“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.”
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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.
