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One of the highlights of Mafia III is the feel of the guns. If they’re alerted, one will make a break from a phone in order to call in reinforcements. I personally liked mixing it up a bit by either shooting everyone, hiding for a bit and then striking from cover, or moving through areas and seeing how many people I could take down without alerting the sentries. You can choose to sneak into places and take people out like an assassin, or go in all guns blazing depending on your style. I want to see the rise of Lincoln Clay and his associates in a city where the old order needs to adapt, but I don’t want to have two different missions take place in the same location with the same formula. I can understand why this was done, as Lincoln needs to consolidate some power to move on his main targets, but performing a similar loop each time diminishes the overall interest. You need to complete side missions to take over territory and it’s only once some of these objectives are done that you’ll unlock a story mission. This is really interesting to start with, but then the repetition really kicks in and it also contrives to slow the story’s progress. You then face off against the underboss to either kill them or recruit them so your own underbosses get more money and influence. You’ll go into territories and weaken an underboss by interrogating members of their group, learning details of their operation, attacking a couple of locations to bring the value of their operation down to zero, and maybe kill their enforcers to make the final encounter easier.

However, after that opening though Mafia III sets into a repetitive rhythm. This trend is similar to the one that was present in Mafia II where the story kept moving forward at a good pace, and held your attention.

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There’s the desire to see where the story will go next, and it is helped by it being presented in a documentary style, with archive footage and interviews with people who experienced the events. The first few hours of the game progress through the story and events quickly yet effectively. There are plenty of buildings you can enter which gives the town a more natural feel to it, but there’s nothing to do in the buildings except steal money from the till and the employee only areas. There’s a massive contrast between the French Ward with its Bourbon Street inspired locations and the swampy bayou filled with alligators, even though driving between the two takes a couple of minutes. There’s more life in the city, but there’s still the problem of there not really being much to do. The map isn’t so large that it takes ages to cross, yet every neighbourhood has its own style and character. The setting of New Bordeaux is diverse yet compact. The races of each apparently unimportant to this group, but things change quickly, Lincoln will be subjected to name calling and being barred from entering certain establishments throughout the game. The city of New Bordeaux is quite segregated though the opening shows a group of friends from different backgrounds working together to pull off a heist. Starting up the game there is a message from Hangar 13 warning people of the racism present in Mafia III, but that it was incorporated to show what many people did and do experience in their daily lives. You also leave behind the New York City inspired Empire Bay for the New Orleans inspired New Bordeaux, where racism and segregation is the norm.

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There’s a lot of differences, as the series heads to the 1960s, with Lincoln Clay as the protagonist, a member of the black mob. So Mafia III has been on the radar since its announcement and while it isn’t a direct sequel to Vito Scaletta’s story, the intrigue was there to see how the series would change. Mafia II was one of my favourite games of the last generation, offering a really good gangster narrative that kept the action flowing.