Mafia II is an action-adventure video game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games. Set within the fictional Empire Bay (based on New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit), the story follows a gangster and his efforts to climb through the ranks of the Mafia crime families. The game begins with Vito Scaletta looking over a photo album, as he begins to tell his story in voice over. He was born in Sicily in 1925 to an extremely poor family. A few years later, his family immigrates to the fictional city Empire Bay in America, but they are no better off there than they were in Sicily. As he gets older, Vito gets involved with a local criminal named Joe Barbaro, who eventually became his best friend. Vito is arrested during a botched robbery and given a choice: Go to jail or join the Army. He chooses the latter and is sent to Sicily during World War II to assist as a paratrooper in Operation Husky, before being shot and sent home on leave. Once home, Vito is discharged courtesy of Joe's mob connections, and learns that his dead father left his family in massive debt. Hoping to make money, Vito turns to Joe, who introduces him to Henry Tomasino, an inducted member of the Mafia (otherwise known as a made man) working for mob boss Alberto Clemente. Working under Henry, Vito is introduced to a real life of crime. Though he is able to pay his father's debt, Vito is soon arrested for illegally distributing ration stamps, and is sentenced to ten years in prison. In prison, Vito falls in with the crowd of Leo Galante, consigliere for another mob boss, Frank Vinci. Galante is able to take nearly four years off of Vito's sentence, and he is released in 1951. Once out, Vito meets up with Joe, who now works for the last of Empire Bay's three mob bosses, Carlo Falcone. Vito starts doing odd jobs for Falcone, eventually becoming a made man in the Falcone crime family, and buying a suburban house. Vito and Joe's biggest job comes when they are sent to assassinate Clemente, who ordered Carlo's accountant's kidnapping, and influenced Vinci to turn on Falcone. The assassination does not quite go to plan; Joe's childhood friend Marty is killed by Clemente, and Joe brutally murders the mob boss after he attempts to escape. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px63uihs_aM