Mafia II: Definitive Edition

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  1. 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
  2. AlexKVideos1
    May 1, 2021
    4
    I think the biggest issue with this remaster is that it doesn't look like a remaster. Taking a look at comparison videos, a lot of the textures did get upgraded... but to less blurrier textures. At least with remasters like Burnout Paradise, every textures looks crisp and clean. However, it just seems that you are just playing the original game since many textures are still low quality andI think the biggest issue with this remaster is that it doesn't look like a remaster. Taking a look at comparison videos, a lot of the textures did get upgraded... but to less blurrier textures. At least with remasters like Burnout Paradise, every textures looks crisp and clean. However, it just seems that you are just playing the original game since many textures are still low quality and blurry. Also, none of the models were updated to higher quality ones.

    Then comes the issue with Apex, and PhysX. From what I understand, NVIDIA PhysX is still there, especially since the logo is shown when you start the game, but the option to enable/disable isn't in the menus anymore. However, the Apex coat physics seem to be gone or at least disabled. Once we find out more, then I'll update this.

    I'm still happy I got it for free for owning Mafia II, but for the people who were looking for a true remaster, this isn't it.    … Expand
  3. 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...
  4. MunhozMCM
    Oct 20, 2021
    4
    Mafia 2 is an amazing game, and it doesn't deserve to be treated as a cash grab as it is being treated. The reasons I wouldn't recommend this remaster are:

    • Mafia 2 does not need a remaster: The game holds itself very well to this day, a remaster was not necessary, sure, it would have been a good thing, if the publisher had not decided to be scummy about it. If you think this is a    Mafia 2 is an amazing game, and it doesn't deserve to be treated as a cash grab as it is being treated. The reasons I wouldn't recommend this remaster are:

    • Mafia 2 does not need a remaster:
    The game holds itself very well to this day, a remaster was not necessary, sure, it would have been a good thing, if the publisher had not decided to be scummy about it. If you think this is a good remaster, you're wrong, the only thing they did was remaster the textures, but many of the original bugs such as smoke flickering for example are still present, and some bugs which I have never seen on the original game are now also present.

    • The Scummy strategy which is being applied to the Mafia franchise:
    The strategy which was applied is an absolute insult, they removed the original mafia 2 to give place to a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ half-baked remaster which is more expensive than the original game. They should have kept the original Mafia 2 for cheaper and also add the definitive edition to the store as a more expensive version for those interested, instead of shoving this ♥♥♥♥ down everybody's throat.    … Expand
  5. RyanCrawford
    Jan 28, 2022
    4
    Great game and great storyline just think 2k could have done better with the definitive edition like they did Mafia definitive edition. Overall still a fantastic game though
  6. 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
  7. ireviewbadgames
    Aug 3, 2020
    3
    I've beaten Mafia twice in my life, once when it first came out in 2010 and now a decade later. There are two primary positive aspects to the game: the story is relatively enjoyable, if a bit short, and the aesthetics were pretty good for the time period that it came out. I would say most everything else about the game is at best, neutral or "meh" and at worst, just absolutely terrible.I've beaten Mafia twice in my life, once when it first came out in 2010 and now a decade later. There are two primary positive aspects to the game: the story is relatively enjoyable, if a bit short, and the aesthetics were pretty good for the time period that it came out. I would say most everything else about the game is at best, neutral or "meh" and at worst, just absolutely terrible. There are bug/glitches galore and you spend as much time fighting the controls/camera/poor vehicle handling as you do the enemies.

    A truly tragic amount of content was cut during development and it is very obvious; the main story-line is a shell with virtually nothing to do besides the primary missions. Basically all side content was not completed in time and tossed into the garbage. This is immediately noticeable as two characters in-game were obviously going to have numerous side-jobs, but instead they just comment that they have nothing for you to do right now.

    A minor nit-pick that I was personally flabbergasted at, is that the voice actor for the secondary protagonist, Joe Barbaro, also voices another main character in the story. They sound almost identical, except one is constantly making "lip-smacking" eating noises while speaking. It's puzzling how they failed to appropriately properly budget for another voice actor.

