

You'll use the analog sticks on your respective controller to move Vito around and control the game's camera.

Mafia II is a third-person action/sandbox game, so controlling Vito is fairly straight-forward in premise. After all, outside of the game's many artfully-created story-telling cutscenes, Vito's fate will be entirely in your hands. Now that you know a little bit about Vito, it's time for you to learn a little bit about controlling him as well. That's where Mafia II's story really picks up, as you follow Vito's rise from humble underling to a force to be reckoned with. But when he returns to the States following his service, Vito quickly falls back in with the same old crowd. He eventually gets pinched by the authorities and forced into service during World War II in order to excuse the charges against him (his fluency in Italian made him an asset in the Italian campaign). As he grew up in Empire Bay (a fictional east coast city that most resembles New York City), Vito turned to a life of petty crime. Vito came over to the States with some of his family members during Mussolini's stranglehold of his home country of Italy in the days leading up to World War II.
