Fun fact: if you enable the speed limiter while you’re over the legal limit, the game will cause your car to rapidly lose speed and slow down, this usually only takes a second and is incredibly useful for controlling high speed cars while driving around corners or in some more cramped areas of the city
The speed limiter being on will also adjust how cars shift, allowing them to shift up earlier in the rev range instead of ringing out every gear to redline - much appreciated in the snow chapters.
This was the main trick I exploited constantly to always drive at max speed, toggling speed limiter is infinitely more effecting than braking at high speeds, especially if there's snow, allowing you to just go zooming without crashing corners or traffic!
Well technically it wasn’t an act of terror because it wasn’t politically motivated, you just sorta accidentally blew up a building because you didn’t like a guy
The parallels between Mafia 2 and LA Noire are pretty similar. They both had a beautiful worldspace that was more set dressing for the linear narrative, rather than a character in of itself.
LA Noire told a story far more mature, gritty and believable than most modern media productions dare to even attempt, Mafia II regurgitated the same old mob-clichés with nothing at stake without bringing *anything* new to the table. But yes, both in terms of gameplay were utterly janky, equally shit driving and shooting physics in completely non-utilised gameworlds.
@@JohnDaubSuperfan369 I enjoy LA Noire more, but I respectfully disagree. LA Noire takes a ton of inspiration from past noire films and novels, with The Naked City DLC being pulled directly from a 1948 film of the same name. It's a well-executed (albeit uneven) story - don't get me wrong, but I'd hardly consider it "original." Without getting into too much spoilers, I also think Mafia 2 deserves a little more credit for its writing. Yes, there's plenty of wise guys and stereotypical setups and payoffs, but I think how Vito gets there is kind of unique in terms of video game storytelling. The time jumps, stint in prison, as well as how it ends is very reminiscent of a film, but pretty unusual for a narrative focused game for that time. I respect your opinion, though. It can get frustrating when characters default to tropes we've seen hundreds of times.
@@BlueRanger57Mafia II's story is a significant down grade from Mafia I. You see Mafia II really didn't have any sort of real vibe, & it just comes off as a puke of various different Mob & crime movies without any consistency. Meanwhile Mafia I has the great comic booky / old movie glorious past vibe.
I remember when i was 16 i actully convinced my dad to buy this for me, i was like “dad, how is this any different than the gangster/mobster movies you like to watch?” He was just like fuck, youre right 😂
Fun fact: I basically grew up with this game, and I didn't know up until now that you can repair your cars, outside of the one car you repair in the second chapter for a woman really disappointed by her service avoiding husband
That game was my childhood too , but I knew that you could repair cars sincerely it was a detail I always wanted to see in a videogame so when I crashed my car I wanted to see if I could fix and alhamdulilah the geniuses who made this game actually included that detail
didn't he just say ,, he is not coming with us" ? that is how they translated it into german. also: as far as I know in Mafia 3 they revealed, he is good. Didn't play that one, more than a couple hours so I dunno. But yeah. that doesn't take away from the punch, as that game is not canon for me :D
@@G_FRE that's what was keeping him busy in the meantime. Okay. That sounds kinda funny. I'll entertain the idea. But it goes totally against the initial implication of the ending. edit: -Joe is not coming with us *proceeds to get him into a position, where he always goes with them Okay lmao that is super funny Also funny how they softened it, by giving us more content from his past, just like in Pulp Fiction haha.
There's a mission in Mafia 2 where you and your guys drive to a strip joint. It's unique because it's a late game mission where there is ZERO combat or action, it's just you and the guys going out, getting hammered and eventually driving home. It's just not something you see in a normal 'game', they all follow a script it feels like
Mafia 2 and Mafia were probably some of the best story rich games that came out that just fell under the radar for a lot of folks. Very underrated games and definitely worth getting.
Have played allot of games. Mafia 1 death screams is still traumatising. It makes very little sense since it only is due to how memorable it is. And the looping music! Still the death sound is just something special. Compared to San andreas Carl's pain sounds the Mafia 1 is just so much more impactful. Very underrated this stupid Mafia games are. That is for sure. Still good stories at the core of them. La Noire was big enough to get X doubt. For the Mafia games we got Joe's lines. But no one knows where they are from. :c 300 bananas.
Only for the franchise to be picked up by Western developers and be bastardized beyond recognition. Mafia 3 should've never seen the light of day. Pretty much same goes for the remake.
Mafia 1 didn't really fall under the radar, it did really well for itself. It came out 2002, when playing games on PC was for a select few. I got it in 2007, and even then there was still an incredibly active mod scene for the game. But its age is the only reason it wasn't a bigger game. That, plus how annoyingly hard it was.
@@carny15The story was good, and the time frame they picked was great, but the thing that ruined the game was the gameplay. It was hideously repetitive.
@@LSD_93You are right Mafia 1 is just an older game that not a lot of the younger players got to play, and ones that did always complained about it being difficult. It’s a great game but I don’t think the franchise gets the attention it deserves honestly.
Whilst I do think it’s a good game, mafia DE is excellent. It’s hard to go from such an amazing looking remaster to mafia 2 imo. Plus the story feels rushed don’t you think?
It's reviews like this that remind me how underrated this channel is. Thanks Black Joshi for all these great reviews, and especially the politically-incorrect streams!
I love this game, the driving is so satisfying once you master it, the story is great, the setting, it's definitely one of my favorite games of all time.
Honestly man, amazing story and way too many wanted posters aside, Joe's pickup lines will forever live rent free in my fucking head "Is that a mirror in your pocket because I see myself inside your pants" "Why dont we go back to my place and play house, you'll be the door and I'll slam you" "Are you my appendix? I don't know what you do or how you work but I feel like I should take you out." Just a quick headsup, that man didn't extaggerate, the DLCs really are THAT awful. Trust me, you'll have a more fun time getting kicked in the balls than playing Jimmy's shitty baldy adventures
Literally all of Joe's lines live rent free in my head. I love the fact that he literally only has 5-6 lines when he's in combat so he's constantly repeating himself when he's with you during shooting sections. "Ya shoot like my sista!" "They teach you that in the army?!"
Damn. The cut content is crazy. I had no idea they were a thing. I actually enjoyed this game. I actually got when it came out because I loved the original Mafia. I still remember the commercial for this game.
