Mafia 2 to be revealed this afternoon?

[JamieSI]

Strategy Informer (http://www.strategyinformer.com/) heard that a German rating board, which goes by the name of USK, has received a trailer for the yet-to-be-announced Mafia 2 and it's said that it'll be shown at the Games Convention in Leipzig next week.

You can find out more details about this by clicking here (http://www.strategyinformer.com/member/3/blog/3848).

[Mjolk]

Oh yes please, Mafia was so great.

[phantomhitman]

when did mafia one come out?

[Hieremias]

It came out in 2002, phantom.

Mafia is in my top 5 list of all-time games. I have wanted so long for a decent sequel with updated technology. Please let this not be a hoax!

[LongStepMantis]

Mafia was a great game.
But, am I the only one who HATED the speed limit?
While you're just cruising around, ok, and i know it's more realistic, but having to watch my speed constantly was the only thing about the first one i didn't care for.

Is there some kind of fix to get rid of it? I would start replaying it right NOW if there was.

[temmink]

am I the only one who HATED the speed limit?

I know for me that this was a big plus, I love that if you cruise past a police car doing twice the limit they come after you. Frankly I would love GTA4 to actually have some police AI that can detect 'dangerous/illegal driving'. It would validate my whole trying to drive inconspicuously thing that I do. Of course it would also be nice if the other drivers on the road weren't on rails, badly broken and deformed rails.

[wezlypipz]

Mafia was a great game.
But, am I the only one who HATED the speed limit?
While you're just cruising around, ok, and i know it's more realistic, but having to watch my speed constantly was the only thing about the first one i didn't care for.

Is there some kind of fix to get rid of it? I would start replaying it right NOW if there was.

I didn't like the slow pace driving or the speed limit as well. I liked Mafia a heck of a lot more than The Godfather.

As much as I hate companies to do sequel after sequel, this should be a great game on the newer consoles. I really did expect the merging of these two studios to create a original property, but I suppose they need to play it safe with so much at stake these days :cool:

[absolut taco]

Mafia was a great game.
But, am I the only one who HATED the speed limit?

If you got busted didn't you just have to bribe the cops? Besides, in the beginning the damn cars were so slow that speeding was rarely an issue. I remember some of the timed missions being very frustrating due to the slowness of most cars but overall the game was fantastic. Even had a nice sex scene rendered in-engine. :)

[Spigot]

As long as they don't retcon the ending to Mafia (which is one of the best EVER), I'd love a sequel. It did take a bit of time to get used to the speed limit but once you did it was fine.

A never tried the console versions of Mafia though. I heard they weren't anywhere up to par with the PC version.

[opusdeath]

I know for me that this was a big plus, I love that if you cruise past a police car doing twice the limit they come after you.

Same here. For me it added to the immersion factor which is something the game had bags of.

Definately in my personal top 5 favourite games of all times across all platforms. I'm not saying it was technically the best game ever, just one of my favourites.

I loved the game environment and actually enjoyed the taxi missions which I don't normally do in similar games.

[JudasGoat]

The only thing bad about Mafia was the racing sequence 2 hours in to the game that was a near showstopper for anyone without the sense to hack their way past it. Ludicrously hard and senseless. Other than that: Fantastic and absolutely gorgeous for the time.

[LongStepMantis]

Same here. For me it added to the immersion factor which is something the game had bags of.


I was on board with the speed limit idea, but any missions requiring speed would just annoy me. Or if you were being chased. I remember one mission where you had a couple cars full of guys chasing you, and it never failed, I would end up getting chased by them AND the police, because going the speed limit just meant the gang cars would catch up to and KILL me faster.

I would have been happy if they had just suspended the speed limit during missions like that. Regular driving around between missions never bothered me, except early on when your "best" cars are pieces of shit that go 0-50 in four and a half minutes. I'm just glad you start getting decent cars fairly early. I even really liked the whole "you can't steal x model of car until you're taught to break into it", another thing that some might not have liked, but i thought it was great. Made you earn the right to jack better cars.

My minor complaints aside, i still thought it was great.

As far as the race goes, i found that if you can get used to controlling through the turns, it's not that hard. I think it took me maybe 4 or 5 attempts to clear it. It's just that your "race car" has crap handling, but it's fast. Assuming you're talking about the race you sabotage the other guy's car right?

[Spigot]

The only thing bad about Mafia was the racing sequence 2 hours in to the game that was a near showstopper for anyone without the sense to hack their way past it. Ludicrously hard and senseless. Other than that: Fantastic and absolutely gorgeous for the time.For all of the hate that the racing sequence gets, it took me two attempts to get past it. I still don't know what all the fuss and bother was.

