I've been thinking about buying Mafia II since I downloaded the demo and loved it but I'm not sure if it's worth the cash or not, can anybody vouch for it? Keep in mind I'll be playing on the PC in case there are some thing that vary from console-to-console.

I liked it, a worthy sequel to the original Mafia IMO. The pacing was kinda off at times but overall it had a great story, setting and characters. Looks good, runs well (without PhysX) and the gameplay is solid.

Probably the best mob game to be released(though that list isn't really all that large). The game is really good. Strong story, good gameplay, respectable ai, an all around great game. The game is between 12 - 15 hours long, so it is relatively lengthy considering the type of game. Not to mention they figured out how to make hidden item finding rewarding, if ya know what I mean.

Yes the rewards were quite relevant to my interests. :hubbahubba:

very good game... and erh erhm, magazines.

Skip it and get the fist one :thumbsup:

I liked Mafia II, though the replayability wasnt there for me. Its been about 7 months or so since I beat it, I may have to go back. Good story and graphics. It was a fun game.

Excelent game. Only downside is that you have to drive back and forth a lot, and driving isn't as enjoyable as GTA's in the long run.

Going from Point A to point B, the majority of the game (GTA) lol

I thought vehicles handled better in Mafia II than any GTA to be honest. Only in simulation mode though, arcade driving was pretty awful.

Great game, it had a wonderful story, setting and characters.In fact I just beat it again for the second time.

I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand the engine looks gorgeous, the combat feels fairly satisfying, and there are lots of period-correct details that really flesh out the immersiveness of the setting. Driving around with heavy, pre-powersteering cruisers is as sluggish as you'd imagine, and getting away from the cops after a hairy shootout is quite a thrill - though sometimes a bit frustrating too, since it's rather easy to end up crumpled around a lamp-post. The story was also pretty good; not quite Goodfellas or the Godfather, but hitting all the right stereotypes and with enough sting to make it interesting. The trouble is, on the other hand, that most of what you do is simply watch it unfold. Often I felt like all I was doing was driving from one cutscene to another, with brief moments of gunplay in between. It'd make a decent movie, and ultimately I did enjoy it, but really there wasn't enough "game" in it for me - you're pushed along the storyline without ever really having a chance to explore the city, and even if you did there's not much to find beneath the surface: a few token (and identical) stores, the only useful one being the garages where you can fit superchargers onto your vehicles. Tuning up your rides is actually the only thing I ever did in the game other than follow the storyline - and I do love the varied engine sound effects they used - but there just doesn't seem to be any point to it, and I have to wonder why they bothered to put such cutdown GTA-style elements into the game if they weren't going to do anything with them. Empire Bay looks like a lively place, but really it's more like a one-horse town (though it's possibly been left under someone's sheets as a warning.)

I didn't like it, I think part of it was that I was misled by the demo. The demo is more action oriented, the game is more "mafia simulator", which wasn't what I was looking for. You can't save manually, so whatever dreams you have about massing a large supply of arms and then opening fire on cops just went out the window. I know that's what I intended to do after I was finished with the game, but the only way to do this is go through the motions of getting money to buy guns. I played on the hardest difficulty and it only took 11 hours to complete. I was very disappointed that I dropped $50 on the game. If you see it for less than $10 I'd say go ahead and pick it up, I wouldn't pay more than that for it though.

Yes they did handle very well. But after I had been driving back and forth a couple of times I kind of missed the fast and weird car driving GTA had, you could have a little more fun on the way.
It's not all because of the driving though, it's the stricter laws and such. Don't get me wrong, I love the strict(well, for a game) police. But when I'm driving that much it's nice to be able to go a bit crazy from time to time and not have to worry if I'll bump into something.

I enjoyed going back and forth for these reasons

The city was beutifuel
I loved the music on the radio
Ienjoed driving like a normal person( I always thought it was wierd to just speed from location to location)

Take away the beautiful city and I can do those without playing the game. What I can't do is run into cars, jump off buildings etc.

The game is gorgeous though, especially during winter.

That's sort of a deal breaker I really wanted to go on multiple killing sprees.

Since I'm getting many mixed opinions I'm going to make a twist, Mafia II for PC or GTA IV for the Xbox 360. Discuss.

Excellent story, good acting and very fun action sequences.

But the pacing is kindda slow sometimes and there's not a whole lot to do besides the main story, you can rob stores but that's basically it.

It's a very good game though and I would recommend it.


Mafia 2 vs. GTA IV?

GTA. It's got everything mafia 2 has and more. Except style (come on, fedora hats and suits? - It doesn't get better than that)