@@RickyHadou Yes. Joe's adventures has like a maximum of 20-30 minutes of great content in the story missions if we're being generous about the time, punctuated by a few hours of mandatory side missions that add nothing and are boring and sometimes a pain in the ass. Jimmy's Vendetta is just timed side missions and I never finished it.
I think this is also a prime a example of the difference in philosophy between the original 2k Czech and Hanger Games.. 2k Czech being an european developer, prioritize the immersed before anything so they made the simplistic but added so much little details that it still has a nice replayable value. meanwhile Hanger studio being typical americans, only wanted to go bigger and that ended up making it generic
One moment that was very memorable for me, but I suspect wasn't to many others, is escaping with joe after the failed jewelry heist. In my playthrough, for some reason barely any cars spawned for several blocks and I had to stealth around the open world to find a car to steal while the cops were looking for us. A genuinely thrilling and novel moment that happened by accident.
There is a gas station nearby where you start the escape and next to that gas station is a parking lot which was always packed with cars every time I played that mission.
After playing through the Mafia trilogy for the first time, I'll miss how in Mafia 2 (and Mafia 1 Remake) there were different levels to criminal offences when you drove. You could get a speeding ticket, or get pulled over for running through a red light. Not only that, but I think there's certain moments where NPCs could get the same treatment. It was a nice change of pace, instead of getting immediately gunned down for a fender bender. EDIT: I meant Mafia 1 Remake, not Remaster
I also love Mafia II’s wanted mechanics; how the player could be wanted separate from the car you were driving and Vice versa. I really hope Maria IV brings that mechanic back. It makes so much more sense for the car and player to be wanted separately as you could rob a store - cops get a description of the player thus you become wanted - but then you get into a car unseen. It makes no sense for them to know what you’re driving in that case. I’ve never seen another game do that and it was awesome.
@@Ward413it was first implemented in Driver Parallel Lines, and, imho, it was better there, as both car and on foot wanted levels in Driver have 10 levels and it depends on player on foot wanted level how quick they will recognise the player in unwanted vehicle. Pretty cool detail.
I remember getting in a fight with a random pedestrian in the game, and a cop came over to arrest the pedestrian because he was kicking the shit out of me. The pedestrian tried to run away and got shot.
I really fell in love with Mafia II as well. The finely crafted story, the attention to detail, and historical accuracy with weapons, music, cars posters and all that. The amount of details for things like the weapons you didn't even know existed back in Harry's shop, or the many different stores and resturants around the city. It has the most satisfying robbery system where you can shoot the store clerk, steal the actual items on the shelf, empty the register and if you hide nearby for heat to die down and go back. The police will have put police tape over the door and locked it. So you can lockpick it to go back in. I used to find it funny to rob food joints just so i could steal all their sodas and burgers. See all the sodas on the shelf disappear one by one, same with the burgers. So its not like they just put a grill full of burgers there that you endlessly pick from (except on the last one) but the food and items on the shelf actually disappear when you buy or steal it. I never even knew there was larger plans for it, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that a game with this much ambition had more planned.
I enjoyed this aspect as well. One time I robbed a shop but left the clerk alive, after which I went home and changed clothes. I then returned to the store and the police were interviewing the clerk and he saw me and said "there he is! He changed his clothes!"
Mafia II isn't historically accurate. It's full of anachronisms in both time settings - car models that didn't exist yet, music that didn't exist yet, premature fashions and popular culture references (e.g. greaser subculture) and fashion, etc. On a more petty note, the US didn't have red STOP signs before the mid 1950s either. I don't know why the 1950s portion of the game wasn't just set later in the 50s. They'd have just had to age up Vito's character model a bit. But yeah 1951 in real life wasn't like Mafia II. There was still a lot of bulbous 1940s cars on the road, etc then. The rebellious youth culture from James Dean and Elvis Presley etc was a mid/late 1950s thing. I think that's where people get confused about decade aesthetics/nostalgia. Most of what you associate with a decade retrospectively comes from the middle and later years. The early years are more like the previous decade.
Fun fact: In the mission before you pay off the debt, if you have enough money you can glitch the game into thinking you have already completed the next missions and pay off the debt without completing them.
@@deadlyram2k6Yo, that happened to me too, i thought it was just me. I let my friend borrow the game and he completed it, so something wrong with my PS3
Personally, I like the dlcs for this game. The beginning of Joe's Adventures is unique and pretty fun to play and the Life of Jimmy dlc is basically the truly open world version of the base game. You really feel like a hitman when playing the missions and money is somewhat important. Although I do agree that time limits are a ridiculous mechanic on most missions
Really loved playing this game as a teen after watching a DanzNewz play-through which inspired me to get it for Christmas. My dad would watch me play and we bonded because he really liked the old cars. I’m going to mention this to him next time we talk on the phone. Glad this came across my feed.
I played through the first dozen hours of the game when I was like 14. I remember really loving the mob story and Vito as a main character, but ultimately dropping the game like 60% through. I replayed it twice to completion much later in life. Once, when I was 19 and again when I was 23. I even 100% the main game the 2nd time. It captures that feeling of what made calling so fun and easy back in the early 2010s. The story is tight, the dialog is good, the cut scenes are good, the set pieces and level design are top tier, great Voice Acting, great direction all round... Take these things individually, and It doesn't seem like much. But the game just delivered on all the small stuff. A concise story with good twists and a passable combat system. They wanted a semi open world, but knew it would mean most of the game would bedriving, so they put most of the development effort into making the cars feel nice to drive and making the world fun to drive in. The map isn't too big to where you get bored, but it's not too small to where it feels overly cramped.
I played mafia 2 as a very young kid probably right around when it came out and im 18 now, I replayed it probably 20 times atleast bc I adored it, im just now learning that you can disable the safe alarm in the museum mission lmao wtf
This has gotta be one of the best reviews one could ask for. I love how you seemingly toe the line between shitpost and informative essay (I was laughing through the first seven minutes), while still given me a reason to play the game (I have already, so I know this review is accurate while also having some cool tidbits). It feels short but I don’t know what else you could add. Great job, I look forward to watching some of your other videos as you have gained a subscriber.
