{"id":12175,"date":"2010-08-10T11:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/mafia-ii-pc-demo-out-now\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:11:40","slug":"mafia-ii-pc-demo-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mafia-ii-pc-demo-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafia II PC demo out now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2K Games<\/strong> has released a demo on Steam<\/strong><\/a> for their mob sequel Mafia II<\/strong><\/a>. Set in a New York-influenced city named Empire Bay, it features the well worn mix of narrative and open-world sandbox game that has made the GTA series so popular.<\/p>\n

The original game was much drier than Rockstar’s OTT gangster series, and I’m interested to see whether Mafia II can compete with the histrionics of Niko Bellic and the other GTA protagonists.<\/p>\n

Download the demo via Steam<\/a>, and check out my Mafia II demo review here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2K Games has released a demo on Steam for their mob sequel Mafia II. Set in a New York-influenced city named Empire Bay, it features the well worn mix of narrative and open-world sandbox game that has made the GTA series so popular. The original game was much drier than Rockstar’s OTT gangster series, and … Continue reading “Mafia II PC demo out now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334820,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175\/revisions\/334820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12175"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12175"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12175"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}