(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A member of the European Parliament has appealed for Take-Two's Mafia II to be banned. A decision which if ensued would anger thousands of hardcore gamers across Europe.

Sonia Alfano's father was murdered by the Mafia in 1993 when she was at University, and has since campaigned on behalf of the relatives of those who've suffered at the hands of Italian organised crime.

Alfano, president of the Italian association for the families of Mafia victims - Familiari Vittime di Mafia, said yesterday:



Alfano appealed last week to the European Commission, calling for the game to be banned, which has a rank-up system within a mob in 'Empire Bay', a fictional New York.

Alan Lewis of Take-Two, defended the game:



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The only people who ever campaign against video games and fail to see the similarities to how harmless movies are people who have quite simply never sat down w/ a controller in their life.

Give it 50 years, once gaming is more common amongst old people(lol) this **** will stop.

This is exactly like the medal of honour thread. So many movies and tv shows have been made on this topic. It is a joke, why not ban them. Seriously do these people want to stay in power, with the next generation of voters being bought up with video games you do not need to be a rocket scientist to know what will happen there.

bit late now to try and ban it it was released a while ago they cant stop people playing it

wow she could just not play the game , its not like the game is in her face the whole time. Whilst there at it for balance they would need to ban every mafia referenced movie in history . Thats a lot of paperwork! Idiots!

I hope it doesn't get banned it is a beast game!

It's called a "game" for a reason.

Sorry, no offense to any europeans but, they already forced the makers of Medal of Honor to changed the taliban name to something else, and it was just a few letters, why would they want to ban Mafia II now? It's a great game.

the game was also supposed to be banned in uae but there it is on the store shelves

Not Enough To Make It Banned...