Mafia III

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3.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1740 Ratings

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  1. KosmosRoman
    Oct 10, 2016
    0
    Another big lie and collapsed hopes. Only 2 hours of the story. Thousands of boring missions like "kill this guy, kill another, kill.... Copypaste from UBI games.
  2. ElHard
    Oct 9, 2016
    1
    I think 2K has deceived us. They have sold a fraudulent product. That upset me a lot. The game is unfinished. That is why they have not allowed the press to analyze it before release. Shameful.

    To put it directly: this game should not have gone on sale. Not yet. It is unfinished. The PC version is a bad port from console. Full of bugs, full of graphics problems ... but that could be    I think 2K has deceived us. They have sold a fraudulent product. That upset me a lot. The game is unfinished. That is why they have not allowed the press to analyze it before release. Shameful.

    To put it directly: this game should not have gone on sale. Not yet. It is unfinished. The PC version is a bad port from console. Full of bugs, full of graphics problems ... but that could be fixed with patches.

    The real problem is all that can not be fixed. Artificial Intelligence is painful. Almost ridiculous. And worst of all, they are more than 20 hours to do the same. the same missions are always repeated, without changing any detail. Soon you're bored.

    I have not put a zero for how the story is told, but the game can not be recommended for anything. Quite the opposite.    … Expand
  3. MalistiX
    Oct 8, 2016
    0
    Ok so it has a 30FPS lock, crashes fequently and looks worse then anything I have played in years, wow this is a dissapointment. Do not buy this game!!
  4. Kauzer
    Oct 8, 2016
    0
    -GFX is so bad, all blured. Looks like you are underwater all the time. Crap port from console, this is not finished version for PC. Textures are very poor.
    -Changeg "fire" button in options by mistake, then swithed back for default but could not shoot after that on both hot keys...
    -Crap console animation and covers gameplay. -30fps lock and no SLI support. My 2x980Ti spit on it.    -GFX is so bad, all blured. Looks like you are underwater all the time. Crap port from console, this is not finished version for PC. Textures are very poor.
    -Changeg "fire" button in options by mistake, then swithed back for default but could not shoot after that on both hot keys...
    -Crap console animation and covers gameplay.
    -30fps lock and no SLI support. My 2x980Ti spit on it.
    -Stupid bots run under the cars even if they have a red color for them on traffic light.

    4/10 Game is not ready for PC realase. Made a refund.    … Expand
  5. AsyxA
    Oct 10, 2016
    0
    DO NOT BUY! In 5 hours I experienced 4 crashes, 2 times the entire PC crashed and the last one corrupted my savegame. The game is not optimized at all and even the actual game itself obviously was not finished.

    This is a lazy copy&paste port and it's release in this state is inexcusable. Shame on you 2K!
  6. daddyingrave
    Oct 8, 2016
    0
    I don't want to rate this game, because it isn't a game. My score describes attitude of developers to gamers. I have spent only five minutes in game and already flew out through textures. When I tried to screenshoot this fail, game was crashed. Terrible. How can it be possible in 2016?
  7. whave
    Oct 9, 2016
    0
    I wish companies would soon realise they should not release crappy, underperforming, shameful ports of console games. In the age of instant refunds and reviews, this is shooting yourselves in the foot. GTA IV figured this out in 2008, and look at GTA V now which is basically the messiah of PC ports done properly AND can be considered a direct competitor to your ridiculous game. You had 8I wish companies would soon realise they should not release crappy, underperforming, shameful ports of console games. In the age of instant refunds and reviews, this is shooting yourselves in the foot. GTA IV figured this out in 2008, and look at GTA V now which is basically the messiah of PC ports done properly AND can be considered a direct competitor to your ridiculous game. You had 8 years to fail, congratulations.… Expand
  8. dimedrol_by
    Oct 9, 2016
    3
    Terrible depth of field simulation. The thing about true depth of field is that it depends on the object your eyes are focused on. In Mafia 3 you can only guess where that object is and most of the things on the screen are pretty randomly blurry. Looks weird and cheap. Tons of glitches too, some are shown here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZokdmzvDGA
  9. Lokidos
    May 20, 2020
    10
    I had a bad opinion when it first released...Gotta say that now after 4 years that ive retried playing it i find this game is a dope! I enjoy every moment of it. Music ,enviroment , gun shooting all i wanted.
  10. Tubey
    Oct 8, 2016
    4
    Thoroughly mediocre. Muddy, dated graphics and no innovation on show here - indeed, this is a massive leap back from Mafia II and is basically a poorly done GTA clone.

