
To mark the launch this week of 2K’s gritty and authentic open world crime sim, we have a host of Mafia gear up for grabs. Today it’s the 2nd and final 360 prize, and the last in our week-long giveaway.
Thanks to our friend at 2K Games, we have FIVE Mafia II “gangster” packs to give away. We’ll be giving away one each day this week. Each pack contains:
* Mafia II game
* Mafia II t-shirt
* Mafia II cufflinks
* Mafia II artbook
* Mafia II moneyclip
So how do you win today’s 360 pack? Easy. It’s time for haiku!
Because you love haiku. Hit us up with your mafia themed haiku in the comments. The cleverest/wittiest haiku will win. Or if not, possibly just the one I like the most.
You’ve got until midnight tonight to get your entry in. The winner will be announced over the weekend. No multiple entries please, but if you don’t win you’re welcome to try again tomorrow with a new entry.
And yesterday’s PS3 winner is… with inevitable predictability, Gobbo. It may look like a limerick, but it is in fact a haiku:
There once was a gangster named Ahmed,
Got confused, wrote a haiku instead:
Peaceful placid lake,
Cement Boots were a mistake
Good night, soon I’m dead.
Shouts out to proj, welbot, ArghZombies, yikes and Dutch for carrying on, undaunted, in the face of such stiff early competition.



















Stevorooni
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:13 AMTime to whack this guy
pow pow pow pow pow pow pow!
oops I think I missed
Dutch
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:17 AMCorleone’s Curse
Mobster life bring’s great sadness
Friends become villains
Vito’s adventure
Explores similar outcomes
Still is compelling
Mafia II moves
Like Norman Rockwell Paintings
Glorious Motion
Shane
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:25 AMShaking down morons
Who borrowed too much money
To live their dumb lives
Gobbo
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:27 AMYEEEAH Awesome thanks Dave!! :D
oggob
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:50 AMWell played sir!
Chuloppa
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:03 AMFantastic work mate – well deserved
NotoriousR
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:23 AMOh noes, you’ve got a name change!
………or you’re just really bad at impersonating Chuloopa.
Chuloopa
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:27 AMNo.. just horrendous spelling.. LOL
thanks for pointing it out though mate
NotoriousR
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:20 AMVery well deserved, congratulations!
yikes
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 12:49 PMgrats dude
yeah I kinda suspected that I shouldn’t have bothered but it was the last PS3 version :(
ah well guess I’ll settle for runner(s) up…
ArghZombies
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 1:13 PMWell won good sir!
Woo! Honorable mention!
FatShady
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 1:25 PMGood work mate… it was like you punched us all in the man bits with the first post…
You did it in a nice way though, so its OK!
Kent Dempsey
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:30 AMGangster pack for me
An offer you can’t refuse
Or you’ll sleep with fish
welbot
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:36 AMGarbage runs are ours
try to encroach and you die
obey family law
Aaron Crump
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:37 AMjudas kissed,
baseball bat kneecap broken
rat to meet fishes
Mark Martin
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:37 AMEnter the family bathed in blood
Rise to power
Fall from grace
EzyLee
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:39 AMa note from husband:
drop off suit to dry-cleaners.
what is this blood stain?
larry bowie
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:51 AMJust when I thought that I was out they pull me back in
oggob
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:52 AMM y attempt at breaking the rules comes
A cross as a cheap ploy…
F ish and Concrete Boots
I s where I’ll end up tonight
A fter crossing Dave
/ runs! :p
proj
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:56 AMhey ma, got a knife?
what happened? are you alright?
deer stuck in the grille…
*goodfellas reference
Stone
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:57 AMYou sonofabitch
Do you not know who I am?
Yesterdays winner
Tom Lim
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:58 AMtommy guns barking
fedoras and classic cars
Empire City
Chuloppa
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:04 AMMafia Mentals
Maliciously Main My Men
Mere Marionettes…
Good luck everyone! :D
Chuloopa
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:27 AM… you think i’d know how to spell my name by now… maybe a chuloppa is my evil twin… dum dum dummmm
Chuloopa
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:54 AMGod damn it.. just noticed another one..
sorry dave it’s meant to be
Mafia Mentals
Maliciously MAIM My Men
Mere Marionettes…
sorry, i hope the spelling fix is ok :s
man what a day…
Scotster
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:06 AMShow me a hint of doubt
I shall send my best mafia scout
slap em with a trout
Robert
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:13 AMEzekiel twenty-five seventeen.
Mayonnaise put on french fries Goddamn!
It’s Royale with cheese.
The best Gangster film of all, bring out the gimp! Good luck all, enjoying these competitions a lot. Great work Kotaku.
Googootz
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:17 AMGangster wants prize-pack,
Wishes for longer hiaku,
Runs out of Sylla.
Bukake Kane
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:17 AMWire test: one, two, three,
Helping feds to save my skin.
Will boss suspect me?
Sughly
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:20 AMEmpty shells spray wild
Another rug off the bridge
Then home for pasta
Scarfaced
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:20 AMWhat you lookin’ at?
You wanna play rough? Okay.
Meet my little friend!
Fury
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:22 AMBlood on knuckles. Pain.
Choices made. Resolution.
Stench of death. Regret.
RAGA
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:27 AMGangster Rick Astley
Never gonna give you up,
Move Heaven and Earth.
Kasumonstar
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:31 AMCherry blossom falls
Over my enemy’s corpse
Rest in peace bastard
Bunni
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:35 AMShouldn’t have got tatt
Now cannot bathe in onsen
No hot soak for me
:(
(In Japan, people with tattoos are not allowed to enter public baths/hot springs (onsen) because Yakuza have big tattoos and would scare off other customers)