Games

Mafia III

Hangar 13

2016•Shooter•PEGI 18•About 48 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventuredramadetectivehistoricalmafia/gangsterfasttried & testedunsavouryheavyrealisticsimplelinearbig & variedemotive & stirringall consuming questcomplex relationshipdeep rivalryfighting evilinjustice/tragedy/vengeance

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Boxlist takeSweeping and serious: a realistic shooter, familiar rather than fresh. Best if you like depth over escapism.

Pace: fast · Originality: tried and tested · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

IGDB rating

68 / 100

515 ratings

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About This Game

Mafia III is an open-world action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective and the third entry in the Mafia series. Players control Lincoln Clay across a large recreation of the fictional city of New Bordeaux, modeled on New Orleans, tackling missions with a mix of gunplay, melee combat, stealth, and a cover system. Objectives can be approached in different ways, and players seize territory from rival criminal outfits and hand districts to their lieutenants. Period cars can be driven across the city, and the setting and licensed soundtrack draw heavily on the late 1960s American South.

Summary: IGDB

Story

Set in 1968 in the fictional southern city of New Bordeaux, Mafia III follows Lincoln Clay, a young Vietnam War veteran who returns home to the surrogate family that raised him. He agrees to help the local Black Mob settle its troubles, which brings him into the orbit of the powerful Marcano crime family that controls the city. After the mob betrays and murders the people closest to him and leaves him for dead, Lincoln survives and sets out for revenge. With the aid of a former handler and a group of rival power brokers who have their own grudges against the Marcanos, he begins tearing down...

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureDramaDetectiveHistoricalMafia/gangsterAll consuming questComplex relationshipDeep rivalryFighting evilInjustice/tragedy/vengeance

Keywords

Italian mafiaStreet racingAction-adventureCrimeRevengeOver the shoulderSequelBlack protagonist

Where to play

Details

Developer: Hangar 13
Publishers: Take-Two Interactive, Aspyr Media, 2K Games
Released: 7 October 2016
Series: Mafia
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Third person
Time to beat: 48h normally
Age rating: PEGI 18
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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