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News by Robert Purchese

8 January, 2008

Take-Two has made Mafia developer Illusion Softworks one of the family.

Its acquisition will see it rebadged as 2K Czech, but otherwise little will change, with work set to continue on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC gangster sequel Mafia II.

Illusion was also responsible for the Hidden & Dangerous franchise, and currently has more than 200 people on the pay roll.

Mafia is a third-person action game from 2002 that caused you lot to argue with us about its score. Unsurprisingly, you play a criminal struggling to make a name for yourself in the world of 1930s America, in a city resembling a cross between Chicago and New York.

Writer Daniel Vavra is back to flesh out the sequel, which will take place years later in the 1950s.

It looks good, too, as you can see in our Mafia II gallery.

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Nova5lag
08/01/08 @ 14:32
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Wow it said there was 1 comment and there wasnt so I thought I would make it correct.
Nova5lag
08/01/08 @ 14:33
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Bah! And now it says there is 2 and there isnt!!! Whats going on! Counter is broken.... much!
WooHoo!!!
08/01/08 @ 14:35
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lol, I was wondering.

I wish Take 2 would stop renaming these devs. Irrational now 2K Boston/Australia and now Illusion.
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Blerk
08/01/08 @ 14:48
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Soon to be renamed "Grand Theft Auto: Mafia". :-)
elredeyegrande
08/01/08 @ 14:54
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WooHoo!!!, I'd say they're changing the names to make the devs even more faceless. So all the credit goes to 2K that way.

Theres also a 2K Marin now, isn't there?
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UncleLou
08/01/08 @ 15:29
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Soon to be renamed "Grand Theft Auto: Mafia". :-)

Seeing how Mafia was a much better game than any GTA, that would be a real disservice. ;)
Yuk04
08/01/08 @ 15:39
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2K Marin, that would be awesome!

We're talking about the lost village of Marin in Galicia right?

Or do you mean the one in California?

There are also Marin cities in France and Italy...
L42yB
08/01/08 @ 15:39
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Screens look good... will have to check this out when the demo (hopefully) becomes available :)
Darren
08/01/08 @ 15:47
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Well I definitely wouldn't say no to a 2K Czech!!! LOL
Gnort
08/01/08 @ 15:51
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When I saw the headline I thought they were talking about Japanese H-game developer Illusion. Now that would have been interesting.

Take 2 presents Battle Raper 2

Edit: Wikipedia informs me there already is a Battle Raper 2
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squarejawhero
08/01/08 @ 16:03
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Hidden and Dangerous 3 - WANT!
urban
08/01/08 @ 16:10
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MAFIA is one of my favourite games ever.
Adam_T
08/01/08 @ 16:18
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Mafia 2 crap! Didn't know about that!

Mafia was bloody awesome on pc. Lemme guess, console ports were shit?
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squarejawhero
08/01/08 @ 16:52
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Apparently yes.
Artemus
08/01/08 @ 17:05
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According to EG, Mafia on PC was shit as well. ;)
zoidberg
08/01/08 @ 19:31
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Mafia ruled all. GTA sucked compared to it.

But 2K Czech?! Illusion must be crying themselves to sleep every night. Stupid buy-out.
Royal Fool
09/01/08 @ 06:43
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That's a terrible name. Yes, it fits into 2k's new arrangement, but it still sounds horrible.
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09/01/08 @ 09:52
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"Mafia is a third-person action game from 2002 that caused you lot to argue with us about its score. "

never has a reviewer got it so wrong... maybe slight exageration ;)
Royal Fool
09/01/08 @ 10:42
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I never played Mafia but I did buy Hidden & Dangeous, and after that I swore to never touch another Illusion Softworks game ever again.

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