But it’s always great to watch parts of your cover break apart from gunfire and blowing mobsters away with the shotgun in Mafia 2 is one of the most satisfying moments. I only wish the gunplay got a few improvements now that we are on the PS4.Īiming feels very stiff and once again the framerate is a disaster when things get really hectic. It was good ten years ago and it’s still good here. Gunplay isn’t bad by any means and uses the standard cover-based shootouts we expect in third-person action-adventure games. Gunplay is another aspect that received no real improvements. Gunplay Feels Dated But The Tense Shootouts Hold Up This is something that I wished would have been addressed in the remaster, but the developers chose not to add anything to keep you engaged in the world. There are wanted posters and retro Playboys to find as collectibles but without any real guide to help its almost impossible to find them all on your own. It’s a living world sure, but there is just not much to do in it besides driving from one location to another. Unfortunately, the world itself isn’t that interesting to explore ten years on.

It may look good in a still image but when in motion the framerate goes to hell. It can get so bad at times it feels like the game freezes and picks up a second later, at which point I would most likely crash. On the other hand, the framerate forced me off the road more times then I could have counted. The damage models on the cars though remain great, and even during the season changes the world goes though you see those changes reflected on the cars well, such as snow and frost building on them. I never found this to be a big issue as I always felt that the cars are from the ’40s so chances are they would perform a lot worse then what we have today. Maybe it’s just my imagination but I didn’t feel like I was sliding around the world as much as I originally did. The driving this time around feels a bit better but not by much. Mafia 2 was always criticized for bad vehicle handling.

An Empty World That Could Have Used Some LoveĪs an open-world game, you get to explore the fictional Empire City which means there is lots of driving around. A great story is held back by some random sound bugs that increase and decrease in volume randomly thorough out the cutscenes.

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