Mafia II: Definitive Edition

 PlayStation 4
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  1. MB2003
    Jul 20, 2020
    4
    Usually you can tell when a game has been play tested upon release because the platinum trophy will have a percentage of 0.1%. Mafia II Definitive Edition has 0%. A game so broken that the platinum trophy is locked due to a bug that took too long too fix.

    In fact, I’m positive this same bug was in the original version of the game in 2012. Full of bugs, glitches and performance issues,    Usually you can tell when a game has been play tested upon release because the platinum trophy will have a percentage of 0.1%. Mafia II Definitive Edition has 0%. A game so broken that the platinum trophy is locked due to a bug that took too long too fix.

    In fact, I’m positive this same bug was in the original version of the game in 2012.

    Full of bugs, glitches and performance issues, the game adds nothing of value apart from a few cars that you’ll never use. A slap in the face.    … Expand
  2. DmitryV
    May 28, 2020
    0
    Купил я сие чудо, игру сложно назвать ремастером... Из плюсов
    +Увеличили качество текстур
    + поработали с освещением + сюжет старый) А теперь минусы - обосанная оптимизация игре 10 лет сильные просадки даже не в загруженных сценах. - убрали физику вещей, местами при управлении машины.( долбаебы) - анимация , местами полный пиздец - баги!!! Багов пиздец то трава пропадет, то блять    Купил я сие чудо, игру сложно назвать ремастером... Из плюсов
    +Увеличили качество текстур
    + поработали с освещением
    + сюжет старый)
    А теперь минусы
    - обосанная оптимизация игре 10 лет сильные просадки даже не в загруженных сценах.
    - убрали физику вещей, местами при управлении машины.( долбаебы)
    - анимация , местами полный пиздец
    - баги!!! Багов пиздец то трава пропадет, то блять блики, то прогружается все криво
    - дальность прорисовки и подгрузка не которых объектов + ЛАГИ!!!

