Mafia III

 Xbox One
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  1. BigBouncyPanda
    Nov 29, 2016
    1
    Mafia 3 has a great deal of style, the cars are cool, the music (when it works) is fantastic and its historical accuracy and politics is accurate and well put together, but as a game is completely fails.

    The game is so full of bugs that it is often unplayable, you can be speeding down a river in a speedboat being chased by a drug-dealing gang and then, out of nowhere, underneath your    Mafia 3 has a great deal of style, the cars are cool, the music (when it works) is fantastic and its historical accuracy and politics is accurate and well put together, but as a game is completely fails.

    The game is so full of bugs that it is often unplayable, you can be speeding down a river in a speedboat being chased by a drug-dealing gang and then, out of nowhere, underneath your boat will appear a massive dam which makes your explode, get stuck and your mission fail.

    Story wise, the opening is fantastic with a strong and unexpected twist that intends to drive the rest of the game, but the rest of the story does not keep up with it. Essentially, you collect gang leaders with stereotypical personalities and are meant to do them favours to keep them on-side. That's where the gameplay comes in.

    Gameplay - terrible, without a doubt the worst AAA title I've ever played in this category and it is for this reason that I sold my copy second hand after about 20 hours of playtime with completion of the main story in sight but just not worth it. There are several massive problems, but these are my 4 in particular:

    (1) almost every single mission and substantial side-mission takes place, and collectable can be found, in the same 6 buildings or areas which makes no sense - if you've killed 100 gang members in a building, why would the gang leader decide to come and camp out at that building?

    (2) again, almost every single mission and substantial side-mission involves the exact same tasks, either (a) kill a specific person, (b) kill everyone or (c) blow something up. This becomes so repetitive so quickly that it's actually painful to play, you will turn the game off and not want to restart it because it just is not entertaining. This level of repetition has not appeared in a game since the original Assassins Creed;

    (3) you don't really relate or like any of your under-bosses (apart from 1, because he's a pre-existing character from the earlier Mafia series) and your management of them is limited to an occasional (repetitive) decision. Essentially, when you take over an area through a mission you assign that area to an under-boss, basically by picking one in a multiple choice menu. This annoys the other bosses but it's never a hard decision and you don't care about the characters anyway. It's a massive missed opportunity not to have more involvement with your bosses, to get to know them properly and make more decisions in relation to their management, like how much they have to pay you etc. to give you that 'boss' feeling; and

    (4) glitches. as mentioned already, the game is riddled and often unplayable, but they are noticeable even when not game-breaking. Often the music will just stop and never come back on (requiring a restart) or your car will fall through the road and appear somewhere else on the map. The little things however, are even worse - when speaking in a cutscene people's mouths won't always move, a collectable will be unreachable, your 'assistants" will run you over by accident when you call them, you can climb some fences but not all fences, the list is absolutely endless.

    Essentially - I bought this game on release without any reviews (the studio didn't give any sample copies to reviewers, so they didn't come our for days after release) and feel tricked. Put simply, this game completely destroys the Mafia brand and I will never purchase another game in the series despite my real enjoyment of the first two.    … Expand
  2. Oregonion2014
    Mar 11, 2017
    1
    Had fun with the driving, and the facial animations were great

    Terrible weather system. On top of all, what upsets me the most is its outright HYPOCRISY with the way they tell the story of racism. The story attempts to confront racism against Black Americans, yet doing so at the expense of perpetuating racism against Asians. The entire game is riddled with jokes and dismissive    Had fun with the driving, and the facial animations were great

    Terrible weather system.

