Mafia III

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5.3

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  1. dpc
    Oct 11, 2016
    4
    Mafia III really is a disappointment. As I started, the story and characters - which are truly fantastic - drew me in. The gameplay and graphics immediately threw me out. But the presentation and unique take on an open world crime game was so riveting, I powered on. Then I was driving and noticed none of the tires were on the road, the car literally hovered above the ground. Sigh. That'sMafia III really is a disappointment. As I started, the story and characters - which are truly fantastic - drew me in. The gameplay and graphics immediately threw me out. But the presentation and unique take on an open world crime game was so riveting, I powered on. Then I was driving and noticed none of the tires were on the road, the car literally hovered above the ground. Sigh. That's when I got annoyed and all the technical flaws came piling on. The draw distance is terrible. The gunplay, while sorta fun, is repetitive and too loose to be accurate. I didn't (and don't) want to dislike the game. In fact, I'm upset that I won't be able to see Lincoln's awesomely compelling story. It's just not worth the headache for all the sloppiness. Spend your money on a game that is playable and has taken the extra time to put care into their product.… Expand
  2. Sceptic
    Oct 30, 2016
    4
    How can such an excellently crafted world with a brilliant soundtrack and decent driving and shooting turn into such a snooze fest with the most repetetive mission structure seen for quite some time?Granted,the prologue and a few missions are a little different but come on!I just don't understand how the developers built a fantastic world to play in but forgot to put the play intoHow can such an excellently crafted world with a brilliant soundtrack and decent driving and shooting turn into such a snooze fest with the most repetetive mission structure seen for quite some time?Granted,the prologue and a few missions are a little different but come on!I just don't understand how the developers built a fantastic world to play in but forgot to put the play into it.Unforgiveable.Points for soundtrack and world only.… Expand
  3. HazeSpire
    Oct 16, 2016
    4
    There's great story somewhere beneath the pile of repetitive, BORING gameplay. It's the biggest disappointment of 2016 for me. The opening was excellent, it's like playing two different games. I'd like to get to know Lincoln's story, but I can't stand running errands that look and work the same over and over and over again. "Hours and hours and hours of content" said the dev in oneThere's great story somewhere beneath the pile of repetitive, BORING gameplay. It's the biggest disappointment of 2016 for me. The opening was excellent, it's like playing two different games. I'd like to get to know Lincoln's story, but I can't stand running errands that look and work the same over and over and over again. "Hours and hours and hours of content" said the dev in one interview prior to release. Now I know what they meant. I threw in the towel after a dozen hours or so. Can't do it anymore, it feels like second job and I don't have enough time to play the good games out there. Such a shame. :(… Expand
  4. paddystudmuffin
    Nov 18, 2016
    4
    I think the 69 this is currently getting on metacritic is very generous. It plays and looks poor. As a ps4 release its not good enought at all. What's with the cheap looking hud and text? Very poor options as well. It also took like 12 hours to install. This is meant to b AAA r u kidding. I reckon if this was released last generation it would be even lucky to get 69! Good -I think the 69 this is currently getting on metacritic is very generous. It plays and looks poor. As a ps4 release its not good enought at all. What's with the cheap looking hud and text? Very poor options as well. It also took like 12 hours to install. This is meant to b AAA r u kidding. I reckon if this was released last generation it would be even lucky to get 69! Good - cutscenes Bad - everything else. Very disappointing just traded in for watch dogs 2. It's a 4 I'm afraid. Below average.… Expand
  5. AgentAnderson
    Sep 9, 2018
    4
    Very few good things are in this latest Mafia game. The best thing was the story. There was a very good twist that I did not expect, and glad I did not read too much into the game beforehand. The late 60's setting in Louisiana is also good, driving from the city, to the suburbs was very good. Your CIA buddy, Donovan, was a great addition as was the priest. With the ending credits cutVery few good things are in this latest Mafia game. The best thing was the story. There was a very good twist that I did not expect, and glad I did not read too much into the game beforehand. The late 60's setting in Louisiana is also good, driving from the city, to the suburbs was very good. Your CIA buddy, Donovan, was a great addition as was the priest. With the ending credits cut scene, I was hoping for a Donovan/CIA game to be made.

