Hello ladies and gentlemen. The Gamebizclub team is on air, and we begin to talk about gangsters from New Bordeaux, their stories and relationships. They cannot be called heroes because of their actions and character - robberies, robbery, shootouts with competitors are characterized by negative qualities. All these Marcano, Clemento, Galante and other mafia families act as criminals that no one can handle. And Lincoln Clay plays in Mafia 3 main role and acts as an avenger with a difficult fate who will turn the shadow life of New Bordeaux upside down and bring everyone under his control. This is exactly what we will talk about today.

From this article you will learn:

The hero's childhood and youth

Lincoln was born in 1945 in New Bordeaux. Two years later, his mother gave him to the Saint Michel orphanage and disappeared from the life of the black boy. His childhood in the orphanage went well - there he studied, walked and had fun until the orphanage was closed.

From that moment on, Clay's fate went downhill: theft, robberies and escapes from the police eventually brought him into the ranks of the Black Mafia, one of the largest groups blacks of New Bordeaux.

From the age of thirteen, Clay continued his wild life in the ranks of the Black Mafia; the head of the group, Sam Robinson, and other members of the gang became like family to him. This continued until he decided to quit the mafia and went to serve in the army. In 1966, he was sent to Vietnam and served in the Special Forces for three years.

This time does not pass without a trace: Mr. Clay, having lost friends and colleagues in battle, becomes embittered. For his demonstrated military valor and for carrying out “delicate” government assignments together with CIA agent John Donovan, Lincoln is awarded and sent home.

Real facts

The prototype of the main character was Samuel Christian, the leader and reorganizer of the real-life Black Mafia group. The protagonist's appearance was presented by actor Alex Hernandez, and was voiced by former UFC fighter Kyle Kingsbury.

According to FBI estimates, Clay is 195 cm tall, weighs 95 kg, and has an average build. The serviceman's badge indicates that he has blood type 1 and a negative Rh factor. Lincoln is ambidextrous and an accurate shooter with pistols and rifles.

The war continues

The plot of Mafia 3 begins with Lincoln's return to New Bordeaux. The professional military man is going to continue civil life, but before that he comes to Sam, the head of his former group.

During the conversation, Sam asks a trusted fighter to help solve the problem with Italian mafia to whom he owes money. Mr. Clay remembers the past, decides to help "in last time" and goes to meet with the gangsters of the Marcano family.

And then an unexpected plot twist awaits us - at the meeting, instead of talking, the Italians take out guns and shoot members of the Black Mafia, and they put a bullet in Lincoln’s head. And here the story could have ended, but Clay survives, and he decides to take revenge on those who killed his friends.

According to the editors, Clay himself is to blame - a military man who served for three years in Vietnam could have insured himself in the event of an armed conflict. Such actions betray his lack of professionalism, which is strange and illogical.

Of the relatives, only Father James, the rector of the shelter, remains. He will play a big role in the ending of the plot.

Gangster's fate

After leaving the hospital, Lincoln begins to take revenge on the Marcano family, uses connections and attracts other mafiosi to his side, such as, for example. Together with his allies, the hero will have to eliminate one by one the henchmen of Sal Marcano, the politicians and bosses who support him.

The hero will take part in many shootouts, will interrogate the captured boss of the area in the car on high speed, organizes a surprise attack on the restaurant and ultimately destroys his main enemy.

At the end of the story, Lincoln will tell Father James and John Donovan that he is going to take the late Sale's place in the criminal hierarchy. The CIA officer supports this decision, believing that Clay is the best person to do this. On the other hand, James recalls the unfulfilled dream of working honestly and getting involved with the criminal world. Further fate the hero depends on the following choice:

1. Lincoln will listen to Father James and go to California. The FBI would search for him for several years, but to no avail. Eyewitnesses claim that they saw the former mafioso in different parts of the world. Power in the city is given to the lieutenant who received the most businesses and territories during the game.
2. Lincoln will listen to John and rule with his lieutenants. Clay notes their contribution to the fall of the Marcano empire and suggests doing business together. New Empire growing from Florida to North Carolina, engulfing the entire southern United States. While receiving colossal profits, the new don does not lose human face and donates huge sums to charity and city development.
3. Lincoln will listen to no one, get rid of his lieutenants and rule the underworld alone. And his end will be sad - Father James will mine Clay’s car and blow it up when the main “hero” gets behind the wheel. And he will do the right thing, because, having gotten rid of his comrades-in-arms, Clay showed that he was no better than Marcano.

