Mafia II is coming and 2K Game's Czech studio is showing it off finally. Some lucky Europeans got to head over to the studio and get some time with the game and a lucky Norwegian newspaper got the first gameplay footage of which you can check out below. Evidently, the gameplay and story have been revamped and made better, giving the game a bit more action and excitement.
From what we see in the video I'm not so sure what is going to stand out about the game at the moment. It looks like another shooter taking place in a made up city. The original game was fun, but it never stood out to me as something special and I'm not sure if this one will either. Then again with the graphics engine being specifically designed for the game and what looks like plenty of in depth and realistic content being shoved into it this could be a real winner.
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12:00 AM on 04.19.2009 | 
Despite that whole thing, it looks alright, I honestly can't recall much from the first Mafia but maybe I'll be interested enough to look into it again depending on how this will do.
Maybe.
They need to fix some things and improve.
Thats a indication of how old this engine allready is imo! Operation Flashpoint, Mafia 1+2, Armed Assault 1+2 all good games but no physics in it. That was allways a point that annoyed me very much
They could have at least have a hybrid regenerative health bar like in Riddick.
video games that take place in NY:
http://www.giantbomb.com/new-york/95-109/
Comparing this to GTA is moronic. Mafia was mission based and nothing more; there was no open sandbox gameplay, nothing to do other than missions with the exception of a free roam mode outside the actual game.
This also didn't copy GTA; it didn't have time to. It came out a year after GTA3 released on the PS2, and three months after it came out for the PC.
Personally I hope they keep the original's realistic tone. Regenerating health is fine, long as it's slow; perhaps they can still have health packs to speed things up. That's all fine as long as damage is realistic like the first. You get shot in the head, you're dead; you take a shotgun shell to the chest point blank, you're dead. The realism is what made the first game very interesting to play, along with an outstanding story.