Thank you so much for chance Takashi97, Mafia II is great game!
Mafia II is an action-adventure video game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games. It was released on 23 August 2010 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows;[1][2] a Mac OS X port was released by Feral Interactive in December 2011.[3] The game is the direct sequel to 2002's Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven.[4] Set within the fictional Empire Bay (based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit), the story follows a gangster and his efforts to climb through the ranks of the Mafia crime families.
Gameplay
The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Players control Vito Scaletta, a war veteran who becomes caught up with the Mafia when trying to pay back his father's debts. The player character's criminal activities may incite a response from law enforcement agencies, measured by a "wanted" system that governs the aggression of their response. Development began in 2003, soon after the release of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. At release, Mafia II received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise particularly directed at the story. The game is set in the 1940s - early 1950s era of Empire Bay, a fictional city based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit.[5][6] There are 30-40 vehicles in the game (45 with downloadable content) as well as licensed music from the era.[7]
Many firearms from the previous game return, such as the Thompson submachine gun and Colt 1911, as well as a pump-action shotgun. New World War II-era weapons like the MP 40, the M3 submachine gun, the MG 42 and the Beretta Model 38 also appear in the game
Interacting with objects in the environment involves two action buttons- a standard action and a "violent" action (for example, when stealing a car, the player may choose to either pick its lock or break the window glass), used in context-sensitive situations. A map is included as in the original Mafia game, but the checkpoint system has been completely overhauled.[8][further explanation needed] New controls include a cover system that allows the player to take cover behind objects (such as generators, walls and large crates) and shoot enemies, rather than just entering an arbitrary crouch pose behind them.
The game's cutscenes are created by the game engine in real-time. For example, if the player is riding in a car and a cut scene starts, the player will be driving the same car with the same condition (damaged or intact) and will be wearing the same clothes.[9] There are exceptions, however: Scenes, such as the opening sequence and the Empire Arms Hotel explosion, are pre-rendered video clips.
The game features three different in-game radio stations (Empire Central Radio, Empire Classic Radio and Delta Radio) with licensed music, news, and commercials. The radio stations include music from different genres including rock and roll, big band, rhythm and blues and doo-wop, with licensed songs by Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Dean Martin, Little Richard, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Bing Crosby, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Chordettes, Bo Diddley, Ricky Nelson, Eddie Cochran, The Champs, The Drifters, The Fleetwoods, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Andrews Sisters.
Plot
The game begins with Vito Scaletta looking over a photo album, as he begins to tell his story in voice over. He was born in Sicily in 1925 to an extremely poor family. A few years later, his family immigrates to the fictional Empire Bay city in America. They are no better off there than they were in Sicily. As he gets older, Vito gets involved with a local criminal named Joe Barbaro, who eventually became his best friend. Vito is arrested during a botched robbery and given a choice: Go to jail or join the Army. He chooses the latter and ends up in Sicily in World War II, which he helps liberate during Operation Husky, before getting shot and sent home on leave.
Once home, Vito is discharged courtesy of Joe's Mafia connections, and learns that his dead father left his family in massive debt. Hoping to make money, Vito turns to Joe, who introduces him to Henry Tomasino, an inducted member of the Mafia (otherwise known as a made man) working for mob boss Alberto Clemente. Working under Henry, Vito does several illegal jobs. Though he makes the money to pay the debt, Vito is soon arrested for one of the jobs he did and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
In prison, Vito falls in with the crowd of Leo Galante, consigliere for Frank Vinci, another mob boss. After doing some jobs for him while in prison, Galante manages to shorten Vito's sentence. He is released in 1951. Once out, Vito meets up with Joe, who now works for the last of Empire Bay's three mob bosses, Carlo Falcone. Vito starts doing odd jobs for Falcone, eventually becoming a made man in the Falcone crime family, and buying a suburban house. Vito and Joe's biggest job comes when they are sent to assassinate Clemente, who ordered Carlo's accountant's kidnapping, and influenced the Vinci's into turning on the Falcone's. Though Vito and Joe's initial plan is botched, they eventually succeed.
Soon after, Vito is approached by Henry, who wants to defect from the Clemente's and join the Falcone's. In order to do so, he is ordered to kill Galante at the behest of Falcone, though Vito saves his old friend by convincing Henry to let Galante simply "disappear". Soon after, a gang of Irish criminals, formerly led by a man whom Vito killed in prison on Galante's orders, burn his house to the ground in a belated retaliation. Broke, he turns to Joe, who helps him get revenge, and also allows him to live in the apartment of their deceased accomplice Marty until he gets back on his feet. To help Vito get out of debt, Henry gets him and Joe involved in the drug trade, revealing that Falcone is also involved. Although the trio are successful, the Chinese discover that Henry is a federal informant and acting on this newfound information, they brutally kill him in the middle of the park with meat cleavers in broad daylight. Angered, Vito and Joe seek revenge and shoot up a Chinatown restaurant, killing the Chinese's enforcer who sold them the drugs in the first place and won't give them any further information.
Vito and Joe are both now indebted to a psychotic Jewish loan shark they got money for the drugs from. Now very poor and in large debt, the duo are tasked to earn most of the money through their own means, which involves petty theft throughout Empire Bay. They manage to get the money back; in the process, they murder Thomas "Tommy" Angelo, the protagonist of the first Mafia game, who has started a new life under the protection program by the FBI. Eventually, Vito learns the truth behind his father's death: he was drowned in the ocean on orders of his union boss Derek Pappalardo, caporegime for Frank Vinci. Vito avenges his father by killing Derek and his men.
