I’m not the only one that thinks Bronx Tale when he sees this, am I?
It’s one of a handful of new screens for Mafia 2 that dropped today, seemingly because Take 2 wants people to realize that there’s more than one gangster game set in a fictional New York City coming your way.
The original Mafia killed The Godfather video game, and is easily one of the best “sandbox” (I REALLY hate that term) titles around. It’s a shame that the great game was dampered in gamer’s minds by relatively poor PS2 and Xbox ports, though. If you only played those you definitely didn’t get the full experience.
it’s set in (the ’40s from right after WWII to the ’50s), music, and subject matter? The time means that there’s much more of a focus on cars… the ones in the original Mafia, set in the 1930s, were pretty slow and more likely to kill you for driving recklessly.
If you missed out the original trailer that debuted late last year, here it is below. Shows you some of the fun we’re in for.
Let’s hope they do a good job with this. Mafia 2 will be hitting stores either late this year or sometime early in 2009. Check out more info at the official site.
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Missed out on mafia 1. This looks alright. Better be up there with GTA or atleast differentiate itself somehow or its kinda a wasted effort.
I agree with Anthony. It's gonna' be tough to top "GTA 4". I find that both "saint's Row" and "The Godfather" do a satisfying job of the sandbox idea, but who knows, maybe this'll be the true title to stand up to "GTA" in that respect.
Didn't even know there was a Mafia 1, although the idea of playing in the 30s sounds better than the 50s. Anyway, the early reviews for GTA IV are giving it perfect scores, so I'm betting this game will suffer in comparison.
I ust have played the original Mafia demo on PC a hundred damn times. It was awsome but the my computer blew up and that was the end of pc gaming for me. This looks awsome and it probably will be.
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