A very broad way of looking at Mafia II would be to consider it a mob-based version of Grand Theft Auto: it’s got the same open-world action theme, replete with bad guys bathing themselves in blood for buckets of money, but set GTA IV against 2K’s latest addition to its family and you’ll be able to see the difference.

Developer Illusion Softworks is taking a hardline approach with Mafia II, it’s a grittier, and distinctly more adult Goodfellas-style affair, rather than the romanticised Bugsy Malone-type game we played before.

DeLuca’s Restaurant forms the hub for the local gangsters, a place for them to relax, do some laundry and sign contracts (ahem) with some of the most violent and corrupt men in Empire City. It’s also here that you’ll start your career, with a discussion on vegetarianism that, in the subtle way that only mobsters have, leads into the suggestion that you kill a man. Welcome to the family...