Unfortunately, the incident with the Chinese has caused too much tension between Falcone and Vinci, as both believe the other did it, and Vito is forced by Vinci's men, led by Galante (who has returned to clear things up, knowing that Vito and Joe were the ones actually responsible), to assassinate his boss in exchange for his own life. With Joe's help, Vito succeeds in killing Falcone, and they go with Galante to celebrate. However, the car Joe is in suddenly turns away at an intersection. Leo softly says that Joe was not a part of the offer, implying that he is on his way to being killed, much to Vito's dismay. The final shot of the game is a view of Empire Bay before the credits roll.
Development
The work on the script began in 2003 and pre-production started in 2004. The game was intended to be a PlayStation 2 and Xbox game. The engine developer went out of business and the game was moved to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2005. It was officially revealed in August 2007 at the Leipzig Games Convention. A playable version of the game was achieved in 2007 or 2008.[10]
A promotional trailer was released for the game in August 2007. A second trailer was released on the Spike VGA show on 14 December 2008.[11] An extended version of the trailer was released on 15 January with an extra 30 seconds of cut scene footage.[12] The first gameplay footage debuted on GameSpot on 17 April 2009 as part of an interview with Mafia II's producer, Denby Grace.[13] The video shows driving and gunplay aspects to gameplay as well as portraying the physics engine. A third trailer was uploaded to the website on 28 May 2009. From 1 June 2009, four short videos are to be added to the Mafia II website. The first of these is called "The Art of Persuasion" and features the song "Mercy, Mr Percy" by the female singer Varetta Dillard. Another video was released featuring footage from the mission "The Buzzsaw". The video reveals the fate of "The Fat Man" who appeared in the earlier trailers.[14] On 27 March 2010, a new trailer was released showcasing the PhysX-based cloth and physics system used in the game.[15]
On 3 August 2010, Sheridyn Fisher, the face of Playboy Swim 2010, became the official ambassador for Mafia II. Sheridyn's involvement with Mafia II highlights the agreement between 2K Games and Playboy magazine to use 50 of their vintage covers and Centerfolds in Mafia II as part of the in-game collectibles integration.[16] A demo for the game was released on 10 August 2010 on Steam, Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.[17]
Release
Pre-order bonuses[edit]
On 26 May 2010 four content packs were offered as pre-order bonuses in America and European countries, each one available through different retailers. The Vegas Pack containing two additional cars and suits for Vito and the War Hero Pack containing two military-style vehicles and suits was available from GameStop and EBGames. The Renegade Pack containing two sports cars and two jackets was available from Amazon and the Greaser Pack featuring two hot-rods and two suits were available to Best Buy customers.[18] These pre-order packs are available for purchase as game add-ons on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and Steam. On 26 May 2010 a collector's edition was announced for Mafia II.[19]
PlayStation 3 version
The PlayStation 3 version became subject to controversy on 2K's Mafia II forums when 2K's interactive marketing manager Elizabeth Tobey stated that the PlayStation 3 version would be missing certain graphical details that were present in the Windows and Xbox 360 versions including three dimensional grass, pools of blood forming under dead bodies and realistic cloth physics.[20] These details were said to be present in earlier builds of the game, but had to be removed to increase the game's frame rate.
Upon release, the PlayStation 3 version received the same or higher review scores than the Xbox 360 version from Destructoid and Nowgamer (sites that review the game on multiple platforms rather than the normal practice of reviewing a single platform) due to additional content.[21][22] Metacritic gave both versions the same score of 74/100,[23][24] while GameRankings has the Xbox 360 version 4 points ahead of the PlayStation 3 version based on more reviews.[25][26]
Downloadable content
Three downloadable content (DLC) packs have been announced for the game. The first, titled The Betrayal of Jimmy is a PlayStation 3 exclusive episode that was a free download upon release to users who purchase the game new. This was announced by Sony on 15 June 2010 at E3 2010.[27] The DLC revolves around a gun-for-hire named Jimmy, in an alternate storyline separate from the main game's canon. Missions are structured in a non-linear manner like Grand Theft Auto, and includes a score attack feature in which players earn points for doing certain actions.
The second installment of downloadable content, Jimmy's Vendetta, was released on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Steam on 7 September 2010.[28] The mission pack picks up on the events of the first DLC, as Jimmy exacts revenge on those who framed him. Joe's Adventures, the third and final DLC was released on 23 November 2010. Joe's Adventures focuses on the events that occur in Empire Bay during the years that Vito is imprisoned in the main Mafia II storyline, putting the player in control of his best friend Joe and seeing his perspective. The DLC combines standard missions with score-based, open world missions. It is estimated to provide eight hours of gameplay.[29]
The Russian software publisher 1C Company officially announced a compilation package entitled Mafia II: Extended Edition for the Russian market. It includes the base game, four DLC packs (Vegas Pack, Renegade Pack, Greaser Pack, and War Hero Pack), and The Betrayal of Jimmy as well as Jimmy's Vendetta and Joe's Adventures. It was released on December 3, 2010 for the PC. The same package is released for Western markets as Mafia II: Director's Cut on PC, Mac OS X[3] and their respective budget labels on consoles.[30]
Mobile version
A version of Mafia II was also released for mobile phones and smartphones by Connect2Media.[31][32] The game is set in Empire Bay in 1938, and features Marco Rusetto, nephew of Vincenzo, Salieri's gunsmith, who is seeking revenge against Tommy after the fall of Salieri family, and him finding work in the Falcone family with the help of Don Falcone and Henry Tomasino.
