August 10th!
 
So for me in an hour and a half!
So stoked!
 
I pre-ordered it yesterday!
I was going to get the collector's edition but instead thought it would be better just to get the game because Id probably look at the book once and forget about it.

o hell ya will it be on psn?

ok cool.

I hope there is a demo for the pc version.

Oh neat, I'll consider thinking about trying the demo... maybe. If I can.

I'll try it.

Tomorrow?!?!?!?! AWESOME
 
I was expecting it to be an after-launch demo. Thankfully it isn't ^_^

I hope its a 30 minute to an hour trial

i wonder if it will be infinite and you just get a small portion of the map and a couple missions.

PC demo just went live on Steam. 1116mb.

Cant wait until tomorrow. I forgot the demo came out in the 10th. All I've been thinking of was how awesome seeing Back to the Future was in theaters on Sunday and Scott Pilgrim the game was coming out on the 10th.

Almost forgot as well. Looking forward to seeing how it plays and if it can put my doubts to rest.

Demo isn't out yet here in canada on steam.

fuck man canada steam hurry up I WANNA PLAY.

Took about 20 minutes to play through the PC demo. Runs pretty okay on my system, which is surprising. Plays quite well too, though im rather disappointed how much certain things have changed from the first game. Gunfights dont seem even nearly as intense as they used to be. 
 
And yeah, there are playboy collectibles even in the demo, god damn!

Demo works now for canada, i'm downloading it now.

Waiting for XBLA to update. Excited to try it.

" Took about 20 minutes to play through the PC demo. Runs pretty okay on my system, which is surprising. Plays quite well too, though im rather disappointed how much certain things have changed from the first game. Gunfights dont seem even nearly as intense as they used to be.   And yeah, there are playboy collectibles even in the demo, god damn! "

well im off to download it.

" @niamahai:  Oh yes it does!  (No problem, the flesh is weak) "

Currently in between this and Kane and Lynch 2 - the latter ran pretty poorly on my system so I'm hoping Mafia edges it out performance-wise despite being an open world game. 
 
Downloading right now.

" @niamahai: what about the new kane and lynch. "

" Currently in between this and Kane and Lynch 2 - the latter ran pretty poorly on my system so I'm hoping Mafia edges it out performance-wise despite being an open world game.  Downloading right now. "

Is it just heavily scripted and guided or can you actually not explore the whole city ala GTA? The former would likely explain the decent performance as an entire city isn't being rendered but it's totally not what I was expecting (not that I mind - I find most open world games get tedious after a while due to the constant need to travel to the mission start point and the abundance of down time in between the action proper).

It's up on XBLA. Nice!
 
 http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802545407e6/?p=1&of=1&pid=0ddf0001-0000-4000-8000-000054548864&bt=0&sb=1

" It's up on XBLA. Nice!
 
 http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802545407e6/?p=1&of=1&pid=0ddf0001-0000-4000-8000-000054548864&bt=0&sb=1 "

Tried the PC demo, graphics are nice and performance is better than I expected (running maxed except with Apex off).  Gameplay feels pretty simple, and the demo was linear, didn't really engage me much.  I wouldn't be opposed to picking it up cheap in the future.

God damn this game really hogs my system.  It truely is a sight to behold, though.  You can tell where that extra year or two in development went with all the PhysX (*drools*) and lighting.

" Is it just heavily scripted and guided or can you actually not explore the whole city ala GTA? The former would likely explain the decent performance as an entire city isn't being rendered but it's totally not what I was expecting (not that I mind - I find most open world games get tedious after a while due to the constant need to travel to the mission start point and the abundance of down time in between the action proper). "

Went for the demo on steam. It's good, didn't really give me anything I hadn't seen before from the videos though.
Didn't go explore the city much though given the timer it smacked in my face. Played good and the vehicles behaves great. I'll definitely buy it if I have some money.
 
(didn't fancy the lack of a cruise control though, always had a fun depth to the driving with speed limits and a cruise control to that)

Gamespot have a video of the demo here.

Cool. I might try it but I am not sure I want to bother with it.

Played the demo for a bit on Steam. Seems decent, enjoyed driving around listening to music. The gun combat was solid but not that exciting. PhysX made it more intense because of all the crap flying everywhere. Doubt I'll buy it, in fact I'm just going to say I wont but interesting to try the demo.

I thought you will like to see a few screenshots of the demo. The graphics are good, even though you can't see the detail for small screenshots. Looks alot better than gta 4 and also runs better too.  
 

Played to 360 version and gotta say that technically it's not that impressive, sure there is a lot of attention to detail and models look great etc. But the game runs poorly: under 30fps pretty much the whole time, it makes the shooting and driving more frustrating that it already is. Also i hardly ever mind jaggies and screen-tearing but i gotta say Mafia 2 really suffers from both of those in a big way. 
 
I hope that this is an old e3 demo or something and the technical hiccups are corrected in the final version ( doubt it ). Shame really, cos'  both the time period and the story seems interesting and very well put together.

" Played to 360 version and gotta say that technically it's not that impressive, sure there is a lot of attention to detail and models look great etc. But the game runs poorly: under 30fps pretty much the whole time, it makes the shooting and driving more frustrating that it already is. Also i hardly ever mind jaggies and screen-tearing but i gotta say Mafia 2 really suffers from both of those in a big way.    I hope that this is an old e3 demo or something and the technical hiccups are corrected in the final version ( doubt it ). Shame really, cos'  both the time period and the story seems interesting and very well put together. "

" Played to 360 version and gotta say that technically it's not that impressive, sure there is a lot of attention to detail and models look great etc. But the game runs poorly: under 30fps pretty much the whole time, it makes the shooting and driving more frustrating that it already is. Also i hardly ever mind jaggies and screen-tearing but i gotta say Mafia 2 really suffers from both of those in a big way.    I hope that this is an old e3 demo or something and the technical hiccups are corrected in the final version ( doubt it ). Shame really, cos'  both the time period and the story seems interesting and very well put together. "

Played the PC version. Game feels good. Boobs. Driving with a keyboard is easy. I really like the feel of the cars, the loose back end is nice, and powersliding is easy. Shooting is fine too, no real complaints there. Performance is good and framerate is stable with APEX turned off, terrible with it turned on (I only have a 9600gt). AA on or off doesn't really seem to make a difference though, it's really jaggy. So far I really like it, though I'm waiting for someone to release a trainer that freezes the timer, before I can really make a judgment on it. I do think there are too many buttons though. A button used exclusively to smash a window? Really? Anyway, looking forward to play the full game.
 
EDIT: Fiddled around a bit with the settings. Thank god there are subtitles! Tried simulation driving, and it's difficult with a keyboard. Lots of wheel spinning, and the car is all over the place. Oh, and you can die if you crash into something hard enough.

Game is very good. Although I hate that they removed the little details, like being able to turn off the engine without exiting the vehicle, manual gearing, etc.

I wish I wasn't at work right now so I could give the game a try.  Oh, well added it to my Queue.  Nice to see some of you are having fun with it though.

ehhh.... I don't know about this now.

The demo was very good. The controls are great for both the Xbox controller and mouse/keyboard.

No complaints about the 360 version so far here. Looks and plays great, better than expected.

Timer hack found!
 
Fire up your favorite hex editor, open the Mafia2.exe file, go to offset  000F5380, look for  D9 56 4C, change to 90 90 90, save, and fire up the game. I just tested it, and it seems to work just fine. Played for about 20 minutes.
 
EDIT: Or get my modified .exe from Megaupload.