Hangar 13·Released Oct 7, 2016·Single player
It’s 1968 and the rules have changed. After years in Vietnam, Lincoln Clay knows this truth: Family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you die for.
A game of inspired highs diluted with pedestrian lows. Worthy, but achieves less than its true potential.
Mafia 3 attempts to do great things with its writing, but the gameplay can't keep up
Astonishing amounts of work have gone into this, to creating such a vast detailed city, writing an apparently infinite story, building something on such scale. And then this has been dramatically let down by the dreadful AI, a woeful inability to edit, and the mindnumbing monotony of its identical missions. I'm fascinated by it, but I absolutely cannot recommend it.
It roars out of the gate and looks like it could be tackling difficult subject matter in a meaningful way, but quickly devolves into a mindless revenge story
As clever and original as it is tedious and broken, Mafia 3 has the makings of a classic, but doesn't go the distance.
Though Mafia III's storytelling is exceptional in every way, it's not quite strong enough to compensate for dated gameplay, repetitive missions, and technical issues.
An occasionally frustrating open-world experience that's greater than the sum of its parts.
Starts promisingly, but soon slips into a tiresome, repetitive grind, never doing its unique period setting justice.
Mafia 3's strong characters and confident storytelling kept me engaged, even if the gameplay rarely delivered anything but bog-standard and repetitive open-world action. That's a bummer, because Lincoln is an incredible protagonist and New Bordeaux is a fantastic setting thematically, and it would've been great to see them put to better use.
