but i think that the GTA screens are real time where the mafia screens arn't. i mean look at that mafia screen in the bar withthe guy with the trench coat, that look almost too good to be in game real time... anyone??
a laughingstock for gamer to compare a game that tend to focus on gameplay and the other focus on graphic this is like comparing crysis with GTAIV, if GTAIV have a grafic like crysis even 5 Blue ray discs cannot be fit so in other it like leaving 360 in dust
Both games will definitely be added to my game collection. The original Mafia was amazing on the PC, hopefully the second one lives up to the original.
GTA3: Superb (underrated) story, Great graphics, Superb gameplay. Mafia: Superb Story, Superb graphics, Great gameplay
It's all about where your loyalties lay, because they are both great games in terms of their predecessors, we will just have to wait and see if one of them pull ahead in an unexpected area.
P.S GTA III, although humorous was a fantastic story. Unimaginably well written and directed. People just don't realise because they don't follow the story, which is what Mafia forced you to do (there wasn't any fun stuff to do outside of the story), which in Mafia's case isn't a bad thing. It lead the story through. GTA stuttered and it paid the price because it's story was equally as good as Mafia's, but they let people go off on tangents and lose the story.
GTA's next two installments were however lackluster. and got chronologically worse, so lets hope GTA 4 brings something fresh and that Mafia builds upon what it's got.
Asurastrike : You clearly haven't played it and have no right to pass judgement on it. And it's a superb game (Mafia).
destroyah : If you think GTA has a bad story you clearly haven't played it. The story in GTA III is rich and riddled with superb satire and even without satire it's a fantastic piece of media, equally as well written as Mafia. Just executed badly because people get wrapped up in running over pedestrians, and lose the story.
Asura, try and find the first Mafia if you can. The game was just amazing. The story really pulls you in.
Nopudding - If the story was that great, then most people would not have been distracted so easily. I played it, and I couldn't really get into the story. So I went back to my wild cop chases. That is just my opinion though.
I am sure they both will be great games. I can't wait for both.
I loved Mafia - it kept my attention much longer than GTA ever did. I appreciated the cars and the atmosphere more than I did in any of the GTA games, with the exception (maybe) of Vice City.
If the story of GTA3 was all that, why did people lose interest of it? Clearly the gameplay element on GTA3 was so much better than the actual story, that you spend more time just killing people, get that 6 stars of wanted level and survive for as long as you can.
Uh. He said story and it's true. Have you ever even played Mafia? The story is much deeper than any GTA game that's ever been released. I'm sorry but GTA games never had a good story. People play them for the mindless violence.
GTA really didn't do anything that Mafia would have tried to 'copy'.
It wasn't ever trying to be a GTA, this is one of the only free-roaming games I would not call a GTA-clone, out of utter respect. Infact if anything it took inspiration from the original Driver.
Here we go again. The atypical review score zombie trying to sound informed and profound because he looked at a NUMBER.
Well tell us, Mr. Enlightened all-knowing gamer, what does that 88 tell you? What's the main characters name? What platforms are the game on? Story? Gameplay mechanics? Sound? Control? Environments? Run-time engine features?
I'm glad that you can accurately gauge all of these factors from an arbitrary number.
Boy...you score hounds are really something. You think those nondescript numbers can tell you all you need to know.
I really could care less how they look side to side both are going to be great. I was a fan of the first Mafia on the PC but not so much on the PS2 and Xbox. So I will be looking forward to see if the second can work this time on the consoles as for GTA there has been many games that have come out under the GTA name and they were all good so I have no doubt this one will be good too.
I looked at them, and I'd have to say Mafia 2 looks better. But why do we need a comparison for this? It's not like it's a close contest. The GTA games have never been about graphics anyway.
Yay, it's like an advanced preview of all the PS3 vs. 360 graphical comparison videos of GTA4 we're certain to get swarmed with at the end of April/beginning of May.
I never did like any game that was similar, or tried to have the same concept as GTA. I really hate the Mafia games, those old...slow ass cars, I really hate that crap. Gimmie a game with some fun, not some " I wanna be the Last Don. " rubbish.
Since most of you haven't played Mafia so please do yourself a favor and STFU. Mafia's world will probably be smaller than GTA, there will be less vehicals and all that crazy stuff but that isn't what's Mafia about. Mafia is more story oriented and the gunplay is better than GTA. They're both very similar yet different game.
Yes the gameplay isn't the best; but the story is what drives the game. It was very immersive. It is what keeps me... and many other gamers alike, reminiscing about how great that game was. I'll pick up & play Mafia over GTA:SA,& VC anyday. IDK about GTA3 though, that one's too much of a classic. However, who knows if GTA4 will do the same or surpass what GTA3 did. Newayz, IMO, Mafia 2's gap between it and it's predecessor will be greater than GTA4's.
There is no such thing as a game that is "about graphics".
I'm getting sick of that excuse used as a crutch to give R* a free pass for mediocrity in the visual department.
EVERY game is about gameplay, we all know that, so go preach to some other choir. EVERY game is about gameplay, hence the namesake GAME. G-A-M-E. Therefore, this ridiculous, pretentious little crutch that GTA has somehow discovered this "gameplay" thing that all other GAMES lack is not an excuse for average graphics. Nobody said the game will suck because of the graphics, people are simply saying that the graphics fail to impress. Big deal, excuses aren't necessary.
I hear people say this all the time "GTA is about gameplay, not graphics" as if it's some profound revelation that they just discovered while the rest of us unenlightened, common-folk gamers have had on horse blinders.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a game about graphics. You know what that would be? A comic book, a movie, a slideshow.
It's obvious gta was never anywhere near the quality of mafia, and mafia 2 makes the new gta look like a ps2 game. In all mafia has a story something gta series can only dream of having with unparalled visuals you just can't beat that combination.
I saw the Mafia pics frm a few days ago, and Im considering buying it. I love the setting,and the era and cars etc. Like the Godfather game,loved that,and I never saw that as a GTA clone. Also, Saints Row2, that I see as a more 'immature' approach in comparison to GTA4, but I'l prolly pick it up,soo for me, it doesnt matter which screens look best, I'll buy it based on gameplay alone.but of the 3 games,even though GTA might not always look the part of next gen,the gameplay mechanics are next gen. I mean, things like resisting arrests, switching cars in a parking garage to lower heat etc. GTA4 seems to me to be a more complexly designed game
Mafia has the edge in graphics, but that doesn't mean it will be better. GTA's graphics aren't too shabby. Both will be great games.
The only real losers here are the people who bought the Wii and only the Wii, since these two games (and let's face it...95% of all of the other awesome games) will only come out for the 360 and PS3.
you need to be registered as legally blind.
Even IF Mafia looks better than GTA its not going to be as good unless they capture GTA's Masterful gameplay
Mafia looks vastly superior.
Mafia 2 looks way better.
Mafia 2 may look better, but heres my question. Has anyone even heard of Mafia 1?