The setting looks brilliant, the choice of the protagonist is intriguing, and the apparent (partial) focus on stuff like the KKK and the super-racist parts of relatively recent history of the USA might be really refreshing if also brutal.
At first, I was really sceptical about this decision, but if the gameplay feels as good as it looks in the videos, I might still be up for it. Mafia 3 seems to be ramping up the action 500%. The gunplay still didn't feel quite as tight as it could have felt, and some of the missions were seriously annoying (looking at you harbor-warehouse-molotov-cocktail-party mission). My goal was to see the story through, not go bowling with my cousin. that Mafia 2 is a linear, story-driven game that happended to be set in a modeled city. This did not bother me because I had another way of looking at it, i.e.
Many reviewers and players seemed to be really pissed off by the fact that they built a city with nothing much to do. driving a body to a dumpsite only to find out that you are not ambushed on your way there). I was surprised that they still dared to sprinkle the game with slow, uneventful story moments (e.g. I'm sure the gameplay doesn't hold up at all, but my first playthrough of Mafia is still one of my fondest memories in gaming.
Many people were probably seriously annoyed about the slow pacing and slow cars, but for me at the time it felt really refreshing. I loved the original game, especially the ultra slow way in which the story gained momentum, as well as the setting. I watched bits and pieces of the E3 gameplay videos and I'm now officially cautiously optimistic to optimistic about the game.
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