Mafia II for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

This game was great. Although it was a bit short it is still good because of the story it has. I wish you could have a free play world like in the first Mafia, but it is till great.Because of the length i wouldnt reccomend buying this game but i would reccomend renting it.

The graphics are good, but they still arent as good as some games.
All in all i still loved the game though.

I did not enjoy playing a lot of this game. Unfortunately, it seems being an unemployed gangster wanna-be is as boring to play in a game as to actually be in life, except the camera control is way worse. Seriously, the camera during any fist fight and during 50% of the shootouts has a crazy habit of moving on its own to where you can no longer see your character or much of anything for that matter.

The story is not inherently bad - go watch Goodfellas and then imagine all the boring parts that were omitted from the movie like scrubbing toilets, cheaufer around two drunk mobsters while they vomit on themselves (I suppose that last could have been funny if the story had not been so dull to that point), etc. thrown back in with all the funny/good bits. A boring, 12 hour Goodfellas movie is what you get with this game.

The shooting works and the graphics are fairly impressive, but like so many others have written before, there is little to do in Empire city outside the main story line so there is no reason to go anywhere off the main path. Checkpoints can be atrocious causing you to repeat pointless conversations/driving distances/and a lot more nothing over and over again. I felt slightly masochistic playing to the end once I reached chapter 9. Almost dirty. I don't think I want to be a mobster anymore.