Thank you so much for chance Takashi97, Mafia II is great game!
Mafia II is an action-adventure video game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games. It was released on 23 August 2010 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows;[1][2] a Mac OS X port was released by Feral Interactive in December 2011.[3] The game is the direct sequel to 2002's Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven.[4] Set within the fictional Empire Bay (based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit), the story follows a gangster and his efforts to climb through the ranks of the Mafia crime families.
Gameplay
The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Players control Vito Scaletta, a war veteran who becomes caught up with the Mafia when trying to pay back his father's debts. The player character's criminal activities may incite a response from law enforcement agencies, measured by a "wanted" system that governs the aggression of their response. Development began in 2003, soon after the release of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. At release, Mafia II received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise particularly directed at the story. The game is set in the 1940s - early 1950s era of Empire Bay, a fictional city based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit.[5][6] There are 30-40 vehicles in the game (45 with downloadable content) as well as licensed music from the era.[7]
Many firearms from the previous game return, such as the Thompson submachine gun and Colt 1911, as well as a pump-action shotgun. New World War II-era weapons like the MP 40, the M3 submachine gun, the MG 42 and the Beretta Model 38 also appear in the game
Interacting with objects in the environment involves two action buttons- a standard action and a "violent" action (for example, when stealing a car, the player may choose to either pick its lock or break the window glass), used in context-sensitive situations. A map is included as in the original Mafia game, but the checkpoint system has been completely overhauled.[8][further explanation needed] New controls include a cover system that allows the player to take cover behind objects (such as generators, walls and large crates) and shoot enemies, rather than just entering an arbitrary crouch pose behind them.
The game's cutscenes are created by the game engine in real-time. For example, if the player is riding in a car and a cut scene starts, the player will be driving the same car with the same condition (damaged or intact) and will be wearing the same clothes.[9] There are exceptions, however: Scenes, such as the opening sequence and the Empire Arms Hotel explosion, are pre-rendered video clips.
The game features three different in-game radio stations (Empire Central Radio, Empire Classic Radio and Delta Radio) with licensed music, news, and commercials. The radio stations include music from different genres including rock and roll, big band, rhythm and blues and doo-wop, with licensed songs by Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Dean Martin, Little Richard, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Bing Crosby, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Chordettes, Bo Diddley, Ricky Nelson, Eddie Cochran, The Champs, The Drifters, The Fleetwoods, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Andrews Sisters.
Plot
The game begins with Vito Scaletta looking over a photo album, as he begins to tell his story in voice over. He was born in Sicily in 1925 to an extremely poor family. A few years later, his family immigrates to the fictional Empire Bay city in America. They are no better off there than they were in Sicily. As he gets older, Vito gets involved with a local criminal named Joe Barbaro, who eventually became his best friend. Vito is arrested during a botched robbery and given a choice: Go to jail or join the Army. He chooses the latter and ends up in Sicily in World War II, which he helps liberate during Operation Husky, before getting shot and sent home on leave.
Once home, Vito is discharged courtesy of Joe's Mafia connections, and learns that his dead father left his family in massive debt. Hoping to make money, Vito turns to Joe, who introduces him to Henry Tomasino, an inducted member of the Mafia (otherwise known as a made man) working for mob boss Alberto Clemente. Working under Henry, Vito does several illegal jobs. Though he makes the money to pay the debt, Vito is soon arrested for one of the jobs he did and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
In prison, Vito falls in with the crowd of Leo Galante, consigliere for Frank Vinci, another mob boss. After doing some jobs for him while in prison, Galante manages to shorten Vito's sentence. He is released in 1951. Once out, Vito meets up with Joe, who now works for the last of Empire Bay's three mob bosses, Carlo Falcone. Vito starts doing odd jobs for Falcone, eventually becoming a made man in the Falcone crime family, and buying a suburban house. Vito and Joe's biggest job comes when they are sent to assassinate Clemente, who ordered Carlo's accountant's kidnapping, and influenced the Vinci's into turning on the Falcone's. Though Vito and Joe's initial plan is botched, they eventually succeed.
Soon after, Vito is approached by Henry, who wants to defect from the Clemente's and join the Falcone's. In order to do so, he is ordered to kill Galante at the behest of Falcone, though Vito saves his old friend by convincing Henry to let Galante simply "disappear". Soon after, a gang of Irish criminals, formerly led by a man whom Vito killed in prison on Galante's orders, burn his house to the ground in a belated retaliation. Broke, he turns to Joe, who helps him get revenge, and also allows him to live in the apartment of their deceased accomplice Marty until he gets back on his feet. To help Vito get out of debt, Henry gets him and Joe involved in the drug trade, revealing that Falcone is also involved. Although the trio are successful, the Chinese discover that Henry is a federal informant and acting on this newfound information, they brutally kill him in the middle of the park with meat cleavers in broad daylight. Angered, Vito and Joe seek revenge and shoot up a Chinatown restaurant, killing the Chinese's enforcer who sold them the drugs in the first place and won't give them any further information.
Vito and Joe are both now indebted to a psychotic Jewish loan shark they got money for the drugs from. Now very poor and in large debt, the duo are tasked to earn most of the money through their own means, which involves petty theft throughout Empire Bay. They manage to get the money back; in the process, they murder Thomas "Tommy" Angelo, the protagonist of the first Mafia game, who has started a new life under the protection program by the FBI. Eventually, Vito learns the truth behind his father's death: he was drowned in the ocean on orders of his union boss Derek Pappalardo, caporegime for Frank Vinci. Vito avenges his father by killing Derek and his men.
