Abstract: In my time as a gamer I have found very few titles that have captured a true sense of an actual time period. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to play the original Mafia when it came out. I had only heard about it many years later brought up in a con...
Abstract: Everyone who is excited by the atmosphere of 1940s – 50s and remembers the first part of Mafia, lived to see publication of the continuation in Mafia II from 2K, developed in the Czech studios.The story starts with the move of Scaleta‘s family from Sic...
What an incredible step up in game design, graphics, sound and game play. There are so many differences with Mafia II from the first inception they are almost like two completely different games. The voices are better and the overall feel of being im...
Mafia II is a great improvement over the original. It improves on every aspect of the original game, which puts it on par if not higher than its competitors. The combat is some of the best that we have seen in a free roaming game. The driving is very...
Abstract: I will admit, I never got around to playing the original Mafia all the way through, but this works in my favor when it comes to Mafia II because, unlike many other gamers, I’m not going into this review expecting some massive improvement on something I...
Mafia II is exactly the sequel Mafia fans have been waiting all these years for. It's a brutal tale of underworld family business and killing without a second thought that will have you hooked all the way. You'd do well to grab yourself a copy. Capeesh?TO...
Abstract: Immersion is a funny and illusive thing in the video game world, and really has little to do with polish and production values. Some high-quality, big budget titles with great production values and polish simply aren’t immersive in the least, while oth...
Whether you'll like Mafia 2 or not will mostly depend on one thing: your affinity for the time period. I absolutely love the style and class of the '40s and '50s in America, so I felt right at home. If you're like me, you'll enjoy the attention to deta...
Abstract: by Steven Hopper, September 1, 2010 The original Mafia was a fine example from the fledging days of the sandbox genre. Releasing on the PC in 2002 (just a short year after Grand Theft Auto III literally invented the genre as we know it today), Mafia w...
As you will have figured out by now, the purpose of this article is not to play the game and tell you guys how much we did or didn’t like it. Rather we aimed to provide a huge amount of data to show how well this game runs on a varied array of hardwar...
