Mafia III

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Jon_P
    Oct 29, 2016
    3
    I thought the reviews of this game were unfair, and really gave this game a chance. What bothers me the most is that the first few missions of this game are actually great. And then it gets AWFUL. In other words, the game sucks you in just enough so that you will make it past the return policy expires, and then you're stuck with an ugly, buggy, extremely boring and frustrating game. OneI thought the reviews of this game were unfair, and really gave this game a chance. What bothers me the most is that the first few missions of this game are actually great. And then it gets AWFUL. In other words, the game sucks you in just enough so that you will make it past the return policy expires, and then you're stuck with an ugly, buggy, extremely boring and frustrating game. One of the most unpolished pieces of garbage to come out in the last ten years. I was really excited for this game. How utterly disappointing.… Expand
  5. 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.
  6. Sap-ete-10
    Dec 11, 2016
    1
    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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. HunWarrior
    Oct 11, 2016
    1
    Shame but lets start with positive things. The game have decent control over the character and the cars, beside that the story also sounds good but nothing more.
    The game suffer from lack of features and details that resent almost in every game this days and I not mention the differences compare to his competitor.
    Mafia 3 have huge graphical problems like: shadow of objects, blurry view    Shame but lets start with positive things. The game have decent control over the character and the cars, beside that the story also sounds good but nothing more.
    The game suffer from lack of features and details that resent almost in every game this days and I not mention the differences compare to his competitor.
    Mafia 3 have huge graphical problems like: shadow of objects, blurry view and object specially delay to clear the blurry from object that comes from far to close distance, colors, lights and reflection of light on cars and different elements etc...

    There is no basic details in the game like: footprint, if you come out from the water you wet the ground or leave wet footprint, the blood on clothes are painted ridiculous, if the car hit you, you barely fall or not at all! no bullets left on the ground. the car barely damaged, if your car turned upside down and want to get out from the car its just teleport you out., interact with items, like opening fridge in mafia 2 even if its useless its give you feeling of freedom and lack of many similar little details that we expect to have in games at 2016. People bagged to bring back fuel option from mafia 1, it is so hard to implement ? i don't think so. The in game dialog between the rackets with fixed camera from above without moving characters just standing and talking without changing a single camera view is ridicules and remind me the games of 2000's... compare to his open world competitor game I feel this game like godfather the game vs GTA 5. Where is the details people ?! mafia 1 was famous about the details and giving realistic feeling of atmosphere. the mafia 3 gives nothing but "gang" game with poor graphics and unrealistic like saint row and simple as godfather. Customization ? not yet! we have to wait for the update and maybe DLC to include it ... shame.. should be built in out of the box. remember 2016...

    Full of bugs is not a big problem because after a few months they can patch it but it has holes like death star ... even in BETA games i can't see such mistakes and so unpolished games... there was any QA during development ?!

    It's a shame that after so much time waiting we get so cheap game that shame of the industry of open world games at 2016. I would be smarter to delay the release date until they completely test the game and adding all the further coming customization options and more...

    Personally I am very disappointed from the game.    … Expand
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. drghost
    Oct 19, 2016
    2
    Mafia III attempts to lump Italian Americans and immigrants into the "privileged white" demographic, and paint them off as the powerful institutional racist group that is actually made up of Anglo-Saxon Americans. Especially in that time period, Italian Americans and immigrants experienced a great deal of racism and discrimination themselves. They were not in a position to even enactMafia III attempts to lump Italian Americans and immigrants into the "privileged white" demographic, and paint them off as the powerful institutional racist group that is actually made up of Anglo-Saxon Americans. Especially in that time period, Italian Americans and immigrants experienced a great deal of racism and discrimination themselves. They were not in a position to even enact institutional racism - because, to a certain degree, it applied to them as well.

