Friday, August 13, 2010

My impressions on Mafia II Demo

Yeah, you might be surprised there's no video as I previously promised... but the thing is, my fucking bucket of a video card isn't good enough so that my game recorder could give out an acceptable framerate. I set the game to 800x600 resolution (yeah, I know, that's humiliating) and it still didn't give me more than 8 FPS. Otherwise, the demo worked perfectly for me with max settings (1280x1024 resolution).
My impressions on this are... well... THIS IS THE BEST GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE! I can't believe it! You can actually open the fridge and choose to get a beer, a burger or a bottle of juice. Also, you can screw around with the faucet or flush the toilet. That's what you do indoors. Outside (I used a time patch, download link at the end), after bypassing the 10 minutes time limit set by 2K Games, I drove a car, went to the tuning garage and... well.. tuned it. I even set the licence plate to display my name =)). You can also buy clothes or food while in town. There are gas stations (yeah, like in the first game - this is what makes the game feel way more realistic than GTA IV - you can wake up without any gas and that's it, you're fucked) from where you buy gas and... surprise surprise, you can open your car's hood and FIX THE ENGINE! You heard it well! If you crash too much and fuck up your engine, the car stops, you have to go to the hood, open it up and fix it. The cops are as annoying as usual. Once you do something wrong they're on to you. One star means they want to fine you, two stars means they want to arrest you and three stars means they're gonna shoot at you. At least that's how I understood it.
The shooting is absolutely awesome! The cover system is amazing! Way better than in Kane and Lynch where if you're in cover and shoot you immediately get out of cover and have to press the cover key again. Kicking doors is usual for Vito (the main character), or at least it was while I played the game. Of course, it's way more polite to open them nicely. The demo mission was funny. I laughed out loud when one of the guys called your target "Porky" because he was fat.
What really killed me was the ending. I mean... you're in front of a police blockade, trying to get your injured friend to a doctor. And then they argue about stopping or not and the screen goes black and you hear the sounds of a car accelerating and... TO BE CONTINUED.
Nice one. Now I want to see the full game even more.
Mafia II Time Limit Bypass Patch:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O773E0AR


Notes:
1)The Kane and Lynch II Demo Multiplayer video was cancelled. Sorry.
2)I will try to see if I can record some of the demo anyway.

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