    The bad? Just about everything else. AI is either too stupid or too smart. A few times you can change position in combat and they may lose sight of you and still shoot at your last position. Most of the time, they can see where you go. Even though this is not the place for rating add-ons, I need to mention that they should have been released with the game. One of them makes no sense as you rebuild your dad's bar and get no income back from it. Another allows you to grow marijuana and profit a bit from it, although you have to drive across the map to harvest it. Also, you cannot activate the DLC until well into the game. Profits from the grow farm do not add up, especially with the money you put in to upgrade the farm. If you collect Trophies, you will have to replay the game yet again to easily get at least 3 trophies.    … Expand
  6. jewz
    Oct 12, 2016
    4
    Complete embarrassment. Everything about this game is at least 8 years out of date. It's like playing a bad Saints Row 2 clone from 2009. Looks, runs, plays like ****
  7. thekillergreece
    Oct 23, 2016
    4
    While the game has SOME good stuff, it has a lot bad stuff. First and foremost is the Police A.I. If gangsters are opening fire at you, the cops will instantly open fire at you and you will get wanted status. That's very strange, even Hangar 13 themselves said they will react to gangsters but in reality they dont, false advertising.

    Then there are some bugs which arent that bad or    While the game has SOME good stuff, it has a lot bad stuff. First and foremost is the Police A.I. If gangsters are opening fire at you, the cops will instantly open fire at you and you will get wanted status. That's very strange, even Hangar 13 themselves said they will react to gangsters but in reality they dont, false advertising.

    Then there are some bugs which arent that bad or something but since Mafia II had less and less bugs and graphical bugs, why Mafia III has a lot of these bugs?

    When the game ends, you have nothing to do. In M2, you could do anything, eat at restaurants, mess with the cops (Getting pulled over, tickets, etc), going to wash your car, etc, in Mafia 3, you absolutely do nothing, it's practically over.

    4/10, not recommended to buy unless on 20$ discount.    … Expand
  8. splitpolygon
    Oct 13, 2016
    4
    I scored mafia a four for its great story-line, storytelling and even better characterization. The game-play however leaves something to be desired; low res textures and over-heavy load of motion blur. The game does not look crisp and instead everything looks out of focus and blurry.
  9. ClockworkLooney
    Oct 16, 2016
    4
    In one word, it's dull.

    Specifically: It is lacking in polish. It looks SPECTACULAR, especially in the cutscenes, and the general audio design is also spot on. But the gameplay... it's so... lackluster. It is hard to move properly, hand-to-hand combat is boring to do, and extremely repetitive (though gunplay is pretty entertaining, and is of a decent quality) driving is a nightmare (I    In one word, it's dull.

    Specifically: It is lacking in polish. It looks SPECTACULAR, especially in the cutscenes, and the general audio design is also spot on. But the gameplay... it's so... lackluster. It is hard to move properly, hand-to-hand combat is boring to do, and extremely repetitive (though gunplay is pretty entertaining, and is of a decent quality) driving is a nightmare (I flipped the black car you get right at the start, which is supposed to be //your// vehicle in an early mission, and didn't see it ever again) and the missions... GOD THE MISSIONS. it's the same thing over, and over, and over, and over again.

