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Review after 9 hours. I do not plan to continue. And the review mostly focuses on the negatives.

Mafia III had a rough start with the 30FPS lock which can make alot of people get negative feelings toward a game and see bad because they're looking for it. But I really like to keep an open and positive mind on a game unless it forces me to stop, Mafia III did that.
The story and setting in this game can be a reason to play it, from what I've seen the story is quite good with interesting characters, but the story won't save a game because its a game and not a movie. The setting is of course what makes a Mafia game and its nice to see a 1960's world with all of its amazing music. Too bad that the game was advertised as having this amazing New Bordeaux city but for me, it kinda feel's boring and unmemorable.

That brings me nicely into the open wold gameplay... unless after 9 hours I havent unlocked the "real game", its terrible. You can not get a haircut, can't at least change clothes, you can't even customize cars or even store them, there are set few cars you can call after you've unlocked them by progressing through the story. All the open world does is let's you pick which order you want do complete your objectives. Mafia II literally had more "open world stuff" than Mafia III. Mafia II suffered from not being open world, Mafia III I don't think would suffer if it was linear. Mafia III could have been something interesting, it has such a potential for a GTA-like, open world game but set in 60's, but it feels very much like just another "generic open world game" with no soul. Gameplay and world feel stiff and with terrible physics and with repetetive open world tasks you need to do. I'd love to have a world I feel like I live in like Mafia II, not the generic open world game world with nothing to do in.

What else we got... gunplay is quite nice, driving is much more arcadey than mafia 2 and I'm personally not into that, I liked the realism of slower and heavier old cars. Stealth is fine... quite a nice addition where you can chose if you want to stab everyone or go guns blazing, both work and are pretty much equally as fun so when stealth goes wrong, shooting is still an option. And stealth would be great if not for the absoluteley awful AI that will not see you when you stand in front of them (trying to play into racism that black people are harder to spot in the dark or what?), or when you LITERALLY STAB SOMEONE IN FRONT OF THEM, https://youtu.be/hquqaGIR5SU

Aside from the 30fps lock, the graphics look fine... as long as its not daylight
http://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=778470153
The reflections in this game are garbage and day lightning makes me ill, shaders break sometimes. Really, games that are pre-alpha can look better than Mafia III and thats complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I paid for a AAA game and not early acess. In other situations its quite alright, the facial animations for an example are really nice.

Then theres other stuff, the glitches that you can find everywhere,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZokdmzvDGA
The extreme lack of polish this game is really pushies it over the line into hate territory for me. While playing you constantly run into a new bug every few minutes and it gets really distracting, like someone poking you once being alright but poking you once every minute would make you go crazy. I could have have rated it "ok", as buy for a lower price when it comes and play this game that doens't really feel like Mafia II but a kind of generic open world game. But all this lack of polish and abundance of glitches, bugs and all other annoyances push me to say. Don't get it.
Its my opinion, I'd play it if it was some sub at least 20euro game after all of the glitches are fixed. Right now I only wish I could refund...