Mafia II: Definitive Edition

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5.8

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  1. kellsier
    May 29, 2020
    4
    Nothing has changed + bad optimization. I can't believe they present it as definity edition! waste of money and time...
  2. LordSeitan616
    Jun 29, 2020
    2
    esta tan plagado de bugs y glitches que se me ha echo imposible terminarlo cuando meto un auto al taller se me crashea varias veces
  3. Lul55
    May 27, 2020
    1
    Optimization - piece of sh*t. Never buy it, because of optimization and big amount of bags
  4. BubsNoFlyZone
    Jul 26, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There are so many reasons why I disliked this game. For starters, it wasn't a remaster as much as it was a tuneup on models of most of the main characters. Practically nothing else changed with this game from the previous-gen version. Almost every NPC looked unpolished , the audio in a number of cutscenes sounded horribly outdated, and most of the glitches and bugs from the original game were persistent. I remember enjoying this game when it first came out 10 years ago. Maybe it was because I was younger and I didn't know a thing about good story. The story in this game is, practically, nonexistent--or, at least, it branches off or creates new storylines so many times to the point where there's no actual basis for what's going on. The open world is enjoyable but feels unnecessary as there are almost 0 rewards for exploration and no side missions or activities in the world. This game might've been better if it had no open world to speak of as there's very little substance to it. There are multiple points in the game where you lose ALL of your money without any prompting. While I don't wish to slight the game for it, the use of ethnic and racial slurs throughout the game has not aged well and gives the game a very poor modern scope. The combat is unbelievably frustrating and punishing. I did not feel any better at shooting or aiming in this game in the final mission than I did in the first. The ending is also one of the worst I've ever seen in a video game...AND IT WAS NEVER RESOLVED, even after a bunch of DLC. I despise this game and I wish I could give it a 0 but I instead give it a 1. Why? Because the music was fine.… Expand
  5. dandalis
    Apr 17, 2021
    4
    Just to make it clear, my 4/10 score here doesnt reflect the quality of Mafia 2 as a game, but the underwhelming remaster work of the Definitive Edition...definitive my bloody arse...as the original release is still a good game and overall still offers a superior experience than the one found in DefEd.

    The only praise worthy part about DE remaster are the in places visibly upgraded    Just to make it clear, my 4/10 score here doesnt reflect the quality of Mafia 2 as a game, but the underwhelming remaster work of the Definitive Edition...definitive my bloody arse...as the original release is still a good game and overall still offers a superior experience than the one found in DefEd.

    The only praise worthy part about DE remaster are the in places visibly upgraded textures, especially the road/ground textures aswell as sharper looking cutscenes, character models look a bit more refined, but overall in most places it's hard to notice any major visual upgrades. As far as i experienced and know, there are no gameplay refinements in this release, for better or for worse...probably for the better.

    Then comes the fun stuff. The frame rate is mostly solid, but the game keeps micro stuttering all the time, no matter the graphics settings. It's tolerable by my standards, but for many people it would probably be deal breaking. Then there are frame drops where there shouldnt be any, especially during times when it rains in-game. There were some bugs and glitches, like an NPC spawning in out of nowhere and starting to beat me up, in one cutscene a character's eyes glitched out for the entire duration, but overall nothing literally game ruining. Oh and the game now loves to crash way too much for my liking. The PhysX appears to be even more broken in this remaster than it was in the original, with PhysX on, the frame rate simply dies, like 10 frames per second dies. So, sadly i had to go about without seeing the fancy PhysX effects on display. The DefEd also comes in at around 35 GB in size, compared to around 10 GB originally, i dont see why it should be taking up 3.5x bigger size since the visual upgrades are subtle at best.