Let's sum it up

The fate of the main character may go to different directions. On the one hand, having gone through the Vietnam War and plunged headlong into the shadow life of New Bordeaux, Lincoln should have rested. On the other hand, the lifestyle of the head of the criminal world is very difficult to change, so it would be logical to continue what he started. In any case, Lincoln's fate is tragic - he experienced too much to live the life of an ordinary citizen of his country.

The stories of the heroes of Mafia 3 are worked out in detail, because there is a connection with the previous part, and a hint of next release. It is unclear where Joe Barbaro disappeared from the second part of “Mafia”; perhaps he will appear in add-ons or in a few years.

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Sixties. Time for rock 'n' roll and muscle cars. The Animals, The Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival are heard from the receivers. Rumbling monsters with a force of four hundred “horses” drive along the roads. A second wave of feminist protests is taking place across America, and racism in the country now and then becomes the cause of crimes and riots. At the same time, the fictional American city of New Bordeaux, where the events take place, loses in turn all its caporegimes and their henchmen.

This is Lincoln Clay dispensing justice.

Mafia Africano

When Lincoln returned from Vietnam, he hardly suspected that everything would turn out this way. His first day in civilian life was marked by a party organized in his honor by friends and family. It would seem that life began again for him in a world free from the horrors of war. However, this world also has its horrors...

It soon becomes clear that foster father Lincoln does business with the local mafia. The hero himself and his friends are also not averse to pulling off a profitable adventure and simply cannot refuse a tempting offer to rob a federal storage facility. They didn’t refuse, but Sal Marcano tricked them and took the money for himself, and his people killed all of Lincoln’s loved ones.

Clay also got it, but he was “lucky.” He was pulled out of the fire, and then the priest Father James, who raised Lincoln in an orphanage, came out. Having regained consciousness, the hero vows to get even with not only Sal Marcano, but also with the entire city mafia.

The deceit of mafia families is the central theme of “Mafia” from the very first part. Remember how easily Don Salieri went against Tom and Polly when he found out about their “hack job”. And how Vito Scaletta was used by every capo he worked for. The heroes and their partners sooner or later became disliked by someone “above” because of some little thing that contradicted omerta, and all the dogs were unleashed on them.

The developers of Mafia 3 decided to cover this topic at the very beginning of the game. They immediately showed the mafia as a cruel organization, and its don as the last brute, going over their heads for the sake of wealth and power.

But is Lincoln himself a better person? It would seem that he is guided by a good goal: to avenge his family and rid the city of a “cancerous tumor.” However, his method is that of a typical mafioso fighting competitors: to destroy and take over someone else’s business. Over time, Lincoln himself becomes the head of a large criminal group and stands on a par with his enemies. The hero does not deny this, but claims that he is better than anyone else.

The game has very convenient navigation - in the form of such virtual road signs.

Locks here are picked differently than in the second part - with a crowbar.

Such a hero is not suitable for the same "Mafia", and not every player will accept it. In the previous parts, we were also “thrown away” and had to take revenge on the clan for which we once worked. But before that, the story had time to introduce the family’s traditions and give them a taste of a little specific romance.

IN new game There is no mafia spirit at all. And it’s not even the lack of felt hats or a suit - Vito also wore a leather jacket for half the game. The fact is that Lincoln is a common criminal. It doesn't cost him anything to break into someone's house to snatch the next issue of Playboy magazine. As well as killing witnesses to your crimes, be it a grandmother hobbling to the machine to report a theft, or a guy rushing to call the police to disperse the clashing thugs. Clay's character and habits will not change, even when he gathers accomplices and builds an impressive criminal empire.

Mafia 3 PC problems

The release of the PC version of Mafia 3 caused a scandal. The game was released unfinished both technically and in gameplay. What could be seen on the screen looked like 2007 at best. And to hell with the frame rate limit - the problem is different. At maximum settings, the game simply stretches the image to 1080p. The technique, of course, is not new, but it is terribly dirty and ugly: the image turns out washed out, loses color and contrast. Neither pure deep black nor white You won't find it in this situation. All other colors, of course, also fade.

The lighting was feverish: as soon as the sun disappeared behind the clouds, the pre-storm darkness thickened, and the sky was filled with smog. Soon the light again appeared from behind the clouds and began to hit the eyes so that it was painful to look at the monitor without sunglasses. The shadows sometimes revealed a ladder of pixels of such a size that Minecraft will be jealous. Splashes of dirt flying from under the wheels of cars were the size and shape of children's blocks.

Not all was well with the reflections - the car bodies shone like cheap plastic, the side mirrors looked at the player like unpolished pieces of iron. The mirrors in the bathrooms are a complete mess - sometimes they don’t reflect the character at all, sometimes they reflect only individual parts of him, sometimes they show a slide show.