    Difficult to play, difficult to endure, and difficult to continue playing in general. If you are genuinely interested in the story, and don't mind repetition, pick it up - otherwise, your money is better spent on a more well-polished game: I'd suggest Uncharted 4, or Grand Theft Auto 5.    … Expand
  10. badgerryan19
    Jun 19, 2017
    4
    Oh boy. The first hour of the game was extremely strong. And the story is actually really good. The Combat omg is terrible and the missions are horrible. It is clearly seen that this is a first time developer with the sky box looking like a NG64 game.
  11. GarethK
    Jan 8, 2017
    4
    An incredible narrative ruined by a lackluster game. Occasional bugs can sometimes mean traipsing across the map to try again. AI tactics don't mesh well with the controls meaning on many occasions I found myself overrun and unable to aim at the enemies quick enough. Cheap difficulty spike in the form of enemies becoming bullet sponges
  12. witcher6999
    Aug 19, 2018
    4
    Очень слабая поделка, на фоне которой Мафия 2 выглядит шедевром.
    Набор скучных однотипных заданий которые обычно делают в подобных играх как побочные, здесь являются сюжетными, это просто пздц. Скучнее говна нужно еще поискать, хотя сама стрельба в игре и геймплей реализованы достаточно неплохо.    Очень слабая поделка, на фоне которой Мафия 2 выглядит шедевром.
    Набор скучных однотипных заданий которые обычно делают в подобных играх как побочные, здесь являются сюжетными, это просто пздц. Скучнее говна нужно еще поискать, хотя сама стрельба в игре и геймплей реализованы достаточно неплохо.
  13. jeff101
    Oct 9, 2016
    4
    I went out and killed gang members, took over areas of the city to expand my gang and killed many police officers and civilians along with doing brutal melee kills to people. Then I went home to play Mafia III on my PS4 its an average game at best.
  14. mikehettfield
    Nov 3, 2016
    4
    Pretty deficient, i will pass the poorness of the execution if it was not full priced, the historical value is there but is not enough to overcome all the problems and graphical issues.
  15. brat1111
    Jul 16, 2018
    4
    The graphics seem to come apart at times, the character in-game look like a cardboard cut-out sometimes and the cars all float LOL. The driving is horrible and the car you drive slides all over the place unless you enter ''slow''-mode. There is no excuse for the crappy driving mechanics because you spend a lot of time on the road in this game and driving should be fun and smooth.

    That    The graphics seem to come apart at times, the character in-game look like a cardboard cut-out sometimes and the cars all float LOL. The driving is horrible and the car you drive slides all over the place unless you enter ''slow''-mode. There is no excuse for the crappy driving mechanics because you spend a lot of time on the road in this game and driving should be fun and smooth.

    That being said, the takedowns are brutal, the stealth is fun at times and I like the story and some characters.

    The price has dropped significantly now and I purchased my copy for 12 pounds. If you don't mind a lot of bugs and want to try this game out for yourself, now is a good time, in my opinion, but my advice would be to just skip this one.    … Expand
  16. ximik
    Oct 14, 2016
    4
    Mafia 3... he parent is very good game, but this.... Graphics 2007 year, gameplay 2010, nothing new, very poorly gameplay. Not interesting. Not reccomend, obviosly
  17. criticvideogame
    Nov 16, 2016
    4
    Mafia 3 a bad game that is not recommended the only good thing that has the game is its atmosphere and its graphical section artificial intelligence very bad the city feels as if you had nothing to do the missions are very repetitive and many technical problems in brief A bad game.
  18. Kanonymous
    Mar 17, 2017
    4
    An interesting story, but tarnished by the poor performance of the videogame, and the sad system of generic missions, which will make us repeat again and again the same activities. Exhausting.
  19. Mr_Human_Guy
    Dec 13, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was sad when I first played this game, sucked in by the hype like many other mafia fanboys.

    Controls are handy and driving doesn't feel too sluggish, and the characters aren't as annoying just really dull.
    Story is your standard revenge plot. Side missions are so god damn boring. Go there kill some dudes get this truck do it again rinse and repeat. Some other missions require you killing some mob boss like in Vito's secondary mission. Separating is easy. 9 districts 3 under bosses.

    There are some enjoyable moments, like killing the southern union and the river boat scene when taking over the french ward and the large amount of bugs that make some missions hard to complete. But the rest of the game is boring. 4/10 only buy if you want to see the bugs.    … Expand
  20. visiblelight7
    Apr 9, 2021
    4
    Gave it 4 points for the story and atmosphere but i quit playing the game.

