So having finished this game, including side missions, here's what I have to say about it:

This is just plain beautiful! Having played both Mafia and Mafia II, this lived up to the great storytelling those games had and since the lipsyncing is the best I've seen in a long time, it feels like a movie as well. I will say that the cutscenes are long though they are engaging and eye opening. 10/10 on this department.

Okay so this is a mixed bag, at times the game looks very good, nice, clean and modern. The city of New Bordeaux is done very well. Then at times it looks very much like a game from 2008 even being surpassed by Mafia II which is now a very old game. The game often throws in too much bloom and the reflections look very muddy even on the highest graphical settings. Don't even get me started on the rain shards that fall. Looks very bad, like huge grey pencil marks falling. This part is very average at best. 6/10

While some of the car sounds just sound plain like a squealing animal, some are actually done right and the environmental sounds are very good, tire sounds while slightly exaggerated are done very well. What really shines though is the voice acting. I cannot give enough praise on that front. The voice acting is unbelievably well done. The best I've heard in a very long time. Trust me, when the characters are talking and stuff, combined with some of the best lipsyncing, it's unreal. Guns have punch to them as well, save for 1 or 2. Overall I give this a 9/10

With the driving physics set to 'Simulation', driving is fun as hell, but the problem comes in when after the first few hours with the game, you realize just how utterly repetitive is it. Until the very end of the game, you nearly doing the same thing over and over. Kill the boss and his goons at district 1, take over it. Once you've done that, you've done about 90% of what the game has to offer. Mind you, you have to do this 10 times. It's very repetitive. While combat is fun and engaging, it doesn't do the gameplay any justice because it's just so repetitive. I will say though in smaller ways, Hanger 13 has put in some effort in other places, such as cops, traffic laws, the witness system and such, so at least there's that that's well done, but the main gameplay is annoyingly repetitve. I ran into bugs a total of around 10 times with this game. Infinite loading, 1 crash, Not being able to progress through the story, Guns being randomly swapped out etc. 6/10

Mafia II absolutely shined with the music and I will say this, Mafia III lives up and to it and maybe even improves on it. The OST and licensed tracks on offer here are simply the best. Goes with the times as well. It just adds that much more to the game, it's very immersive and beautiful. 10/10

A great game at times, a bad one at other times and the bugs don't help. Buy it if you in it to complete the story pretty much but not at full price. A heavy discount (70%) or more and maybe it's a justified purchase. But it's just way to repetitive. Overall I enjoyed it though. The story kept me going and numbs the repetitiveness.

7/10

So having finished this game, including side missions, here's what I have to say about it: [h1]Story[/h1] This is just plain beautiful! Having played both Mafia and Mafia II, this lived up to the great storytelling those games had and since the lipsyncing is the best I've seen in a long time, it feels like a movie as well. I will say that the cutscenes are long though they are engaging and eye opening. 10/10 on this department. [h1]Graphics[/h1] Okay so this is a mixed bag, at times the game looks very good, nice, clean and modern. The city of New Bordeaux is done very well. Then at times it looks very much like a game from 2008 even being surpassed by Mafia II which is now a very old game. The game often throws in too much bloom and the reflections look very muddy even on the highest graphical settings. Don't even get me started on the rain shards that fall. Looks very bad, like huge grey pencil marks falling. This part is very average at best. 6/10 [h1]Sound[/h1] While some of the car sounds just sound plain like a squealing animal, some are actually done right and the environmental sounds are very good, tire sounds while slightly exaggerated are done very well. What really shines though is the voice acting. I cannot give enough praise on that front. The voice acting is unbelievably well done. The best I've heard in a very long time. Trust me, when the characters are talking and stuff, combined with some of the best lipsyncing, it's unreal. Guns have punch to them as well, save for 1 or 2. Overall I give this a 9/10 [h1]Gameplay[/h1] With the driving physics set to 'Simulation', driving is fun as hell, but the problem comes in when after the first few hours with the game, you realize just how utterly repetitive is it. Until the very end of the game, you nearly doing the same thing over and over. Kill the boss and his goons at district 1, take over it. Once you've done that, you've done about 90% of what the game has to offer. Mind you, you have to do this 10 times. It's very repetitive. While combat is fun and engaging, it doesn't do the gameplay any justice because it's just so repetitive. I will say though in smaller ways, Hanger 13 has put in some effort in other places, such as cops, traffic laws, the witness system and such, so at least there's that that's well done, but the main gameplay is annoyingly repetitve. I ran into bugs a total of around 10 times with this game. Infinite loading, 1 crash, Not being able to progress through the story, Guns being randomly swapped out etc. 6/10 [h1]Music[/h1] Mafia II absolutely shined with the music and I will say this, Mafia III lives up and to it and maybe even improves on it. The OST and licensed tracks on offer here are simply the best. Goes with the times as well. It just adds that much more to the game, it's very immersive and beautiful. 10/10 [h1] || Final Thoughts || [/h1] A great game at times, a bad one at other times and the bugs don't help. Buy it if you in it to complete the story pretty much but not at full price. A heavy discount (70%) or more and maybe it's a justified purchase. But it's just way to repetitive. Overall I enjoyed it though. The story kept me going and numbs the repetitiveness. 7/10