Instead now you are capable of completing this game within a day. The town's size is there, the AI is there, all of the weapons, cars and other options to play around with where there, so what was holding them back? And the first Mafia game did had this option available by the way. And it's not like they couldn't had given giving this game that option. A missed opportunity, that could had given its players days and even moths of fun playing it. When you've finished the game there is not much else you can do. So the game really doesn't has much re-playability value to it. This is not the case with this game, not even after you have completed it. This all would had still been OK if the game had the option to be able to play the game in sandbox mode as well, so without any missions. And once this happens, you have to start a mission all over again. Once you start fooling around, chances are you are going to get killed because you crash your car or get shot by the cops. You constantly have to complete a certain task so you have no time to fool around or to discover anything. So obviously this brings me to this game it's most disappointing aspect it's not really being a sandbox game, in which you can walk- or drive around freely, without having to complete a mission. There are not even different missions to choose from.
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It's story plays like a movie, so once you have finished one mission, you are starting the next one, until you finish the game. in "Mafia II" you are simply not capable of doing that.
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First the way you being capable to pick the missions for yourself and also deciding to play which missions when. And this game almost literally copied everything out of the GTA games, except for it's best parts. But I don't mind this at all, since all of the GTA games are fantastic games to play, that provide hours of entertainment and you can play over and over again, even long after you've finished its missions.
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Even the map, menu options, statistics and radar seem to come straight out of the recent GTA games. It has the same game-play, similar sort of missions and a big fictional town you can walk and ride through, while killing people, buy clothes, or visit other shops and places. No matter what the production companies claim this game is certainly a GTA-clone, set in the '40's and '50's. I honestly enjoyed playing it but in the end the game still left a bad aftertaste. Playing this game was a bit of a weird experience.