One of my favorite games of all time, I probably have a combined total of 500 hours on it from replays and just driving around, and as mentioned, that's a big thing, the driving is pretty much perfect. From simulating how a clutch works (giving a bit of gas and gradually having the clutch engage and the car move) to being able to do a proper burnout by dropping the "clutch" and holding the car back by using just the right amount of brake. Also the sounds are absolutely killer on a lot of the cars, especially the Walter Hot Rod. Czech 2K did such an amazing job at getting all the details and customization right.
Watching your 2 streams you did on mafia 2 made me play the mafia definitive edition and im just gonna say that experiencing it blind was amazing. Also nice video! 👍
give the OG one a try as well tho. They cut down the levels a lot in the remaster and dumbed it down. Having to come up with your strategies and mapping out the enviroment yourself, after struggeling a bit, was the best. I played Mafia 1 and later 2, when it came out as a kid and had a tougher time, because of that. So in school I would draw my own maps with enemy locations and stuff and emerse myself in it. Awesome game. My first exposure, to open world games.
4:55 100% this. I have over 500 hours in Mafia 2, most of it just driving around enjoying the music (running from cops), enjoying the cars (running from cops) and just enjoying the game (and running from cops). One of my favorite games that I 100%'d.
“Best of all if you disable the alarm in the basement Henry will be a very happy boy.” IF YOU FUCKING W H A T ? ? ? ! ! ! I didn’t even know you could do that.
One of my all time favourite games. Remember playing it on my ps3 when I was much younger. Good memories. Still play it frequently to this day on pc. Will always hold a soft spot for mafia 2, master piece.
I remember my dad used to love this game. I've beaten the game twice, my brother used to not let me play cause there were no save files, but when i got to play it for the first time it was one of the best video game expiriences I've ever had.
It's rare to see another crank connoisseur. I've loved those movies since I saw them come out, when I was about 6. I was so bummed when I found out it wasn't going to get a third movie; but then 'hobo with a shotgun' came out, and all seemed right with the world
I actually really like the Playboy collectibles tbh, and Im glad they kept them in 3. They fit really well into the era, and the fact that these are all real Playmates from the time is really cool. You know, from a historical standpoint ;)
3 has nothing to do with mafia Shitty fake studio dredged up out of the corpses of something like 10 shuttered studios none of the people of which had ever even been to Czechia let alone worked on it There is only Mafia and Mafia II, 3 is an abomination and Remaster is literally take two being greedy scum and handing the game to a chinese dev to mutilate it beyond recognition
My friend saw me playing this game and shooting the gas tanks of every car I could see with the shotgun. He was like, "What is that, the car exploder gun??"
I used to loop the building bombing mission because you have the most money, house is intact, and you can go and do whatever you'd like. Suns out and all too. Basically turned a mission into an open world that I could end at anytime by following a check point. Game never punished you for cruising around, you can spend hours not completing the mission and no one cares.
@@erso_returned2530There are a lot of lines that are just comedic gold and, even though they are still good in english, I just find them better in czech. Also, I kinda find it funny to hear "kurva" or "doprdele" every other sentence.
I remember playing the mafia 2 demo 100 times (even going so far as to learn a glitch to escape the confines of the demo momentarily) until I was eventually old enough to convince my mom to buy it for me, good times
I can say the only shortcoming this game has is how underutilized the open world is. It’s merely a backdrop with some shops sprinkled around. But the story, characters, gunplay, and driving all make up for it. It really is Good Fellas: the Video Game and it’s just as good as the movie!
sucks that they basically cut out 80% of the game, the whole sicily chapter, side jobs, interiors and characters (charlie for example) this could have been one of the best open world games with multiple endings and mechanics, its still a good game but man with all the cut content this game could have been peak p.s theres a mod called final cut that restores some cut stuff like dialouge, the cut meele weapons, the respect system and some parts of missions like choosing whether or not to do the job youre being asked to do and a whole new chapter based on the gamescom 2009 presentation its not much but atleast its something, and its gonna be updated to restore more content in the future
Without the copy and paste repetitive mess. It still dose not make sense to call it Mafia 3. But like the main character and concept. But why Mafia? And so broken and repetitive BS. There is clear proof in the game that without the name AND more work it would be awesome. Vito's truck missions (you drive a truck and trailer across the map) had me amazed and in shock when out of no where was attack mid driving across the map. The enemy in font of me looked like a ordinary civilian car and then out of no where hit the brake and crashed into me. Got quickly surrounded from behind when the light turned green in a intersection and the enemy in front of me blocked me. It has to have been random luck but that was just such a good attack on me trying to follow road rules and was jumped and boxed in. I was in such a shock of the game doing that. Unreal having the game do something so clever in the open world. It has to be completely random that it played out like that. But if that was the game? Wow. It was also in the truck and trailer missions I pulled my semi truck into a friendly what did they call it? Base? Underboss base? Anyways having a tail on me blowing my tires etc sustaining damage. Pull the hole tractor and trailer into the yard of my underboss safehouse and having a true gunfight take place. Then jump back into the truck and GTFO before the cops shows up. Leaving my underboss to clean up the mess. Even now nothing mattered and it is all a video game with no real impacts or anything modeled into the gameplay. It just made it memorable to do something else then the horrible repetitive garbage. Like the story stuff was not bad but the game just sucked. It did help to play Mafia 2 and 3 like it was Mafia 1. If you only can carry a pistol and have to pick up bigger weapons off the ground or carry it to and from a car? Having to "drop" it to not have people notice you carrying a gun? It makes it just a tiny bit more bearable together with not using any upgrades to the character. It was so much more fun playing without OP broken abilities like carrying a hole military grade gun store inventory in your pockets. And by having to carry stuff open etc making it allot more likely that you pick up random weapons and only carry a pistol with a very limited ammo capacity with you into combat. No upgrades for the win! And no hidden sniper rifles and 5 machine guns up your ass. Only going in hot with a rifle in your hand. Feels right. Makes it actually make sense to do anything fun. If you want a rifle with you into a mission the people walking down the street is going to notice the black man get out of a car with both hands on a big ass gun. That is how it should be. In a game like Mafia 3/2/1. I mean the black part is funny and all but dam aint it nice change for ones not shooting them but being them. Right?
There's a song on the radio in the game called 'You can have her' which I was convinced was being sung by Elvis Presley. Then I got a history lesson when I found out the name of Roy Hamilton. The RnB singer was famous before Elvis, and turns out to be the man who Elvis took his sound and style from.
