Mafia II: Definitive Edition

TLDR: the remaster didn't fix the original issues and brought in some new ones. I tried it, and my expectations weren't high, but remaster still somehow failed to fulfill them. I experienced way more glitches, graphic mishaps and engine insanity in the remaster, compared to original. The game is now about 50GBs, and neither the graphics nor the sound are accordingly better. I don't know if remaster altered any of the play-related elements, but it kinda feels like it. Compared to Mafia 1's Tommy, the player character of M2 - Vito - feels like a slime. The story is filled with nihilism. Vito tries to earn some money, fails, must fix it, somehow manages to. Rinse and repeat. While Tom climbs the ladder steadily, Vito has troubles getting on the first step, and is often tasked as a common thief would be. Don Salieri would never treat Tom as an equal - because he isn't - but he would never treat Tom without professional respect. Because unlike Vito, Tom is good in what he does. I appreciate the enhanced combat - especially compared to M1 - and the game might well work as a shooter. The driving sessions are meh. I often fight with the vehicle physics, and spinning the rear end of the vehicle is of frequent occurance. Cops are just as dumb as in M1, and way more aggressive. There are increased freeplay options (shop robbery, to give an example), but the game offers no "free ride" mode, which hugely diminishes such feat. Yes, you can take "time off" after story missions, but it will mean saving your progress while hoarding money will be extremely difficult. The action bits of the story are hidden by lots of micromanagement (clothes, in-building walks with zero interaction), cutscenes, which are often unskippable, or which at very least repeat every time you die, and a truckload of swearwords in the dialogue. F-word fatigue. I don't think it is rude - It just f-ing won't work if you f-ing say the f-ing word five f-ing times in the f-ing sentence, f-it.

One of the worst "remasters" (in this case I would rather call it a DEmaster instead) I've ever seen. Definitive Edition is literally a disgrace to the original Mafia 2. Also, here's one of my favourite things about this disaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqIX0KprnHY&list=PLUiyGBiI6VOjaRik77xKMFcIp5duh8H7L&index=49

Too many bugs and glitches. Not worth it.

Too many glitches not worthy of the title remaster your better off getting the Xbox 360 version literally runs better then this remaster, don't waste your money