Kalyan
Journeyman
Recently completed Starcraft: Wings of Liberty.. wow.. what a game.. I didnt play the first part. The idea of explaining the part 1 story while installing is great. it gets the summary. About the game, each level is different. no two levels are the same either in game play or environment or characters. though it is an RTS, some of the levels feel like an FPS. each level has different units, different gameplay, difficult choices to make which would put you in a real dilemma. The cutscenes are great and well animated with cool effects. Each twist is truly epic. One of the masterpieces.
Now, playing Mafia 2. Frankly speaking.. I am greatly disappointed. I am in level 12. Mafia 1 was way better. even in terms of graphics. The characters in Mafia 2 even in cutscenes lack emotions in their faces. whether angry or happy or sad the faces look the same as if they are wearing plastic masks. That might have looked fine in 2000. but not in 2010. even Mafia 1 had good display of emotions in the cutscenes. The story is fine. but the levels dont have much to do in terms of gameplay. its just like you are just driving in between the cutscenes. I am 3 levels away from completing the game and I never felt like -- woww.. what a level.. The number of enemies to take down are too less. no enemy is tough to be a match to the title mafia. in mafia 1, the missions are good enough to be for a don. here we sell cigarettes, bury dead bodies that some one else has killed and shoot a person or two in between. the core part of every level would last for a minute or two that too it would end in a cutscene. really a disappointment. Why is every woman other than Vito's mother and sister look alike? all the other women look the same like the one Vito first saw in the bar after the first level.
Joe bothers more than the police when u are jumping a red light. WTH?? The attention to every other thing is given except for the ones to be taken care of.. the game play, the user involvement etc. Tommy looked more matured than Vito. Vito looks like he is a shy kid who collects play boy magazines when he feels shy when he sees two women in Joe's apartment.. I feel no reason in the game..
And about the play boy mags, I dont understand why Vito should collect nude pictures? It would fit if Niko in GTA4 collects them as he enjoys in the strip clubs. but Vito, doesnt even seem to like the idea of going to a strip club when the friend of Joe takes him to one (I dont remember his name). The way they are placed in the levels only tells that the developers want people desparate to find them as they are nude pictures and placing them at odd places would make the levels long. why would a magazine appear in Vito's house when he is out and it was not there in the beginning of the level?
The overall story of Mafia 2 is OK. but looks like I am watching a movie and pressing buttons just to watch it.
These are just my views. no offense meant. Other than the gameplay and the lack of emotions, the other still life is superb. the graphics regarding the bottles, trees, clothes, car handling, fire are good.
Now, playing Mafia 2. Frankly speaking.. I am greatly disappointed. I am in level 12. Mafia 1 was way better. even in terms of graphics. The characters in Mafia 2 even in cutscenes lack emotions in their faces. whether angry or happy or sad the faces look the same as if they are wearing plastic masks. That might have looked fine in 2000. but not in 2010. even Mafia 1 had good display of emotions in the cutscenes. The story is fine. but the levels dont have much to do in terms of gameplay. its just like you are just driving in between the cutscenes. I am 3 levels away from completing the game and I never felt like -- woww.. what a level.. The number of enemies to take down are too less. no enemy is tough to be a match to the title mafia. in mafia 1, the missions are good enough to be for a don. here we sell cigarettes, bury dead bodies that some one else has killed and shoot a person or two in between. the core part of every level would last for a minute or two that too it would end in a cutscene. really a disappointment. Why is every woman other than Vito's mother and sister look alike? all the other women look the same like the one Vito first saw in the bar after the first level.
Joe bothers more than the police when u are jumping a red light. WTH?? The attention to every other thing is given except for the ones to be taken care of.. the game play, the user involvement etc. Tommy looked more matured than Vito. Vito looks like he is a shy kid who collects play boy magazines when he feels shy when he sees two women in Joe's apartment.. I feel no reason in the game..
And about the play boy mags, I dont understand why Vito should collect nude pictures? It would fit if Niko in GTA4 collects them as he enjoys in the strip clubs. but Vito, doesnt even seem to like the idea of going to a strip club when the friend of Joe takes him to one (I dont remember his name). The way they are placed in the levels only tells that the developers want people desparate to find them as they are nude pictures and placing them at odd places would make the levels long. why would a magazine appear in Vito's house when he is out and it was not there in the beginning of the level?
The overall story of Mafia 2 is OK. but looks like I am watching a movie and pressing buttons just to watch it.
These are just my views. no offense meant. Other than the gameplay and the lack of emotions, the other still life is superb. the graphics regarding the bottles, trees, clothes, car handling, fire are good.
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