Most of the game is set in the fictional city of Empire Bay, based on New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Detroit, during the mid-1940s and early 1950s. Mafia II is an action-adventure game set in an open world environment and played from a third-person perspective.

Police awareness in the game works in a similar manner as with the previous game, although the player now has the option to bribe officers after committing an offense. Vito engaging in a gunfight with the authorities. This Definitive Edition was later bundled in the Mafia: Trilogy, released on 25 September 2020. To coincide with the remake of the first game of the series, Mafia II: Definitive Edition, a remastered version of the game developed by D3T, was released by 2K Games on, to mixed critical reception. A sequel, Mafia III, developed by 2K Czech's successor Hangar 13, was published in October 2016. Upon release, Mafia II received positive reviews, with praise particularly directed at its story, characters, and gameplay however, the restrictive world design and lack of certain features present in other sandbox games were criticized.Ī version of the game including all previously released downloadable content, entitled Mafia II: Director's Cut, was released by Feral Interactive in December 2011. Development began in 2003, soon after the release of the first Mafia game. The player character's criminal activities may incite a response from law enforcement agencies, measured by a ' wanted' system that governs the aggression of their response. The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. Set within the fictional city of Empire Bay from 1945 to 1951, the story follows Vito Scaletta, a young Sicillian-American mobster and war veteran, who becomes caught in a power struggle among the city's Mafia crime families while attempting to pay back his father's debts and secure a better lifestyle. The game is a standalone sequel to 2002's Mafia, and the second installment in the Mafia series. It was released on Augfor PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360. Mafia II is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K.

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