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Slizza
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| Shoshomiga wrote: | I've read somewhere that there is actually a setting for the health regeneration, you can toggle between two modes
1. regenerating health
2. health only regenerates from medkits like mafia 1 and also by eating food in restaurants, you will also take more damage in this mode
The console will ofcourse have mode 1 enabled by default |
You mean they will actually take the time to design 2 gameplay modes? One with and one without medikits? I doubt so... It much easier to just leave the medkits away and give the player regenerative health. No need to worry about item placement that way...
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 10:22 Post subject: |
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| Shoshomiga wrote: | I've read somewhere that there is actually a setting for the health regeneration, you can toggle between two modes
1. regenerating health
2. health only regenerates from medkits like mafia 1 and also by eating food in restaurants, you will also take more damage in this mode
The console will ofcourse have mode 1 enabled by default |
hats off to the devs if they actually did this
but to be fair there werent many situations where one full life bar wasnt enough and you needid some extra health
ah , in case some of you didnt know ,in Mafia the Creme De La Creme mission had 2 alternatives ways of doing it, 1 where you follow him to the airport and shoot him down (i always had this version) and an 2 where you follow him in the countryside and force him off a bridge |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 10:54 Post subject: |
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| Hierofan wrote: | | ah , in case some of you didnt know ,in Mafia the Creme De La Creme mission had 2 alternatives ways of doing it, 1 where you follow him to the airport and shoot him down (i always had this version) and an 2 where you follow him in the countryside and force him off a bridge |
The first time I played I got the bridge way but all the other times I always get the airport. I have never understood is it random or does it depend on something?
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dsergei
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 11:18 Post subject: |
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| MrO wrote: |
The first time I played I got the bridge way but all the other times I always get the airport. I have never understood is it random or does it depend on something? |
Depends on how close you are to him at a certain point during the chase from what i gather.
There are also several variations during the sniping mission.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 11:20 Post subject: |
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| MrO wrote: | | Hierofan wrote: | | ah , in case some of you didnt know ,in Mafia the Creme De La Creme mission had 2 alternatives ways of doing it, 1 where you follow him to the airport and shoot him down (i always had this version) and an 2 where you follow him in the countryside and force him off a bridge |
The first time I played I got the bridge way but all the other times I always get the airport. I have never understood is it random or does it depend on something? |
if your car was to close you get the country side |
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vaifan1986
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 11:50 Post subject: |
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| Hierofan wrote: | | Shoshomiga wrote: | I've read somewhere that there is actually a setting for the health regeneration, you can toggle between two modes
1. regenerating health
2. health only regenerates from medkits like mafia 1 and also by eating food in restaurants, you will also take more damage in this mode
The console will ofcourse have mode 1 enabled by default |
hats off to the devs if they actually did this
but to be fair there werent many situations where one full life bar wasnt enough and you needid some extra health
ah , in case some of you didnt know ,in Mafia the Creme De La Creme mission had 2 alternatives ways of doing it, 1 where you follow him to the airport and shoot him down (i always had this version) and an 2 where you follow him in the countryside and force him off a bridge |
What? You're kidding me? I must've played the game a dozen times, and always followed him to the airport. His car would magically speed up the second we got outside of the city.
And what's this about the sniper mission? There's another way???
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ixigia
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 22:02 Post subject: |
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Mafia 2 review - 80% in PC Zone
I don't know whether this magazine is reliable or not, still:
| Quote: | The first verdict on 2K's Mafia II is in - and PC Zone's view is that, despite some annoying flaws, it's still a winner.
The mag gives the Mafia title 80% in its new October (yes, bloody October) issue - which is with subscribers now.
The game's major drawback, says Zone, is that it's an 'extremely linear driver and shooter'.
However, if you can get over that rather restrictive fact, there's plenty to enjoy for those nostalgic for the Cosa Nostra's days of US dominance.
The mag says that the dialogue is 'fine, and extremely well acted', adding that driving, 'as you'd expect from the former Illusion Software [2K Czech], is great'.
It continues: 'The collection of cars is great too - all timely models that damage so gently that you'll try to take care of them.'
All aspects of the game are covered in Zone's spectacular seven-page review - with more praise coming for the game's weapons and action sequences, despite a slightly 'cold' storyline.
It adds: 'Mafia II is 10 hours of driving, story and extremely competent gun action. Running at top specs, it looks stunning, and if there was a soundtrack album, I'd buy myself a copy.'
The October issue of PC Zone is in stores next week, and with subscribers today.
Mafia II is due for release on 360, PS3 and PC on August 27 |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 22:14 Post subject: |
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10 hours? Sounds pretty short but I can't remember how long the first one was so dunno what to think.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 22:17 Post subject: |
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I hope that's highly exaggerated.
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Frant
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 22:20 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The game's major drawback, says Zone, is that it's an 'extremely linear driver and shooter'. |
Well, that's what the first one was, and it was excellent since it focused a lot on a believable story.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 22:32 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 22:50 Post subject: |
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dont worry they made a 20 hour campaign but decided to only give you half and pay 10 bucks per additional 2 hours of game play
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 23:04 Post subject: |
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extremely linear.
alarm bells going off.
they are gonna fuck up the sequel to one of the best games ever made.