    And yet, here, we see a massive over-simplification and, furthermore, falsification of history. Italians are thrown into the same category as white Anglo Americans, when simply it just was not the case. Largely, they were victims of discrimination as well. This game disregards all of that and points the finger, wrongly, at them as powerful racist discriminators. It's an injustice to a people who were on very much the opposite side of that fence.

    Speaking of New Orleans, the largest American lynching took place there. Except it was Italians that were lynched.

    To further push this agenda of shoehorning Italians into the institutional discriminator role, we see Anglo faces appearing as stand-ins for Italians. Apparently real Italian faces weren't "white" enough to feel like proper racists. Look at Tony Derazio's face. Couldn't look any LESS Italian. Actor/ model's name: Gibson Frazier. Enzo Conti - modeled after: Matt Gottlieb. Lou Marcano - modeled after: Brad Leland. Olivia Marcano, Erin Matthews. Frank Pagani, Jack Conley. Giorgi Marcano, Mercer Boffey. Leo Galante, Frank Ashmore. Tommy Marcano, Christopher Corey Smith. Like, seriously? Are you kidding me? I could go on an on. What do all these names have in common? They're all Anglo - none even remotely Italian.

    You want my opinion? Here it is. Leave games about American cultural history, rife with symbolism to our current social climate, to Americans who actually know about it.

    The devs wanted to tell a tale of racism. Excellent. We need to have that discussion. But they chose the wrong context for it. They used an existing franchise that they had lying around to attach their idea to, and needed to use the titular demographic, Italians, for something. So, they demonized them as racists and shoehorned them into their storyline - even though it's damaging and historically inaccurate.    … Expand
  14. fang11
    Nov 19, 2016
    3
    Giant paragraph warning, I was pretty upset with this game.
    Pro's:
    Beautifully curated soundtrack. Really sets the 60's scene. The story is personally one of the best I've ever experienced. Kept you hooked if you could get past the gameplay mechanics. Adding onto the story, the voice acting and character development was really excellent. John Donovan may just be one of my favorite    Giant paragraph warning, I was pretty upset with this game.
    Pro's:
    Beautifully curated soundtrack. Really sets the 60's scene.
    The story is personally one of the best I've ever experienced. Kept you hooked if you could get past the gameplay mechanics.
    Adding onto the story, the voice acting and character development was really excellent. John Donovan may just be one of my favorite video game characters ever.
    The map itself was pretty cool. It fit the description of being pseudo New Orleans.
    Large shootouts, despite how sparse they can be, are much improved in contrast to Mafia 2. Aim assist is still a meme though.

    Con's:
    Painfully repetitive gameplay mechanics. I remember the first thing I thought when I got past the first district was "Christ, I hope I don't have to do that again." Sure enough, you have to do it again for every district. It basically goes like this:
    Talk to a contact, you get a set amount of monetary damage to cause to a racket. You do that by killing enforcers, interrogating people who work for the racket, and destroying various goods. Eventually after causing enough damage, you kill the racket boss. Done. Repeat for the next racket(2 in a district), and that's a complete district. You then do that for another 8 districts(9 in total), and then game over. In other words, it's boring/maybe even annoying.

    The next biggest con in my opinion is how "empty" the open world is. There's nothing to do, nothing to interact with.You simply just want to go directly from Mission A to Mission B. Once you beat the game, you'll find yourself never playing it again. In other open world games such as GTA 5, you can still mess around in singleplayer for hours after the story is over. They just have that true open world feel to it.

    The NPC's are laughably challenged. I couldn't count how many times I took out giant globs of enemies by stealth killing them one by one. The stealth system is OP in that manner. You hide behind something, whistle, and kill the poor sap that comes over to investigate. Just by milking that, you can seamlessly kill every enemy in a mission.

    The graphics honestly feel past-gen. The skybox looks like it was watercolor painted by a 5 year old, and the lighting frequently bugs. Texture pop in is a real issue, and draw distance is poop. Not to mention FPS is locked at 30. No soft body physics on cars, so you can drive off a cliff and come out with a few paint scratches.