Unfortunately, the incident with the Chinese has caused too much tension between Falcone and Vinci, as both believe the other did it, and Vito is forced by Vinci's men, led by Galante (who has returned to clear things up, knowing that Vito and Joe were the ones actually responsible), to assassinate his boss in exchange for his own life. With Joe's help, Vito succeeds in killing Falcone, and they go with Galante to celebrate. However, the car Joe is in suddenly turns away at an intersection. Leo softly says that Joe was not a part of the offer, implying that he is on his way to being killed, much to Vito's dismay. The final shot of the game is a view of Empire Bay before the credits roll.
Development
The work on the script began in 2003 and pre-production started in 2004. The game was intended to be a PlayStation 2 and Xbox game. The engine developer went out of business and the game was moved to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2005. It was officially revealed in August 2007 at the Leipzig Games Convention. A playable version of the game was achieved in 2007 or 2008.[10]
A promotional trailer was released for the game in August 2007. A second trailer was released on the Spike VGA show on 14 December 2008.[11] An extended version of the trailer was released on 15 January with an extra 30 seconds of cut scene footage.[12] The first gameplay footage debuted on GameSpot on 17 April 2009 as part of an interview with Mafia II's producer, Denby Grace.[13] The video shows driving and gunplay aspects to gameplay as well as portraying the physics engine. A third trailer was uploaded to the website on 28 May 2009. From 1 June 2009, four short videos are to be added to the Mafia II website. The first of these is called "The Art of Persuasion" and features the song "Mercy, Mr Percy" by the female singer Varetta Dillard. Another video was released featuring footage from the mission "The Buzzsaw". The video reveals the fate of "The Fat Man" who appeared in the earlier trailers.[14] On 27 March 2010, a new trailer was released showcasing the PhysX-based cloth and physics system used in the game.[15]
On 3 August 2010, Sheridyn Fisher, the face of Playboy Swim 2010, became the official ambassador for Mafia II. Sheridyn's involvement with Mafia II highlights the agreement between 2K Games and Playboy magazine to use 50 of their vintage covers and Centerfolds in Mafia II as part of the in-game collectibles integration.[16] A demo for the game was released on 10 August 2010 on Steam, Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.[17]
Release
Pre-order bonuses[edit] On 26 May 2010 four content packs were offered as pre-order bonuses in America and European countries, each one available through different retailers. The Vegas Pack containing two additional cars and suits for Vito and the War Hero Pack containing two military-style vehicles and suits was available from GameStop and EBGames. The Renegade Pack containing two sports cars and two jackets was available from Amazon and the Greaser Pack featuring two hot-rods and two suits were available to Best Buy customers.[18] These pre-order packs are available for purchase as game add-ons on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and Steam. On 26 May 2010 a collector's edition was announced for Mafia II.[19]
PlayStation 3 version
The PlayStation 3 version became subject to controversy on 2K's Mafia II forums when 2K's interactive marketing manager Elizabeth Tobey stated that the PlayStation 3 version would be missing certain graphical details that were present in the Windows and Xbox 360 versions including three dimensional grass, pools of blood forming under dead bodies and realistic cloth physics.[20] These details were said to be present in earlier builds of the game, but had to be removed to increase the game's frame rate.
Upon release, the PlayStation 3 version received the same or higher review scores than the Xbox 360 version from Destructoid and Nowgamer (sites that review the game on multiple platforms rather than the normal practice of reviewing a single platform) due to additional content.[21][22] Metacritic gave both versions the same score of 74/100,[23][24] while GameRankings has the Xbox 360 version 4 points ahead of the PlayStation 3 version based on more reviews.[25][26]
Downloadable content
Three downloadable content (DLC) packs have been announced for the game. The first, titled The Betrayal of Jimmy is a PlayStation 3 exclusive episode that was a free download upon release to users who purchase the game new. This was announced by Sony on 15 June 2010 at E3 2010.[27] The DLC revolves around a gun-for-hire named Jimmy, in an alternate storyline separate from the main game's canon. Missions are structured in a non-linear manner like Grand Theft Auto, and includes a score attack feature in which players earn points for doing certain actions.
The second installment of downloadable content, Jimmy's Vendetta, was released on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Steam on 7 September 2010.[28] The mission pack picks up on the events of the first DLC, as Jimmy exacts revenge on those who framed him. Joe's Adventures, the third and final DLC was released on 23 November 2010. Joe's Adventures focuses on the events that occur in Empire Bay during the years that Vito is imprisoned in the main Mafia II storyline, putting the player in control of his best friend Joe and seeing his perspective. The DLC combines standard missions with score-based, open world missions. It is estimated to provide eight hours of gameplay.[29]
The Russian software publisher 1C Company officially announced a compilation package entitled Mafia II: Extended Edition for the Russian market. It includes the base game, four DLC packs (Vegas Pack, Renegade Pack, Greaser Pack, and War Hero Pack), and The Betrayal of Jimmy as well as Jimmy's Vendetta and Joe's Adventures. It was released on December 3, 2010 for the PC. The same package is released for Western markets as Mafia II: Director's Cut on PC, Mac OS X[3] and their respective budget labels on consoles.[30]
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Thank you so much for chance Takashi97, Mafia II is great game!
