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don’t catch them first – unless it’s<br />
a convertible. Then, without having<br />
smashed a window to get in, you<br />
can cruise off scot-free. The game<br />
takes pains to avoid the tired of ‘all<br />
white people are racist’, but the<br />
reality of the time still sits there,<br />
harsh and real thanks to these little<br />
moments. That gives Mafia its<br />
character above all else.<br />
3.9/5<br />
Where Mafia III shines brightest is in<br />
these little details. Police respond<br />
slower to crimes in poor or black<br />
neighbourhoods, if at all; going into<br />
whites-only stores or into employee-only<br />
areas anywhere can get<br />
Lincoln quickly into trouble. Even if<br />
you’re only walking down the street,<br />
any passing police will immediately<br />
be aware of you. Similarly, if people<br />
see you stealing a car, a witness<br />
will run off to tell the police if you<br />
There are bugs too, of course,<br />
but none game-breaking. Mafia III<br />
more has the ones that make for<br />
perfect GIFs. Lincoln flipping out<br />
of an upturned boat onto the top<br />
in a split-second, crashed cars falling<br />
into the ground or floating into<br />
the sky – funny stuff that doesn’t<br />
impact your actual progress. In any<br />
open world game, these things are<br />
bound to happen and will no doubt<br />
be addressed in later patches, as<br />
it always is.<br />
This isn’t to say it’s a perfect game,<br />
of course. No game is. While Mafia<br />
III lets you skip a lot of the boring<br />
side-mission stuff if you’re not in a<br />
mood, there’s still plenty that can<br />
really drag down the pace. Wiretapping<br />
junction boxes, for example,<br />
requires you to collect fuses<br />
scattered around the map. Each<br />
box requires several fuses, though.<br />
If you’re not diligent in stopping to<br />
grab them when you see them,<br />
it can easily lead to having to<br />
scrounge around the map when<br />
you’d much rather be shooting.<br />
Add in that cars have an irritating<br />
habit of despawning or relocating<br />
and there’s a lot of time when<br />
you’re just running down the street,<br />
searching for convertibles to steal.<br />
Also: there are not one, not two,<br />
but six different kinds of collectibles<br />
to grab on your way through<br />
New Bordeaux. It’s a reflection of<br />
the time and a call back to previous<br />
Mafia games, but having Playboy<br />
magazines and actual nude<br />
pinups being things to collect is a<br />
little on the nose in <strong>2016</strong>. Even if<br />
the Playboys do, in fact, contain<br />
articles. I hadn’t expected to see<br />
a 1968 interview with Stanley Kubrick<br />
in my gangster game – but<br />
there it is!<br />
Mafia III is one of those rare games<br />
which excels in one area without<br />
failing in others. New Bordeaux<br />
feels like a real place, filled with real<br />
people. It responds to your actions<br />
and does not flinch away from portraying<br />
the brutality of Lincoln’s actions<br />
or the social injustices of the<br />
time. It may not rewrite the book<br />
and the missions might get repetitive,<br />
but it does what it sets out to<br />
do: present a story of loyalty and<br />
revenge, and present it well.<br />
Turn back the clock and take a<br />
look.<br />
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WRITTEN BY aaron milligan<br />
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