Mafia III (PS4)

Well firstly the delivery was on time and goods were packaged just right. As for the game itself, well I've heard reviews that say it's a bit repetitive in itself, and I suppose it is somewhat, but with increasing difficulty as it progresses. What if you like what's being repeated though? I like being able to race around a great looking city like I'm in the classic film 'Bullitt', although it's set in New Orleans and not San Francisco, dodging cars at intersections and getting 4 wheels off the ground over bridges. You get that same airtime on the bridges in the surrounding countryside, but also over some great jumps as you boot it round tarmac and dirt roads like a nutcase out of 'the Dukes of Hazzard.' To this end there are also races you can enter to earn extra cash, which are set about all the different areas of the game, including the aforementioned countryside and swamps, downtown, the docks and more. Then there's the real nitty gritty of the game, as you (character Lincoln Clay) take over parts of the city and the rackets within them, in order to reach your main goal. Yes the missions are similar in that you make your way through the game and although different in regards to how many of them and how hard to kill your opponent's are, but dependent on your tactics, of which I prefer stealth, you kill everyone and then assign one of your bosses to that area. As you take over the city the bosses pay their kickback to you, and you can either pick it up yourself by driving from each boss to the next like a madman, or later on (once you earn the ability), you can regularly ask your Consigliere to collect it for you and watch as your bank balance rises. Of course you can till decide to drive between each of them if you still enjoy the rush if those extra miles in your car. In many ways this reminds me of Grand Theft Auto, but strangely although I don't like GTA, I'm loving this. It also reminds me a little of Assassins Creed in the way you accumulate wealth by controlling parts of the city, and by the stealth killing aspect of the game. Of course there are times when all guns blazing is the approach needed, especially when my stealth approach hasn't been stealthy enough, and in this I'm reminded of Call of Duty or Payroll. The driving dynamics are as good as I've seen on the Ps4 so far, and although I'm still looking for a decent racer on this platform, this definitely sates my thirst for exactly that style of gameplay. All round the graphics are great and the city rather spectacular as it whizzes by in the car, or more slowly of course if I'm on foot. One more great part of this game is the soundtrack, which is all 60's style of track's, much like those found as the background to many a great Vietnam war film, like 'Platoon' or 'Good Morning Vietnam', which is unsurprising being as it's set just after our character has returned from there to find that his whole world is about to be turned upside down. Yeah, I am absolutely loving this game, from the cars and the music, to the killing and acquiring areas and their wealth, all based around a Mafia lifestyle, which having a name like this, makes a whole heap of sense really. Great game in my opinion.

What a fabulous game. I have now completed the Story and I'm still enjoying the side missions I have left. Yes, there are a few issues. I have had the game crash approximately half a dozen times from beginning to end. Its quite annoying but the game always seems to carry on where I got interrupted, so the auto saves seem to work flawlessly. There are some graphical issues too, especially the day to night transitions. I was initially slightly disappointed with the graphics and the story/gameplay, but once the story kicks in from Lincoln taking revenge, it just keeps getting better and the graphical issues fade into the background. I rarely play a game constantly until the end, but I could not stop playing this. A few people have mentioned that there is no fast travel option. I thought this was odd at first but actually prefer it without. It makes you appreciate how much detail has been put into all the different areas and makes the world seem more believable. It also makes the game last longer, instead of just fast travelling to the next mission point. The music and news on the radio stations are very well thought out and completely relevant to the era. Pros Excellent story Fantastic narrative and characters. Superb controls Great atmosphere Fun with that, "just one more go" feeling Cons Occasional crash Graphical glitches