    At the time of writing, an FPS patch is in place to fix the 30 FPS lock, but not only was the fact the game wasn't released with that already in place shocking enough, it won't fix the issues the actual game has. It's    Thoroughly mediocre. Muddy, dated graphics and no innovation on show here - indeed, this is a massive leap back from Mafia II and is basically a poorly done GTA clone.

    At the time of writing, an FPS patch is in place to fix the 30 FPS lock, but not only was the fact the game wasn't released with that already in place shocking enough, it won't fix the issues the actual game has.

    It's lazy basically. Everything about the game is formulaic, paint-by-numbers laziness to capitalise on a franchise. In a post Steam refund world, I'd be amazed if this wasn't returned en masse, as this is a AAA priced purchase for a D- product.    … Expand
  11. Drackenfels
    Oct 12, 2016
    0
    Pros
    - Soundtrack

    Cons
    - There is no mafia atmosphere
    - Ugly low res textures in many places on max graphics
    - Horrible shooting mechanics
    - Driving controls are unrealistic and floaty.
    - Game crashes

    That game has no right to be called “Mafia”. Real name for this trash is “New Bordeaux Vermin”.
  12. PAA1
    Oct 9, 2016
    1
    I was waiting for this game since quite a while.
    Was totally disappointed with the poor product.
    1) Extreme low textures - looks like a game for 2004-05 2) Brightness issues - Sometimes during cutscenes the brightness goes 100% all of a sudden - everything white, whatsoever 3) Poor framerates and FPS drops all of a sudden 4) Sluttered texture in almost every 2 minutes of gameplay -    I was waiting for this game since quite a while.
    Was totally disappointed with the poor product.

    1) Extreme low textures - looks like a game for 2004-05
    2) Brightness issues - Sometimes during cutscenes the brightness goes 100% all of a sudden - everything white, whatsoever
    3) Poor framerates and FPS drops all of a sudden
    4) Sluttered texture in almost every 2 minutes of gameplay - you see road, bushes, building - you will notice sluttered textures every 2 minutes
    5) Not at all optimized for PC - it is not even close to a Beta Release

    Pros
    1) Gameplay and Storyline is fun, nice build-up for each lead character, a smooth story line and way less deteriorating from the main mission, yet that's it.
    2) Nice music

    Don't buy it until they release a correct patch.    … Expand
  13. stopesbox
    Oct 9, 2016
    0
    Я люблю 60-е. Люблю здоровенные, ревущие, мощные "баржи", оружие, которое выглядит как оружие - суровое весло M16A1, АК-47, рок-н-ролл, атмосферу южных штатов и это в "Мафии 3" есть. Как у человека без опыта вождения, "симуляторный" режим управления вызывает приятные эмоции. У "Мафии" есть даже какая-то завязка сюжета, хотя мстящий супермен, которого и пуля в голову не берет, вызываетЯ люблю 60-е. Люблю здоровенные, ревущие, мощные "баржи", оружие, которое выглядит как оружие - суровое весло M16A1, АК-47, рок-н-ролл, атмосферу южных штатов и это в "Мафии 3" есть. Как у человека без опыта вождения, "симуляторный" режим управления вызывает приятные эмоции. У "Мафии" есть даже какая-то завязка сюжета, хотя мстящий супермен, которого и пуля в голову не берет, вызывает меньше сопереживаний, чем тот же Вито. Наличествует приятная лицевая анимация, сочные кровавые убийства в рукопашной и, в общем-то, сносная графика по меркам простого обывателя. А объекты слежки наконец стали реагировать на нарушение главным героем правил ПДД и подозрительные остановки посреди дороги. С другой стороны, автомобиль, за рулем которого здоровенный негр в военной форме, следующий по пятам вот уже который поворот, вполне ожидаемо не вызывает подозрений.

