RecommendedSteam player
Me: It's not a remake unlike Mafia 1. 2K: Sorry, kid. Mafia 2 wasn't part of our deal.Show moreShow less
0.3 hours at review346 people found this helpful
Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Vito's rise in Empire Bay ties his father's debts to increasingly consequential crimes, making Mafia II: Definitive Edition a single-player crime story. At 
GAMIVO, it costs ≈ $3.61; its confirmed tracked low makes this a timely entry point for anyone ready to follow that drama now.
The 74%% positive rating across 29,163 reviews offers another reference, but the game's particular appeal is its story of climbing the Mafia family ranks alongside Joe. At GAMIVO, Mafia II: Definitive Edition is at its tracked historical low for $5.99; its single-player crime saga and 74%% positive rating from 29,163 reviews may appeal if Vito's rise is the experience you want now.
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyHistorical Low~ $3.122026-07Current Low Across Stores~ $5.24Kinguinvs. Historical Low+68%
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01About Mafia II: Definitive Edition
War veteran Vito Scaletta gets drawn into organized crime while trying to pay off his father's debts and prove himself alongside his friend Joe. As he climbs the family ranks, his crimes bring greater rewards, status and consequences. Player rating: 74%% positive from 29,163 reviews.
Credits
Developer
Hangar 13 · D3T
Publisher
2K
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$3.122026-07-30 · KinguinBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Traditional Chinese | — | Yes | — |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Show 10 more languages
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Czech | Yes | Yes | — |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | Yes | — |
| Russian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish-Latin America | Yes | Yes | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Language and controls
The Steam PC version has full controller support. English, French, German, Italian and Russian have full audio and subtitles; additional listed languages have subtitles.
Play mode
The game is single-player. Its story follows Vito Scaletta as he tries to rise within organized crime.
03Frequently asked questions
What is the story about?
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes involved with the mob while trying to pay his father's debts.
Where and when does it take place?
It is set in Empire Bay in the 1940s and 1950s, after World War II.
What does Definitive Edition mean here?
The description identifies this edition as an HD remaster.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
Not recommendedSteam player
Gives the game a face-lift but removes clothing physics? Please tell me how that makes sense.Show moreShow less
0.3 hours at review296 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
How to enable PhysX on Mafia II Mafia II: Definitive Edition 1. Go to Options > Video 2. Choose Global Settings to High not Custom 3. When back will be a warning "You have to restart the game before using the new settings of APEX Physx" 4. Choose OK and Restart game 5. Testing PhysX in Gameplay mode not test in Benchmark If you want PhysX Cloth on Vito. Please follow the steps below. 1. Go to Steam\steamapps\common\Mafia II Definitive Edition\EDIT\APEX\Cloth 2. Open ClothRemapTable.xml with notepad 3. Remove 4 lines <ApexClothModel>VITOL1</ApexClothModel> <ApexClothModel>VITOL2</ApexClothModel> <ApexClothModel>VITPRA</ApexClothModel> <ApexClothModel>VITVOV</ApexClothModel> 4. Save and Play PhysX All Effect (Clothing, Smoke, Particle) Working only in Gameplay and not working in Benchmark. Because it doesn't work all effect if test in Benchmark. And it only works with Nvidia cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjGcytLp0-IShow moreShow less
0.2 hours at review326 people found this helpful
Received for free
Not recommendedSteam player
There's a lot this remaster does well, but as of launch, there is a whole lot that needs fixing. At least original owners got this free! If they expected us to rebuy the game in this state, this launch would have been REALLY bad. The new lighting and texture work is overall great, no complaints about that. As for some more important things though... Now for the issues that I've noticed that need to be fixed: 1. Cloth physics are bugged in the main game. All the physics but cloth work fine, the cloth is stuck at the lowest quality setting from the original no matter what setting you use here. It works fine in the DLCs. Probably just a bug, but please don't ignore this one and leave it unpatched, the main game looks like absolute crap without cloth physics. And don't just stop at the old medium physics setting, give us the full PhysX cloth physics from the original back. Some other issues with cloth include the physics spazzing out and making odd jutting shapes, which happened in the original but is more common now. I assume it's something to do with the cloth physics being bugged in general, so if the botched physics in this remaster are repaired to their original game state, all of this might go away. 2. Some effects like smoke can now flicker and stutter. This is a very noticeable issue that wasn't in the original game, it's distracting and needs fixing ASAP. 3.Light flicker, on streetlamps and distant buildings, was present in the original but is now more noticable, possibly because of the revamped lighting. It would be nice to get a fix, but since this was an original issue, it could be a fundamental engine problem, so I won't be mad if it's not fixed. 