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Game entry

Mafia II

2010 · TPS, Action-adventure, Racing, Sandbox · PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 · 2K Games

Mafia II holds position no. 499 in the world ranking on GameForever, with 1,692 ELO points and 62% of duels won out of 700 played. Its most contested head-to-head pits it against Grand Theft Auto V: 7 wins to 24 across 31 duels. Measured against its own family, it climbs to no. 22 out of 146 (2010).

World rank

no. 499

ELO score

1,692

Wins

62%

Duels played

700

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About Mafia II

Mafia II is a third-person action-adventure game set in the fictional American city of Empire Bay between 1945 and 1951. Players control Vito Scaletta through a story-driven campaign involving organized crime, navigating an open world on foot or by vehicle. Gameplay combines shooting, driving, and limited melee combat, with a wanted system that escalates law enforcement response based on criminal activity. The game features era-appropriate vehicles, licensed period music across multiple radio stations, and a cover-based combat system.

The community says

I keep coming back to how GOOD the period atmosphere feels, the cars, the radio, all of it, even if the open world itself barely gives you anything to do…

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,692 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Mafia II sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 496 Forza Horizon 4 1,693
  2. 497 Rust 1,693
  3. 498 Pokémon Stadium 2 1,693
  4. 499 Mafia II 1,692
  5. 500 Fall Guys 1,692
  6. 501 Doki Doki Literature Club! 1,692
  7. 502 Sonic the Hedgehog 1,692

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The standing

Where Mafia II ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Mafia II stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 22 out of 146 (2010).

Where Mafia II ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 499 5,046
TPS 25 222
2010s 210 2,050
2010 22 146

The community

The debate

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  1. rowe_trystan

    I keep coming back to how GOOD the period atmosphere feels, the cars, the radio, all of it, even if the open world itself barely gives you anything to do outside missions, which is kind of a shame honestly.

    CritWolf

    L'atmosphère de l'époque, ça compense vraiment le manque d'activités pour toi ?

    Phyllis_73

    La atmosphere carries a lot here, sure, but is that enough when the map itself barely has content?

  2. RetroSniper1988

    Man, I remember getting this right when it came out and just cruising around listening to the radio for hours.

  3. bdickinson

    Say what you want about the empty world, I still think about Vito's story more than most GTA plots combined.

    Pacheco72

    ¿pero de verdad crees que su historia supera a todas las de GTA juntas o es la nostalgia hablando?

    RogueDragon

    Story lands, or mostly does, but the shooting stays stiff the whole way through.

  4. QuestRex5

    Why does everyone judge this against GTA when the whole point was never to copy that formula in the first place?

    ArcadeKnight

    Yo apenas le meto unas horas cada tanto y aun asi entiendo perfectamente por que sigue ganando tantos duelos, la historia engancha desde el principio.

  5. LootFox

    ¿Alguien más siente que la ciudad está ahí solo para verse bonita? Porque a mí me costó encontrar una razón para explorarla fuera de las misiones. Comparado con lo que ofrecen los GTA de la lista, aquí casi todo lo demás es decoración sin vida.

    ArcadeMaster

    Al final el debate siempre vuelve a lo mismo, comparar mundos y no lo que cada uno propone.

    FrameKid

    Replying to ArcadeMaster

    al final siempre se repite lo mismo en cada hilo, comparar mapas en vez de hablar de lo que cada uno hace bien

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