I wasn't sure what to expect from this game even from having viewed 2 trailers about it, I took the risk based on enjoying Mafia II very much. The realism about how black people were treated in those days can be an eye opener, the game developers should be applauded as we shouldn't forget how things were and see how things have changed, not as much as we would like but always moving forward in terms of being treated equally. The graphics was really good, just as good and slightly different to how gta is shown, its fun driving around. You would believe being the late 60s there be no fast cars, there wasn't really any in Mafia II, I always found myself chugging along but some cars can really go. With storylines like these there's only like 2 ways to go, naturally making your way through the ranks of being made in the mafia or out for revenge. By being double crossed, left for dead and his family also killed he sets out to avenge their deaths and wishes to use tactics he learned while he was in the Vietnam war, accompanied by a friend who will gather the intel for him on who he needs to take down leading all the way to the main guy who arranged for what happened to him. Around each part of the city and districts there as rackets ranging from drugs, gambling, prostitution and by going around to these places and destroying the merchandise, if any will disrupt the guy who runs it earnings and will make an appearance to know whats going on. When that happens you need to go and pay them a visit, again issued with a choice, kill them or let them live, letting them live will give you an extra $2000 but doesn't really do anything in the long run, you do what you want to do at the time. Along the way you meet 3 other people, a woman whos looking out for her own people, an irish guy and Vito from Mafia II, he complains hes always being screwed over by everyone and never ends up with anything. Each distract you fully take over (2 racket bosses per district) you assign it to one of the 3 people, assigning it to them they will give you upgrades to use, getting rid of police, buying explosives, weapons, more health bars. If you favour more to one or leave one with less or nothing they aren't going to be pleased with you. I treated them equally, given them districts each. There is different ways of playing the game and even different endings with leads to multiple game plays. There is a lot to take out on the map, many markers of hitmen or other rackets even though you may of done enough to make the racket boss appear, I assume this is done to keep the player from being bored, hit 2 rackets and you are done, going straight to sort them out will be harder if you haven't sorted out their enforcers around the map, sorting them out will make take over easier. For me it was a really easy game, I chose Normal setting with low aim help (can choose high aim which is auto targeted, or none for no help) creeping around stealth was like a joke, 90% of the time they never see you and even if they do they slowly walk towards you wondering what you are doing and that's it, take them down, when they find their dead friends they also don't seem too bothered, just a cheesy comment. The music annoyed me, there's 3 radio stations and it seems to me they have like less than 10 songs that keep playing over and over, one of the things I was hoping for was as you can go around the city finding collectables, playboy covers (nothing exciting) album covers, that when you found the album cover the song would play on the radio but no such luck, I ended up turning it off completely. I wasn't happy about the glitches, I cannot really complain as I refuse to make a psn account to download the updates, if I wish to sign in ive got to update the console to the latest firmware, so much control from Sony, I even had the idea of copying my game save to usb to prepare for the possibility of multiple endings but it said "you need to be online to copy saves to usb" crazy. So upon my playthrough I encountered 5 complete crashes with error code (the game saves all the time so not a problem) I kept declining to the terms of agreement that pops up each time, but it wouldn't disappear unless I agreed, which I still refuse to. There's been faceless enemies, floating objects, police vanishing, gps map going black except for player cursor, main map sometimes displayed all collectables and side missions and then there was times it didn't. I wished to do a side mission for one of the 3 partners where you steal a truck of moonshine, 4 times out of 5 I be on the way back to his safehouse and poof, the truck vanishes, im left stood there in the road. The violence can be cringing when using the knife but this is also optional, you switch between lethal and non lethal take downs, sleeperhold or knife though the face. I do look forward to the 3 expansion packs they have announced but wont be jumping to buy them, I should know by now with big games like this there's always going to be glitches, i miss the good old days where you buy a game disc and its close to perfect, no crashes or such. I found it very fun and tried to complete as much as possible, will play it again someday and make different decisions.

Great Game! Brings back a lot of what I loved about Mafia 2 and a lot more content. The side missions are great and the story missions are even better. This is a high octane action adventure about revenge, family and discrimination in 1960s USA. There are a few bugs, but these are very minor thanks to the new patch from 2K so the game is much better now and you'll enjoy a very immense experience into the world of the Mafia. There are also quite a few links with the Mafia 2 game (which was based in the early 1950s) so it will bring back some nostalgia feelings. I've spent about 30+ hours on this game and am about 80% complete. Its a game you have to dedicate time to, like Grand Theft Auto's, but as you get deeper into the story everything starts to make sense and there is a high sanctification from progressing through the game and developing a better relationship with your associates in the criminal organisation.