    А вот чего нет, так это оптимизации, патч с анлоком фпс только показал истинное лицо - 30-40 фпс на GTX970 на средних настройках, выше только в исключительных случаях. Нет целого ряда мелочей, которые делают мир игры живым. Можно списать, конечно, отсутствие возможности вскрыть замок автомобиля на то, что Линкольн не профессиональный угонщик, хотя с другими замками он разбирается без проблем. Или стремление полицейских пристрелить чернокожего водителя за поцарапанный бампер можно обусловить традиционным для того времени расизмом, хотя стоит задуматься о лени разработчиков. На эту самую лень указывает целый ряд вещей. У путей можно стоять до второго пришествия - поездов в мире игры нет. Как и осколков стекла и стреляных гильз. Зеркала словно из фильма ужасов, изображение в них искажено и обновляется весьма неожиданно. Сверкающий хром? Не, не видели. Написать скрипт, чтобы полиция реагировала на происходяще реалистично? Зачем, если можно просто сообщить игроку, что она куплена и заведомо настроена только против него. Мелкие детали при вождении автомобиля, в духе штрафов за превышение скорости, механической коробки передач, кончающегося бензина или работающих поворотников, утрачены с первой части окончательно. Как и модель повреждения этих самых автомобилей. Но большинство из этого можно было бы простить, будь у игры захватывающий сюжет. Но и тут не обошлось без удара ниже пояса. Сюжет-то есть. Только он безбожно порезан на мелкие части и щедро разбавлен однообразным процессом захвата районов по примерно одной и той же схеме. Снова лень, лень придумывать длинный сюжет, чтобы удержать игрока на десятки часов? Да и качеством не отличается, честно сказать. Убийство Марти во второй части было трагедией, смерть второстепенных героев здесь вызывает куда меньше эмоций, слишком уж слабо они прописаны. И подобное отношение к написанию сценария встречается буквально на каждом шагу.

    С горечью на сердце могу констатировать, что пациент хоть и скорее жив, но находится в вегетативном состоянии. Задуматься о покупке стоит только большим любителям эпохи 60-х. А вот фанатам серии не стоит, это плевок в душу.    … Expand
  14. zergum
    Oct 9, 2016
    1
    Mafia 3 is a fraud to the pc gamers; 30fps lock isn't the problem, the problem are bug, crash, low texture quality (worst than Mafia 2!!!) and lot of others problem; this software is in alpha! Don't buy.
  15. MaximusDecimus3
    Oct 11, 2016
    3
    A politically-correct, white-guilt fueled mess of a console port. Gameplay is boring and generic, city has nothing to offer outside of the main story missions and is a modern day revisionist-historical rendition of New Orleans, not accurate in any way whatsoever with the time and location. Don't waste your time or money with this garbage. Wait for a sale under 10 dollars. Also terribleA politically-correct, white-guilt fueled mess of a console port. Gameplay is boring and generic, city has nothing to offer outside of the main story missions and is a modern day revisionist-historical rendition of New Orleans, not accurate in any way whatsoever with the time and location. Don't waste your time or money with this garbage. Wait for a sale under 10 dollars. Also terrible performance on top of the line rigs, even though the game doesn't look spectacular or outstanding in any way. Riddles with bugs, muddy textures, texture pop-in, and awkward controls top off this cherry sundae of ****

    One positive thing is that the music is great, but that's a product of the times and not these incompetent white-guilt riddled cuckold developers.    … Expand
  16. Kinedrill
    Oct 14, 2016
    1
    This game is hot aspirant to GOTY - Garbage of the Year. Alongside with win10 version of Forza Horizon 3 and ofc NMS.