    В общем самый кривой и обосанный ремастер убить весьма не плохую игру. Не тратьте деньги , я пожалел что купил!
    А да эти кривые долбаебы на мафии 3 нихуя не сделали + ухудшили еще больше графику... это пздц
    Я не рекомендую к покупке!!! на ремейк первой мафии который выйдет 28 августа, я не питаю надежд...
    В общем разрабы криворукие олени    … Expand
  3. Elliot_clayy
    May 27, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. When I was teen I have play “Mafia 2”. I really love this game but, when 2K create hangar 13 and gave them Mafia game. I obviously hate mafia games.… Expand
  4. Elena_Fisher_
    May 27, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game is boringgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggJdjdjdhdhdhFhfhjf… Expand
  5. trevor1981
    Jul 22, 2020
    0
    I picked Mafia 2 with bundle together with 1st Mafia remake, so while waiting for the original to become available, I'm playing Mafia 2, and it's extremely entertaining. It has some bugs, yes, but nothing to ruin the fun.
    If you loved it back then, you'll love it even more upgraded.
  6. zitrin
    May 21, 2020
    0
    Посадка кадров на ps4 pro, очень плохая оптимизация.
  7. 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 лёгких денег на чужих кошельках.
  8. Clockworknate
    May 28, 2020
    0
    What the actual **** **** ??? What a piece of **** demaster. Your not supposed to make the game worse you dumb **** idiots!!!!
  9. ActualDin
    May 27, 2020
    1
    So called "definitive" edition on PS4 is literally the worst place to play this decade old game. Buy the game of the year version of the original release for PS3, 360, or Steam, avoid this remaster unless it's literally the only way you can play. Mafia 2 is one of the best games of it's generation and a love letter to fans of classic crime stories like the Godfather and the films of MartinSo called "definitive" edition on PS4 is literally the worst place to play this decade old game. Buy the game of the year version of the original release for PS3, 360, or Steam, avoid this remaster unless it's literally the only way you can play. Mafia 2 is one of the best games of it's generation and a love letter to fans of classic crime stories like the Godfather and the films of Martin Scorsese, but this version is embarrassing. On my game the "Saving..." indicator in the top left corner literally never left the game, no matter if I was on the main menu, DLC stories, or after having reset the game. Plenty of other game breaking bugs too, mostly scripting stuff. The dialogue in cutscenes only plays in your left earphone if using headphones of any sort, and this 10 year old PS3 game on PS4 is a ridiculous 52 GB, making it even bigger than it's sequel, Mafia 3, a four year old PS4 game that even got a similar "remaster" treatment, and lastly, the technical performance of the game isn't even better than the original PS3 release, with frequent pop-in and a bad framerate. If Mafia 2 interests you, definitely play it, but only buy this version unless it's the only way to do so. Fingers crossed the Mafia 1 remake is handled with the care it deserves, unlike this.… Expand
  10. revorex
    Jun 18, 2020
    0
    Лагает,фризит, дым испорчен,анимации на уровне масс эффект три и огромная цена для игры 10 летней давности!
  11. Dastish2
    May 19, 2020
    2
    The worst remaster of one of the greatest games of the last decade for only 30 USD (seriously??!!!!).
    To be honest, I really enjoyed the news about remaster as this was one of my favourite games when I was a teen-ager. Okay, then here comes the may 19th and what we can see - 30 USD for the game with tons of issues. I downloaded Mafia 2, started the first chapter and what was my "surprise"    The worst remaster of one of the greatest games of the last decade for only 30 USD (seriously??!!!!).
    To be honest, I really enjoyed the news about remaster as this was one of my favourite games when I was a teen-ager. Okay, then here comes the may 19th and what we can see - 30 USD for the game with tons of issues. I downloaded Mafia 2, started the first chapter and what was my "surprise" when gamepad could not be found. I simply reloaded it and it worked (hell yeah), but after another scene I stuck with the same issue again.... I can only imagine what kind of remaster this studio will do to Mafia 3 (a game that originally was an utter piece of **** full of technical issues).
    Would not recommend buying this game, if only it's price was no higher than 10USD.
    And also, what the hell is wrong with all sounds in this ga    … Expand
  12. Falsecoda
    Oct 16, 2020
    3
    This is just a shameless cash grab, full of glitches and disappointing visuals. the original Mafia II was a masterpiece. this is not an upgrade and not worth your time if you have played the original.
  13. Voodoo30032001
    Sep 9, 2020
    0
    This game is absolute garbage. When I played the original mafia 2 back in 2010 I didn't face any bugs that could mess up my gameplay. This remastered version has one fatal issue and that is being textures disappearing and my car always falling under the map. The game is u playable. Smh.
  14. Aplastador
    Aug 8, 2020
    4
    Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Buena historia
    Buena jugabilidad
    Mal renderizado
    Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs
  15. Ibrahimov
    Dec 13, 2020
    1
    The worst glitches game ever it crashes every single mission even in joe’s adventures I don’t know why they put it on the store for 29 USD it doesn’t worth 5 USD at the most
  16. lordpersian
    May 19, 2020
    0
    I buyed the game
    And now free in Malaysia
    30 usd
    Thanks 2k
    Thanks sony
    Thanks Malaysia
  17. Kells_ExE
    Jun 29, 2020
    0
    Probably one of the worst remasters ever, bad lag awful frame rate and it crashes way to often, buildings and structures barely load in Hanger 13 shouldn't have bothered with a remaster because the older game runs a lot better than the remaster.
  18. nascent
    Dec 24, 2022
    4
    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 also true for Mafia 2 however the plot does start to get more interesting towards the end, but by that point I was waiting for the game to be over. The    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 also true for Mafia 2 however the plot does start to get more interesting towards the end, but by that point I was waiting for the game to be over. 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
  19. eva3si0n
    Apr 19, 2021
    3
    Mafia 2: Definitive Edition is an illustration of the modern gaming industry. A remaster that is made literally on the knee, a spiteful attitude towards the target audience and a price tag of $40. On PS4 Pro at the launch was almost not real, there was no such drop FPS before that we could talk about graphic artifacts and cut physics. Surprisingly, DLC did not sell separately. Mafia 2 backMafia 2: Definitive Edition is an illustration of the modern gaming industry. A remaster that is made literally on the knee, a spiteful attitude towards the target audience and a price tag of $40. On PS4 Pro at the launch was almost not real, there was no such drop FPS before that we could talk about graphic artifacts and cut physics. Surprisingly, DLC did not sell separately. Mafia 2 back in 2010 was an ambiguous product, the remaster is just terrible… Expand
  20. danield80
    Oct 16, 2022
    4
    This 'remaster' is full of 'definitive' visual bugs and glitches, AI glitches and even gamebreaking bugs. Some of them happen constantly until you restart the game. Sound in cutscenes is sometimes out of sync and frames drop to units. The game also crashed a couple times.

