i remember liking this when i was 14 when it came out. nowadays it's kinda bad. i don't think it's unplayable but it's really annoying to play. mafia feels like the most C+ game series. the soundtrack is really good at least. the gameplay loop is simple but the pull here is that you're going from segment to segment for a piece of the story, and the story isn't good. it's like "mob movie greatest hits" without the stuff that actually makes those things iconic, like good performances and direction and characters. everyone here sucks, but maybe that's the point they were trying to make. it's sort of admirable that they were trying to portray the humdrum life of a criminal but they don't really nail it, like trying to split the difference between an action blockbuster with setpieces and faux life-sim stuff. also i have no idea what kind of remastering they did here cause it's not good looking. part of that is due to the huge amount of visual bugs, shit pops in and glitches out an awful lot. though i do dig the changing of seasons here, not a lot of open world games have a snowy segment that isn't like a limited-time multiplayer thing or a part of the map.
Mafia II: Definitive Edition é um jogo excelente que continua a saga da máfia com uma história cativante e personagens memoráveis. O enredo, que segue a vida de Vito Scaletta enquanto ele ascende nas fileiras da máfia durante os anos 1940 e 1950, é envolvente e cheio de reviravoltas emocionantes. A ligação com o primeiro Mafia é um toque impressionante que adiciona profundidade e continuidade à série.
Os gráficos atualizados trazem um charme nostálgico ao jogo, embora seja evidente que a Mafia II: Definitive Edition não recebeu o mesmo cuidado e polimento que a remasterização do primeiro Mafia. Enquanto Mafia: Definitive Edition impressiona com seus visuais deslumbrantes e detalhados, Mafia II parece um pouco menos refinado, com texturas e modelos que poderiam ter sido mais trabalhados.
A jogabilidade permanece sólida e divertida, com tiroteios intensos e uma mecânica de direção que captura bem a época. A recriação da cidade de Empire Bay é rica e detalhada, proporcionando um cenário vibrante para a narrativa. No entanto, alguns aspectos técnicos e visuais podem deixar a desejar em comparação com a remasterização do primeiro jogo.
Apesar dessas discrepâncias, Mafia II: Definitive Edition ainda oferece uma experiência fantástica, com uma história que prende o jogador do início ao fim. A interação com personagens carismáticos e a atmosfera autêntica da época fazem deste título uma adição valiosa à série. Mesmo que não esteja tão polido quanto seu predecessor, é um jogo que merece ser jogado e apreciado por todos os fãs de histórias de máfia e ação.
Os gráficos atualizados trazem um charme nostálgico ao jogo, embora seja evidente que a Mafia II: Definitive Edition não recebeu o mesmo cuidado e polimento que a remasterização do primeiro Mafia. Enquanto Mafia: Definitive Edition impressiona com seus visuais deslumbrantes e detalhados, Mafia II parece um pouco menos refinado, com texturas e modelos que poderiam ter sido mais trabalhados.
A jogabilidade permanece sólida e divertida, com tiroteios intensos e uma mecânica de direção que captura bem a época. A recriação da cidade de Empire Bay é rica e detalhada, proporcionando um cenário vibrante para a narrativa. No entanto, alguns aspectos técnicos e visuais podem deixar a desejar em comparação com a remasterização do primeiro jogo.
Apesar dessas discrepâncias, Mafia II: Definitive Edition ainda oferece uma experiência fantástica, com uma história que prende o jogador do início ao fim. A interação com personagens carismáticos e a atmosfera autêntica da época fazem deste título uma adição valiosa à série. Mesmo que não esteja tão polido quanto seu predecessor, é um jogo que merece ser jogado e apreciado por todos os fãs de histórias de máfia e ação.
Lots of fun to be had here. Loved the story and characters. Loved driving around the map and seeing all the cool little details like being able to turn things on or having to abide by laws and such. One thing that's certain is that the game is really unpolished. Super janky with lots of bugs. (I mean, the game crashed on like the first cutscene for me, uhh) Though, you kinda get used to it over time, so it's not that big of a deal. I do wish the quality of this game was that of the Definitive Edition of Mafia I, though. Still a great game, I love the Mafia series so far :3
Con éste juego, tuve algunas sensaciones encontradas... por un lado me gustó la historia (Típica historia de bandas de los Estados Unidos, en los años 50) pero por el otro lado, senti que algunos momentos se juego se me hizo muy largo... la imposibilidad de grabar los progresos entre misiones y al morir tener que reiniciar toda la misión si no hubo un checkpoint en el medio. De todas maneras, lo terminé y fue positiva la experiencia.
100$
Best protagonist, wished it was really open world. Awesome story.
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...
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.
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
Orijinal oyundan hiç bir farkı olmamasına rağmen hem 50 gb yer kaplaması hem de sorunlu bir oyun olması.Bok gibi remastered.
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
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.
Ta wapo
Good shit, but I hate these open endings.
Basically same game with facelifting
Oyun güzelde çok bug var.
