Mafia II: Joe's Adventures

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  • Summary: Joe's Adventures offers an engaging narrative and allows players to explore new locations, including a train station, the cathouse, a boat yard, a seasonally changing lakefront and some never-before-seen buildings in Empire Bay. This exciting new chapter in the Mafia II saga includes newJoe's Adventures offers an engaging narrative and allows players to explore new locations, including a train station, the cathouse, a boat yard, a seasonally changing lakefront and some never-before-seen buildings in Empire Bay. This exciting new chapter in the Mafia II saga includes new clothing, collectibles and even more classic 40's and 50's music. In addition to the story-based missions, Joe's Adventures opens up a slew of optional city-based quests packed with arcade action gameplay and a points-based system that allows players to move up the ranks on the online leaderboard through combos and multiplier bonuses. Deadly executions by head shot or charged explosives rack up points, and precision-timed vehicular power slides, lofty jumps and feats of supercharged speed maintain the adrenaline-charged fun for extensive replayability.… Expand

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  1. Gamereactor Sweden
    Jan 28, 2011
    80
    A worthy expansion that takes us deeper in to 2K:s loveley mobster world.
  2. Play UK
    Dec 29, 2010
    80
    A joy to play. [Issue#200, p.102]
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  3. IGN
    Dec 17, 2010
    60
    It's a letdown and I never felt like I had to know what was going to happen next.

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  1. XJoseManuel10X
    Mar 8, 2019
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    Mafia II: Joe's Adventures It puts the player in control of Joe Barbaro, taking place in 1950, while his best friend Vito Scaletta is inMafia II: Joe's Adventures It puts the player in control of Joe Barbaro, taking place in 1950, while his best friend Vito Scaletta is in prison.

    - The DLC is stuck not knowing what it really wants to do (it's somewhere between the disc-based game and the arcade DLC)
    - I'd love to get a compelling Joe story that has some substance like the one told in the proper Mafia II game, but that doesn't happen here. We get a few cutscenes in the beginning of the game, but then you start getting the static screens that introduce missions with text - the storytelling flair disappears. With the movie-like atmosphere removed, you're just running to floating "mission start" icons on the screen, getting your mission and trying to get it done before the timer runs out.    … Expand

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