Vito Scaletta owed many thing to his friend Joe. First he helped Vito get discharged from the army, he gets him connections within the Mafia so he can make a (not so honest) living and gives him a place to live. While his tastes were sometimes a little eccentric and his attitude a little off-the-wall, Joe was one of the few people you could actually trust in the dog-eat-dog city of Empire Bay. It is for this reason that the ending of Mafia 2 is so depressing. After Vito is successful in killing his former boss as a favour to his good friend from prison, Leo Galante, it becomes clear that without the help of Joe it may not have been possible. Joe and Vito get into separate cars and are on the way to celebrate their success when Vito notices the car Joe is in turns off onto a different road. Galante then claims that Joe was not part of the deal, implying he is being sent to be killed. It really is enough to make you shed a tear when you realise the friend you had been so reliant on is being sent to slaughter and there is nothing you can do the game is over and you havent been given the happy ending you thought you had won with all your hard work. A Silver Lining? A particularly optimistic person might find some way to convince themselves that Joe wasn't killed we didn't actually see it happen after all.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.
