Mafia III is a game with a horrible reputation, according to acquaintances, buggy, boring, and you name it.

Before saying what in the game, according to me, is good and not good, there is to say that the vibes the game gives are not what I felt playing the other games, but it is much more like a GTA/Saints Row than the other games were. I appreciate that driving from point A to point B has been totally sped up, improved shooting and incentivized stealth although not perfectly.

Mafia III's story is a very banal one with a classic revenge story and equally not at all innovative gameplay, however, it must be said that despite this, I found the game quite entertaining and an experience I would recommend to GTA fans. I enjoyed the cinematics of the story, very “ movie-like,” and found the issue of outing local bosses to move up the chain nice.

What I didn't like were once again the exorbitant enemy damage compared to what you can inflict yourself, the assisted aiming (Controller) is disgusting, sometimes aiming and not moving the analog will still miss. Some monologues after missions add nothing to the story and I felt no empathy for Father James because, apart from the aforementioned monologues, character interactions are reduced to a few conversations in the DLC and at the beginning of the game.

Otherwise the game plays smoothly with a few bugs but that do not invalidate the gameplay

I liked it. I liked the story, the style, the concept, the environment, all of it is just the right puzzle pieces fit in the wrong places is how I'd best metaphorize it.

I think it had great potential, but just the fact that they force these games into being time pieces not only to fit in a Mafia story but also to avoid competing with a modern-day setting and tone GTA game is pretty sad, considering they knew if they set it modern day somehow they'd still get compared and maybe even lose to GTA 5.

I think a lot of these action-adventure open world "GTA Clones" as websites such as Wikipedia term it, are mostly doing time pieces for that specific reason; still, no developer team has garnered the balls enough to challenge any GTA game, new or old, and now with GTA 6 coming out I think the only game willing to challenge it is probably the new Horizon game whenever that shit comes out lol (which will probably be a day after GTA 6 does).

This could have been a really cool and fresh new spin on a Mafia game, if it only were done in similar justice to the previous two, especially when released along with the other definitive editions (the remake of the first one most of all).

It's set in the 60's and does a great job portraying the time period with it's fantastic soundtrack and world. The story is gritty, relentless and captivating - with acting and characters being super believable due to the great performances. It's all so set up to be a really good story based game, if only it weren't for the absolute grind and repetition that just ruins the entire flow.

The main story missions are cool enough, they have variation and usually a satisfying outcome paired with the documentary style the story is being told in (which is also a cool way to tell it, even changing around the choices you make along the way) but god damn, the racket missions got so old that getting through this actually felt like a slog, even if I actually was invested in what came next for Lincoln Clay.

They were so close to something great here, but it's crazy how much these absolute filler missions ruins it, at least for me. I get the idea behind them, and I'm sure they'd work if done right, and in moderation - but not when you are literally obligated to do the same old song and dance to progress.

We need to ruin these dudes' operations in order to get to the big boss. Go talk to a guy, he tells you what needs to be done, you drive around to markers around the city and usually just kill people the same way you always do, when the cash requirement is met, you have to go to a previously visited location and clear out enemies again - only this time also their boss. Do all of these steps another time for another guy, before you can do some more story missions. Again, this got so boring so fast I barely made it through when I had to do the last few.

I also spent a total of 2 hours of my playtime trying to fix the awful blur and color grading this game has, as well as general optimization for fps and screen tearing. After installing mods and messing with Nvidia settings I finally had a playable game, lol.

So in summary:

Pros
+++ Story
++ Soundtrack
++ Characters and performance
++ City / world in general
+ Gunplay
+ Driving mechanics
+ Multiple endings

Cons
--- Repetitive filler missions ruins a lot of the game
-- Bad optimization
- It always rains
- NPCs jump into your car all the time
- I hate sentries

Be first and last time post this.
"Processor (CPU)

Model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Cores: 8
Threads: 16
Base Clock Speed: 3.6 GHz
Max Boost Clock: Typically up to 4.4 GHz (not mentioned, but standard for this model)

Graphics Card (GPU)
Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Memory: 8 GB GDDR5
Driver Version: 31.0.15.5176
Key Features: Supports DirectX 12, Vulkan, and OpenGL 4.6

Motherboard
Model: B450M MORTAR MAX (MS-7B89)
BIOS Version: 2.C0, dated 01/02/2021
UEFI Support: Yes

Memory (RAM)

Installed: 16 GB
Usable: 15.9 GB
Type: Likely DDR4 (not specified, but standard for this setup)

Storage

Primary Storage: Not explicitly mentioned, but has Standard NVM Express Controller indicating an NVMe SSD presence.

Operating System

Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version: 10.0.19045 Build 19045"

Game didn't run so hot 20-30 fps even at low settings.