    PROS: Semi-good atmosphere + characters (characters?)
    CONS: Well, everything else.
  17. Getpoor
    Oct 14, 2016
    2
    1. Why should you ruin and implement x-ray vision into a game like this?
    2. With the whistle u can kill everyone piece by piece with nobody to notice
    3. Playable and fun maybe between ages of 3-12 4. Everything is much to easy, all the tasks are similar. 5. I hate the help icons that appear all around the game, i hate the AI( he is so stupid), i hate x-ray, i hate this game and i am    1. Why should you ruin and implement x-ray vision into a game like this?
    2. With the whistle u can kill everyone piece by piece with nobody to notice
    3. Playable and fun maybe between ages of 3-12
    4. Everything is much to easy, all the tasks are similar.
    5. I hate the help icons that appear all around the game, i hate the AI( he is so stupid), i hate x-ray, i hate this game and i am sorry that i bought it.

    Graphics not bad, but i cant play a game just because it looks good
    Cheers!    … Expand
  18. uplink777
    Oct 10, 2016
    0
    Incredible. I thought this was suppose to be AAA game, but it came out as a heavy caliber Z grade game. Gameplay is extremely poor with no headroom whatsoever for repairs in future patches. Gameplay is simply super bad. They must've re-worked whole engine from bottom up and it was a bad bad move. Mafia and II are legends. Mafia III is a super failure. It's like the game was made by a wholeIncredible. I thought this was suppose to be AAA game, but it came out as a heavy caliber Z grade game. Gameplay is extremely poor with no headroom whatsoever for repairs in future patches. Gameplay is simply super bad. They must've re-worked whole engine from bottom up and it was a bad bad move. Mafia and II are legends. Mafia III is a super failure. It's like the game was made by a whole different people, with not a slightest clue nor hint of what the first two were about.

    Graphics are total **** it feels like a budget game from Unity engine, made by team of two to three people. Sounds, music and script is below mediocre. I'm still playing Witcher 3 and I was expecting something on similiar level. But I was so wrong, so badly wrong.

    When I move in the game, it feels like they barely used some motion capture technologies for the character movement, or some more advanced physics engine for rigging and motion of characters. When I remember some tech videos from 10 years ago, they had better technologies used for character motion than Mafia III alltogether.

    Music is really weak, leaves no emotion in You.

    Character performance is very poor due to weak facial expressions [afaik, games like this are all about facial expressions] and a lot of bugs in graphic is taking it's toll in the game atmosphere.

    Ai and enemy movement is superbly dull. It's totally worthless taking stealth approach in missions, since when You wreak havoc, You only need some basic counter-strike skill to pass through enemies.

    Overall this game is definitely not worth Your time, money, nor energy spent playing it.

    Go and play tetris, mines, or Pokémon Go, rather than Mafia III. This game is super bad. And not because of frame lock, I'm writing the review playing the game on 60 fps cap.

    Oh, and another thing. I naively thought that Asus X99 Deluxe II, Core i7 6850k @ 4.7 GHz, 32 gigs of RAM, 1.2TB Intel 750 SSD NVMe PCi-e drive with humongous throughput all powered by MSi GTX 1080 SeaHawk X will at least give me an option to play the game on high details in 2k. Well, here's the newsflash. I can't in play it in full HD xD