    That's about all I have to give. In a nutshell, the game was just a big fat disappointment. Definitely not worth the $60 I paid.    … Expand
  15. Sabbatum
    Oct 14, 2016
    3
    The game has great characters, great story, smooth voice acting, but...

    ... Come on guys we're under 8th generation of video games. WTH did Hangar13 did with that game that could be a masterpiece is unbelievable. The game has potential, A LOT, but has a lot of poorly refined graphics with some ps1/ps2 textures that is just like a punch in my eye, and I will not tell about the lightning    The game has great characters, great story, smooth voice acting, but...

    ... Come on guys we're under 8th generation of video games. WTH did Hangar13 did with that game that could be a masterpiece is unbelievable. The game has potential, A LOT, but has a lot of poorly refined graphics with some ps1/ps2 textures that is just like a punch in my eye, and I will not tell about the lightning and particle effects that are just a joke.

    All that technical details aren't alone, they get all together with a lifeless world which has no interation with nothing if you compare with previous game of same franchise.

    Well, resuming: This game is the failure of the year, maybe the decade.    … Expand
  16. LabiusMaximus
    Oct 10, 2016
    2
    Great soundtrack, but I already had a large vinyl collection and nothing beats that. The game is an expected disappointment. A dog scat rolled in choc icing is still a dog scat. Likewise, the tunes can't hide a poor game. A great shame as Mafia one on PC and later, Mafia 2 on x360 were thoroughly enjoyed. I anticipated this iteration to fail because it went SJW, with plenty ofGreat soundtrack, but I already had a large vinyl collection and nothing beats that. The game is an expected disappointment. A dog scat rolled in choc icing is still a dog scat. Likewise, the tunes can't hide a poor game. A great shame as Mafia one on PC and later, Mafia 2 on x360 were thoroughly enjoyed. I anticipated this iteration to fail because it went SJW, with plenty of virtue-signalling to media conditional zombies in advance of release. The audience for this particular game, the paying kind, is majority white and gaming is not PC. It is fun. The two concepts are semantic antonyms. It is distinctly unfunny in the current cultural context of media whipped anti-White and police hatred, with riots and racially incited murder at sky high levels, only this time it is black on white.The FBI crime figures are sombre reading. Th hypocrisy of stereotyping white Italian mafia types is well pointed out by others here. Given the gameplay also suffered technical and creative issues, I wonder, did the team's management decide to also have 'diversity' quotas in the programming team? Karma.… Expand
  17. Mover
    Oct 11, 2016
    1
    Played 2 hrs of Mafia3, it doesn't seems to get any better because after the patch 1.01 my fps barely even 30 fps and my game was freezing when i was aiming or driving and crash at almost every single save point.

    Story is good and all but the AI in game are just bunch of idiots walking around even i set it on hardest difficulty. The view point + view distance was just more screwed up    Played 2 hrs of Mafia3, it doesn't seems to get any better because after the patch 1.01 my fps barely even 30 fps and my game was freezing when i was aiming or driving and crash at almost every single save point.

    Story is good and all but the AI in game are just bunch of idiots walking around even i set it on hardest difficulty.

    The view point + view distance was just more screwed up then i thought.

    The Graphic all were so pixelated and without high textures at all, and i wonder why you even need high resolution setting when everything were almost the same as low resolution.

    Conclusion:
    This game is a waste of time and money, i rather play a solid game with freezing and crashing, with great graphic and fps.
    Don't even buy this if you don't want to go though all this stupid issue they have before even publishing it.So i refunded it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZokdmzvDGA    … Expand
  18. 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
  19. blahhhh
    Oct 12, 2016
    2
    A real disappointment for me. I buy just about every "living world" game that comes out. And either I was wrong to think that this was part of that genre, or the marketing was wrong.

