Mafia 2 Dev Diary Showcases "Empire Bay"

On Friday, 2K Czech released a developer diary video that went behind the scenes of its upcoming open-world "Cosa Nostra" sim, Mafia II. The primary focus of the video is the detail that we

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On Friday, 2K Czech released a developer diary video that went behind the scenes of its upcoming open-world "Cosa Nostra" sim, Mafia II.

The primary focus of the video is the detail that went behind creating Empire Bay, the city Mafia II takes place in. Covering "10 square miles," Empire Bay is "roughly" twice the size of the city featured in the original title in series.

Throughout the course of the game, players will watch the city evolve from from a bleak post-World War II 1940s to a booming 1950s. Of course, a bigger city means more hiding spots for all the bodies players are sure to compile in an attempt to rise to power.

Mafia II is scheduled to hit the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on August 24, 2010.

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    July 6, 2010 9:35 AM

    Looks great! Life in the 50's must of be interesting in NYC... Why can't we have this world anymore, why are the cities now overrun by Ghetto's? Sad Sad Sad

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      July 6, 2010 10:49 AM

      WTF???

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      July 6, 2010 11:02 AM

      Yeah...that would be recession and the Bush administration. At the risk of "oversimplifying" the situation
      The working poor, called the middle class ~ destroyed in the USA.
      Believe it or not the 50's where better cause a man could work and sustain his family. Takes 100 people now working to buy groceries in one family or a very good job that clocks 150 g's a year...maybe.

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        July 6, 2010 11:56 AM

        The housing bubble collapsed because of Democrats, who were the Senate majority during the last 4 years of the Bush administration (you know, when the job-approval ratings for both nosedived). So I'm not quite sure what you're talking about. I guess you can say Bush and the Republicans didn't do enough to prevent Dems from fucking everything up, but that does not support your argument.

        Furthermore, three of the biggest welfare Democrat-run states (CA, NJ, NY) are essentially bankrupt because of special interest groups and the insane taxation of anyone not of poverty level.

        The thing that made the 40's and 50's so great was Capitalism.

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          July 6, 2010 1:37 PM

          Actually per capita the worse offenders are rurals areas when it comes to welfare.

          Greenspan messed up and destabilized our housing by lying to us and making us believe we all had dough in our homes. That's why caused the housing bubble to burst.

          You have 75 year old's trying to work now, cause they've been robbed and it wasn't just Democrats, it was whomever was sitting in power at the time and this is a Republican, Hispanic (whatever that means) telling you this.
          I am an American first and foremost. Even though half of American hates my guts simply cause I'm different than them.

          Here's a link for a good place for statistics:
          http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_wel_cas_tot_rec_percap-caseloads-total-recipients-per-capita

          The 40's and 50's where a good time in this country, hardships no doubt, but better in a simpler way. However, I realize the only way I would have enjoyed it, is if I was cleaning toilets.

          Capitalism is not a proper way of life. Where 1% of a the population keep all the wealth and the rest of us are indentured slaves. American used to be industrious, hard working folk. Isolationist also (and to some degree this helped).

          We used to admire the rich, gave us something to aspire to. Now the poor and the working poor hate the rich. No one believes in our governmental institutions and our way of life is in danger. We can fix, but it will take some radical thinking and some real hard work.

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      July 6, 2010 11:19 AM

      ehh I am pretty damn sure that there were more ghettoes and the standard of living was worse in the 40's and 50's in NYC than now. Lack of running water in many buildings, etc. 70's and early 80's might have been worse than then though, looking at the Bronx and Harlem.

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      July 6, 2010 11:46 AM

      Ha! You mean go back to the more openly racist and bigoted 50's? Also do some more American History reading when commenting on the thriving nature of "ghetto's".

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