Mafia II
Mafia II 
Developer(s) 2K Czech
Massive Bear Studios (Optimisation)[1] Publisher(s) 2K Games
1C Company Designer(s) Daniel Vávra
Pavel Brzák Writer(s) Daniel Vávra Composer(s) Matus Siroky
Adam Kuruc Engine Illusion Engine
PhysX Version 1.4
1.02 (PlayStation 3) Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360 Release date(s) Genre(s) Third-person shooter,action-adventure Mode(s) Single-player Rating(s) Media/distribution Optical disc, download
Mafia II is a third-person action-adventure video game, the sequel to Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It is developed by 2K Czech, previously known as Illusion Softworks, and is published by 2K Games. Originally announced in August 2007 at the Leipzig Games Convention, it was released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in August 2010.[2][6]
[edit]Gameplay
Many firearms from the previous return, such as the Thompson submachine gun and Colt 1911, as well as a pump-action shotgun (though it was changed from a Winchester Model 12 to a Remington 870). New WWII-era weapons like the MP 40, the M3 submachine gun, the MG 42 and theBeretta Model 38 also appear in the game.The game is set in the 1940-50s era of Empire Bay, a fictional city based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston andDetroit. There are 30-40 vehicles in the game (45 with DLC) as well as licensed music from the era.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. The checkpoint system has been completely overhauled.[10] New controls include a cover system that allows the player to hide behind objects (such as generators, walls and large crates) to shoot enemies, rather than just using a crouch while behind an object.It has been stated by 2K Czech that the game's cutscenes are created by the game engine, in real-time, rather than pre-rendered cutscenes. For example if the player is riding in a car and a cut scene starts, the player will be driving the same car and if the car is damaged, that will appear in the cut scene.[11]The game has three different in game radio stations, Empire Central Radio, Empire Classic Radio and Delta Radio, with licensed music, news, and commercials. The radio stations includes music from different genres including rock and roll, big band, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, among others 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, Rick Nelson, Eddie Cochran, The Champs, The Drifters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, among others.[edit]Synopsis
The game begins with Vito Scaletta looking over a photo album, as he begins to tell his story in voice over. He is born in Sicily in 1925 to an extremely poor family. A few years later, his family immigrates to the city of Empire Bay 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, whom he becomes best friends with. 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 the Invasion of Sicily in World War II, which he helps liberate before getting shot and sent home on leave.Once home, he 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 employee of crime boss Alberto Clemente. After working for a few jobs, Clemente himself meets with Vito and Joe with an invitation to become made men, after a "small" fee of $5000. Working under Henry, Vito does several illegal jobs. Though he makes the money to pay the debt, he is soon arrested and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.Once inside, Vito falls in with the crowd of Leo Galante, consigliere for Frank Vinci, another crime boss. After doing some jobs for him, Galante manages to shorten Vito's sentence. Vito discovers from Galante that in the Liberty Bay Mob (known as the Commission) there is no fee for becoming a made man, loyalty to the family and hard work is enough to become a member of the family. Galante also describes that the Commission is made up of three large families: the old, conservative Vinci family, Clemente's family, and the Falcone family, a more recent line that is determined the prove themselves. Galante's connections enable him to give Vito a lighter sentence. Once out, he meets up with Joe, who now works for Carlo Falcone, the city's most powerful crime boss. He starts doing odd jobs for Falcone, eventually becoming a made man of the Falcone family, and buying a waterfront home. His biggest job comes when he is sent to kill Clemente, who has participated in the drug trade, against the commission's wishes. Though the job is botched (resulting in the death of Joe's 17 year old neighbor Marty), he and Joe eventually succeed.Soon after, Vito is approached by Henry, who wants to defect to Falcone's crew. In order to do this, he is ordered to kill Leo, 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 Leo's orders, burn his house to the ground. Broke, he turns to Joe who helps him get revenge. To help him get out of debt, Henry gets Vito and Joe involved in the drug trade, revealing that Falcone is also involved. Although Vito is successful, the Chinese, who supplied the drugs, discover that Henry is a possible federal informant and acting on this new found 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 boss, Wong, who won't give them any further information, they are now indebted to the loan shark they got money for the drugs from. Now very poor and in large debt, Vito is tasked to earn most of the money through his own means, which involves petty theft through out Empire Bay.At first, Vito turns to Derek Pappalardo (an employee of Frank Vinci) for work, but during a job breaking up a strike by dock workers, Vito learns that Derek ordered the killing of his father and his assistant Steve Coyne followed the order by drowning Vito's father to death. To avenge his father's death, Vito kills Derek and Steve. Eventually Joe and Vito manage to get the money back; in the process, they kill Thomas "Tommy" Angelo, the protagonist of the first Mafia game. Sadly, the incident with the Chinese has caused too much tension between Falcone and Vinci, as both believe the other did it, Vito is told by Falcone to meet him at an observatory. On the way there Vito is picked up by Galante. He is told that he will walk into an ambush, and the only reason he isn't already dead is because of Galante. Galante gives Vito one chance redemption for what he has done: assassinate his boss Carlo Falcone. With Joe's help, Vito succeeds and they go with Galante to celebrate. The car Joe is in turns away at intersection. Galante apologises to Vito and claimed that Joe wasn't part of their deal. The game shows an enraged Vito then ends with a panoramic view of Empire Bay.[edit]Characters
Main article: List of Mafia characters- Vito Scaletta - The game's main protagonist and the son of a poor Sicilian family that moved to the United States. He turned to a life of crime after his father, an alcoholic, died leaving a debt unpaid. After being arrested for a botched robbery, Vito avoids incarceration by volunteering to join the US army during World War 2. The opening chapter of the game revolved around his involvement in the war. He then spent a few more years in service before getting injured and returning to Empire Bay and resuming a life of crime alongside his best friend, Joe Barbaro.