    Save yourselves the headaches and just get the original Mafia 2 release...    … Expand
  6. Legendss
    Jun 9, 2020
    1
    Gerçekten baştan sağma Bir iş yapılmış hani playstation hangar 13 zaten rezalet firma mafia 3 gibi bir oyunu da çöp ettiler ve bu oyunda 2010 yılında çalışan oyunu 2020 de çöp ettiler ve gerçekten baştan sağma iş yapmışlar silinen şeyler geri getirilmemiş vs. ama olmamış mafia 1 definitive edition'da bu olmaz umarım
  7. ahmadhz1999
    May 24, 2020
    2
    The graphic is terrible and they didn't change much. It is just a cash grab to make some money for them.
  8. Rotunda
    May 27, 2020
    0
    The games even worse than the original. EVERYTHING H13 touches turns to crap! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY BUYING THIS GAME.
  9. Greatpolarprawn
    May 21, 2020
    1
    This game is poorly optimized, frame rate drops, a lot of bugs and glitches, trophies that are not obtainable because they are bugged, i can't even finish the story because the mission is bugged and there is no way to progress. stay far away from this "remaster". go play a stable version on xbox 360 or ps3
  10. MathiasVoorhees
    Jun 13, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mafia II is a lazy repetitive, buggy, unfinished GTA IV wannabe with no charm or identity whatsoever. Usually people accuse games like Sleeping Dogs of being a GTA clone but at Sleeping Dogs has an original and unique setting with melee combat that, while not the best ever, manages to separate it from GTA. GTA IV has better combat than Mafia II despite coming out two years before it. The mission structure is non-existent, and yes GTA games have always been repetitive but at least sometimes you had a tailing mission or in GTA IV you have the choice to kill certain characters or not, or if you don't catch to this guy something different happens. Here it's just go here, oh **** went wrong, kill this guy and his goons, go there, oh **** went wrong (again), (don't) catch up to these guys because the game is not programmed to let you. The story is half-assed but the best part of the game so I'm willing to let it slide, despite it not being as good as the first. the gameplay is horrendous, cars handle as well as forklifts on **** LSD, and yeah yeah realism all you want it doesn't for fun gameplay when cars either turn too fast, or too slow. The shooting is horrible, don't even bother with the lock-on, it almost never works, and the game developers thought it was a good idea to make the crosshair as big as your character's head and bright red in the middle of the screen, making the shooting galleries where you gun down poorly designed lines of identical clones (oh and I mean that literally, as Asian and African-American NPCs literally have two models for the entirety of the game) that serve as missions, unbearable. Money is meaningless, no need to even mention it as half the weapons you can ''buy'' with money are either useless or ones you'll have already obtained from the bodies of dead clones, oh and you can buy cars with it, why anyone would want to own cars in this game is beyond me as you can steal vehicles that are a hundred times better than the ones you can actually afford. The open-world is empty and lifeless despite having businesses, likely due to the fact that half the game was cut and mission checkpoints prevent any kind of interesting exploration as you'll often lose 40 minutes if your game crashes or you make a mistake. Bugs are frequent, as well as graphical glitches, cars flying across a street for no reason, leaving me to guess that the game was unfinished and that's why most of its content is cut. I remember people complaining about GTA V's downgraded and terrible melee combat, well despite it being the truth they clearly haven't played this game, where half of the animations are atrocious looking and every fight is avoid, avoid, punch, to add to that the broken physics make it especially jarring. The way the ''mob'', oh and calling it that is generous, is portrayed is ludicrous, especially when you watch real life criminal and caporegime Michael Franzese debunk myths about the way the mob is shown, so I suppose the writer was the developers' 12 year-old son that wrote the story after seeing Scarface for the first time. One last thing you'll notice is how broken the physics and hitboxes are for NPCs and etc, sometimes you'll shoot a cop 2 or 3 times through the head with a revolver, only for him to shoot you back and kill you, add to that the broken ragdoll physics and you have Mafia II, a game that tries to be a Mafia game and fails, a game that attempts at being a GTA game but fails, overall a terrible and lackluster experience that I couldn't recommend for anyone who loves the first game.… Expand
  11. Emmortan
    Sep 28, 2020
    0
    I just played through Mafia 1 Definitive Edition, and what a gem! But this? I mean honestly this has to be the worst remaster of a game i have ever played. Honestly nothing is done right here, mechanics are aboslutely terrible, cut scenes looks terrible, screen teetering and the list goes on and on, I mean it took all of 2 minutes if game play to released this was a waste of time andI just played through Mafia 1 Definitive Edition, and what a gem! But this? I mean honestly this has to be the worst remaster of a game i have ever played. Honestly nothing is done right here, mechanics are aboslutely terrible, cut scenes looks terrible, screen teetering and the list goes on and on, I mean it took all of 2 minutes if game play to released this was a waste of time and money!
    I mean i created my metacritic account just to give this feedback so people can avoid using money on this "remastered edition"    … Expand
  12. bobbi91
    Nov 24, 2020
    1
    Sell one game TWICE WITH NO additions to the GAMEPLAY! **** HELL! TO make YOU DIE H13 :((
  13. mihalsk
    May 22, 2020
    0
    seven times the size of the original? due to what?
    размер в семь раз больше оригинала? за счёт чего?
  14. ONEEX
    Aug 2, 2020
    1
    Разочаровывает халатное отношение разработчиков к ремастеру - так они показали своё неуважение к поклонникам и сообществу в общем.
