Despite UNICO's outrage, 2K Games launched Mafia II last week without a hitch. A week later, it's announcing the release date for the first bit of downloadable content, "Jimmy's Vendetta." Out on September 7, the pack will cost players $9.99 for PlayStation 3 and PC, and 800 MS Points for Xbox 360.
"Jimmy's Vendetta" puts players in the shoes of a mafioso clean up guy, in a more arcade style experience featuring a slew of new missions like assassinations and car chases. The DLC adds a more arcade-style dimension to Mafia II, adding a scoring system including combos and multipliers, as well as a leaderboard to see who's doing the best job as old baldy.
This content doesn't sound too different than "Jimmy's Betrayal," the PlayStation 3 exclusive that came free with new copies of the game. It's the reason I scored the PS3 game a bit higher in my review; I actually found the high-intensity arcade-like Jimmy stuff more interesting than the core game.
Anyone thinking about picking this up?
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8:40 AM on 08.31.2010 | 
I'm really enjoying this game thus far. takes me back to when games were actually kind of gripping and fun but also a bit stupid.
I'm always amazed in the stupidity of game developers/publishers which decides shit like that. I bet the sales for Mafia2 would be a looot better if the content that they want to release as DLC would be in the original game.
I'm not buying DLC in cases like that and I hope that they will soon realize that they are hurting their sales more than actually improving it. Not every game is a MW2 where you can get away with it.
That's...interesting.
Well, at least they put scoring in. The leaderboards never really matter, but it's always nice to see little numbers pop up next to things and people as they're being destroyed.