Now eight years later where the successor has now appeared fresh, to get around this mighty title of course not around and so the game came on 27 August, and yes even with me, my expectations were high, but honestly, whose expectations were the not?
The game I have now finished on hard (for trophies), according to statistics 12 hrs. And 14 min. Time. What can I say about Mafia II now?
The main menu:
There are story, Statistics, Tools, Options and for all PS3 owners "Betrayal of Jimmy", which have the way I downloaded and installed via the supplied code.
The story can be played on Easy, Medium and Hard. Under Extras you will find actually said roughly artwork you cars which can be examined unlock throughout the game and only.
The Story:
I find really absolutely succeeded. We know certainly many elements from movies, but it just fits into the typical Mafia cliche. Really exciting it is from the second half.
The Game:
Mafia II is anderst structured as how often so compared GTA IV or RdR.
While there is an open world or city, but you do not go to certain points on the map to story missions to accept.
Instead, the game is divided into chapters, which already constitute quasi at the missions themselves and take advantage of the open city as a backdrop. The freedoms in the game are basically limited to shoot and drive. Every now and then something to eat to the energy completely full to refill or even buy other clothes, to shake off the police.
Up to 10 cars can be parked in the garage. Shops can rob to make quick money. Cars can tune, repaint, repair and equip it with another mark.
Side missions ala GTA IV, there is no.
The Graphic:
Is very rich in detail but I think that's it. Too many games my eyes have been spoiled as Uncharted 2 or Heavy Rain, so I think that's to console at least not really impressive. Very strong tearing, missing antialiasing and partly weak textures tarnish the whole, moreover, the frame rate is quite low making it more times a bit slow. Well to be honest disappointed me all the technical implementation in the ways some of Mafia II.
Sound and Music:
Both my expectations completely fulfilled and has succeeded. The German Synchro is selected top and matching the characters.
Positives:
Actually, the game is nothing new to offer what you do not already know in some way or had even already contained in the previous and up on the story, music, language, of great cutscenes and a bissle graphics there are not more positive to report from me.
Negatives:
- First of all there is no free ride mode as in the predecessor, so who wants to drive around in the city after he has made it through, one of the chapters must load.
- There is no multiplayer and have in 2010 where already Read Dead Redemption or Uncharted 2 previously shown which way you can go to the genre. Especially with a mafia multiplayer would have been very interesting.
- The weather is dependent on the particular chapter and whose current checkpoint, not dynamic.
-Save Is just about the automatic checkpoints possible and reach only if you follow the story, also are set in at large intervals which often annoying when you die.
- As a result, the open city the respective chapter or mission adapts and not vice versa, she feels in each chapter as a new instance, and the impression of a completely self-contained city in which everything is happening not exist.
- In the main menu you can indeed repeat chapter but you can not choose a specific section within a chapter.
- The game lives from the brilliant cutscenes and just can not unlock times and look at the menu you.
- You can not swim, not even you can walk into the water and no swimming pool in the game is filled with water.
- The city looks visually lively from but this one can not make any side missions is it really dead.
- Loveless garage, so you had in Mafia 1 a backyard in which all vehicles were parked, but you could choose by ran to the corresponding car and got in. Here in the second part you go to the garage and then scroll through the cars.
- Vito can indeed run for cover, but he can not pop out of it. Is he in coverage, he can only shoot if he seeks it.
- You can not take the train, which was still in the first part. Very unfortunate.
My Conclusion:
Four stars I find are okay because you get a game with great story and the characters, sequences and dialogues like, accompanied by the beautiful soundtrack.
For four or five stars significantly more would have come of it. Especially when you consider were the 8th season and has much evolved in this genre. Technically, it has disappointed me and it lacks too many features that are standard just now. In direct comparison with Part 1, it is in some respects even a step backwards, because you have here removed things like the use of rail or has also been no trouble for an elegant accommodation of own cars instead of a simple garage.
Edit:
I have now alluded times that the PS3 version enclosed DLC "The Betrayal of Jimmy" and finished the first four missions. Interestingly, it plays much like GTA or RDR but just designed to Arcade. With Jimmy you move around the city as we know already from the story here, but it feels better, because here the city is self-contained and on the map the missions are recorded, classic as we already made the other games ago know.
Logged is always here where we assume the mission and where it is completed and the most beautiful ever, one owns the apartments which you already know from the story, and may at any time outside of a mission there to save. That means you can tune its cars for example, stored in the garage and then go save. The garage incidentally holds 30 vehicles. The missions themselves always run on time, but which is more than sufficient and are in my opinion very funny and varied. Here one gets also offered a total of more action and for all there is points.
I've noticed that here the weather changes as soon as I was saving in one of the apartments. Funnily enough one moves with Jimmy at locations in the city that I had know learned through the story at all.
Had "The Betrayal of Jimmy" part of the Mafia II disc, I would certainly have assigned four stars because it really should belong with the disc, however, since only new buyers of the PS3 version it get free and only DLC is, it does not belong in the Mafia II score with pure, but under certain circumstances may be exactly this extension the necessary Klapps enter the game yet to buy.
