Mafia III: Definitive Edition
After 3 playthroughs, I decided it’s time to give this game a review. a different one from the majority of “Not Recommended” you see here. Mafia III Is deeply flawed and after the Definitive Edition upgrade, it yet remains the same but it had something special that kept me playing it for such a long time, I simply couldn’t leave a thumb down on it.
Story
🔹Mafia III tells the tale of Lincoln Clay, a colored man who got screwed by the greed of the Italian mob ruling the fictional New Bordeaux based on New Orleans. He loses his family and father figure and now he’s out for revenge. However, this is not your average vengeance story that ends just with killing the bad guy. Lincoln wants to take everything Sal Marcano the mob boss has worked for, makes him suffer just the way he did by busting up his rackets, taking over the city district by district and killing closest to Sal including his wife, son, and brothers. Throughout the game, after each main mission completed comes up a cutscene where the people who knew Lincoln the most are participating in a documentary show on his life and actions, picturing real-life photos and videos. This is where is the story shines the most as you realize piece by piece on Lincoln’s background and the damage he inflicted on the mob.
– Real player with 149.9 hrs in game
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After putting in 85 hours into this game, I think I finally have a pretty good idea why I like it and why I hate it at the same time.
TL;DR: Great story and themes, horrible game design with repetitive gameplay, bad graphics and horrible bugs and performance.
Mafia 3 is a massive great tasting shit sandwich! It deserves the hate, yet it’s hard not to love at times. The solid writing and great characters with really good voice acting and pretty good facial animations, accompanied with great shooting mechanics and some improvements over the last game are spoiled by remarkably repetitive game design and the usual “open world” clutter of useless collectibles.
– Real player with 87.7 hrs in game
Police Simulator: Patrol Officers
It may be a bit buggy here and there, But it’s seriously impressive for a small studio in early access. It is also really fun to role play about. Here is a bit of unexpected fun from today … I delayed shooting a taser on a fleeing suspect only to have a random drunk driver swerve towards us and take him out causing a three car pileup that I had to investigate and clear up while being indirectly the cause of the crash. Do I take the suspect into custody or call him an ambulance? choices, am I right?
– Real player with 32.6 hrs in game
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Pros
It’s a great Sim with great potential, I’m sure it’s going to be one of the best police sims on steam when leaves the early access, I have to say they have a great taste in designing the city, districts vary from each other and have different scenery. It reminds me of my favorite city Boston! Traffic missions are enjoyable and their variety keeps you busy and satisfied during your shift. The graphic is really great in this game, you going to take too many screenshots while playing. Parks are very green along with eye-catching sculptures and decorations throughout the city. Different Police stations that you could spawn from or finish your report when done. Nice Game setting and support of the controller and other languages. It has an Informative manual and tutorials to guide you. You could report the bugs and suggest your ideas there are warm and attentive developers valuing your time and request.
– Real player with 30.9 hrs in game
Rustler (Grand Theft Horse)
one of those game thats basically 7/10. its very decent
Played on the hard difficulty, i belive the time i beat the game (all quest, all side mission, some unlockables ) i was abt 80%
theres some massive jank bugs that probably already adressed after i beat it, but one of the jank are the horse mission. it is a massive bitch when i played it. to the point i had to email the dev on what im saying.
Story humour probably could get better if theres some form of actual talking instead of just Sims blabbering.
– Real player with 26.4 hrs in game
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I am having a lot of fun with this game. It is relaxing at times and not frustrating at all. It is obvious where it is inspired from.
The graphics reminds me of shadow tactics. It is very pleasant to look at.
The sound in this game is relaxing. The birds and the nature ahhh. The music of the barde is very funny.
The combat is good but needs more work besides the bug fixing. I would like to see more fighting techniques, not just hit and block. I am enjoying it so far.
The humor in this game is spot on. I had moments when I laughed out loud.
– Real player with 15.2 hrs in game
Crime Scene Cleaner
Obviously you are not the bad guy – you are just a simple man with a simple job. It only happens to be connected with mafia, crime, blood and death. But, hey, who hasn’t cleaned the crime scene at least once, right? Oh, boss is calling you again - it is time to clean up!
Perform your duties by professionally obliterating all traces of crime. Make your employers happy and cops confused. Do a double take to be sure that all proofs are gone, body parts swept, blood dried off and all of that just before the police arrival. Do you have what it takes? Can you be one hundred percent positive that nothing is left behind?
Use all kinds of devices to help you notice what remains hidden from the naked eye. Fingerprint powder, UV light, acid, thermovision – those will help you act quickly and efficiently. But be careful – the more time passes, the more dangerous situation gets… Will you make it on time or will you poke along and hear the police sirens wailing?
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Work as a mafia member.
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Do all the dirty work to make sure that everything is cleaned up.
