How was this missed during testing? It’s inexplicable, especially when you consider how many cutscenes there are. Yup, audio only comes out of one earcup for much of the story. Overall, it’s an excellent mafia styled Open World action game and definitely worth. Pop a pair of cans on, ratchet the volume up, and enjoy Mafia 2’s cutscenes in all their mono glory. At its core Mafia 2 is a 3rd person over the shoulder shooter.The game takes place in 1940’s 1950’s America so expect period guns (M1945, Tommy Gun’s, shotguns) vehicles (not actual licensed cars but closely based on period autos) and clothing. Lucky enough to miss these brushes with the paranormal? Well, you won’t be able to miss the audio bug.
As time goes on, things float, faces contort, and it all happens so frequently. Ten minutes later, a car dropped from the heavens above. In my playthrough, a pedestrian immediately fell through the pavement and kept walking from the waist up. Beyond running at a higher resolution with better textures, it actually manages to make the base game worse.Īs soon as you’re let loose in Empire Bay (New York City), things start to go awry. Like the original Mafia title, Mafia 2 immerses players in the mob underworld of a fictitious late 1940s-early 1950s scenario with action. But Mafia II has been rushed back to market with the minimum of effort. Mafia 2 - is an open world action-adventure video game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games and it was released in August 2010 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows platforms.
Charging money for someone to experience a game all over again? Some new content never hurts. The good ones, at the very least, paint over the cracks. A remaster should fix all that, of course.
