Mafia III

Here is how to fix the fill screen issue :
1 - start the game in windowed mode
2 - open options > video/graphic setting
3 - turn OFF v sync
4 - turn on full screen mode
5 - turn v sync back ON
your going to have to do this every time you start the game or alt tab out of the game, ya, its a pain in the ass but its the only fix there is....
The game its self is good, its not a good Mafia game, plays more like GTA San Andreas but in the late 60's to early 70's, soundtrack is good but limited, story is decent enough but forgettable like most games, theres lots of stuff to do.
Except for the fullscreen BS, I liked the game.

I bought this game about 8 years ago, played it awhile, and felt it a poor seguel to Mafia II, which I really liked. So I moved on. Just started it again to perhaps get ready for the new Mafia game and was pretty surprised. The game is good. Great stories, voice acting, and historic placement.
Mechanics, movement, and combat are pedestrian, at best. It isn't Doom. But the story is great. I grew up in the South in the 1960s, (yes I am old and also like computer games), but the game nicely delves into the issues of the time using radio news, rock music, Vietnam, and overt racism. It is a history lesson, as well as a fun organized crime game.
That being said, the game (2016) still has bugs (which is pretty lame re the developer), but not as many as I first thought. If you can get Mafia III cheap or on sale, and if you like action games that are thoughtful, give it a whirl.
I will wait for reviews of Mafia: Old Country, but would wait for quite a bit before purchasing it given the bugs that still exist in Mafia III 8 years after its introduction. Unfortunately the game designers and programmers don't chat.

After the first two Mafia games I was interested to get into the third game, even though I knew it's not really critically acclaimed, but I wanted to experience it firsthand and have my take on it.
I want to say that the atmosphere of the game, the authenticity, the soundtrack and the overall way of telling the story is really well done. Some of the characters and their development is also interesting to follow, and I can't stress this enough but these are indeed done right and these are the strongest points of Mafia 3 by a mile. The idea of the progression system is also decent in the game, even though it doesn't start out as good, but after the first sitdown it starts to shine. There are some interesting aspects of the progression too, like making sure your underbosses stay with you and how to take over territories. Some people say that this is not really a Mafia game, because we are not really part of the Mafia, however this is exactly why I like this part of the game, because we are seeing the Mafia from a different perspective. We still learn more about the Italian family but from a different perspective, which I think it’s really cool. Then the playtime of Mafia 3 with the DLCs is quite massive, so that part won't be a problem
However this game can’t be enjoyed wholeheartedly, because in my opinion most core gameplay elements have some kind of issues, some of these are just goofy and funny to look at, but a few of these things plagues the whole game and just makes the whole game not so fun. Just to list some of some of these:
Progression can bug out and either you can’t continue a mission line or a script doesn’t load in and you get softlocked. Luckily most of the time you can reload a checkpoint and that fixes and you should be good to go, although sometimes the checkpoint is from much further back of the game, in extreme cases the game can be stuck in an infinite loop of loading screens which in most cases can’t be fixed.
NPCs' behaviour is just “simple”, they don’t feel like human beings in the world at all and it is conspicuous enough to notice.
Driving feels barebone, even though you are using a realistic handling model. Still feels like some kind of GTA clone, nothing in here is similar to Mafia 1 or 2.
Physics in this game is quite inconsistent, especially when you are driving. Crashing into cars or objects can have any kind of results.
Audio mixing is not good at some places, for example when you drive and get a puncture you will hear it too loudly on that side of your headphone where you got the puncture and it gets really annoying some of these.
Ragdoll physics and animations can do any kind of goofy thing, prepare to see a whole lot of it.
Graphics in my opinion is not that great for its time, it’s also unoptimized and messy in a few parts.
There is not much variety in the missions, for some people the progression and the missions could feel boring.