There was also a problem with the controls. On the one hand, it contained a bunch of not entirely clear elements, such as shifting the rifle from shoulder to shoulder, on the other hand, it actively used the right side of the keyboard, while ignoring the F row. When connecting the controller, I discovered that it was impossible to play with it. In the control layout for the gamepad, only a couple of buttons are labeled, and this is not a translation glitch - the active prompts in the game were also empty, searching through the buttons did not produce results. At the same time, I read in reviews on Steam that the controllers worked for other players.

Many game elements raised questions. Enemies to this day suffer from developmental delays: they cannot hear Clay’s steps, and they may not notice the figure of the hefty fellow, even if they come close to him. The physics of transport destruction is primitive. Light dents, broken headlights and glass, a torn hood cover, wobbly bumpers, burst tires - that's all I managed to torment the car with.

As a result, it seems that the developers are trying to convey the complexity of life as a black man in 1960s America not through history, but through violence against the player. At the start of the PC version, almost everything was bad or inconvenient; every little thing interfered with the enjoyment of the game. The next day, the authors released a 1.2 GB patch, and it corrected the situation. The 30 FPS lock was removed, the light stopped changing like in a disco, and the controls were changed. The game has become more colorful and seems to crash less often. Of course, not everything has been fixed, but a start has been made. Maybe in a couple more “patches” we will get modern game, which can be enjoyed freely.

Street Justice

But before that, you have to endure hours of dusty, tedious and rather monotonous work.

Sal Marcano divided power in New Bordeaux among his henchmen. You can't reach him until you take out his lieutenants and capos. To reach any of them, Lincoln needs to run through informants who know how to pin down this or that bastard. Some newspaperman will complain to him that gangsters are preventing the publication from developing, and a boxer will tell him that he can’t win a fight because of one bastard and a bunch of bandits.

In another place there are problems with drugs, in another with prostitution. And before you can shut down even the smallest henchman, you will have to stir up the entire anthill: cause significant damage to the business and thin out the gang of henchmen thugs.

Districts switch, arms dealers are replaced by drug lords, but the tasks remain the same and most often come down to killing the next scoundrel, stealing money, attacking an establishment and destroying valuable goods.

Yes, studio Hangar 13 created a city where there seems to be something to do, where there is no peace and no time to rest. The only problem is that those activities that otherwise Assassin's Creed If they were side effects, they are mandatory here, otherwise you won’t be able to lure out the next boss.

Although the action usually takes place within one area, more than once or twice you will be sent across the entire map on the next “important task”.

As a result, after a few hours you no longer care about the name of this or that villain. Italian names flash through our heads - either Botticelli, or Morricone, or Pellegrini - and we, as if automatically, rush to get our hands dirty with new blood. And so on until Sal Marcano himself gets in the way.

For the most part, Lincoln administers justice personally, but he is not alone in his cause. Accomplices: Cassandra, Vito Scaletta (the same one from the second “Mafia”) and Thomas Burke help manage the business taken from local gangsters. They help in exchange for Lincoln's help. The hero rescued Cassandra and Vito from the clutches of various groups, and helped Berk deal with matters at a car scrapyard.

Their assistance relieves the game of some of the routine. Using the radio we receive at a certain moment, we can ask Cassandra’s assistants to bring a van with weapons and ammunition. Vito's guys are happy to help clear out another rat nest for a fee. Burke's acquaintances are ready to drive a fast or armored car or bribe the cops upon request.

Our accomplices: Cassandra...

And Thomas Burke.

The distribution of territory between partners is also curiously arranged. Receiving more land, they are expanding their range of services: offering new weapons, improvements for them, modifications for cars, etc. But, if the territory is distributed unevenly, one of the disadvantaged will begin to be indignant, and at some point his patience will run out: his accomplice will stop helping, begin to put a spoke in our wheels and send his people to “solve the problem.”

Burke is indignant that another piece of territory has passed him by.

The game is reminiscent of the system of capturing other people's businesses and territories. However, unlike her, from Mafia 3 It was a good action movie. Skirmishes with enemies are not devoid of intensity and take place at a very fast pace. Covers are used only to catch your breath, because the enemies will very soon smoke you out of an ambush with incendiary mixtures and grenades, or unceremoniously show up to shoot you at point-blank range.

It often happens that Lincoln breaks into an enemy base, shoots down the enemy who meets him, savorily and effectively finishes off the victim with a knife, then takes out a shotgun and puts in a couple more big guys, grabs a bullet in the shoulder, sits down to heal behind cover, while simultaneously distributing several headshots in a row - and in At this rate it clears the entire location.