    On top of all, what upsets me the most is its outright HYPOCRISY with the way they tell the story of racism. The story attempts to confront racism against Black Americans, yet doing so at the expense of perpetuating racism against Asians. The entire game is riddled with jokes and dismissive remarks against Korean and Vietnamese, as REAL as it can be. I get it it's in a Vietnam war setting but the entire game literally makes no effort to show the other side of the story or tell the alternative side from the Vietnamese war. Half way through the game it really gets me thinking: This game pretty much exemplifies modern day America where being racist against Asians are perfectly fine as long as you are cool with the rest of demographic. To see the hypocrisy play out in a game really shocks me.    … Expand
  3. alvangee
    Jan 8, 2017
    3
    Major dissapointment of 2016. I love 70's, classic and muscle cars, I was so looking forward to this game awaiting great settings, stunning visuals and driving all that cool cars and none of that is present here. Cars are crap and not licensed (GTA did that too, but they still got beautiful and cool cars which are fun to drive), visuals look dirty (I mean, Mafia 2 looked much much nicerMajor dissapointment of 2016. I love 70's, classic and muscle cars, I was so looking forward to this game awaiting great settings, stunning visuals and driving all that cool cars and none of that is present here. Cars are crap and not licensed (GTA did that too, but they still got beautiful and cool cars which are fun to drive), visuals look dirty (I mean, Mafia 2 looked much much nicer and cleaner), overal feeling of the game is just awful. Going around and just brutally kill all the people on the site - not interesting. Never been fan of violence and unnecessary brutality, but in GTA you have some cool stuff to do beside that and here you have nothing else.… Expand
  4. sampsonsimpson
    Mar 25, 2017
    3
    Total waste of a concept.

    Mafia 3 would have been great had it just went off it's successor, Mafia 2, but it had to step in political correctness territory of the millennium. It's what's controversial these days and what's "hip". Besides the fact, the game starts off with a bang and looks promising, but goes downhill from there. The realism goes downhill after you start killing    Total waste of a concept.

    Mafia 3 would have been great had it just went off it's successor, Mafia 2, but it had to step in political correctness territory of the millennium. It's what's controversial these days and what's "hip".

    Besides the fact, the game starts off with a bang and looks promising, but goes downhill from there.

    The realism goes downhill after you start killing guys after guys. I mean, the main character is a maniac serial killer. Throughout this game, that's all you do. You probably kill over 1000 ai enemies. Regardless who they are, that's insane. On a video game perspective, it's repetitive and considering this game is trying to portray a real life setting, it jumps the shark.

    Graphics are somewhat decent, but there's moments where you dress your character and in the cut scene, he's back in his regular army attire.

    Hilarious rag doll physics occur, but that's to be expected with a game like this.

    I can't even go further to explain how mediocre this game is. It's not bad, but it's not good.

    The only good thing about this game is the soundtrack in my opinion. It introduced me to a lot of "new" music from the 60's that I now love. Kudos to that.    … Expand
  5. DanChe1996
    Feb 16, 2017
    4
    A game with a moving and impressive story of betrayal and vengeance, this narrative is hard hitting and impressive. Graphically a game which impresses and comes alive in a rare format unseen in most games.

    However this game is ruined by repetitive gameplay and a largely empty world. The upcoming DLC appear to attempts to fix this ruined gameplay, but the pay-for-fix attempt is a poor    A game with a moving and impressive story of betrayal and vengeance, this narrative is hard hitting and impressive. Graphically a game which impresses and comes alive in a rare format unseen in most games.

    However this game is ruined by repetitive gameplay and a largely empty world. The upcoming DLC appear to attempts to fix this ruined gameplay, but the pay-for-fix attempt is a poor attempt to fix a game weighing its amazing story and world down by the same motions over and over. A simply poor gameplay experience only uplifted by its excellent script and looks.    … Expand
  6. khakiasp
    May 22, 2017
    4
    the game is flawed in every sense of the word, the story is cliche, the game play is boring. the graphics look great sometimes and sometimes they look terrible, do not play this game
  7. shaun6811
    Oct 13, 2016
    1
    Atrocious glitchy and buggy trash, shame on you "developers".

    Appalling games like this are going to ruin the reputation of xbox one - glitches almost constantly, everything about it is just wrong - I am sure my 10 year old daughter and geriatric cat could have done a better job between them - don't waste your money guys! I have played for less than an hour from new and it is going    Atrocious glitchy and buggy trash, shame on you "developers".

    Appalling games like this are going to ruin the reputation of xbox one - glitches almost constantly, everything about it is just wrong - I am sure my 10 year old daughter and geriatric cat could have done a better job between them - don't waste your money guys!

