Mafia 2: First details! : update :

Pajama_Man

: update 3 :
First details!
http://games.tiscali.cz/news/news.asp?id=26917

* Two main heroes with completely different characters: although you'll only be able to play as Vito, the other (named Joe) will play an important part in the story, not being limited to a supporting role.
* Not a direct sequel / no story connectivity; in fact, you won't have to know the first game.
* Extensive car damage, with physical destruction model supposedly even more detailed and prettier than the one from the acclaimed Burnout Paradise (according to the journalists at press presentation) with damaged car body, broken glass or exploding gas tanks.
* Not only you'll have to stop at gas stations for refueling your car, but you'll also be able to undergo a car wash and hence get rid of all the dust that your car has been picking.
* Money important for shopping (new clothes to get rid of pursuers) or visiting restaurants, which is where you'll have your hero strengthen up a bit by eating some (similar as in GTA San Andreas).
* Pastel colors and an art style at times reminding of BioShock.
* Confirmed the presence of Gears of War-like cover system, as suggested by recent screenshot.
* Story beginning shortly before the end of the World War II, which is when Vito comes back from war duty at Europe.
* Set in a fictional American city Empire City with size around 10 km2 (about twice as big as built-up area in original Lost Heaven city from the first Mafia) with tens of unique quarters, inspired mostly by San Francisco.
* Lead platforms X360/PS3, while the PC version should launch supposedly weeks or months afterwards, although this too could change depending on the current state of the gaming market.
* Release date still wasn't specified, but the journalists are expecting the game to ship in late spring/summer 2009.

: update 2 :
Directfeed trailer is up!
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24387.html

: update :
The Mafia 2 2K games website is up with 5 screenshots!
http://www.2kgames.com/mafia2/

Thanks to Waka Laka for the heads up.


: old post :
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=80247

Source from Tiscali Game and translated (?) by Blue's News.

For more info on Mafia, I advise you check out Basticle's Mafia thread.

I loved Mafia to death! The game had one of the best, best story line in a game ever!

Lets speculate on some story!

Maybe you'll either get to play as Tommy's doughter or perhaps her children eh? But then again do we want a GTA era game or the game to retain the 1930/40s feel? Perhaps even a prequal set in the time when Salieri and Morello weren't Dons.

Thanks to Zoglog on the CAGs forum for the heads up.

Brink

excellent, Mafia was a fantastic game! I couldn't begin to guess the storyline. I bet it won't even be about any of the characters in the first game.

emnmnme

I didn't care for the slow cars that puttered and strained to get up a steep hill but otherwise Mafia was great. If they can set a game in the late 40's, I think the faster cars of the era will help the sequel more than anything else.

Crapfestival

As long as there's no racing level, I'll be supremely happy with it.

Basticle

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg

Basticle

this makes me wonder what the hell is going on with Enemy in Sight. Illusion havent released any info or screenshots for it in 2 years. it sounds like its going to be an operation flashpoint type game done by the developers of Hidden and Dangerous 1&2 which would make it like double bonus awsome

BigDes

Pajama_Man if this turns out to be nothing but internet mutterings then I'll, I'll glare at your avatar very sternly.

Heir

Crapfestival wrote: »

As long as there's no racing level, I'll be supremely happy with it.

Damn racing level.

Lewisham

Yeah, this game had issues, but it got the duck and cover style of third-person shooting down.

Until Gears of War even.

I look forward to Mafia 2... but worry that if they stay too close to the original it'll be anachronistic, and if they stray too far it won't be Mafia anymore and it might suck.

Oh dear.

Suriko

Oh god yes. I'm looking forward to this so much. Even if the gameplay fails to deliver, the soundtrack should be something to behold.

Big Dookie

OMG, dicks, cumming, etc!

I really loved Mafia. Personally, I'm hoping for a prequel in which we see Salieri's rise to Don status, or a game set concurrently time-wise to the first game but in a different city. Something in a Hollywood-esque city in the early days of film would be grand, or something set in a New York lookalike. Going more than a few years ahead of the original game wouldn't be good because you'd lose much of the style that made the first game so great. If it's a real sequel, it should take place DIRECTLY after the events of the first game (minus the uber-depressing ending).

In any case, I hope this is real, and I hope it isn't far off.

JohnDoe

Big Dookie wrote: »

OMG, dicks, cumming, etc!

