First in-game scenes from the upcoming Mafia II

In connection with Gamer.no's preview of Mafia II, the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet has released an exclusive in-game video from the upcoming title.

Watch more inside!

[Ghoul]

pure awesomeness.

i love mafia 1 its still my no.1 open world game ever.
But this oh my looks stunning, damn i cant wait for this game.

a feast for any mafia games or movies fan.

[DelbertGrady]

This looks to live up to what some of us expected from GTA IV.

[Ghoul]

soda

honestly i was never expecting more from gta4 than what i got with it.
mafia 2 as mafia 1 is another level in mature open world gaming and story telling.

mafia 1 story plot is probably the best movie like gaming experience i ever had.

[raztad]

Guys, I was waiting something different. Graphics are GTA4 level, not impressed at all. Not sure, but game is too much GTA4-ish. Main difference is the theme but even if the story is good (GTA4's story is pretty good btw) I got doubts about how fun the game will be. I mean, if you didnt like GTA4 probably this one wont like you either. I'll pass on this, yet to finish GTA4, unless the game prove to be awesome.

For Mafia fans this is an awesome upgrade by any means.

[DavidMacDougall]

No bullet holes in cars? No shell casings? Regenerating health?

There goes Mafia 1 right out the f**king window. I'll probably not get this now its just going to be the same as the rest of the third person shooters, there ain't going to be anymore hiding from the cops cause i crashed my car and only have 5HP left or i blow up a cop car while i was to close and now i've got to be careful with my top speed driving or i'll be dead, plus i gotta watch the lights and make sure they don't catch me speeding. That made Mafia fun.

[Ghoul]

"No bullet holes in cars? No shell casings? Regenerating health? "

its still in development and shell casing and bullet holes are the last ones to be implemented normally.

regenerating health is awesome but i agree i would love a more container like regen health

like 5 containers where only the one aktiv regenerates so you still will be in situations with low health (1 container).

[Blaze929]

this better be like, early early EARLY alpha footage...game doesnt look as good as i thought it would be; visually and just the gameplay overall.

[SuperM]

WTF are you talking about. The game looks great and the graphics are unparalleled. This is the best looking open world game to date, period. GTA4 graphics arent even remotely close to this, you must be blind. This is looking very very hot indeed. This + Assassins Creed 2 are the multiplatform titles im really looking forward to this year. Ill probably get Mafia 2 for the PC. Gonna be a hot year with all the amazing first party titles coming from sony + these games

[barom]

Wow the game looks amazing. Graphically it's asily the best looking open world game. Unless you call Yakuza 3 an open world (the attention to details is just unrivaled).

Anyway it's kinda interesting to see Mafia 2 be compared to GTA IV. Cause while GTA revolutionized open world games, Mafia was the first to go for the more realistic route that GTA eventually went for. So essentially Mafia copied from GTA and GTA copied from Mafia. Anyway just thought that was interesting.

The only thing I think looks kinda bad is the shooting. While it's still better than GTA IV, it seems to go for the Kane & Lynch approach where the aim kinda jumps at every bullet fired. It's still good but I would've prefered a bit more "fun" approach where the aim didn't jump so much.

[free2game365]

gameplay and graphics look xbox'd

[felidae]

lol. sad sad fanboy.

Mafia 2 looks amazing and i bet i runs 10x smoother on the 360 - like every multiplatform game.

[free2game365]

if you're calling me a PS3 fanboy you're mistaken, I own a PC, not a PS3, and last time I checked, multiplats run best on the PC

[Ghoul]

you both are .... fanboys

Mafia is lead developed on consoles and then ported "later" to pc.
and i HATE playing console games on pc since the controls never match to what it was meant for in the first place. mouse and keyboard arent allways the best choice if a game has a certain weight and feel to the controlls matched to a controller.

"Mafia 2 looks amazing and i bet i runs 10x smoother on the 360 - like every multiplatform game. "

lol i guess i missed something those days are long over. nearly all multi games are now equal with minor improvements on each side.

[free2game365]

this coming from a game where the develops say they're competing visually with Crysis and have only released PC screenshots and the game running on a PC up to this point? The first game was a PC game through and through and this should have been the same, now it just looks like another "move from cover to cover, pop up, absorb a few bullets in the head and chest, go back into cover, then pop up again a shoot a guy shooter"

[Ghoul]

sorry mate but your only hating nothing more.

stop this nitpicking it looks fantastic.

[raztad]

@Ghuol

free2game is not being a fanboy or hating, I agree with him. The "xbox looks" hes talking about is a plastic feel pretty noticeable in the video. I have the same feel too, perhaps are the textures or the colors, or just the lighting.

@free2game

Really? Did Devels said they are competing with Crysis? Wow, it seems they just lost the competition and by far. What version is the one showed here? PC? 360? I hope is 360's cause it doesnt look good enough to be a pc game but then this is an open world game.

[Shane Kim]

I agree with free2game and raztad. It looks plastic.

[CaseyRyback_CPO]

Now look at Killzone2,MGS4,Uncharted,Motor storm2,Infamous.
Which all run marathons around any multiplat ever made in the history of console gaming.