    I have played for less than an hour from new and it is going up for sale - feel totally ripped off - 100% rubbish.    … Expand
  8. jayresy
    Oct 31, 2016
    1
    Worst game this year>
    people will lose faith in this if you dont fix it! mafia is a great game franchise , dont ruin it and fix it,
    do not ruin a great IP.
  9. mace8704
    Oct 15, 2016
    4
    I would highly discourage you from purchasing this title for the following reasons
    - Multiple hard crashes
    - Significant and distracting pop in - Poor AI that doesn't present a challenge - Repetitive game design that requires you to do the same tasks for dozens of hours - Unsatisfying driving mechanics which feel very "boat" like - Unresponsive world where the civilians don't respond    I would highly discourage you from purchasing this title for the following reasons
    - Multiple hard crashes
    - Significant and distracting pop in
    - Poor AI that doesn't present a challenge
    - Repetitive game design that requires you to do the same tasks for dozens of hours
    - Unsatisfying driving mechanics which feel very "boat" like
    - Unresponsive world where the civilians don't respond to your actions in an immersive manner
    - Overrated narrative that is a generic tale of revenge    … Expand
  10. 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.
  11. baris697
    Oct 8, 2016
    4
    Mafia 3 content in the one sentence - go there, kill everything, return back and do it again. That simple it is. Sure, game has great sound, good driving system, not bad combat with simple stealth and works with racism controversy in game world. But there is a ton of stupidities witch kills whole fun.

    For example, why I have to set up, if takedowns will be done by knife or not in the    Mafia 3 content in the one sentence - go there, kill everything, return back and do it again. That simple it is. Sure, game has great sound, good driving system, not bad combat with simple stealth and works with racism controversy in game world. But there is a ton of stupidities witch kills whole fun.

    For example, why I have to set up, if takedowns will be done by knife or not in the game options menu next to settings of subtitles? Why it is not just in weapon selection like in other normal games? Why is the city full of bars, shops or gas stations, but there is no option to interact ? Why "car garage" in this game means just a menu with nine prepared and locked models? I want to steal and save my own cars and than customize it. Why police have a "attention warning bar", but do not react at nothing less than car demolition? Why is not possible to kindnapp anyone? It is a Mafia game and it was also in trailer.

    This game is clear copy of the universal Ubisoft game, it is more like AC, but in the bad way. Almost everything negative from the universal Ubisoft game template is included in this game, including "towers" for unlock visibility of map items . It has nothing common with the GTA. No side activities, no car tuning or stealing, no character customization. XO version has no special graphics, older GTA looks much better.

    And I am not a GTA fanboy, I don't think, that GTA is the top of the gaming world. But I have expected something similar in a freedom, in a style, but with Mafia theme philosophy.    … Expand
  12. RonCha
    Oct 8, 2016
    3
    This Game is a technical mess! First the good things... The Story seems not so bad at all, actually quite good and the sounds from the radio and while in missions are fantastic, but on the technical side, this game is a huge ugly mess. Game crashes all the time while loading, missions stands still and its only possible to move on after restart the game. The Game lags while driving so bad,This Game is a technical mess! First the good things... The Story seems not so bad at all, actually quite good and the sounds from the radio and while in missions are fantastic, but on the technical side, this game is a huge ugly mess. Game crashes all the time while loading, missions stands still and its only possible to move on after restart the game. The Game lags while driving so bad, if its a racing game you would have headache after 20 minutes. (Good you dont have to drive all the time). Elements pop in while you in front of them (for example - in night the lights fom the bars and so on, are just popping when you right before it - UGLY). Graphic errors all the time. This Game is just not finished! Its a shame!… Expand
  13. THE_MEDAL
    Oct 11, 2016
    4
    Mafia 3 has a great story and setting but what holds the game back is poor driving controls and graphical problems such as NPCs poping in from nowhere, poor lighting and poor textures, the gameplay also feels very repetitive with locations being recycled for missions
  14. osprey
    Oct 8, 2016
    4
    Early review to warn purchasers! I don't like to review games before I finish them but this game is not ready for prime time. It crashed 6 to 8 times in the first few hours of play. The game cues are written so small that you have to guess at which button they want you to push. The overall look of the game is muddy and grainy. The story and acting so far are excellent but that doesEarly review to warn purchasers! I don't like to review games before I finish them but this game is not ready for prime time. It crashed 6 to 8 times in the first few hours of play. The game cues are written so small that you have to guess at which button they want you to push. The overall look of the game is muddy and grainy. The story and acting so far are excellent but that does not excuse the release of a game with so many bugs and issues. Also it looks like they used the same map as Mafia 2 and just added some marshy background. The area where you meet one character is exactly the same as Mafia 2. I like the music but probably that is because I remember this music so some younger players may not feel this way. Overall another sad and indefensible release of an unfinished game.… Expand
  15. partyintheback
    Oct 8, 2016
    2
    Starts out well with great looking cutscenes, a fun opening, then it descends into an incredibly repetitive and buggy open world game after a few hours. The cutscene graphics are also deceiving because the gameplay graphics, particularly the ugly skyboxes, don't impress. Just buy the soundtrack instead of the game.
  16. trooper1993
    Oct 10, 2016
    5
    I was really hyped for this game but I'm sad to announce that it hasn't met the hype and has been pretty underwhelming up till now.