I really loved Mafia. Personally, I'm hoping for a prequel in which we see Salieri's rise to Don status, or a game set concurrently time-wise to the first game but in a different city. Something in a Hollywood-esque city in the early days of film would be grand, or something set in a New York lookalike. Going more than a few years ahead of the original game wouldn't be good because you'd lose much of the style that made the first game so great. If it's a real sequel, it should take place DIRECTLY after the events of the first game (minus the uber-depressing ending).

In any case, I hope this is real, and I hope it isn't far off.

You mean awesomely awesome ending.

Merovingi

Oh man, oh man, OH MAN! I hope this is true.. I really do. Holy crap, I loved Mafia. It's one of my favorite PC games of all time and I still play it every once in a while!

Waka Laka

AMDAC!

All over the god damn floor!

I also agree with the racing part. Fuck I hated that.

I needs me a Tommy gun and an oldschool car chase fix again.

I smell a reinstallation when I get home.

(PS- are there any "Increase the fucking draw distance" mods for Mafia. The only thing that bugged me about the game was when a row of buildings would just appear out of nowhere.

Big Dookie

JohnDoe wrote: »

Big Dookie wrote: »

OMG, dicks, cumming, etc!

I really loved Mafia. Personally, I'm hoping for a prequel in which we see Salieri's rise to Don status, or a game set concurrently time-wise to the first game but in a different city. Something in a Hollywood-esque city in the early days of film would be grand, or something set in a New York lookalike. Going more than a few years ahead of the original game wouldn't be good because you'd lose much of the style that made the first game so great. If it's a real sequel, it should take place DIRECTLY after the events of the first game (minus the uber-depressing ending).

In any case, I hope this is real, and I hope it isn't far off.

You mean awesomely awesome ending.

True. It was depressing, but also awesome.

Noray

Holy fuck, yes! Mafia was awesome! It did indeed tell an amazingly good story, and told it well. I loved that game to bits. It's a bit dated now, sadly, and the sound is messed up on my new computer. I wouldn't mind if they just made a completely new story unrelated to the first game if it's just as good. Man that ending... so great. And the garage level! The rooftop chase! Oh, the memories.

Tav

I loved the story, but got really annoyed at the racing level. After countless attempts I just said fuck it and gave up. I really loved it up until that point, though.

Drovek

Just "New Mafia" is all I need from this. I don't really care if it's a sequel/prequel/completely unrelated as long as it's as godly delivered as the first one.

The only thing I want is an even better city. As in being able to go inside more places. The size was great in the first one, just that many empty buildings... well.

Basticle

anyone else play the Godfather game and think that it was a poor man's Mafia with a movie liscence trying to be Grand Theft Auto?

Walter

I need to change my pants.

SithDrummer

Basticle wrote: »

anyone else play the Godfather game and think that it was a poor man's Mafia with a movie liscence trying to be Grand Theft Auto?

I liked it better than Mafia, actually, with the exception of lacking the rooftop chase level. Everything else about Godfather - the customization, the car handling, the weapons, and the free-roaming - was preferable to their counterparts in Mafia.

fsmith1

SithDrummer wrote: »

Basticle wrote: »

anyone else play the Godfather game and think that it was a poor man's Mafia with a movie liscence trying to be Grand Theft Auto?

I liked it better than Mafia, actually, with the exception of lacking the rooftop chase level. Everything else about Godfather - the customization, the car handling, the weapons, and the free-roaming - was preferable to their counterparts in Mafia.

My thoughts exactly, if there's anything that really hurt Mafia for me it was the cars; everything just felt to drag on and on because I had to either be going under 40 or keeping an eagle eye on the radar to get anywhere. The faster pace, customization, open-endedness, combat system, advancement system and the cars were just handled so much better in Godfather. Hell, I'm on my third run of Godfather and I've yet to return to Mafia since I beat it the first time.

Waka Laka

fsmith1 wrote: »

SithDrummer wrote: »

Basticle wrote: »

anyone else play the Godfather game and think that it was a poor man's Mafia with a movie liscence trying to be Grand Theft Auto?

I liked it better than Mafia, actually, with the exception of lacking the rooftop chase level. Everything else about Godfather - the customization, the car handling, the weapons, and the free-roaming - was preferable to their counterparts in Mafia.

