The correct name for this game should have been: ''Mundane Mafia simulator.'' An exploration game where you go from one District to the next, shooting random guys, choking out others and systematically conquering small racketeering business; Before handing them off to underlings to manage for you.
Come to think of it; You're kind of a sucker in this game.
You have to do all the hard work of physically taking a place, getting involved in every hotbed of activity, such as murder, smuggling and anything else that could get you arrested.
You don't even get the benefit of managing the businesses and raking in most of the money.
You have a bunch of underlings who managed the business for you.There most likely skimming off the top and handing you the scraps that you've worked so hard to achieve.
Of course that's what you want in a video game. Minimum tedium with maximum excitement.
however Mafia 3 doesn't really achieve that. Oh the missions are fun enough and the story (although kind of mundane) has enough of its own natural flare to keep you going.
But the busy work in between can get a little tedious. Most people be bored to tears after the second or third assault on a construction site or assassinating the same bunch of idiots time and time again. Not me, I love these kind of mindless games where I can run around and make my own fun with it. Dressing my guy up in a fine tuxedo giving him a silent pistol in roaming around wiping out every bit of criminal scum I come across*.
Driving in this game is a miserable experience. The cars are incredibly weighty, they're overly powerful and speed and yet they somehow feel slow and they can't turn it all.
In fairness that is kind of appropriate to your late sixties early seventies automobile. But it's kind of asinine when you're coming off the heels of Mafia 2 with even older cars that handled better.
I also just felt more fun to drive in that game. For some reason the driving mechanics in this game are really floaties and everything feels incredibly slow.
A lot of that is down to how the environment works. The world feels kind of open but limiting. So you'll sit there driving a car for a long time not seeing any difference in your scenery which doesn't help with the flow of the game.
Your HUD is overly crowded with a bunch of crap. Your mini-map is too big, your speedometer is overly large and it's kind of pointless. There's no point to knowing how well you speed in this game because the police don't react to your speeding. You just feel like the driving mechanic is kind of pointless. It just gets you from one fight scene to the next.
There's no fun in driving, and the world is open and yet oddly claustrophobic at the same time. See you have to drive around these Antiquated roadways to try to get to one spot in the game and it's all so far away and so long to get to.
God help you if something doesn't load in the game, so you have to reload the whole thing again and drive across the entire city.
This is one of the very few games where I really wish there was a quick drive button. I remember playing The Mad Max video game and I only used the quick travel twice.
Because I was going back to do one or two mundane things.
But driving in that world was actually kind of fun. The cars felt really nice to handle and you could really appreciate the speed despite the fact that in that game you're also not going very fast.
While I'm on a tangent about the driving. What happened to storing vehicles in the garage? In Mafia 2 you could take a car off the streets and keep it for yourself.
You could alter the license plate and repaint the car and then drive around in 1 car for as long as you want it. You could fill it up with gasoline or leave it to stall out. But there's no car customisation this game. At least not initially. It got added on as a DLC but you can only own certain cars.
While I'm on a tangent about the driving.
What happened to storing vehicles in the garage?
In Mafia 2 you could take a car off the streets and keep it for yourself.
You could alter the license plate and repaint the car and then drive around in 1 car for as long as you want it. You could fill it up with gasoline or leave it to stall out.
But there's no car customisation this game. At least not initially.
It got added on as a DLC but you can only own certain cars. there were so many little touches in Mafia 2 but they removed from this game.
You don't really have any houses to go to anymore and you have to get your health from these weird medicine cabinets in a bathroom like you're that guy from The Max Payne video game.
You can't just eat a hotdog and get your health back anymore.
And I got that most of this doesn't matter and in some cases might be a hindrance depending on who you are. But I felt it made the world feel a little bit more alive. You could go in and actually get a bite to eat at the restaurant.
Now there's no point. There's really no point to doing anything in this game outside of the story. You get a bunch of money but there's no reason for it. You can buy some guns with it but you don't need to.
Conclusion: A very simple video game with a fun action to stealth ratio, that'll keep simpletons like myself amused for a couple of hours. It's one of those games you can play for 40 minutes and then put down and come back to it in a week.
*I had the exact same experience and a game called Watch Dogs. That one was slightly funner as a gave you more abilities in different ways of taking down a group of enemies. Also the group of enemies could really rip you to shreds if you screwed up. But the problem with that one is that there were only so many idiots to attack. At a certain point to you ran out of roaming gangs to fight and he had to contend yourself either with the main story or one of the other side quest. And at that point I just gave up on the game. That's why Mafia 3 works out better. The whole game is Just mundane sidequest and most of the other garbage doesn't get thrown at you enough to get in the way.
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