The feel of the weapon, let’s say, is correct: a pistol feels like a pistol, a revolver feels like a revolver, a rifle feels like a rifle, and a shotgun feels like a shotgun. No more and no less.

Going through many situations quietly is often more effective and faster.

Gangster Saga

It is nevertheless interesting to follow the development of the plot. Of course, the outcome is immediately obvious, but it’s the presentation of the story that touches the soul. This is partly a cut from documentary film, Where different people talk about Lincoln Clay.

And everyone draws the character from a new side. Detective Maguire, who has been following his trail all his life, speaks of Lincoln as a monster, a killer who, while clearing the city of scum and bandits, himself turned into their likeness. Father James' stories reveal Lincoln as a person and shed light on his experiences in Vietnam. Finally, CIA agent John Donovan, who leads the hero to most of the gangsters, explains how exactly he and Lincoln pulled it all off.

Narrators: Detective Maguire...

CIA Agent John Donovan...

And Father James...

From these stories you can conclude that Lincoln Clay is a controversial hero. Sometimes it’s simply unpleasant to associate yourself with him, and at this moment Martin Walker from. Many people may find Lincoln just as disgusting. Although a hero who is confident in his actions is in any case better than the indifferent Vito, who only knew how to carry out other people’s orders.

It may seem simple good photo amusement park at night...

If not for one small detail.

As for the secondary characters, they turned out to be bright and memorable, unlike the heroes Mafia 2, from where it’s hard to remember anyone other than Vito and Joe right off the bat. The same Agent Donovan shows himself to be a cheerful and eccentric guy who can easily be caught cutting his nails. Vito appears as a mature, cold-blooded gangster. The head of the Haitian gang, Cassandra, is very distrustful and disagrees with everyone. Burke is a typical rude Irishman, always tipsy and rarely parted with a bottle.

Unfortunately, the narrative in Mafia 3 is in stark contrast to the world of the game. IN general outline New Bordeaux is reminiscent of its prototype (New Orleans), but the city itself is faceless. Only advertising posters on buildings, neon bar signs, girls in colorful dresses and bouffant hairstyles, and even cars tell the time of action.

The contemptuous attitude towards dark-skinned people is noticeable only in story cutscenes and remarks from enemies. In some GTA game designers would have come up with a bunch of scenes where the police beat up a black man for no reason, and black bandits have shootouts with Italians, or otherwise showed the riots that became more frequent after the death of Martin Luther King.

The only place in the game where racial hatred appears is in the shops. The seller will immediately hint that you are not welcome here and will try to kick you out. True, he can’t do anything against a pistol.

If you hit someone else's car in front of the police, the cops open fire without warning.

But in Mafia 3, absolutely nothing happens. People and cars are moving somewhere, but these are all decorations designed only to imitate a living city while chasing another mafioso.

The missions for the most part do not sparkle with ingenuity, although there are also handmade tasks, such as chasing a caporegime on a sinking ferry. Everything on deck is collapsing, shaking, the ship is tilting, and in these conditions you need to somehow shoot the enemies. Such missions, unfortunately, can be counted on one hand. And if there were a little more of them, and all that routine that you have to do for a good two dozen hours was turned into optional side tasks, the game would only get better from it.

This article contains spoilers.

As you know, Joe Barbaro played an important role in Mafia 2. At the end of the game, Vito and Joe killed one of the Empire Bay mafia bosses, Carlo Falcone, because of a deal made with Leo Galante. In the final cutscene, we see Joe's car suddenly veer the other way, after which Leo Galante explains to Vito that Joe was not part of the deal. After these events, the commission sent Vito to New Bordeaux, and Joe was considered dead.

In Mafia 3, if you choose and leave the city, you will see Leo Galante in one of the cutscenes. So, his driver immediately reminds me of Joe. He also looked at Lincoln strangely. What could this mean? After the release of the first Mafia 3 trailer, there were rumors among fans that Lincoln Clay was Joe's son. Now we can hope that the developers will shed light on this point later.

In each part of Mafia, the developers delighted players with interesting and colorful characters, whose images ingrained themselves into the soul and were remembered by all fans of the series for a long time. One of these is Joe Barbaro, the bosom friend and comrade of the main character of Mafia 2, Vito Scaletta. Gamers liked the image of the Italian so much that the question of his future after the events at the observatory worries fans to this day.

