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Mafia II is a good game overall but comes off a bit disappointing on the end. Thanks to the troubled history development it is only a 1/3 of the game developers wanted to make, it could have been so much more. Yet what we got on release is not bad, solid gameplay and story and characters. Atmosphere is probably the best Mafia II can offer, especially in the beginning chapters. Graphics look amazing for an Xbox 360 title 10 years later, and vehicle physics are top notch.

The community was opposed to radical changes made to economy and especially warfare system even before game made it to it's release day, but the real problem is that Victoria 3 is really shallow in terms of content, and, unlike it's predecessor (Victoria II), can't offer enough replayability for you to come back to the game. It may be wide as the ocean - but the truth is that it's deep as a puddle. Also, Vicky 3 is very unoptimized in late game (close to 1900's) because the game has to render each individual PNG for every building in construction queue, and a construction progress bar for each one - this slows down the game dramatically, no matter how powerful your PC is. And AI is a complete joke, offering absolutely no challenge, because they're programmed in such a horrible way that they bankrupt themselves by building too many ports. As of now, Paradox has yet to fix all issues, not even talking about the problems at the core of game itself, so I do not recommend this game right now.