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Learn the story behind the murder – collect evidence and unfold the facts.
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Fight against time to clear up the scene before the police show up.
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Compete with others… did you really think you were the only cleaner in this town?
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Use cool instruments that will help you see what can’t be normally seen.
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When all goes wrong, face the police with a confession and make sure that the truth never sees the light of a day.
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Simply put - don’t get caught and get paid!
Get a grip on yourself and check if you really have the nerves of steel. Clean the crime scene, escape the police and prepare for the next commissions!
L.A. Noire
Great game with a unique premise. The facial animation is used to determine if a witness/suspect is telling the truth or lying. The voice acting is solid and the cases are based on real life cases of the era. The developers researched how police investigations were done in the 40s and it shows.
Sadly, I can’t recommend this game as you require a connection to RockStar’s Social Club. After 30+ hours of playing the game stops connecting to the SC. That means it wont' launch. I’ve reinstalled the game but still I can’t connect to the SC. Such a shame too. It was good while it lasted. I’d avoid this entirely.
– Real player with 46.7 hrs in game
Buyer beware.
I have bought the Complete edition and it did indeed have all the content and DLC. However in 2019 I had to uninstall to make room for other games, and here I am in 2021 trying to reinstall it, only to find that it only gives me some of the content.
It only gives me a couple of the patrol cases and the DLC that didn’t come with the original game and I found none of the regular game levels are there at all, which is odd as I had done most of them before I had to uninstall and still have trophies for them.
– Real player with 46.1 hrs in game
Mafia II (Classic)
Mafia II is one of the best organized crime games, especially if we take realistic games with organized crime as the main theme. It’s also one of the best third-person shooter, and aged very well, even a decade later, it still feels as good as back in 2010.
Story
You play as sicilian immigrant, Vito Scaletta, whose family traveled to the USA looking for a better life, but reality turned out to be more grim and harsh than Vito’s parents imagined. Seeing how his father lives a miserable life and became a drunkard due to his hard job and poverty, Vito decided to not repeat his mistakes. His father eventually dies during the accident at the docks. He met Joe, a local bully and a cool guy, and eventually, due to lack of jobs and poverty, the two decided to become a small time criminals, thieves, essentially, during one such operation, Vito got caught, and between going to prison or helping USA with the invasion of Sicily, as a native italian speaker, he decided to go to war. And that’s only the beginning of his life path.
– Real player with 105.5 hrs in game
“I BECAME A CRIMINAL BECAUSE I DID NOT WANT TO BECOME A VICTIM”
Welcome to Empire Bay. Sunny place full of opportunities for those who can take them. Yes, I’m talking to you Vito & Joe. Yes, you too Mr. Vinci. I see you over there Alberto Clemente. Yeah, that’s right Carlo Falcone. I can keep on naming these fellas over and over again because this game was filled with gentlemen like these.
Vito Scalleta got tired of bureaucratic bullsh*t so he got shot right in the butt, that he could leave Europe and go straight back to Joe, so these two can put in the work, get up in the Mafia hierarchy, sky rocketing up in the mob family ladder so he can get what they all want - THAT GREEN THING.
– Real player with 62.2 hrs in game
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
This game has 1) an engaging story 2) interesting characters and most of all 3) a beautiful world. I’m not someone who plays this game for the gameplay (while being remarkably good for it’s time, especially the combat system), I play this for the gorgeous version of Hong Kong displayed here. It’s not photorealistic, and it’s nothing like a 1:1 remake of the city. Instead it captures some of the aspects that make a city feel like HK and lay them out over multiple districts. All that being said, this game most definitely shows it’s age in [CURRENT YEAR] and can be a pain to work with on occasion. There will be bugs, and it’ll probably make you restart certain missions. Despite that though, I think everyone should try this game at least once. It won’t be for everyone, but there isn’t another game like it. At the time of writing this, the game is on sale for $3, which I think i a totally fair price. It’s not worth its full $20 price tag, but if it’s on sale it’s definitely worth a shot.
– Real player with 162.0 hrs in game
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
~Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Ah, the good ol' True Crime series… Back in 2003, when Californian studio called Luxoflux (the guys behind Star Wars: Demolition) released their Streets of LA (the first game in the series), I was a pretty big fan. See, I always loved what Rockstar did in GTA III. They took Reflections Interactive’s Driver (the game, in which nobody made it past the tutorial) and put it into an open world environment. Awesome stuff. The problem is – I never liked the actual gameplay. The clunky controls, the missions that very often didn’t give you a fair chance to win in your first try, the fact that very often the game wanted you to re-play the entire sequence since very beginning after you failed… I know there’s heck of a lot of GTA fans out there, but personally, I never liked how those games felt. Still don’t, and even though the series evolved quite a lot since then, it still feels like a torture to me. Now, Streets of LA? It was a different story. It was a pure fun. It was extremely user-friendly (heck, the game even allowed you to skip the missions you didn’t like), the controls were tricky but comfortable, the open world was there, but the most importantly? The game had its own unique face. It was non-linear, it had the advanced melee combat, it had stealth elements (the worst part of the game, but still) and it did the “police simulator” thing surprisingly well. Up to this day, I love Streets of LA very much, especially that juicy Japanese version by CAPCOM that came with a cool Japanese dub. And yes, it was like Streets of LA was a RyĹ« ga Gotoku before the actual RyĹ« ga Gotoku. Especially thanks to its cocky storytelling.