    Whilst there are some pro's in this game like the story setting and the genuine attempt at creativity, there is just no immersion. It's hard to relate to the character and the people that surround you. Whilst the previous installment of the series had a    I was really hyped for this game but I'm sad to announce that it hasn't met the hype and has been pretty underwhelming up till now.

    Whilst there are some pro's in this game like the story setting and the genuine attempt at creativity, there is just no immersion. It's hard to relate to the character and the people that surround you. Whilst the previous installment of the series had a grim nature to it, this game just feels a little bit comical and childish at times.

    Gameplay and Shooting mechanisms are also pretty terrible. Maybe a decade ago it would have competed within the market. No comment on the graphics. The first cutscene in the game was enough to know it was going to be bad.

    Word of advice, if you had high expectations.. I'd pass on it    … Expand
  17. fallouts
    Oct 8, 2016
    0
    This incompetent dev can't even be bothered to optimize a game for fixed hardware. This game has wonky performance, regular crashes, poor draw distance, poor car handling and average graphics. Don't give those money who don't deserve it. Buy this on sale or better yet wait for the complete edition since they have chock full of DLC planned already. What a let down.
  18. derkonig6
    Mar 14, 2017
    5
    After playing this you will probably go back to mafia 2.

    PROS + good music + voice acting is done really good + Story is good, love the combination of like a documentary style. + Good shooting + environment sounds CONS - When I first entered this game I thought hollly damn it looks terrible. (Game looks better at night) - Lightning is really really bad especially during the    After playing this you will probably go back to mafia 2.

    PROS
    + good music
    + voice acting is done really good
    + Story is good, love the combination of like a documentary style.
    + Good shooting
    + environment sounds

    CONS
    - When I first entered this game I thought hollly damn it looks terrible.
    (Game looks better at night)
    - Lightning is really really bad especially during the day.
    - Car collision is crazy and way too unrealistic
    - Repetitive missions

    So far I am having fun with this game, they really missed the chance to be a super game especially with this story and voice acting and ruined a series    … Expand
  19. maxcliff
    Jan 15, 2017
    3
    из плюсов могу выделить саундтрек,машины и город ,кат сцены
    минусов - качество графики,сюжет(одно образные миссии) баги куча куча багов
    эта игра не должна быть ни новой частью мафии(если бы это была отельная игра) не ААА проектом    из плюсов могу выделить саундтрек,машины и город ,кат сцены
    минусов - качество графики,сюжет(одно образные миссии) баги куча куча багов
    эта игра не должна быть ни новой частью мафии(если бы это была отельная игра) не ААА проектом
  20. ClockworkSlave
    Oct 7, 2016
    6
    ok so first off its not a terrible game, graphics are pretty good (minus some weird lighting issues and sky looks bit strange sometimes. but other than that holds up.

    and the world is pretty solid, feels legit and lived in, weather effects are good but again just loses me the way they use the light and reflection on some of the cars and roads. nothing terrible but it does detract from    ok so first off its not a terrible game, graphics are pretty good (minus some weird lighting issues and sky looks bit strange sometimes. but other than that holds up.

    and the world is pretty solid, feels legit and lived in, weather effects are good but again just loses me the way they use the light and reflection on some of the cars and roads. nothing terrible but it does detract from the immersion a little.
    The game play is where it loses me the most, the story is run of the mill gangster revenge tale, cut scenes well acted and told. B
    ut the things that you do in between are repetitive and get samey after few hours, the mechanics are all good, driving feels right, shooting and cover are implemented right (bar some issues i had switching over underfire) collectibles are pretty fun and interesting as well.