    I am not racist at all yet when I buy a "mafia" game, I expect to be part of it. Especially the third instalment. I played mafia 1 and 2 because I wanted to be an italian in the italian mafia. Playing a black guy and exploring racism isnt a freakin mafia game. I am sorry to all my good and lovely blacks. Thats    Gave it 4 points for the story and atmosphere but i quit playing the game.

    I am not racist at all yet when I buy a "mafia" game, I expect to be part of it. Especially the third instalment. I played mafia 1 and 2 because I wanted to be an italian in the italian mafia. Playing a black guy and exploring racism isnt a freakin mafia game. I am sorry to all my good and lovely blacks. Thats like watching movie about slavery and switching the script and instead focusing on life as a coloniolist. You ruined a series man    … Expand
  21. easymarketing
    Feb 26, 2017
    4
    I think Mafia works well but not so steady and cool like mafia 1.Also in my personal thought resolution and high definition of game is not better with less controls on game.So gamers needs more good controls over raceing cars in mafia III.The point at end is game reacts in a blurry and scrap
  22. LucasOutland
    Mar 28, 2017
    4
    Predictable and boring story with only few interesting missions, most of game is must do repetitive occupation of territory missions. Boring and repetitive combat. You feel open world like it's empty and you're alone in the city. At the end, this game have no more content so there is nothing else to rate.
  23. brendo214
    May 22, 2019
    4
    Never before have I played a game with such repetitive gameplay. It had one thing going for it, and that was Donovan. But that even got messed up in the ending I got.
  24. Faxthtax
    Mar 22, 2020
    4
    This game looks great and plays allright.
    The problem is: It´s dull, boring, repetitive... VERY repetitive and buggy.
    All missions progressions are like this: You talk to a guy, you travel to 6-7 different locations and damage the mobs assets until you get access to some guys to shake down. Then you whack the lieutenant mobster. Rinse and repeat until you kill the guy at the top. End of    This game looks great and plays allright.
    The problem is: It´s dull, boring, repetitive... VERY repetitive and buggy.
    All missions progressions are like this: You talk to a guy, you travel to 6-7 different locations and damage the mobs assets until you get access to some guys to shake down. Then you whack the lieutenant mobster. Rinse and repeat until you kill the guy at the top. End of story.
    You get bored of driving around (there is no fast travel), you get bored of the constant rain, you get bored of using the crowbar 50.000 times for a B&E. The only thing to get you going is the story, and in the end i just skipped the cutscenes. I was bored to death. i just wanted to finish the game to get some Achievements.
    The AI is pretty dumb too. Especially on the civilian NPC´s who literally throw themselves like suicidal idiots in front of your car "to get away from your path". They are standing around like idiots otherwise. God knows how many people i ran over. Also in the end, i did not care to kill civillians. Brought a little more fun to it.
    The Police is even worse, You can speed past a patrol in 130, smash in to cars and clip down posts, they don´t care. Laziest morons in lawenforcement. But you run your car right up their asses they get angry.
    Enemies has the most common sense. but you find the tactics of hiding behind the corner and whistle them to you for silent knife takedown early. You will discover this fast to become dull and repetetive. It is more fun to go in guns blazing. Some take cover, some just run straight at you.
    At least they gave each weapon different balance. Each feels different to fire.
    Cars does not get fun to drive until you aquire sportscars. You can upgrade them in garages, but the upgrades are lackluster, and does so little for your car.
    This is a game for the overly patient gamer.. I myself just played this an hour at the time after a certain point
    It´s boring, This game is a failure on many levels. BUT, the game has a terrific soundtrack. two tracks by The Rolling Stones, who charges an arm and a leg for music licensing. So i guess we know where the money went.    … Expand
  25. gvller
    Oct 11, 2018
    4