    Yes, it takes place in a city. And yes, there are pedestrians and cars out there. But the hallmark of the living world genre is that you aren't *required* to go from mission to mission. Rather, there are    A real disappointment for me. I buy just about every "living world" game that comes out. And either I was wrong to think that this was part of that genre, or the marketing was wrong.

    Yes, it takes place in a city. And yes, there are pedestrians and cars out there.

    But the hallmark of the living world genre is that you aren't *required* to go from mission to mission. Rather, there are always fun minigames and diversions for you to do in addition to the main missions. Franchises like GTA and Assassin's Creed really exemplify this.

    In the 5 hours I played this game, I don't think I encountered any of these "pick up" games. It was all main mission.

    Even worse, the main missions weren't even fun. The last one I played involved me picking up cargo dropped in a river. The bad part was that there was no game there at all - just moving the boat over the cargo and pressing "square". No one tried to stop me, no time limit, nothing - I could have been rearranging icons on my desktop.

    I give the game 2 stars because the graphics are nice.    … Expand
  20. PapaEmeritus
    Oct 14, 2016
    2
    It's bad pretty much all across the board (other than the music). Hopefully though, other developers will play it and learn what NOT to do when developing their own games. There is a lot here to learn what not to do. Hangar13? Give it up. Developing games isn't for you. You all should go and find another career. You suck.
  21. ak_arora
    Oct 14, 2016
    3
    The graphics are very bad, blurry at best. And the game feels a Beta release due to the glitches. Does not draw any inspiration from Mafia 2 and is a huge step backwards. Gameplay is vert bland.
    +1 for music and storytelling.
  22. tre618
    Oct 21, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game ant fun at all mafia 2 was a lot better y'all messed up with this one you cant even get gas no more cant even wash your car not i wished who made mafia 2 would have mad this one cant eat drink pay cop tO get off you cant even buy close the only good thing about it is that you can free roam wish i like that on mafia 3 but anything beside that i dint like it at y'all might as well pull it off shelves and make it all over again… Expand
  23. jerrymimus
    Oct 21, 2016
    0
    One of the worst games I have ever played. It is buggy and boring beyond belief. Could have been great but it seems the developers just bothered with graphics and story. Would have been worth more if I could just watch the story as a movie...
  24. dimedrol_by
    Oct 16, 2016
    1
    The AI in conjunction with the highly repetitive gameplay ruin the atmosphere completely. You break a car window and a witness runs to a phone to call the police, You chase him and kill him before 10 other witnesses yet noone gives a f*ck - they only care about broken windows. Your ammo wagon sometimes arrives right in the middle of an enemy place. Next thing that happens they startThe AI in conjunction with the highly repetitive gameplay ruin the atmosphere completely. You break a car window and a witness runs to a phone to call the police, You chase him and kill him before 10 other witnesses yet noone gives a f*ck - they only care about broken windows. Your ammo wagon sometimes arrives right in the middle of an enemy place. Next thing that happens they start shooting at it like there's no tomorrow yet the driver doesn't care, he just sits relaxed and waits for you to come buy his stuff. When you're trying to penetrate a hostile facility and get noticed, enemies open fire but the passers-by pay no attention, yet if you pull your gun they get all excited. You clean a house from enemies and drive away, then you return and everybody is just where they were like you've never killed them. And so on and so forth. This is like GTA 1 or 2, nothing nearly close to GTA V which is 3 years old.… Expand
  25. 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
  26. BarryZut
    Oct 9, 2016
    2
    This game is just a huge dissapointment on all fronts. Where to begin.
    For starters, the game is just not finished at all. Bugs, pop-ups en game crashes from the start. One patch isn't enough for al the faults that are in the game.
    The gameplay itself is soon becoming repetitive and boring. You are just doing the same thing over and over. That isn't so bad because the driving and    This game is just a huge dissapointment on all fronts. Where to begin.
    For starters, the game is just not finished at all. Bugs, pop-ups en game crashes from the start. One patch isn't enough for al the faults that are in the game.
    The gameplay itself is soon becoming repetitive and boring. You are just doing the same thing over and over. That isn't so bad because the driving and shooting is a blast. But the AI is just the worst I ever met in a game.
    Also the world isn't very much alive en is just there for screenfilling. The only fun and good looking part is the bayou.
    This game only deserves a 2 because of the soundtrack, driving and shooting part. The rest is just a awful mess. Maybe with a patch or 8 you can have fun with this game.    … Expand
  27. dunnyone
    Oct 11, 2016
    1
    Mafia 3 confused me, as I had to keep checking the date on my physical calendar while playing, as the graphics and gameplay are from the early PS3 era.

