I'm buying the most redicolous graphics card on the market if those are In-game screenshots! This looks freakin' awesome!

Wow, such universal awe across the board for a game I've never played All the kids at the internet cafe I used to go to were fanatical about Mafia, but I'd just slink off into a corner and fire up Freelancer. Perhaps I should have joined the mob

EK, it's never to late to play a good game

On topic, I sure hope that bloom will have turn on/off option.
Otherwise looks like it will be a nice game, but things can go very bad between now and mid 2009

Small amount of bloom would really liven up scenery I think, but for that it should have slider so that it would be possible to set 0.03% from current value

A question for Mafia fans: Where was the Mafia game created? (country)

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A question for Mafia fans: Where was the Mafia game created? (country)

A lot closer to Chernobyl than Western game houses.

Which would explain a lot of things.

Best games origin surprisingly often some other place than western world, must be true that western people are lazy

wow better damage moddeling then Burnout Paradise, so that means cars would crumple very hard en the person inside has to be crushed with allot of blood in and around the car or he should be thrown out the car :P :O

I will love this.

I'm going to get flamed for this but:
I hated the original Mafia

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I'm going to get flamed for this but:
I hated the original Mafia

That is your right

Now, where did I put my flame-thrower, it was here just moment ago?

Quote from Jertje :

I'm going to get flamed for this but:
I hated the original Mafia

:flamed:

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That is your right

Now, where did I put my flame-thrower, it was here just moment ago?

I totally didn't steal everybodies flamethrowers before posting.

Quote from Jertje :

I totally didn't steal everybodies flamethrowers before posting.

Nope.. I still had mine

I loved the original Mafia. It had.. style to it, there are few games that are stylish.

Video games are like porn - they get right to the point and there's no art in'em.

Ahh, i should work in summer holidays to buy new comp. That stupid computers are wasting too much money from our life! :arge:

I hate computers at all, you pay for nothing.

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Ahh, i should work in summer holidays to buy new comp. That stupid computers are wasting too much money from our life! :arge:

I hate computers at all, you pay for nothing.

Buy a playstation, it'll last 4 years longer before something new shows up, it's always compatible, and the images are pretty decent too nowadays..

I think that's my only solution to get mafia 2... On playstation.

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I'm buying the most redicolous graphics card on the market if those are In-game screenshots! This looks freakin' awesome!

Would require seriously odd photoshopping skills to get that kind of #%?#?! result with the $#!?#! bloom.

Altough some of those screenshots might be scans from magazines, which fortunately highlights the bloom.

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Think about if the progress of 3D engines would have gone a different route in the past. Instead of everything getting more and more shiny, bloomy and over saturated, what if Carmack and folks would have done everything to make the smoke perfect?

Yeah. Nowadays it's PS2-level textures + bloom = OMG it's so Next-Gen™. With this way of development, we'll never get even close to "photorealistic" graphics.

Where did realistic, sharp, natural looking graphics go? Everyone who thinks bloom is great, could you honestly imagine similar kind of effect to photos or movies*?

* there are some examples already... and it has been used lots of late 90's tv series.

Well, bloom looks silly in some racing games, but here it actually looks OK, imo.. It'd be nice if it could be adjustable though, i would turn it down a bit...
And graphics are great for this kind of game (IF, those are ingame graphics), much, MUCH better than the new GTA IV..

Bloom effect depends on the game. Usually is quite overdone, but there are some games in wich it´s really good.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Well, bloom looks silly in some racing games, but here it actually looks OK, imo.. It'd be nice if it could be adjustable though, i would turn it down a bit...
And graphics are great for this kind of game (IF, those are ingame graphics), much, MUCH better than the new GTA IV..

It looks fine if one has forgot his strong glasses at home, got sand to his eyes and just emerged from dark caves underground after being there for 30 years, then perhaps world would look such as it looks in those pics.

Example of IRL
There is one very shiny car in bright sunlight, notice sand at background it is not glowing and defineatly not burning white or anything like that.
It would not be for human eye either and also there would be less glimmering bright spots in car for human eye than there is for camera.
Also notice how image is not completely blurred, there are actually sharp shapes there.

But of course if today it is more important to look nice than real, maybe that is way to go, however I'm capable of voting with my money what I want from game and radioactive glow and blur is not that

Best way to get bloom in real life is to swim underwater a lot with your eyes open for an hour, at your local public swimming pool. It works, believe me!

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Best way to get bloom in real life is to swim underwater a lot with your eyes open for an hour, at your local public swimming pool. It works, believe me!

You are either brave or crazy, you know there are bit more in water than just water in those public pools

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You are either brave or crazy, you know there are bit more in water than just water in those public pools

hehe.. I shudder to think! I was young, it was summer.. ugh!!