Biography

“If you work for gangsters, consider yourself settled; if you shit, you’re dead!”
- © Joe Barbaro

Very little is known about Joe Barbaro's childhood. All we know is that it was as poor as Vito's. Perhaps this is what brought the two young boys together, because even since early years they dreamed about better life, the taste of which they had not yet tasted. They started their criminal careers with small robberies until it grew into larger cases. Thus, one time Vito and Joe were noticed by a police officer: Joe managed to escape with all the loot, and Vito was “under distribution” and was given a choice: prison or war, because in 1943 English-speaking soldiers were needed for the landing in Sicily, and Vito just fit all the criteria. During the time that Vito spent in the war, Joe managed to make some connections and become one of the members of the Clemente criminal family.

Activity at the time of Mafia 2

A few years later, Vito returns from the war due to injury. Joe arranges everything so that Vito does not return to the war again, obviously in an illegal manner. Joe and Vito have to look for work with Henry Tomasino. For short time Vito gets the money he needs, but someone turns him in for illegally selling gas coupons, and he ends up in jail.

Joe, in turn, wants to figure this out: having caught the informer, he finds out that one of the soldiers of the Clemente family is behind all this. Joe managed to catch the informer, but there was no point in it anymore. Vito was given a sentence of 10 years. Based on this, out of anger, Joe snaps at capo Clemente Luca Gurino, reproaching him for inaction in Vito’s case. As it turned out later, Luca planned in advance to frame Joe and Vito: kill the first and put the second behind bars. At the very last moment, Henry warns Joe about the danger, and he the shortest possible time left the city. Returning to the city five years later, Joe again finds himself in danger - the Clemente family has not forgotten about the debt. Therefore, his friend, Antonio Balsamo, introduces Joe to Eddie Scarpa, the underboss of the Falcone family. Barbaro carries out some errands for Eddie and saves Falcone himself from a family traitor. After this, Joe was given the opportunity to be free in the city without fear of Clemente. Moreover, Barbaro is now Eddie's confidant.

Joe immediately did not like the new guy in the family - a certain man named Francesco Potenza, and never changed his opinion about him. And, as it turns out, for good reason: in fact, it is Frankie Potts, an undercover FBI agent who was trying to prove that organized crime exists. Eddie, having learned about this, kills the “rat”. A little later, Joe learns that Vito was released ahead of schedule. They, along with Vito and Eddie, go to a brothel to celebrate this event. On the way home, Vito learns about the corpse of the same Frankie Potts, who was in the trunk of the car all this time. Vito and Joe fit well into the Falcone family.

Together with Henry, Vito and Joe make deals to buy drugs from the Tongs and sell them to other gangs in the city. Everything would be fine, but the Tongs frame the trio: Henry is brutally killed, and Vito and Joe are left without money to return the debt to Bruno, from whom Henry borrowed money. Joe wants to kill all the Tongs to avenge the death of his friend. But from Shi Yoon Won, friends only hear that Henry worked for the feds. An angry Joe, not believing a single word, kills Vaughn. Vinci is not happy with this situation, and he and Falcone order Vito to destroy Carlo’s family. Out of despair, Vito agrees, and manages to successfully complete the “task”, albeit with the help of Joe. When all the troubles seem to be behind him, Joe's car suddenly swerves, after which Leo Galante tells Vito: "Joe was not part of the deal."

Joe Barbaro in Mafia 3

In Mafia 3, Joe Barbaro is absent as a character, but we get to find out his fate by meeting Vito. The latter will tell us about what happened after the observatory if we establish close relations with him. friendly relations. Here are a few hypotheses about what could have happened to everyone’s favorite Italian at the time of Mafia 3:

1. Everyone already knows that at one time a lot of content was cut from the second part. The final scene has also undergone changes: if we look for deleted moments from Mafia 2, we can come across cut lines from several characters: when Joe's car turns, he indignantly says, “Hey, the brothel is in the other direction.” Vito, in turn, continues to ask Leo what is going on. And Leo already answers, “Sorry. Joe was not part of the deal. This is what I was going to talk to you about. Someone had to answer for what you did to the Chinese. Those are the laws, man. Let's talk about your future, Vito. Guys with brains like you can go far in the family. Just don’t forget, never forget, that this is work. Serious work. If you came into this business, you will only leave in a coffin.” Thus, it becomes clear to us that Joe is being taken away to the Chinese, and therefore he is dead.
2. At the end of the plot of Mafia 2, when Vito and Joe leave the observatory, we can see how Joe hides the revolver in his bosom, so it is possible that he did not get rid of those guys who took him to the Chinese. Here, there is a possibility that Joe survived.

Let us remind you that all of the above are just guesses. But the developers have already missed something, and Joe’s future has become known to us. Be careful - there are spoilers.