    1 point for music, which is brilliant 0 for characters (they all suck) 0 for story (it's as cliched and predictable as it gets) 0 for graphics (filled with glitches, terrible performance) 0 for fun (it's the same effing mission x    Mafia 3 confused me, as I had to keep checking the date on my physical calendar while playing, as the graphics and gameplay are from the early PS3 era.

    1 point for music, which is brilliant
    0 for characters (they all suck)
    0 for story (it's as cliched and predictable as it gets)
    0 for graphics (filled with glitches, terrible performance)
    0 for fun (it's the same effing mission x 100. There is nil variety)
    0 for Atmosphere (they soooo badly want to be GTA, but the streets are empty and filled with copy paste people)

    Who are these robots giving the game 10/10? No, just no.    … Expand
  28. wrinklysword
    Oct 14, 2016
    0
    Signed up to write a review.Wasted $60.By far worst game I have played.It is like No man sky for October month. Gameplay is too repetitive. Don't judge book by its cover.
  29. MrFlankster
    Oct 9, 2016
    0
    Unplayable. Took an hour to install (No biggie). Played it for about 30 min, then it crashed. Rebooted. 30 min later. Crashed. Called PSN, they said they have had several calls about it. TOOK IT BACK AND GOT MY $$ BACK.

    I will say that the part that i played.... was horrible. It's not a Mafia game. The graphics are last gen. Before I played this, I played Mafia II to get caught up. When    Unplayable. Took an hour to install (No biggie). Played it for about 30 min, then it crashed. Rebooted. 30 min later. Crashed. Called PSN, they said they have had several calls about it. TOOK IT BACK AND GOT MY $$ BACK.

    I will say that the part that i played.... was horrible. It's not a Mafia game. The graphics are last gen. Before I played this, I played Mafia II to get caught up. When I booted up 3, the graphics looked the SAME as the PS3 version. It was buggy. Random people in the city would be floating in the middle of the street and my car couldn't drive over/through... or under them. Shadows were grainy and would pop in and out randomly. I could go on... and I really only played under an hour of it. This was THE game I was looking forward to all year just because I loved the last one. Now what. Boo Hangar 13. Boo.    … Expand
  30. Muze92
    Dec 3, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only good point of this game is its satisfactory brutal takedowns.. Apart from that, here's a list of what I hate most about Mafia III:
    - clunky, rocking-boat driving mechs reminded me of GTA 4, had to switch to simulation driving.
    - no effin' MANUAL SAVE SLOTS!!! it's a horrendous exp if you're going for platinum.
    - no replay value at all since you needed to play the game at least twice for platinum.
    - intro is almost a carbon copy of GTA V's intro but a poorly done one.
    - shotguns are OP in this game and you'll be in critical state after a single blast from it.
    - whoever gets the racket DOES NOT matter, whoever gets the district will takeover them anyway.
    - half of the trophy list are story-related. a few requires multiple playthru.
    - most of the enemies are bullet-sponges as they barely stagger after being shot at.
    - cutscenes are not as gruesome as the trophy description i.e. burned Tommy Marcano beyond recognition, gutted Lou like a catfish.
    - if you messed up the spare/kill racket informants/bosses, you will have to start over.    … Expand
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#12 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2016

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68

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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