Fans of Grand Theft Auto will loudly applaud this third installment of the Mafia game series.
I have been playing the title for just a few hours now, but I am totally loving it.
The year is 1968, and you play as Lincoln Clay, a bad-ass Vietnam Vet back from the war to take control of the underworld in the New Orleans-styled city New Bourdeaux while you avenge the death of your beloved godfather.
Basically this game is like an adult GTA with superb period mise-en-scene and a killer soundtrack.
The truth is, MIII has probably the best selection of tunes I’ve ever heard in a video game, but then, the late sixties were an especially rich period in rock music.
So far, I’ve heard Creedence, Hendrix, Aretha, James Brown, Janis, the Airplane, Otis, Sam Cooke, Little Richard, the Stones, Steppenwolf, the Beach Boys, and many more coming over my car’s radio – sorry, hip hop fans, but THIS is what great music sounds like! And then there's a vintage blues station offering much more listening pleasure as well...
The game also features excellent dialog and voice-acting, plus very cinematic cut scenes.
The game play includes a good blend of stealth and assault-type combat. Typically you start a mission in stealth mode and then switch to blasting when your cover is blown. The missions include killings, sabotage, spying, intimidation -- a full range of heinous activities!
So far, the checkpoints seem well placed so you don’t have to regress too far back through the story when you die in an especially violent encounter.
Short of Nazis, there are few villains I find more enjoyable to put down than the racist redneck crackers on display here.
There are some subtleties of strategy I haven’t needed to mess with yet, involving slicing the pie among your lieutenants so they remain allies and not rivals. I hope this empire-building doesn’t become too onerous; I just like driving around the city and completing missions!
You can collect various oddities including old Playboy issues and Vargas portraits. You also need fuses to help you tap into telephone junction boxes that give you more intel on neighborhoods of interest – and their inhabitants.
I’ll report back if my opinion of Mafia III changes, but at this time, I think this is probably the best game I’ve played on the PS4 after Uncharted 4 and Just Cause 3. Laissez les bon temps roulez, y’all!
UPDATE: Well, I have racked up plenty of hours playing this title now, and my opinion holds: if you like Grand Theft Auto, you will LOVE this game. I have also found that you would do well to pay careful attention to control prompts at the bottom of the screen. Push the square button while you're looking at the map, for example, to get a handy readout of available story and optional missions. Push the right arrow when you are asked to assign a racket to one of your lieutenants, and see what additional perks assignment to each lieutenant will give you, which helps you decide. I also found that you don't have to stop for the frequent red lights and stop signs -- the police on patrol don't seem to pay any attention to your bad driving habits. And MIII is a LONG game -- I have now been playing for hours and hours and still I'm only fifteen percent through! As I said, I rank this game right up there with Uncharted 4 and Just Cause 3 as my favorite PS4 titles to date. HIGHLY recommended!!!
UPDATE NUMBER TWO: well, I finished the game some weeks ago -- IMO, it was excellent from start to finish -- and I also got the Season Pass of DLC. The first batch of DLC was terrific, featuring a new section of New Bourdeaux to explore, and I'm thoroughly enjoying the second batch that just came out. MIII is one game that really keeps giving (well, for a price anyway!) I hope the DLC keeps coming too...
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Mafia III
1968. New Bordeaux.
After years of combat in Vietnam, Lincoln Clay knows this truth: family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you die for. When his surrogate family, the black mob, is wiped out by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of military-grade revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
New Bordeaux, A Reimagined New Orleans
A vast open world ruled by the mob and detailed with the sights and sounds of the era.
A Lethal Anti-Hero
Be Lincoln Clay, orphan and Vietnam veteran hell bent on revenge for the deaths of his surrogate family.
Revenge Your Way
Choose your own play-style; brute force, blazing guns or stalk-and-kill tactics, to tear down the Italian Mafia.
A New Family On The Ashes Of The Old
Build a new criminal empire your way by deciding which lieutenants you reward, and which you betray.
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If you like a good revenge story...
Story. You are an army vet coming back from the war, only to find your family has some rivalry with the mafia and money issues. You decided to go on a heist mission to steal money from the bank, only to find the gang or mafia organization you partnered with decided to backstab you, kill off your family and take all the money for themselves. You manage to survive and decided to seek revenge a-la Punisher (Marvel Comics) style. The game is set in the 1960s with a documentary style of storytelling having watched interviews then playing events on what is being saidGraphics. Cutscene graphics are amazing, one of the best facial captures I've seen. In-game graphics are okay, as you expect from current gen consoles in terms of open world games. Voice acting and music selection is top notch. This game has very good production value, but the game is simply too long with a lot of filler as you'll see in it's gameplayGameplay. Very repetitive after the first 2 or 3 hours as essentially you'll be playing through the same mission types over and over again in different territories/settings. You be doing the same monotonous side mission in a given territory till the boss decides enough is enough and shows himself; where then you interrogate him, giving you the lead to your family's killers. After they give you the answers you need you then murder them and move onto the next. You'll be doing this over and over again till eventually you get what you want; there's some good story dialogue here and there, but the plot is pretty generic and predictable.As an open world game is very basic and nothing new for the genre. Your character's health pool is very low with only 3 shots from the enemy's pistol before you go down. You have to be methodical and plan your approach each time which is not really fun in an open world game. Getting game overs doesn't help either as you'll gain less money per mission and you'll need those money for upgrades making it a the rich gets richer scenario. If you play all your cards right, the game gets easier as you progress, but again the repetition sort of kills it.The game is very linear as there's little to side quests like taking over and maintaining territoryOverall this game is more quantity than quality as you'll be grinding repetitive side missions for story.
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