Mafia II – Information, screenshots and more.

Mafia II – Information, screenshots and more.



Mafia II is the sequel to “Mafia – The City of Lost Heaven” and is developed by 2K Czech, previously known as Illusion Softworks, and will be published by 2K Games.
Mafia II was announced in August 2007 at the Leipzig Games Convention and will be available for PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360.

The game will release on 24th of August 2010 in North America and in other regions on the 27th of August 2010.
The game itself
The game will be set between 1945 – 1955 in “Empire Bay” (reference to New York’s state nickname “The Empire State”), a fictional city based on San Francisco and New York City, with influence from Chicago and Detroit. The game will feature a completely open-ended game map of 10 square miles. There will be around 50 vehicles in the game, as well licensed music from the era.

Many firearms from the previous game will make a return, for example Thompson M1928, the Colt 1911 and a pump action shotgun. Aswell WWII era weapons like the MP40, the M3 Grease Gun, and the MP28 will make an apperence in the game aswell as the MG42.

The Story
Mafia II Is a gritty drama which chronicles the rise of World War II Veteran Vito Scaletta, the son of Sicilian immigrants. As the game progresses, Vito will join a crime family and become a made man.
The story begins with the player character Vito returning home on leave from World War II. Vito had joined the U.S. military as a way of avoiding jail time for a botched robbery. He then discovers that his father died and left his family $2000 in debt. Vito reunites with his old friend, Joe Barbaro, and the two quickly embark upon a life of crime. Their criminal ascension starts with Mikey, a car mechanic who gets in a conflict with Joe. Mikey also needs a certain type of car to chop for parts, and will pay $400 for one that the police are not tailing. Soon enough, Vito, Joe, and Henry Tomasino (already a made man in the Clemente family) find themselves battling with, for, against, and around three crime factions: the Falcone, Vinci and Clemente families.

The game will contain two hours of in-game cutscenes. The original game, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, had a screenplay of 400 pages, opposed to the 700 pages of the sequel. Daniel Vávra, the writer and director of the original and the sequel, discussed the new angle of the game stating: "The old game was a tribute to gangster films, a romantic vision. Mafia II is grittier, real, a darker world, and the effects are based in reality." Official PlayStation Magazine states: "A high body count is still promised in this tale set in a fictional city 'inspired by' New York of the 1940s and '50s, but those casualties will come the hard way -- through small-scale operations rather than mass firefights."
Vito will also be able to pay for food and drinks, such as coffee, pie and various dishes to replenish health or stamina.

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