- Joe Barbaro - Vito's best friend and accomplice. He was in most ways a polar opposite of Vito, with the latter keeping his friend's wild, rowdy behaviour in check. When Vito returns home on leave from the war, Joe, with the help of his connections to the mob, gives him forged discharge documents to ensure that Vito doesn't have to return. After Vito's father died, Joe helps Vito find work to settle his father's debts before the loan sharks come after his family.
- Henry Tomasino - A soldato in the Clemente crime family. He is the son of a high-ranking member of the Sicilian mafia and was forced to leave his home country in order to escape Benito Mussolini's regime. He helped Vito and Joe get into Empire Bay's criminal underworld.
- Francesca "Frankie" Scaletta - Born and raised with Vito, Francesca is Vito's older sister. In the begining of the game she is strangly not married or in a relationship after Vito returns to Empire Bay from the old country. She then finally gets married during Vito's ten year sentence in State Prison.
- Marty Santorelli - Marty, who was Joe's teenager friend through the game, used to live across the street from Joe when they were younger. You first meet Marty when he is throwing rocks at your window to wake you up. He does small jobs for Joe throughout the game.
| Mafia II | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | 2K Czech Massive Bear Studios (Optimisation)[1] |
| Publisher(s) | 2K Games 1C Company |
| Designer(s) | Daniel Vávra Pavel Brzák |
| Writer(s) | Daniel Vávra |
| Composer(s) | Matus Siroky Adam Kuruc |
| Engine | Illusion Engine PhysX |
| Version | 1.4 1.02 (PlayStation 3) |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter,action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Rating(s) | |
| Media/distribution | Optical disc, download |
Mafia II is a third-person action-adventure video game, the sequel to Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It is developed by 2K Czech, previously known as Illusion Softworks, and is published by 2K Games. Originally announced in August 2007 at the Leipzig Games Convention, it was released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in August 2010.[2][6]
[edit]Gameplay
The game is set in the 1940-50s era of Empire Bay, a fictional city based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston andDetroit. There are 30-40 vehicles in the game (45 with DLC) as well as licensed music from the era.
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. The checkpoint system has been completely overhauled.[10] New controls include a cover system that allows the player to hide behind objects (such as generators, walls and large crates) to shoot enemies, rather than just using a crouch while behind an object.
It has been stated by 2K Czech that the game's cutscenes are created by the game engine, in real-time, rather than pre-rendered cutscenes. For example if the player is riding in a car and a cut scene starts, the player will be driving the same car and if the car is damaged, that will appear in the cut scene.[11]
The game has three different in game radio stations, Empire Central Radio, Empire Classic Radio and Delta Radio, with licensed music, news, and commercials. The radio stations includes music from different genres including rock and roll, big band, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, among others 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, Rick Nelson, Eddie Cochran, The Champs, The Drifters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, among others.
[edit]Synopsis
The game begins with Vito Scaletta looking over a photo album, as he begins to tell his story in voice over. He is born in Sicily in 1925 to an extremely poor family. A few years later, his family immigrates to the city of Empire Bay 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, whom he becomes best friends with. 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 the Invasion of Sicily in World War II, which he helps liberate before getting shot and sent home on leave.