    Speaking of Joe, his DLC titled, "Joe's Adventures" may possibly be one of the worst hunks of flaming trash that I have ever encountered. I'm not sure if they put some junior intern team on this debacle or what, but it fails spectacularly in every aspect. It is frustratingly unbalanced and was not play-tested in the least, the missions come in floating icons hovering off the ground with no cut-scenes nor rhyme or reason explaining the greater story behind your actions, and it adds virtually no new concepts/mechanics. They also failed to record enough lines from the voice actor, so like that Rick and Morty episode, you're going to hear, "Hey, it's me, Joe." multiple times. All together, this is something I would expect from a fan-made mod, not a professional team. If I had purchased it as DLC (rather than coming packaged with the whole game now) I would be furious that I had been swindled

    If you want to play a crime open-world, play one of the newer ones: Red Dead, GTA, or Sleeping Dogs. Skip this.    … Expand
  8. 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.
  9. Oswinoswald
    Oct 27, 2020
    3
    I played mafia 1 and said why dont i play 2nd game people are saying its a good game ah what a mistake piece of **** its a garbage It has so many bugs and story overall is so boring i really tried to play but couldn't stand more than 1.5 hour everything is slower and worse compared to mafia 1
  10. Tim11
    Dec 1, 2020
    3
    Poor Graphics, Poor Optimization, Technical issues with the game files, etc.
    Failure.
  11. simon01920
    Jan 30, 2021
    3
    Not optimized even on my Ryzen 7, RTX 2070 drops to 30FPS for no reason (explosion, fire, lots of shooting) even changing graphic doesn't help because it is a bug, even on 4K same FPS and even on the lowest setting still the same framerate. Bugs a lot of bugs, bugs like jumping 10 meters high, Vito missing part of his head texture, and so on. Even the graphics and textures weren't reallyNot optimized even on my Ryzen 7, RTX 2070 drops to 30FPS for no reason (explosion, fire, lots of shooting) even changing graphic doesn't help because it is a bug, even on 4K same FPS and even on the lowest setting still the same framerate. Bugs a lot of bugs, bugs like jumping 10 meters high, Vito missing part of his head texture, and so on. Even the graphics and textures weren't really changed or improved, the only thing that I appreciate is the cutscenes looking actually good compared to the original cause they are pre-rendered. But other than the cutscenes, I would rather play the original game that was FINISHED instead of this and I will bit my tongue and look at those cutscenes like retro like it was 10 years ago. Also, they could add some story at the end, but no it is REMASTER and not a good one if you ask me.… Expand
  12. 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
  13. khyronk
    Jan 10, 2021
    3
    I got into this series because of the Mafia remake (which I highly recommend but it is short at 18ish hours) and bought the 3 game collection on sale on Steam. Bear in mind, I hadn't played these originally when they came out. That being said, Mafia II: Definitive Edition is less a remaster and move a 10 year old game with an updated texture pack. Frankly, I don't even think this was aI got into this series because of the Mafia remake (which I highly recommend but it is short at 18ish hours) and bought the 3 game collection on sale on Steam. Bear in mind, I hadn't played these originally when they came out. That being said, Mafia II: Definitive Edition is less a remaster and move a 10 year old game with an updated texture pack. Frankly, I don't even think this was a good game for 2010 considering how much better it's contemporaries like GTA IV played. If you bought the first Mafia: Definitive Edition solo, for the love of all that is holy, don't waste your hard earned money on this. I got it free and it's still not worth my time. Watch a YouTube of the plot of 2 and go straight to Mafia 3.… Expand
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Garybaldo
    Feb 17, 2021
    2
    Nefarious, sorry excuse for a remaster that introduces nothing but game-breaking bugs, truly disgusting
  17. 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
  18. 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!!!
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  19. NoobnGrelou
    Aug 22, 2021
    2
    that's not a remaster i dont recomand this in 2021 it's not a good game already and they made it worst when no bug fixed and no optimisation you will just trow your money of the window
  20. Yiky
    Jan 27, 2022
    2
    Keep away lots of bugs you should stay with the original. Mafia 1 definitive edition is worth it in my opinion, but if you get this one it would be a waste even on sale.
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. Lul55
    May 27, 2020
    1
    Optimization - piece of sh*t. Never buy it, because of optimization and big amount of bags
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. TheLight2
    Mar 5, 2021
    1
    God damn what a glitchy mess hangar 13 really **** this one up. So depressing
  30. Boogiewoogie
    Sep 22, 2020
    1
    I can't believe this game was ever considered good. It's so damn boring. The gameplay is a snoozefest and the story is as cliche as it gets. Good lord. How did this deserve a remaster?
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  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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