Today I bought Mafia II and I decided to review it. I have yet to beat it its only been like 3hours but I already have enough info. First off alot of people have been cryingabout the PS3 version because it has less as detailed grass. WTF just shut up its not that bad.

Anyways if you have read GS' review of it then they were spot on, the story is great, the combat is great but theres no side missions at all nothing like GTA IV with its strangers you just go from one end of the city to another doing odd jobs for sterotypical Italian Americans (not the ones like on Jersey Shore, thank god) missions are fun but can get annoying because you can die in like 3 shots which gets REALLY old very fast. I give the game a 9 out of 10 great game but outside of story missions there is nothing else to do

and today is the last day of summer break for me :(

There are plenty of multiplayer games that have their own 'game' that were made by people of the comunity that play these games, heres just a few of some of the best

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Micheal Myers - On a Sreach & Destroy game there person who is "it" or Michael will go to the Spetznaz, Ultranationalists, or Opforn and the other people will be TF141 or Rangers. Micheal can only use knifes and the TF141 can only fight back after the one of them is the last person alive. TF141 or Rangers can alsostun Micheal. Also no planting bombs.

Knife Tournament - 3 lives and knifes only. Who ever can score the highest wins. Throwing knifes are allowed.

No-scope Tournament - Simple kind of like the first, but you have unlimited lives and you have to no-scope

Grand Theft Auto IV

Prison Break - Before you start the game while in the lobby put the location at the Prison. One team is the 'Cops' and the other team are the 'Inmates' the cops have to go to the nearby police station and pick up a cop car and wait for the 'Inmates to leave the prison. If the 'inmates' make it to the airport they win

Zombies - In Team Deathmatch one team uses the 'Zombie' skin and the other are the survivors. The host needs to put the cars to parked and pedestrians to off and the weather to foggy. Nobody can use cars and you can only run if the 'Survivior' team lives for the full time limit then they are the winners. If the Zombie team manages totake them ALL out then they win

Carmageddon - In Free Roam take a helicopter to Happieness Island and if a car spawns in the very back edge take it. If it does not then comeback and try again later. You have 2 minutes to see how many people you can kill all around the island. For crazy people only :P

Failed Superman (TBoGT only) - Use the parachute to jump off of a sky dive building and pull your parachute at the very last possible second and live.

Left 4 Dead

Bommerball - Make a friends only campaign game mode and make sure one of your friends knows how to spawn items. Once you have a blocked off confined area type the console command z_spawn bommer to make a bommer appear, keep knocking the bommer back and forth until it explodes, the person who causes it to explode must be shot by everyone on his team by a shotgun.

Pacafist Mode - Play through a entire campaign game on ANY difficulty without killing anything. Very very hard game mode :P

Yesterday I managed to finnaly get my goddamned PSN account to add funds to the wallet and I was looking for something to pass the time when I came across Earthworm Jim HD. Just looking at it reminded me of when I was about 4 playing it on my dads Super Nintendo and dieing 5,000 times on every level :P So I decide that I would pick up the demo and try it out first and I have to say that it is an absolute blast that brings back memories of the 90s. So I bought it and beat it on the Original difficulty in around 2 hours which beats my orginal record of 3 weeks :lol: if you have played Earthworm Jim in the past and liked it I would strongly recomend that you would buy this game. For only 9.99 its a bargin at any price.

Oh and I manged to find this awsome Rockstar desktop image that changes over time here is the link for the theme

(This is my favorite so far :D )

http://www.rockstargames.com/downloads#/dl:/collection:1/content:/downloads/getSpecificWallpaperSeries/4191

(Look for Conveyor under the Rockstar wallpaper section)

Marcus Fenix

Marcus Fenix is a legendary war hero, with a gruff attitude, this hero makes it into the list for killing off hundereds of underground reptilians that would love nothing more to kill him back.... and every other human in exsistance. This hero is brave and just a simple badass that will chop up any Locust that gets in his way with the series' famous gun, the Lancer. No other game hero could beat Marcus in a fist fight and so thats what makes Marcus number 6 in the countdown

Game Appearance

Gears Of War

Gears Of War 2

Gears Of War 3

Lone Wanderer

At only the age of 19 this guy/girl manage to save the Capital Wasteland.... twice. He has also done some minimal tasks like helping old women get their fiddles back and systamatic genocide in his mean time. He has a in a small playthrough has a kill count of atleast 20 creatures and 20 people, he has also destroyed a crazied genocidic version of the U.S government..... twice. This hero makes it into the list for being a iconic and becoming in some ways a super-human version of his previous himself by level 30.

Game Appearances

Fallout 3

Operation: Ancorage

The Pitt

Broken Steel

Point Lookout

Mothership Zeta

So I recently got the chance to play the Mafia II demo and I'm really considering buying this after FNV. The game absorbs you so much into the 1950's culture, from the songs all the way to the people walking down the street the game works out so amazingly. I highly recomend that people should try this game atleast once

Claude

Without ever saying a word this hero managed to put Liberty City'sgangs in check. Claude never works for a gang for a extended point of time. He's a mostly a layed back guy that apperntly doesn't care as long as he gets payed and gets one step closer to killing his ex who betrayed him in the begining of the game. In 1992 he was appently involved in underground street races in San Andreas and owned a garage in San Fiero which he later gives to Carl Johnson for beating him in a race and leaves with Catalina on a 15 year bank robbing trip.

Game Appearances

Grand Theft Auto III

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Master Chief

Okay lets face it, what hasn't Master Chief done? Sure he may be considered a freak of nature from some of his other USMC mates but that doesn't change the fact that he single handedly destroyed a bunch of freaky ring worlds called halos, killed off a load of crazy genocidic aliens,crash landed onto a planet and survived more than once, and not to mention destroyed that damn flood. Master Chief makes this list because he is one of the most famous and iconic game heros of all time.

Game Apperences

Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo 2

Halo 3

Grand Theft Auto IV episodes

The Lost and Damned

The story begins with Johnny Klebitz and all the members of the infamous biker gang, The Lost Motorcycle Club, driving through the night streets of Alderney. In a brief cameo, Niko Bellic, the main character of Grand Theft Auto IV, swears at a passer-by on the street as the gang drives past.

Johnny is the vice president of the gang, but has been the acting president for a year because the club's president, Billy Grey, has been in court-ordered rehab after being arrested for narcotics possession. As leader, Johnny has established The Lost throughout Liberty City by making truces and deals after suffering several financial troubles, mainly caused by Billy's poor leadership. The most notable truce is with The Lost's rivals, The Angels of Death, which has allowed The Lost to operate their drug deals and gun running operations more freely.

On being released from rehab, Billy immediately reverts to a life of crime and thus tensions quickly grow between Billy and Johnny, who believe the gang should go different ways. Johnny wants to keep the gang running smoothly, deeming war with other gangs as immature and bad for business, whereas Billy prefers acts of random violence and mayhem. As such, Billy quickly breaks the truce established by Johnny and a gang war erupts between The Lost and The Angels of Death, which serves as the main basis for the game. Along the way, Johnny becomes involved with Ray Boccino and the infamous diamond deal seen in Grand Theft Auto IV. Johnny also has to deal with his ex-girlfriend, Ashley, a drug addict who constantly gets herself into trouble.

Eventually, Billy is arrested after a failed drug deal with the Triads and Johnny takes over as President of The Lost. This immediately sparks a civil war in the gang, one side with Johnny, the other with Brian Jeremy, who is still loyal to Billy and believes Johnny to be responsible for Billy's arrest. Brian stages a coup against Johnny in which most of the Lost are killed, but Brian escapes. Johnny later arrives at Brian's safehouse and kills him along with the last of his goons, ending Brian's own chapter of the Lost. Shortly after, it is revealed that Billy is going to testify against the Lost in exchange for entering the Witness Protection Program. Johnny leads a raid on the state prison in Alderney, where Billy is being held, and personally executes him. Immediately afterwards Johnny discovers that Jim, a married man with a child and a trusted veteran of The Lost, has been killed in retribution for the botched diamond deal earlier in the game. The end reveals that the only surviving members of The Lost are Johnny, Clay, Terry and Angus. Their club and brotherhood destroyed, they decide to burn their clubhouse to the ground. The last shot is of them watching it burn, contemplating what comes next. Ashley promises Johnny that she will go to rehab, with Johnny wishing her luck.

At several points throughout the course of the game, the plot intertwines with events from Grand Theft Auto IV and is seen and played out from Johnny's perspective. These include Elizabeta's drug deal going wrong, and Ray Boccino's diamond operation (both of which were played from Niko's perspective in the main game). It is revealed that it was Johnny who kidnapped Roman Bellic and took him to the warehouse in Bohan where Niko eventually rescued him in the main game. It is also revealed that a seemingly random biker that Niko killed for Ray Boccino in the main game was actually Johnny's best friend, Jim Fitzgerald. Also, Niko's killing of The Lost member Jason Michaels under orders from Mikhail Faustin is mistaken for an assassination by The Angels of Death, re-igniting the gang war between them. The ending movie shows key points in the original story line, such as Niko and Roman finding their home and cab business destroyed, and Niko executing Vlad, with The Lost riding in the background. One of the missions also involves Tony Prince from The Ballad of Gay Tony and provides Johnny's perspective to the first piece of plot to the expansion's storyline

The Ballad of Gay Tony

The Ballad of Gay Tony opens with Luis Fernando Lopez being held hostage at the Bank of Liberty, during a robbery involving Niko Bellic, Packie and Derrick McReary and Michael Keane. A local gun club member lying next to him, Eugene Reaper, shoots and kills Keane and is then killed by the McReary brothers in retaliation. The scene cuts to the aftermath of the robbery; Luis is questioned by the police about the incident before proceeding to Gay Tony"'s loft. On the way he is nearly run over by Niko Bellic (returning from the robbery) and Johnny Klebitz who drives past him. Rocco Pelosi, a senior Ancelotti mobster, and his accomplice, Vince, enter the loft to collect Tony's club income for the week as interest repayment on an outstanding loan. Tony then discusses with Luis his dire financial situation with his two clubs, Maisonette 9 and Hercules. In an attempt to curry favor with Rocco, Tony and Luis go to Chinatown to negotiate a deal with a senior Triad. Billy Grey, president of The Lost Motorcycle Gang is seen arranging an ambush on Johnny Klebitz and Jim Fitzgerald with the Triad as Tony and Luis enter the room. The negotiations with the Triad soon turn awry, and Luis protects Tony through their escape from Chinatown.

Luis visits his mother, who also has financial issues, and his childhood friends Henrique Bardas and Armando Torres. Luis' mother does not approve of his life**** and would like him to attend college. Henrique and Armando are Luis' friends who are heavily involved with the narcotics distribution trade. Luis soon becomes acquainted with Yusuf Amir, (voiced by Omid Djalili) a real estate developer in Liberty City. Luis helps Yusuf acquire several vehicles, including an experimental military grade chopper called the "Buzzard," which Luis steals from South African arms dealer Frikki van Hardenburg, an APC used by the National Office Of Security Enforcement(NOoSE), and even a subway carriage.

Meanwhile, Tony is headed in a downward spiral due to substance abuse, supplied by his boyfriend Evan Moss. Luis, Tony and Evan head to the docks to buy two million dollars worth of diamonds from a chef coming in on a tanker called the "Platypus". In the Grand Theft Auto IV opening cutscene, the chef can be seen mixing these diamonds into cake batter on the Platypus as Niko walks by. During the exchange, members of the The Lost (led by Johnny Klebitz) attack and kill Evan to acquire the diamonds. Tony promises Luis that he will quit the substance abuse and introduces Luis to Mori Kibbutz, and his younger brother Brucie. Mori is highly egotistical and constantly chooses to bully and belittle Brucie, a source of irritation to Luis who repeatedly stands up for the younger brother. Luis does eventually manage to effectively cancel Tony's debt to Mori. After Luis finishes his last favor for Mori, Brucie stands up to his brother, punching him in the nose. Brucie shows up in a cutscene at the Maisonette club to thank Luis, also making a sexual advance on him. Mori later calls Luis, revealing that he's taken a dictatorial position in a commune.

Tony and Luis meet Ray Bulgarin and his associate Timur at Maisonette 9, who offer Luis some work in exchange for financial help. Luis helps Bulgarin eliminate some corrupt federal agents and acquire the Liberty City Rampage hockey team. Gracie Ancelotti gets Tony back on the drugs and is later kidnapped by unknown assailants (Revealed to be Niko Bellic and Packie McReary from GTA IV) . The Ancelottis establish that Gracie has been kidnapped because of the diamonds and are pointing the blame at Tony and Luis. Tony learns that the diamonds are being exchanged at the Libertonian, and sends Luis to retrieve them. Luis ambushes the exchange (involving Niko Bellic and Johnny Klebitz) and escapes in the Buzzard, which has since been gold plated.

Bulgarin phones Luis, telling him to go to the roof of a building in midtown Algonquin. As Luis uncovers the severed head of the chef from the "Platypus", Bulgarin explains that the diamonds belong to him and accuses the chef, Luis and Tony of colluding to steal them. It emerges that Bulgarin has led Luis to an ambush on the rooftop, and he escapes alive. Luis and Tony are then ordered by Gracie's father, Giovanni Ancelotti, to trade the diamonds with the kidnappers in order to get Gracie back. At the exchange, Bulgarin shows up and orders his men to attack the assailants, Packie McReary and Niko Bellic. Bulgarin flees the scene and amidst the chaos the diamonds fall into a dump truck headed the opposite direction. Luis, Tony and Gracie then successfully escape in a speedboat.

As a result of being preoccupied with recent events, Tony neglects to pay his debts and the city closes down all of his clubs. Luis meets Rocco and Vince in the restrooms in Middle Park, and they explain to him that he must kill Tony, before both the Ancelottis and Russians decide to team up and kill Tony, Luis and all of their friends and family. Luis shows up at Maisonette 9, and contemplates shooting Tony before pointing the gun at Vince and shooting him in the head. Tony warns Luis not to shoot Rocco, as he is a "made man". Rocco escapes, and the Russians show up ensuing in a huge gunfight within the club. Tony blames Luis for contemplating to kill him, he then flees to his apartment to pack and move to the desert. Luis convinces Tony that he chose not to kill him because it's them against the world, and that they need to resolve their situation. Luis ventures to Firefly Island to ambush a Russian heroin exchange, telling Tony to hide out by the Monoglobe structure in Meadows Park, Dukes.

In the fairground, Luis destroys the heroin and kills Timur, who mentions that Bulgarin is fleeing the city by plane within two hours. After an opportune phone conversation, Yusuf shows up in the Buzzard and eliminates the pursuing Russians while Luis drives to the airport. Luis manages to board the plane, and kill all of the henchmen onboard. A vengeful Bulgarin emerges from the cockpit holding a grenade, threatening destruction to both of them if Luis kills him. Luis takes the risk and shoots Bulgarin, who drops the grenade causing it to explode. Luis parachutes out of the burning wreckage of the plane to safety, and heads to Meadows Park where Tony is waiting. In the park, Luis knocks a hobo into a trash pile, who finds the missing diamonds amongst the trash and runs off gleefully. Yusuf approaches Tony and Luis and the three celebrate their victory and look toward the future. At the end of the credits sequence, Mori and Brucie are seen in an underground cage fight and Packie McReary is seen leaving Liberty City on a plane with the stolen money he had got from robbing the bank. The hobo who found the diamonds is shown living in a big mansion surrounded by women, All of Tony's clubs are reopened. After this, the player can choose to replay past missions if they so choose to do so

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgDTU0w39Nc

A very good Heavy Rain GTA spoof

Grand Theft Auto IV

PLOT

Grand Theft Auto IV follows the story of Niko Bellic, a veteran of the Bosnian War, who is haunted by the betrayal of his army unit by one of its members leading to the death of all but 3 members. After the war Niko put his skills to use as a smuggler, while trying to track down the traitor. Ten years later, after a smuggling run that goes bad, Niko leaves Eastern Europe to escape the anger of his employer, Ray Bulgarin. Eventually, under persuasion from his cousin Roman, Niko comes to Liberty City, where he hopes to pursue the American Dream as well as Florian Cravic, the man he believes to be the traitor. After his arrival, however, Niko quickly learns that Roman's tales of riches and luxury were lies concealing his struggles with gambling debts and loansharks.

Niko defends Roman from his loansharks several times, eventually killing three Albanian loansharks and later running errands for Vlad Glebov, Roman's Russian loanshark. Niko also begins dating Michelle, a friend of Roman's girlfriend Mallorie Bardas. While working for Roman, Niko also befriends Jamaican drug and arms dealer "Little" Jacob Hughes and steroid junkie chop shop owner Bruce "Brucie" Kibbutz. After killing Vlad because he had an affair with Mallorie, Niko and Roman are kidnapped by members of the Liberty City Bratva, on order of Mikhail Faustin and his associate, Dimitri Rascalov. However Faustin is not angry with Niko for killing Vlad, and instead hires him. Niko completes several jobs for Faustin, quickly learning that Faustin is a psychopath without any concern for consequences. Faustin soon orders Niko to kill the son of Kenny Petrović, the most powerful man in the Liberty City Bratva. Dimitri tries to negotiate an agreement, but Petrović demands revenge and Dimitri is forced to have Niko assassinate Faustin. However, when Niko meets with Dimitri to collect on the assassination, Dimitri sells Niko out to his angry former employer Ray Bulgarin. Niko manages to fight his way through the ambush with the help of Little Jacob but Dimitri and Bulgarin escape.

Immediately afterwards Niko and Roman are forced to escape to Bohan when their Hove Beach apartment and taxi company are destroyed in arson attacks by Dimitri's men. At this time Roman reveals his plans to propose to Mallorie. While living in Bohan Niko takes jobs for former gangbanger Manny Escuela who wants to become a famous TV vigilante; prominent drug dealer Elizabeta Torres; Irish mobster Patrick "Packie" McReary; and Trey "Playboy X" Stewart, a successful drug dealer from Algonquin. Niko also becomes an errand boy for both Mafia Capo Ray Boccino and crooked Deputy Police Commissioner Francis McReary, who turns out to be Packie McReary's brother.

However, things go poorly in Bohan: one the drug deals that Niko is working for Elizabeta turns out to be a sting and another is busted. Niko's girlfriend Michelle then reveals that she works for a government agency and that she was responsible for both the sting and the bust. Niko and Little Jacob are allowed to escape arrest, but are entrapped into working for Michelle's agency, known only by its cover: United Liberty Paper. Niko kills several known or suspected terrorists for the agency in exchange for the promise of assistance in finding the man who betrayed Niko's unit.

The LCPD begin to close in on Elizabeta. She becomes paranoid and begins to take large amounts of cocaine. Then Elizabeta kills Manny Escuela and his camera-man, Jay Hamilton, when they attempt a citizens arrest for their video. Elizabeta then has Niko sell their bodies to an organ-harvesting doctor. Soon afterwards Elizabeta is arrested and later sentenced to 300 years. While Niko is working for Boccino and Playboy in Algonquin, Roman is kidnapped by Dimitri Rascalov's men because he owes them money. Niko arrives at the warehouse where Roman is being kept and, in a rage, kills all the kidnappers. Roman decides Bohan is no longer safe, and decides to move to Algonquin.