– Real player with 71.7 hrs in game
Vicewave 1984
There’s potential, but it’s not yet realised.
-Overview-
Vicewave is an open-world action game clearly inspired by Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. With a great synthwave soundtrack and vibrant 80’s style neons, the atmosphere is set. Unfortunately, the gameplay experience is lacking in several areas, and the optimisation needs work. Frankly, making any progress in this game is a constant uphill struggle against poor game mechanics.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
A wild review appears.
Conclusion: if you’re expecting a fun retro style GTA game. Sadly, this is not it (List is down below). I have given this game several tries over the span of a few months. I cannot recommend it.
The Bad
1: Lockpicking is extremely tedious. The (Sweet Spot) needs to be configurable via difficulty.
2: Player dies far too easy, and body armor is behind a XP wall.
3: Difficulty is too high (for casual players of this genre).
4: Cars hand like their on something, and bottom out if bridge is too steep.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Grand Theft Auto V
This Review is mostly about the online version of the game, as I can still recommend the singleplayer as a good experience.
Do yourself a favour, don’t buy this game, It’s full of hackers who won’t let you enjoy the game. Though can avoid them by using some methods, you’d basically have to miss out of some game features, including some of the best ways of making money in this grindy game.
I’d recommend buying something else with your money, this isn’t worth much now in the condition it is in. Oh and it has such a toxic community, most people just want to up their K/D, so they target lowlevels or people who don’t fight back and kill them over and over relentlessly.
– Real player with 2602.9 hrs in game
as a person who has lots of sex all the time, i can say that this game is 100% accurate to having sex with sexy women. like i do. everyday. this game did not make me horny however. i am not gay. i just have too much sex with real women to spend more than 15 minutes in this game, on the other hand i would recommend this game to people who do not have sex (unlike me because i have lots of sex with women a lot) as there is a naked woman in it and she is naked, she kinda looks like one of my many girlfriends who i have sex with a lot. I have lots of sex. i also an very handsome and women ALWAYS want to have sex with me because i am very muscular and handsome and very good at video games. all my girlfriends say im very good at sex and playing video games and being handsome, one of my girlfriends asked me to have sex with her but i told her i was playing a sex game instead so she started crying and became a lesbian and killed herself because i did not have sex with her. i have sex with women. not men. i am not gay. I am very cool and handsome so girls always have sex with me because i am very cool and sexy. my penis is very big. all my girlfriends like my penis because it is very big and i am very good at sex with my women. every woman ive had sex with is very sexy and so am i. i have lots of sex. i am also very handsome and sexy and have lots of sex.
– Real player with 2087.0 hrs in game
Mafia: Definitive Edition
Mafia the City of Lost Heaven is one of my top 5 games of all time. What Definitive Edition did was suck the soul out of an incredible game 19 years later, leaving behind a console-fied, dumbed down, version. Where to begin?
The voice acting is the first thing you notice. Paulie, Sam, and Tommy all went from sounding like Italian mob guys who aren’t caricatures to NNNYEEEEH SEE, FUGHETABOUTIT. Paulie keeps his character more or less, but his voice actor is horrible and obnoxious. Sam sort of retains his voice, but his persona goes from the “straight man” that Tommy would confide in, to a cocky jerk. Tommy’s voice actor was okay, but his personality got assassinated. Whereas originally he was a mellow but confident man and definitely not bloodthirsty, he went to being a cocky greaser type who happily kills scores of men and then hesitates to kill one more. Inconsistent character delivery and inconsistent motivations all around.
– Real player with 45.4 hrs in game
Good remake, but not enough. Let me explain myself.
Mafia the City of Lost Heaven was a game that I personally enjoyed more than i expected to back then, this game makes me feel like they removed every piece of the puzzle to make this memorable.
Pros:
-Good graphics (Night in this game is beautiful, day not as much)
-It has been nicely done for somebody that never played the first one, or that just wants a game with something solid, that, this game does it.
Cons:
-Does not have the full mob experience that the first one had, characters were entirely re-made (Voice and personality), making them seem some random street gang that wants to have fun without obeying the Don
– Real player with 37.3 hrs in game