Open world games certainly have been popular in recent years. A few years ago, before the genre exploded into the sheer mass it has become nowadays, there was a little hidden gem by the name of Mafia. Now, several years after the original has been all but forgotten except by the game's ardent fans, 2K has seen fit to bring the franchise back to the masses in a gritty, realistic open world that fans of mob movies like The Godfather will eat up with jolly enthusiasm.
Mafia II tells the epic 10 year story of Vito, an Italian immigrant who arrives in the United States in the 1920's. Poor and lacking necessary skills to make an honest living, he makes contact and begins doing work for an organized crime family. As the game goes through the ten year story line, Vito will move up the chain of command for the family, on his way to being a made man.
