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Preparations of forthcoming E3 2009 are already in full swing and Mafia 2 is presented in great style yet. First evidence is really successful Pre-E3 Trailer and next evidence is huge billboard in Los Angeles Convention Center. At the large billboard is a coffin, in which lie some man who looks like Vito.

EDIT 1st JUNE: Yesterday Mafia 2 billboard from the Los Angles Convention Center is now here in “digital quality” (cutted from photo) Thx Don Geoffrey.

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Source: http://www.gamekyo.com/, official forum

On the czech site TiscaliGames.cz appeared E3 trailer in HD quality for download. Furthermore, on IGN.com appeared some new screenshots in high quality from the E3 video and the same server also released an interview with Alex Cox about the release date delay and the coming E3 demo of Mafia 2! Warning!!…interview contains spoilers!

GameTrailers.com released Mafia 2 E3 2009 trailer. Trailer is so amazing that I post it without any comment!

Mafia II’s release date has moved. The much-anticipated game will now release early in 2010 for Xbox 360®, PLAYSTATION® 3 system, and PC. Keep your eyes on this community page, as we’ll continue to update regularly with news and inside information about the game over the coming weeks and months.

Source: offic. website

A lot of things happened in recent days on the official forums. In this time is a good idea to check official forum very often, because Martin Zavřel talked about driving model. As has been already compromised, will be possible to set driving model by your pleasure. From the “simulation” to arcade, which we could see in all gameplay videos.

Hello guys,

Today I have a message from one of my fellow colleges. Vaclav Kral is responsible for the driving model and he did this job also on Mafia I – therefore you can definitely believe that he knows what he is talking about:

“Our driving model at this moment is far more realistic and precise than the physical simulation used in Mafia I – and thanks to this it is actually also easier to control. It is closer to real cars.

Thanks to the setting of difficulty that we are now experimenting with we should be able to make the driving accessible for players who do not play hardcore simulators and like rather easier and arcade like car driving. However even when set to arcade, the driving still maintains high quality feel of physical simulation.

But the rest can enjoy the ride with “raw car” without any supporting driving assistants.

In the videos released so far you could see only driving with arcade setting (it is the default one at the moment) and also the driver chose to ride rather carefully (no skidding) and the camera was not ideally positioned.”

We will try to bring something about this year E3 presentation.

Source: official forum

You find on the official forum a lot of interesting things. But almost all of those things are unconfirmed. Now, we have confirmed information from Martin Zavřel – Mafia 2 is coming into final/GOLD.

Martin Zavrel wrote on official forum:

Hello guys,

Sorry for long time no see, I had a really busy (but successful ) week in the studio.

Well, we are able to play the game from start to finish, but many things are being refined and added, including specific events. And as you can imagine, we are swimming in bugs. Balancing/polishing the gameplay and optimalising the performance while implementing many nice special and post-processing effects is the biggest chunk of work that we still have ahead of us. But in any case I cannot really give you a number, since we are perfectionists and we are going to test/polish the hell of this project

Source: Official forum

Just now on the Deluca’s Restaurant appeared 2 models of cars from the game from 2K Czech’s artistic mastermind, Roman Hladik. The first car is Quicksilver Windsor Taxi and the seccond is Potomac.

This car is Quicksilver Windsor Taxi. You can probably tell that this car comes from a variety of famous vehicles that cruised around in the 1950s. You will see the model car not only as a taxi in game, but also as a civilizan vehicle.

This model was derived from several cars that were popular in the 1950s. The smooth lines of this vehicle really tipified the era for us. You really can feel, just by looking at this render, how cool and classy someone must have felt driving around in this thing.

Source: official web 

We bring you a list of actors whose voice we’ll hear in the game:

Game character....Name of actor....Films in which this actor played Vito Scaletta – Rick Pasqualone (Friends, CSI, JAG) Henry Tomasino – Sonny Marinelli (Falcone, The Fence) Jones – Bomber – Christopher Alexander (Battle Planet, Set Part) Sgt. / Bones – Brian Bloom (The Zodiac, Terminal, Smokin’ Aces, The Golden Compass) Washington – Bomber – André Gordon (Daredevil, S.W.A.T.) Tony Balls – Phil Idrissi (Brush Up) Tommy / Pietro DiMarco – Nicolas Roye (CSI, Next Exit) Charlie – Steve Wilcox (The X Files, Sell Out) Source: imdb.com 

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UPDATE 13th May at 9:12PM: At this time there is a lot of fan wallpapers. I make next one. This wallpaper is from official artwork/poster.

UPDATE 13th May at 11:46 PM: I just added a next one of developers artwork :o) – there will be a lot of fan stuff tomorow.

Four old screens which you could know from screenshot gallery appeared on the official website yesterday and became “official”. On two screens you can see Vito and his “group” and on rest of these screens is ride around the city with Vito and his group. These screens are from known demo version of the game which was presented on press event.

Official text: Today, we bring you four more Mafia II screenshots. Two show Vito and his crew tearing around the streets of Empire Bay. The others show Joe and Vito getting down to business.

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