I didn’t intend to actually play this… The collectibles were spread through the world intead of specific story missions like in 2. So I thought I could just go and grab them all and be set. Turns out 90% or so can be just grabbed right away, but a few require story progress to access the buildings. One of those story missions being the final one, so I still had to beat the game.

Reason I wanted to avoid this was partially what I’ve heard. Fans of Mafia 2 that I’ve seen generally don’t care for 3 as much. The two are very different games design and story wise. Mafia 2 was a serious take on being in the mafia, the glitz and life ruining stuff just being a part of it. 3 is a roaring rampage where you basically play a terminator out for revenge with the mafia just being both the target and your source of cash. As a game, 3 is better to me. 2 taking your stuff away 2 or 3 times just makes it less fun, though I will admit it had more meat to its story then what 3’s protag has.

Also another real-life softcore thing was another goal I had this year, so here we are. Open world game, I won’t be going into the race stuff, just the game itself.