On my first ever playthrough of this game when it first came out, I didn’t realize that you could get about $27,500 (something like that) from Derek’s desk during the mission when you had to pay back the loan shark and I spent like 4 hours crushing cars at Mike’s Scrapyard to come up with the money. It wasn’t until another playthrough that I realized the money in Derek’s desk. 🙃
I don't know why this is suddenly in my reccomended but I'm rewatching the Sopranos at the moment and thumbnail made me laugh so hard I went light headed Have a sub
To anyone wondering, that quick text during the time 3:24 says: This is literally how the DLC starts, during the time 4:38 it says: Neither of which I have lol, during the time 8:50: Literally every telltale game ever, during 11:03 it says: Get it because its a stick and during 13:18 it says: Drugs kill people.
I hope this makes it into a video
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@@TheBigBlackJoshiwell thank you kind sir
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@@TheBigBlackJoshi Bro, you need to play The Godfather video game. its fucking sick. try to play the "Don's Edition"
Fun fact: if you enable the speed limiter while you’re over the legal limit, the game will cause your car to rapidly lose speed and slow down, this usually only takes a second and is incredibly useful for controlling high speed cars while driving around corners or in some more cramped areas of the city
The speed limiter being on will also adjust how cars shift, allowing them to shift up earlier in the rev range instead of ringing out every gear to redline - much appreciated in the snow chapters.
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This was the main trick I exploited constantly to always drive at max speed, toggling speed limiter is infinitely more effecting than braking at high speeds, especially if there's snow, allowing you to just go zooming without crashing corners or traffic!
my favorite part of this game was when Vito said that's how mafia works and then committed an act of terror
I love committing act of terror
What about the whole part where he said "it's mafia time" and mafiad all over the place?
Well technically it wasn’t an act of terror because it wasn’t politically motivated, you just sorta accidentally blew up a building because you didn’t like a guy
how very interesting
@@duransimon1663pretty much
The poster at 12:00 is actually referring to the fact that gas was essential for the war machine so any waste of gas was looked down upon
The parallels between Mafia 2 and LA Noire are pretty similar. They both had a beautiful worldspace that was more set dressing for the linear narrative, rather than a character in of itself.
LA Noire told a story far more mature, gritty and believable than most modern media productions dare to even attempt, Mafia II regurgitated the same old mob-clichés with nothing at stake without bringing *anything* new to the table.
But yes, both in terms of gameplay were utterly janky, equally shit driving and shooting physics in completely non-utilised gameworlds.
@@JohnDaubSuperfan369 I enjoy LA Noire more, but I respectfully disagree. LA Noire takes a ton of inspiration from past noire films and novels, with The Naked City DLC being pulled directly from a 1948 film of the same name. It's a well-executed (albeit uneven) story - don't get me wrong, but I'd hardly consider it "original."
Without getting into too much spoilers, I also think Mafia 2 deserves a little more credit for its writing. Yes, there's plenty of wise guys and stereotypical setups and payoffs, but I think how Vito gets there is kind of unique in terms of video game storytelling. The time jumps, stint in prison, as well as how it ends is very reminiscent of a film, but pretty unusual for a narrative focused game for that time.
I respect your opinion, though. It can get frustrating when characters default to tropes we've seen hundreds of times.
@@BlueRanger57Mafia II's story is a significant down grade from Mafia I.
You see Mafia II really didn't have any sort of real vibe, & it just comes off as a puke of various different Mob & crime movies without any consistency.
Meanwhile Mafia I has the great comic booky / old movie glorious past vibe.
That and gta4 where everything that makes it a game exists solely as a excuse for the story to progress to something
@@cmbnpwrd2damn bro you got him
I remember when i was 16 i actully convinced my dad to buy this for me, i was like “dad, how is this any different than the gangster/mobster movies you like to watch?” He was just like fuck, youre right 😂
Lol that’s great. W dad.
These gangster movies probably don't have playboy magazines though
@@erso_returned2530 those playboy collectables were so softcore though
@@WeroVarela619 they showed bare nipples and ass dude, like it aint showing teh puss but that is probably too much for some people
@@WeroVarela619 they showed bare nipples and ass dude, like it aint showing teh puss but that is probably too much for some people
Fun fact: I basically grew up with this game, and I didn't know up until now that you can repair your cars, outside of the one car you repair in the second chapter for a woman really disappointed by her service avoiding husband
That game was my childhood too , but I knew that you could repair cars sincerely it was a detail I always wanted to see in a videogame so when I crashed my car I wanted to see if I could fix and alhamdulilah the geniuses who made this game actually included that detail
i stopped playing because of the nude magazines
@@colt-_-jonson1743 what
@@colt-_-jonson1743 just don't collect them if they bother u lol
@@strawbman what if I accidentally did and my mother or father walked in? ☹️
“Leo where are they takin Joe?!”
“Sorry kid, it’s joever for him.”
I cry every time.
LMFAOOOOOOO
didn't he just say ,, he is not coming with us" ?
that is how they translated it into german.
also: as far as I know in Mafia 3 they revealed, he is good. Didn't play that one, more than a couple hours so I dunno.
But yeah. that doesn't take away from the punch, as that game is not canon for me :D
@@wasdadennlos I choose to accept Joe being Leo Galante's driver simply because it makes things funnier
@@G_FRE that's what was keeping him busy in the meantime. Okay. That sounds kinda funny. I'll entertain the idea.
But it goes totally against the initial implication of the ending.
edit:
-Joe is not coming with us *proceeds to get him into a position, where he always goes with them
Okay lmao that is super funny
Also funny how they softened it, by giving us more content from his past, just like in Pulp Fiction haha.
@@wasdadennloshe says "Joe wasn't part of the deal".
Dude, how could you have not mentioned the music??!!! The menu theme is iconic! And a lot of action setpieces also have great tracks. Good video btw
and the radio tunes...