A dialogue can take place between Vito and Lincoln (in case you decide to kill Vito):

— Lincoln: Scaletta’s catching up with his old pal Joe. Let's focus on the here and now.

Lincoln says that Vito will soon go to the next world for his friend Joe.

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Why did I like the third part even more than the sequel?

Bookmarks

To begin with, it’s worth defining my position from the point of view of my experience with the “Mafia” series. I'm 27 years old and have been playing games for as long as I can remember. I first saw the first part in 2002 on the cover of a then popular magazine, a little later I bought a pirated disc - incredible delight and love forever. I played the second part many years later in a less romantic time - I bought it on Steam, and again I was delighted. But with repeated playthroughs, there was a feeling that something was wrong here.

And now the third coming took place. To be honest, I didn’t fully believe that I would ever see the Mafia screensaver on my monitor again. But it happened and I'm damn glad.

My artifacts - Mafia & Mafia II

New Bordeaux, 1968

The main character, Lincoln Clay, has just returned from Vietnam. Lincoln is a black man, and in 1968, being a black man in the southern United States was not a good decision. Trying to survive and somehow make money, Lincoln goes to rob a bank, but his “friends” screw him right after dividing the loot... all his relatives are dead, and Lincoln lies on a bed in a church, miraculously surviving after being shot in the head (apparently, the brain is not the best for bandits important part of the body). But soon the hunters will become the victims.

Sometimes at night, I swear I can hear footsteps in soldiers' boots upstairs. I understand that this is just an old house held together and groaning with floorboards... But every time I think - what if Lincoln Clay came for my soul?

Jonathan Maguire

FBI agent

Glue. Lincoln Clay.

The story of Mafia 3 is simple and banal - main character takes revenge for the family, killing mafiosi one by one, reaching the very top. But the developers managed to tell it epically - powerful cutscenes with killer music and bloody murders come first here. The writers did something different from the first and second parts, showing “Mafia” not from the side of expensive suits, beautiful women and shiny cars, and from the side ordinary people who drown in blood. Plus, it’s interesting to feel and feel the theme of racism - to find out what it was like when you weren’t allowed to go to a cafe or laundromat. And then slaughter a couple of local Confederates who still dream of bringing back slavery.

Clear, understandable.

Lincoln will be accompanied by several very well-developed characters, such as the holy father with a cigarette in his hands or the cheerful CIA officer Donovan. And the main mafia boss Sal Marcano literally infuriates him with every appearance in the frame and makes you want to shoot a couple of bullets at the bastard. It will be all the more pleasant to watch how we take away from him everything that is dear to him. Piece by piece, area by area, person by person - Clay will take everything from the old man. And then he will come for his life.

I am sure that if the game had only a storyline, without an open world and attempts to drag out the game with monotonous tasks, it would have been received much better. For journalists, the shorter the game, the better, less work, but school experts would download it from a torrent and, having run it for 10 hours, would be quite satisfied.

In principle, if you don’t buy it, the game is worth the money.

5-A class

Gopnik vs. Punisher

Would you really say that Mafia III's campaign is worse than Vito's story? In Mafia II, everything brought pleasure: beautiful cars, music, the atmosphere of the city, physics, interesting missions and locations, the change of seasons, even jolly Joe. Everything was great except the plot and the main character. I replayed the game last year and just didn’t understand - why should I play a gopnik who will do anything for an extra dollar? Just remember the hero’s reaction to his sister’s call when she says that she doesn’t want to see him anymore - a stone face! Absolute indifference. His lines constantly made me gnash my teeth, Vito's only motivation is money, cars and chicks.

Vito himself. How old he has become. Apparently, money did not bring happiness.

In the same GTA series, bandits have always been interesting, individual (not counting the nameless guy from GTA 3), crazy like Trevor in the end, but Vito is like the “even kid” from the next yard. Probably, only such guys can be interested in this exciting story of “how a boy went to success.” Therefore, Lincoln, even if he is a banal avenger-punisher, is still much more suitable for the role of the main character in the game.

If you wish, in Mafia III you can make your old dream come true and kill Vito. The game also finally answers the question that has worried millions of gamers for years - what happened to Joe? It turned out that he was still part of the deal. Although the developers do not give us any explanation of the events, it is clear that Joe’s cameo makes no sense and is inserted into the game solely for the sake of hype.

City of Lost Skies

New city, new car, new "Mafia".

