I remember being at EGX Eurogamer 2016 and watching a behind the scenes presentation of the game and being blown away by it. It’s hard to believe that Mafia III launched almost four years ago now. Unfortunately with the 1960’s being a good 20 years before my time, I couldn’t recall any of this music. The soundtrack to the game includes plenty of licensed music from the 60’s era. The third instalment in the Mafia series steers clear of the stereotypical Italian Mafia setting and instead focuses on a different approach of gang related crime settings. It is said that the development team used a collection of old photographs to create the world and some alterations to the world were made to blend in with the narrative of the game. There are ten areas across the world map and these consist of, Downtown, French Ward, River Row, Tickfaw Harbor, Southdowns, Pointe Verdun, Barclay Mills, Frisco Fields, Delray Hollow and Bayou Fantom. The world is massive in comparison to the first two titles and is larger than both of the first two titles combined. The game takes place in the year 1968 and takes inspiration from New Orleans, but is actually named New Bordeaux. Mafia III puts you in control of Lincoln Clay, a Vietnam War veteran who is set out to seek revenge for his adopted family who were assassinated by gangs. So how does Mafia III compare to the first two then? I will gloss over the entirety of the game and its gameplay and also highlight any significant improvements to its upgrade from the standard to definitive shift. I’ll be completely honest and say that Mafia II was probably one of the most enjoyable campaign games I ever played. So whilst it’s a very solid series in terms of storyline, the quality over the titles differs greatly.
What most won’t realise is that each Mafia game has been handled by a different developer. It appears that original owners of digital copies of Mafia III standard edition are being offered a free upgrade by the developers which is a really nice touch by 2k games.
You can obtain both Mafia II and III definitive editions right now on most platforms, however the first Mafia remake won’t be available until mid August 2020.įor this review I’ll be focusing my time on Mafia III definitive edition, which I’ll be playing on Xbox One X. Then a short few days later we found out that the first Mafia would be completely remade from the ground up and Mafia II and III would be getting remasters. This sent Mafia fans into a bit of a frenzy, admittedly my initial thoughts were a hint at a whole new title.
The first insight we had into this was when their official social media channels uploaded an image with simply the word “Family”. We had unexpected news in the gaming industry recently that the entire Mafia series of games would be getting a serious makeover.
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