    But it can become boring after the 10th time going into the same bar or factory and either killing a guy or blowing up some property. then driving to point A and repeating again. just started to lose me around 4-5 hours in.
    Very much like a Ubisoft style of open world, just icons everywhere full of repetitive missions and nothing unique like in a Rockstar game. The world is more realized than a Ubi game so if you enjoy Ubi games you'll enjoy this even more. (you could maybe call it a 7 if you do.)

    Probably would only recommend to rent or buy on sale, its fun for few hours but wears thin anymore than that.
    hopefully DLC can fix some of these issues and add some more variety, but probably cant fix everything with DLC.

    *JUST A DISCLAIMER i only played for 6 hours so if it magically gets better and it changes the whole structure of game play then ignore me, but it seemed like it was setting up the whole game from here on out    … Expand
  21. Toldu_I_Tango
    Oct 10, 2016
    8
    Firstly let me start by saying this game has the BEST STORY, SOUNDTRACK & VOICE ACTING that any gamer could ask for. This is HANGER 13's 1st attempt at an open world game & they do need some congratulations in these areas. What they need to FIX are the graphics however & I think it's quite obvious that they are in 700p, SUB PARR & BELOW NEXT GEN STANDARD (ONLY IN AREAS THOUGH) TheFirstly let me start by saying this game has the BEST STORY, SOUNDTRACK & VOICE ACTING that any gamer could ask for. This is HANGER 13's 1st attempt at an open world game & they do need some congratulations in these areas. What they need to FIX are the graphics however & I think it's quite obvious that they are in 700p, SUB PARR & BELOW NEXT GEN STANDARD (ONLY IN AREAS THOUGH) The waterways are very BLURRY & WASHED LOOKING & the same can be said for the skies. Environments looked lived in & feel lived in & are quite interesting to visit. Characters are SPOT ON PERFECT all though there ARE NO . CUSTOMIZATIONS SADLY for LINCOLN CLAY. Combat, weapons & Driving all feel REALISTIC & SMOOTH. The game has CRASHED SEVERAL TIMES but there's a PATCH ON THE WAY apparently & NEEDS TO BE A FEW MORE MAJOR PATCHES especially for the VISUALS. I'm around 10 hours in & the DEEPER you DIG into the game the better it gets & 1 important thing for me is, THE MISSIONS DO NOT FALL INTO THE TOO REPETITIOUS CATEGORY. IF THE PREVIOUS issues were FIXED with a PATCH than for me IT WOULD BE "
    GAME OF THE YEAR" but until than it's a score of 8 for me but I am addicted & HAPPY with my purchase. This game won't be for everyone though, however THE POSITIVES DO OUT WEIGH THE NEGATIVES IT'S JUST THAT THE NEGATIVES ARE QUITE BIG ISSUES WHICH NEED A BIG FIX! That said I'm still loving the game & I'm one of the BIGGEST CRITICS AROUND especially when it comes to visuals.    … Expand
  22. Rapida716
    Oct 4, 2018
    0
    The game is so boring, all missions are monotonous, I could not stand it for longer than 3 hours and deleted the game. I regret not about the money spent, but about the spent nerves. After all, for the first time, 2 parts were interesting, and this game, apart from tolerance and the name of the Mafia, wears nothing. The game has no right to be called Mafia.
  23. whynogoodgames
    Nov 5, 2018
    0
    This game is broken I would like to play it but it crashes doesn’t load and just bugs out all the time Microsoft should delist this game it’s that bad.
  24. firetruck92
    Jun 1, 2020
    0
    The game could go well if all the grinding was removed from it, but in its current form it is the worst game I played
  25. Fragya3000
    Oct 29, 2016
    6
    I have fun playing this game. Yes the graphics look like early last-gen, yes the gameplay loop is extremely repetitive, and yes it has poor performance at times, but ultimately the most important aspect of a game is whether the player enjoys playing it or not. I keep coming back even after numerous crashes because I have fun with it. I can understand perfectly all of the negative feedbackI have fun playing this game. Yes the graphics look like early last-gen, yes the gameplay loop is extremely repetitive, and yes it has poor performance at times, but ultimately the most important aspect of a game is whether the player enjoys playing it or not. I keep coming back even after numerous crashes because I have fun with it. I can understand perfectly all of the negative feedback this game receives, but for me the positives outweigh the negatives. The characters, setting, story, atmosphere, and authenticity are all fantastic.… Expand
  26. TheFreeman148
    Nov 30, 2016
    6
    The gunplay and driving are fun but boy oh boy are the graphics mediocre. It looks like it came straight off the first generation of Xbox 360s. The characters are great but it gets so repetitive.. RENTAL
  27. M3SHARI
    Oct 10, 2016
    6
    Hangar 13 did an excellent job with Mafia 3, especially with the story and the cutscenes, and amazing sound and music. But unfortunately they eliminated the game from Game of the year awards for two reasons which is most important thing in a good video game, first the missions they are repetitive! You only have one mission everytime! Go make some damage and make them lose money, Steal,Hangar 13 did an excellent job with Mafia 3, especially with the story and the cutscenes, and amazing sound and music. But unfortunately they eliminated the game from Game of the year awards for two reasons which is most important thing in a good video game, first the missions they are repetitive! You only have one mission everytime! Go make some damage and make them lose money, Steal, Destroy, Kill. That's it and the second reason is the AI they are completely stupid! Even on Hard Difficult it become so easy cause of the AI.
    In the end, they really did a good job here and maybe they can avoid the mistakes they've done in Mafia 3.    … Expand
  28. SkillfulSheep
    Oct 15, 2016
    5
    The game itself has potential to be so much more than it turned out to be.
    I completed the game in about 25-30 hours and decided to sell it afterwards. The game has its positives and negatives and I'll try to mention most of them during my review.
    At first I was very excited to enter New Bordeaux as Lincoln Clay and start progressing through the game. It didn't take long for the game    The game itself has potential to be so much more than it turned out to be.
    I completed the game in about 25-30 hours and decided to sell it afterwards. The game has its positives and negatives and I'll try to mention most of them during my review.