Last chapters could be better but in overall it’s A very good game,story and characters are so well written gun play and drive are so solid too.
This review contains spoilers
La fin de fou bz
PREAMBLE: If you find yourself playing a 2K game, make sure you disable 2K launcher after your initial start up. It is a program that uses up an ungodly amount of your CPU resources. Go to your "Properties" options in settings, copy paste the address of your .exe location in quotation marks, and then type %command% afterward. Doing this will solve your problem of stuttering, choppy framerates, and/or bad background program performance. Mafia II: Definitive Edition thankfully also has an option to flat out disable the launcher in the main menu, so you can use that too.
Mafia II is a game that really shouldn't have worked. It is mostly driving, with combat scarcely used in the story. It also tries to adhere to realism, but not enough to the point where it still feels video gamey. I say all of this because in spite of it, the game plays well, flows through its narrative with grace, and deserves its place among the best Open World Crime games.
Mafia II has you playing as delinquent, veteran, and all around punk ass Vito Scaletta in a journey from 1945 to 1951 that starts noble enough, but disintegrates into chaos. Vito starts by picking up packing jobs to pay his family's debt, but realizes that it gets in the way of his ambition, turning him back to a life of crime during a period of time where violence and disregard for human life paid the most. Along the way Vito meets up with old friends and family who in turn refer him to new, shadier faces. Without going into spoilers, this turns Vito's journey from a noble enough street rat story, into the most volatile tale of death and destruction I've ever seen in a videogame.
The idea to tackle the war-blues and post war decadence in this story was a bold thing to do. Most of the game is handled with maturity for the time period. You see characters come back from the war different, you see how quiet and somber the open world of Empire Bay is during the war. The era isn't romanticized either, people are hurting left and right, the jingoism is at an all time high, and nobody can do anything to stop it. Where as during the 50's, everything is much more vibrant, cultured, and yet it is the most dangerous part of the game, and that's saying something as the game starts during the Invasion of Italy. Mafia II shines as a period piece and that wouldn't have been possible in other forms of media the way it is as a game.
I suppose most of that is also carried by the ways in which the game presents itself. Mafia II is not a standard open world game. In a time where the genre was turning from small sandboxes with story into blowing up red things scattered across a big map, Mafia II opts for a strictly narrative driven approach. The only content in the open world is odd jobs, robbery, and the story itself (also porn mags). This lends the game it's biggest strength over any other game in the genre, and that is atmosphere. Empire Bay feels quiet when compared to its competition. It has you driving most of the game from destination to destination, and while you drive, you soak up the atmosphere of a world that feels disconnected from Vito's, its a world where people move along quietly and try to get through their daily commutes. It is a normal world in a medium that never really allows for normal world. That normalcy makes the loud moments feel even louder, and hit even harder. I love the adherence to this gameplay loop. Even when you are going loud, the gunplay and general level design are so good that you can't help but be excited for the next dangerous shootout. Where the first game felt disinterested in being interactive media, this one can't help but take full advantage of this medium.
If there is one bad thing about Mafia II, its that it ends. Never in my life have I wanted to see a story just keep going like this. I just wanted more Mafia II, but unfortunately the Monkey's Paw curled and gave us the bland arcade DLCs that utterly gut the vibe of the base game. Stay away from them for your own good.
In a world of GTA's, Saints Row's, and other games that are constantly big and violent, its nice to step back for a bit and play a game in this genre that sells itself on its quiet moments. Mafia II is an absolute gem and a must play for any fan of the genre.
Mafia II is a game that really shouldn't have worked. It is mostly driving, with combat scarcely used in the story. It also tries to adhere to realism, but not enough to the point where it still feels video gamey. I say all of this because in spite of it, the game plays well, flows through its narrative with grace, and deserves its place among the best Open World Crime games.
Mafia II has you playing as delinquent, veteran, and all around punk ass Vito Scaletta in a journey from 1945 to 1951 that starts noble enough, but disintegrates into chaos. Vito starts by picking up packing jobs to pay his family's debt, but realizes that it gets in the way of his ambition, turning him back to a life of crime during a period of time where violence and disregard for human life paid the most. Along the way Vito meets up with old friends and family who in turn refer him to new, shadier faces. Without going into spoilers, this turns Vito's journey from a noble enough street rat story, into the most volatile tale of death and destruction I've ever seen in a videogame.
The idea to tackle the war-blues and post war decadence in this story was a bold thing to do. Most of the game is handled with maturity for the time period. You see characters come back from the war different, you see how quiet and somber the open world of Empire Bay is during the war. The era isn't romanticized either, people are hurting left and right, the jingoism is at an all time high, and nobody can do anything to stop it. Where as during the 50's, everything is much more vibrant, cultured, and yet it is the most dangerous part of the game, and that's saying something as the game starts during the Invasion of Italy. Mafia II shines as a period piece and that wouldn't have been possible in other forms of media the way it is as a game.
