Hello gaming fellas, hope you all living to the fullest of your lives. As I had been playing "Mafia 2" and I shared my journey in this community. Previously, I only talked about the chapters and the bit of game-play. You may click here for the previous content: Chapter 1-2, Chapter 3-5, Chapter 6-9.
After finishing Mafia 2, I have few concerns or one may call it criticism. Before this let me just give you guys a quick summary of the remaining chapters.
Chapter 10
Vito receives a call from Joe and to our surprise Marty is already there. (as usual, just chanting the weirdest stuff.) He is still so young so I enjoyed his talks more. Our mission for this chapter is a big one, "plant a bomb to kill Alberto Clemento." Seems like a big job but, it was easy. Vito and Joe wore cleaners outfit, Joe had brought up fake moustaches and we are in. Henry saw us but failed to recognise us. Joe planted the bomb and boom! Wait! Clement is still alive. He ran away and has already killed Monty. Joe is devastated and we chase Clemento. Killed by Joe!
Chapter 11
Henry is on the door and asks Vito to join him for some talk. As Clemento is dead (and Henry knows Vito and Joe did it), Henry wanted someone else to work for. Vito introduces Henry to Mr.Eddie. Mr.Eddie on Mr.Falcon orders give Henry a task, "kill Leo Golanta." Vito is in big chaos, as Leo helped him with his Jail tenure. Vito runs to the Leo's house and advice him to run or hide. But, all in vain. Henry catches them. Well in the end, Henry doesn't kill him (a favor for Vito). Leo just leaves the city.
Vito is back home and his sister is crying on the front door. Sister's husband has started hitting her and Vito goes to teach him a lesson.
Finally, its time to rest but wait. They set our house on fire and we are at Joe's house once again.
Chapter 12
Henry has a plan, we are going to start our own selling of drugs rather than doing work for anyone. We don't have the money so we borrow it from the glasses guy with 2 weeks deadline, otherwise be prepared. We took the drugs from Mr..Wang and surprise. Police is here. Henry recognises that its the fake police. After killing these fakes, we sold drugs to various sources. Earned and left for home.
Chapter 13
Henry is dead, butchered by the Chinese. Being honest, it was heinous act. They had taken all the money with them.
Vito along with Joe follows the car and it was Mr..Wong. As usual, Joe is in a hurry and we are inside the China town. We had to fight off many foes and I had to die once because the enemy had shotgun and I was in the open, lol. But, we got there, asked about the money. He said Henry was working for the police, he had to do it. WE KILLED HIM!
Chapter 14
We have to return the borrowed money otherwise we are screwed for sure. Vito and Joe kill a guy for Eddie. After doing so Police chased us and after changing clothes we are safe.
Next step is to go to the City Port and meet Derek. He offers us 1 grand just to scare off the protesters.
SURPRISE! Workers tell Vito that it was Derek and Steve who killed his father.
How could a son let this pass by? We killed them all and took 20 grands from their room as well. Last step is to steal or crush cars to return the money. After stealing 2 shops, I decided to crush cars and it was the right decision.
Came back to Joe and he wasn't home. Came back again after 3 hours, still the same. Went to Eddie to ask about him, but he didn't know. Finally, a friend of Joe tells that Vinci guy had taken Joe. And, here we are with our childhood friend.
Somehow, the pipe broke and killed each and every living person there and escaped. Took Joe to the doctor and returned the money.
Chapter 15 (Final Chapter)
Vito knows that his life has crumbled and he is in big danger because of the China Town and VInci incident. The phone rings once again, its Eddie on the phone and he says Carlo wants to meet him. As we are ready to go, Leo Golanta is here. He knows about every doing of ours. He confirms that Henry was a rat. Leo has a offer for us, whether we kill Mr.Carlo or we die. Of course, Vito has yet to achieve so we are ready for the big fight.
Being honest, I died the most during this final mission. There were a lot of Carlo's men. After getting rid of them, we are just one step away. But wait, its Joe pointing gun on us. BETRAYAL?
No worries, Joe helps us and we kill, Mr.Carlo.
I have been killing for 10 years, I killed for my country, I killed for my family, and I killed everyone who came in my way. This one is for me.
Vito to Carlo
Before, everything ends. Only Vito survives in the end and Leo says, "Sorry, kid Joe wasn't part of our deal."
THE END!
Concerns:
Firstly, the story line is all great and fun, but it has loops. So many plots finished even before they started properly. Most of the time Vito acts like a side-character, personally Joe felt more lively and enjoyable. Vito is all cold and no fun at all, he will do anything they would say since the beginning till the end. Common man, you are the main character here, have some dignity. Let's talk about the goals, there is no goal at all. Vito has no needs, no wants other than he kept on saying he doesn't want to be like his father and when he finds out that he is just like his father, he is like, "Oh, alright, never mind." In the end, they just kill Joe his childhood all weather friend and Vito just sit there staring in the void without any sort of resistance.
Secondly, there is this driving thing. I get it that in the snowy weather it is really hard to control but even after the snow, cars aren't fun other than few special cars. There are many cases where a minor touch or accident will have a significant impact while a big one will just goes with 'ahhh.'
Thirdly, the gun and enemy moments, aside from the shotgun or headshot gun has literally zero impact. You shoot at the enemy and they will move freely like they are some sort of god or TERMINATOR. In few instances, cover system is broke. Enemy is able to shoot you even when you are hiding behind a long strong wall. Even by the standards of that time, I expected more. One more thing, enemies can shoot while driving but our dear Vito can't. He will just accept his fate and go on with literally everything.
Finally, there is almighty Police, they will see me fighting a gang and will come directly to me. Hey guys don't you see there are bunch of other people with way more good guns than me? They see you over-speeding and will follow you. What's next? Stop your car and as soon as they come out of their car, just get going. Boom, dumb folks! There is a police with 4 stars chasing you, your car is wanted, you are wanted but as soon as you get into the mission they won't care. "Hey there is menace, copy that."
That's all from my side, overall this game is perfect other than few loopholes. Just ignore and you will have one of the best gaming experience.
Do comment your thoughts.
All the Screenshots were taken by me and art is from the game, edited using in-built gallery feature.
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