Mafia 2
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So what do you guys think now that it's released?
I'm going to play it tommorow when it finally unlocks in EU.
I'm pretty excited for it due to the fact that people who don't directly compare it with IV say that its as good as the first one.
I'm going to play it tommorow when it finally unlocks in EU.
I'm pretty excited for it due to the fact that people who don't directly compare it with IV say that its as good as the first one.
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and i hope i'll have time to play it.
Textures, animations, render,... even the ride.
I hope that the story will be OK (at least like the first one).
Gonna buy tomorrow.
The story was good, but felt rushed/too short, and just didn't have some of the character development as the 1st, or pacing. Some missions were waaay to short, or left you saying wtf... why didn't I get to do that?
But, the Audio/Music in the game is some of the best I've heard. The orchestral stuff they did was amazing... so emotional. Voice acting was also top notch, and made it that much better.
The engine they made looks beautiful, but has some issues running smooth for a long period of time, and is pretty demanding on high settings.
I guess the biggest thing besides what I said earlier that bothers me, is that they cut out multiple missoins they had made a year ago for who knows what, and they also dumbed down the melee ALOT
Still worth playing for sure. They also need FreeRide... damnit!
environments looked like they had a lot of love on them
About the ending:
The story feels like it's been put through the Take2 'Controversifier' with a lot of embarrassing 'adult' language and situations that come off as very immature. It's like Goodfellas rewritten by a 13 year old.
I'm still enjoying it though and the artwork throughout is top-notch with a lot of attention paid to small details. The music selection works really well to give the game a flavour of the era. Were car radios that prevalent in the 40s? I guess that doesn't matter!
I wonder how much of the cuts are a result of keeping the same content across the platforms and smallest one setting the cap. Install being optional on 360 they'd be limited to the dvd whereas PS3 has blueray and pc has whatever the user has?
it's got me pretty worried about Crysis 2 as well, the video's look nice and all but if it runs at anythinh over 14fps on 1-year-old pc I'm gonna be pissed:poly127:
In GTA, you can go bowling with people, and all that shit. Red Dead, you can shoot and skin animals, play card games, whatever. Mafia 2..? Saints Row 2..(Admittedly parachuting onto roof tops and firing rockets was fun for liike, 2 hrs)
I'll hold off on the purchase of such games until one comes along that really seems like there's STUFF to do. Or at least Destructible enviroments Red Faction style :O
party babyz is the better game
People that cry that it's not a GTA game should play GTA. I like Mafia 2 more than Saints Row 2, Just Cause 2 or GTA 4. This game is pretty realistic. Walk around with a gun IRL on the streets and the cops WILL arrest you, it's as simple as that. I even put the driving to simulation in the options. I like realism.
Also that Eurogamer review 4/10 what the hell is that about?
I played through the game, I absolutely loved it for what it was, and I sure as hell know it wasn't supposed to be GTA 5.
It's as though I was taking part of an old amazing Mafia movie that lasted quite a lot longer than an hour and a half, I definitely respected this.
The only problem is that because the game was so immersive, there wasn't too much room to explore the open world, I was too eager to get to the next chapter to see what was next.
So because of this, I'll go ahead and play it again on Hard and take my time finding everything and just enjoying the open world.
Exactly! That's why no one should take reviews too seriously!
You know what to expect, just enjoy your game and fuck the rest!
Would you still feel the same way if you didn't see what could have been?
It's honestly not that short, 14 hours is a very long time.. I don't mean to retort or anything, but to go to a movie is about 9 dollars right?
So add that up a little, 6 movies would then be about the same price as Mafia 2, which is roughly 9-14 hours.
Do you think the game is easily measurable to a great movie? I do.
And I sure as hell know Inception didn't have Pinups.
It really does suck about that game.. it could have been so much better.... but alot of ppl have been modding it alot already. So it's becoming better
but fantastic game ..
I do hope they release some actual good DLC though. But the modders already got a good Multiplayer setup going and ppl are doing texture modes and LUA injectors, so it's all good. They even found Free Roam, a whole UI that was in the code and unlocked it, so I just play around with that.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6895456/mafia2%202010-08-28%2010-51-53-42.jpg
http://mafia2multiplayer.com/
I enjoy playing it btw
naww the rest of the story .. lol
I looked at vandetta... but decided not to get it..
The engine is beautiful, they have alot of cool shit, they just didn't have enough gameplay and replay value to hold it together, at least without mods....
Hey, mate, I'm sorry If I appear rude, but do you mind sharing where you got the info about people leaving the company? It's just that I'm really looking into this company to probably find a job there and I was wondering when I saw your post...thanks
But the Devs were tweeting and the one posted a link to a Mafia 2 petition for 2K to release the Full game, haha. I don't think they were too happy with how it turned out.