Game review

Release date	2020-05-19
Publisher	2K
Developer	2K Czech
Platform	PlayStation 5
Playtime	13 hours
Progress	Completed

I take notes as I play the game for things that I think deserve a mention. If something was not mentioned, it is considered "fine" and not noteworthy in any sense.

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Mafia II: Definitive Edition

This is a fantastic game set in America during the 40-50s and it's like they took GTA and made it into a mafia game.

Pros

• Intro
  The intro sections of this game just sets the tone perfectly.
  
  
• Story
  Fantastic story which is something I've always found lacking in GTA upto this point.
  
  
• Setting
  The setting in the 40-50s is just fantastic for culture, music and you getting to relive the era.
  
  
• Music/Radio
  It seems like they were inspired by GTA with having a fantastic playlist of musics and radio talks.
  
  
• Cars
  Like with culture, the cars is just fun and u can customize them and upgrade. And you can tell a big difference with the older cars vs the newer cars.
  
  
• Hitman missions
  I liked how a lot of missions was hitman like and not just all on action.
  
  

Neutral

• Phone keeps calling
  A bit annoying but nothing you don't get over after a while.
  
  

Cons

• No fast travel
  There was a big effort put into the car as a main way of travel method but at times I wished I could fast travel between each large area.
  
  
• Janky
  Even in this remaster, it still has that classic PS3/360 era jankyness in terms of controller and cameras.
  
  
• No manual saves
  It's a chapter based game, but I would had liked in the open-world of it to still have a save anywhere approach.
  
  
• No mission checkpoints
  Mission checkpoints is pretty bad in this game. A lot of time u may die on the third section of a mission and you have to do it all over again.
  
  
• Precision buttons
  The game like witcher has the issue of having to move the camera very specific for a button to do the type event you want, such as example open a door or answer the phone, else u do something else.
  
  
• Voice gains
  Seems like in this remaster they upped the gain on the voices too much made the voices a bit too crispy.
  
  
• 2K login prompts
  Every time you get back to the title screen/main menu the game ask you to sign in to a 2K account for special offers and other stuff.
  
  
• Soft locked
  I softlocked during chapter 14 helping Harry which isn't great.
  
  

Final thoughts

I love this game a lot and it seemed it had learned a lot from GTA and for me, this is a better game than GTA4 during the same era. It still has some issues which many games had during the PS3/360 era but if you can overlook that, it's great.

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