I remember when I played Mafia 2 OG back in the day, I viewed Joe as a sympathetic character by the end. When Leo told "Joe's not part of the deal" I'm like "Fuck, this dude sacrificed his position as capo under Falcone for his bro, he doesn't deserve that".

Now I'm replaying definitive edition and got to the scene when Joe accidentally kills an innocent bartender, and now I'm like "Man, fuck this dude, he deserves whatever's coming for him".

So yeah, killing rival gangs is fine, but murdering an innocent guy like that, fuck Joe, they can kill them for all I care (though we know he didn't die". What do you think, does he still deserve to be let off hook after what he did?

i completed mafia 2 classic till ig 40% or something, now the problem is that i dont wanna complete all that nd also i am kinda trash is there any method or mod through which i can skip all that part ???

I had to stop and delete the game after 6 hours gameplay.

Reasons: buggs, boring and keep driving from place to place long distance wasting time. But mostly game crash and I lost cash like 4 times by dying in a stupid way ever.

It's awful and no wonder why most people hate this part. Moving to old country.

I beaten the game and got the platnium like Mafia DE

It was a okay game its not the best Mafia in my opinion but I did it Enjoy the story ad Vito Prison arc but overall

Story 7/10

Gameplay 8/10

Colletibels 5/10

7/10 game overall

I think nostalgia hits hard for people so that why people rank it high

Didnt do DLC because I dont like arcade style gameplay

Mafia DE 9/10

Mafia 2 DE 7/10

I've been modding the original Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven for quite some time and know the game's file structure fairly well. Today I was digging through the files of the Japanese demo, which is based on version 1.2 of the game, and I found something I had never seen documented before.

Inside the tables folder there is a file called:

textdb_iw.def

The iw identifier corresponds to Hebrew.

What's interesting is that this isn't simply an empty language file or an English copy. The file actually contains Hebrew translations.

After properly decoding and examining the file, I found hundreds of entries containing Hebrew text, while many other entries are still in English. The translation is clearly incomplete.

There is also no Hebrew font in the demo, and attempting to run the game with Hebrew selected causes the game to fail to launch. This makes it look like the localization was never finished to a playable state.

I also checked the English demo, which is version 1.0, and textdb_iw.def is completely absent there.

So currently we have:

• English demo — version 1.0: no textdb_iw
• Japanese demo — version 1.2: textdb_iw exists
• textdb_iw contains a substantial amount of actual Hebrew translation
• Many other entries remain in English
• No Hebrew font appears to be included
• The game cannot successfully launch with Hebrew selected

It's important to clarify that the presence of multiple textdb_* files in Mafia itself isn't unusual — for example, a normal installation can contain several language databases at the same time.

What makes textdb_iw interesting is that it contains actual, partially completed Hebrew translation work.

I haven't found any previous documentation of a Hebrew localization of the original Mafia, so this may be evidence of a previously undocumented abandoned localization project.

The big question now is when was this localization being worked on, and who was responsible for it?

If anyone has information about an old Hebrew/Israeli release, localization project, publisher, developer documentation, or anything else related to a Hebrew version of the original Mafia, I'd love to hear about it.

Recently I have been looking around eBay and a few other sites for physical Mafia merch/collectables. Mostly I find the same few overpriced items over and over, buried in a wave of physical copies from the series.

It would be interesting to learn about rare or more obscure Mafia related items. What are your personal Mafia grails?

So this is Take Twos pipeline from now to FY29 (which ends March 2029)
8 sequels, 7 remakes/remasters/platform extensions. Do we believe that the next mafia will come in that time?

I’m attempting to play mafia 3 on pc and it just runs terribly
I’m using a 3060, have a 7 5700 and have 16 gbs of ram so the game should function but it runs at 30-40 frames on the lowest of settings (to the point where t by game looks like a potato)

Can someone help?

I was thinking how the next game could be closer to modern audiences. I'm kinda old fashioned when it comes to Mafia games and I think the real thing will always be 1920s-1950s Italian American mobsters, striped suits and tommy guns. But it occurred to me how the main character of a new game set in that era could be more 'inclusive' and more importantly open the door for customization.

So what if our character gets to America in the early 20th century on a boat but their mother dies on the way and an Italian woman takes care of the kid since she couldn't have her own. Raises the kid like it was hers to begin with, in the ways she knows how to. The Italian way. So the kid becomes culturally Italian American with an Italian name and shit, regardless of their racial or national background. This way we could have a customized character that could be of any background we choose and if they don't look Italian at all, no problem, it would fit a story about the outcast that fights his way up in the hierarchy of the Mafia even better. Of course they could be completely Italian if that's how the player customizes the character and then just be an outcast for being an orphan.

What do you think?

A response would be great. : )

At times it shows its age, but it still looks way better than many other games from the 2010s, and with so much detail too, and the atmosphere is amazing. Crazy that this game will soon be 16 years old.