“Mafia II” Xbox 360 Screenshots Released

Mafia II will be released on October 31, 2009 but screenshots from the Xbox 360 version of the game have begun to surface across the internet.  Here’s your first look at the game!

The sequel to Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven will be set in Empire City (a fictional setting based on a mix of San Francisco and New York City) during the 1940s and 1950s.  I’m assuming we can expect some old-school gangster action which I think is a nice change from all the “modern warfare” type games available today.

In the game, players will have a lot of freedom since there are no restrictions and it will feature a completely open-ended game map of 10 square miles.  That’s huge!  The controls seem pretty straight-forward as well.  There were will be two action buttons (one for standard and the other for violent action) but I’m not sure what to expect from the checkpoint system.

Weaponry will range from what was available in the previous game (Thompson M1928, Colt 1911 and a pump action shotgun) but it will also include new WWII-era weapons such as the MP40, M3 Grease Gun and the MG42.