Good game fantastic gameplay
Mafia 2 is criminally underrated. It's a lavish gangster spectacle with some of the best world-building on PC. The setting is stunning, the story is gripping, and the attention to detail is obscene. Sure, it has a few problems. There's a little too much combat. The car handling is twitchy. Some of the checkpointing is rage-inducing. But it's still great, despite its shortcomings.
It's the story of Vito Scaletta, whose family emigrates from Sicily to the city of Empire Bay in 1932. After being arrested for robbery in 1943, he's given a choice: go to jail, or join the Army. He decides a stint in the Army is better than rotting in a cell, and finds himself back in Sicily fighting Mussolini's blackshirts.