Mafia III

Story: Lincoln Clay just got back from the war when the Italian mafia kill his closest friends and family. Lincoln will do anything and everything to make the mafia pay for what they did. Violence: Violence is non stop in this game, with frequent shootouts and chases. Lincoln can use multiple firearms plus his Bowie knife to kill mob members, police officers and innocent bystanders in gory fashion. Knife takedowns have you jam a knife through an enemies head which is shown close up. Some of the cutscenes are also quite graphic with people being hung from Ferris wheels, people being thrown out high rise buildings, people being burned by napalm and people being nailed to a burning cross. Lincoln hates his enemies, and the violence in this game really shows that. Language: Language is frequent with tons of f bombs and the sh word. Because of the time period, uses of anti Semitic and racial slurs are also quite common such as the n word. The language isn’t excessive but it is fairly prevalent. Drugs and sex: Lincoln is required to take over racquets around the city to take down the mafia and some districts focus on drugs and sex so you’ll entering strip clubs and drug labs to kill VIP’s and weaken the mafia’s hold on the district. While Lincoln can enter strip clubs and drug labs, he can’t interact with anything in there, it’s all for someone else. Mafia 3 may not be a great mafia game, but it certainly was still a good game which mature audiences should most definitely play (play the definitive edition as it includes all the dlc)

I have already made a review that strongly urges everyone to stay away from the GTA games because there is simply no way that these games are safe and do not make people think violent thoughts. I'm told that video games are like a gun. It's only dangerous and harmful when it's in the wrong hands. Bottom line is the gun in of itself was only ever made to kill others and will never be for any other purpose except that. Mafia 3 and others before it are simply stories of fictional crime families and what the main character is just doing to survive. Mafia 3 only changes it's main character's story and sets itself up to have lots of gravity towards violence. Lincoln Clay's most dangerous philosophy is "family isn't who you're born with,  it's who you die for". he is a hate filled war veteran who will stop at nothing to kill everyone who ever wronged him and to end a corruption that is sweeping the territories of New Bordeaux. many people will relate strongly to Lincoln and believe that the choices are for the greater good of all others. But the player can also become a more evil person than the main antagonist he is hunting down. Even the good characters such as the black preacher Father James who raised the protagonist will show a whole different side to himself if the player chooses the greedy ending where he tries to take the power all for himself. Where father James will say he regrets many of the bad choices he made in his life,  but not feeling bad about killing Lincoln Clay if the player should choose the bad ending. So really it's only dark or darker. If Lincoln leaves the city which is considered good ending #1 then the corruption will continue. If Lincoln rules together then it's still a dark story about a criminal syndication and takeover of an entire city. Even the good choices still have a very dark edge to them because it still is a story about crime and taking matters into one's own hands and being a stylized vigilante. Some people have no problem with the issue of extreme racist behavior which is a constantly reoccurring element in the game. This was because of how racism in the 50s and 60s was very saturated and a part of everyday life. there are hardly any good white characters in the game except the other protagonists Vito and Burke whom the player can also kill at one point. the player can kill many innocents like in GTA and cause heavy amounts of destruction. Mafia 3 seems to also specifically encourage hatred towards whites and has a mostly left-wing viewpoint. Drug use is also overly espoused because the player must frequently inject himself with adrenaline when injured to recover his health. this is a game that simply tries to romanticize crime and revenge and would make a nice Quentin Tarantino type of storyline.