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[JareBear: Remastered]

Thomas Morgan breaks down the Mafia 2 remaster, released last week

A decade on from its original release Mafia 2 gets the remaster treatment. New textures, improved POM and more bring this second entry up to date on PS4 and Xbox One - and yet something is amiss with its frame-rate. PS4 Pro in particular suffers unique drops unseen on other machines, though all consoles struggle to hold 30fps.

- Interiors beautifully laid out, attention to detail remains
- most notable update is use of parallax occlusion maps
- boost shadows all around and texture filtering improved
- One X runs 1800p
- XBO runs at 1080p dynamic resolution, lowest it goes is 900p
- Base PS4 runs at stock 1080p
- Pro runs at 1440p
- One X and Pro get high setting of PC for shadows
- Pro and One X are visually identical to each other outside of resolution
- XBO dips below 30fps especially during asset streaming transitions while driving
- Similar problem on base PS4, but quote as prominent, though during a car chase scenario both base consoles struggle
- Pro is worst performing version of the bunch, sometimes dropping to 20fps in interiors

- Segments of the map, like driving through an underpass, seem locked to 20fps on Pro
- One X solves many of the issues, like the interior dips are not as present, but still has drop into 20s in the same underpass as Pro, but overall X is much better equipped to handle the engine

- Glitches galore

 

[Max_Po]

30 fps.....

PASS

 

[Panajev2001a]

Thomas Morgan breaks down the Mafia 2 remaster, released last week





Summary incoming

Quite crap on all consoles (failing to hold 30 FPS... the graphics are nice, good update there, but the framerate should at least be stable 30 FPS for a 10 years old remaster), but especially PS4 Pro... yowza... :/...

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Summary updated.

 

[Golgo 13]

Fucking shameful that this thing can't even hold 30FPS.

 

[Senua]

30 fps.....

PASS

It can't even hold that!

 

[stranno]

No word on classic PS3's grass full FLAT experience.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Someone forgot to flush.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

30 fps.....

PASS

This

 

[faisalasif]

I successfully wasted 50 AUD on this game .

 

[joe_zazen]

thanks for the warning OP + DF. I have some nostalgia M2, but not that much.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I successfully wasted 50 AUD on this game .

An offer you couldnt refuse.

 

[YCoCg]

Sadly they didn't go into the PC version much seeing as there's a massive performance loss compared to the original version, updated textures shouldn't cause that much of an issue. On the flip side, PC version, apparently there's a lot of leftover content "accidentally" included, so modders might be able to make something with it.

 

[BigLee74]

Thread not started by TLW, so safe to assume the Pro doesn't hold an fps advantage over the X!

Mafia 2 was a great game, but ouch at not being able to hold 30fps. These new consoles with their shiny new CPUs can't come quick enough!

 

[DeepEnigma]

Pass on this cannoli.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I successfully wasted 50 AUD on this game .

I paid 60 for the trilogy pack. Played Mafia 2 remastered for about 6 hours before losing interest and realized I don’t really wanna play 3 again so I shoulda just bought the Mafia remake solo

Pass on this cannoli.

 

[dotnotbot]

Now it seems like that malysian ps store price was fair...

Spoiler: spoilerino

There was an error on malysian ps store and it was free for an hour or two on realease day

 

[SleepDoctor]

this concerns me for the quality of the "remake" of Mafia. Saints Row 3 remake is running at 60 fps and has more going on. No excuse for this to perform like trash.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

this concerns me for the quality of the "remake" of Mafia. Saints Row 3 remake is running at 60 fps and has more going on. No excuse for this to perform like trash.

I admit that I am a little worried now too. The screenshots look incredible..but we will see...

 

[GeoramA]

Made it to Chapter 9 and couldn't take it anymore. Worst "remaster" I've ever played.

 

[Hans Bubby]

this concerns me for the quality of the "remake" of Mafia. Saints Row 3 remake is running at 60 fps and has more going on. No excuse for this to perform like trash.

SR3 is a remaster. Mafia 1 is going to be a remake, meaning its being rebuilt from the ground up. Calm down.

 

[kiphalfton]

These guys apparently suck at porting games. I would be very hesitant with Mafia 1 remake, from the way people are talking about thr second and third game.

