movie too.
never have i realized how much some games wanna be other medium while trying their hardest to milk the platform they are in, here is a game that wants to tell a story with all its strenght but is so ashamed to be a ''game'' that it only does the bare minimun a game should have in order to sell it as one, i was wondering why i wasn't liking the open world in this game for a while, even if its small and rather thematically pleasing, the reason is that its padding, the entire open world is just padding, its so they can get away with making you spend a total of 12 to 17 hours driving from A to B and call it a game at the end of your experience, ocasionally you'll participate in the barebones shootout (around 6 to 8 times max) if you took off the padding of the driving, all you'd have is a bunch of cutscenes and very few shooting sections, its like it doesn't wanna be a game and it had to be one.
its not the map padding either, the game asks itself ''what do open worlds have ??'' then add small things to fill the quota.
open world has clothing ? add 6 or 7 clothing styles max
open world has car customization ? let them change the tires and the car number.
it also legitimatelly punishes you if you just wanna fuck around too, unlike other open worlds that know they are basically theme based toyboxes, this one will only allow you to stay in the mission path and if you try to have some weird fun, it will punish you by forcing you to go change clothes or change car because you can't just avoid the police, you gotta do a boring stealth drive to change everything then go back to doing missions like a very good boy player of gameTM that you are, compare it to something like yakuza 2 which didn't had half the budget this had yet knew how to be a compelling story AND a great game and you see where i'm coming from.
yet despite all that i was greatly invested in the characters and the story, even if it boils down to a mafia slice of life with really dumb protags. overall i don't know what to think so i think it sucks but i would watch the cutscenes on youtube anytime
The game world is pretty, but unfortunately also completely irrelevant. Everything only serves as a backdrop. As a result, the sometimes long journeys to mission goals are boring. But those who stick out here will still be rewarded with a great, atmospheric gangster story that shines with interesting characters throughout.
Jogão para quem curte histórias de máfia! Evolução dos personagens é legal e mostra que na máfia nunca vai ter algo bom no final… gameplay gostosa de jogar e tem coisas que gosto mais que GTA!! Bom dms
Из улучшений только графика, но оценку выше ставить это бред ибо оптимизация очень хромает, много багов, во время разрушений объектов ваш компьютер может словить инсульт, для слабых пк не рекомендую
La saga Mafia vivra malheureusement toujours dans l'ombre de GTA pour le grand public et c'est bien dommage car Mafia II est excellent. Le jeu est bon dans sa globalité (malgré quelques glitchs agaçants), le scénario est sympa mais je retiendrai surtout l'immersion dans les années 40-50, mention spéciale aux musiques diffusées sur les stations radios.
Let's goooooo I just got the platinum trophy. This will always be one of my favourite games so I needed to get the platinum trophy and it wasn't actually that hard, it was just annoying at times but I'm so glad I did it.
Ta wapo
The game has massive flaws, some pretty big bugs, even to this day, but Mafia II's last set piece and story ending do some heavy lifting at the finish line to make it a pretty enjoyable experience despite those flaws.
The camera is wonky at times, every vehicle feels bad to drive, the AI can be unpredictable, including the cars on the road, which can be frustrating at times. A lot of this though is just an age thing though, so some of these frustrations are a bit forgivable for me.
A lot of it is big dumb empty calories of gangster cliches and action-movie-levels of gameplay depth. But if you like those types of games and want one that's got a better than average story, Mafia II is an easy recommend.
The camera is wonky at times, every vehicle feels bad to drive, the AI can be unpredictable, including the cars on the road, which can be frustrating at times. A lot of this though is just an age thing though, so some of these frustrations are a bit forgivable for me.
A lot of it is big dumb empty calories of gangster cliches and action-movie-levels of gameplay depth. But if you like those types of games and want one that's got a better than average story, Mafia II is an easy recommend.
Bom jogo, o 1 e melhor em questão de história mas esse não e tão ruim, única parte que eu não gostei foi desse final mas de resto um bom jogo
Orijinal oyundan hiç bir farkı olmamasına rağmen hem 50 gb yer kaplaması hem de sorunlu bir oyun olması.Bok gibi remastered.
First off I want to say this game was great and if you haven't ever played the Mafia series before you should treat yourself. Also I played the Definitive Editions of both games.
