perry_weekley
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I've played Mafia 2 and railroad wise I'm disappointed. 10 chapter in and the EL hasn't appeared once. The last moving train I saw was around chapter 2. I still have 4 chapters and I'm hoping for a free roam mode at the end but...
As a review on Kotaku said, Empire Bay looks, and sometimes feels, very much like a model railroad. It's sad not to see moving trains on the tracks in this game other than the brief bits in cutscenes and in the first and second missions.
Edit: Okay so I have to update this. Finished the game and there is no free roam. It is said they took it out before release because they wanted the initial product to be all about the story. They will supposably be patching it back in in the future. From my perspective after doing maybe three of four hours wandering the city is implementing the things that weren't done. There is a train but it's on the far right of the map and it was only available briefly as it passed along some tracks the player can not see the whole route for. Along with that I found a steam locomotive all steamed up but no track to run down.
I feel after they release the Free Roam addon a lot of things will be added. There are many places on the map that you can get too but are behind gates that are strong as titanium. There are also some areas that seem to be there for "downloadable content." There seems to be a whole country side waiting to be explored but it is behind locks and down roads that can never be drove down. I'm hoping they also add the train seen on the back of the box along the EL system, looked at some of the tunnels for it and it seems like it was a complete system but they ran into bugs before release.
Mafia 2 is a very detailed world, now if only everyone else could explore it without having to be stuck in a mission.
As a review on Kotaku said, Empire Bay looks, and sometimes feels, very much like a model railroad. It's sad not to see moving trains on the tracks in this game other than the brief bits in cutscenes and in the first and second missions.
Edit: Okay so I have to update this. Finished the game and there is no free roam. It is said they took it out before release because they wanted the initial product to be all about the story. They will supposably be patching it back in in the future. From my perspective after doing maybe three of four hours wandering the city is implementing the things that weren't done. There is a train but it's on the far right of the map and it was only available briefly as it passed along some tracks the player can not see the whole route for. Along with that I found a steam locomotive all steamed up but no track to run down.
I feel after they release the Free Roam addon a lot of things will be added. There are many places on the map that you can get too but are behind gates that are strong as titanium. There are also some areas that seem to be there for "downloadable content." There seems to be a whole country side waiting to be explored but it is behind locks and down roads that can never be drove down. I'm hoping they also add the train seen on the back of the box along the EL system, looked at some of the tunnels for it and it seems like it was a complete system but they ran into bugs before release.
Mafia 2 is a very detailed world, now if only everyone else could explore it without having to be stuck in a mission.
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