Mafia III

Gangsters started shooting me next to a cop and the cop started shooting me instead of the gangsters. I gotta say the racism is pretty realistic in this game

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Extremely good
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boy
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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I dont have many friends with this review, i know, but let me say:
If you are searching for a third episode of the first both fantastic mafia games with a cool and detailed mafia feeling while playing: your wrong, dont buy Mafia 3!
BUT: If you are searching for a fun, pretty and detailed Portrait of the american 1960s with shoutouts and lots of crime: here your right!
I had SOO much fun with his game, although i ve known all the bad words about it.
Pro:
- nice setting
- good open world
- main story missions are well scripted and fun to play
- story overall ist well done
- DLCs (!!!): if you dont like to play the main game, play the green and blue DLC, they are SOOO GOOD !!!
Con:
- sometimes weird graphical bugs
- most side-missions feel the same (handfull of main missions and "50" times the same "drive - shoot - steal - go away"
- police sometimes very annoying
main Game: 7/10
DLCs together: 9/10
(DLC "Sign of a times": 1/10; dont play it, its totally garbage !)
(DLC "Stones Unturned": 8/10)
(DLC "Faster Baby": 9/10)
Overall: 8/10
PS: please, dont throw rocks at me
: )

even tho this has mixed reviews, the story and gameplay was fun, and the openworld was fun to explore.
i'd definitely recommend it, if you love stuff like GTA, some of the music is cool, and you see some familiar faces from the older mafia games, the racism in this game made the era seem more realistic and immersive. i could really get into the maincharacters emotions
while this is just MIXED on steam, i had alot of fun.

Mafia 3 got a bit of a bad rap when it was released, and (at the time of writing) still has 'Mixed' reviews. This is a little unfair, while the criticisms levelled at the game at launch (buggy, samey combat, poor performance) may be true to some degree, the Definitive edition, with all the extra DLC it brings, means that the game is rarely boring.
Mechanically, the game is much like any other GTA-clone - more open world than Mafia 2 (and much more than the original), but still without an excess of side missions (indeed most combat encounters are either story missions, or in order to unlock the next story mission). The game has a clearly defined story, but each region of the city must be 'worked' to force the capo of the region to come into the open. That is typically achieved by finding and disrupting the street level crimes in the racket (the gun runners, the drug dealers etc.) and interrogating low level enforcers until you have forced the head of the racket into the open. Dispose of both rackets in a region, and the capo is exposed for a mission.
The missions themselves are often great, some intelligent set-pieces, and pretty good gun-play. The grind work however is a little more boring (hence the initial complaints). All the mechanics are fine, it's just annoying going around the city's whorehouses to gun down pimps, only to be sent back to one of those same whorehouses to dispose of the racket boss.
Fortunately, those locations are great, and no two regions share the same rackets (though there are similarities of course), and the formal game missions are top notch. The game actually starts with a stand-out mission - a bank robbery gone wrong, which climaxes in a boat race under the city to the thundering theme of 'Born to be wild'. However, the games first mis-step for me, was at the end of this escape, as we ploughed the boat up and over a ramp the camera pulled away and I roared 'Born to be Wi-i-i-ild'... The game did not however force the climax of the music here (whether by accident or by design). It's a silly thing, and yet rather than an epic (if cliché) end to the chase, instead the main flow of the song continued and i felt deflated. The game never again manages to blend the music and stylings so well, and since i heard the song multiple times in the future, maybe it was purely coincidence, but what an opportunity was missed.
The soundtrack overall is great, there's some obvious classics missing, but the period accurate music selection is wide enough, and good enough, that it is highly reminiscent of GTA Vice City before they started dicking around to avoid renewing the licensing - I fear that when Mafia 3 inevitably gets the same treatment, it will steal much of the games charm (but fortunately that is not true yet). The remaining sound design, particularly voice acting, is excellent, and really sets the tone for the 70's in the deep south of America. Racism is on display nearly everywhere through the game (though oddly not too much from pedestrians), and is obviously a central tenet of the story and dialogue, but it's played well, enough to make you uncomfortable, and remain sympathetic to the protagonist.
Mafia 3 stands out from others in the genre, by making you give the regions you liberate to allies, who in turn grant bonuses to you - a gunshop, extra health, someone to collect money from you (when you die, you respawn at a safe house but lose half the cash you have in your pocket - so this is a huge perk) etc. There's also 2 distinct car upgrade routes. Firstly, for completing side missions for your allies, and secondly at the garage. The game explains this terribly, but the garage upgrades are purely cosmetic and utterly pointless, while the ones from your allies are worthwhile. There is a racing series (which i suspect is from a DLC) which this becomes critical for, but these upgrades can also be useful for just generally getting around the city.
The city itself is a wonderful place, a huge bayou area, and then 7 or 8 distinct city areas, each with clear architectural styles, and unique feels. It's definitely one of the best cities I've seen in an open world game like this, and while it's not so fun to just drive around once you've done the story, it's definitely part of the character of the game itself (and surprisingly memorable to navigate too).
Overall, I do recommend Mafia 3. While the first game holds a special place in my heart (how many other games have the cops pull you over for doing 35 in a 30...), and I felt more comfortable in the world of the second game, it's a testament to the world building of 3 that while it's not a comfortable world to inhabit, particularly as Lincoln Clay, but that I wanted to see what would happen, both to the city, and to Lincoln. For the other launch criticisms of poor performance and crashes, I had no such issues, the game was routinely locked at my screen refresh of 120fps except for brief moments maybe 2 or 3 times a playsession when the game was buffering in another part of the city. Perhaps with less RAM, or a slower GPU it might struggle, but I suspect it's been heavily optimised since launch.

I couldn't care less about what many people say about this game having repetitive levels or bugs. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this game.
The story depicted a compelling tale of revenge.
The characters were excellently chosen, and the game featured some awesome cars, interesting cutscenes, and a fantastic open world.
The DLCs were good overall, except for one that was bad.
This game had some weaknesses but it was worth my time.
Mafia 1 and 2 might be better, but that doesn't take away from the enjoyment of this one.
8/10

I do understand why some (a lot of) people are complaining about repetitiveness, because most of a the game structure is really "copy and paste" through and through....
BUT... The developers made sure that every single "repeated" game portion has its own more or less unique characters, dialogues, location. The negative reviews are often come from "professional" players/reviewers, who have very limited time and trying to rush to the end - most likely skipping most dialogues, as much as they can, so for them it doesn't matter what the characters say, how the story is unfolding, all they see is the same type of missions over and over again...
The gun-play is absolutely fantastic, other then being a bit too easy to "cheese" by just whistling and piling up the bodies of all the enemies one by one without any difficulty at some locations (not many!), I enjoyed taking my time and using stealth, tricks, but also just brute force at times. I'm not a good FPS player, but I played on PC without any aim assist, and it's been an enjoyable & rewarding challenge for me.
I saw complaints about the graphics (like the skyline), but honestly I felt the graphics were fantastic - especially during cut-scenes. It felt like playing in an interactive movie, but in a good way, I still had enough control not to feel that I'm not even playing.
I played all the DLC's... I liked them very much, each of them. I made sure that I played them while still in the campaign, and they fit in perfectly and seamlessly - with the additional great advantage of reducing the feeling of the repetitiveness, which, as mentioned before, didn't even bother me in the first place.
Did encounter some bugs, some made me have to restart the game or at least the mission, but nothing like the bugfest I know the original release was. Just a bit surprising that after all these years some of those well documented bugs were still in there...
Overall... I feel it's a fantastic and underrated game, at least 8/10 for me, probably even 9/10