I loved boom boom boom boom
let the good times roll is great
Just bought the game on my Xbox and opened it and heard that music for the first time in like 5 years and the nostalgia was so nice
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441delta radio was the best station and there will be no debatin
There's a mission in Mafia 2 where you and your guys drive to a strip joint. It's unique because it's a late game mission where there is ZERO combat or action, it's just you and the guys going out, getting hammered and eventually driving home. It's just not something you see in a normal 'game', they all follow a script it feels like
There's also the part where you have to bury a body in that same mission lol
@@TheBigBlackJoshi yeha wanted to say that too, was a pretty Important mission
you forgot the part where they burry a rotten body
@@TheBigBlackJoshiJesus Christ Eddie Did You Puke In Your Car?!
@@TheBigBlackJoshi”Jesus Christ Eddie, Did That Asshole Puke In Your Car?”
Mafia 2 and Mafia were probably some of the best story rich games that came out that just fell under the radar for a lot of folks. Very underrated games and definitely worth getting.
Have played allot of games. Mafia 1 death screams is still traumatising. It makes very little sense since it only is due to how memorable it is. And the looping music! Still the death sound is just something special. Compared to San andreas Carl's pain sounds the Mafia 1 is just so much more impactful. Very underrated this stupid Mafia games are. That is for sure. Still good stories at the core of them.
La Noire was big enough to get X doubt. For the Mafia games we got Joe's lines. But no one knows where they are from. :c 300 bananas.
Only for the franchise to be picked up by Western developers and be bastardized beyond recognition. Mafia 3 should've never seen the light of day. Pretty much same goes for the remake.
Mafia 1 didn't really fall under the radar, it did really well for itself. It came out 2002, when playing games on PC was for a select few. I got it in 2007, and even then there was still an incredibly active mod scene for the game. But its age is the only reason it wasn't a bigger game. That, plus how annoyingly hard it was.
@@carny15The story was good, and the time frame they picked was great, but the thing that ruined the game was the gameplay. It was hideously repetitive.
@@LSD_93You are right Mafia 1 is just an older game that not a lot of the younger players got to play, and ones that did always complained about it being difficult. It’s a great game but I don’t think the franchise gets the attention it deserves honestly.
You can say whatever you want about this game but the story is unbelievebly good.
No doubt
Nah. You're wrong.
I agree bro
@@largelump3613you wrong fam
Whilst I do think it’s a good game, mafia DE is excellent. It’s hard to go from such an amazing looking remaster to mafia 2 imo. Plus the story feels rushed don’t you think?
It's reviews like this that remind me how underrated this channel is.
Thanks Black Joshi for all these great reviews, and especially the politically-incorrect streams!
I love this game, the driving is so satisfying once you master it, the story is great, the setting, it's definitely one of my favorite games of all time.
Couldn’t agree more. Simulation driving physics in the snow is incredibly fun once you get a hang of how the cars handle.
Honestly man, amazing story and way too many wanted posters aside, Joe's pickup lines will forever live rent free in my fucking head
"Is that a mirror in your pocket because I see myself inside your pants"
"Why dont we go back to my place and play house, you'll be the door and I'll slam you"
"Are you my appendix? I don't know what you do or how you work but I feel like I should take you out."
Just a quick headsup, that man didn't extaggerate, the DLCs really are THAT awful. Trust me, you'll have a more fun time getting kicked in the balls than playing Jimmy's shitty baldy adventures
Literally all of Joe's lines live rent free in my head. I love the fact that he literally only has 5-6 lines when he's in combat so he's constantly repeating himself when he's with you during shooting sections. "Ya shoot like my sista!" "They teach you that in the army?!"
Back me up Vito!@@OutlawedPoet
yo u single?
@RandomIdiot-tv8kk TAKE YER FOOT OFF THE ACCELERATOR!
Like Joe's dlc is any better. Even if it was that shitty time limit makes everything frustrating.
Damn. The cut content is crazy. I had no idea they were a thing. I actually enjoyed this game. I actually got when it came out because I loved the original Mafia. I still remember the commercial for this game.
The cut content is probably for the best. Mafia 2's simplicity is one of its strong suits.
@@TheBigBlackJoshi definitely agree. I loved every minute of my first play through. I’m actually happy I never played the DLC. Was it really that bad?
@@RickyHadou Yes. Joe's adventures has like a maximum of 20-30 minutes of great content in the story missions if we're being generous about the time, punctuated by a few hours of mandatory side missions that add nothing and are boring and sometimes a pain in the ass. Jimmy's Vendetta is just timed side missions and I never finished it.
I think this is also a prime a example of the difference in philosophy between the original 2k Czech and Hanger Games.. 2k Czech being an european developer, prioritize the immersed before anything so they made the simplistic but added so much little details that it still has a nice replayable value. meanwhile Hanger studio being typical americans, only wanted to go bigger and that ended up making it generic
@@v-trigger6137Lol hanger 13 is comprised of the former 2k czech devs
Drunk Eddie: So, how'd you like the place, Vito?
Drunk Joe: Lot better than playing hide the salsiccia in the showers, eh?
One moment that was very memorable for me, but I suspect wasn't to many others, is escaping with joe after the failed jewelry heist. In my playthrough, for some reason barely any cars spawned for several blocks and I had to stealth around the open world to find a car to steal while the cops were looking for us. A genuinely thrilling and novel moment that happened by accident.
There is a gas station nearby where you start the escape and next to that gas station is a parking lot which was always packed with cars every time I played that mission.
@@MarkoVuckovic32 I guess I took the wrong turn or just didn't notice it. My mistake made it more fun in the end
Dude same exact thing happened for me, I was running for so long trying to steal a car
After playing through the Mafia trilogy for the first time, I'll miss how in Mafia 2 (and Mafia 1 Remake) there were different levels to criminal offences when you drove. You could get a speeding ticket, or get pulled over for running through a red light. Not only that, but I think there's certain moments where NPCs could get the same treatment. It was a nice change of pace, instead of getting immediately gunned down for a fender bender.
EDIT: I meant Mafia 1 Remake, not Remaster
*"Remake"
I also love Mafia II’s wanted mechanics; how the player could be wanted separate from the car you were driving and Vice versa. I really hope Maria IV brings that mechanic back. It makes so much more sense for the car and player to be wanted separately as you could rob a store - cops get a description of the player thus you become wanted - but then you get into a car unseen. It makes no sense for them to know what you’re driving in that case. I’ve never seen another game do that and it was awesome.
Remake*
@@Ward413it was first implemented in Driver Parallel Lines, and, imho, it was better there, as both car and on foot wanted levels in Driver have 10 levels and it depends on player on foot wanted level how quick they will recognise the player in unwanted vehicle. Pretty cool detail.