    If You bought this game, throw it to the trash, or return it. It's a bad game overall and as I wrote in the beginning, there's absolutely and whatsoever no headroom for improvement. They'd have to rework it from scratch, maybe some GOTY, or remaster will do the trick, but nothing in following months.    … Expand
  19. LordNord
    Oct 10, 2016
    3
    Worst thing in the franchise. This game is a joke only. Quests is boring as hell, all same.: Go iinterrogate a man after go destroy after go kill the boss....only this quest type in the game very very boring! And of course lot of bugs, high end pc cant running this sh!t, fps drops like hell.
  20. Faustito
    Oct 10, 2016
    0
    Another bad console port. I wont stop talking about the story or any kind of details, this is just another example of this crap generation. Mafia 2 makes look this game awful in every aspect if you just compare them.
  21. SerchTESCHA
    Oct 10, 2016
    1
    Well you buy it and I think the game has technical sections in deplorable PC, here I stress upon "defend the defensible" some people do for the game, I personally do not make me angry 30 fps although I enjoy playing at 60 fps and more if allowed by the hardware, but I've found with a myriad of mistakes in the game that make me think that they brought him hastily, for example (even withWell you buy it and I think the game has technical sections in deplorable PC, here I stress upon "defend the defensible" some people do for the game, I personally do not make me angry 30 fps although I enjoy playing at 60 fps and more if allowed by the hardware, but I've found with a myriad of mistakes in the game that make me think that they brought him hastily, for example (even with Update1) presents failures configurción keyboard, translations erroneous text, graphic part well below other current games such as the new Deus Ex (just glorious and superb) and above all a deplorable sadly artificial intelligence in many parts of the game. When you come to play gems like Deus Ex and then play a game with the quality of Mafia 3, the truth in my case I was very disappointed, I say this sincerely, and I am not a troll who goes around hitting the game, I say to support the developer by buying the game, which plot level is supreme, that if the height almost, of great historical novels, but technically there if I'm not playing, I enjoy it as much as I can, but I think could do much better at the technical level (that you see is that the developer is not the same as the previous Mafia, 2k Czech and now Hangar13), a Mafia 2 visual level is stunningly beautiful, even today despite being a game with several years development and output currently looks beautiful, colorful, bright with a recreation of great historical scenarios that give you the feeling of living the nostalgia of those years, this Mafia 3 will feel stiff, dark, opaque, only by history is saving and therefore I'm playing, to be honest this Mafia is not the best, and ended with a detail that caught my attention when I was playing I enter my cousin and saw the game and wonder what it was, I answer is the new Mafia 3 !!!, excited, and he answers me hear it looks like xbox 360 and more direct without first impression, not excited or anything, of course if you dare to play it but hey, graphic level the impression that he had, and never forget.… Expand
  22. Dave3d
    Oct 10, 2016
    2
    I am writing this review based on what little time I have played the game (on what little time the game has allowed me to play since it came out).

    I will start with the Cons: 1. No mouse or keyboard proper rebinding. You CAN rebind to any key you want, but the keys may not work at all, especially if you rebind using the right side keyboard and mouse buttons, actions will NOT work    I am writing this review based on what little time I have played the game (on what little time the game has allowed me to play since it came out).

    I will start with the Cons:
    1. No mouse or keyboard proper rebinding. You CAN rebind to any key you want, but the keys may not work at all, especially if you rebind using the right side keyboard and mouse buttons, actions will NOT work anymore, and you will be forced to use the wasd scheme. Not good for Disabled gamers. or gamers used to playing on the right side of keyboard, or using different mouse keys.
    2. Extra mouse buttons are not seen, nor are they mappable.
    3. There are 4 different FOV's in this game, and they are all different, and they change about every minute to 2 minutes. Fine if you are 15 feet from a tv, not good when you are a foot from a Monitor.
    4. The game is worse than Max Payne 3 or the worst Tomb Raider at taking control away from the player.
    5. On monster rigs, even with their so called fps patch, the game is still limited to 62 fps, on 144hz monitors.
    6. NO FOV slider, ini, cfg, anything to change the fov. Get ready for headaches and migraines.
    7. Graphics are as dated as 2003-2004. Only the cut scenes look good. But, even the cut scenes have doubling in them, like the AA is off, or maybe its the blur they put in.
    8. Shooting has no weight, or feel to it. It feels like an old arcade shooter from the 80's.
    9. Driving feels like they took it from the game Driver: San Francisco. Feels more like drift car than even most drift car games.
    10.
    11. Shadows from clouds. They follow you indoors, as well as ABRUPTLY cutting off one inch one way or the other.
    12. Shadows. You are either in pitch black, or you are in hallogen lighting. The in-game lighting cannot be adjusted correctly, its either one or the other.

    Pro's:
    1. The muscle car you drive looks nice.
    2. The narrator is excellently voiced.
    3. I will have to get back to you anything else good, as so far there isnt anything else I think is good.

