GTA IV has better combat than Mafia II despite coming out two years before it. Usually people accuse games like Sleeping Dogs of being a GTA clone but at Sleeping Dogs has an original and unique setting with melee combat that, while not the best ever, manages to separate it from GTA. Mafia II is a lazy repetitive, buggy, unfinished GTA IV wannabe with no charm or identity whatsoever.

I despise this game and I wish I could give it a 0 but I instead give it a 1. The ending is also one of the worst I've ever seen in a video game.AND IT WAS NEVER RESOLVED, even after a bunch of DLC.

I did not feel any better at shooting or aiming in this game in the final mission than I did in the first. The combat is unbelievably frustrating and punishing. While I don't wish to slight the game for it, the use of ethnic and racial slurs throughout the game has not aged well and gives the game a very poor modern scope. There are multiple points in the game where you lose ALL of your money without any prompting. This game might've been better if it had no open world to speak of as there's very little substance to it. The open world is enjoyable but feels unnecessary as there are almost 0 rewards for exploration and no side missions or activities in the world. The story in this game is, practically, nonexistent-or, at least, it branches off or creates new storylines so many times to the point where there's no actual basis for what's going on. Maybe it was because I was younger and I didn't know a thing about good story. I remember enjoying this game when it first came out 10 years ago. Almost every NPC looked unpolished, the audio in a number of cutscenes sounded horribly outdated, and most of the glitches and bugs from the original game were persistent. Practically nothing else changed with this game from the previous-gen version. For starters, it wasn't a remaster as much as it was a tuneup on models of most of the main characters. There are so many reasons why I disliked this game.

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