Mafia II: Definitive Edition

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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 418 Ratings

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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. mothman_eddie
    May 22, 2020
    6
    This game feels empty. Originally released in 2010, 2 years after GTA 4 despite having less features. The trains do not work. I can imagine a much better version of this game.

    This could have been Malcolm X: The Early Years: The Video Game. But instead its like Sopranos in the 50s. You gotta buy clothes every time the cops chase you.
  4. Lul55
    May 27, 2020
    1
    Optimization - piece of sh*t. Never buy it, because of optimization and big amount of bags
  5. 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 Almost every NPC looked unpolished , the audio in a number of cutscenes sounded horribly outdated, and most of the glitches and bugs from the original game were persistent.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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Dariya
    Jul 2, 2021
    9
    Summary:
    The storyline saves this from being forgotten.
    The Good; + The characters are voiced superbly and very natural movie-like acting. + Driving feels more realistic. + The theme is done right, you feel like you're in the 40's and 50's thanks to the art direction, city detail and licensing of music from that era. The Bad: - You don't get to do a lot in this city other than    Summary:
    The storyline saves this from being forgotten.

    The Good;
    + The characters are voiced superbly and very natural movie-like acting.
    + Driving feels more realistic.
    + The theme is done right, you feel like you're in the 40's and 50's thanks to the art direction, city detail and licensing of music from that era.

    The Bad:
    - You don't get to do a lot in this city other than the standard rob shops, buy items, piss off cops, shoot pedestrians, drive around or run over people.    … Expand
  9. WHITESIXOMAR
    Nov 7, 2021
    8
    This is no definitive edition! more like a crash grab. I gave it an 8 because I enjoyed this game so much back in the day, and now its a fantastic opportunity to replay this experience. But as gameover.gr said below the problems with the plot, mission development, character development, driving and gunplay are still present. It can be boring some times too. Gets repetitive driving fromThis is no definitive edition! more like a crash grab. I gave it an 8 because I enjoyed this game so much back in the day, and now its a fantastic opportunity to replay this experience. But as gameover.gr said below the problems with the plot, mission development, character development, driving and gunplay are still present. It can be boring some times too. Gets repetitive driving from point A to B since the game its so empty an we are used to open world experiences with tons of stuff to do. Sometimes the game will drop below 30 frames with my last gen rig, never in the open world but some indoors get 20 frames with 10% GPU and 5% CPU utilization, like my PC is relaxed and the game struggles to get 20 frames. Then why an 8? cause its mafia II and replaying Vito story was worth the buy and the play time.… Expand
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. bobbi91
    Nov 24, 2020
    1
    Sell one game TWICE WITH NO additions to the GAMEPLAY! **** HELL! TO make YOU DIE H13 :((
  16. mihalsk
    May 22, 2020
    0
    seven times the size of the original? due to what?
    размер в семь раз больше оригинала? за счёт чего?
  17. 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.
  18. Gambetta610
    May 23, 2020
    0
    Отвратительная оптимизация на ps4. Постоянные фризы и зависания.
  19. 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.
  20. mapara
    May 21, 2020
    6
    I think graphics is not changed at all, faces changed little bit, I played Mafia 2(not remastered) there were many bugs, but in Definitive edition bugs has fixed.
    Score for Definitive Edition is 3-5, but I have scored 6 points because of nostalgia and old feelings.
  21. IsmetCevik
    Oct 5, 2020
    9
    I think story and graphic is very good. They did the same as the previous game and I think it's nice.
  22. Tomish
    Oct 3, 2020
    0
    Отвратительная работа, десятки багов, ужасная оптимизация!
  23. Destruct_
    May 19, 2020
    10
    This Game Is Awesome and now it's in Portuguese Thats Awesome As well Finally Finished It I Wanted To But Never Could
  24. thejaw
    Jun 3, 2020
    8
    beautiful story with a dubbing in spectacular Italian is affected graphically of his years but still highly recommended
  25. Sentrien
    May 21, 2020
    10
    For Mafia 2 fans the best opinion to buy it. It is GREAT!!! And the Voice actors are perfect in German and in English.
  26. DiegoParedesHD
    May 19, 2020
    7
    great remaster in which the appearance of the classic mafia ii from 2010 has been slightly improved
  27. Garybaldo
    Feb 17, 2021
    2
    Nefarious, sorry excuse for a remaster that introduces nothing but game-breaking bugs, truly disgusting
  28. azizsopinions
    Jun 22, 2020
    7
    As a remaster of Mafia II, this sucks, I'm only giving this a 7 because the story itself is damn good, the best play to play this game to this day is on PC with graphic mods.
  29. 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.
  30. mxnu54
    May 20, 2020
    10
    Mafia II is one of the most atmospheric games, a must play for everyone. People dont know how to appreciate this piece of art...
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 19 out of 32
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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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