You can argue as much as you like about the second mafia, but denying the fact that the Czech sequel was cut is stupid. I suggest you take a look at what never made it to release in the next video.
After watching this video, I had a desire to kill someone, preferably the 2K management responsible for cutting out all of the above.
Yes, maybe it would be more fun with the full version. At one time I played the second “Mafia”, but I wasn’t hooked like the first one. I passed it once and have no desire to repeat it.
No, no, they really squeezed the dough there, and then they also cut the budget, not to mention the fact that the publisher threw out another 2/3 of the script.
This is not another scenario, but an attempt to find the root cause, of which there may be many. In fact, the developer fell in love. This is a real long-term construction, and the game was not only slightly unfinished by the deadline, as is usually the case, and even after a couple of significant postponements (again, who paid for these transfers?), came out in the form we saw. Any normal investor in such a situation would not only pat him on the head, but would also kick out such a contractor. Another question is why they didn’t do it?? And here you can guess until you’re blue in the face, but, IMHO, there was most likely a little bit of everything here.
The Second Mafia was slaughtered https://magicred-casino.uk/ not with a knife, but at least with a chainsaw. It’s a shame for the Czechs, because they could have made a really good sequel.
But in the end we got a game that completely fits the stereotypical sequel. (IMHO, the gameplay appeals to me more about the deuce than the original. And they still didn’t ruin the atmosphere)
Well, if we take the developers as individual hard workers – coders, modelers, designers and other evil spirits, then, of course, bribes from them are smooth. However, management will always be “involved”. And the guidance from the publisher, of course, too.
So, maybe not the management, but the developers themselves, who delayed development and barely implemented half of their ideas, at a more or less tolerable level, in so many years.
Or maybe there’s a different story… The developer is a “threshing floor”, and his project is going great, and here RDR and GTA are on the horizon. And who should we give the money to, who should we support, our own, or “I don’t understand who from I don’t understand where”. So WE got an unfinished RDM, cool GTA and MAFIA (at the level… ahh, to hell with it – unfinished). I think the problems were purely at the “bazaar” level, if they did it the way they wanted, no one would need GTA.
So they are hard workers, they did what they said.
The problem is that they wanted to do more than what happened, but why didn’t they do it?.
No, really, they would have done everything as they wanted, all sorts of GTA would not take up places.
That’s not all. They have heads of departments, directors, all sorts of (excuse the swearing) scrum managers or other “effective managers”. And it is their faces that flash in interviews, headlines and other propaganda. This is where the demand comes from, because such nuances are directly related to their work. And they are also on the development team and even more.
Don’t tell. Although they are constantly opposed, GTA 3 and Mafia, Mafia 2 and GTA 4 are very different in very significant aspects. And GTA, as a more pop product, and simply as the very concept of “game”, has no competition here. But it’s a no brainer that Mafia 2 could have been very, mega, super better than it was. There are ears of something bigger sticking out at almost every corner.
So, it’s all foggy. The game has only been officially in development for three years. A couple of release delays. A bunch of canceled features, some of which were later downloaded for free by fans with a staff of one and a half people per project. A chopped up plot that has serious questions even about the remaining pieces. Accordingly, this begs the question, did the developers screw up, as a result of which the publisher cut their budget, or the publisher cut the budget, because of which the developers went to kick it known that in defiance of the greedy capitalists? Or maybe the process was mutual?
Okay, but this is not a complaint against the author. Here I admit that I am wrong, but the rest of what has been said does not cancel.
Author, there is no aggression. You just don’t feel anything for GG, or for GG’s friends, or for the storyline. My heart didn’t even skip a beat when we killed Tommy Angello, or when we cosplayed as Sunny Corleone, because it was staged at the level of a porn parody on Brazzers. For some reason, I associate the main character of Mafia 2 with people whose souls were stolen in the series “Supernatural”, t.e. they don’t care at all. Remember that moment when Vito is on the phone with his sister and threatens to beat up her hubby?. Only he does it as if someone just got the wrong number and he decided to chat. Emotions 0, what’s Vito’s, what’s yours. They go and do it with a glass face. Due to your age, you looked at the First Mafia through the Second, this is understandable. There are many here like this. Replayability? Yes, I immediately started replaying the game. Not in a month or 2, but immediately after that. The story hooked me so much. It’s not about the content here. You can trust the developers that they didn’t want to distract from the plot. It’s all about the disgusting direction, script and absolutely inadequate main character. God, I still get goosebumps when I hear the title theme by Vladimir Šimunek from Mafia: The City Of Lost. And of course, it’s gratifying that after looking at the IP from Vanya Loev, you rushed to Google what was cut out there, but for God’s sake it’s not about the content. Not because of the ammunition license, GG looks as if the actor playing him was given a crumpled piece of script, which everyone from Big Bosses to screenwriters blew their noses at, and then they said that if he, the poor bastard, decides to improvise, his legs will be cut off. My main complaint: If you focus on the plot, then why are you cutting important aspects from it, giving out such. And I have enough soulless shooting games for the evening even without the Mafia franchise, but to make another one out of it. It’s stupid by God.
