Mafia II (Classic)
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Frequent strong profanity including repeated use of the f-word in scripted dialogue.
Collectible Playboy centerfold magazines scattered through the game show full female nudity.
The player character smokes cigarettes and drinks alcohol, including a mission where he drives while drunk with impaired handling.
Third-person gunfights, melee brawls, and mob executions against human enemies with blood spatter, but no dismemberment or lingering gore.
The story centers on organized-crime murder, betrayal, prison brutality, and a bleak downfall arc.
The player carries out mob jobs—theft, extortion, and killings—as the core progression through the crime family.
A brothel and its sex workers are shown in the world and visited during the story.
A brothel is visited and strippers appear; collectible pin-up magazines and dialogue carry sexual references.
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What it is
Mafia II is a single-player, story-driven open-world crime game set in the fictional Empire Bay from the 1940s and early 1950s. You play Vito Scaletta, a war veteran who rises through a Mafia crime family, driving period cars and completing missions built around gunfights, fistfights, theft, and mob hits. Content includes realistic shooting violence with blood, heavy smoking and drinking, frequent strong profanity, sexual references with a brothel and strip-club setting, and collectible pin-up magazines that show full nudity. The game is played offline with no multiplayer or in-app purchases.
How it's framed
The game presents organized crime as its subject through a serious period crime drama; Vito's rise is shown with consequences—loss, prison, and betrayal—rather than as glamorized fantasy, though criminal acts are the rewarded gameplay path.
Details
- Developer
- 2K Czech
- Publisher
- 2K
- Released
- Mar 22, 2011
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