    At first I was very excited to enter New Bordeaux as Lincoln Clay and start progressing through the game. It didn't take long for the game to become rather repetitive however. All you do is pretty much drive from A to B, kill a bunch of enemies/steal cash at a hideout to harm the boss sitting on the district. Rinse and repeat through the districts and that's about it. The final missions at a district will however spice things up a bit - and these missions are actually kinda entertaining.

    You'll get rewarded with $$ as you complete missions but there's not a lot of ways to spend money in the game. You can buy weapons/call for mobster support etc. but you'll get a good amount of weapons without spending a penny tbh. I would have preferred the option to buy houses/buildings/garages. Also I would have preferred the option to store vehicles of my choice. It's not like Mafia 1 or 2 where you decide which vehicles to store - in Mafia III you'll just get a few cars and that's it.

    The skybox looks like a bad version of a Nintendo 64 skybox and the weather will change all the time - it's almost comical to watch the changes in the weather - from sunny to rainy in 0.5 seconds. Also I felt a lack of enjoyment while driving around New Bordeaux. The jumps around the city are not suited for the cars - I've seen several cool jumps that my car (even at 135 mph) didn't manage to do properly. On top of this the game has several bugs. Sidemissions like "Are we cool" can not be completed as they're glitches. You'll see flying cars, cars with no collision and missions objectives that won't spawn several times during a play through - that of course is not acceptable at all.

    The positives of this game are the soundtrack, the voice acting and the story. The gameplay will be fun at times and it had me entertained, but it did not live up to my expectations at all :( I would recommend buying the game when all the bugs/glitches are fixed and a customization update for Lincoln and cars has been released, but as of right now, the game only seems 90% done    … Expand
  29. branysersh
    Oct 7, 2016
    7
    look here if your looking for some unbiased first impressions for mafia 3

    so far my first impressions of mafia 3 are fairly positive but not everything is good in my first impressions. So far my favorite thing about this game has to be the story there's a lot to like how they go about telling the story and see a lot of potential for Mafia 3 to deliver a compelling story overall.    look here if your looking for some unbiased first impressions for mafia 3