I played Mafia earlier in the year and it became a top 5 game of the year so far for me with a score of 9. I love that the games are set about 15 years apart from each other so you have an overlap of characters albeit pretty small. Mafia was set around 1930-1938 with Mafia 2 being set at the end of WW2 so 1945-1951.
I would like to start off with gameplay and it is was great the whole way through the game. Although it would have been easier if i was using a controller, but I didn't feel like getting it out of the closet. The weapons in the game were fun, but they were pretty simple to use which is fine since there is no first person ads. The driving in the game was a whole lot better than Mafia and felt great to speed around from cops or just driving while listening to some great music.
The story being set right at the end of WW2 was pretty nice and felt pretty realistic to how people were back in the day. The overall story was decent being Vito pretty much wanting to make money and striving not to end up like his late father. With how the story connected throughout the chapters it seemed like it jumped around pretty fast with little to no explanations for certain things.
The characters are where the story shined though with Joe, Henry, Leo, Vito and others. All of their interactions with each other were great, but when it came to the actual "Family" of the mob it was done pretty poorly compared to Mafia. It felt more like being an errand boy
than an actual family like the Salieri crime family of the first game.
All in all if you enjoyed the first game you will definitely enjoy the second game. I will get to Mafia 3 sooner rather than later to finish off this amazing trilogy so far.
Mafia 2 (7.75/10)
I played Mafia earlier in the year and it became a top 5 game of the year so far for me with a score of 9. I love that the games are set about 15 years apart from each other so you have an overlap of characters albeit pretty small. Mafia was set around 1930-1938 with Mafia 2 being set at the end of WW2 so 1945-1951.
I would like to start off with gameplay and it is was great the whole way through the game. Although it would have been easier if i was using a controller, but I didn't feel like getting it out of the closet. The weapons in the game were fun, but they were pretty simple to use which is fine since there is no first person ads. The driving in the game was a whole lot better than Mafia and felt great to speed around from cops or just driving while listening to some great music.
The story being set right at the end of WW2 was pretty nice and felt pretty realistic to how people were back in the day. The overall story was decent being Vito pretty much wanting to make money and striving not to end up like his late father. With how the story connected throughout the chapters it seemed like it jumped around pretty fast with little to no explanations for certain things.
The characters are where the story shined though with Joe, Henry, Leo, Vito and others. All of their interactions with each other were great, but when it came to the actual "Family" of the mob it was done pretty poorly compared to Mafia. It felt more like being an errand boy
than an actual family like the Salieri crime family of the first game.
All in all if you enjoyed the first game you will definitely enjoy the second game. I will get to Mafia 3 sooner rather than later to finish off this amazing trilogy so far.
Mafia 2 (7.75/10)
It feels like a very outdated game in terms of gameplay, AI, character development, and story. It doesn't stand out in any aspect, and the only good thing is the setting. Full of bugs and glitches. I understand that it was a great game and a revolution in its time, but nowadays there's no reason to play this instead of the
first Mafia remake. This game also needed a remake that does it justice.
first Mafia remake. This game also needed a remake that does it justice.
Never played the original Mafia II, so I don't really have anything to compare this 'remaster' to - you know it's bad if I give it a negative review.
The game itself is decent - a linear experience that has some pretty solid writing and voice acting, and OK gameplay. Going in, I didn't have that nostalgia link that a lot of people do, so there was nothing really that stood out to me as a first-time player, except perhaps the city, which is pretty convincing and helps set the atmosphere of the game pretty well. The DLC, especially the Jimmy DLC, is very not good...
The performance is absolutely abysmal. I don't think I ever played a game that ran as bad as this one (besides maybe Hitman Contracts). CONSTANT and hard-hitting frame drops made playing through this otherwise decent game an absolute chore. Perhaps I should have just played the classic version...
The game itself is decent - a linear experience that has some pretty solid writing and voice acting, and OK gameplay. Going in, I didn't have that nostalgia link that a lot of people do, so there was nothing really that stood out to me as a first-time player, except perhaps the city, which is pretty convincing and helps set the atmosphere of the game pretty well. The DLC, especially the Jimmy DLC, is very not good...
The performance is absolutely abysmal. I don't think I ever played a game that ran as bad as this one (besides maybe Hitman Contracts). CONSTANT and hard-hitting frame drops made playing through this otherwise decent game an absolute chore. Perhaps I should have just played the classic version...
That's how mafia works