Cant believe we're getting these super crappy remasters this late into the console cycle, for a game that is 10 years old.

 

[SleepDoctor]

SR3 is a remaster. Mafia 1 is going to be a remake, meaning its being rebuilt from the ground up. Calm down.

Ok what does Mafia 2 fall under for you? Remaster or Remake? "Calm down"

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

So it's a next gen leasy remaster that performs like shit on last gen. Is this going to be a trend, beacuse F**k that shit!

Why no 1080p locked 30 fps on pro? Same for X with a 60 FPS mode?

 

[lukilladog]

This is ridiculous, I played this game at solid 60fps on a gtx 260 (not even half the gpu on regular ps4):

 

[Hans Bubby]

Ok what does Mafia 2 fall under for you? Remaster or Remake? "Calm down"

Huh? It’s a remaster. This isn’t rocket science, bud.

 

[CyRuZ]

Want 60fps? You have to wait for the PS5/XSX port late 2020, early 2021. It's 2K we're talking about. So every dime has to be squeezed out of this.

 

[SleepDoctor]

Huh? It’s a remaster. This isn’t rocket science, bud.

So is saints row, thanks for proving my point

 

[Thugmatic]

Whats the point of remaster if your hitting sub 30 fps on both X and pro... Drop the resolution or give us the option..

 

[Optimistic Gamer]

This thread makes me feel better about having played through OG Mafia 2 when they announced the trilogy

 

[FranXico]

d3t port?

 

[bad guy]

It's the experience that the developers intended you to have. Having an options menu like on PC just destroys the artistic vision of the creators.

 

[Rikkori]

This is ridiculous, I played this game at solid 60fps on a gtx 260 (not even half the gpu on regular ps4):

What a beautiful hardware generation that was. Ended up holding onto my Q8200 for so long.

 

[M1chl]

This is ridiculous, I played this game at solid 60fps on a gtx 260 (not even half the gpu on regular ps4):

Yes but it did not looked like this, well it's not like it's huge difference. Don't forget, that nVidia calculate Tflops differently and I think that Q6600 with hyper-threading still has more punch then 8-core Jaguar, especially on higher clock speed. Not sure if you have that overclocked, but Q6600 was notorietly good overclocking piece of CPU.

 

[Allandor]

This is ridiculous, I played this game at solid 60fps on a gtx 260 (not even half the gpu on regular ps4):

Well, the xb360 version also plays flawlessly on xbox one (via BC). I really don't know what they did, but it might just the engine. The engine is quite old and was just "upped" for the newer hardware. It did never scale good, especially with physx.
I really hope for my favorite part 1 of the Mafia games. With a new engine it is a remake of the classic game. I hope that the newer engine better suits the current hardware-base.

 

[Esppiral]

That Fp16 working hard.

Even my r9 380x can run this at 2560x1080 @60 fps with no problem.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Got it on the base PS4 for free and it's an horrible piece of work. Game stutters throughout, just an unpleasant experience all around.

 

[OneShotThrill]

this concerns me for the quality of the "remake" of Mafia. Saints Row 3 remake is running at 60 fps and has more going on. No excuse for this to perform like trash.

Yea I'm worried as well....this is just shit quality

 

[Aion002]

Got it on the base PS4 for free and it's an horrible piece of work. Game stutters throughout, just an unpleasant experience all around.

Damnn.

I wanted to plat on PS4...

I will skip it.

 

[Hans Bubby]

So is saints row, thanks for proving my point

What point did I prove? You are worried about Mafia 1, which is going to be a remake. Mafia 2 and SR3 are remasters. Mafia 1 will look better because it's a remake, hopefully based on the screenshots.

 

[SleepDoctor]

What point did I prove? You are worried about Mafia 1, which is going to be a remake. Mafia 2 and SR3 are remasters. Mafia 1 will look better because it's a remake, hopefully based on the screenshots.

The shitty effort put into this remaster is not a good look for what to expect of the effort put into the remake.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Yeah I uninstalled today. Even on PC some of the issues are just kinda immersion killing, for me. Maybe it gets patched up?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Mafia 2: Definitive Edition Developer Working On Fixes With 2K

gamingbolt.com

Apparently they are working on fixes