Mafia III: Definitive Edition Reviews

Do you remember Ghost Recon Wildlands? Me too, I didn't finish that game neither. This game takes the worst parts of GTA, Far Cry, and Saints Row and put them together. Let's look at the gameplay first. Do you enjoy resupplying you GTA Online business manually? No one ever liked it, it's annoying and it's designed to waste enough of you time so you just say fuck it and buy shark card. You do that resupply mission here on every business you take over. It's obnoxiously annoying. Do you like drug abuse? Maybe, but I never liked any of the drug trips in the Far Cry series, it's cringe and serves no purpose but to say "How do you do fellow drug addicted kids." In a Mafia game, I say it serves a NEGATIVE purpose as I am just confused and kept saying "wtf is this dumb shit" the entire way. Do you enjoy enemy with health bars? I sure don't in a crime thriller game such as Mafia. However, I kept coming to these racket boss enemies(WTF is a boss enemy in a mafia game in the first place) that I tap them 6-7 times in the head and they are still standing. WIth the release of the remake of the first Mafia game, I know for a fact, the ground layout of this game is very good. Combat feels smoother compare to 2, there are a lot more options to approach each situation. But the entire package of this game, it's basically building a Shelby Cobra with a Toyota Camry I4 engine. It's ridiculous. Speaking about cars, let's talk about the engine sounds. Do you hate cars? Are you one of those people who doesn't know what difference between I4 I6 V6 V8 V10 V12 engines? Then you should be hired to be the sound engineer for the cars in this game. FFS, a simple youtube search for Jay Leno's Garage gives you a very good idea of more than half of what the cars in this game should sound like. I don't want to hear a Toyota 4banger in a 57 Corvette, and I am saying that as someone who doesn't have a V8 fetish. Now on to the character and story, the beginning was so great, I was expecting the usual high quality writing, despite it's unusual settings. I was wrong. Very wrong. The main casts are about as interesting as watching a documentary on sloths. Lincoln Clay is boring and inconsistent at best. Normally, you would cheering for the protagonist, but the more I learn about what Sal Macano was planning, the more I want to cheer for him. You ever find yourself cheer for Luca in Mafia 2? Neither did i. The underbosses (which I would argue they aren't, they are just crime bosses who you extort from) have their own flags and colors, which again why are mafias being ran like small time street level rat gangs? Everyone matching colors? What? Then, you couple that with some retard level writing, when you get hit pointblank in the head, you die, period. Skull, no matter how thick it is, will not deflect a bullet at pointblank. But, let's just say by the grace of god, you survive, I call bullshit that Lincoln lost zero brain functions. And that scar makes even less sense. How? Did he received a brain surgery? By who? Not father nor Donovan was a surgeon. That scar covers 40% of his right head. It physically makes no sense. But enough about Lincoln, let's talk the story progression. Which I don't know anything about, because there is none. Nothing is important and whenever someone opens their mouth is either talking about their feelings, who they slept with, their feelings, their thoughts, their feelings and their feelings. I did not go into a crime thriller expecting a therapy session with myself being the therapist. I don't care about anyone's sister, grandma, their daughter and their daddy issues. As the matter of fact, I don't even think anyone knows who they are or what they signed up for. Demonize Sal Macano like the devil himself, but when Lincoln takes over his rackets, doesn't matter if is human trafficking or drug pushing. He's basically exchanging management. Instead of Sal's people pushing drugs and human trafficking, it's now Lincoln's people doing them. Spare me the moral high ground whenever I have to mow down 50 guys just to spare the same guy who runs the racket to work for me. I paid less than $5 on this game, and I think I wasted my money. I don't see myself going back and waste more time on this game that doesn't respect my time. In fact, I don't know why they didn't pick Miami instead. When I think about Louisiana, there is nothing but swaps coming to my mind. Which is what half the map is. I don't know any massive mafia activity in that region, Miami however, was entirely built with dirty money and the known crime presence that exist to even today makes it a fever dream for anyone who truly cares about the genre. This game in my opinion was created by uninspired people with agenda pushing in mind coupled with lack of experience and compensated with 2K's massive data on engagement metrics thus the franklenstien gameplay. It's created by people who failed to see why the overwhelming amount of data pointing at business missions in GTA has nothing to do with people wanting to do them but instead have little to no option because that was the only effective way of making money. tl;dr In other words. this game is made by people who themselves aren't interesting and doesn't consume their own product but expect you to. It's a game written by people with a 2 digit IQ trying to write 3 digit IQ characters. In other words, business as usual for the industry, and water is wet.

比起1代2代，剧情匮乏，没有一气呵成的单机剧情体验，大部分时间都浪费在跑图上了。支线任务也是重复套壳，这代感觉纯属为了给Vito一个结局交代。 本来也不想给差评，无奈游戏质量堪忧，bug是真多，经常启动闪退，游戏内卡死。。

Cant even get to the menu before it crashes. and sometimes all u get is a blackscreen. how does this game still have issues after 5 years?

despite all its numerous flaws with optimization, general gameplay, and pacing, i love Mafia III. i really do. i'd personally recommend a reshade to get rid of the ugly haze and some community balance patches, especially one that heavily cuts down on, but doesn't completely eliminate the district-to-district grind. it makes the game so much more enjoyable by allowing you to better focus on the slew of pros instead of the more obvious, but less numerous cons.

