Eyes look dead, movement can be janky and some of the animations are a bit wooden. The detail in the buildings and parks is pretty impressive, it’s just a shame the characters look like they belong on the last generation of consoles. New Bordeaux has some great visual treats, but never does anything to convince you to look around. Exploring the city gets old fast, so even with the decent handling, Mafia 3 gives you no reason to see the sights, other than to admire the view on your way to the next location.
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It’s a shame because some of the intense gun fights are a real buzz.ĭriving around New Bordeaux handles pretty well, giving you plenty of control on handbrake turns, but the other drivers can get in the way and block up entire roads when they really shouldn’t. You can find cover by pressing Cross, but it’s not always responsive and if you’re moving from one point to another the chances of you standing in an open space is pretty high. You’ll arrive at a brothel, bar or strip club and go about it in pretty much the say way, but when a guy comes at you suddenly or there are two or more trying to attack you at the same time, death tends to find you all too quickly and the awkward movement doesn’t do you any favours. Violence is the agenda here, but the act of it can prove tricky sometimes.
The formula gets repetitive, but the way in which you treat the underbosses can result in any one of them turning on you, adding a little variety to the way you assert dominance on New Bordeaux. Once they’re dead, you can assign that portion of the city to one of your 3 underbosses: Patrick Burke, Cassandra and Vito Scaletta (returning from Mafia 2). After speaking to your associates or a CIA agent (Lincoln’s handler in Vietnam) and finding out where they are, you go and kill them, normally guns blazing, but almost always in the same frenzied fashion. You’ll uncover the whereabouts of Sal Marcano’s various Lieutenants and Capos who’re occupying different sections of New Bordeaux. If it wasn’t for these missions feeling similar to the last, it wouldn’t be much of an issue, but it is. Outside of the main story missions, there’s little else to do. It was a fabulous moment, one I wish there was an abundance of, but a lack of variety and missions limits these kinds of anecdotes. I moved forward to the outhouse he was using, slit his throat, and sneaked back into my car just as the next chorus came on. One of my favourite moments of the game came when I had to go and kill a member of the Dixie Mafia Bad Moon Rising came on the radio in my Pontiac, and as I got out the car in a back alley not too far from my target, the chorus had just finished. Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Credence Clearwater Revival and Otis Reading all feature along with so many more phenomenal artists that you’ll always find a track to sing along to. The music is phenomenal, with every track serving the purpose of bringing the late 60s to life. I won’t say anymore, because it’s at this point when things start to get interesting, especially when one of The Rolling Stones’ classics kicks in and everything goes to shit. Before he gets a chance to tell him, some shit goes down with a rival Haitian gang causing Lincoln to get involved, affecting fellow mob boss, Sal Marcano. Unfortunately, that man is one Sammy Robinson, the head of New Bordeaux’s black mob. He wants to escape the life he had before the war, and heads back home to New Bordeaux to let the man who adopted him as a child know his plans. You play as Lincoln Clay, a soldier in the Special Forces who has returned from Vietnam to a very different world, trying to find his place in a family he left behind. The year is 1968, and racial tensions are high in America. It’s in no way perfect, there are some quirks in the control system that let it down, and many of the missions follow a very similar formula, but I had a lot of fun with Mafia 3, and its significantly deep message stayed with me. The way the narrative unfolds is different, gunning for a documentary style which lays parallel to the brutal acts when you’re in control. You’re a man with revenge on his mind – not the boring and expected kind of retribution, but the kind brought on by an oppressive world, lambasted by ignorant fools and abhorrent racists. There are moments in Mafia 3’s cutting story that are among some of the best I’ve seen in the last 10 years, some genuinely shocking and awfully blunt deaths that took me a few minutes to recover from and some great character development.
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