I remember getting in a fight with a random pedestrian in the game, and a cop came over to arrest the pedestrian because he was kicking the shit out of me. The pedestrian tried to run away and got shot.
I really fell in love with Mafia II as well. The finely crafted story, the attention to detail, and historical accuracy with weapons, music, cars posters and all that.
The amount of details for things like the weapons you didn't even know existed back in Harry's shop, or the many different stores and resturants around the city.
It has the most satisfying robbery system where you can shoot the store clerk, steal the actual items on the shelf, empty the register and if you hide nearby for heat to die down and go back. The police will have put police tape over the door and locked it. So you can lockpick it to go back in.
I used to find it funny to rob food joints just so i could steal all their sodas and burgers. See all the sodas on the shelf disappear one by one, same with the burgers. So its not like they just put a grill full of burgers there that you endlessly pick from (except on the last one) but the food and items on the shelf actually disappear when you buy or steal it.
I never even knew there was larger plans for it, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that a game with this much ambition had more planned.
I still have hope that Mafia 4 will be Mafia 2 with all the things they promised and 10x better
I enjoyed this aspect as well. One time I robbed a shop but left the clerk alive, after which I went home and changed clothes. I then returned to the store and the police were interviewing the clerk and he saw me and said "there he is! He changed his clothes!"
Mafia II isn't historically accurate. It's full of anachronisms in both time settings - car models that didn't exist yet, music that didn't exist yet, premature fashions and popular culture references (e.g. greaser subculture) and fashion, etc. On a more petty note, the US didn't have red STOP signs before the mid 1950s either.
I don't know why the 1950s portion of the game wasn't just set later in the 50s. They'd have just had to age up Vito's character model a bit.
But yeah 1951 in real life wasn't like Mafia II. There was still a lot of bulbous 1940s cars on the road, etc then. The rebellious youth culture from James Dean and Elvis Presley etc was a mid/late 1950s thing.
I think that's where people get confused about decade aesthetics/nostalgia. Most of what you associate with a decade retrospectively comes from the middle and later years. The early years are more like the previous decade.
The checkpoints were brutal, especially the last mission on Hard
Thanks for uploading on my birthday man. It a surprise gift I’m thankful to have
I secretly knew the whole time lol. Happy (late) Birthday!
I've been truly enlightened on this masterpiece of mid-late 2000s gaming
You are probably also one of the people who caused it to ruin.
@@erso_returned2530 i was born in 05' how was i able to ruin this game as a child lol
@@bigslappy247 Not ruin this game maybe but you can ruin other 2006 games onward.
@@erso_returned2530how
@@erso_returned2530how tf did you manage to conjure a statement so irrational from nothing. Stick talking to the voices in your head
Fun fact: In the mission before you pay off the debt, if you have enough money you can glitch the game into thinking you have already completed the next missions and pay off the debt without completing them.
How. Tell me, I need to know how to glitch logic into the game
My game crashed repeatedly at the cutscene of paying off the debt so I never got to finish the game
another fun fact : when you're out looking for joe you can skip eddie and giuseppe and head straight to the Mona Lisa
@@deadlyram2k6Yo, that happened to me too, i thought it was just me. I let my friend borrow the game and he completed it, so something wrong with my PS3
@@basedblackbeard4456 maybe one day when I grow up I’ll play it again and complete it
Personally, I like the dlcs for this game. The beginning of Joe's Adventures is unique and pretty fun to play and the Life of Jimmy dlc is basically the truly open world version of the base game. You really feel like a hitman when playing the missions and money is somewhat important.
Although I do agree that time limits are a ridiculous mechanic on most missions
As an italian myself i can conferm that vito back me up
Pronto!
Really loved playing this game as a teen after watching a DanzNewz play-through which inspired me to get it for Christmas. My dad would watch me play and we bonded because he really liked the old cars. I’m going to mention this to him next time we talk on the phone. Glad this came across my feed.
What did he think of the collectibles? 🙃
you had to have grabbed at least one
I love how we all immediately thought about the collectibles 😂
What about that mission in a strip club with half-naked women?
I remember whacking it to the playboy collectibles when I was like 14 and didn't have Internet. Good times.
3:14 sucks to see Johnny Sins falling on such tough times to become a criminal
7:20 he can do nick cage’s godly slap
I played through the first dozen hours of the game when I was like 14. I remember really loving the mob story and Vito as a main character, but ultimately dropping the game like 60% through.
I replayed it twice to completion much later in life. Once, when I was 19 and again when I was 23. I even 100% the main game the 2nd time.
It captures that feeling of what made calling so fun and easy back in the early 2010s. The story is tight, the dialog is good, the cut scenes are good, the set pieces and level design are top tier, great Voice Acting, great direction all round...
Take these things individually, and It doesn't seem like much. But the game just delivered on all the small stuff. A concise story with good twists and a passable combat system.
They wanted a semi open world, but knew it would mean most of the game would bedriving, so they put most of the development effort into making the cars feel nice to drive and making the world fun to drive in.
The map isn't too big to where you get bored, but it's not too small to where it feels overly cramped.
I played mafia 2 as a very young kid probably right around when it came out and im 18 now, I replayed it probably 20 times atleast bc I adored it, im just now learning that you can disable the safe alarm in the museum mission lmao wtf
you played this when you were 5 years old? wtf were your parents doing
This has gotta be one of the best reviews one could ask for. I love how you seemingly toe the line between shitpost and informative essay (I was laughing through the first seven minutes), while still given me a reason to play the game (I have already, so I know this review is accurate while also having some cool tidbits). It feels short but I don’t know what else you could add. Great job, I look forward to watching some of your other videos as you have gained a subscriber.
One of my favorite games of all time, I probably have a combined total of 500 hours on it from replays and just driving around, and as mentioned, that's a big thing, the driving is pretty much perfect. From simulating how a clutch works (giving a bit of gas and gradually having the clutch engage and the car move) to being able to do a proper burnout by dropping the "clutch" and holding the car back by using just the right amount of brake. Also the sounds are absolutely killer on a lot of the cars, especially the Walter Hot Rod. Czech 2K did such an amazing job at getting all the details and customization right.
Still one of the funniest gaming content on yt. heavily underrated, just like mafia series.
