Incredibly shocking to see this game got such low reviews, but I guess I can't argue against this games dissenters too soundly, because their criticisms are correct. This game has a bad case of the open world sickness that was incredibly prevalent at the time of its release. Assassins Creed 2 convinced all these game companies that your game needed a drastic amount of bloat and repetition in order to retain your player base. Mafia 3 will have you repeating the same 3 or 4 missions ad nauseum, albeit with some unique story missions sprinkled in ever hour and a half or so, depending on your overall thoroughness. You'll repeat the same stealth takedowns, shoot the same guns at the same looking goons, and drive pretty much the same cars back and forth picking the world dry of any meaningless collectables you come across. If you look at the game from that standpoint, the game holds up very poorly. But personally, I became fully obsessed with the story on offer. Admittedly, there were some side plots that didn't exactly pan out to my liking, especially taking the DLC into consideration, but man, the story of Lincoln Clay hooked me. I am a sucker for the 'Man is Too Angry to Die' trope, and this game is that in spades. You can feel Lincoln's rage in each of his needlessly brutal stealth kills, his brutal takedowns, the way gameplay revolves around quick and hectic gunfights. Lincoln turns backwater Louisiana into a personal Vietnam for his opponents with his guerilla hit-and-run tactics, and the horror of the situations is amplified by the chatter of your enemies and the detail put into the animations of bloody, dying enemy NPCs. The sound design is also on point, nearly all of the weapons delivering adrenaline pumping audio, and the cars roaring in a way that encourages quick and agile maneuvering. The story absolutely gamifies the best qualities of the blacksplotation genre and puts a really interesting character study on display. The game certainly isn't for everyone, I can't imagine many people want to play another one of these open world collectathons after nearly a decade of being force fed this bloat, but I think if you can wiggle past a little repetition and ignore a lot of the needless bloat (collectables, rackets, a few underwhelming side missions) you'll find a really exciting revenge story.