Here's a basic list of pros and cons Pros Compelling well-written story with some top notch dialogue & cinematics, It's very much like a Rockstar game in a way, it's a gritty crime drama but it still has it's fair share of humour and funny characters it's a nice mix of gritty & humorous. FANTASTIC Soundtrack Good Gun Combat & Hand to Hand combat Some Enjoyable side Missions The Stealth is well done and is BRUTAL Cons The Missions while enjoyable, for the most part, can feel repetitive & monotonous at times. The city is decent but it lacks the detail of say a Grand Theft Auto location. Only one outfit for Lincoln, dress up is not a big deal to ME but it was somewhat disappointing not to have a choice. It's rough around the edges it has some bugs. Overall it's a solid game it's a 4 or 5 star game for me, to put it simply if you're looking for a compelling & well-written video game centred around crimanlity then order Mafia III right now!

The game was only released in the UK yesterday so naturally I haven’t completed the game and have only cleared out the first three districts, but hear is my opinion on the game so far. The Good….. The story is set in the 1960’s with our character just returning home from Vietnam, I’m not going to ruin the story line so I’ll just say that the basic outline of the game is one of revenge. The map is spilt up into various districts each one has a district boss that controls the area for the crime lord of the city “Sal” and an under boss that works for you. The general idea is to take over each district at a time working your way up to “Sal”. To do this you first need to take control of the rackets that make up each area which leads to taking on the district boss and eventually gaining control. Once control has been gained the district passes onto your under boss and you receive various perks etc and then you can move onto the next one....are you with me so far :) The game looks great and the sound track as you might expect is full of classic sixties hits. There is a nice selection of cars and weapons to choose from, although this may change when I get further into the game of course at the moment weapon or vehicle choice doesn’t seem to mater, I’ve cleared out a building full of goons using only a basic hand pistol which leads me onto the bad…. The Bad….. Considering that our character is supposed to be a special forces Vietnam vet he can’t actually do very much, some things do make sense such as the inability to scale the sides of buildings or climb over 12 foot high walls etc but he equally struggles when faced with such tricky obstacles as a waist high fence or climbing onto a roof of a car and there’s many other examples I could give you of simple things he can’t climb up to or over, and then there’s the combat skills or lack of it. He only has one take down move, he can’t cover aim or fire, he can’t shoot and drive at the same time, he can’t sprint for more than 15 seconds, a fall more than 4 foot will cause injury and finally he swims like a little girl…. hardly special forces training!!!! When I think of sixties gangster films the one thing that comes to mind are the car chases, so naturally I assumed that there would be some element of that in the game but so far no, there isn’t a wanted star system in the game so all police pursuits are the same so you can forget about epic 5 star GTA style chases. In fact the police chases are, I have to say very dull. It doesn’t matter which car you drive or how fast they are always right behind you at least for a short time and then they just simply stop for no reason what so ever is as if they couldn’t be bothered to carry on. But a far quicker way to end the debacle is just to simply get out of the car and run down an alleyway the pursuing cars will stop when you stop but the npc don’t give chase they just stay there, so all you have to do is “jack” the first car you see and drive away from the area. Doing this can end a chase from beginning to end in as little as 30 seconds (yes I did time it!!) The Ugly……. I can’t do a review without noting the racist aspect of this game. I’m not going to get into the argument of whether it should or shouldn’t have been included but anybody thinking about playing this game should be aware that the strength and frequency of racial comments made in the game is likely to offend ******************* As I say these are my opinions after only playing the game for one day and I’m sure there’s lots more to do that I haven’t seem yet so my view of the game is likely to change and I will post an update when I’ve finished the game but so far I’d give this game 3/5 stars the lack of character control and the dull car chases are a bit of a let down... but we'll see what happens

This game is excellent and captures the era extremely well. The music is on point and the characters and story are engaging, revealing the brutal racism prevalent at the time. It does not pull any punches where this is concerned and the game launches with a disclaimer from the devs that they made the conscious decision to depict the era as accurately as possible (albeit in a fictional narrative). If you're hoping for a Mafia 2 successor - you may be disappointed. Mafia 3 is an entirely different kind of game. Many have compared it to GTA which in some respects is fair, but the story is serious and not satirical in any way - so if it is GTA then it's a hardcore version. My only gripe with this game is the size of the UI and in particular, the tooltips - they are so small they are barely decipherable (even on a 48" screen). I'd maybe knock half a star off for this, but it does not detract from the gameplay once you're well acquainted with the controls.

