before playing mafia II

[gangster]

Should i play mafia I before playing mafia II? Or do the stories not have anything in common?
Thanks guys

[Tom2020]

Should i play mafia I before playing mafia II? Or do the stories not have anything in common?
Thanks guys

Have you never played Mafia 1???

[royalliiii]

Should i play mafia I before playing mafia II? Or do the stories not have anything in common?
Thanks guys

well they have a lot in common, but the story isn't common, except promised "easter eggs" of M2.
I'd say that you should play MAFIA I completely couple of times, (I, myself played 26 times) then you understand that how good M2 will be as you see that M1 (from 2002) was that great, you see that its story and atmosphere can compete with any of 2009-2010 games

[Pittsburgh Phil]

Should i play mafia I before playing mafia II? Or do the stories not have anything in common?
Thanks guys

Its been said that there will be some very minor tie-ins to the first game, but that theres no real need to know what happened in order to enjoy Mafia2.

I highly recommend playing Mafia1 tho, its well worth it and youll be missing out on a great game if you dont

[gangster]

Have you never played Mafia 1???

unfortunately, no

i heard of it, but was never told if it was amazing so i just skipped it. the only mafia game i really played was the godfather. which was pretty cool but nothing too good. and while im talking bout it has anyone played any of the other godfathers? worth getting?

but back to mafia... i would buy it but at the moment im broke and have my hands all full with battlefield: bad company 2 (which i suggest getting)

well thanks for giving your input guys. i will try and pick up mafia I sometime soon

[Don_Vito]

unfortunately, no

i heard of it, but was never told if it was amazing so i just skipped it. the only mafia game i really played was the godfather. which was pretty cool but nothing too good. and while im talking bout it has anyone played any of the other godfathers? worth getting?

but back to mafia... i would buy it but at the moment im broke and have my hands all full with battlefield: bad company 2 (which i suggest getting)

well thanks for giving your input guys. i will try and pick up mafia I sometime soon

NOOOOOOOOOOOO Godfather 2 is no good

[Tom2020]

unfortunately, no

i heard of it, but was never told if it was amazing so i just skipped it. the only mafia game i really played was the godfather. which was pretty cool but nothing too good. and while im talking bout it has anyone played any of the other godfathers? worth getting?

but back to mafia... i would buy it but at the moment im broke and have my hands all full with battlefield: bad company 2 (which i suggest getting)

well thanks for giving your input guys. i will try and pick up mafia I sometime soon

OH! Well in that case I can send you my copy of Mafia. Sure, it might a bit scratched, and messed up my pc the last time I put it in, but hey! It's worth a try, eh?

[gangster]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO Godfather 2 is no good

lol okay, just making sure. it looked kinda cool but i guess its not good lol

and i just looked up mafia I on ign. and it got a 6.8 for the ps2 version. which is the only version i would be playing... were you guys talking about the pc version?

[gangster]

OH! Well in that case I can send you my copy of Mafia. Sure, it might a bit scratched, and messed up my pc the last time I put it in, but hey! It's worth a try, eh?

thats extremely generous but i dont play any games on my computer only playstation. sorry! but i greatly appreciate your offer

[Tom2020]

lol okay, just making sure. it looked kinda cool but i guess its not good lol

and i just looked up mafia I on ign. and it got a 6.8 for the ps2 version. which is the only version i would be playing... were you guys talking about the pc version?

Yes

http://pc.ign.com/objects/014/014856.html

The console version are just shoddy ports. If you can try to play it on a PC. Because any PC will be able to play Mafia, and I mean ANY...

[gangster]

Yes

http://pc.ign.com/objects/014/014856.html

The console version are just shoddy ports. If you can try to play it on a PC. Because any PC will be able to play Mafia, and I mean ANY...

haha well i have a laptop, that im sure is compatible. i just would rather play games on my ps3... i might pick it up some day. and i will DEFINITELY be picking up Mafia II.

thanks again guys

[Tom2020]

haha well i have a laptop, that im sure is compatible. i just would rather play games on my ps3... i might pick it up some day. and i will DEFINITELY be picking up Mafia II.

thanks again guys

If you chose to play it on the consoles that's fine. The only problem with them was mostly because it's graphics weren't updated at all for a 2004 game, and the controls were off. But other than that it's completlely playable on the ps2 as well...

[gangster]

If you chose to play it on the consoles that's fine. The only problem with them was mostly because it's graphics weren't updated at all for a 2004 game, and the controls were off. But other than that it's completlely playable on the ps2 as well...

ok its just weird how it got 9.2 on pc version and then on ps2 it gets 6.8

[Tom2020]

ok its just weird how it got 9.2 on pc version and then on ps2 it gets 6.8

Well imagine playing a ps2 game ahead of it's time, then 2 years later it looks crappy, but is till released how it looked 2 years ago, some people might be disappointed by that...

