Then to top that off, when you go for the racket boss, it’s always back at one of the buildings you already infiltrated when breaking the racket up in the first place. To add to the monotony, many of the buildings you infiltrate are copy-pasted into different districts, so in a number of cases, you’re literally repeating yourself. The rackets are different in type, but are almost always made up of a bunch of guys to kill, money to steal and some boxes to break. But that’s it! That’s literally all there is to do in the game for all 9 districts. Everything then goes on as usual except now your guys are doing/profiting from it. Doing this to both rackets in a district causes a mob lieutenant to appear, you kill him and give the district to one of your 3 underbosses to run. There are 9 districts with 2 rackets each and taking them requires “destroying” a racket in some way that hurts it financially, and then finally recruiting or killing the racket boss. Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really get this good again, and the gameplay is so literally repetitious that it becomes mind-numbing. It’s essentially a long tutorial to teach you what you’ll be doing for the rest of the game, but it culminates in a pretty cool end sequence at an amusement park. The opening of the game is probably the best part, even if it is a little linear and hand-holdy. Gamewise, it has a pretty good start and a mediocre end, but the middle has a bloat of busywork that’ll bore you senseless. It’s all very pat and run-of-the-mill and there are no real surprises in any of the story turns. ![]() This helps explain why he’s such a badass after taking a near-miss bullet to the head and killing every mobster he finds after an easy-to-see-coming double-cross by Sal Marcano, the local mob boss. MAFIA III’s Lincoln Clay is a soldier returning from Vietnam to his old neighborhood in New Bordeaux. ![]() More a revenge tale that happens to include the mob than Mafia II’s slow-paced portrayal of the day-to-day activities of a low-ranking gangster trying to get made. MAFIA III: Bored on the Bayou My initial reaction when I first saw the game was that it didn’t seem much like a Mafia game, and I was largely right.
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