Thank you, that was the push I needed to finally re-visit this game!
Mafia II always felt like a good, even sometimes bordering on great game that could’ve been amazing if given just a bit more time & money.
The funniest thing to me about Mafia II is that in the Czech Republic, Joe Barbaro and Homer Simpson are voiced by the same person.
Watching your 2 streams you did on mafia 2 made me play the mafia definitive edition and im just gonna say that experiencing it blind was amazing.
Also nice video!
👍
Glad I could help you find some real kino!
give the OG one a try as well tho. They cut down the levels a lot in the remaster and dumbed it down. Having to come up with your strategies and mapping out the enviroment yourself, after struggeling a bit, was the best.
I played Mafia 1 and later 2, when it came out as a kid and had a tougher time, because of that. So in school I would draw my own maps with enemy locations and stuff and emerse myself in it. Awesome game. My first exposure, to open world games.
Where does this smelly man stream?.
What a banger of a video
DRIVE
4:55 100% this.
I have over 500 hours in Mafia 2, most of it just driving around enjoying the music (running from cops), enjoying the cars (running from cops) and just enjoying the game (and running from cops). One of my favorite games that I 100%'d.
I guess we need Mafia 2 Remaster with all cut content put into the game with real open world activities
“Best of all if you disable the alarm in the basement Henry will be a very happy boy.”
IF
YOU
FUCKING
W H A T ? ? ? ! ! !
I didn’t even know you could do that.
Neither did I tbh lol. Not until a few months ago!
"Did you know that this game have a stealth system? No? Well that's how good it is"😂😂😂 haven't got so good laugh for months👏
One of my all time favourite games. Remember playing it on my ps3 when I was much younger. Good memories.
Still play it frequently to this day on pc. Will always hold a soft spot for mafia 2, master piece.
I remember my dad used to love this game. I've beaten the game twice, my brother used to not let me play cause there were no save files, but when i got to play it for the first time it was one of the best video game expiriences I've ever had.
I was here for this during work Joshi and I don’t regret a minute of it but also back me up vito
IM GOIN' IN!
I see Crank, i upvote.
And for everything else in the video, too. Of course.
closing a door in front of speaking NPC will never not be funny
It's rare to see another crank connoisseur. I've loved those movies since I saw them come out, when I was about 6.
I was so bummed when I found out it wasn't going to get a third movie; but then 'hobo with a shotgun' came out, and all seemed right with the world
The Crank movies are unironically some of the greatest movies of all time. The magnum opus of action movies and they're bloody parodies lol
the driving is amazing
and its what i hate aswell
Mafia 2 is a fever dream, a good one. And driving
I actually really like the Playboy collectibles tbh, and Im glad they kept them in 3. They fit really well into the era, and the fact that these are all real Playmates from the time is really cool. You know, from a historical standpoint ;)
3 has nothing to do with mafia
Shitty fake studio dredged up out of the corpses of something like 10 shuttered studios none of the people of which had ever even been to Czechia let alone worked on it
There is only Mafia and Mafia II, 3 is an abomination and Remaster is literally take two being greedy scum and handing the game to a chinese dev to mutilate it beyond recognition
mafia 2 live was the funniest shit I've seen in a while
Good review. There will never be another game like this, in my opinion. It would take something truly great to top Drive (1951)
It is shocking how much Vito looks like my deceased grandfather (same square head and hairstyle). They're also both Italian-American WWII veterans.
Damn he must've been Marlon Brando's brother or cousin
My friend saw me playing this game and shooting the gas tanks of every car I could see with the shotgun. He was like, "What is that, the car exploder gun??"
0:01 was that Tony from Sopranos game on PS2?
No, it's Don Salieri from Mafia 1.
“if you enjoyed gta 4’s driving mechanics you’ll have a soft spot for mafia 2’s”
and i fucking love both
Mafia 2...One of the big games from my teens.
Thank you for covering this
I used to loop the building bombing mission because you have the most money, house is intact, and you can go and do whatever you'd like. Suns out and all too. Basically turned a mission into an open world that I could end at anytime by following a check point. Game never punished you for cruising around, you can spend hours not completing the mission and no one cares.
Still holds up swimmingly. 2010 was a ridiculously stacked year, looking back
the eight seconds of crank shown made me watch the two movies for the first time.
I have no regrets.
As a czech, I give my condolences to those who couldn't experience the czech dubbing.
Why?
@@erso_returned2530There are a lot of lines that are just comedic gold and, even though they are still good in english, I just find them better in czech. Also, I kinda find it funny to hear "kurva" or "doprdele" every other sentence.
Wait, what? There's Czech dubbing? Oh my God, playing it as a fellow Slav would be hilarious, lol.
@@SithEmpiredidnothingwrongMafia 1 and 2 were made by czechs and both were given czech dubbing.
@@mates7834I know I can Google it but what are the English definitions of those words?
Fuck, your editing and dialogue is fkn hilarious. Also love the livestreams as well, you're a funny guy.
imma go smoke crack, it makes yoshi's pain a bit more understandable
I'm incredibly glad you made a video on this one, it's always been one of my favorites
comment for the Al Gore rhythm
Thanks homie
@@TheBigBlackJoshiWhen stalker
@@TheBigBlackJoshiWhen Wolfenstein
all car rid them
@@TheBigBlackJoshiWhat your opinion on borderlands 2
I remember playing the mafia 2 demo 100 times (even going so far as to learn a glitch to escape the confines of the demo momentarily) until I was eventually old enough to convince my mom to buy it for me, good times
I can say the only shortcoming this game has is how underutilized the open world is. It’s merely a backdrop with some shops sprinkled around. But the story, characters, gunplay, and driving all make up for it. It really is Good Fellas: the Video Game and it’s just as good as the movie!
They used that open world and look what we got: mafia 3
I prefer it this way. Otherwise it would've been another generic open world game.
