And, honestly, every other possible activity also boils down to the same thing: find a location, and then kill people within that location with a mix of stealth and gunplay. You might have to intercept blackmail drops, or free prostitutes, or destroy drug stashes.īefore doing any of this, though, you’ll be interrogating informants and murdering enforcers, because these are two things that are offered up in every single territory.
Every district requires you to do a certain amount of “damage” in order to take it, and each district offers different tasks for this, depending on the particular criminal trade going on there. I believe this is what we, in the business, refer to as “a bit fucked.”įor most of Mafia 3, you’re driving around the city doing fairly menial tasks for fairly uninteresting people.
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Instead, it’s a semi-linear progression to take control of the territories in the city, mostly through a series of repetitive sub-missions. It doesn’t have as much ludicrous variety as Saints Row. It doesn’t quite have the coherent open-world, sandbox-y feel of the GTA series. It’s not as linear, story-focused, or character-focused as the previous Mafia games. If you’ve listened to the podcast you’ll already know some of this, but I came to the conclusion that Mafia 3 doesn’t really take its cues from Mafia, or GTA, or Saints Row: it’s closer to Assassin’s Creed than anything. That’s not to say it’s perfect, or anything, but other than the occasional “Christ, that looks weird” it didn’t upset me nearly so much as it did in the first hour. I’ll note that the framerate patch, which removed the 30FPS cap, made matters a lot better I’ll also note that I stopped caring about the low-res textures and frankly bizarre lighting effects before too long. The shotguns in particular have a lovely thunk to them.Ī lot’s already been said about the technical issues, so I’m not going to harp on about them too much. Mafia 3‘s weapons are, largely, pretty beefy.
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