# Mafia II demo now available on Steam **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 10, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851 "2010-08-10T18:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/1 "2010-08-10T18:11:55Z")
What the title says, pretty much. I’m real anxious about the game, which is released in full on the 27th. The demo is downloading now, but it’ll be a while since I’m only on a 1mbit line for the moment. Anyone else excited? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/2 "2010-08-10T22:37:05Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > What the title says, pretty much. I’m real anxious about the game, which is released in full on the 27th. The demo is downloading now, but it’ll be a while since I’m only on a 1mbit line for the moment. > > Anyone else excited? 😛 I’m stoked. Good news for you: The game comes out the 24th, not the 27th. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/3 "2010-08-10T23:24:51Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > > [@Gukumatz](#): > > > > What the title says, pretty much. I’m real anxious about the game, which is released in full on the 27th. The demo is downloading now, but it’ll be a while since I’m only on a 1mbit line for the moment. > > > > Anyone else excited? 😛 > > I’m stoked. > > Good news for you: The game comes out the 24th, not the 27th. I’m stupid, the 24th if American release, you were right. I downloaded but I didn’t like playing it on the computer. I will still pick up the game though, but for my PS3. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/4 "2010-08-11T14:24:09Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > > [@RandMcnally](#): > > > > I’m stoked. > > > > Good news for you: The game comes out the 24th, not the 27th. > > I’m stupid, the 24th if American release, you were right. > > I downloaded but I didn’t like playing it on the computer. I will still pick up the game though, but for my PS3. Yeah, this feels a bit more like a console game to me, too. (The driving was pretty horific, though I only stole an oldmobile so I probably shouldn’t judge it just yet.) I’ve got the hardware for it, but it might just make a better console game - and by the controls, the PC version feels like a port. Of course, I’m not sure that’s warranted either - I’ve only tried what might just be the shortest damn demo, ever. I mean, 1GB download for 10 minutes? Literally, 10 minutes? ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/5 "2010-08-11T15:13:26Z")
Doesn’t sound promising then. Another crappy port? When will develoeprs get the memo? PC gamers will NOT buy a crappy port. Give us a decent PC game or don’t waste your time, it won’t sell here. And no, it’s not piracy or a smller market. Look at Startcraft II. nearly 500,000 more pre-orders than the upcoming Halo, and will probably sell just as good as that super popular game in a super popular genre (FPS vs RTS). But Starcraft II is a proper PC game, damn it! ::sigh:: I’ll give the demo a shot tonight if I get a chance. Are the controls as bad as GTAIV on the PC, worse, better? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/6 "2010-08-11T16:33:39Z")
I played the demo on my PS3. It was fun enough, although it’s going to take longer than one mission in order for me to get the hang of the driving. I really enjoy the soundtrack. The first song that popped on was Frankie Lyman’s “Why do fools fall in love.” I then switched to another station and Frank Sinatra was on. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/7 "2010-08-11T19:43:17Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#): > > Doesn’t sound promising then. Another crappy port? When will develoeprs get the memo? PC gamers will NOT buy a crappy port. > > Give us a decent PC game or don’t waste your time, it won’t sell here. And no, it’s not piracy or a smller market. Look at Startcraft II. nearly 500,000 more pre-orders than the upcoming Halo, and will probably sell just as good as that super popular game in a super popular genre (FPS vs RTS). But Starcraft II is a proper PC game, damn it! ::sigh:: I’ll give the demo a shot tonight if I get a chance. Are the controls as bad as GTAIV on the PC, worse, better? Oh, better than GTA IV, by all means. Just not _good_. But the game itself might be very worthwhile - it doesn’t appear to be a bad game by any standards. It looks good, the voice acting is good, the story appears to have some flesh on it and the original was superb. It’s no Godfather I/II game, in other words it’s not _shit_, but it feels way more console-based than I’d like. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/8 "2010-08-11T23:22:32Z")
Downloaded the demo inspired by this thread, and while the cutscenes and voice acting were atmospheric and the shooting bits felt like fun, the driving was like trying to steer a toy car by poking it with a 5 ft stick. I’m surprised I managed to drive almost all the way to the mission with just one collision. If I’d buy the game, I foresee myself getting really, really annoyed by the driving quite fast and then quitting the whole game the first time there’s a difficult car chase scene. Meh. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![abel29a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@abel29a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abel29a)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-ii-demo-now-available-on-steam/549851/9 "2010-08-13T08:22:10Z")
I didn’t find the driving to bad, comparable to the old Mafia game. Although I had it on normal instead of simulation. The only thing I missed was the speed limiter button from Mafia 1, as barreling down a busy city street doing 70-80 mph is bound to make it difficult to avoid crashes 🙂 The shooting scenes were fuuun, the trailer cool - I’ve been waiting for this game for a long time and the demo didn’t lessen my expectations, for sure 🙂