JaZeeL wrote on Aug 28, 2010, 09:11:
It took me just over 14 hours to finish all 15 chapters. I loved it, and now I'm going to go back through it on hard.

That's still kinda short, but eh. I'm enjoying the game so far, there's some slowdowns with my 4670 generally with the way the lighting is done, but otherwise been a good game so far.

13.7 hours to finish here and I barely got any collectibles.

JaZeeL wrote on Aug 28, 2010, 09:11:

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Aug 28, 2010, 02:01:

space captain wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 23:26:
yeh its easily less than 10 hours

4hrs of gameplay, 50% done. Yep.

It took me just over 14 hours to finish all 15 chapters. I loved it, and now I'm going to go back through it on hard.

I am @ chapter8 now and so far according to Steam I put 5 hours in the game. So about 10-12 hours sounds right. I am also playing it on medium difficulty. As soon as I am done I will go back and play through again in hard diff.

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Aug 28, 2010, 02:01:

space captain wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 23:26:
yeh its easily less than 10 hours

4hrs of gameplay, 50% done. Yep.

It took me just over 14 hours to finish all 15 chapters. I loved it, and now I'm going to go back through it on hard.

Jay wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 17:55:

LittleMe wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 17:05:
Uh, what? Yeah like nV would look classy offering a free demo with a 465 or higher video card.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/promotion_starcraft_II.html

True, but a free trial is different than a demo. The SC2 trial is the full game, a demo is much less.

space captain wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 23:26:
yeh its easily less than 10 hours

4hrs of gameplay, 50% done. Yep.

I've been playing this without moving at top speed from location to location...i'm genuinely enjoying the sights. So far, it's perfect.

[url=]http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/4122/mafia2.gif[/url]

only thing i can figure is most everyone else is burning through it like Mario, where the object is to finish as opposed to enjoy. *shrug*

^m^

yeh its easily less than 10 hours

Nvidia is trying pretty hard to sell off their GF100 (gtx465, 470, 480) based stock with this promotion as well as several other promotions and mail in rebates. I suspect the 384 shaders gf104 release is imminent, and the respin/refresh to GF100 is not far off.

BOO

I was planning on getting a GTX460 shortly.

Shred wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 19:14:
I agree its a decent game, but way too short. I finished the game in less than 10 hours and I wasn't even rushing my way through.

In the first game, I probably got 30-40 hours out of it. But that was because I loved racing around getting shot at, doing police chases, bailing, getting another car and keep going and waiting to get blowed up by a hail of gunfire.

10hrs is pretty short, but I guess I'll find out in a bit when my copy gets home.

Overon wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 18:04:
It's not amazing. Look at the reviews, it's not that good.

Reviewers didn't like the first one either, and personally it was probably the best game I played in ages.

I would prefer if NVidia offered to officially support using their cards like 8800 gt for stand alone physx accelerator even of someone uses ati as their primary gpu.

akula1984 wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 18:47:
I could NOT disagree more. I am a very picky gamer, normally don't even finish games. I've put more than 10 hours into Mafia 2 in the last 2 days. game is beautiful, 9.5/10 easily.

I agree its a decent game, but way too short. I finished the game in less than 10 hours and I wasn't even rushing my way through.

Overon wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 18:04:
It's not amazing. Look at the reviews, it's not that good.

I could NOT disagree more. I am a very picky gamer, normally don't even finish games. I've put more than 10 hours into Mafia 2 in the last 2 days. game is beautiful, 9.5/10 easily.

Yeah, well, I'm enjoying it. And in all fairness my system is having trouble running it - I had to remove a number of APEX files to make it playable - but it now runs okay with the occasional few seconds pause. So long as I'm not holding down a key the pause passes fairly quickly

I've found that the performance degrades severely after a couple hours of playing. Likely a memory leak or similar flaw. A number of other people have reported the same behavior on their forums. Restarting clears it up. Annoying and hopefully sorted with a patch, but for the time being, it's just serving to remind me that I've been playing too long.

All things considered, I get excellent performance. On a 9800GTX and E8400, I get a consistent 50-60 fps at 1920x1080 with the details on max, but without Physx and no AA. I get occasional little stutters when I'm booking it across the city, but nothing you could take offense at.

I'm really digging it too. I dunno what the deal with that 4/10 Eurogamer review is about. It made some valid points to be sure, but seems to me that someone probably just has an axe to grind for whatever reason. I'd probably give it an 8.5 myself. It's not spectacular or groundbreaking in any way, but it does what it says on the tin very well.

My biggest gripe is that it doesn't support a wheel without jumping through a lot of preposterous hoops. That's how I played the first one and it makes the driving much, MUCH more enjoyable. I don't see how or why they left that out. Though it would be nice, I don't need fancy FFB or anything, just standard generic control configuration. Maybe they'll add that in some time, though I'll probably be done with the game by then.

Other than that, the firefights and cover system work very well, and the fistfight system works well for what it is (a little too easy perhaps once you get the rhythm down, though).

The city is fantastic looking. They did a really brilliant job with that. It's by far the most impressive looking open-world city I've ever seen. Lots of character to it and nice detail. It could use a little more variety in the pedestrians though.

Anyways... the only way I could see someone being totally disappointed in it is if they were expecting it to be something it isn't trying to be.

It is a linear game. That's perfectly fine with me. It would be great in a different way if they made a sandbox game along similar lines, but that's not what this is.

Overon wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 18:04:
It's not amazing. Look at the reviews, it's not that good.

That's odd, because I'm having a fucking blast. It's okay though, what do I know? Clearly since the reviews say it's not that good I'm in error. My only gripe is that they didn't give us enough reasons to zip around the amazing city, and that its a bit short. Though the original was really short too.

Yeah, well, I'm enjoying it. And in all fairness my system is having trouble running it - I had to remove a number of APEX files to make it playable - but it now runs okay with the occasional few seconds pause. So long as I'm not holding down a key the pause passes fairly quickly.

And that's just cus my computer is getting old now. Batman started off playable but slowed to more and more of a crawl in the later levels. I'm finally getting enough incentive to upgrade.

Only thing I could gripe about so far is the ease of regenerating health in gun fights. I hope the enemies get that too.

It's not amazing. Look at the reviews, it's not that good.

LittleMe wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 17:05:
Uh, what? Yeah like nV would look classy offering a free demo with a 465 or higher video card.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/promotion_starcraft_II.html