    Суть проявилась и это - зарабатывание лёгкх денег на чужих кошельках.
  15. Gambetta610
    May 23, 2020
    0
    Отвратительная оптимизация на ps4. Постоянные фризы и зависания.
  16. Shikardos
    May 19, 2020
    1
    Take original mafia 2 + vanilla-sweet face mod aaaand DONE. Only for 29.99$, Best True HD Top Quality MAFIA 2.
  17. Tomish
    Oct 3, 2020
    0
    Отвратительная работа, десятки багов, ужасная оптимизация!
  18. Garybaldo
    Feb 17, 2021
    2
    Nefarious, sorry excuse for a remaster that introduces nothing but game-breaking bugs, truly disgusting
  19. gameking
    Jun 2, 2022
    3
    This game has too many bugs. The story is very poor. They didn't change anything than the original one. This game isn't a mafia game. It is just a driving simulation. Optimization is very bad, graphics are not looking good. This game has a great potential but they didn't use it.
  20. PeaTearGryfin
    Mar 24, 2021
    0
    This is a bad port of a mediocre PS3 game. The original Mafia, while rough around the edges, was great because it had great characters, an engaging rags to riches story, and a memorable city to explore. Mafia II has none of those things. The playable character, Vito, is a generic war veteran who comes home from the war, and through circumstances beyond his control starts rising up theThis is a bad port of a mediocre PS3 game. The original Mafia, while rough around the edges, was great because it had great characters, an engaging rags to riches story, and a memorable city to explore. Mafia II has none of those things. The playable character, Vito, is a generic war veteran who comes home from the war, and through circumstances beyond his control starts rising up the ranks of the mafia (never heard that story before). The characters are at best unremarkable and at worst insufferable. The city is entirely empty. Money is barely needed for anything, which is good, because the story really loves to give Vito large sums of cash just to take it away two or three missions later. The police are either completely idiotic or omniscient depending on how lucky you are. The game has an overreliance on driving from one end of the city to another, sometimes two or three times in just one mission. The gunplay is downright terrible. The game has a real problem with questionable hitboxes and enemies that are total bullet sponges. No joke, you can shoot a guy at point blank range in the chest with a shotgun and he will probably walk it off. The checkpoint system is also garbage. Most missions don't have any, making you redo at least 20 minutes of gameplay each time, which usually also involves needing to skip several cutscenes. One particularly egregious instant comes late in the game when you are tasked with killing a character. You are thrown into a massive firefight with 20 or so enemies only to then be thrown into a small, enclosed room with about 10 more guys while the boss is chucking molotov cocktails at you. The only problem is that due to the wonky hitboxes, the cheap enemy placement, the lack of cover, and the small environment, you basically don't stand a chance. Every time you die, you have to do the entire sequence all over again too. There's also a very common glitch on another mission where you are required to race to another character's house, break down his front gate, and get in the home on the most tight time limit I think I've ever seen where the gate to his home is suddenly protected by an invisible wall. The only known fix for this glitch is to shut off the game completely and restart the game. On top of all this, the game looks like an early PS3 game. Character models are reused constantly. This is especially noticeable when doing missions that involve Black or Chinese characters because they could only bother to create about two or three character models. On top of that, the game runs like garbage too. Almost anything you do will cause the framerate to tank. Texture pop ins are to be expected. I also had several cutscenes which had real Assassin's Creed Unity vibes because characters and their skin were moving independently of each other. There was even one bit in a prison where everybody from guards to inmates were all t-posing to assert dominance. All in all, this is a buggy, poorly optimized version of an already bad game. Save your money.… Expand
  21. Hochbichler
    Sep 22, 2020
    1
    Mafia II: Definitive Edition is a remastered version of the well known 2010 action-adventure game Mafia II. This remastered edition was created with the sole intent of milking more money out of people buying the original Mafia remake version. And the quality of this remaster corresponds with that fact. The actual changes are pretty mild and you might even play the whole game withoutMafia II: Definitive Edition is a remastered version of the well known 2010 action-adventure game Mafia II. This remastered edition was created with the sole intent of milking more money out of people buying the original Mafia remake version. And the quality of this remaster corresponds with that fact. The actual changes are pretty mild and you might even play the whole game without realizing you are playing the remastered version. Actually that is not true at all. You are definitely going to notice that this is not the original Mafia II. The huge number of bugs will definitely distinguish this remaster from its original counterpart. These bugs affect the graphics (glitching hats, glitching smoke, you have to enable clothes physics manually by deleting a folder etc.), audio (mission music will keep playing forever after finishing the mission, glitching cutscenes audio) and gameplay (you might get twice the amount of money for Bruno from Joe). Lots of the bonus cars and clothes are only available on second playthrough, which is just idiotic given that this is a remaster of a game that we have all played at least once in the past and also the fact that this game is very linear that the second playthrough will be exactly the same as the first one. Oh and the best bonus car is locked until you connect your game with a 2K account.

