![]() ![]() The fact that that isn’t made clear meant we restarted the mission several times before grasping that failure wasn’t just an option, but actually the easiest way to win. ![]() If you fluff the mission up then the story continues regardless. It’s an almost impossible task which, it turns out, you aren’t even really expected to succeed in. One early mission, for example, gives you only a few minutes to visit every petrol station in the city, of which there are many. In fact, to be honest, a lot of the time little things like the narrow design of the city and the realistically sloppy car handling can make Mafia 2 almost impossible to enjoy in the way it’s obvious it should be enjoyed. "I said put a bed in his horse, you hear?" Eventually you get used to the slow-motion drifting and things do improve when the story moves on in later chapters, but the early sections are needlessly hard going, even if they are worth the effort in other regards. The opening chapters of the game, for example, take place in the winter of 1945 – where icy streets in the most unwieldy and ancient cars in the game make navigating the narrow streets a formidable task. ![]() Learning to appreciate the style isn’t always easy though and 2K Czech hasn’t done itself any favours in a lot of ways. It sounds terrible, but it’s actually just another element in Mafia 2’s stylish master plan. The cars, for example, handle like butter in a hot pan even as they struggle to move faster than narcoleptic turtles. What really makes Mafia 2’s style so interesting and enthralling though is how far the game goes in order to complete that effect, often tweaking things in a way which, on paper, would sound like a terrible idea. We found ourselves actually choosing to obey the speed limit or stroll through the streets idly, just in order to soak up the ambience. It captures all the iconic elements of the 1940s with effortless ease, from the hair-dos and popular music right through to the architecture and casual sexism, with effortless ease. Mafia 2 is a game with a lot of style something you’d be forced to admit even if you hated every single other aspect of the game. Mafia 2 Review Platform: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 ![]()
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