Once home, he 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 employee of crime boss Alberto Clemente. After working for a few jobs, Clemente himself meets with Vito and Joe with an invitation to become made men, after a "small" fee of $5000. Working under Henry, Vito does several illegal jobs. Though he makes the money to pay the debt, he is soon arrested and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Once inside, Vito falls in with the crowd of Leo Galante, consigliere for Frank Vinci, another crime boss. After doing some jobs for him, Galante manages to shorten Vito's sentence. Vito discovers from Galante that in the Liberty Bay Mob (known as the Commission) there is no fee for becoming a made man, loyalty to the family and hard work is enough to become a member of the family. Galante also describes that the Commission is made up of three large families: the old, conservative Vinci family, Clemente's family, and the Falcone family, a more recent line that is determined the prove themselves. Galante's connections enable him to give Vito a lighter sentence. Once out, he meets up with Joe, who now works for Carlo Falcone, the city's most powerful crime boss. He starts doing odd jobs for Falcone, eventually becoming a made man of the Falcone family, and buying a waterfront home. His biggest job comes when he is sent to kill Clemente, who has participated in the drug trade, against the commission's wishes. Though the job is botched (resulting in the death of Joe's 17 year old neighbor Marty), he and Joe eventually succeed.
Soon after, Vito is approached by Henry, who wants to defect to Falcone's crew. In order to do this, he is ordered to kill Leo, 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 Leo's orders, burn his house to the ground. Broke, he turns to Joe who helps him get revenge. To help him get out of debt, Henry gets Vito and Joe involved in the drug trade, revealing that Falcone is also involved. Although Vito is successful, the Chinese, who supplied the drugs, discover that Henry is a possible federal informant and acting on this new found 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 boss, Wong, who won't give them any further information, they are now indebted to the loan shark they got money for the drugs from. Now very poor and in large debt, Vito is tasked to earn most of the money through his own means, which involves petty theft through out Empire Bay.
At first, Vito turns to Derek Pappalardo (an employee of Frank Vinci) for work, but during a job breaking up a strike by dock workers, Vito learns that Derek ordered the killing of his father and his assistant Steve Coyne followed the order by drowning Vito's father to death. To avenge his father's death, Vito kills Derek and Steve. Eventually Joe and Vito manage to get the money back; in the process, they kill Thomas "Tommy" Angelo, the protagonist of the first Mafia game. Sadly, the incident with the Chinese has caused too much tension between Falcone and Vinci, as both believe the other did it, Vito is told by Falcone to meet him at an observatory. On the way there Vito is picked up by Galante. He is told that he will walk into an ambush, and the only reason he isn't already dead is because of Galante. Galante gives Vito one chance redemption for what he has done: assassinate his boss Carlo Falcone. With Joe's help, Vito succeeds and they go with Galante to celebrate. The car Joe is in turns away at intersection. Galante apologises to Vito and claimed that Joe wasn't part of their deal. The game shows an enraged Vito then ends with a panoramic view of Empire Bay.
[edit]Characters
Main article: List of Mafia characters
- Vito Scaletta - The game's main protagonist and the son of a poor Sicilian family that moved to the United States. He turned to a life of crime after his father, an alcoholic, died leaving a debt unpaid. After being arrested for a botched robbery, Vito avoids incarceration by volunteering to join the US army during World War 2. The opening chapter of the game revolved around his involvement in the war. He then spent a few more years in service before getting injured and returning to Empire Bay and resuming a life of crime alongside his best friend, Joe Barbaro.
- Joe Barbaro - Vito's best friend and accomplice. He was in most ways a polar opposite of Vito, with the latter keeping his friend's wild, rowdy behaviour in check. When Vito returns home on leave from the war, Joe, with the help of his connections to the mob, gives him forged discharge documents to ensure that Vito doesn't have to return. After Vito's father died, Joe helps Vito find work to settle his father's debts before the loan sharks come after his family.
- Henry Tomasino - A soldato in the Clemente crime family. He is the son of a high-ranking member of the Sicilian mafia and was forced to leave his home country in order to escape Benito Mussolini's regime. He helped Vito and Joe get into Empire Bay's criminal underworld.
- Francesca "Frankie" Scaletta - Born and raised with Vito, Francesca is Vito's older sister. In the begining of the game she is strangly not married or in a relationship after Vito returns to Empire Bay from the old country. She then finally gets married during Vito's ten year sentence in State Prison.
- Marty Santorelli - Marty, who was Joe's teenager friend through the game, used to live across the street from Joe when they were younger. You first meet Marty when he is throwing rocks at your window to wake you up. He does small jobs for Joe throughout the game.
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