Mafia II is an action-adventure video game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games. It was released on 23 August 2010 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows;[1][2] a Mac OS X port was released by Feral Interactive in December 2011.[3] The game is the direct sequel to 2002's Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven.[4] Set within the fictional Empire Bay (based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit), the story follows a gangster and his efforts to climb through the ranks of the Mafia crime families.
Gameplay
The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Players control Vito Scaletta, a war veteran who becomes caught up with the Mafia when trying to pay back his father's debts. The player character's criminal activities may incite a response from law enforcement agencies, measured by a "wanted" system that governs the aggression of their response. Development began in 2003, soon after the release of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. At release, Mafia II received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise particularly directed at the story. The game is set in the 1940s - early 1950s era of Empire Bay, a fictional city based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit.[5][6] There are 30-40 vehicles in the game (45 with downloadable content) as well as licensed music from the era.[7]
Many firearms from the previous game return, such as the Thompson submachine gun and Colt 1911, as well as a pump-action shotgun. New World War II-era weapons like the MP 40, the M3 submachine gun, the MG 42 and the Beretta Model 38 also appear in the game
Interacting with objects in the environment involves two action buttons- a standard action and a "violent" action (for example, when stealing a car, the player may choose to either pick its lock or break the window glass), used in context-sensitive situations. A map is included as in the original Mafia game, but the checkpoint system has been completely overhauled.[8][further explanation needed] New controls include a cover system that allows the player to take cover behind objects (such as generators, walls and large crates) and shoot enemies, rather than just entering an arbitrary crouch pose behind them.
The game's cutscenes are created by the game engine in real-time. For example, if the player is riding in a car and a cut scene starts, the player will be driving the same car with the same condition (damaged or intact) and will be wearing the same clothes.[9] There are exceptions, however: Scenes, such as the opening sequence and the Empire Arms Hotel explosion, are pre-rendered video clips.
The game features three different in-game radio stations (Empire Central Radio, Empire Classic Radio and Delta Radio) with licensed music, news, and commercials. The radio stations include music from different genres including rock and roll, big band, rhythm and blues and doo-wop, with licensed songs by Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Dean Martin, Little Richard, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Bing Crosby, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Chordettes, Bo Diddley, Ricky Nelson, Eddie Cochran, The Champs, The Drifters, The Fleetwoods, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Andrews Sisters.
Plot
The game begins with Vito Scaletta looking over a photo album, as he begins to tell his story in voice over. He was born in Sicily in 1925 to an extremely poor family. A few years later, his family immigrates to the fictional Empire Bay city in America. They are no better off there than they were in Sicily. As he gets older, Vito gets involved with a local criminal named Joe Barbaro, who eventually became his best friend. Vito is arrested during a botched robbery and given a choice: Go to jail or join the Army. He chooses the latter and ends up in Sicily in World War II, which he helps liberate during Operation Husky, before getting shot and sent home on leave.
Once home, Vito is discharged courtesy of Joe's Mafia connections, and learns that his dead father left his family in massive debt. Hoping to make money, Vito turns to Joe, who introduces him to Henry Tomasino, an inducted member of the Mafia (otherwise known as a made man) working for mob boss Alberto Clemente. Working under Henry, Vito does several illegal jobs. Though he makes the money to pay the debt, Vito is soon arrested for one of the jobs he did and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
In prison, Vito falls in with the crowd of Leo Galante, consigliere for Frank Vinci, another mob boss. After doing some jobs for him while in prison, Galante manages to shorten Vito's sentence. He is released in 1951. Once out, Vito meets up with Joe, who now works for the last of Empire Bay's three mob bosses, Carlo Falcone. Vito starts doing odd jobs for Falcone, eventually becoming a made man in the Falcone crime family, and buying a suburban house. Vito and Joe's biggest job comes when they are sent to assassinate Clemente, who ordered Carlo's accountant's kidnapping, and influenced the Vinci's into turning on the Falcone's. Though Vito and Joe's initial plan is botched, they eventually succeed.
Soon after, Vito is approached by Henry, who wants to defect from the Clemente's and join the Falcone's. In order to do so, he is ordered to kill Galante at the behest of Falcone, though Vito saves his old friend by convincing Henry to let Galante simply "disappear". Soon after, a gang of Irish criminals, formerly led by a man whom Vito killed in prison on Galante's orders, burn his house to the ground in a belated retaliation. Broke, he turns to Joe, who helps him get revenge, and also allows him to live in the apartment of their deceased accomplice Marty until he gets back on his feet. To help Vito get out of debt, Henry gets him and Joe involved in the drug trade, revealing that Falcone is also involved. Although the trio are successful, the Chinese discover that Henry is a federal informant and acting on this newfound information, they brutally kill him in the middle of the park with meat cleavers in broad daylight. Angered, Vito and Joe seek revenge and shoot up a Chinatown restaurant, killing the Chinese's enforcer who sold them the drugs in the first place and won't give them any further information.
Vito and Joe are both now indebted to a psychotic Jewish loan shark they got money for the drugs from. Now very poor and in large debt, the duo are tasked to earn most of the money through their own means, which involves petty theft throughout Empire Bay. They manage to get the money back; in the process, they murder Thomas "Tommy" Angelo, the protagonist of the first Mafia game, who has started a new life under the protection program by the FBI. Eventually, Vito learns the truth behind his father's death: he was drowned in the ocean on orders of his union boss Derek Pappalardo, caporegime for Frank Vinci. Vito avenges his father by killing Derek and his men.
