Comments on: Mafia 2 Screens

By: lio

lio — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:58:52 +0000

this is probably the game that i am looking forward to the most – more than to any other game in the last couple of years.
the original mafia was such a great game… i’ll make sure to play through it once again just before mafia2 comes out…

By: UncleLou

UncleLou — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:48:39 +0000

Yeah, I much preferred Mafia over GTA III as well. GTA III has a lot more breadth, but Mafia was a lot more refined in the things it concentrated on. They’re not that similar, anyway. Mafia wasn’t really a sandbox game.

By: Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:54:14 +0000

Mafia was way more awesome than the previous GTA games, and I suspect Mafia 2 will hold it’s own just fine over GTA 4.

I just hope to hell tey allow quick save. Trudging through some of the confrontations in the original game, working only with savepoints, nearly drove me loony.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:18:42 +0000

Looking good, and looking forward to this, it’s just unfortunate that Rockstar are out of the gate first. I suspect regardless of how much effort the devs put in between now and release Mafia 2 will be compared unfavorably to GTA IV, which looks to have significantly raised the bar when in comes to the sandbox shooter genre. If they can pip GTA IV to a PC release then they might do themselves a favour though.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:55:49 +0000

Thanks for the link James, been doing right click; properties on FF w/RPS for a while now, never thought to look for a plug in.

By: James T

James T — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:56:47 +0000

Jeez, Spring ’09? I wouldn’t be surprised if GTA4 does come out first…

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:50:44 +0000

WordPress only gives asks for an ALT when you insert an image, so there’s no chance of us swapping over to title, out of pure laziness. If people want to tool-tips, there’s a load of plug-ins, the use of which really annoys purist webcoder sorts.

As anyone who’s seen how we use tags know, we’re not big on proper coding.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:08:47 +0000

GTA 4 should be out before Christmas, so it makes sense they don’t want to release Mafia at the same time…So spring 09 seems realistic.

By: RaptorM60

RaptorM60 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:45:03 +0000

I also hope for christmas release date, but all the previews in paper magazines says Spring 2009 :-( (and 2K Games are not usually pulling their games out in “overgamed” end of the year).

By: Nuyan

Nuyan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:41:30 +0000

I wonder how this will compare to GTA4. I found Mafia more enjoyable than GTA3 back in the day, but GTA4 seems to look more similar to Mafia with a bit more realism and story.

Good thing is that Mafia 2 will probably be out before GTA4 on pc.

By: FP

FP — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:31:53 +0000

@Janek

There’s nothing to fix, alt text isn’t supposed to become a tooltip (it’s a weird historical artifact of IE that turns alt into a tooltip, no other browser does). There is an attribute specifically designed for tooltips called “title” (which every browser including IE supports) but RPS don’t use it.

Edit: Too slow, again.

By: Cargo Cult

Cargo Cult — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:31:29 +0000

Browsers aren’t supposed to show the alternate text as a tooltip – it’s just the terminally stupid Internet Explorer which does that.

But what if you do want a tooltip? Well, that’s what the title attribute is for!