The game gets quite easy even on the highest difficulty when you realize the easier solutions in the gun fights, which is stealth and suppressed weapons in most cases. In the late game this gets less effective, although definitely still usable, but after that time you would know what to expect from the game already.
I also want to talk about the DLCs, because in the Definitive Edition the player gets decals, vehicles and weapons additionally which is not a big of a deal overall, but there are 3 additional stories to follow which made me interested.
Faster, Baby!
I highly recommend playing this DLC after the first sit down. In this one, you have to take on a corrupt sheriff and its department in a small town, outside of New Bordeaux with the help of Roxy Laveau, the Voice's daughter.
The DLC offers a new smaller area to uncover with a few more missions, 2 new vehicles, 1 new weapon and 1 asset which can be upgraded, and it generates money.
The story itself is alright, I liked the atmosphere of the DLC. The bonuses are also very good to get, especially if you are still in the middle of your main story.
My only complaint with the DLC, that is short. You can play through the missions in 1 and half hour, I would have played a few more hours in this environment.
It’s a small DLC which can be only useful if you still play the main story, but I still liked this one and recommend checking it out.
Sign of the Times
I recommend this one to play when you feel bored taking over New Bordeaux in the middle of the game. In this DLC you investigate ritualistic murders and a cult in the city and tries to help a woman named Anna from the cult.
The DLC offers to discover a few key locations in New Bordeaux, some story missions and additional optional mission lines, 2 new vehicles and 2 new weapons.
The atmosphere of the story missions starts out really interesting, the difficulty here is challenging at some points. I liked the idea of the optional mission line, it ends the DLC right, although feels out of place at the same time.
The DLC story mission types are a bit boring to me, most of them are built up the same way, which is investigating different areas. The DLC story at the end starts to get a bit more hectic, and if you don’t read notes and pay attention to some details in the areas, you are gonna get lost. The optional mission line is a nice ending to it, but it doesn’t have any point to do for the player in the game, other than wasting in-game money.
The story of the DLC takes 2 and half hours to complete and it could be interesting to some, especially if you are also interested in the optional mission line which needs 187k $ to complete, but for me it was not that good enough. If you are really interested about the story of the DLC, give it a go but other than that you can skip this one.
Stones Unturned
I recommend this one to play when you only have one or two territories to take, when you are close to the end of the game. In this one you help Donovan to deal with a rival who would try to endanger the free world.
The DLC has a separate island to do these story missions which contains six of them and an additional optional mission line. You also get 2 cars and 4 different weapons.
The story is not bad, it has its clichés but it is enjoyable, especially because it only takes an hour to play through, which is just enough for this kind of story. Some of the weapons and cars you get from this DLC are quite good too.
On the other side it could be tricky to play through because of the difficulty in the second part. Also, the motivation for the characters feels a bit hard to understand for me. The optional mission line is an interesting idea, but only good for kill some time in my opinion, doesn't give anything useful for beating it.
This DLC’s story mission feels refreshing in between the story, it also has some good weapons and cars to get after compilation, so I would recommend to play that part only, the optional mission is not that interesting.
Mafia 3 is a tricky game to review, because if you like the story, character story developments and you don’t mind the repetitive, unoptimized and buggy gameplay, you can still enjoy this game very much, even have some laughs about it, but otherwise this game either feels mid or straightforwardly bad. For me, I didn’t like this game in my first 15 hours however after that I started to get used to the bugs and knew what to expect most of the time and just focused on the decent side of the progression system, caught on the revenge story and overall I think it’s not that bad of a game and could recommend it to others. Give it a go if you want to get into a Far Cry like campaign which is about taking revenge or if you wanna have a laugh about the game’s bugs, otherwise just skip it. Definietly not recommend to get this one for 30€, but buying it for 10 - 13 is an okay deal

