With its immature ridiculous dialogue and characters, I can’t help to think this game was designed for anyone but teenagers..
Unlike the other two Mafia games, this feels like a regular gangster game or a GTA ripoff, without any of the maturity of mobster culture.
Its impression of the 70s also feels hollow, compared to the vivid complexity of the 30s/40s and 50s time periods of previous instalments.

Play style can be engaging but adds nothing different in terms of level progression. Missions feel repetitive and lack diversity in plot points or nuanced game set pieces, making its central story suffer dramatically.
Visually it is quite bland also, making the world seem dull and uneventful.
- This also goes for the games main lead character Lincoln Clay, jeez what a bore..

A highly forgettable experience!

An interactive movie-game which takes a leap forward in many ways from game such as Heavy Rain, with its incredible photo-realistic characters, characterisation, dialogue and cinematic cutscenes which make you feel integrally part of the experience.
Though its story can be seen as predictable, or overly manipulative in some ways, the game captures a certain level of freedom with choices you make and the experience you wish to achieve.

Games like this do create a good incentive for a second playthrough even for just the wonderfully rendered characters and world alone