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.
Time to whack this guy
pow pow pow pow pow pow pow!
oops I think I missed
Corleone’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
Shaking down morons
Who borrowed too much money
To live their dumb lives
YEEEAH Awesome thanks Dave!! 😀
Well played sir!
Fantastic work mate – well deserved
Oh noes, you’ve got a name change!
………or you’re just really bad at impersonating Chuloopa.
No.. just horrendous spelling.. LOL
thanks for pointing it out though mate
Very well deserved, congratulations!
grats 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…
Well won good sir!
Woo! Honorable mention!
Good 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!
Gangster pack for me
An offer you can’t refuse
Or you’ll sleep with fish
Garbage runs are ours
try to encroach and you die
obey family law
judas kissed,
baseball bat kneecap broken
rat to meet fishes
Enter the family bathed in blood
Rise to power
Fall from grace
a note from husband:
drop off suit to dry-cleaners.
what is this blood stain?
Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in
M 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
hey ma, got a knife?
what happened? are you alright?
deer stuck in the grille…
*goodfellas reference
You sonofabitch
Do you not know who I am?
Yesterdays winner
tommy guns barking
fedoras and classic cars
Empire City
Mafia Mentals
Maliciously Main My Men
Mere Marionettes…
Good luck everyone! 😀
… you think i’d know how to spell my name by now… maybe a chuloppa is my evil twin… dum dum dummmm
God 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…
Show me a hint of doubt
I shall send my best mafia scout
slap em with a trout
Ezekiel 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.
Gangster wants prize-pack,
Wishes for longer hiaku,
Runs out of Sylla.
Wire test: one, two, three,
Helping feds to save my skin.
Will boss suspect me?
Empty shells spray wild
Another rug off the bridge
Then home for pasta
What you lookin’ at?
You wanna play rough? Okay.
Meet my little friend!
Blood on knuckles. Pain.
Choices made. Resolution.
Stench of death. Regret.
Gangster Rick Astley
Never gonna give you up,
Move Heaven and Earth.
Cherry blossom falls
Over my enemy’s corpse
Rest in peace bastard
Shouldn’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)
Omar don’t like you
Neither does his big shotgun
Bang bang now your dead
staked out in the snow
drive by failed, target missing
the price of failure
Sonny gets call. Drives.
Car waits at toll booth, Men, Suits.
Ackbar “It’s a TRAP!”
Empire Bay beware
There is a new kid in town
His gun is loaded.
still have both my hands
to pick up Mafia II
hope to keep my thumbs
(is Mafia 2 or 3 syllables?)
just in case “Mafia” is considered 2 syllables and my last entry doesn’t qualify:
Kotaku prize packs
An offer you can’t refuse
even without knees
So here goes, my final attempt at this comp. After Davids comment about the relative intelligence of PC vs console gamers… Here is one that requires a little thinking and puzzle solving!
Gangster e hitmen,
Pronto e volendo a morire,
arte imita vita
Aw. Was hoping someone tried to solve it. You have to translate from Italian to English. It reads
Gangsters and hitmen
Ready and willing to die.
Art imitates life.
“Family comes first”
Forget it and regret it
For we are the law
This? Just little bruise
You got it wrong, officer
Hit my head shaving
Gangsters’ dialogue,
work-safe with the right accent,
“Fock you, ya rat-fock!”
Hello Christoper.
Ever try our sausages?
Bullets through Email.
Fffffffffff-
Thats meant to be Christopher.
Cherry blossoms drift
past vinnies waterlogged corpse
Noone quits ‘the biz’
there was a gangster named tony.
he was just a wannbe,
played all day on his psp,
and smelled like spaghetti,
always got his fingers dirty,
that got his boss angry
which made everyone else gurmpy
such is the was life of mr.tony
Woke up this morning,
Ba wah ee-o-ee-o-oh,
Got yourself a gun.
If I don’t win, I hope I lose to this one 🙂
Blink just a moment
And you’ll miss it by a mile
Bullets and carnage
The dead of the night
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, click.
Payday comes early.
And now, you ask me,
On my daughter’s wedding day,
For videogames?
Congrats, Gobbo-san
My PS3 rests empty
Why did I bother?
italian mafia
original and the best
cannoli pizza
On the run again
Well, infact a slow stride
Bodybags aren’t light
From the days of Rome,
Our use of violence has grown.
Gun shots rule our tome.
the drug trade WAS strong
ben cousins; Number one man
im his MVP
Baseball bat, cash in hand,
Women of the night gathered like geese,
Niko wants his money back…
Wait… wrong one posted instead, here’s the proper one:
Baseball bat, leg, hand,
Women of the night, like geese,
Niko has cash back…
Gold coin theft was botched
He hid from cops in green pipes
Mario was born
How hard can it be?
To write mafia haiku.
Interrupting Cow!
running rum for dad
police pulled over us lads
jail time for mickey
The new godfather
Keeps hitting the mattresses
Nicknamed him Don Juan
Tommy with drum mag
leather coat and wide brim hat
one stylish cold killer
Unamused by threat
Horse head lies on clean fresh sheets
Cliche overdone
With five minutes to spare!
Coming onto boss
Kinky way to get whacked off
Wood chipper, groin first.
Blow job comes later
When you bang the bosses wife.
House filled with gas. BOOM!