Mafia 3 is a third person shooter developed by Hanger 13 and published by 2K Games the game was released 7^th October 2016 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One there was a later release for the Mac 11^th May 2017.

 The game takes place in 1968 after the main protagonist of this game Lincoln Clay returns after many years of battle in Vietnam, the game starts off within 2 different areas first off we see Lincoln and a character known as Georgie robbing a bank vault, the other scene that we jump back and forth between is Lincoln returns to his surrogate family the Black Mob and picks up where he left off before going to Vietnam, the Black Mob were facing trouble with the Haitian Gang so Lincoln heads to their territory with the aim to take out the Haitian Leader known as Baka. Once this has been settled he returns home to his family with the good news and is told that he has a meeting with Sal Volcano the leader of the Italian Mafia. Lincoln then heads off to see Sal at his Retousse Yacht Club and here we meet Georgie at the doors, we get a brief introduction to Sal and fans of Mafia 2 will see that Vito Scaletta is there from the 2^nd game in the franchise. Vito leaves and we see a conversation between Lincoln and Sal in which Sal says that he would like Lincoln to take control of the Hollow where the Black Mob are, Lincoln refuses because he can’t turn his back on the leader of the Black Mob as he raised Lincoln like one of his own Sal then maintains his friendly nature however there's something off about him he becomes shifty. We cut back to the ending of the bank heist where Lincoln and Georgie are planning their escape with the help of 2 accomplices one of which is Lincoln's step brother Ellis. Upon the return they meet back in the Hollow in the bar and Georgie turns up with his father Sal and another man this is when things turn bad Sal gives Georgie a look upon which Georgie shoots Lincoln in the head and Sal murders Lincoln's father they finish off the rest of the members in the bar, burn it down and leave with the money. Lincoln's path of vengeance begins here as he forms his own Mafia recruiting people one of which is Vito and murdering Sal's lieutenants to take down the criminal empire that Sal Volcano has built.

 The game is great fun to play and the cinematics in this game are written and animated so well that you actually feel like you’re watching a movie, the direction of the scenes makes you compelled to keep watching as you want to know what happens in the story. This however is the best part of the game as the gameplay although it’s fun having to take down different rackets across the city, the animations when you capture a crime boss or interrogate someone into giving you the locations of his boss are the same all the time, there are 9 districts in total and you have to do the interrogation 2 times in each which means we have to do the same animation 18 times and it’s the same for all districts meaning that we are doing this about 36 times total. All this happens until you draw out the lieutenant controlling that area in which case the story kicks back in and we get brilliant missions with different things to do and the great story moments, this is what compels the player to continue working our way through the ranks to eventually take down Georgie and Sal Volcano. However the gameplay for driving and shooting in this game is great the cars grip to the road nicely with a nice variety of different vehicles to drive and a service that will drop a car off for you. The same for the gun-play it feels impactful with a huge variation of weapons and different melee kill animations with the different types of fire arms, the melee animations in this game are brutal Lincoln has a bowie knife and the kills he does with this are gruesome. 

 The trailer starts with Lincoln walking through New Bordeaux the fictional city based on New Orleans that this game takes place in, Sal's men are taking control of the city doing drive by shootings and giving orders to the men who work for them building up there corruption over the city. Then the camera cuts to Vito as getting a gun from his car, Cassandra interrogating someone, Burke killing someone at the scrapyard and finally Donovan blowing up cars with C4 they all then join Lincoln on the walk through New Bordeaux this trailer is great to show the new crime family that Lincoln is building all this happening while the destruction takes place behind them works really well in setting the feel for the game all this accompanied by Ice Cubes – Nobody Wants To Die. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNiHOpHbCzM