Forum Overview :: Mafia II :: The demo is out. About what you'd expect.

[quote name="Last"]You have one neighborhood in the demo, and you can commit crimes in the various buildings (robbery, bootlegging, rackets). To commit a crime, you assign a henchman to the task and it autocompletes in about 30 seconds to a minute. You can buy and sell contraband drug wars style. The exception is when you are attacking another gang, which is done through turn-based combat ala XCom or Silent Storm. In the demo you have a shotgun and a pistol, but they only do 2x the damage of a punch, so melee is a viable option. As you win battles your guys level up and gain perks. The aesthetics are quite nice and a gameplay element unto themselves of course. All in all I expect to play the SHIT out of this game but I don't expect it to become a classic unless there's a lot more variety than what the demo shows.[/quote]