My thoughts exactly, if there's anything that really hurt Mafia for me it was the cars; everything just felt to drag on and on because I had to either be going under 40 or keeping an eagle eye on the radar to get anywhere. The faster pace, customization, open-endedness, combat system, advancement system and the cars were just handled so much better in Godfather. Hell, I'm on my third run of Godfather and I've yet to return to Mafia since I beat it the first time.

Mafia's Cars were far more accurate to driving them in real life than Godfather's. Mafia was designed to have realistic car chases and not Hollywood hero ones.

The Cheese

Realistic car chases suck when the cars have trouble getting up a hill.

Still, the action in Mafia was amazing.

Brolo

Well... Godfather did have a four year gap after Mafia that it came out then, I'm hoping the options in Godfather would be more expansive when compared to games from a previous generation. In comparison to other sandbox style games of the time (GTA 3, The Getaway, True Crime) Mafia sets some pretty good stanadards for its good graphics, tight gunplay and spot-on capture of the period/style.

Sanders

Now more whoring!

MP3 of the song during the credits http://lordzofbrooklyn.com/LOFMARSH.MP3 (official site of the band, legal)
Think I am the only person who even liked this song, much less loved it. Shame the rest of their music is... eh.

Bacon-BuTTy

I only ever played a Demo of Mafia, and i was impressed, been toying with the idea of buying it ever since.

But somthing that always botherd me was on the tutorial level (i think) there were two NPCs standing chatting to eachother. And from far away you could clearly hear that they were just saying "mumble mumble mumble" litrally saying it.

But then you went up close and they were now clearly saying "mumble mumble"

kinda creeped me out.

Waka Laka

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare your dicks...

MAFIA 2 SCREENS FOR GREAT JUSTICE








Hi-res with H-scroll condom.

Pajama_Man

Oh snap looks likes it takes place in the 50's... :shock:

DarkWarrior

Oh snap, might actually be far along too.

Waka Laka

Pajama_Man wrote: »

Oh snap looks likes it takes place in the 50's... :shock:

You sir deserve a cookie.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced that it will publish Mafia 2, a sequel to the original Mafia title that sold more than two million copies worldwide and helped popularize the gangster genre. Featuring a deep mobster-driven narrative packed with both behind-the-wheel and on-foot action, Mafia 2 is the sequel fans have been clamoring for. The game is being developed by Illusion Softworks, developers of the original Mafia title, for next generation consoles and Games for Windows®.

Like the original Mafia title, Mafia 2 immerses players in the mob underworld of a fictitious late 1940’s-early 1950’s scenario. Players will easily become engaged in the game’s cinematic Hollywood movie experience with strong, believable characters in a living, breathing city. By fusing high octane gunplay with white knuckle driving and an engaging narrative, Mafia 2 looks to be the industry’s most compelling Mafia title to date.

“As the original Mafia was a big success, we are excited to leverage the power of next generation console technology to create an all-new experience, while embracing the elements that resonated with the previous game’s fans,” said Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K. “The ‘wow’ factor of Mafia 2 is definitely the benchmark-setting visual quality and action that you expect to see only in Hollywood movies.”

For more information on Mafia 2, visit www.2kgames.com/mafia2/

YardGnome

That looks fucking amazing

Dagrabbit

I'm excited. I liked the original Mafia a lot, but it has enough problems that I haven't really been able to replay it. This will fill that niche pretty nicely, I think.

Klyka

The bar scene looks perfect. Just the right lighting to get a moody feeling.

bloodyroarxx

That looks fucking awesome!

Klyka

If you just look at the two people on the right (and maybe the barkeeper) you could almost think that it'sa real photo. Or like, a picture out of a casablanca style movie.

Rohan

YES!

Stormwatcher

holy crap, i went to the store and bought moar dicks, in order to come even moar.

holy crap, that's gorgeous.

bruin

The graphics are really nice

Noray

Yup, this is pretty much looking amazing. This is now in my top 3 most anticipated games list.

At number 1.

BubbaT

Waka Laka wrote: »

Like the original Mafia title, Mafia 2 immerses players in the mob underworld of a fictitious late 1940’s-early 1950’s scenario. Players will easily become engaged in the game’s cinematic Hollywood movie experience with strong, believable characters in a living, breathing city. By fusing high octane gunplay with white knuckle driving and an engaging narrative, Mafia 2 looks to be the industry’s most compelling Mafia title to date.

Birth of Vegas arc/level, please.