    TL:DR
    Do NOT buy this game, as it is incomplete at this time. Even console players are complaining about serious bugs in the game.    … Expand
  23. Enerla
    Oct 11, 2016
    0
    How Mafia 3 earned a 0/10 rating, normally reserved for games with severe issues? You can guess: Some essential game mechanic doesn't doing it job at all. And in this case it is the save game system for a relatively long game. You only have an autosave and no other save slots. And sometimes quest state gets corrupted, and when that state is saved, you would have to start the whole gameHow Mafia 3 earned a 0/10 rating, normally reserved for games with severe issues? You can guess: Some essential game mechanic doesn't doing it job at all. And in this case it is the save game system for a relatively long game. You only have an autosave and no other save slots. And sometimes quest state gets corrupted, and when that state is saved, you would have to start the whole game over. Good save game mechanics was expected for long games even in C=64 era... And it is a huge design flaw.

    Having to start over and over would be a serious issue even if we would want to start over when we finish the game, but in case of Mafia 3 it isn't that case. The game is far too repetitive for that, and as you don't have much choices with storyline impact, the replay value is low. Ohh and when you have to try a mission a few times not because it poses a challenge, but because you have to restart it because of a crash to desktop that breaks the fun.

    At first the story and the setting looks interesting. But even the society lacks detail and the picture we see is inaccurate. And what's even worse? It isn't a living setting. When your enemy learns you are alive and you are gunning for him, he doesn't try to take you out... he is just waiting for you to take him down. And once you realize this issue and start to notice several others, add unimaginative mission design, issues with AI (both combat AI and traffic AI) and gameplay elements that break the immersion (how wiretapping lets you see through the wall in intel view)... You know, that just doesn't feel right.

    And it makes sure when you would have to restart due to a bug, you don't want to fight with the same repetitive mission you had to try 7 times due to crash to death. Good reason to abandon the game halfway.

    You have read the rants about the graphics. But to keep a long game fresh there are tricks developers can do with music (and sound editing)... But when even the radio is repetitive because they can save a few $ with it, and it takes away a potential redeeming value.

    I don't want to sound rude, but official reviews have to side with a ill interpreted political correctness. But since when organized crime offers free food for the poor? When loyalty and family values are "too important" for them? It never happened. When you want to portray one color as good and other color as bad and the image you display is this flawed? That is a HUGE issue.

    Multicultural criminal empire, you lead not with leadership skills, not with men who were loyal to you in the beginning... Not by politics, diplomacy, decision making... But by shooting enemies. And now all the people you "helped with it" are loyal to you even if you have killed their friends and family before. And they even take you as leader when they have led organized crime, was capable of fooling you, using you and you lack leadership traits? Why... Because PC **** means we need a black superhero without any in character explanation. If you are super PC and call that as excellent: Fine...

    But I am sure that games like the good old GTA: San Andreas had more "believable" heroes. With some leadership skills, dedication, flaws and strengths. And they were likeable, and that game built bridges. Stupid lies in the name of political correctness only burin bridges and create more motive for racism.    … Expand
  24. gameren82
    Oct 18, 2016
    3
    How many times do I have to do the same thing? This is crazy! Every single quest should be unique and different. The quests are repetetive. And the game is not about Mafia; this is about a black serial killer who wants to make a revenge.
  25. yogibbear
    Oct 12, 2016
    0
    Honestly, this is a HUGE giant step backwards from Mafia 2. How the hell does something like this happen? Does nobody do internal QA/QC or internal reviews before releasing this horrendous pile of trash? How does a game called "Mafia 3" have less features, a worse engine, and more pathetic gunplay than the previous game?
  26. Cyper
    Oct 14, 2016
    1
    This game is not worthy the Mafia heritage. Not because the main protagonist is black and not sicilian - but because the game itself share's more simliarities with games such as Watch Dogs and Saint's Row than Mafia. Truth is, even GTA V closer to the Mafia formula than MAFIA III.

    Why? First off, the formula is 30% Mafia and the rest 70% of the formula is copied- and pasted DIRECTLY    This game is not worthy the Mafia heritage. Not because the main protagonist is black and not sicilian - but because the game itself share's more simliarities with games such as Watch Dogs and Saint's Row than Mafia. Truth is, even GTA V closer to the Mafia formula than MAFIA III.