    And the developers had the audacity to put their photos (as collectable wanted posters) into the game expanding the    This 'remaster' is full of 'definitive' visual bugs and glitches, AI glitches and even gamebreaking bugs. Some of them happen constantly until you restart the game. Sound in cutscenes is sometimes out of sync and frames drop to units. The game also crashed a couple times.

    And the developers had the audacity to put their photos (as collectable wanted posters) into the game expanding the amount of posters from 159 to 189.    … Expand
  21. Donpictures
    Aug 12, 2021
    2
    This is just embarrassing
  22. 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
  23. stasweb
    Dec 7, 2021
    1
    I love the original game. For the time when it was released it was just a masterpiece. But this defective edition is a crap. I prefer russian voice language, but it's sooooooo compressed, sounds like it's 32 kbps.
    It seems to me that the only things that were changed are new ugly character faces. Once I had a bug that completely broke the game - game level couldn't load fully and got    I love the original game. For the time when it was released it was just a masterpiece. But this defective edition is a crap. I prefer russian voice language, but it's sooooooo compressed, sounds like it's 32 kbps.
    It seems to me that the only things that were changed are new ugly character faces. Once I had a bug that completely broke the game - game level couldn't load fully and got frozen - so I had to start whole game all over.    … Expand
  24. TheCroWolf
    May 1, 2022
    3
    Dont buy this so many bugs ...i played original version and this version have so much bugs that didn't existed in original
  25. LoneWolf62795
    May 26, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm not very happy with this Definitive edition, the original is a 10/10, but this one... Is a **** disaster, I'm very angry, why, because when I was in the mission to save Leo but what I got here, it was absolutely disgraceful, I did that multiple times but when I found out, I'm not the only one who has **** problems, this edition is one of the worst games of my life, I saw many glitches and I will not playing this game ever again, if there's another one of crappy editions then I cannot trust this at all, the original doesn't get any better because it was one of fantastic games, but this edition... It's a total disaster… Expand
  26. zer0cool
    Dec 25, 2020
    2
    Плюсы: уютная атмосфера Эмпайр-Бэя; отличная графика; высокий уровень интерактивности и разрушаемости окружения; первые сорок минут игры.
    Минусы: очень слабый и вторичный сюжет; неинтересные и плоские персонажи; проблемы с искусственным интеллектом у полицейских; кроме технологии, Mafia 2 ничего нового по сравнению с оригиналом не может предложить.    Плюсы: уютная атмосфера Эмпайр-Бэя; отличная графика; высокий уровень интерактивности и разрушаемости окружения; первые сорок минут игры.
    Минусы: очень слабый и вторичный сюжет; неинтересные и плоские персонажи; проблемы с искусственным интеллектом у полицейских; кроме технологии, Mafia 2 ничего нового по сравнению с оригиналом не может предложить.
  27. wyt491
    Oct 18, 2020
    3
    ужасный порт, лучше уж перепройти игру на ps3, чем трогать "это"...
  28. Popeyessb
    Oct 15, 2020
    1
    Bugged like any other game I haver ever played! I want a refund.. My Memories of máfia 2 are ruinned.
  29. Chonsch
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    Note: Review for the BASE PS4 only.

