First off I want to say this game was great and if you haven't ever played the Mafia series before you should treat yourself. Also I played the Definitive Editions of both games.

I played Mafia earlier in the year and it became a top 5 game of the year so far for me with a score of 9. I love that the games are set about 15 years apart from each other so you have an overlap of characters albeit pretty small. Mafia was set around 1930-1938 with Mafia 2 being set at the end of WW2 so 1945-1951.

I would like to start off with gameplay and it is was great the whole way through the game. Although it would have been easier if i was using a controller, but I didn't feel like getting it out of the closet. The weapons in the game were fun, but they were pretty simple to use which is fine since there is no first person ads. The driving in the game was a whole lot better than Mafia and felt great to speed around from cops or just driving while listening to some great music.

The story being set right at the end of WW2 was pretty nice and felt pretty realistic to how people were back in the day. The overall story was decent being Vito pretty much wanting to make money and striving not to end up like his late father. With how the story connected throughout the chapters it seemed like it jumped around pretty fast with little to no explanations for certain things.

The characters are where the story shined though with Joe, Henry, Leo, Vito and others. All of their interactions with each other were great, but when it came to the actual "Family" of the mob it was done pretty poorly compared to Mafia. It felt more like being an errand boy
than an actual family like the Salieri crime family of the first game.

All in all if you enjoyed the first game you will definitely enjoy the second game. I will get to Mafia 3 sooner rather than later to finish off this amazing trilogy so far.
Mafia 2 (7.75/10)