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Mafia iii initial release date11/17/2023 ![]() Lincoln ends up badly injured and his adoptive family murdered. It turns out, surprise-surprise, the Italian mafia can't be trusted. Robbing the Federal Reserve was the climax of Grand Theft Auto V and it's a very good opening act to Mafia III but goes horribly wrong for our (anti)hero. This changes when the Italian mob led by Sal Marcone (based on real-life New Orleans gangster Carlos Marcello), "invites" the Black Mob to help in a robbery of the Federal Reserve. Lincoln is willing to use the skills he acquired in the army to help his adoptive father, Sammy, but his mentor doesn't necessarily want to get as violent as his son yet. Lincoln is a biracial orphan who was raised by the Black Mob, which runs the prostitution and numbers in New Bordeaux (which is a fictionalized version of New Orleans). Lincoln Clay is a Vietnam War veteran newly returned from deployment with the Green Berets and CIA in the worst of the fighting. The premise of the game is a pretty standard revenge plot with a unique backdrop. Hell, there's 15GB in patches without including the three DLC expansions. The game isn't really anything more than all of the DLC and bug patches but that's a pretty big apology for its awful initial release. Well, technically, I suppose it's one of my favorite releases of 2020. Much to my surprise, I'm going to say it's gone from being a fairly mediocre game to one of my favorite releases of 2016. I didn't know what to expect three years later and was wondering what I'd get. When I heard that anyone who owned the original game would be able to upgrade to the Definitive Edition for free, I was intrigued. There was also a point where the gameplay became repetitive and boring. Unfortunately, the frame-rate drops and bugs were nasty to the point that I had to quit. ![]() The story was magnificent, the characters entertaining, and the soundtrack was so great that I burned myself a CD of its classic Sixties hits. I was one of the early purchasers of Mafia III and I had a set of mixed feelings about it that could be summarized as: "I love this game but it crashed to the point I could not complete it." That is a pretty heavy criticism for me to lay on a game. ![]()
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