    I have been a big fan of the original Mafia game back in 2001 and the original release of Mafia 2, I absolutely love both games for their story, setting and (for their time) fun shooting mechanics. So this is not a review for the game itself, for which I would give a solid 8/10. This is a review concerning the "efforts" or lack of put into this so    Note: Review for the BASE PS4 only.

    I have been a big fan of the original Mafia game back in 2001 and the original release of Mafia 2, I absolutely love both games for their story, setting and (for their time) fun shooting mechanics. So this is not a review for the game itself, for which I would give a solid 8/10. This is a review concerning the "efforts" or lack of put into this so called "definitive edition". To make it quick, here is a list of my problems:

    - Framerate: I just can't believe how poorly optimized this game is. EVERY time you are out driving in the open world (which you do a lot) the framerate can drop TO THE SINGLE DIGITS! This happens for some reason every time you make a turn, and quite frequently when just driving down a straight road. This is just unacceptable and just straight laziness on the devs side.

    - Visual bugs: So, while I can forgive the pop in at distance (which is very predominant in this game), the visual glitches do bother me a lot. When you enter the second part of the game, summer season, you get this constant glitch where building, streets or just chunks of the screen wont load, and instead you get for a few seconds this black/purple/green fillings, it just breaks the immersion.

    - Sound: This is a big WTF. I have a Yamaha Dolby Atmos receiver and I love playing all my games with surround sound...until this game. First of all, EVERY cutscene in this game is IN MONO with a horrible sound quality that raises the volume so loud that me speakers nearly exploded, just horrible. In-game sound is also just horribly mixed. The gun sounds are very underpowered, same with the FX sounds and sometimes is just hard to listen to the dialogue. Again, unacceptable.

    - Sound bugs: Yes, the sound also glitches in this game. Tracks from cutscenes sometimes keep looping in the game, and the only way to make them disappear is to get into a car and turn the radio on.

    So there you have it, it's just an unfinished, unacceptable product that comes out as a quick cash grab for the studio.

    Don't buy this.    … Expand
  30. Kennykey
    Dec 18, 2020
    0
    Parasitism. The project is not completed yet, the terrible mechanics of conservation, permanent error. Permanent mission permissions and restarts. Why did you ruin a good finished product?
    Shame on the whole company. Parasitism on good name and memory
  31. RyanCrawford
    Jan 28, 2022
    4
    Great game with great storyline just could have done a better definitive edition like mafia definitive edition. Stills a fantastic game worth playing

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

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  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Jun 26, 2020
    60
    Offering many memorable moments and a well-realised if empty world, this remaster is dragged down by some technical flaws . The Definitive Edition? Not quite. [Issue#177, p.147]
  2. GameCritics
    Jun 22, 2020
    50
    Unfortunately, this version of Mafia II feels like a barely-touched-up version of a last-gen game that constantly tested my patience and despite my love for the script, I can’t recommend that anyone play through hours and hours of a mediocre, buggy mess just to see the cutscenes. In its current state, Mafia II: Definitive Edition is not worth a player’s time or money — without any further improvements or substantial patches, this one needs to sleep with the fishes.
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  3. Softpedia
    Jun 9, 2020
    50
    The remaster of Mafia II remains a great opportunity totally missed by the publisher to turn the bad memories, softened anyway by nostalgia, into a new worthwhile adventure. Instead, we received a console port put together haphazardly and without any care or consideration. The Definitive Edition of Mafia II dooms the game to go down in history as an experience that went from bad to worse.
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