Very Decent! I really wanted to give the game a 5 star but, it's not perfect. That isn't by any means a dig, it just needs a few extra bits to make it a good 95%+ kinda game. A lot of other reviews have covered most of the elements of gameplay but in a nutshell; Pros: Driving (typical/simulation) (Cars are from the 60's so are quite heavy, don't expect to be turning a sharp corner at full speed without your car spinning out!) Weather conditions affect driving performance (when it rains heavily, your tyres will spin more...especially annoying yet awesome when doing weed/drug runs through the Bayou!) Graphics are very good - some other people have compared them to PS4, but I'd firmly place the graphics as PS4 - Keep in mind this is a MASSIVE open world game, games like this always have their graphics slightly held back to improve performance. Myriad of weapons, although you generally stick to using only a handful at the start of the game due to funds/unlocks. The Shank. Stabbing someone in the throat, in the face, in the back, in the stomach - NEVER gets dull. Violence - As with any Mafia (R18) game, expect brutal violence - Few instances so far of people being chopped up Mafia style (chopped up with a ban saw, head caved in with a hammer, etc) Music - The game hosts a fantastic selection of 50's/60's classics - more music seems to be unlockable as the game progresses and if you collect more album covers. Storyline - By far the strongest point of the game, you simply can't fault it. If you are a fan of Mafia type stories such as Scarface, Godfather, or even like that classic "LA Noir" story style it's very detailed and thorough. The backstory for a lot of the characters are huge, the general storytelling is performed via active events (the here and now) and also frequent flash backs & flash forwards to the FBI interrogating some of your accomplices years after the game has been set, it's quite enthralling. Racism - You might be wondering, how is racism a pro!? - Because Hanger13 start the game with a factual statement, giving the reasons why they added some harsh racism to the game. Which I totally agree with, it was impossible to craft the game in this era without portraying the (as they call it) "harsh truth of Americas problems" (aka the race war). Expect a lot of the 'N' word usage going on. Alligators.....yes....dump someone's body in the water and watch what happens. Cons: Being an open world game, there is no social aspect - I'm not comparing it to Rock stars social club per say but when playing, you feel very isolated. There are no competitive records for killing sprees/jumps/etc/etc - whilst this is a very small point, I often found myself feeling a bit lonely in a metropolis of so many. Solid bushes. I forget the amount of times I've almost missed my turning, slid off the road and expected to fly through the tiny bush in front of me only to swerve back onto the road....but instead whack into the bush like a brick wall. The same applies to some water plants, I've failed a few boat missions by flipping and subsequently writing off my boat (mid-mission) because there is a weed sticking out of the water! Missions - Some of them can get a little repetitive, but if you are a completions like me...expect to be doing a lot of side missions which involve driving weed shipments from one side of the map to the other and a lot of "bring me this, thanks, now bring me more, thanks....now more, repeat, etc." Install time - First time loading the game, by the time you get through the setup menu the install will be at about 15% - it then takes a good 45 minutes to install the rest of the game. It just sits on a greyish screen with a spiny icon, no artwork or info - just a grey screen... Side note: For reference, after 20 hours of gameplay my game has unexpectedly crashed twice during different events - not sure why, but it's minimal and I'd expect whatever that issue is would be patched over the coming week/s. ALL IN ALL, I was a bit hesitant to buy the game especially because of the lack of pre-release reviews, but I'm really happy with it. One of the games I'd happily spend £40 on!

Un classico gioco alla GTA, a mio parere vario e divertente. La versione che mi è arrivata era in francese ma l'italiano era incluso sia audio che sottotioli. Inoltre era incluso il "bonus pack" riuniorne familiare.

Gostei bastante da história do jogo

Absolutely love this game! I wouldn't recommend for younger gamers, mostly due to the story line, objectives in the game, and overall language. It is an exciting, similar to your average role play game, but the story line is fantastic! The missions are doable, without having to be overly frustrating, and once I started playing, had a hard time putting it down.

...ich habe mehr erwartet, zum Vorgänger etwas verbessert aber kein Vergleich zu anderen Spielen die zeitgleich raus gekommen sind. Schade die Idee der Sorry ist nicht die schlechteste. Ich habe es durch gespielt und seit dem liegt es im Regal.

Molto bello