Anyway onto Mafia 2. I really enjoyed playing Mafia because it had an amazing story, From chapter 1 - 15 i really felt like i was part of the story with when your in the army at the begging to the dramatic ending (not spoiling it if you haven't played it.)
I found that the characters in Mafia 2 are sum what a bit too stero-typical of an Italian American Mafia member. Heres is a quick summary of some of the characters:
Vito Scaletta - The main character the one who always has too get his friends out of trouble or get his family out of trouble. As the story goes on this character gets into more and more trouble intill the story just erputs into a mess of rotting corpes and dead memories.
Joey Barbaro - Vito's main man, the other headlining character of the story the one who starts Vito off with making some 'Sweet Dough' and Introducing him to some very important contacts who subsequently come into the story when you need to make some money or Find out the truth (no spoilers there.) But Joey as a character is a very run in and all guns blazin' sort of guy, who also gets all the ladies (well from the 'cathouse' that is.)
Franco Vinci & Alberto Clemete & Carlo Falcone - The three main don bosses of Mafia 2 and there isn't much to say about them although they don't do much but order around there bum buddies to do all there work for them.
Bum Buddies Being - Leo Galante, Luca Gurino and Eddie Scarpa.
Ok so we have cleared most of the chracters now but there is so many more characters in the actual game. If you are abit of a sad geek when it comes to getting acheivments on the xbox or trophies on the ps3 like me your going to love this game it is jam packed with really easy acheivments / trophys for you to get i don't no about trophys but it is up to 1000 gamerscore on the xbox with 47 'chevos and it you get the DLCs it goes up to 1500 very nice if you like your gamerscore.
Onto too the DLCs i purchased both the DLCs earlier this month and found that they are quite different to the actual full version of Mafia which is good if you like a little break from the full game of Mafia. The two DLCs are 'Jimmy's Vendetta' and 'Joe's Adventure' they are both 800 microsoft points currently on the Xbox Live marketplace. Back on to the DLCs i personaly think that 'Jimmy's Vendetta' is a better DLC only because i love to shot and blow stuff up and be rewarded with points for doing it whats better than that. On the other hand though 'Joe's Adventure' is very good because it is actually linked in with the story of the full version.
To my conclusion i think that Mafia 2 is an excellent looking game with some amazing shoot out and character features with some cool clothing gear to go with it. Personally i think the only down fall is that fact that there is no free-roam after you finish the game and also the lack of an online ability, but don't let that put you off because the story and DLCs do make up for that also the Playboy collectables which i must say once you've got all 50 like me you will never be bored again. :D