
Since Mafia 2 is one of the games for this year that we are planing on getting and one that we have personally been anticipating, we thought you should know what our impressions of the game demo are and it should answer some questions that you may have. The Mafia 2 demo is worth getting, but were debating on whether or not the game is a buy or a rent. For us, we feel that we’ve been spoiled with Grand Theft Auto IV’s Euphoria game engine and playing this demo on 2K games PhysX engine just feels different and that’s ok, because Mafia 2 is not Grand Theft Auto. We were expecting more from the demo, but to be honest with you, we are not that impressed with the gameplay in general.
On the positive side of this game the team over at 2K games did a great job as far as looks go because the graphics look amazing especially on the XBOX 360. We appreciated what the developers did, letting you choose whether or not you want to watch the cut-scenes or simply skip them. The driving was nice and flexible, but sometimes the streets were a bit narrow and being that in that era you had cars that were huge this made it a bit irritating because it makes you hit things.
The police in this game are really intelligent and so they will chase you around a lot so they will take you down. Another thing that this game has is that if you are planing to carjack up a car from somebody driving you better be ready to shoot that person because most of the drivers have guns and will shoot at you.
Because this is just a demo, we are not going to get discouraged about getting this game and we will buy it once it comes out that way we can give you a better review. There are alot of negative things about this game as well as positive and we will just have to wait and see.