if your game crashes before it can even get into the menu, go to the file where Mafia 3 is installed, look for Mafia 3 Definitive edition (not the launcher) right click and click on properties go to Compatibility and look for Compatibility mode try all of them but Run this program in compatibility mode for windows 7 worked for me, and now the other issues the same issue they had for mafia 1 is black screening on launch if you have this issue you need to launch the launcher and then change it to window mode, JUST WHEN IT launches you can put in back into full screen mode when you get back into the game you can also try check Disable full screen optimisations i think that will fix most issues of it launching up, ill recommended this or not when i finish the game i just want people to know what to do, so they can play the game and judge it on the game not the bad port for the launch up of the game (also feel free to share over bugs and fixes in the comments :) have a wonderful day).

I mostly wanted to post this to inform on how to get Mafia III into a more playable state. This game is infamous for the technical state it was left in, with numerous minor and major bugs plus crashes galore no matter how good your hardware is. It's also pretty notorious amongst achievement hunters due to counter-based achievements failing to retain your progress once you close the game, resulting in a frustrating to downright impossible 100% experience unless you are incredibly lucky. So after spending some time researching and implementing fixes, this is what I would recommend if you plan on trying this game out:
- Follow the below guide to revert your game back to Patch 1.09, including preventing the game's access to the internet. This should fix every counter based achievement and reduce the frequency that you'll have a crash.
- Play the game in windowed mode for additional stability.
- There will be a mission where you have to enter a boxing ring and be pat down by security before you can enter. Lock the game to 30fps briefly to ensure this interaction plays out properly, else the game will soft lock. You can revert back to a higher frame rate after this.
This by no means makes the game perfect. There will be visual glitches, dialogue which does not play, and a myriad of other random issues. But after playing the game through once on the latest patch and the remainder of my 100% journey on Patch 1.09, I found the earlier version of Mafia III to be far more playable, and allowed me to achieve everything the game had to offer in two playthroughs.
Whether this will make you enjoy the game itself is a different story. It is a major departure from both previous Mafia games due to its open world structure and completely different approach to tackling the Mafia subject matter. I really enjoyed the atmosphere of the world, helped by the visual variety of New Bordeaux, and the excellent soundtrack, boasting many popular and lesser-known tracks of the 60s era. I also loved its storytelling and characters, with fantastic performances across the board and a unique documentary-style framing to the whole ordeal that makes every cutscene a super interesting watch. And while its activities may be repetitive, and its open world activities too safe for their own good, the great weapon sounds and feedback, alongside the brutal melee kills, was more than enough to keep me coming back to experience its combat.
I genuinely believe that with a bit of trimming of the open world fat, and abundant time spent to fix the game up to a polished state, Mafia III would be revered to the point of moving out of the mixed Steam and critical reception it will likely be forever left in. So if you've played the other two Mafia games and are curious whether's it's worth trying the third, I'd recommend enacting the above fixes and give it a go; I was pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up liking this, and maybe you will feel the same as well.
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I've completed and played this game for almost 80 hours and I got a lot to say about this game. So, I would request you to sit back, grab a popcorn and enjoy my review as it is going to be pretty long.

Let's start with the main base game. The story is really well written about Lincoln Clay who has just returned from the army. His family is killed by the mob boss 'Sal Marcano' and you even got shot in the head but you somehow survive it. You wake up from the coma and after that, you start taking revenge from them. Everything was pretty good at the start but after that, the game started to get repetitive by talking to some random guy, going to one place to another, then killing and destroying stuff to bring down the racket money and then in the end, confront that person. After that, you have a choice to recruit or kill him. That's it. Literally nothing much is there, you just have to repeat that non-stop but then you get a different mission where you kill Sal Marcano's associates or families after taking their rackets and territories. Now, I will talk about the Pros and Cons in this game. After that, I will even review the DLC's as well.

Pros about the game:
1. Story is well written and the Game Play is much smoother and miles better than the previous titles.
2. The map in this game is based on 'New Orleans' of 1968 and it is pretty realistic.
3. Graphics is really great for it's time.
4. Even shooting is much better and smooth as well as the driving.
5. I love how there are 3 'Underbosses' and one of them is 'Vito' who was the main protagonist in 'Mafia 2'.
6. I love the side activities but it can get repetitive sometimes but it's pretty great.
7. I love how they give you the choice to assign rackets & districts to your underbosses.
8. I loved the stealth in this game.
9. I loved how there were 5 different endings in this game.

Now let's talk about the cons of this game and oh boi, it is pretty big and wild one.

Cons about the game:
1. The Rear View Mirror was not really needed in this game, but thankfully you have an option to remove it.
2. The main protagonist 'Lincoln Clay' is 6'4 but somehow he can't even climb some obstacles and he can
even die quickly if you fall down a little bit heightened in this game.
3. As i said earlier, this game is repetitive as heck which gets boring very quickly.
4. Lincoln Clay can die very quickly with either 1 or 2 shots.
5. I also hate how after we die, we lost quite a lot of money which is really unfair.
6. This game has tons of collectibles scattered around the city and i don't mind collecting it.
But the problem is that there is one collectible 'TL-49 Fuse' which has just way too many scattered around
and it's not even needed much, but they added everywhere and it's very tired and boring to collect it. The
worse part is some of the collectibles are even underground and you won't even know where to find it. So,
for that. I had to look up through the internet and see where should we enter the Underground to get the
collectibles. Really horrible and time consuming they were.
7. There are races in this game and they are one of the worse thing that has ever added in this game. As the
driving is really hard to control but every time the AI drivers overtakes me and you no idea how many
races i have lost because of it. I still don't understand how their vehicles are faster than me and even the '
focus' where we can slow-mo the driving is removed from that races which makes it even harder to win.
8. Also, the NPC's in this game really pisses me off. Anytime or anywhere i try to steal a car or kill the
enemies, they call the cops all the time. I know they were going for realistic route but this is just plain
annoying. Even in Mafia 2, whenever you steal a car or do beat up other people, no NPC's would call the
cops but this one really made my head boil.
9. I also feel that the cops became much more worse and aggressive in this game. In Mafia 2, if the cops
catches you doing a crime, you could bribe them and they would leave you. But in this game, i feel like
they have take inspiration from the GTA V cops as they are also aggressive. I would prefer Mafia 2 cops
over Mafia 3. I am getting a feeling that since the protagonist is black and in that time, there were many
racism going on, they tried to make it realistic where the cops would keep an eye and shoot you on sight
since you are black.
10. While driving and ramming on vehicles or any obstacles, you lose quite the amount of health which i
didn't like it as well. Even while taking shotcuts anywhere and whenever i ram into a bush, it feels like
someone must've put an invisible wall over there and i lose my health every freaking time. I hate that.
11. In this game, there are no 'Fast Travel' options where we can skip driving as many missions would be very
far away and it's boring driving every single time. It's really a waste of time driving around and not adding
any 'Fast Travel' since many open world games have the 'Fast Travel' option.
12. Also, this game is half broken because sometimes in many cut scenes, the game gets stuck on an infinite
loading screen and because of that, i need to close the game and restart it again.