    Way to go Hangar 13, you incompetent idiots. I have absolutely no faith in you and I am really praying that you do not mess up the Mafia remake, although I know you probably will. Final verdict: 10 %    … Expand
  22. TheLight2
    Mar 5, 2021
    1
    God damn what a glitchy mess hangar 13 really **** this one up. So depressing
  23. kelmis
    Oct 28, 2020
    3
    In 2010 A lot of cut content that was not included in the game - on the modders' website there is information about how badly the developers reacted to this priceless game - even at the pre-release stage, the game was cut and unfinished missions were deleted in the content! It was not the conscience of the game that decided, but dirty money!

    In the version definitive edition, nothing    In 2010 A lot of cut content that was not included in the game - on the modders' website there is information about how badly the developers reacted to this priceless game - even at the pre-release stage, the game was cut and unfinished missions were deleted in the content! It was not the conscience of the game that decided, but dirty money!

    In the version definitive edition, nothing was even supplemented and this is another making money on a dummy clone)    … Expand
  24. Vladyslav3199
    Nov 9, 2020
    0
    Оптимизация говно, студия H13 только чушь и может делать. Дизреспект, проседает вечно графика, блики, неприятные и очень отвратительные текстуры, не советую никому покупать переиздание, только оригинал!!!
  25. edub33
    Dec 1, 2020
    1
    After playing Mafia 1 Definitive Edition, I am so angry I wasted my time on Mafia 2. This game is so much worse than the original. Horrible story, graphics are not good I could barely tell the difference between this and the original. BORING!
  26. RovaxiX707
    Dec 28, 2020
    2
    Want to advise this studio not successful games Hangar_13 remove this game from the pages of sales and not to desecrate the original version of the game from 2002.
    Because think this project is a rough sham that shames the original game, reducing it in everything and negatively changing, rather than complementing the game as a more extended process in 2020.
    The name of the game does    Want to advise this studio not successful games Hangar_13 remove this game from the pages of sales and not to desecrate the original version of the game from 2002.
    Because think this project is a rough sham that shames the original game, reducing it in everything and negatively changing, rather than complementing the game as a more extended process in 2020.