4. Some textures that really need high-res versions still use old textures. The biggest offender is the rock texture. Now that the mountains have been made more rocky and rocks are way closer to you up on the roads, they really need to be sharper because they're so visible. Not essential to fix, but would be appreciated. 5. The eyes. Characters look overall great, but for some odd reason they removed the moving eyes from the original cutscenes, now they blink whenever their eyes change direction, and the eyes are in a new direction when they open, we no longer see them move. Some characters don't even move their eyes, no blinking or anything, they just stare blankly ahead the whole cutscene. It really makes the characters less expressive and more robotic. The fact that they covered some of this up with blinking shows that they were aware that they somehow messed it up, and instead of fixing it they tried to hide it, and didn't even do a good job at that since half the characters simply don't look anywhere but forward now. Really disappointing intentional corner-cutting, stuff like this is why I don't respect Hangar 13 that much. Take the time to do it right, you messed up something that already worked, now fix it. As with the cloth physics, just make it like the original again, copy and paste the old animations into the remaster if you have to, I can't imagine why this would be an issue short of a dumb typo or something. If Hangar 13 fails to fix the three most important issues that they messed up from the original: the physics, flickering smoke, and eye animations, I will not buy the Mafia 1 Remastered or the future Mafia IV if they develop it. I can let III's issues slide because that was their first game of that size. But breaking things that already worked in the original Mafia II, putting shoddy bandaids on them or ignoring them entirely instead of fixing them, and releasing the remaster knowing these things are broken, is a pretty bad look that shows just how little they care. If they don't fix all three of those issues, I'm done with them. And I know they shipped it out to another company to remaster; but since they obviously chose someone that wasn't up to the job, received a remaster that was visibly not up to par, and released it without fixing any of the new issues anyway, they might as well have broken it themselves. After many of Mafia III's still-present issues and now this, Hangar 13 needs to prove to the community that they care about quality by fixing this remaster. How they treat this game with patches after launch is going to be the deciding factor in whether I buy any future game with their name attached to it. The community's good will matters more than they might think; Mafia III's sales were underwhelming because of all its issues and that can happen again. If they keep messing up, the series is either going to permanently end, or get passed off to another developer that's up to the task. In short, either do the community right for once and fix some bugs, or I and many others are out.Show moreShow less
0.9 hours at review281 people found this helpful
Received for free
RecommendedSteam player
Joe Barbaro's Pick Up Lines • Hey, is that a mirror in your pocket? 'Cos I can see myself in your pants. • If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together. • Hey baby, that's a nice outfit. It would look good crumpled up at the foot of my bed in the morning. • Hey, do you know the difference between sex and conversation? No? You wanna go back to my place and talk? • Why don't we go back to my place and play house? You'll be the door and I'll slam you.Show moreShow less
110.3 hours at review269 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
“You know what capitalism is? Getting f***ed!” ~Tony Montana, Scarface (1983) “The Definitive Edition”. What do you think of when you hear those words? Well, technically, you can think of pretty much anything. Just because those words mean nothing. Publishers can literally sell us anything and call it “The Definitive Edition”. And Mafia is a perfect example of that. At the point I write this, there are three games in the series. All of them have “The Definitive” editions and all of those editions are absolutely different. The first Mafia got the best treatment. 