    so far my first impressions of mafia 3 are fairly positive but not everything is good in my first impressions. So far my favorite thing about this game has to be the story there's a lot to like how they go about telling the story and see a lot of potential for Mafia 3 to deliver a compelling story overall. Speaking of story I should also mention that I would not recommend this game to anyone who is too easily offended by racism if you have followed any coverage for Mafia 3 Hangar 13 has made it clear that they have put a lot of emphasis on Racism and as an African American myself let me tell you from what I have seen so far Hangar 13 has nailed it and really makes you feel like people react to you differently because Lincoln Clay is African American. Now for gameplay anyone who's looking at this game and comparing it to the likes of Rockstar Games last title Grand Theft Auto 5 you may find yourself more disappointed then anything, yes you can do things that can be done in Grand Theft Auto like freely roam around the city, steal cars, and escape cops but from what I've played so far Mafia 3 lacks the same amount of freedom offered by Grand Theft Auto and find Ubisofts Watch Dogs a better comparison to Mafia 3 as it' stealth, shooting, and cover mechanics are more similar too Watch Dogs. I will say that I do find myself irritated from time to time by the way Lincoln Clay moves throughout the world as he feels like there's a weightlessness to him when he moves and find myself over running past cover and driving can be a little iffy. The AI also leaves a lot to be desired in Mafia 3 as someone who's played many stealth games stalking and using stealth to eliminate the enemy is very unsatisfying the enemies vision is terrible and in multiple situations guards will have a conversation with each other and when they finish they move away from each other and out of there vision basically asking you to perform a silent takedown on them the AI is at least better though once bullets start flying and will kill you if you don't utilize cover. As for graphics there not much to write home about for the graphics in this game character models look good as well as facial motion capture but I have noticed some poor textures when I played especially in the environment at one point when I was driving around sunrise the lighting was so strong it made it difficult to see and later in my play through I was driving past some tress and they just looked blurry until textures popped in later. Now for anyone is worried about 2k holding back reviews because the game might be broken I can tell you right now you don't have to worry I haven't run into any bugs or glitches at the moment nor have I noticed any noticeable frame drops. Overall with the roughly 4 hours of Mafia 3 I have played I would say it's decent overall Mafia 3 still has a lot to prove that it could be a great game however I do have some fears that Mafia 3 may find itself having repetitive game missions where a majority of the main story is spent taking down Mob racket and really hope Mafia 3's main story will be mostly spent completing unique and dynamic main missions if it doesn't Mafia 3 could really be a squandered opportunity by Hangar 13's debut title    … Expand
  30. tropicAces
    Oct 14, 2016
    7
    The best acting, writing and facial animations of any game, ever. However they're wasted by repetitive gameplay stolen from 2007's Assassin's Creed 1, doing several side mission (all of which are rinse and repeat) before unlocking the boss assassination. No customization or true replay value further the disappointment, I don't feel my $65 were wasted, but you're better off holding ontoThe best acting, writing and facial animations of any game, ever. However they're wasted by repetitive gameplay stolen from 2007's Assassin's Creed 1, doing several side mission (all of which are rinse and repeat) before unlocking the boss assassination. No customization or true replay value further the disappointment, I don't feel my $65 were wasted, but you're better off holding onto your money until this drops below the $40 line. Soundtrack is amazing, though.… Expand
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#16 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2016
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#15 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2016

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67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. Let's Play Video Games
    Jan 1, 2017
    60
    Mafia 3 is a game that gets in its own way. The city is beautiful, the themes are mature and the story, writing and performances are all easily some of the best we’ve had in games this year, but then the incredibly repetitive missions, wonky AI and technical glitches all make getting to the meat a royal pain in the arse. I’ve never loved and hated a game simultaneously quite as much as Mafia 3.
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Dec 4, 2016
    70
    An ambitious study of crime and race slightly spoiled by niggling bugs and menial missions. [Christmas 2016, p.74]
  3. High-Def Digest
    Oct 21, 2016
    60
    Mafia III put a high priority on its backstory, immersion, and presentation. That work shows in the quality of the narrative and the tragic characters, but unfortunately left little to flesh out the city of New Bordeaux. It's worth playing for the campaign, but perhaps there isn't a need to rush.
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