MAFIA 2 DEMO CRASHES DESKTOP HOW TO
MAFIA 2 DEMO CRASHES DESKTOP DRIVERS

I'm baffled how they managed to make a 10+ hour game out of this. It doesn't feel like you're in a family, you're basically a gun for hire (even after you become a made man, it doesn't matter). It's basically 'you're working for this guy, now for this guy, then the other guy'. I just finished the game, and honestly, I can't even remember most of it. The story is the weakest part of the game, in my opinion. The chemistry between him and Vito works and it's good. I guess, he's the main reason why the game is so well remembered today. Vito itself is an extremely shallow character, his motivations are: 1) help his family (his mother dies in the first third and you never hear from his sister after 'helping' her, so this story line is basically non-existent) and 2) money (which he doesn't really spend and neither can you because you lose it like three times anyway). Afterwards, the story goes downhill with repetitive missions and lame characters and the 'ending' is just the icing on the cake. I also had quite a few technical issues (crashes to desktop, stuttering framerate, etc), but perhaps those are solved by playing the remaster so I didn't take those into account in my review.ħ0% PlayStation 3 It starts incredibly strong with amazing atmosphere and premise, but it gets really boring once Vito gets in jail (oh, boy, the devs were really proud of this fighting mechanic). This game feels like it wanted to be a linear game, but had to incorporate an open world because those were (and still are) popular. People like to complain about how bad Mafia 3 is, but at least that game knew it was an open-world game through and through and to me it's more enjoyable for it. It's a confused game and very much a product of its time. No real side-missions, collectibles are mostly tied to a specific chapter, you cannot even continue playing after the main game, continue just puts you at the last checkpoint before the credits. There's barely anything to do outside of the main story. They made an open-world with a pretty good city, weather, day-night cycles and put the most linear game they could make in it. No skill, just waiting, a bit like the shooting as well. Then there is the boxing, which is basically holding dodge until they attack then throwing a counter attack. Which of course is followed by waiting 20 seconds for your health to regenerate behind a wall. The enemies are expert marksmen who can hit you while both you and they are running and sometimes a single bullet puts you almost at death's door. The shooting is the most mediocre early 2010s cover-based fare, you take potshots at enemies that are too far away for the crappy guns they give you. The story is okay, it's nothing special, but the cutscenes and voice-acting are mostly done well, except for side-characters who only turn up during a mission or two, for those it sounds like they had the janitor do his best mob-guy impression. My conservative estimate of the percentage of playtime spent driving is 50%. A typical mission consists of picking up the phone, driving over to Joe, drive over to some other location, maybe shoot or beat someone up, drive back to a bar, drive Joe home, drive yourself home. Graphically it's still fine (I played the 'classic' version), but gameplay-wise it's a chore.

MAFIA 2 DEMO CRASHES DESKTOP HOW TO

Many others have clearly experienced the same, has anyone found a solution? None of the discussions on this have said what caused it or how to fix it.60% PCI can't remember the reception at the time, but it sure hasn't aged well. Google is anything but helpful with trying to diagnose this issue. Nothing helped or made any difference at all.

MAFIA 2 DEMO CRASHES DESKTOP DRIVERS

Here's many similar threads I found after a quick search describing the exact same thing:Īll drivers are up-to-date, windows is as well.Ĩ. It doesn't matter what chapter, area of the map, vehicle, etc, after a certain amount of time the sky will begin having a small black flicker that expands until the screen turns black and the game crashes to desktop. I'm having an issue with random crashes anywhere from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours into gameplay.

Mafia 2 demo crashes desktop