Mafia III: Definitive Edition Reviews

cant run it my system is xfx 9070 XT Ryzen 7 9800X3d M2 Drive 4tb 192 Gig of Ram X670E gaming plus wifi board game starts up music runs video locks up keys none responsive game just stalls out and I have to force end task it so far its only game that seems to do that so I am pretty sure its just shitty game.

I rate the game 3/10. The story of the game is very bad, there is a lot of repetition in the story, and it has many agendas.

The game is extremely buggy and often crashes right at startup, or you just get a black screen and nothing happens. I bought it on sale for a few euros and thought, “How bad can it be?” Well, it’s that bad. The issues are so frequent that you’ll spend more time troubleshooting and tweaking settings than actually playing the game. Definitely not recommended.

TLDR: The more you play this game, the more you'll hate it... They story is great but the gameplay and quality of life issues make playing this game a perpetual cycle of yelling in frustration to watching a good story unfold. Plus, the amount and randomness of these issues make you not trust the game. Mostly, it's because the bugs and there's still plenty even after a remaster. - DO NOT USE THE COVER SYSTEM. More often than not, you can't exit the cover when you need to. It's incredibly frustating - Randomly, the prompt to speak to people to progress goes away. Only a hard restart or loading the last checkpoint will fix it - Lincoln died when hopping into a pool, your car deliveries/money collectors/gun suppliers can kill you by running into you *when you call them*, randomly switching covers/shooting positions, and plenty more for the player to unfortunately discover. - The map changes the objective randomly. For example, I selected an objective that was about 500 meters away. After getting into a vehicle, it changed to one over 5 km away... - Randomly, the minimap zooms in really close... like REALLY close, as if you're looking at the map with a microscrope. - What really pissed me off was I only ran into one game breaking issue. Why would that be frustrating? Because every other bug allows you to progress in the story but majorly decreases the quality of life, immersion, speed of progression, and so on. - - For example, I was looting a pool house for cash and legit stepped into the main pool. Immediately died when I stepped in an thus lost the cash in my wallet (about $10,000). I didn't fall from a building or jumped from a tall height... I stepped into a pool. The quality of life issues also get on your nerves. - The running speed is laughable and the sprinting barely lasts so it takes quite a while to run even 50 meters (even after upgrading Lincoln). Not only that, but some places lock you into just walking. Also, you can't jump and the leap-able obstacles are both rare and hard to see or differentiate - *LITE SPOILER WARNING AHEAD* For spots like where you meet the contact in the underground parking garage in Downtown, you're forced to walk from the entrance to the person JUST TO HAVE A CONVERSATION. To really rub salt into the wound, there's an adrenaline shot on the opposite side of the parking garage so enjoy being forced to watch a 5 minute walking animation. *END OF SPOILERS* - Getting into your car every single time takes forever (especially so when in a chase or fight). Speaking of which, you have to wait 5 seconds everytime your concierge comes by to get the prompt to store your money. - Mafia 3 has introduced us to a new technology: indestructible trees. When driving, a small sprout has the same immovable stopping power of a 1000 year old, giant tree... How can this be considered a remaster when PLANTS ARE INVINCIBLE - Plus, the minimap when on foot is way to small. I find myself constantly missing enemies, collectibles, objectives, and so on. What makes this even more infuriating is that when in a vehicle, the minimap zooms out A LOT. Thought you saw something close when driving? Too bad, here's a 500 meter walk to it when you get out. - Oh, and the camera angles... good luck having an enjoyable fight when in a "closed space." Every staircase, sewer entrance/exit... I find myself avoiding certain missions or approaches just because of how bad the camera is - The map design is questionable at times on missions and frustrating when collecting collectibles and electronics. Want to find something? Boom, here's a bunch of obstacles that you can't jump over and have to spend an hour running around aimlessly hoping for an entrance. You literally constantly mentally ask the map designers: "Why?" - The GPS is also unreliable. It'll give you the fastest route (most of the time) to the correct X and Y coordinates, but the Z? Forget it... I find myself googling how to find a collectible or entrance since the GPS doesn't know what "height" is - oh and no fast travel... (if there is fast travel, then it really isn't intuitive to use or find how to use) Overall... Initally, you can brush off the quality of life issues but overtime... one single bug is all it takes for you to uninstall. Plus, I find myself literally not trusting the game. Imagine having a good story but every mission, drive, gunfight, or even every step... there's a risk of the game giving you the middle finger with an issue. Imagine watching a movie but having an anxiety attack the entire time. Pro tip to Hangar 13 and other producers, invest more in Quality Assurance

So much potential ... if only this wasn't so repetitive for 30 hours lol. Still a decent game with DLCs to play in between taking over districts and keep your sanity in check. Working with Vito was pretty cool though

The story is good and includes some nice storylines like Anna's, but the mission design and repetition quickly become boring and constantly make you think about quitting the game.

The American south is a nice setting, not like the generic rows of glass towers, brick buildings and tarmac you see everywhere else in the US. The driving also feels good for once, but there the positives end. A Mafia game's strength is in its plot. Lincoln's story is bogged down by mandatory open world copypaste quests, diluted by homeopathic "player choice" masking the writer's lack of commitment to a meaningful plot direction, and robbed of any immersion or subtlety by the reality TV format. They barely put any effort into making you care about Paddy Carbomb or that Haitian girl, so why have them? The only partner Lincoln needs is Vito. They share a background as former special forces who got mixed up in a system of crime that murdered everyone they cared about, and they have what they need to take it down. Lincoln is a one man army. Vito knows the business, and he lacks someone he can trust and respect enough to succeed him, so Lincoln could grow to become that person throughout the story, but enough fanfiction nonsense. The story was designed not to play good, but to look good on powerpoint slides presented to a board of nepo execs who need unpaid interns to help them open a PDF. This game won't even run right. 2K completely forgot how to make video games.

Story is great but the gameplay is extremely repetetive and boring. The only activities outside of story missions are collectibles or races. Every mission feels the same. Go to place A, talk to a guy, go to place B, kill a few guys, go back to place A, talk to the dude, Mission complete

Damn......I loved this game.. It certainly wasn't a "Mafia" game but it was a good game none the less. I did run into some issues though like... - Stupid AI that would dive off the pavement in front of your car, or get out of their cars WHILST driving and start running away because you drove near them. - What ever the hell is wrong with the mirror reflections (IYKYK) - Sometimes having to reload checkpoints because certain cut scenes wouldn't trigger but not knowing that until I had been driving to the location for 15 mins - Progression might get repetitive for others but something about checklists tickles my brain good But all that being said, I had an awesome time playing this game, driving was satisfying, story was cheesy but in all the right ways, Lincoln was played and voiced really well, Donovan is an absolute bro just lots to like! Some returning faces and nods to series vets was appreciated, really looking forward to Old Country, not that the events in this game will mean anything but was nice to replay the first 2 and play this for the first time! Should you play it? Well yes, but only if you enjoy these types of games, it does nothing new or ground breaking, its a cheesy revenge story in a setting I'm very fond of so I was bound to enjoy it, if you don't like 60's rock music and muscle cars then you may struggle after a few hours.... Hope that helps!! <3

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, IT'S 100% BROKEN. Going into fullscreen mode with V-Sync on crashes the game.