I suppose most of that is also carried by the ways in which the game presents itself. Mafia II is not a standard open world game. In a time where the genre was turning from small sandboxes with story into blowing up red things scattered across a big map, Mafia II opts for a strictly narrative driven approach. The only content in the open world is odd jobs, robbery, and the story itself (also porn mags). This lends the game it's biggest strength over any other game in the genre, and that is atmosphere. Empire Bay feels quiet when compared to its competition. It has you driving most of the game from destination to destination, and while you drive, you soak up the atmosphere of a world that feels disconnected from Vito's, its a world where people move along quietly and try to get through their daily commutes. It is a normal world in a medium that never really allows for normal world. That normalcy makes the loud moments feel even louder, and hit even harder. I love the adherence to this gameplay loop. Even when you are going loud, the gunplay and general level design are so good that you can't help but be excited for the next dangerous shootout. Where the first game felt disinterested in being interactive media, this one can't help but take full advantage of this medium.
If there is one bad thing about Mafia II, its that it ends. Never in my life have I wanted to see a story just keep going like this. I just wanted more Mafia II, but unfortunately the Monkey's Paw curled and gave us the bland arcade DLCs that utterly gut the vibe of the base game. Stay away from them for your own good.
In a world of GTA's, Saints Row's, and other games that are constantly big and violent, its nice to step back for a bit and play a game in this genre that sells itself on its quiet moments. Mafia II is an absolute gem and a must play for any fan of the genre.
Worse than mafia 1
Se comparar esse com o primeiro ele fica um lixo.
É um bom jogo, mas a historia q é o foco... pqp, mt ruim, fraca, sem construção, personagens fraquissimos.Diferente do primeiro q é o exato oposto. Inclusive a cena em q eles matam o protagonista do primeiro jogo, q desleixo, poderiam ter feito um negocio formidavel mas foi só uma missao qualquer matando um cara qualquer. PODRE.
E o q falar do final, mt mediocre, sem graça de mais.
A gameplay é legal, ambientação, trilha sonora tbm, e só por isso acho um jogo bom, mas nao jogaria de novo. É uma pena
É um bom jogo, mas a historia q é o foco... pqp, mt ruim, fraca, sem construção, personagens fraquissimos.Diferente do primeiro q é o exato oposto. Inclusive a cena em q eles matam o protagonista do primeiro jogo, q desleixo, poderiam ter feito um negocio formidavel mas foi só uma missao qualquer matando um cara qualquer. PODRE.
E o q falar do final, mt mediocre, sem graça de mais.
A gameplay é legal, ambientação, trilha sonora tbm, e só por isso acho um jogo bom, mas nao jogaria de novo. É uma pena
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.
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)
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
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
That's how mafia works
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.
oyunun son görevlerine gelince adeta tek başıma amerikadaki italyan nüfusunun yüzde yirmisini felan yok ettim. mantıkdan yoksun full aksiyon ilerledi bu da zar zor tutunduğum atmosferden kopmamı sağladı ama yine de oyuna puanım 3,5 yıldız olacaktı mafia 1 den daha çok beğenmiştim ama oyunun sonu olmadığı için direk sonu açık bir şekilde mafia 3 e bağlandığı için 3 yıldız vermekte karar kıldım
Bueno, por dónde empezar...
Gráficamente es un desastre, no se tomaron el mismo trabajo que para el Mafia I, el mundo está lleno de bugs y glitches visuales (no son los únicos)
La historia quizás es el punto menos flojo del juego, Vito es un gran personajes al igual que Joe.
Y el peor punto del juego, con diferencia (además de la PÉSIMA inteligencia artificial) son los glitches que tiene, tuve que reiniciar misiones, el juego y la consola varias veces, la versión que jugué es la definitive edition en PS5, la verdad un desastre
Well, where to start...
Graphically it is a disaster, they did not take the same work as for Mafia I, the world is full of bugs and visual glitches (they are not the only ones)
The story is perhaps the least weak point of the game, Vito is a great character as is Joe.
And the worst point of the game, by far (besides the TERRIBLE artificial intelligence) are the glitches it has, I had to restart missions, the game and the console several times, the version I played is the definitive edition on PS5, the truth is a disaster
Gráficamente es un desastre, no se tomaron el mismo trabajo que para el Mafia I, el mundo está lleno de bugs y glitches visuales (no son los únicos)
La historia quizás es el punto menos flojo del juego, Vito es un gran personajes al igual que Joe.
Y el peor punto del juego, con diferencia (además de la PÉSIMA inteligencia artificial) son los glitches que tiene, tuve que reiniciar misiones, el juego y la consola varias veces, la versión que jugué es la definitive edition en PS5, la verdad un desastre
Well, where to start...
Graphically it is a disaster, they did not take the same work as for Mafia I, the world is full of bugs and visual glitches (they are not the only ones)
The story is perhaps the least weak point of the game, Vito is a great character as is Joe.
And the worst point of the game, by far (besides the TERRIBLE artificial intelligence) are the glitches it has, I had to restart missions, the game and the console several times, the version I played is the definitive edition on PS5, the truth is a disaster