Soon after, Roman buys a penthouse in Algonquin with money he has won gambling. Meanwhile Niko assists Ray Boccino in a conflict diamond deal with Jewish Mafia Capo and diamond dealer Isaac Roth, which goes badly and leads to the diamonds being stolen by Luis Lopez and the money being stolen by Johnny Klebitz. In retaliation Boccino sends Niko to kill Johnny's friend Jim Fitzgerald and Isaac Roth. After killing Roth, Niko becomes angered with Boccino and refuses to work for him directly anymore.

In exchange for Niko's help, Boccino locates Florian Cravic, the man that Niko has been searching for. But when Niko confronts Cravic he discovers that Florian has changed his name to Bernie Crane and become an effeminate homosexual. Niko immediately determines that Bernie is not the person responsible for his unit's betrayal, leaving him one remaining suspect: Darko Brevic. Soon after Niko discovers that Dimitri Rascalov is blackmailing Bernie's boyfriend, deputy mayor Bryce Dawkins, and kills all of the blackmailers except Dimitri.

Niko also works for both Playboy X and Playboy's old mentor Dwayne Forge, who has just been released from prison. Niko becomes friends with Forge, saying that he sees some of himself in Forge. But after Niko kills Playboy's business partners who own the Triangle Club as a favour for Forge, the relationship between Playboy and Forge becomes so poisonous that each asks Niko to kill the other, leaving Niko a choice between the two. If Niko kills Playboy he does not get paid but receives Playboy's loft and believes he made the right choice in sticking by his friend. If Niko kills Forge he is paid $25,000 but Playboy despises him as a cold-blooded hired gun and breaks off the contact with Niko.

While in Algonquin Niko also develops a strong connection with the McReary family, including Packie's older brothers Gerald and Derrick, and their sister Kate, whom he begins dating. Together Niko, Packie, and Derrick, along with "Saint" Michael Keane, rob the Bank of Liberty in Algonquin. After the robbery Derrick spends most of his share on drugs and alcohol, and sends Niko on several jobs to eliminate former partners he believes are informing on him. Soon Francis McReary becomes concerned that Derrick's drug habits and behaviour could stand in his road to becoming commissioner, and tells Niko to kill Derrick. Soon after Derrick calls Niko, paranoid of Francis, asking Niko to kill him. This gives Niko a choice between the two.

Niko also works with Gerry McReary to destroy the relationship between the Ancelotti Crime Family and their Albanian muscle-men and later kidnapping Grace, the daughter of the Don of the Ancelloti Family, in exchange for a ransom of the conflict diamonds stolen by Luis Lopez during Ray Boccino's deal with the Jewish Mafia.

Niko also does work for the Pegorinno family in Alderney, mainly with Capo Phil Bell and later for Don Jimmy Pegorino who is trying to gain a seat on the Commission by weakening the other families. This leads to a war between the Pegorinno, Pavano, and Ancellotti Crime Families. Eventually, after working for Pegorino several times, Niko is sent to kill Ray Boccino because Pegorinno is convinced Boccino is an informant.

Niko also takes several assignments from the dying mobster Jon Gravelli, whom he meets through his contact with the shadowy government agency United Liberty Paper.

Toward the end of the story, Niko's United Liberty Paper contact locates Darko Brevic in Bucharest and arranges to have him brought to Liberty City as a final reward. Niko confronts Darko, who has become a drug-addicted wreck, and learns that Darko betrayed the group for $1,000 dollars to supply his drug habits. The player is then left with the option of either executing Darko or sparing his life. Having dealt with his past, Niko is summoned by Pegorino, who demands of him one final favour; to help with an extremely lucrative heroin deal in collusion with Dimitri Rascalov

OVERVIEW

I hardly belive that I forgot to put this in my first top 10. I've played this since the day it came out and the Episodes expanded the time that I played the game

"My name iz a Niko"