Unfortunately, the incident with the Chinese has caused too much tension between Falcone and Vinci, as both believe the other did it, and Vito is forced by Vinci's men, led by Galante (who has returned to clear things up, knowing that Vito and Joe were the ones actually responsible), to assassinate his boss in exchange for his own life. With Joe's help, Vito succeeds in killing Falcone, and they go with Galante to celebrate. However, the car Joe is in suddenly turns away at an intersection. Leo softly says that Joe was not a part of the offer, implying that he is on his way to being killed, much to Vito's dismay. The final shot of the game is a view of Empire Bay before the credits roll.
Development
The work on the script began in 2003 and pre-production started in 2004. The game was intended to be a PlayStation 2 and Xbox game. The engine developer went out of business and the game was moved to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2005. It was officially revealed in August 2007 at the Leipzig Games Convention. A playable version of the game was achieved in 2007 or 2008.[10]
A promotional trailer was released for the game in August 2007. A second trailer was released on the Spike VGA show on 14 December 2008.[11] An extended version of the trailer was released on 15 January with an extra 30 seconds of cut scene footage.[12] The first gameplay footage debuted on GameSpot on 17 April 2009 as part of an interview with Mafia II's producer, Denby Grace.[13] The video shows driving and gunplay aspects to gameplay as well as portraying the physics engine. A third trailer was uploaded to the website on 28 May 2009. From 1 June 2009, four short videos are to be added to the Mafia II website. The first of these is called "The Art of Persuasion" and features the song "Mercy, Mr Percy" by the female singer Varetta Dillard. Another video was released featuring footage from the mission "The Buzzsaw". The video reveals the fate of "The Fat Man" who appeared in the earlier trailers.[14] On 27 March 2010, a new trailer was released showcasing the PhysX-based cloth and physics system used in the game.[15]
On 3 August 2010, Sheridyn Fisher, the face of Playboy Swim 2010, became the official ambassador for Mafia II. Sheridyn's involvement with Mafia II highlights the agreement between 2K Games and Playboy magazine to use 50 of their vintage covers and Centerfolds in Mafia II as part of the in-game collectibles integration.[16] A demo for the game was released on 10 August 2010 on Steam, Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.[17]
Release
Pre-order bonuses[edit]
On 26 May 2010 four content packs were offered as pre-order bonuses in America and European countries, each one available through different retailers. The Vegas Pack containing two additional cars and suits for Vito and the War Hero Pack containing two military-style vehicles and suits was available from GameStop and EBGames. The Renegade Pack containing two sports cars and two jackets was available from Amazon and the Greaser Pack featuring two hot-rods and two suits were available to Best Buy customers.[18] These pre-order packs are available for purchase as game add-ons on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and Steam. On 26 May 2010 a collector's edition was announced for Mafia II.[19]
PlayStation 3 version
The PlayStation 3 version became subject to controversy on 2K's Mafia II forums when 2K's interactive marketing manager Elizabeth Tobey stated that the PlayStation 3 version would be missing certain graphical details that were present in the Windows and Xbox 360 versions including three dimensional grass, pools of blood forming under dead bodies and realistic cloth physics.[20] These details were said to be present in earlier builds of the game, but had to be removed to increase the game's frame rate.
Upon release, the PlayStation 3 version received the same or higher review scores than the Xbox 360 version from Destructoid and Nowgamer (sites that review the game on multiple platforms rather than the normal practice of reviewing a single platform) due to additional content.[21][22] Metacritic gave both versions the same score of 74/100,[23][24] while GameRankings has the Xbox 360 version 4 points ahead of the PlayStation 3 version based on more reviews.[25][26]
Downloadable content
Three downloadable content (DLC) packs have been announced for the game. The first, titled The Betrayal of Jimmy is a PlayStation 3 exclusive episode that was a free download upon release to users who purchase the game new. This was announced by Sony on 15 June 2010 at E3 2010.[27] The DLC revolves around a gun-for-hire named Jimmy, in an alternate storyline separate from the main game's canon. Missions are structured in a non-linear manner like Grand Theft Auto, and includes a score attack feature in which players earn points for doing certain actions.
The second installment of downloadable content, Jimmy's Vendetta, was released on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Steam on 7 September 2010.[28] The mission pack picks up on the events of the first DLC, as Jimmy exacts revenge on those who framed him. Joe's Adventures, the third and final DLC was released on 23 November 2010. Joe's Adventures focuses on the events that occur in Empire Bay during the years that Vito is imprisoned in the main Mafia II storyline, putting the player in control of his best friend Joe and seeing his perspective. The DLC combines standard missions with score-based, open world missions. It is estimated to provide eight hours of gameplay.[29]
The Russian software publisher 1C Company officially announced a compilation package entitled Mafia II: Extended Edition for the Russian market. It includes the base game, four DLC packs (Vegas Pack, Renegade Pack, Greaser Pack, and War Hero Pack), and The Betrayal of Jimmy as well as Jimmy's Vendetta and Joe's Adventures. It was released on December 3, 2010 for the PC. The same package is released for Western markets as Mafia II: Director's Cut on PC, Mac OS X[3] and their respective budget labels on consoles.[30]
Mobile version
A version of Mafia II was also released for mobile phones and smartphones by Connect2Media.[31][32] The game is set in Empire Bay in 1938, and features Marco Rusetto, nephew of Vincenzo, Salieri's gunsmith, who is seeking revenge against Tommy after the fall of Salieri family, and him finding work in the Falcone family with the help of Don Falcone and Henry Tomasino.
