Mafia 2 website/screens

[-HP-]

Although they share the same gameplay style, GTA and Mafia are diferent games, and I prefer Mafia.

While GTA is more action based, arcade even, with lot's of fun mixed up, Mafia aims towards other fields like a very strong story telling, which always give you more motivation to keep on playing the game.

I know games are about "fun", but in my opinion is games like Mafia, Max Payne, Metal Gear, (Etc) that are really memorable, I like to call it: games with souls.

[Erratic]

GTA has always had a pretty strong focus on narrative as well. The only reason I've never really associated Mafia with the open world genre is it didn't really promote the emergent non sense that you'd see in GTA. It's been quite awhile since I last played it but I don't recall there being much to do outside of the missions. The city felt alive and was fun to take in, but the police chases and blowing random shit up never really lead anywhere except to you dying pretty quickly.

Mafia's missions are still vastly superior to most other similar games, so it's definitely not a mark against it in my books. Raiding that dudes mansion with a shotgun in the middle of the night is still very strong in my mind

[Sentura]

Fucking Hell Sentura, the ignorance here is rediculous. Mafia != GTA, they are not the same, play GTA3 and then Mafia and you'll notice a massive difference in just about everything. Also Mafia II is set in the 1950s, not 30s :roll:

don't give me that shit, d3. there hasn't been said anything here that hasn't been opinion, so there's no "ignorance". i'm curious as to where mafia stands in the spectrum of free world versus linear-narrative games. i just label it as a GTA clone basically, which has more or less no appeal to me (even though i love the gangster environment as an influence). i'll be happy if you can prove to me that these games will be worth playing; but like i said before, you guys liked killzone as well. killzone is high on my list of bad games.

[Erratic]

Fucking Hell Sentura, the ignorance here is rediculous. Mafia != GTA, they are not the same, play GTA3 and then Mafia and you'll notice a massive difference in just about everything. Also Mafia II is set in the 1950s, not 30s :roll:

don't give me that shit, d3. there hasn't been said anything here that hasn't been opinion, so there's no "ignorance". i'm curious as to where mafia stands in the spectrum of free world versus linear-narrative games. i just label it as a GTA clone basically, which has more or less no appeal to me (even though i love the gangster environment as an influence). i'll be happy if you can prove to me that these games will be worth playing; but like i said before, you guys liked killzone as well. killzone is high on my list of bad games.

Have you played Mafia? Like anything, it's easier to play it and see than have someone convince you it's worthwhile. It's certainly no GTA clone of any sort.

I'm not sure what liking Killzone has to do with anything. I'm sure there's tons of shit games you love.

[Buddy]

Like someone said, sentura needs to play original Mafia and then comment about anything related to it

[-HP-]

yeah, go play it sentura... give it a try! you'll see what we mean!

[D3ads]

i just label it as a GTA clone basically, which has more or less no appeal to me

Hence the ignorance of your "opinion", you've clearly never even played the game so how can you even label it? LIke the others have said, play the game first then make your label.

[Sentura]

i just label it as a GTA clone basically, which has more or less no appeal to me

Hence the ignorance of your "opinion", you've clearly never even played the game so how can you even label it? LIke the others have said, play the game first then make your label.

i do it to save my own sanity. being open to all games would leave me more disappointed and depressed than just labeling them bad. i'll check some videos on youtube on the game but i hardly doubt it's going to impress me. if it doesn't, i've been right all along. if it does, then i'm that experience richer. it's a win-win situation.

[Buddy]

i just label it as a GTA clone basically, which has more or less no appeal to me

Hence the ignorance of your "opinion", you've clearly never even played the game so how can you even label it? LIke the others have said, play the game first then make your label.

i do it to save my own sanity. being open to all games would leave me more disappointed and depressed than just labeling them bad. i'll check some videos on youtube on the game but i hardly doubt it's going to impress me. if it doesn't, i've been right all along. if it does, then i'm that experience richer. it's a win-win situation.

[Buddy]

New website!

http://www.mafia2game.com

[Furyo]

You can also read the preview on Kotaku

[-HP-]

When is this coming out anyways?

[Bic-B@ll]

You can also read the preview on Kotaku

that white space under your comment is where the respective link goes fyi

[Buddy]

Mafia 2 Production focus on CGTalk

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread. ... gameartist

From the trailers, it looks like the characters and props in 'Mafia II' all have a great depth to them. That can be attributed to the lighting. A subtle yet attractive addition to the look of 'Mafia II' is the use of bloom lighting which is rarely seen in many video game titles. “The lighting system is one of the parts within our engine that we are really proud of.” says Hladik.

[Warby]

*snickering*