Wow, Mafia 2 is breathtakingly good.

Its crap. Really.

Im a big fan of the series. I love the 1940-50-60s, esp the music! The second Mafia game is great in some ways but lacks a few things that the previous game had already.
So TCoLH > Mafia 2 :P

It was good, but it never quite had the payoff I hoped to get.

LOL, just LOL.

I want it, but it's never really been cheap enough to tempt me. Also the demo didn't really run that well on my otherwise usually capable PC.
I hear a lot of people preferring the first one. Does it still hold up today or did it age badly?

First one was a blast, second meh. Not bad but something is missing

Enjoy your 10 hours of pseudo-sandboxing with a ton of wasted potential. Look at all you can do but the game won't let you have any fun. First game was a story-driven game too but at least it didn't try to fool you.

I only played the demo and loved it. I think spent around 5 hours on it. The gunplay, physics and characters were so good but i heard the actual game doesnt have much content. I still want it.

I was a huge fan of Mafia1 and Pre Ordered Mafia2 in the launch, i didn't regret it, everything in the game is damn good, but i wasn't hoping for an sandbox, i was hoping for an amazing single player with an good ambientation and story, and if you look by this side, its an damn masterpiece.

Played through the whole of Mafia 2. I actually thought the same thing. The ending was sad though. >.>

Yeah, exactly what everyone already said. Not a sandbox game, but a very linear game indeed.

You guys do know that there is a freeride mod, right?

Mafia 2 didn't end up well because of too much hype, because it wasn't sandbox (which everybody expected) and, most of all, because of too much pressure of the distributor on the dev team to finish the development (for example, there were supposed to be 8 missions on Sicily; one of the lead devs, who was also behind Mafia 1, had to leave the team in the middle of development - and after he left, the script of the game was changed.. etc..)

Mafia 1 is better than Mafia II.
Way better.
Just sayin'.

Been there did that

Likely 5 months ago

If you call repeating driving missions fun because of the police rubber-banding, sure.