The player character's criminal activities may incite a response from law enforcement agencies, measured by a ' wanted' system that governs the aggression of their response. The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Set within the fictional city of Empire Bay (based on New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit) during the mid-1940s and 1951, the story follows Vito Scaletta, a Sicillian-American mobster and war veteran, who becomes caught in a power struggle among the city's Mafia crime families while attempting to pay back his father's debts and secure a better lifestyle. The game is a sequel to 2002's Mafia and the second installment in the Mafia series. It was released in August 2010 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Mafia II is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games.
