Posted on: August 11, 2018
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Mafia III misfire
Mafia 1 and 2 are two of my favorite story-driven "open world" games of all time. Mafia III is not. A new protagonist, Lincoln Clay, freshly back from Vietnam pushes a Louisiana revenge story. Revenge isn't usually the sole anchor of a mafia narrative, and Mafia III doesn't feel like a mafia story as much as a 60's/70's blaxploitation revenge tale. In the telling of the tale, Mafia III stumbles again; it uses completely unengaging Congressional testimony footage too often (isn't Congressional testimony footage emotional and engaging?) as a narrative device and follows that up with flashbacks that hold absolutely no emotional no weight. It's clear that there was the ambition to tell a sprawling story of race, revenge, and chaos in the 60's deep South, but there wasn't a concerted effort to effectively tell a mafia story with a strong, emotional story. The only aspect of storytelling that works at all in the game are the characters. Clay is almost painfully boring and one-note, but many of the new characters inhabiting New Bordeaux are quite interesting. It's too bad they weren't part of an engaging story. Gameplay in Mafia III is a mess. From broken mechanics to terrible AI and repetitive tasks, gameplay quickly becomes a chore. At one point I whistled 20 times, lured 20 enemies out a single door and strangled all 20, one-at-a-time. Mixed with a lack of weapon balancing, terrible driving mechanics, and a generally non-reactive world, there's little to enjoy from gameplay. In fact, Godfather II, a game from 2009, uses many of the same systems more successfully and is overall a much better game. In the end, Hangar 13 tried to make a revenge game about race and the 60's, but they forgot they were making a mafia game. I firmly believe 2KCZECH could have made a mafia game that encapsulated all of those same ideas and themes but was a fun and engaging mafia game. Other than an absolutely amazing soundtrack, Mafia III is a severe misfire.
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