2K asked their division called Hangar 13 (which was already merged with 2K Czech, creators of the original game) to create a proper remake and gave them enough money to do a good job. Mafia III didn't get any treatment at all. They've just released a free update that was supposed to improve graphics (spoiler alert – it failed and almost broke the entire game) and called it a day. Now, what about Mafia II? For Mafia II, 2K hired a little (about 100 employees) British company called d3t and asked them to do a quick overhaul. So... yeah. Unlike the first Mafia, the “Definitive” edition of the second one is not a remake, but a quick remaster. Remember what we had in Shenmue remasters? Well, it was d3t who worked on them. If you've played modern versions of Shenmue 1 and 2, it should give you a general idea 'bout what to expect here. Take the old game, sprinkle it with some modern technology and voilà, that would be $29.99 (note how price of Mafia II remaster is exactly the same with the one of Shenmue). At least, that was the idea. Because while Shenmue was a console title, the one that only DreamCast (and Xbox in the case of the sequel) owners were able to play (as long as we're not talking about emulators, of course, but that's a different story), Mafia II was a multiplatform game that was already presented in Steam. And obviously, asking money for such a basic overhaul would have make a lot of people angry. So, 2K decided to play it smart and sold the new version only for console owners. Didn't make much sense for Xbox One owners who still had their Xbox 360 discs on them (backward compatibility, ho!~), but for those who didn't have the game yet and, of course, for PlayStation 4 users it sure did. So, that's how it was about selling this version, while in Steam? In Steam everybody who already had the original version in their libraries got the new one for free, while for the rest of us the new version just replaced the old one in the store (more about that later). So... we've got an updated version and we didn't even need to pay for it. Life's good, right? Well... technically – yes. Yes, it is. On paper. It comes with all DLCs (unlike the original version, cosmetics in the remaster will unlock with time and won't be available at the beginning of the game), the textures were replaced with those of higher resolution, there's an MSAA (Multisample Anti-Aliasing) support, there are improved shadows and light, new technology was used for both hair and foliage, etc. Some sounds (like sounds of shooting) were also improved. In other words, like I said, on paper it's pretty cool. Unfortunately, only on paper. Because it looks like due to limited monetization, this remaster got very limited budget. And as the result... yeah. You know how it is about those quick and cheap overhauls. Instead of fixing and improving things? They just make everything worse. First of all – nobody cared to fix the old bugs. It's not like Mafia II was the buggiest game ever made (thankfully, Todd Howard wasn't involved in its development in any way), but it had a series of well-known bugs that pretty much everybody who played the game before knew very well. It was only logical (yes, you can call me Mr. Spock, thank you) to fix those in the remaster, but like I said, nobody here bothered. Quite the opposite, it looks like the game became more buggy now. At least, while playing the remaster, I've experienced way, way more weird bugs than before. One of cutscenes with Harvey Epstein is broken too and looks like a mess. The color palette was changed and looks way more cold than needed, while “retro” effect was completely removed, which makes the game to look... weird. Especially for those who remember playing the original. New hair and foliage technologies are half-broken and come with tons of visual glitches (remember Cyberpunk 2077? That's the stuff.). New light looks totally out of place and may even cause troubles. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. In other words, we've got the same exact game, only worse. The “Definitive” edition of Mafia II is one of those cases, when it's actually a better idea to stick with the original. Sure, the original didn't have high resolution textures optimized for 4K, but honestly, I didn't feel bad playing it on my 4K TV. The remaster, on the other hand, felt way worse in many ways. There's a little “but” here in a form of the exclusive DLC that adds suits and cars from the other two Mafia games, though. We've got Tommy's Shubert Six taxi and gangster suit to remind us about good ol' days in Mafia 1, while from Mafia III we've got Lincoln's Samson Drifter (which totally breaks the balance, by the way) and army coat. Sure, it's nothing big, but... it's there and some die hard fans may be interested in it. All in all, though, it's still a no-no. PlayStation 4 owners don't have much choice, but for everybody else out there it's way, way better idea to stick with the original. Which... unfortunately you can't buy in Steam anymore. Well, technically you can, but to get access to it you should buy this crappy remaster first (it comes with a free copy of the original version). Because, like I said, that's what crappy remasters do. They just make everything worse. One way or another, that's pretty much it. You already played the original game before? Just forget about this remaster. Nothing good here. Totally no reason to bother. You haven't played the original yet? Wait for a good discount and pick this one up, but play the original that comes with it instead. You're on Xbox One? Go buy the Xbox 360 version. And if you're on PlayStation? Congratulations, you're screwed. Dixi.Show moreShow less