[bob_toeback]

ok its just weird how it got 9.2 on pc version and then on ps2 it gets 6.8

I haven't played it for PC, though I did for Xbox, probably samish as PS3, havent beaten it yet, controls are kinda bad, and its hard, or somthin, anyways i still really enjoy it and plan on beating it before Mafia II. I dont think its that bad atall, but sticking with PC is probably still best

[Fief]

I would play the PC version of MAFIA if you can get your hands on a copy, but the games are not going to be connected in any real way...and from what we seen, the game play is going to be very different (cover system, regenerating health ect) as well.

[sanpreet]

I'm also one of those gamers that haven't played mafia i wasn't into open world games at that time when the game hit the original xbox so i'm going to skip mafia 1 and just wait for the sequel.

[Eloeo]

Please play Mafia right now.

[sanpreet]

i would if i could but to tell you the truth i can't go back and play the game you see i'm a graphics ***** and i can't play any game that came out for the original xbox.

[gangsterlife]

Should i play mafia I before playing mafia II? Or do the stories not have anything in common?
Thanks guys

No you don't have to but if you don't you miss out a great game.

[mwmorey]

I just recently bought Mafia I and beat it last night. It was great, a really moving story that is believable and dramatic. Not sure how many times I could play it though, it has a few slow points.

[dinge]

I just recently bought Mafia I and beat it last night. It was great, a really moving story that is believable and dramatic. Not sure how many times I could play it though, it has a few slow points.

Please tell me where you bought Mafia I! I lost my copy and I've been looking for the game ever since ...

[Fugue]

I've bought Mafia 3 times, as a result of lending the game to someone and either not getting it back or returned with damaged discs , probably v hard to find now, ebay is best bet.

would never part with it again

[Eloeo]

i would if i could but to tell you the truth i can't go back and play the game you see i'm a graphics ***** and i can't play any game that came out for the original xbox.

If you only care about the graphics then you missed helluva lot great games.

[dinge]

Lol I play Crash Team Racing every once in a while, that's like PS1, I assure you there are like 4 pixels or something, it's awesome. You have to be able to watch past graphics and see the originality, the concept, the gameplay and all that's important in a game. I, for one, think games focus on graphics too much lately and frankly I couldn't care less about it. Whatever happened to games like pong where the devs couldn't even program a curved line, or a game like Crash Bash, Bugs Bunny (lol) and all those awesome old games . It's much better than all the copy-paste-work the devs do nowadays, they bring out 7 games upscale it a little but basically you buy the same game 7 times (yes that's right, you suck EA). Fortunately 2K isn't like that and still finishes their development .

[royalliiii]

Lol I play Crash Team Racing every once in a while, that's like PS1. You have to be able to watch past graphics and see the originality, the concept, the gameplay and all that's important in a game.
Whatever happened to all those awesome old games .
I, for one, think games focus on graphics too much lately and frankly I couldn't care less about it.

I feel the same way as you. I play regularly Mafia 1, Metal Gear Solid 1(PSX). Those are my favourites. Hard to say which one is better

It's much better than all the copy-paste-work the devs do nowadays, they bring out 7 games upscale it a little but basically you buy the same game 7 times (yes that's right, you suck EA). Fortunately 2K isn't like that and still finishes their development .

Yeah, EA is bad for games, they own too much and they always releases games as half-finished in developing.

NHL10 looks always the same nowadays, GF series graphics are the same as in all EA's 2005's games. :S and so on. There's so much bugs always on EA's games. and they can't even fix those. not in NHL series though. Then, on all EA SPORTS games, there's always EA logo and only a few updates when moving to next game, e.g. NHL09 -> NHL10

[Habbuba]

you dont have to but you should great game

[Eloeo]

It's much better than all the copy-paste-work the devs do nowadays, they bring out 7 games upscale it a little but basically you buy the same game 7 times (yes that's right, you suck EA).

You forgot about Activision and their "10 Cods a year" strategy.

[Don_Vito]

You forgot about Activision and their "10 Cods a year" strategy.

What

[dinge]

You forgot about Activision and their "10 Cods a year" strategy.

Well actually they launch every two years (they have two game studios which both work on a game for two years and release every other two years) but I must say you can see a lot of copy paste work in the COD series. So thanks for adding that .

[Eloeo]

Well actually they launch every two years (they have two game studios which both work on a game for two years and release every other two years) but I must say you can see a lot of copy paste work in the COD series. So thanks for adding that .

Yeah,i hope they will start getting original.If COD 7 will take place in Vietnam( i know it's not very original,but there was only 1 good Vietnam game so far,Vietcong) and will be done good,then might buy.

inb4 2 hour campaign