By now, you’ve probably seen the steamy yet tastefully done Playboy photos from the Mafia II demo, of which, there are five. Unfortunately, 2K Games doesn’t let you flip through the magazines littered around the game world, which is a shame, because vintage Playboys are a time capsule full of interesting information, including politically charged articles (yes, we love the articles), humorous cartoons, interviews and various critiques on movies, fashion and music. Read just one of these issues, and you’ll learn a lot about culture in that particular year.
On that note, we managed to find much larger images of each cover, then dug up the most important articles to give you an idea what was popular back in the day. Enjoy.
John Artest (RunDLC)
With E3 starting next week, 2K Games revealed the biggest E3 line up they have for the year
Only game iam waiting for is for mafia 2 nothing else intrest me well only Metal gear solid peace walkers but ill get that soon
nice. waiting to see what mafia 2 and spec ops the line has too offer. not into rts games, so civ 5 not for me, and not too familiar with x-com series.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
Same as Killzone 2 and 3, uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 2, Heavy Rain, Resistance 3
I wish this was entirely true, but you might want to load up Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 again.
@jason I watched some gameplay videos of KZ2 and R3 on my full screen. They are on par or succeed graphically to the first person shooters mentioned in the article that also launched on the seventh generation of consoles. Try the same and see what you think
Killzone 3 was super impressive! I could not believe the graphics back then as I was regularly pausing the game to stand in awe looking at the surroundings! Resistance however did not impress me that much. Heavy rain is also another amazing graphically speaking game. It almost felt next gen
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
They did for their day. I recently played gears judgement with on the 360 and the draw distance was so blurry. The characters up close look great though
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
Originally released back in 2010 for last-gen (PS3, Xbox 360) consoles, 2K Games has re-released Mafia 2 as part of the Mafia Trilogy, and has called it the “Definitive Edition.” Now, the question is, does this mafia go for the kill, or does it run out of bullets? Read on for our Mafia 2 Definitive Edition review.
no 10 article about playboy magazine in mafia ii and counting
I love the old school covers. They always found more interesting forms of expression than just slapping a woman on the cover, which is what they do today.
People need to stop hatin on this story. I liked it.
Why has there been more stories on the playboy covers than the game proper?
I like the covers. Most playboy covers these days just have a naked girl slapped on the front.