    Fun game play for the first 2-3 hours. Very repetitive gameplay the rest of the game, though. Felt more like a mobster on Roblox than in this game. Really good and interesting story, though. Wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, if you want to experience the story you can watch all cutscenes on youtube.
  26. pytlar
    Dec 2, 2018
    4
    Looks nice, but so empty. We have just few additional activities, and all of them are so boring, so repetitive. The whole game is just one level, and then they just copy and paste it few time. Not to mention bugs and extremely bad AI
  27. tank_rus66
    Nov 6, 2021
    4
    Это трэш. Игра не заслуживает внимания, куча багов, ужасный геймплей, затянутая.
    Из плюсов красивые сюжетные ролики и неплохие геймплейные решения в дополнении. В остальном игра ужа на, не тратьте время.
  28. iIIPLATINUMIIi
    Oct 9, 2016
    3
    this game is hot trash. it is full of bugs, horrid sky boxes, crappy lighting, unpolished and unfinished. this game oozes rushing. mafia 1 and 2 were about u the player being in the mafia. it had class and immersion to it. the 2 games had some nice ideas and had room to grow and improve too form a awesome sequel but no. what we got was a game that took 10 steps backwards and took a bigthis game is hot trash. it is full of bugs, horrid sky boxes, crappy lighting, unpolished and unfinished. this game oozes rushing. mafia 1 and 2 were about u the player being in the mafia. it had class and immersion to it. the 2 games had some nice ideas and had room to grow and improve too form a awesome sequel but no. what we got was a game that took 10 steps backwards and took a big steaming dump on a series that is now dead. 2k has killed of the series with this one game. i seriously doubt they will even bother releasing a sequel. the game is more open with a much larger map but the missions are repeat and repeat. driving is rubbish and features like getting chased for speeding are gone. ai is dum and have no awareness at all. the open mechanics feel like they were ripped straight out of ubisoft game. world feels empty and lifeless etc. shooting mechanics are alright but the shotgun is pretty the only gun u need as u will go through missions like a breeze due to the game feeling really easy even on hard mode. story is decent but should off been under a game with a different game because the only that has anything ot do with the mafia game is your killing mafia members and eventually killing bad mr im racist boss. do not buy this game until its cheaper and when the updates come out that fill all the missing features this unfinished game missed out.… Expand
  29. Gileq
    Oct 15, 2016
    3
    First of all - Mafia I was far, far, far better. NPC behaviour are completly broken, stealth mode is a joke, side mission - all the same. Again - lets play Mafia I - it is how it should be done.
    Just another 'AAA' with hype before release, and crap after.
  30. naveedesahar
    Jan 2, 2018
    3
    I know people have difference of opinion but I honestly feel bad for people who enjoyed this game. I pity on them for have such a bad taste in video games. I tried extremely hard to enjoy this game but failed miserably. I enjoy staring at wall more than i enjoyed playing this game.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 67 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 46 out of 67
  3. Negative: 0 out of 67
  1. GameCritics
    Jan 29, 2017
    60
    Its stealth is too repetitive, its gunfights too familiar, and its driving too boring to support anything else that’s going on. Despite how clever it manages to be in portraying the conquest and control of a criminal enterprise, the nuts-and-bolts missions feel like busywork, and it never fully explores the most interesting aspects of its setting. It’s better than Mafia II, but that’s damning it with faint praise.
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  2. Edge Magazine
    Dec 14, 2016
    60
    This is a game whose best moments are diluted by a torrent of filler, whose beauty is obscured by its technical shortcomings, and whose obvious potential is squandered by a lack of polish. That weird orange sky is, alas, the least of its problems. [Christmas 2016, p.110]
  3. CD-Action
    Dec 12, 2016
    70
    It could have been a really great sandbox for one evening. It’s a shame the developers decided to extend it by over a dozen completely redundant hours, because they had fresh ideas for around one fifth of the campaign and made the rest of the game repetitive as hell. [12/2016, p.48]
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