What else is good about Mafia III, besides the company? For example, the beautifully made city and the atmosphere of 1968 are the main plus of the game for me. Magnificent New Bordeaux consists of completely different areas in spirit: the black ghetto, swamps with alligators, rich white areas, the French Quarter. And again, the same feeling as in distant childhood, when you seem to be transported back in time and enjoy the adventure. And after all, such GTA-like games in different historical eras not so much: GTA, Godfather, Mafia, The Saboteur and... that's all? It feels like creating a city, a car, and an atmosphere is no longer considered something important by gamers, but is taken for granted.

And the cars, oh my God, what cars there are here. This is simply incredible. Of course, I liked the cars in the first and second mafia, but here... I fell in love with the 1968. Every car is a masterpiece, every contour is magnificent. A huge number of muscle cars, long bodies and powerful engines. All this beauty is incredibly pleasant to drive, groom and cherish. For my taste, these were the best cars in the history of mankind.

Is it possible to resist such a crumb?

​Here we’ll add some great music that will become best friend gamer. Box Tops, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Creedence, Animals with their immortal "House of the Rising Sun". Every song is a hit, every ride in a muscle car through the old city to a new song is priceless. Here it is! This is what we experienced in the first part and in the second - adventures, trips, music, cars, atmosphere. All this is in Mafia III.

Try it, approach the game with the unadulterated joy of a child who has received his favorite toy - pleasure here and now, waiting for you around the next corner in New Bordeaux in 1968.

Eh, once! Yes again, and many many more times.

They won't catch us!

The main problem of the third Mafia, which many stick to the fore, is the monotony of the missions. Indeed, in addition to interesting story missions, we will have to conquer territory from the mafia. District by district, business by business. The main gameplay is quite monotonous - we drive into an area, find out who is driving what, take out a couple of thugs, destroy goods, and so on. Heels, makeup and this area is ours.

On the one hand, it's weak and in no way compares to, say, GTA V's 69 story missions (although few games can compare to GTA V). But on the other hand, the developers managed to make the action interesting. The gameplay turned out to be very successful - sneaking around the corners, cutting out enemies one by one is very easy and pleasant, fat and bloody. And then you jump out and start a hell of a shootout. Execution animations are generally something divine and bloody. Killing in close combat is a real pleasure, reminiscent of the times of the games "The Punisher" and "Dead to Rights".

Gameplay- fire.

A typical day in Mafia 3 looks something like this:

I got into a cool car, turned on the radio, and my favorite “give me a ticket for an airplane” started playing;

I drove to the point, drifting and squeezing through traffic;

He burst in, stabbed and shot everyone;

Repeat.

Yes, the enemies are stupid. Yes, you can look through walls. Yes, the most protected base can be easily taken down in stealth, but I like it. In the mafia you can enjoy the process. Permissiveness is intoxicating, harshness and violence consume the player. In the game, you are the real god Lincoln Clay and only you can decide who will live and who will go to rot in the swamp to be eaten by alligators.

The guys in white thought they were better than others. We'll figure it out.

Remember the first and second Mafia. The first had Free Ride Extreme after the story, the second had store robberies and terrible DLC with the bald guy and Joe, filled with standard GTA-like tasks. Even then, the developers tried to “stretch” the game, to keep the player, so that he would have at least something to do after a short story campaign. The Second Mafia always ends suddenly for me. You play, have fun, buy costumes, fill the garage with cars and then boom - the end credits. Hey, where do we put all this now?

Mafia III decided to stretch the game itself, based on resources and budget, and the Hangar 13 studio achieved a pretty decent price-quality ratio. For example, I bought a game on a PC and for 2k rubles I got 50-60 hours of excellent adventure. Would I buy a game for 2k that lasts 10 hours? No, I wouldn't.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The Gamebizclub team is in touch with you and today we decided to tell you about the Mafia and fearless gangsters from New Bordeaux. Why today? Because today fans of the series will finally wait and be able to appreciate full version games. Millions of people were waiting for the official release different countries, and our team is also among the fans. Therefore, today, on the day the game is released, we are publishing a detailed review of Mafia 3 - let’s not delay, let’s get straight to the point.

From this article you will learn:

World premiere date

2K announced new Mafia back on July 28, 2015, by publishing a poster of the game on his website. A week later, namely on August 5, 2015, the official trailer appeared online and it became known exact date release – October 7, 2016. The developers did not delay or postpone the deadline, so today the game is released to the public and will be available in all countries, including Russia in Russian.

Mafia 3 was available for pre-order, and now licensed version for PS4, Xbox and PC can be purchased from our partners – Gameray store. Now the license key costs 1,699 rubles. When purchasing, you will receive a bonus from the store.

