Mafia II Signature Series Strategy Guide (Brady Games Signature Series)

-First off, the guide is 240 pages long, not 192 as stated in the product description.

-It does NOT contain any mention or strategy for the PS3 DLC "Betrayal of Jimmy"

-It does NOT contain a removable map. The maps in the guide are split in half. For example, pages 19-20 contain the top half of the map and pages 21-22 contain the bottom half and the legend. This is not a big deal as everything included in the game is marked on these maps.

-It has the map location and little pics/descriptions of the locations of all 159 Wanted Posters. This is extremely well done. Place a waypoint on your in-game map in correlation to the guide map, and BAM! got your poster

-All Playboy locations are listed in chronological order as you come across them while playing the missions. They are listed in the walkthrough.

-Details and pricing of all the game's weapons, clothes, food, and car details (weight, top speed after tuning, etc.)...Read more

Mafia II really isn't a game you need a "strategy" guide for...the gameplay is pretty linear and very few missions are all that "difficult." That being said, the mission walkthrough sections of the guide are pretty good, but nothing you won't figure out after a few tries. One letdown is that it seems as if the guide was only designed for one difficulty level, as there is no mention anywhere of possible alternative strategies (or changes in gameplay like not all enemies showing up as red "blips") if you are playing on higher levels.

So if the mission walkthroughs are only "sorta" helpful, the main reason you would be looking at this guide is for help with the collectibles. Well, the Wanted Poster maps are accurate and laid out pretty well...with the weird exception being they are spread out over two pages. I have no idea why there wasn't a pull out map or why they didn't just put them all on a single page.

However, where this guide completely fails is with...Read more

Great game, even better storyline. Nothing to do when the storyline done, but the game gotta end sometime. You can go back and play old chapters. Bottom line, its a great game, a must have if your into this genre of games.