When these issues weren’t present, Mafia 2: Definitive Edition played alright it is a dated game, but it’s simple and sometimes fun. I’ve had the game drop frames during car chases causing me to crash into a light pole, or during shootouts by making it harder to put sights on an enemy. But the frequency with which Mafia 2: Definitive Edition stutters, seizes up, or just freezes always ends up impacting gameplay. The small graphical bugs are usually funny rather than detrimental, and I’ve played through games with unstable framerates and still enjoyed them. Here’s the thing – I could forgive some of these issues.
And they certainly shouldn’t have hard crashes that occur consistently during missions. Remasters shouldn’t come with spammy splash icons in the top right corner, reminding you that your 2K account isn’t linked until you close the game and open it again. So let’s get one thing out of the way first any remaster should not leave a game with framerate drops into the 20s, or character’s faces sloughing off because their textures didn’t load in right. “If you boot up Mafia 2: Definitive Edition on a PS4 Pro right now, you will face a long list of bugs, glitches, framerate issues, graphical issues, and even hard crashes.” Why Ratchet & Clank is the Most Important PS5 Game In fact, the only reason you could call it one is because it at least runs on a modern console. Because Mafia 2: Definitive Edition is not a remaster. Mafia 2: Definitive Edition markets itself as a remaster, and it’s time to talk about what that term really means. Not by video-gamey aspects or pop up messages saying “press R2 to pop a cap in this guy.” Instead, the game itself constantly ruined its own immersion by being a technological failure. It may have been a combination of setting the nostalgia vision to 10,000 percent, or my recent quarantine-caused binge of The Sopranos that made me want to experience the life of an Italian mobster again.Īnd while I did get that experience out of Mafia 2 - its narrative is its strongest part, don’t take that for high praise though - I was constantly pulled out of the detail-filled world of Empire City. After hearing about the game again this year, in the context of a grand remaster, I was excited. I first played Mafia 2 either in 2010 or 2011, the year it originally came out or the year after.
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