[Bingley Joe]

The only thing bad about Mafia was the racing sequence 2 hours in to the game that was a near showstopper for anyone without the sense to hack their way past it. Ludicrously hard and senseless. Other than that: Fantastic and absolutely gorgeous for the time.

:confused:

I never did understand all the noise people made about that race.. all you had to do was give your tires time to warm up and it was a done deal.

I always found the part where you had to take the rival team's race car in for err.. 'repairs' (yeah.. that's the ticket!) to be more frustrating.

But I love racing and hate timed-missions, so maybe that's why. Oh, and I also played the game with my MOMO plugged in -- it had some pretty great force-feedback of all the crazy things for a game like that to have.


SO excited to hear there might be a sequel though. That game is a jewel.

[TheSlup]

Mafia is one of my all-time favorites. The story line sucked me in and was one of the first games that I really felt attached to. Coincidentally I touched on this on this past weeks PailCast (http://www.newspail.com/podcast.php).

I too hated the speed limit but I think it slowed the game down a bit and let me get that more engrossed with the game. When it dropped to ~$10.00 I ended up buying it for a few friends just so they could play the game.

I look forward to Mafia 2 and this immediately jumps to my top 3 watch list.

[Bad_Buddha]

Mafia was one of those games that I always forget when we have a "Great Games That You Didn't Get" threads. I've started this game at least 5 times but was never able to get past the first couple of taxi cab driving missions. "Oh damn! You got the guy to the hospital 3 seconds late! Got to start over!" It didn't have a good enough start to keep me interested enough to soldier on past the crappy start.

Hopefully Mafia 2 will be as good as the first was supposed to be!

[GrinR]

Agreed with everyone here. MAFIA is one of PC gaming's lost gems. I've also bought copies for friends and they've thanked me for it.

God that end was awesome.

[Mr.Green]

Mafia supported Force Feedback wheels. Man that was awesome. I hope GTA IV does the same with their emphasis on realism this time around. Do they have forums I can spam this on? ;)

[TrackZero]

I just hope some of the missions are more clear. I remember wasting hours at a fucking train yard trying to figure out what to do next.

[TrackZero]

:confused:

I never did understand all the noise people made about that race.. all you had to do was give your tires time to warm up and it was a done deal.

I always found the part where you had to take the rival team's race car in for err.. 'repairs' (yeah.. that's the ticket!) to be more frustrating.


Ditto on both of those.

[JCtheMC]

Take2 is publishing this? So now they have 3 confirmed open world games coming out: GTA, L.A. Noire and this. Interesting.

Mafia was one of the best games i've ever played, and i personally liked the speedlimit; it really did add something to the game, but on the flipside the game wasn't very forgiving. The racing mission is just an example of that. As great as it was, it needed more polish (not the people). With the right studio behind this, this could get exciting.

[roboninja]

Mafia is a game I keep forgetting. I started playing it on the PC, but got stuck on a mission where you had to tail a car. I ended up using a save at a bad point, where it was almost impossible for me to complete the mission, and never got around to going back to it. I might have to dig it up and give it another try.

[slink-jadranko]

Sweet. I had issues with it, but it was so very well produced, and so filmic. Hope it sorts out some of the little things. Think I finished it twice in the end.

[Lunar Blue]

For all of the hate that the racing sequence gets, it took me two attempts to get past it. I still don't know what all the fuss and bother was.

Me neither, 4th try and almost won with first try. Learn to fucking drive, people!

[Shjinta]

Mafia.. god damn what a fucking beautiful game. the story, the characters, an especially the ending. The in-engine cut scenes had fucking fantastic scenery and beautiful shots. A Tear came to my eye during the ending. I hope some people from the original are on board with the sequel. The technology for the original was fucking amazing...at the time.

[the soUL TRAder]

Nice. I'd like to see a sequal.

Mafia was the greatest game I wish I never played, mostly because the controls were sub par across the board, but the story kept me going. In the end, the payoff was so worth it, I played it again!

Where DO gangstas go when they die?

[Smoof]

Mafia is great. Right up there with Deus Ex on my favorite games of all time list.

I was recently playing through it (again), but I'm having a CTD issue with it and need to reinstall it. Haven't gotten around to it yet though.

[Kweli]

Mafia was a great game... The lip-to-voice was done SOOOO great.... Even today, most of the games dont come close to the acting quality that game had...

Plus its always fun to mo-down some mobsters with a tommy gun

*Edit... the speed of the cars pissed me off though.. i think 40KM was max.. and it took about 10 seconds to reach that speed...*