You should be building upon GTA4 with more features, random events, stuff to do, your in a big market place here, you HAVE to be competitive and do what the others do but do it fucking better to succeed.
over at the 2k forums they have said there no random events, everything that happens is scripted) even the "random" fender bender incidents and the "random" bar fights, they are all prescripted for when you drive/walk past
Im not saying this will be shit, im just saying its not competitive enough or has any where fucking near as many features and sanbox games.
and before people cry "its not a sandbox game wah wah fucking wah" it IS a sandbox game otherwise dont go and make a highly detailed city,
just make it load> mission> load> mission> load> mission> load> end credits
my guess is 2K are going to drop the ball with this sandbox/freedom problem.
I think what annoys me the most is the delays this game has been through, you could have at least added dynamic weather /day/night cycle, RANDOM events. Side quests.
youve been sitting on your hands 2K, and youll pay the price in sales.
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 23:22 Post subject: |
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First game was fairly linear though allowed full exploration of the city and surroundings when not continuing the story, had a separate more open mode to unlock extra vehicles and explore a alternate city version which was more traditional sandbox but there wasn't much else to do.
(Focus on story seems like a good thing, short might be a drawback but if it's a good story and not just filler content like driving back and fort it might balance it, hopefully even if there's not many side activities outside of the story the city will feel fairly alive and responsive instead of random traffic and civilians and a few spawning cops when you bend\break the law a bit.)
EDIT: There was a few activities come to think of it, finding new car models and having them stored so you could lockpick them and drive them for example.
(Some more special models like a bullet proof limousine were part of the story and new vehicles were introduced as you progressed which kept things interesting.)
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vurt
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Jul 2010 09:27 Post subject: |
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I agree with evilmonkey... The first game was very linear too though but it doesnt mean they HAVE to make the second one like that too, i thought the story was ok, but quite overrated, the voice acting was really terrible at times. Didnt' come close to GTA's greatness imo, especially not San Andreas.
Might play this anyways but buying it is out of the question, im too spoiled with sandbox games which are way more fun than movie-like game experiences which i've never really understood the point of (since movies are always better anyways when it comes to acting etc).
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Jul 2010 21:05 Post subject: |
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That racing mission in the first game took me fucking days!! Hopefully none of that shit in this one!
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Slizza
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Jul 2010 21:18 Post subject: |
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| timechange01 wrote: | | That racing mission in the first game took me fucking days!! Hopefully none of that shit in this one! |
Nothing challenging or just no races?
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Jul 2010 21:22 Post subject: |
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There's like fifty or so Mafia 2 related entries for Steam to use in that .blob archive by now so I only grabbed the ones I think might be of use, all that's needed now is a disc with the SIM/SID files for it to be unpackable, though I don't know if it's gone gold yet.
(Might be to get early reviews out as the exclusive preview content type and exclsuive review content type are also available now as is the DLC for them.)
I also found some other DLC info this way although it doesn't say much aside from it's name.
50130 - Mafia 2
50131 - BB45D47B5AEBC4EFF1023EC9A2A5ACCD Content 1
50132 - 96CD9A17564111BE25BA1472415D0F5A Content 2
50133 - 54E3BBA9E56239FEDB5D5D2F1AC465F2 Content 3
50134 - A4E306E6974C6CDE581ABD57E34FA7C5 Content 4
DLC
50140 - 6DBE5905EF8DE1AA9E7CB7C87C649A83 Made Man Pack
50141 - 17AEEB98FA68C3766E31994951C4F80E Renegade Pack
50142 - 921A6DFAC2529827B71327E775DBDB0E Vegas Pack
50143 - 853B77318E3B4952C6596792A1B3B2B7 Greaser Pack
50144 - 661C55406F33974B884BA4B09A41FF4D War Hero Pack
50145 - BCEC8A65AD69E449B17339C2DE1A1988 Jimmy's Vendetta
50146 - 45B22F1B3B0CAD1C209D37A0DA47E051 The Betrayal of Jimmy
50147 - 6B7E94626F8D5FD5569C2ECDCB909841 Joe's Adventure
50148 - ? DLC9
50149 - ? DLC10
Languages
50150 - AA4A259C9D7811332BA0BAB23CD5CA14 French
50151 - B7F4AEA7625D7968DDECF001F90FE7F1 German
50152 - 475DD167E868B95BB24F103CF2A2E80B Italian
50153 - 2F5A054E4252BABD4B73039FC55958CE Spanish
50154 - 97AC6DE58E29982E44FE373B413A3947 English
50155 - E0EC55FFFA7249C3D478AEA2A78B6199 Czech
50156 - 2FFC9FA4F60C0E7D48EE85054BC31B8E Polish
50157 - 79875219755193C91E16BB0AC19B7F6C Russian
50160 - Demo
50161 - 16C01BD4258178612642C15A78455EDF Content 1
Languages
50162 - 50720F3DB16545663CEF4E37B40E392D French
50163 - 9E03B70625845DA9C9DC4405CA4E1E4E German
50164 - 4D8DC61A8A389707F301BB43B2145ED4 Italian
50165 - AD3554510B9D8C8C21FC1CEBDDEA51F7 Spanish
50166 - D6CCD5DB93489094ED1380476428485D English
50167 - 362EB14F56ADAAF6D9A09095B5DC4E97 Czech
50168 - 1AB043D70DB8C854EB77EC5B45765C0A Polish
50169 - ED96C71D539B597C6429ABB9ECB84241 Russian
50280 - Demo?