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Thank you so much for chance Takashi97, Mafia II is great game!
Mafia II is an action-adventure video game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games. It was released on 23 August 2010 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows;[1][2] a Mac OS X port was released by Feral Interactive in December 2011.[3] The game is the direct sequel to 2002's Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven.[4] Set within the fictional Empire Bay (based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit), the story follows a gangster and his efforts to climb through the ranks of the Mafia crime families.
Gameplay
The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Players control Vito Scaletta, a war veteran who becomes caught up with the Mafia when trying to pay back his father's debts. The player character's criminal activities may incite a response from law enforcement agencies, measured by a "wanted" system that governs the aggression of their response. Development began in 2003, soon after the release of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. At release, Mafia II received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise particularly directed at the story. The game is set in the 1940s - early 1950s era of Empire Bay, a fictional city based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit.[5][6] There are 30-40 vehicles in the game (45 with downloadable content) as well as licensed music from the era.[7]
Many firearms from the previous game return, such as the Thompson submachine gun and Colt 1911, as well as a pump-action shotgun. New World War II-era weapons like the MP 40, the M3 submachine gun, the MG 42 and the Beretta Model 38 also appear in the game
Interacting with objects in the environment involves two action buttons- a standard action and a "violent" action (for example, when stealing a car, the player may choose to either pick its lock or break the window glass), used in context-sensitive situations. A map is included as in the original Mafia game, but the checkpoint system has been completely overhauled.[8][further explanation needed] New controls include a cover system that allows the player to take cover behind objects (such as generators, walls and large crates) and shoot enemies, rather than just entering an arbitrary crouch pose behind them.
The game's cutscenes are created by the game engine in real-time. For example, if the player is riding in a car and a cut scene starts, the player will be driving the same car with the same condition (damaged or intact) and will be wearing the same clothes.[9] There are exceptions, however: Scenes, such as the opening sequence and the Empire Arms Hotel explosion, are pre-rendered video clips.
The game features three different in-game radio stations (Empire Central Radio, Empire Classic Radio and Delta Radio) with licensed music, news, and commercials. The radio stations include music from different genres including rock and roll, big band, rhythm and blues and doo-wop, with licensed songs by Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Dean Martin, Little Richard, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Bing Crosby, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Chordettes, Bo Diddley, Ricky Nelson, Eddie Cochran, The Champs, The Drifters, The Fleetwoods, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Andrews Sisters.
Plot
The game begins with Vito Scaletta looking over a photo album, as he begins to tell his story in voice over. He was born in Sicily in 1925 to an extremely poor family. A few years later, his family immigrates to the fictional Empire Bay city in America. They are no better off there than they were in Sicily. As he gets older, Vito gets involved with a local criminal named Joe Barbaro, who eventually became his best friend. Vito is arrested during a botched robbery and given a choice: Go to jail or join the Army. He chooses the latter and ends up in Sicily in World War II, which he helps liberate during Operation Husky, before getting shot and sent home on leave.
Once home, Vito is discharged courtesy of Joe's Mafia connections, and learns that his dead father left his family in massive debt. Hoping to make money, Vito turns to Joe, who introduces him to Henry Tomasino, an inducted member of the Mafia (otherwise known as a made man) working for mob boss Alberto Clemente. Working under Henry, Vito does several illegal jobs. Though he makes the money to pay the debt, Vito is soon arrested for one of the jobs he did and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
In prison, Vito falls in with the crowd of Leo Galante, consigliere for Frank Vinci, another mob boss. After doing some jobs for him while in prison, Galante manages to shorten Vito's sentence. He is released in 1951. Once out, Vito meets up with Joe, who now works for the last of Empire Bay's three mob bosses, Carlo Falcone. Vito starts doing odd jobs for Falcone, eventually becoming a made man in the Falcone crime family, and buying a suburban house. Vito and Joe's biggest job comes when they are sent to assassinate Clemente, who ordered Carlo's accountant's kidnapping, and influenced the Vinci's into turning on the Falcone's. Though Vito and Joe's initial plan is botched, they eventually succeed.
Soon after, Vito is approached by Henry, who wants to defect from the Clemente's and join the Falcone's. In order to do so, he is ordered to kill Galante at the behest of Falcone, though Vito saves his old friend by convincing Henry to let Galante simply "disappear". Soon after, a gang of Irish criminals, formerly led by a man whom Vito killed in prison on Galante's orders, burn his house to the ground in a belated retaliation. Broke, he turns to Joe, who helps him get revenge, and also allows him to live in the apartment of their deceased accomplice Marty until he gets back on his feet. To help Vito get out of debt, Henry gets him and Joe involved in the drug trade, revealing that Falcone is also involved. Although the trio are successful, the Chinese discover that Henry is a federal informant and acting on this newfound information, they brutally kill him in the middle of the park with meat cleavers in broad daylight. Angered, Vito and Joe seek revenge and shoot up a Chinatown restaurant, killing the Chinese's enforcer who sold them the drugs in the first place and won't give them any further information.
Vito and Joe are both now indebted to a psychotic Jewish loan shark they got money for the drugs from. Now very poor and in large debt, the duo are tasked to earn most of the money through their own means, which involves petty theft throughout Empire Bay. They manage to get the money back; in the process, they murder Thomas "Tommy" Angelo, the protagonist of the first Mafia game, who has started a new life under the protection program by the FBI. Eventually, Vito learns the truth behind his father's death: he was drowned in the ocean on orders of his union boss Derek Pappalardo, caporegime for Frank Vinci. Vito avenges his father by killing Derek and his men.