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441
You’re right. Mafia 3 was so disappointing.
the yakuza real estate minigame song playing in the background , is just belicimo
sucks that they basically cut out 80% of the game, the whole sicily chapter, side jobs, interiors and characters (charlie for example) this could have been one of the best open world games with multiple endings and mechanics, its still a good game but man with all the cut content this game could have been peak
p.s theres a mod called final cut that restores some cut stuff like dialouge, the cut meele weapons, the respect system and some parts of missions like choosing whether or not to do the job youre being asked to do and a whole new chapter based on the gamescom 2009 presentation
its not much but atleast its something, and its gonna be updated to restore more content in the future
The yakuza music in the background is amazing, thank you for choosing it
one of my childhood games. ^_^
one thing i like to ocasionaly do in mafia 2 is just press caps and walk around the city for an irl hour or so just taking in the great atmosphere
This is my absolute favourite game tbh. The nostalgia this game pits you in is untouched. All the little details it has. Mafia 3 lost all of them.
"Go to the bathroom, NOW"
Mafia 3 sucked. Every mission is the same. Copy and paste. Sucks because I thought the setting was a pretty great idea.
Without the copy and paste repetitive mess. It still dose not make sense to call it Mafia 3. But like the main character and concept. But why Mafia? And so broken and repetitive BS. There is clear proof in the game that without the name AND more work it would be awesome. Vito's truck missions (you drive a truck and trailer across the map) had me amazed and in shock when out of no where was attack mid driving across the map.
The enemy in font of me looked like a ordinary civilian car and then out of no where hit the brake and crashed into me. Got quickly surrounded from behind when the light turned green in a intersection and the enemy in front of me blocked me. It has to have been random luck but that was just such a good attack on me trying to follow road rules and was jumped and boxed in. I was in such a shock of the game doing that. Unreal having the game do something so clever in the open world. It has to be completely random that it played out like that. But if that was the game? Wow.
It was also in the truck and trailer missions I pulled my semi truck into a friendly what did they call it? Base? Underboss base? Anyways having a tail on me blowing my tires etc sustaining damage. Pull the hole tractor and trailer into the yard of my underboss safehouse and having a true gunfight take place. Then jump back into the truck and GTFO before the cops shows up. Leaving my underboss to clean up the mess. Even now nothing mattered and it is all a video game with no real impacts or anything modeled into the gameplay. It just made it memorable to do something else then the horrible repetitive garbage. Like the story stuff was not bad but the game just sucked.
It did help to play Mafia 2 and 3 like it was Mafia 1. If you only can carry a pistol and have to pick up bigger weapons off the ground or carry it to and from a car? Having to "drop" it to not have people notice you carrying a gun? It makes it just a tiny bit more bearable together with not using any upgrades to the character. It was so much more fun playing without OP broken abilities like carrying a hole military grade gun store inventory in your pockets. And by having to carry stuff open etc making it allot more likely that you pick up random weapons and only carry a pistol with a very limited ammo capacity with you into combat. No upgrades for the win! And no hidden sniper rifles and 5 machine guns up your ass.
Only going in hot with a rifle in your hand. Feels right. Makes it actually make sense to do anything fun. If you want a rifle with you into a mission the people walking down the street is going to notice the black man get out of a car with both hands on a big ass gun. That is how it should be. In a game like Mafia 3/2/1. I mean the black part is funny and all but dam aint it nice change for ones not shooting them but being them. Right?
Clearly the magazines are one of the great features in the game.
8:59 ☠️
There's a song on the radio in the game called 'You can have her' which I was convinced was being sung by Elvis Presley. Then I got a history lesson when I found out the name of Roy Hamilton. The RnB singer was famous before Elvis, and turns out to be the man who Elvis took his sound and style from.
Joe Barbaro is one of my favourite characters in any game ever
I want Roman and Joe to meet.
On my first ever playthrough of this game when it first came out, I didn’t realize that you could get about $27,500 (something like that) from Derek’s desk during the mission when you had to pay back the loan shark and I spent like 4 hours crushing cars at Mike’s Scrapyard to come up with the money. It wasn’t until another playthrough that I realized the money in Derek’s desk. 🙃
What if for next we check the japanese mafia during Japan's economic bubble ?
I have played this game like 3 times and have never known you could go to the basement to shut off the alarm in the gas stamps mission
Same, didn't find that out until the 4th playthrough
This game was so good but I never actually got to finish it due to how glitchy it was like the glitches were literally game breaking
Wrong
The remastered version is full of glitches, but the original with the latest version has not more glitches than any other game
I don't know why this is suddenly in my reccomended but I'm rewatching the Sopranos at the moment and thumbnail made me laugh so hard I went light headed
Have a sub
The combat gameplay footage has me crying over here. When you said "OHHHH MUSIC SYNC" I swear you were about to say "OH GREAT HEAVENS"
Was really hoping for a cutaway of this meme/reference at 7:56 like you did with the rest of the video. It’s iconic!
When I was young I finished this game several times. This video remains me a good old times :)
My dude really went out and made Vito to look like Kiryu.
Given the option, how could I not?
@@TheBigBlackJoshi aye, fair enough
Not to mention the absolute flurry of anachronistic music, cars, and designs in 1951 💀
all your base are belong to us is a super old ass reference that i thought i’d never see again 😂😂 great vid bro
3:15 Bro i just saw the Jimmy DLC the first time Yesterday and was like what the fuck is this? What were they thinkiiiing
To anyone wondering, that quick text during the time 3:24 says: This is literally how the DLC starts, during the time 4:38 it says: Neither of which I have lol, during the time 8:50: Literally every telltale game ever, during 11:03 it says: Get it because its a stick and during 13:18 it says: Drugs kill people.
I love watching you develop your own style of video making
this is the First Video i stumpled across on yt and it kinda recomendet it to me ^^ great VIDEO MAN instant sub
You learn how much cut content and go 'man i wish they added that' and then you see it all in mafia 3 and go 'ah maybe not'
The playboy pickups were always at the wrong time 😂
Tell me about it lol, that happened to me on a livestream
You've really come into your own since that "Ross Scott Out Of Context" video. I'm proud of you, Joshi.
I'm surprised anyone even remembers that
@@TheBigBlackJoshi God remembers, Yoshi. God *always* remembers.
FINALLY i see some praise for the kino masterpiece that is Crank
Any opportunity I get to shill for Crank
@@TheBigBlackJoshi Chad
I still believe we'll see Crank 3 one day. Less so about Austin Powers 4 since Mini Me died
This is a masterpiece thank you for letting me start my day off with a laugh
6:48, Vito throwing Dutch low kicks in the 1940’s proves that he’s the inventor of modern day kick boxing