Mafia II is the 2010 sequel to "". It was released on August 24, 2010 in North America and August 27, 2010 in the PAL region. The game is set in Empire Bay which is a parody of The Empire State, the nickname for New York in the years 1945 to 1955. "Mafia II" was protested by an Italian-American group because they thought the game was portraying ethnic stereotypes.