Unfortunately, the incident with the Chinese has caused too much tension between Falcone and Vinci, as both believe the other did it, and Vito is forced by Vinci's men, led by Galante (who has returned to clear things up, knowing that Vito and Joe were the ones actually responsible), to assassinate his boss in exchange for his own life. With Joe's help, Vito succeeds in killing Falcone, and they go with Galante to celebrate. However, the car Joe is in suddenly turns away at an intersection. Leo softly says that Joe was not a part of the offer, implying that he is on his way to being killed, much to Vito's dismay. The final shot of the game is a view of Empire Bay before the credits roll.
Development
The work on the script began in 2003 and pre-production started in 2004. The game was intended to be a PlayStation 2 and Xbox game. The engine developer went out of business and the game was moved to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2005. It was officially revealed in August 2007 at the Leipzig Games Convention. A playable version of the game was achieved in 2007 or 2008.[10]
A promotional trailer was released for the game in August 2007. A second trailer was released on the Spike VGA show on 14 December 2008.[11] An extended version of the trailer was released on 15 January with an extra 30 seconds of cut scene footage.[12] The first gameplay footage debuted on GameSpot on 17 April 2009 as part of an interview with Mafia II's producer, Denby Grace.[13] The video shows driving and gunplay aspects to gameplay as well as portraying the physics engine. A third trailer was uploaded to the website on 28 May 2009. From 1 June 2009, four short videos are to be added to the Mafia II website. The first of these is called "The Art of Persuasion" and features the song "Mercy, Mr Percy" by the female singer Varetta Dillard. Another video was released featuring footage from the mission "The Buzzsaw". The video reveals the fate of "The Fat Man" who appeared in the earlier trailers.[14] On 27 March 2010, a new trailer was released showcasing the PhysX-based cloth and physics system used in the game.[15]
On 3 August 2010, Sheridyn Fisher, the face of Playboy Swim 2010, became the official ambassador for Mafia II. Sheridyn's involvement with Mafia II highlights the agreement between 2K Games and Playboy magazine to use 50 of their vintage covers and Centerfolds in Mafia II as part of the in-game collectibles integration.[16] A demo for the game was released on 10 August 2010 on Steam, Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.[17]
Release
Pre-order bonuses[edit] On 26 May 2010 four content packs were offered as pre-order bonuses in America and European countries, each one available through different retailers. The Vegas Pack containing two additional cars and suits for Vito and the War Hero Pack containing two military-style vehicles and suits was available from GameStop and EBGames. The Renegade Pack containing two sports cars and two jackets was available from Amazon and the Greaser Pack featuring two hot-rods and two suits were available to Best Buy customers.[18] These pre-order packs are available for purchase as game add-ons on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and Steam. On 26 May 2010 a collector's edition was announced for Mafia II.[19]
PlayStation 3 version
The PlayStation 3 version became subject to controversy on 2K's Mafia II forums when 2K's interactive marketing manager Elizabeth Tobey stated that the PlayStation 3 version would be missing certain graphical details that were present in the Windows and Xbox 360 versions including three dimensional grass, pools of blood forming under dead bodies and realistic cloth physics.[20] These details were said to be present in earlier builds of the game, but had to be removed to increase the game's frame rate.
Upon release, the PlayStation 3 version received the same or higher review scores than the Xbox 360 version from Destructoid and Nowgamer (sites that review the game on multiple platforms rather than the normal practice of reviewing a single platform) due to additional content.[21][22] Metacritic gave both versions the same score of 74/100,[23][24] while GameRankings has the Xbox 360 version 4 points ahead of the PlayStation 3 version based on more reviews.[25][26]
Downloadable content
Three downloadable content (DLC) packs have been announced for the game. The first, titled The Betrayal of Jimmy is a PlayStation 3 exclusive episode that was a free download upon release to users who purchase the game new. This was announced by Sony on 15 June 2010 at E3 2010.[27] The DLC revolves around a gun-for-hire named Jimmy, in an alternate storyline separate from the main game's canon. Missions are structured in a non-linear manner like Grand Theft Auto, and includes a score attack feature in which players earn points for doing certain actions.
The second installment of downloadable content, Jimmy's Vendetta, was released on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Steam on 7 September 2010.[28] The mission pack picks up on the events of the first DLC, as Jimmy exacts revenge on those who framed him. Joe's Adventures, the third and final DLC was released on 23 November 2010. Joe's Adventures focuses on the events that occur in Empire Bay during the years that Vito is imprisoned in the main Mafia II storyline, putting the player in control of his best friend Joe and seeing his perspective. The DLC combines standard missions with score-based, open world missions. It is estimated to provide eight hours of gameplay.[29]
The Russian software publisher 1C Company officially announced a compilation package entitled Mafia II: Extended Edition for the Russian market. It includes the base game, four DLC packs (Vegas Pack, Renegade Pack, Greaser Pack, and War Hero Pack), and The Betrayal of Jimmy as well as Jimmy's Vendetta and Joe's Adventures. It was released on December 3, 2010 for the PC. The same package is released for Western markets as Mafia II: Director's Cut on PC, Mac OS X[3] and their respective budget labels on consoles.[30]
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!GTA REMAKE GAME...!!!
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