PAX East 10: Hands-on Mafia II's Nudie Mags

I got to play Mafia II for my aboriginal time today at PAX East, and while the body was the aforementioned as what was apparent a brace weeks ago at the Bold Developer's Conference, I did get to see one aspect of the bold we haven't covered before: the in-game Playboy magazines. As you may accept heard, developer 2K Games has partnered with Playboy to bead best copies of the "Entertainment for Men" into the apple of Mafia II. Sharp-eyed players will acquisition the magazines lying about and be able to aces them up and ogle the centerfolds psp games.

I begin an affair in the alleyway shootout arena IGN Executive Editor Steve Butts wrote about in his GDC preview. In this scene, players move from awning to awning in a junkyard, demography out associates of a battling gang. I begin the gunplay, by the way, to be absolutely satisfying…just as I'm abiding abounding gamers out there will acquisition the magazine-play satisfying.

This wasn't the arena I played at PAX East, but it is an archetype of how you'll acquisition Playboys lying about the game, apprehension your perusal.

In the average of this firefight, I ducked into an alone berth to yield awning and begin an affair of Playboy lying on top of a debris can. Sure, bullets were aerial and my accompany were dying -- but a man has got to accept priorities. When you acquisition an issue, the adorable will anon be displayed, advance out beyond your absolute TV screen. These are absolute centerfolds from ancient Playboys. Without accepting too graphic, let's just say it wasn't an NC-17 image, but it was absolutely rated R. You are chargeless to yield it all in for as continued as you like afore accepting aback to the game.

Strangely, I accept this allotment of Mafia II takes abode in 1951, but Playboy didn't alpha until 1953.

On an agreeable ancillary note, 2K was blockage IDs at its berth to accomplish abiding anyone arena Mafia II was over 18. PAX is a ancestors show, afterwards all, and Playboy centerfolds are not for aerial adolescent minds (or eyes). But the Mafia II gameplay breadth is advanced accessible and faces all the bottom cartage traveling by, so there was annihilation endlessly little Timmy from adequate Miss June with me.