It really makes you care about characters you want to succeed – and provides a twisted sense of satisfaction when the ones you hate end up in a set of concrete shoes. Facial animations are up there with LA Noire and the voice acting is spot on, too. If there’s one thing that’ll make you want to slog through the overly-familiar gameplay, it’s the brilliant newsreel footage and character interviews, recorded decades after the events of the game. That’s finally been ditched – after all, New Bordeaux’s police force have bigger things to worry about, like race riots and gang warfare.Ī few familiar faces and references crop up through the course of the story – just enough to keep fans of the previous games happy, but they’re not so crucial to the plot that you’ll need to have played them just to appreciate the fantastic storytelling. Lincoln has an Intel view for seeing targets and objectives through walls, but when you’re carrying a sniper rifle in a guitar case, why would you want to play it stealthy?ĭriving felt a bit clunky in previous Mafia games, especially when running a red light, ramming another car or speeding would leave your motor covered in tickets. Otherwise, the shooting and stealth mechanics feel pretty responsive. Hopefully these are issues Hangar 13 can fix with a post-launch patch, as right now they happen all too often. Half the time enemies will run into boxes or fight the air in front of them, while their friends cheer from the sidelines. That’s only when the AI works properly, mind. Trying to move between cover but jumping up and over it instead is infuriating – especially if it means you’re on the business end of a twelve gauge. On foot, Lincoln can dive in and out of cover during firefights, but it’s a buggy system.
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