Actually have not been able to play this one yet. It just crashes whenever I launch it after forcing you to watch a couple minutes of splash screen logos.

ive finished this game in 2019 on PS4 Pro– def the best instalment in the Mafia franchise. recently tried playing it again on pc and rog ally x, very disappointing. too much bugs, crashes, missing in-game button prompts?!!, the default graphics settings are all over the place too! i've refunded this game twice now... 2K pls fix your game

Mafia III is a game I enjoyed, but it has its flaws. The story is easily the best part of the experience. The way it’s presented, like a documentary with interviews and flashbacks, adds a unique cinematic touch that makes the narrative more immersive. Lincoln Clay's journey of revenge is engaging, and I loved seeing Vito Scaletta return. The combat is satisfying, and the takedown animations are brutal and well-executed. Gunplay feels weighty, and stealth is a viable option in most missions. However, the biggest issue with the gameplay is repetition—missions often follow the same structure, making certain sections feel like a grind. While the game is fairly long, it could have benefited from more variety in mission design. Another downside is the game's optimization. Even years after release, performance issues persist, and the game doesn’t run as smoothly as it should. Compared to its predecessors, Mafia III loses some of the realistic features that made the series stand out—no more refueling at gas stations, getting tickets from the police, or bribing officers to look the other way. These details added to the immersion in previous games, and their removal feels like a step back. Despite its shortcomings, Mafia III is still a good game. The atmosphere of 1968 New Bordeaux is well-crafted, the soundtrack is fantastic, and the storytelling keeps you invested. It may not reach the heights of Mafia or Mafia II, but if you’re a fan of crime dramas, it’s worth playing. 7.5/10

The beginning was probably the best part of the game, it had story, action, deep moments and character development. Then AFTER the prolouge you go shoot a guy, rob a place and maybe even blow up a warehouse, sounds fun right? Now do that for every single god damn boss in the game :) There is also many bugs, light issues, crashes and even talking to a guy to start a mission won't work

I enjoyed this game back in the days after its release and Im enjoying it even more now. Here is why. Previous two Mafia games were heavily story driven since you had one story mission after another. This one is closer to the classic "GTA" open world formula with many side missions to do (if you want). I don't mind when games get repetitive if the gameplay itself is fun. And boy Im having fun with this one! The action, animations and ragdoll physics are so much fun that after finishing one firefight I can't wait to start another. One of my most favourite things are melee finishers. Simply get close to your enemy and press Q key and Lincoln will perform a finisher depending on which weapon you are carrying. It was the exact same way (even the Q key) in 2005 Punisher game. You can also try stealthy approach or later in the game you can just call in a hitman squad and enjoy the firefight from afar. The choice is yours. Story is actually very good and especially the acting. You just don't see a cutscene after every finished mission like in the previous games. Story narrative reminds me mostly of Guy Ritchie's gangster movies with little bit of Martin Scorsese mixed into it but at some points you also feel like being in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood since it takes place in the same time period and even contains some songs that were later used in that movie. Which brings me to the soundtrack - it's simply amazing. What can I say, one classic song after another. You will not want to turn off the radio station! What about our main character Lincoln Clay? Im so happy that once more we can have some "walking tank" type of character. He is basically like Jack Reacher mixed with the Punisher. For a person like me who grew up on Arnold Schwarzenegger movies it's just another plus. And like a mentioned before the fighting and everything around it is just so much fun. Some people say that the open world is empty and there's not much to do except the side missions. To be fair it wasn't much different in previous games. Map basically served only to get from point A to point B to complete the story mission. In this you actually have things to do, which gives you more money, make things easier for you (like if you eliminate enemy enforcers they won't be bothering you later in the game) and your decisions even have influence on the story since there are several different ways how you can progress. Like in all previous instalments here as well was environment created with great attention to detail that makes you want to just walk around and breathe in the atmosphere. What makes the environment feel alive are the npcs. They have many different dialogs and even reacting on what's happening in the story as the game progress. At one point after Sammy's bar gets repaired you can stop by to have a drink there which is a nice touch since I always liked to be able to immerse myself into the game doing all those little unnecessary things like being able to eat or drink and stuff like that. There is also one nice little detail some of us appreciate and which is usually overlooked in most pc games and that's the walking button. You can just switch between walk and run. In case of technical issues - Im only having one. Which is that sometimes when you start the game it for some reason crashes back to desktop after the opening logos. Little annoying but all I have to do is just to start the game again and all over sudden it works just fine. I heard that switching the compatibility to Windows 7 solves the problem but I didn't bother to test it. Other than that game works just fine on max details. Not a single crash during the gameplay. My pc is almost as old as the game, which is Ryzen 5 1600, 16gb ram and GeForce 1060 (and Windows 10). Game can look gorgeous at times but I suggest turning off the depth of field and motion blur to make it look less blurry. So If you like this genre I really think that you should give it a try. Im not afraid to say that this game is very underrated. It is on 75% sale very often and for that price you really can't go wrong. You can pray on the way up! - Lincoln Clay Update: I completely forgot that later in the game you can grow weed and even make your own strains! 10/10!

if your game crashes before it can even get into the menu, go to the file where Mafia 3 is installed, look for Mafia 3 Definitive edition (not the launcher) right click and click on properties go to Compatibility and look for Compatibility mode try all of them but Run this program in compatibility mode for windows 7 worked for me, and now the other issues the same issue they had for mafia 1 is black screening on launch if you have this issue you need to launch the launcher and then change it to window mode, JUST WHEN IT launches you can put in back into full screen mode when you get back into the game you can also try check Disable full screen optimisations i think that will fix most issues of it launching up, ill recommended this or not when i finish the game i just want people to know what to do, so they can play the game and judge it on the game not the bad port for the launch up of the game (also feel free to share over bugs and fixes in the comments :) have a wonderful day).