History Headscratchers / MafiaII

** Its not Joe's fault Vito didn't take the correct lesson from his fathers death. Rather than rightfully blaming the mob for ruining him, and unknown to him, actually killing his father, Vito decided he just wanted all the benefits of organized crime.

* Let me get this straight. In the ending [[spoiler: Joe is being driven off to get whacked and Vito is told as much.]] So Vito, [[OneManArmy who's gunned down dozens of mobsters at once, beaten up just as many with his bare hands, and taken out entire families]] just... sits there and does nothing instead of kicking ass out of the car and pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment?

*** Even if Vito can and Vito maybe ''could'' rescue Joe in that ''exact specific incident'' then he's back to being a hunted man with Joe also screwed. He chooses to let his friend die because there's no way to help him and help himself.

** Its not Joe's fault Vito didnt take the correct lesson from his fathers death. Rather than rightfully blaming the mob for ruining him, and unknown to him, actually killing his father, Vito decided he just wanted all the benefits of organized crime.

** They do, all incoming and outgoing inmate mail is read and checked, both to prevent contraband and to make sure the inmates arent getting illegal information.

** You do realize Vito's OneManArmy moments are only in gameplay terms, right? He didnt actually kill all of Falcone's men himself, he killed Falcone himself and maybe a handful of his guys. Storyline wise, there's nothing Vito can do trapped in a car with Leo, Wong and Vinci's men.

** The way I see it, this is symbolic of what happens to Vito at that very moment. [[spoiler: Joe was the only friend he had left, hell the only one in his life left that he really cared about other than Leo.]] We find out what they plan to do with [[spoiler: Joe]] and Vito just has a sort of distant look in his eyes, the credits roll, we can't control him anymore. He's a broken man, the fight is out of him, pretty much no free will left. He has resigned himself to the hell that his life has become and there's nothing he can do about it that will fix things permanently.

** The way I see it, this is symbolic of what happens to Vito at that very moment. [[spoiler: Joe was the only friend he had left, hell the only one in his life left that he really cared about other than Leo.]] We find out what they plan to do with [[spoiler: Joe]] and Vito just has a sort of distant look in his eyes, the credits roll, we can't control him anymore. He's a broken man, the fight is out of him, pretty much no free will left.

** Do you WANT Vito to start another war by killing Frank Vinci's men? He doesn't have much choice.

* Let me get this straight. In the ending [[spoiler: Joe is being driven off to get whacked and Vito is told as much.]] So Vito, [[OneManArmy who's gunned down dozens of mobsters at once, beaten up just as many with his bare hands, and taken out entire families]] just... sits there and does nothing instead of kicking ass out of the car and pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment?

* Just the setting. There was so much potential, so many things you could've done, but all you do is just drive around to plotpoints. (sure you can buy weapons, cars, and clothes, but that's it.) A review said it best, "If the producers wanted this format, why didn't they just write a book or make a movie? 'Cause what I'm getting here is a plot that was meant to be something else, but was forced to be in a videogame."
** I could not agree with you more. Too much driving, too much emphasis on "interactive drama." It reminds me of a significantly more flawed Assassin's Creed 1 (replace unskippable-cutscenes with inconvenient checkpoints that force driving) and that atleast gave you the option of massive exploration (which Mafia II is unable to do with it's attachment to realism). If I had paid full price for it (I paid 7.50)....I would have been quite upset.

* Just the setting. There was so much potential, so many things you could've done, but all you do is just drive around to plotpoints. (sure you can buy weapons, cars, and clothes, but that's it.) A review said it best, "If the producers wanted this format, why didn't they just write a book or make a movie? 'Cause what I'm getting here is a plot that was meant to be something else, but was forced to be in a videogame."