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.

Mafia III was The Punisher of the Mafia franchise. In my experience i thought the game was pretty good, it wasn't a bad game at all. The story was really good and engaging enough for me to get through the game. It is very repetitive when it comes to missions where you have to do the same repetitive things everytime you get to a new area but, it's the intriguing storyline that makes u want to keep playing.

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.

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 really don't understand the hate this game gets.
Interesting story, very good graphics, well designed side charachters and the 3 extra missions are spectacular. On top of that you get some great great music while playing.
I faced some bugs here and there but nothing too often or too bad.
Easily the best out of the mafia trilogy imo, highly recommend especially on discount.