Your name is Lincoln Clay and you live in New Orleans, circa 1968. You are a tall, athletic African American man who just returned from Vietnam, having a distinguished record in the Special Forces. You are back home in New Orleans, but few things are as you left them. Various mob outfits vie for control of the city. It seems you used to have a moral compass, but it was busted in 'Nam. Your home city is ungrateful of your service and is toxic with racism & bigotry.
Such is the backdrop of MAFIA III. To be sure, there are elements of
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. That said, there are notable differences as well. As you belong to the mob, you can call for reinforcements on difficult missions (for a price, of course). Also, as you gain territory you will need to decide which one of your lieutenants to bequeath it to. There are upsides & downsides for any decisions you make.
Like GTA, you will (eventually) be able to participate in car races. Also, there are a handful of radio stations which play period music from the 1960s. Unfortunately, there is not an option to turn the radio off, as there is in GTA. While at first there is not much in the way of selection of vehicles, this changes over time. You get to choose from roadsters, a sports car & 3 exotic vehicles including one which resembles a corvette & another which resembles a 1960s era Ferrari. Cool!!
One of the cool aspects of the game is that you can collect 1960s PLAYBOYS all around the map {the real thing}. The girls have quaint 1960s hairstyles & yet one thing is for certain: feminine beauty is timeless. There are other things to collect as well, but methinks the men's magazines are likely to be the most popular to people who play this game.
I have just a few criticisms of the game. 1st, when being chased by the police it is annoying when they constantly shoot out your tires. Even if you have a high end performance car, you still can't get away in car chases on just your rims. Bullet proofing your tires is available, but not late in the game. Also, it is cute to see people dive out of the way when you're driving @ high speed through the city. However, they over-did it a bit. Sometimes people dive out of the way even when I'm going 10mph. What is worse is sometimes they dive the wrong way & dive right in front of you, which can get messy.
Parents should be cautioned that this game has an "M" rating for very good reasons: it is uber violent, has scenes of torture, is filled with racial slurs & also has quite a bit of nudity. As a grown man I see nothing wrong with including these aspects of 1960s Louisiana, but this is not a game designed for children. If the game sounds intriguing to you, it might just be time to join the mob!! Virtually, that is....
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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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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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