Did you try robbing a store? I did it in the demo and got 50$.

Some of those complaints are kind of stupid. STALKER has no auto aim and you can die fast but it certainly doesn't suck.

1. No auto-aim...? YEAH!!! A bit more towards skill, it is.

2. People have different tastes. I, for one, don't mind more realistic gameplay.

3. What did you expect? At least I didn't expect a proper sandbox game, I expected a somewhat linear game with an open world.

4. Too bad... Well, unless you're just stupid and missed something obvious, the game really is buggy. I suspect the latter.

5. Can't say much about this, I've only tried Godfather 2 and haven't even tried Mafia II.

6. There are funny games, there are serious games, but both can be fun to play in their own way. Here, GTA IV is the funny game and Mafia II is the serious game.

Despite not having played Mafia II, I had to share my own view on the issue. All in all: you were expecting a different type of a game than you should have. The game probably is good but it's not a game for you. You like different games. Apples and oranges, you know.

4. The buggy ass game, i encountered several bugs, for instance i owe some guy $2000 and im supposed to sell this car to a shop, so i sell it and the asshole only gives me $1950, so $50 short and i cant pay the fucker, and no there are no side jobs available... So im glitched.... Guess who has to restart the game?

i made my money crushing cars at the chop shop yard. about 400 bucks a pop, have picked up quite a few extra guns/ what not. there does not to seem to be as much free roam, but honestly ive liked the story better. its like a traditional point to point game in an open world.

also learn to use cover, sure it can be cheap some times, but at least in this game the AI is a threat.

honestly niether gta nor this is the top sandbox game . saints row two has been the most fun, in a more GTA stly followed by the original crackdown.

saints row 2

crackdown

mercinaries 2 

crackdown 2

red dead redemption

GTA IV

mafia II

 the order i would rank the ones i have played in in terms of fun,  mafia II takes a lot of heat due to its lack of multiplayer something i did find pretty fun for quite a bit in GTA.

its a shame none of these studios made the maps avalible for other teams inside of thier publisher, new games as downloads for other devs indise already sprawling maps could be very fun, and a good source of revenue for original dev while working on a new game. it would be a map licinsing fee

Ok, can we conclude Nolan North has gotten too much work?

There are degrees and different kinda of suck.  How about Mafia 2 can be worse than GTA4, while GTA4 still not be great?  As I understand it, Mafia 2 isn't even a sandbox game.

Mafia II isn't even a sandbox game!

Can you believe that! All this time they made me believe this would be a huge freeroam mafia game set in the 50's and what we get is a linear 10 hour game where you can only have one mission at a time.

Probably the biggest disappointment of 2010 and will flop saleswise too.

That was the impression I had that it would not be a sandbox game.  Apparently people think gangster games = sandbox,

wtf?Mafia 2 isn't a open world game?

anyways I need to convince my friend not to get this game cause I know it sucks but he thinks its cool

The game is cool, just not what some people expected...