Mafia 2 adds Steam support, serves up Mafia 1 for digital pre-orders

by David Hinkle on Jul 21st 2010 7:31PM

Take-Two sent over a press release announcing a partnership between 2K Games and Valve, whose Steam platform will power the PC version of Mafia 2's online multiplayer and bestow upon those who pre-order a free copy of the original Mafia game -- available to download and play immediately prior to the sequel's August 24 launch date. Don't use Steam? No matter – the deal is good through "select digital retailers" including Steam and applies to both the standard and collector's edition, so you've got some say in the matter. Talk about an offer you can't refuse!

Steamworks will help our friend Mafia 2 through its unique feature set, including auto-updates, Steam Achievements, and all of the other data provided by the latest version of Steam.

Mafia 2 (7/21/10)

Source: Valve

Tags: 2K-Czech, 2k-games, mafia, Mafia-2, pc, pre-order, steam, take-two

Reader Comments (14)

sorry Steam, but I'm willing to pay 10 dollars more for physical copies of all the goodies in the CE, and the tin case

@Cleric

THERE'S A TIN CASE!?!

Screw steam, I want that!

@liquidsoap89 Psh, Direct2Drive's offering a tin man, modeled after Al Pacino.

@Cleric

Psh... Scarface...

@Cleric

Oh, and screw Direct2Drive while we're screwing things.

Sorry guys I'm a little slow. But did they say that Mafia 1 will be free to download sometime before Aug. 24th. Am I reading that right? Can someone clarify?

@Grey It's alright. If you pre-order Mafia 2 on Steam, you get a free copy of Mafia 1.

@Grey

Never mind. I get it now. You have to pre-order Mafia II first to get a free copy. The wording in the article was confusing to me.

@Shadowbender.

I got it now. Thanks anyway Shadowbender

So the game is going to require Steam now? Goodness, now I have to decide what is more important; another copy of Mafia to play right now or a physical manual. So many choices.