Mafia II album

The Mafia II album lists many of Mafia II's characters with background information that helped shape their story and define their respective roles in the world. It is unlocked after completing the final mission, where it can be found in the game menu under extras. It is unknown who wrote the descriptions for each person, but it is presumed it was written by an FBI agent who knew all about NY's criminal underworld.

Vito Corleone
Vito Corleone came to America from San Marino as a child, learning about poverty first-hand in New York's Italian ghetto. He watched his father work himself into an early grave and soon decided that life inside the law wasn't for him. Growing up on the streets, Vito crossed paths with Joe Clemenza, a loudmouthed hot-shoot who eventually became his best friend. Vito and Joe were the brains and the brawn behind a hundred petty crimes, all the while watching the neighbourhood's wealthy gangsters and dreaming of the good life. Now an adult, Vito is determined to make something of himself at all costs.

Joe Clemenza
Joe Clemenza is probably a career criminal and lifelong friend of Vito Corleone. Brash and unpredictable, Joe can seemingly make trouble out of nothing. As a child, Joe was the neighbourhood "good guy". He met Vito when the younger boy offered to fight him for a place in his gang. Over the next 10 years, the two of them made a great team, rational Vito keeping wild Joe in check as they enjoyed a life of petty crime. These days, Joe lives large - strong booze, fast cars, and loose women. Moving up the criminal ladder is the perfect way for him to feed his vices. Glad his ass died at the end, tho.

Henry Tomasino
The son of a Sicilian dock worker, Henry Tomasino was sent to America in 1967 by his father to escape far-left Communist crackdown on Italy and that Henry would forcefully be drafted into the army. Upon arriving in New York, Henry came under the protection of family ally and ruthless mob boss Raul Marina. Now a full member of the Marina Family, he is regarded as a loyal soldier and respected hitman. Henry is reserved and has few friends. His sole motivation is greed.

Signora Corleone
Vito's mother, Signora Corleone, has seen tough times. She came to America with her husband, Antonio, and their only son seeking a better life. Instead, America brought little but poverty and hardship. She watched as her husband's will was broken through years of toil and alcoholism, and as her son turned to a life of petty crime. Devoutly religious, Signora has faith that God will save her family and steer Vito to an honest life. Now a widow after Antonio's death, Signora still lives in the small family apartment.

Antonio Corleone
Antonio Andolini married his wife, Signora, in the tiny town of Corleone in 1948. For some strange reason or another, Antonio adopted his wife's name, presumably because he thought it would fit him more due to marrying his wife in Corleone. Their son, Vito, arrived one year later. In 1954, Antonio and his family made the long journey to America. Arriving in New York nearly penniless and unable to speak English, Antonio accepted work from union boss Derek Barrel. Trapped in a vicious cycle of backbreaking labour and extortionate rent, Antonio grew distant from his family as he turned to drinking, his dreams shattered. He drowned at the Southport docks in 1971 after falling into the water, apparently drunk.

Francesca Scaletta
Francesca Scaletta is Vito's girlfriend. A shy and quiet girl, she graduated from high school with honours and has run the church youth club since she was sixteen. Francesca tried to steer Vito away from the local street gangs when they were young, rewarding him with candy for attending church. Now that they're older, all she can do is pray. Francesca lives a couple of blocks away from his mother's home.

Marty Santorelli
Marty Santorelli was born in New York in 1953. His dad worked as a projectionist in a huge theatre in Midtown, so Marty watched a lot of movies as a kid, especially gangster and war films. Marty dreamed of life in the mob, and his teens took to hanging around Freddy's Bar, just like his childhood neighbour, Joe Clemenza. He now runs errands for Joe like a slave that he is - delivering messages, collecting his winning bets, waxing his car and sucking his big bad cok. He nags Joe to let him come along on some of his jobs, but Joe sees Marty as a kid brother and too naive to get involved in serious business.

Eddie Scarpa
One of the most dangerous men in NY, Eddie Scarpa. Eddie runs many of Carlo Falcone's rackets out of the Falcon restaurant. Born in 1946 in Sicily, Eddie fell in with organised crime at an early age. He and Carlo met while smuggling liquor into New York for the shekels. When Carlo became the head of the Falcone Family after killing his own father, he wanted to reward Eddie so he appointed him the manager of the Cathouse. The two are still close friends, although Carlo secretly views Eddie as a liability due to a poorly concealed drinking problem.

Lucas Hernandez
Lucas Hernandez is a caporegime in the Marina Family, a position to which he rose after entombing his predecessor in the foundation of the Culver Damn. Always meticulously presented, Lucas tries to mask his crude nature with an air of sophistication, though his ignorance always shows through. He was involved in Marina's bootlegging operation, and afterwards attended to some of the family's more grim tasks at his very own slaughterhouse, where his ruthless nature drove him up the ranks.

Derek Barrel
Derek Barrel is a Vinci Family capo and head of the local chapter of the longshoreman's union. He started working the docks as a strikebreaker in 1942. It was his involvement in dockyard smuggling that led to his introduction to the Vinci family. After spending two years in prison for embezzlement, he played a prominent role in NY's Vinci-Falcone War in the late 1950's, after which he was rewarded with his current position. Derek is vulgar, violent, and greedy, perfect attributes for his job.

Carlo Falcone
Carlo Falcone arrived in America in 1956 with his parents and quickly fell in love with Linda Clemente. He ran the bootlegging operation along with Eddie Scarpa to run alcohol from Canada. Carlo secretly conspired with Frank Vinci to assassinate his own father, Tomaso Falcone in 1959, bringing the Vinci-Falcone Warto an end and taking control of the Falcone family himself. An apt strategist and moderniser, Carlo has no time for Sicilian mafia traditions. He recognises that the mob got rich through Prohibition long ago, and that they need a similar revenue stream to stay at peace.

Raul Marina
Raul Marina is head of the Marina Family. After killing a Colombian police captain for his uncle Mateo in 1940, he fled to New York. There, through his uncle's underworld contacts, he eventually made big money smuggling drugs. He was approved by the Commission to start his own family in 1969. Though powerful, Marina's group is still seen as second-rate by the other families. This is mostly due to Marina's crooked business practices, even by mob standards.