Alright, now let's talk about the DLC. I would say the DLC's were far better than the main base game. I would even get to say that the DLC's were even better than the Mafia 2 DLC's. There are 3 DLC's and i will each review them and even give a rating for it as well.

1. Faster Baby (DLC): This DLC was great with good driving and causing chaos in the new district and taking down the racist cop. The new characters like Roxy and MJ was good too. I like at the end that Lincoln got to do coitus with Roxy which was worth it after taking down the sheriff. In this new DLC, we even get to do side businesses by growing weeds & selling to each districts and earning money. (8/10)

2. Stones Unturned (DLC): This DLC introduces new missions and even an island where Lincoln & Donovan goes and kills many mercenaries and even take down the main antagonist by the name of Aldridge. We even got to do Bounty Missions by catching down 3 bounty hunters and bringing them alive back to Marshall. It was the most fun DLC where it was just action packed shooting. I had way too much fun in this DLC. (9/10)

3. Sign Of Times (DLC): This is the final DLC and it was the most depressing and sad one. In this DLC, Lincoln & Father James try to help a girl called 'Anna' who has just escaped from Sammy's Bar where the cult has been trying to sacrifice and kill her. We see something new in this DLC like Lincoln being a detective, finding clues and investigating on it which reminded me a little bit of L.A. Noire. The main thing about the story is that there is a cult who takes down people and tries to sacrifice and kill them for some kind of ritual. The main leader of the cult is 'Bonnie' and we see how she ruins Anna completely which made her kill herself and that made Lincoln very much angry who sets out to take revenge by killing every cult members and Bonnie as well. At the end, Lincoln & Father James buries Anna next to Sammy, Ellis & Perla's grave. Also, I do like how at the end of the DLC, we try to renovate Sammy's Bar with the help of Aunt Lilly. It feels like Lincoln got one last closure with Sammy once again in the end by building his bar. (10/10)

I am giving it a thumbs up because i have enjoyed every aspect of this game even if it was a little bit repetitive. Other than that, this is such an underrated gem of a game.

I got to buy myself a copy of this game with all the stigma of it not being a "good" mafia game. First of all, I must agree it is not really a Mafia game. Whilst playing you realise quite quickly that in reality is about putting end to the whole mafia mentality and getting revenge for those who were lost. Those new allies who were found in the process stood by your side. It was never meant for you to be a part of Mafia, but to build something a little better in the wicked world of ours.
Story was great I really enjoyed it. Characters had good screen time ( mainly the allies ). Sadly without much development excluding, Clay, Donovan, Father James, Vito and Sal. Others were good too but for me did not have that much impact on the whole world/story of the game.
DLCs were great I enjoyed them all. The first one with witch hunt was amazing story, that gave more time for Lincoln to develop, The second one with Roxy, was more fun but had a great background and I really enjoyed working with The Voice ( voice acted by a my guy Lee from TWD The Game Series :3 ). The third one with donovan was quick but action packed shit show, that was enjoyable too.
Gameplay was most of the time very good. Some game mechanics polished over time, but there is still some bugs that can influence your opinion on the game. Its the nitt picky stuff, I enjoyed the game as is.

And to those the game was boring and too long of the same I strongly disagree. Mainly beating small racket bosses and then killing Sals lieutenants. Yeah it had its moments, but I still enjoyed killing every single KKK member, getting rid of the greedy fucks that were ruining the lives of many people. A literal ONE MAN ARMY!!

I can say I did all the SQ too, and it made the game whole. Just one thing is missing from this game. FAST TRAVEL MAN. The driving mainly for SQ was sometimes BORING :D.

8.5/10. Good job Hangar 13. Love from Slovakia.