Is it worth buying the Collector's Edition? This question remains open to everyone - if you wish, you can spend $150 on a box with soundtracks, art, a 54-page art book, army dog ​​tags main character and coasters from Paradiso Casino. We kept it simple and don’t regret it at all, and the deluxe edition is intended for very dedicated fans.

System Requirements

Minimum system requirements more or less gentle:

CPU	Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 / AMD Athlon II X3 455
Video card	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (1 Gb) / ATI Radeon HD 6750
RAM	4 Gb
Disk space	35 Gb

CPU	Intel Core i5-660 / AMD Athlon X4 730
Video card	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / ATI Radeon R9 280
RAM	8 Gb
Disk space	35 Gb

New plot and characters

The story begins in 1968, when Lincoln Clay returns to his hometown of New Bordeaux. A difficult teenager, adopted by the abbot of a Catholic monastery, joined the Black Mafia in his youth and everything would have been fine if not for the Vietnam War.

A young black guy was taken to the military registration and enlistment office and sent to defend American interests. A few years later, the war ended, Lincoln grew up and returned home to become a normal citizen of his country.

But after returning, the “Black Mafia” reminds itself of itself - Lincoln’s friends do not want to let him go, so he meets with the head of the organized crime group Sam Robinson and negotiates to leave the gang in exchange for participation in “ last thing" Sam, it turns out, owes money to the leader of the Italian group, Sal Marcano, and very soon the “arrow” of the two groups is appointed.

Of course, this story did not end well. The Italians defeat their Black Mafia opponents, and Lincoln miraculously survives a head wound. Most likely, because of this injury, he forgets about peaceful life, which he dreamed of after returning from Vietnam, and begins to take revenge on Sal Marcano and his henchmen.

Using military experience, Lincoln will have to win the respect of small criminal gangs and create a criminal syndicate of black guys, Irish and other gangsters who were also once harmed by the Italians. The development of the plot will be based on a confrontation with a strong and rich organization Italian clan Sela Marcano.

A dashing plot in the best traditions of the genre - mafia showdowns, robberies, chases, shooting and a lot of money await you. And all this was implemented at a quite decent level.

Gameplay Features

waiting for you open world like GTA, which is very close to reality. Events take place in the metropolis of New Bordeaux, which actually replicates modern New Orleans.

Lincoln has to go through a difficult path - to found a crime syndicate by completing tasks, earning money, finding informants, and participating in showdowns with other mafiosi.

According to the developers, the distinctive feature of Mafia 3 should be participation in races and car chases. During the trip, the player will be able to shoot, break windows, capture people and even interrogate enemies.

The game is already launching, so we hope that very soon you will be able to try at least some of the above.

It will also be possible to approach missions in a non-standard way - attack head-on and lose comrades, or carry out an operation unnoticed, acting like special forces. There are enough options for completing tasks, so first you need to turn on logic, and only then act and make decisions.

The ending of Mafia 3 depends on the actions of the main character and assistants, on decisions made and destroyed enemies. The game has several options for the development of events, so you can act as you see fit.

Pros and cons

The developers managed to show the romantic years of the 1960s and 1970s. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, hippies and other movements for freedom and equality - all this characterizes the atmosphere of the time when new cultural values ​​​​appeared in America.

The image quality is very high level- this is a fact. Everything is quite realistic, the details are worked out, and the scenes and events create the feeling of high-quality work of modern cinema. In addition, third-party characters act the same way they would act in reality. For example, if the hero takes out a weapon, then people around him will be scared and will definitely call the police. The developers managed to create the feeling that you are in a real city, with real people around you.

The storyline involves ruthless gangster warfare and appropriate flavor, so fans of the series will not be disappointed. But, despite the variety of missions and options for the same ending, there is no special zest or any bright feature in the plot. Therefore, it cannot yet be called very interesting and intriguing.

Let us add that at first glance, the realistic traffic on the roads does not entirely correspond to reality. The effects during sharp turns and collisions look a little fancy, but, on the other hand, it looks beautiful.

And other participants traffic follow traffic rules, so sometimes their behavior looks like a pattern. Maybe in the future this feeling will disappear, but for now it is so.

In any case, despite the small flaws, Mafia 3 is worth buying it and spending a few days on your PC, PS4 or Xbox. There are some similarities with, but this was done so that the game was in trend. It is pleasant to note the desire of the developers to make the story similar to a gangster action movie - the style and atmosphere contribute to this to the fullest.

Buy, install and enjoy the unique atmosphere of “Mafia 3”. We will monitor events and talk about important points in the game. Share the link to this review with your friends, like it and leave your comments. With this we say goodbye to you and wish you all success. Bye bye.