10.9 hours at review205 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Okay, so, i played a LOT of mafia 2, its my favourite game ever, i replayed it like 50 times, i know every nook and cranny of the game map, every little detail, all the characters, i can basically rehearse the story in my head. My friends can attest to this.The Remaster of mafia 2 is, odd, to say the least, some textures got updated, most notably the roads and the character textures, as well as some more minor elements and Clemente's slaughterhouse seems to have gotten a bit of a repaint too. Main Character models are way more detailed than the classic mafia 2 ones, and some voices of some minor characters have changed, like the soldier's in the intro mission.Markers, markers for enemies on hard mode have been removed, thats for gang members, cops are still visible on the minimap. Lighting has been changed as well, but nothing impressive by any stretch. There are also new gun sounds, which are very pleasant to hear. I honestly have no idea why this needed a remaster, you get some minor graphical upgrades and some postfx options and sounds, but besides that there is nothing to this remaster. Its mafia 2, but with a price hike. I got this because the classic version isn't sold anymore.They shouldve waited a couple of years, and remade this, just like theyre doing with the very first game in the franchise. I will not give this game a negative rating, as i cant give my favourite game a negative rating, as this game really means a lot to me, but i will say that this remaster was not needed, at the best it is unimpressive, and id rather have seen a full fledged rework rather than a not so impressive remaster.Classic mafia 2 still remains the best.Show moreShow less
16.3 hours at review207 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Take2Games/2K EULA agreement: we grant you a limited,(blabla), license to access and use the Services. The Services are, (blabla), licensed, not sold. This license does not give you any ownership rights. We reserve the right to modify this Agreement. Me playing the same word games: If purchasing isn't owning the game, then piracy isn't theft. Steam sell the game for money. I pay money to own the game / product. It's called a purchase / transaction. I didn't pay for a service and you can't change the meaning of ownership, sale, purchase with your bs word salad. Did Ubisoft teach you that? Also, if you can modify agreement, then it's not an agreement since it's not set in stone. You guys are dirty.Show moreShow less
9.1 hours at review204 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Here I will leave the cat, friends who pass by can pet it and give it a thumbs up ／＞ フ | _ _ l ／` ミ＿xノ / | / ヽ ﾉ │ | | | ／￣| | | | | (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) ＼二つShow moreShow less
9.8 hours at review189 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Well, I played Mafia 2 (Classic) for over 50 hours and loved it so much, that I even went two times through the main story. This Definitive Edition is sadly not that great. Sure the graphics are very nice and thanks to the updated materials it looks nice, but this game was clearly made in a haste. There are dozens of graphical glitches, that look very ugly. Heads, that don't connect to the body (like in the prison), weapons that go through the clothes (like some cutscenes with Joey) or radars, that show enemies where none are (like in the first job ordered by your mom). And I haven't even played the whole story yet. There are even more flaws in this Definitive edition, that should be mentioned. One of them is the AI. After finishing the job at the junkyard I went to the weapon shop nearby. After entering the shop I shot the salesman, which took way longer to react, that in the Classic Mafia 2. I robbed the cash register and run out. I entered my car and waited for Joey to enter it, too. He took forever, so the cops shot me. After reloading the Savegame I did the same thing. Went to the shop, shot the salesman and robbed the register. This time nothing happened. The cops ignored the whole thing. There were three cop cars, that passed the shop and two walking cops. Not even one did something. I could collect all the ammo, shoot a couple times at the salesman and nothing happened. Stuff like that was impossible in the Classic Mafia 2. Sadly this Definitive Edition feels like the developers took the first Release of Mafia 2 (without any Patches), upgraded just the graphics, tried to change the controls and then released the game as the Definitive Edition. There has to be a big Update, so this edition is worth the 30€ they want for it, because until now Mafia 2 Classic was the better Release. Just to mention it. Got the game for free, since I own the Classic edition. Many forget to mention this fact. Thanks for the free Upgrade!Show moreShow less
3.5 hours at review182 people found this helpful
Received for free
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