50281 - 5D74DF8F7130C3392F9156B2A6381067 Content
Languages
50282 - 6508BE7B6E6FC3D7B392E40C2177FBBF French
50283 - B438C0A273D3BCD2C735516F08910969 German
50284 - 96B8D0B291BE3DB6EA16E2C52851620F Italian
50285 - 958EA60C0E2D1960C4CA94C75F80EB7E Spanish
50286 - 745BBCF17BC983BB578704545842CBEB English
50287 - 076E82E1D46F2CEC01746246074232A0 Czech
50288 - C17A1C50E338A6F158F8DA6BC909342F Polish
50289 - ACD6EF298E67750246F51F25656750C3 Russian
(And no even with the keys the Steam://install/ code won't work yet, works for Worms though which was also enabled recently but will self-terminate as it's authenticated server side to further protect from piracy and such and thus rejected.)
EDIT: Fifty might be generous, it begins at 50130 and ends at 50489 though not all numbers are filled but a lot of them are.
(That language data is repeated often for one reason and a lot of debug entries, Q&A and beta entries and much else clutter it, should have most of the game related stuff in the above though.)
EDIT: Like that.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1772/123mf.jpg
(Huge image.)
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Jul 2010 22:06 Post subject: |
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That racing part was the most annoying in the game. Mostly thanks to the not so great driving mechanics in the game - the sense of speed was just way off.
May be I am just spoiled by modern racing games where everything just flies right past you, but in Mafia there were many occasions where it seemed like you were barely moving, while in fact it was some 100+ kph. So you start taking that turn and spin completely out of control at the slightest increase of a throttle or even while trying to brake - to me it made as much sense as a snail skidding off the road on a sharp turn.
It was playable once you get used to it, but still I remember the frustration while I was trying to figure it out.
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Jul 2010 22:29 Post subject: |
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| ixigia wrote: | Mafia 2 review - 80% in PC Zone
I don't know whether this magazine is reliable or not, still:
| Quote: | The first verdict on 2K's Mafia II is in - and PC Zone's view is that, despite some annoying flaws, it's still a winner.
The mag gives the Mafia title 80% in its new October (yes, bloody October) issue - which is with subscribers now.
The game's major drawback, says Zone, is that it's an 'extremely linear driver and shooter'.
However, if you can get over that rather restrictive fact, there's plenty to enjoy for those nostalgic for the Cosa Nostra's days of US dominance.
The mag says that the dialogue is 'fine, and extremely well acted', adding that driving, 'as you'd expect from the former Illusion Software [2K Czech], is great'.
It continues: 'The collection of cars is great too - all timely models that damage so gently that you'll try to take care of them.'
All aspects of the game are covered in Zone's spectacular seven-page review - with more praise coming for the game's weapons and action sequences, despite a slightly 'cold' storyline.
It adds: 'Mafia II is 10 hours of driving, story and extremely competent gun action. Running at top specs, it looks stunning, and if there was a soundtrack album, I'd buy myself a copy.'
The October issue of PC Zone is in stores next week, and with subscribers today.
Mafia II is due for release on 360, PS3 and PC on August 27 |
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sounds about right , when 2k czech said that to fit this game into a console they made it more like ALAN WAKE
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=254606
http://gamingbolt.com/2010/07/06/mafia-2-more-alan-wake-than-gta/ |
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garus
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| Posted: Sun, 1st Aug 2010 01:13 Post subject: |
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| Yondaime wrote: | | I remember my friends having huge problems with the racing part in Mafia too but I never had a problem with it, I thought the racing was very easy, all four times I finished the game throughout the years. Not trying to brag or anything, I just don't think it was hard at all, I won them all on the first try. o.O |
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| Posted: Sun, 1st Aug 2010 01:30 Post subject: |
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Must've been a bug then. It was fucking hard when I played it.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Sun, 1st Aug 2010 01:58 Post subject: |
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| Yondaime wrote: | | Hfric wrote: | | Yondaime wrote: | | I remember my friends having huge problems with the racing part in Mafia too but I never had a problem with it, I thought the racing was very easy, all four times I finished the game throughout the years. Not trying to brag or anything, I just don't think it was hard at all, I won them all on the first try. o.O |
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Why ? Honestly, it wasn't that fucking hard. o.O |
Well, perhaps not exactly at the first try, but I didn't find it insanely difficult either 
Though it has to be said that I was a lot into driving simulations at that time ^^ |
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