“ Mafia II: Definitive Edition will be automatically granted to all existing owners of Mafia II on Steam today at no additional cost,” 2K said Tuesday in a news release. Tuesday’s announcement was also accompanied by new trailers for all three games. Meanwhile, Mafia: Definitive Edition won’t be available until the Aug. The offer also includes free and discounted add-on content for both titles. Additionally, players who already own the original versions of those games on certain platforms will be granted immediate access to the new versions on those platforms.

The news comes less than one week after the announcement of an upgraded version of all three games in the series, which are being sold together under the title Mafia: Trilogy.īoth Mafia 2: Definitive Edition and Mafia 3 : Definitive Edition are available now for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC via Steam for those who pre-order Mafia: Trilogy prior to Aug. I think they would have been 100x better of just letting Mafia be Mafia, keep it different from GTA/Saint's Row and all those other games and let people enjoy it for its story and characters.In a surprise announcement Tuesday, publisher 2K made remastered versions of two games in the critically acclaimed Mafia trilogy available for immediate download. This was a huge mistake imo, as many people absolutely loved the opening to Mafia III and it's story and then after a few hours in when the game finally 'opens' up and you get into doing the same copy + paste designed things over and over and overo it really bogged down the game. With Mafia 3 they most likely got a lot of people telling them 'You need to fill the world up with a bunch of things to do' instead of them focusing on the narrative like Mafia I/II did. Instead of filling the world with a lot of busy-work and copy + paste side stuff the Mafia series traditionally focused on the storyline and characters, the world was there but it was never the 'focus' of the game, rather it was the backdrop that let the world feel alive from which the story took place. However this is exactly what Mafia 1 was like and what separated it from GTA and similar games.

Let me explain, when Mafia 2 came out it attracted a lot more people to it that came from the GTA games and other 'open world' designed games.Ī LOT of people complained that the world was 'empty' and that the game didn't have a ton of side-things to do. I actually think that Mafia 2 hurt this game.

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