    Why?

    First off, the formula is 30% Mafia and the rest 70% of the formula is copied- and pasted DIRECTLY from the typical, generic gameplay, themes, features, style and mechanics you see in all other games. You can use xrayvision and see enemies through walls by pressing a button (they glow read) which is copied from Batman. The ''brutal takedown'' are directly copied from Hitman including many HUD-elements such as ''Trespassing'' appearing on the screen when you enter restricted areas. Weapons on the ground has glowing icons over them. The game even borrow ''one punch, one kill'' from GTA V; punch a person one time and the fall down dead. It is directly copied - and there is too much of it. The screen feels littered with HUD elements.

    Secondly, the game is dumbed-down. Xrayvision might fit in Batman, but certainly not in a mature (at least supposed to be mature) gangster game such as Mafia. Neither does the devs love for Hollywood explosions fit into the game; no it does not make sense that a car explodes just because you put a few bullets into it. A part from the fact that the game is dumbed down in terms of aids for the player, the AI is dumbed down as well. AI is dumb as rock; they are more or less deaf, blind and lacks shooting accuracy. Shootouts becomes a shooting gallery.

    Third, in terms of story, Lincoln Clay is a black Vietnam-vet with superhuman abilities. Lincoln Clay is a lone-wolf, one-man army. The whole gameplay evolves very much around a vietnam vet literally going RAMBO and takes down whole crime syndicates on his own. The storytelling is good though - and cutscenes is what makes it worthwhile playing at all. But then there is just repetetive missions that has very little to offer. Typical gameplay is running to cover - mow down enemies - and maybe sprint towards them in full speed to use a quick stealth-takedown aided by a bombastic sound effect to it. Or jump out of a speeding car watching it crash into the bad guys and then and exlode.

    Fourth, In terms of graphics, the game is nothing special. There is as a matter of fact many issues. The skybox is horrible, there is pop-ups, low resolution textures, and the screen game is drenched in a orange-tint. Graphics is generally not a big deal - gameplay is what i consider most important. But Mafia III got does nothing of it right.

    Final verdict: Mafia III is not a special game. It is certainly not worthy the Mafia heritage.    … Expand
  27. tarzankill
    Oct 10, 2016
    3
    grafphics are blurry
    character animation scripts are poor exapmle: idle animation starting while talking to me
    aiming is terrible, even wothout assist
    car phisics are horror
    story allways stop to listen a old priest as narrator
    just terrible cheap game
  28. Ricco_
    Oct 18, 2016
    1
    This is another great evidence of how easily one company can ruin the product with the approach of copy pasting game-play and other parts of it of really bad product examples, instead of continuing the path of what was started in previous series.

    In overall by its game-play style, mechanics, strategy of story telling, arcade alike overall style (x-ray view - wtf????) this product    This is another great evidence of how easily one company can ruin the product with the approach of copy pasting game-play and other parts of it of really bad product examples, instead of continuing the path of what was started in previous series.

    In overall by its game-play style, mechanics, strategy of story telling, arcade alike overall style (x-ray view - wtf????) this product reminds me a lot of such Ubisoft rubbish as Watch Dogs (capturing towers, stupid - linear AI's, practically non existent stealth elements), all FarCry series, except first, which was really great (again capturing towers/copy paste basis and the rest of that similar crap), Asassin Creed (the same stupid approach, capturing towers - AGAIN?!?!) and this list can be extended. It just shows how eager are companies in gathering fast and easy money, not giving a sh*t about their reputation and quality of product - it is much easier to copy the mechanics from other crap, just re-skin the product and resell the same a multiple times what so ever. This is just another copy paste crap that hamsters, owning the consoles will anyway consume without objectively seeing the reality, whose vision is blurred by heavy and expensive marketing machinery, which most likely costed more than the actual development of the game (as usual).

