Now Jimmy drops the ' lets see what this baby can do' line when you put your foot finger down. In fact, co-passengers would complain to ' take your foot of the gas' if you went too fast.

In the main single player I spent half the time driving around like a grandma as there's no incentive to get places faster. The kudos part I actually like - it's an encouragement to go nuts, but at the expense of rousing the cops. There's no points for getting air though, sadly. The whole game is laden achievements and a Capcom-esque A-Crap ranking system, with points for completion time and additional kudos for making Jimmy drive faster and drift around corners. The open world means you can take missions on as you wish, even replaying them to try and get a better score. There's additional info at the start of each mission, but it feels like some sort of thinly-veiled excuse for the mayhem he's about to create. After a prison riot and a few fights (because you didn't have enough of that already in the jail part of the singleplayer campaign, right?) Jimmy, his aviator glasses and his perfectly chromed noggin bust out and start looking for revenge against his ex-employers. He looks like Terry Tibbs, but with the appeal of Teri Hatcher (that link's SFW but not SF-stomach) and the attitude of Mad Max.ĭespite being set in Empire Bay, the story is not related to the main single player campaign. You see, Jimmy is even less likeable and relateable than Vito or Joe. Jimmy's Vendetta restores the open world, but it'll still leave you feeling disappointed and wanting more because it suffers from many of the same flaws as the original. Although Empire Bay was clearly designed with open world in mind, 2K must have dropped it from single player at some point. I didn't come away thinking Mafia 2 should have been a more open world 'GTA in the 50s' though, because what it needed more than that was a better story. I'd read it was designed to be more 'Open World', with mission selection instead of the exclusively linear, point-to-point play that Mafia 2's singleplayer forced on you. I don't know what I really expected, but I think my thick, rose-tinted glasses for the original Mafia created a blind faith that Mafia 2's DLC might offer.something. I've recently completed Mafia 2 and despite spending far too many hours looking at the benchmarks I decided to grab the Jimmy's Vendetta DLC because I still wanted something more.

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