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Mafia II

Mafia II is a third-person action-adventure video game which is the sequel to Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It is developed by 2K Czech and is published by 2K Games and was released last month. Mafia II is set from 1943 to 1951 in Empire Bay which is a fictional city based mostly on San Francisco and New York City along with some influences from Chicago and also Detroit.

Mafia II is a gritty drama which chronicles the rise of World War II veteran Vito Scaletta who joins the Falcone Crime Family and becomes a ‘made’ man. There are 15 chapters in the game and over two hours of game engine generated cutscenes.

Mafia II makes extensive use of Nvidia’s PhysX whose full effects are seen smoothly only by playing on a PhysX-enabled GeForce and preferably with a second video card dedicated to it. ABT has recently got a copy of Mafia II and you can expect a review of this game by at least two Senior Editors, including a performance review. For this article, we used the full game Mafia II‘s built-in benchmark with the highest settings for 2560×1600 and 1920×1200 – without PhysX – and this time we will reserve comment until after both charts.

Now at 1920×1200:

All of our video cards will give a satisfactory playing experience despite the benchmark’s suggestion that the framerates drop too low playing at 2560×1600. However, enabling AA and high PhysX together will bring a GTX 480 to its knees. If you want to run Mafia II with AA on and even medium PhysX settings at 2560×1600, consider getting a dedicated PhysX card.