    In other words, this product is really far from what a real, genuine Mafia series was offering - with their special tension to little details, like interaction with different objects (cars, buildings, transport, citizens and so on), comparably much smarter AI's, much more interesting and exciting story, more realistic than "arcadish" approach of making both previous Mafia games, which is what a real Mafia fans where loving. As one reviewer wrote: "It is far more Saints Row III than anything else...", which says it all.

    In a conclusion, just search on the Internet for some comparison of detail of Mafia 1 (which is a 14!!!! year old game) or 2 vs Mafia 3 and you will understand how much worse this product has become.    … Expand
  29. N3V3R
    Oct 12, 2016
    2
    To say Mafia III is a disappointment is an understatement. It has all of the surface components to form a great game: the writing and acting are superb, its direction and style are great, but its mechanical underpinnings are archaic and desperately unimaginative. It’s ironic that Mafia III’s predecessor had a similarly stylish open world, but wasted it by giving players nothing to doTo say Mafia III is a disappointment is an understatement. It has all of the surface components to form a great game: the writing and acting are superb, its direction and style are great, but its mechanical underpinnings are archaic and desperately unimaginative. It’s ironic that Mafia III’s predecessor had a similarly stylish open world, but wasted it by giving players nothing to do besides its main story missions. Mafia III has the opposite problem – tons that you have to do, you just don’t want to do any of it.
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    TLDR : Bugs , Crashes, Glitches , Terrible low res textures , Bad yellowish color filter , Too demanding for what it delivers, Non existent optimization . - that's Mafia III for you .    … Expand
  30. XapaRon
    Oct 10, 2016
    4
    La verdad me encanta la saga de mafia, los primeros me parecen muy buenos, pero este desentona mucho, creo que hacer el juego mundo abierto no estuvo bien, ya que, la recreación esta bien, pero falla en que el mundo no hay mucho que hacer en realidad si no estas de misión no hay nada que hacer, no se puede customizar el personaje, no hay minijuegos, ni minitareas al azar en el juego, muyLa verdad me encanta la saga de mafia, los primeros me parecen muy buenos, pero este desentona mucho, creo que hacer el juego mundo abierto no estuvo bien, ya que, la recreación esta bien, pero falla en que el mundo no hay mucho que hacer en realidad si no estas de misión no hay nada que hacer, no se puede customizar el personaje, no hay minijuegos, ni minitareas al azar en el juego, muy poca interacción con el mundo. En resumen el mundo es aburrido.

    Relacionando con la historia me parece bueno, el juego si tiene algo que contar, posee buenos personajes y buen desarrollo de estos. Muy buena ambientación y banda sonora.

    Lo malo seria, por la parte técnica, gráficos que parecen de la generación pasada y peor diría yo, no a la altura de los actuales, mala optimización para lo pobre que es en temas de gráficos, añadiendo que no puedes jugar a unos 60 fps estables con una PC gamer de gama alta, la IA también muy mala, no representa un reto en el sigilo es muy fácil colarse en instalaciones enemigas.

    Entorno a la jugabilidad, es buena, es cómoda, las ejecuciones violentas me parecen bien, pero lo que haces en el juego es siempre lo mismo, colarte en un edificio y matar a un objetivo, lo que cae en que en el juego siempre estarás haciendo lo mismo, muy monótonas las actividades y misiones.

    El juego en verdad no esta a la altura de un AAA y te hace recordar que 2K no esta a la altura de Rocktars Games.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 31
  3. Negative: 3 out of 31
  1. BaziCenter
    Feb 10, 2017
    60
    Mafia III isn’t necessarily a bad game, but it is definitely not a true heir to the Mafia series. The story is rich and the gameplay is satisfying (although it’s nothing special), but having played the previous games in the series (especially the first one), I never felt like I was playing a Mafia game.
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  2. PC PowerPlay
    Feb 8, 2017
    60
    The story and characters are excellent and the game is enjoyable, but the open world detracts from the experience rather than adding to it.
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  3. games(TM)
    Dec 18, 2016
    60
    The story and characters are excellent and the game is enjoyable, but the open world detracts from the experience rather than adding to it. [Issue#257, p.62]
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