    The name of the game does NOT correspond to its content!!!
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    … Expand
  27. psmoon21
    Mar 9, 2021
    0
    How can you make an open world so bad?

    The story is the biggest cliché in the world of the mafia, everything seen in mafia movies happens in the game with expected results, without emotion and the character cannot be flatter and boring. Who had the great idea that you are always on a mission? How is refueling fun or something? Why are there invisible walls and you can't fall    How can you make an open world so bad?

    The story is the biggest cliché in the world of the mafia, everything seen in mafia movies happens in the game with expected results, without emotion and the character cannot be flatter and boring.

    Who had the great idea that you are always on a mission?

    How is refueling fun or something?

    Why are there invisible walls and you can't fall into the water?

    In addition to the countless bugs of all kinds, even in the trophies.

    The dlc, are even worse and with that dlc wanted to compete against the episodes of gta iv? LOL

    The ridiculous collectibles the amount of them and they do not contribute anything

    The map is small and boring

    In short, mafia ii shows the rest of the developers how NOT to make an open world game    … Expand
  28. Divuar
    Apr 9, 2021
    1
    A broken port of a classic game. Some bugs are so bad the game becomes unplayable. Sometimes hard reloading the game/restarting the mission helps, but sometimes it doesn’t. The game also likes to freeze dead in random occasions. So sad, the original game is so good and exciting.
  29. NevWave
    Sep 19, 2021
    3
    Original is so much better. I know graphics maybe here is so much better. And only this. No more changes.
  30. nascent
    Dec 23, 2022
    3
    I bought the remastered trilogy of hearing for years nothing but praise for the series, especially the plot and characters, and wanted to give it a go now it's remastered.
    However I found the games incredibly dull and shallow. This is especially true for Mafia 2. The characters were 2 dimensional and the plot was daytime-tv level. The gameplay was pretty unexciting and run-of-the-mill.    I bought the remastered trilogy of hearing for years nothing but praise for the series, especially the plot and characters, and wanted to give it a go now it's remastered.
    However I found the games incredibly dull and shallow. This is especially true for Mafia 2. The characters were 2 dimensional and the plot was daytime-tv level. The gameplay was pretty unexciting and run-of-the-mill. Also the remasters force creation of online accounts. I had instances where my game completely locked up on playstation because it mid-game asked me to create a 2k Account and I clicked the refuse button. I had to force close the game to be able to do anything. Then one time, whilst playing the game, I got screen lag whilst pressing buttons, only for a privacy policy screen pop up saying it wants to remove my privacy and do i accept, immediately followed by a thank you for accepting message.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. GameOver.gr
    Jun 6, 2020
    60
    The new version of Mafia 2 is more polished, cleaner and more detailed than ever before, but the problems with the plot, mission development, character development, driving and gunplay are still present. Ultimately, players who still own the original (now dubbed "classic") version of the game on Steam, had better stick to it.
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  2. COGconnected
    Jun 3, 2020
    58
    There are other modern updates, I’m sure. It runs fine on my PC, and though I have seen reports of bugs and glitches, I didn’t encounter anything egregious. But there’s still a question of why. Why remake these games? Why put a fresh coat of paint on this weird little action shooter that is not so fondly remembered? I’m sure there are compelling business reasons, but nothing that makes sense to me as a gamer. Mafia II is an imperfect fix to a game that was already pretty flawed. Now it’s just as flawed, but in a way that can be appreciated by modern audiences.
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  3. Game Rant
    Jun 3, 2020
    60
    Mafia 2: Definitive Edition is a decent buy for anyone that hasn't played the original (on PC, anyway). It's a more complete package with superior graphics, but there are definitely aspects of the game that haven't aged well.
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