So lets see, you have exclusives that literally the 360 could never run. And a PS3 version of a multiplat with less texture filtering when you zoom in 10x...

I wonder which one you use during graphical arguments. Depends on which side of the fence you're on. If you're on the side that has only seen the unreal engine showing off your hardware, i guess you go with the multiplat argument, but then you have to come up with some excuse as to why Bully, a ps2 game, runs at 3fps on the mighty 360's hardware.. Bad code right?

[solidsnakus]

the last time i checked there wasnt any pc games other than a handfull of rts

[II Necroplasm II]

I'm so getting this. Sound of this game is nice.

[talltony]

good reveiws will make this a must buy.

[belal]

look like what they showed us when the game first debuted, but it looks good though.

[Selvin]

I'm definately getting this on my PS3 at the release date, nou doubt about that :)

[Shane Kim]

Little dissapointed of the graphics and animations. Don't think 3rd person games will be the same again after uncharted. Will probably pick this up anyway since I love Mafia 1 .

[II Necroplasm II]

do you just sit there and stare at a games ? do you even play them?

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

Mafia 2 is a sandbox title. If you've seen the car chase footage you will notice that the city seems empty, the graphics didn't match the target render, and the animations look okay.

The DVD player known as the Xbox 360 is to blame for this. When one version needs to be downgraded we all suffer, unfortunately.

[II Necroplasm II]

there's not that many PS3 exclusives that use a whole lot of disk space.

[MK_Red]

Even though it looks good, it's still way behind their initial footage that they claimed was in ingame / real-time.

[free2game365]

well to be fair, I think that was running on a developer PC that probably had something like a GTX 280 in it, and this was running on an Xbox 360 more than likely.

[MK_Red]

I'm pretty sure devs show the best looking version of their game when demonstrating so whatever platform this vid is from, it's probably the best looking version. Plus, it was obvious that the earlier vid / footage was target render / cg.

[yaygames]

It looks to me that the game was shown on a console, judging by the way the player turned and the cars popping in. The game will probably look about 25% better on a pc plus the extra develpoment time.

[zagibu]

Yeah, it was definately played with a controller (or a kid using mouse + keyboard).

[Statix]

That old video wasn't even PC. It was a target render, judging by the impossibly high-fidelity motion blur that I've never ever seen before in a realtime game.

[beavis4play]

so i think everyone should quit whining about how "good" it looks.

[poindat]

Agree. Saints Row 2 is supposedly (haven't played enough of it to know myself) far more fun that GTA 4, and yet the graphics aren't exactly cutting edge are they?

It's the fun that matters, and either way, it's going to be an ASAP purchase for me (I don't do day 1 purchases).

[Epicor]

...this doesn't look as good as I expected. Have you seen the screenshots they have published? They look stunning but this video looks just something between good and great. Sure, the video isn't the best quality so that can explain something. Anyways, here's some screens so you can judge yourself:

http://www.mafia-news.com/g...

[Daz]

looks like the game to me. but hey im not the one to be to picky over gaphics.

[Epicor]

and you make it sound that I am. Am not actually. Just wanted to control the hype a little bit as some people already touted Mafia 2's graphics to be pure awesomeness. IMO Mafia 2 looks just a little bit better than average this gen game. At least at this point of development. But I'm sure this game will be great, no matter if the graphics are "just" good.

[lh_swe]

No doubt about it this looks like a promising title.

[Twister]

This game looks awesome

[STONEY4]

So much pop-in on the driving segment at the end. Other than that it looks pretty good.

[yaygames]

Hopefully they will reduce the pop in by the time the game is released. It would be so disappointing if the games is an unpollished mess like most open world games this gen.

[Shane Kim]

I knew that it wouldn't look like those early screenshots. I just can't understand how people can take these screenshots... http://www.mafia-news.com/g... and believe that they are in game. But I never believed it would look this "boring". I'm quite dissapointed actually. It look like some mediocre UE3 game like Wanted: Weapons of Fate( I don't actually know if Wanted runs on UE3 but you get the point) where everything is shiny and plastic.

[ShabzS]

looks good...

[HBK619]

Looking good so far.

Can tell there is still a lot more polish to be added to the game, remember we are still around 8 months until this game is finished, plenty of time to add the little touches like bullet casings/holes, lower pop-in, etc. as well as tune and tweak everything else, and with all that I can actually see it looking like those pictures on this site http://www.mafia-news.com/g...

I would like a little more detail in the cut-scene though, Mafia was the absolute pinnacle of last-gen in it's cut-scenes and was probably the only thing that really transferred superbly to the console versions.

The shooting did look a little iffy, the reticule seemed to jump a bit too much and didn't give a very steady or nice aim(In terms of accuracy), also seemed to take WAY too many bullets to kill a guy, did like the death animations though(Very Killzone 2 like), could've just been a douche behind the controller but to me the aiming will either need to change or tweak it some more to make it a bit steadier and a sweeter shot.

Overall I liked what I saw, and hope that it can continue on the in the rich vein that Mafia left.

[ultimolu]

Oh, it looks hot.

[zonetrooper5]

I may just pick this game up after all.