The new Mafia 3 game, set to debut in 2016, didn’t really seem like a fitting continuation of the series. Like many open world game fans, I’ve played the previous two and saw how the ball was dropped from original to sequel, as the formula was watered down, made more palatable for a wider audience.
Mafia 2 was heavily criticized at the time for feeling unfinished (much too short), missing several missions (which were later added as DLC) and incoherent storytelling. However, it still retained the atmosphere and feel of the first game all with pretty next-gen graphics, which is why it was still tolerated and not bashed.
Now with Mafia 3 a new change of formula / direction has been applied, along with a drastic change of setting (from East Coast to New Orleans). Had it not been called Mafia 3, I wonder if we would have associated it with the same series…
Mafia the original was the first and still is one of the only games to have an actual automatic gearbox with kickdown and realistic car physics – that’s what made it fun, not ridiculous side swipes and cars that flip over in bad B-movie style…
Even so, we’re still a good few months away from release and maybe they will tone down the vulgar and concentrate on making this game a gritty, serious mobster simulation and not an arcade driving game that just happens to be about gang violence.
Ending the above rant, we’ll let you know the developer, the Czech republic’s 2K Games, shared some fresh details about the title with YouTuber OpenWorldGames, and he made the video you see below.