Maffia 3 comming October 7th

[JudgeDredd]

Just the intro has whet my whistle! 

This is just the intro cut scene to the game - no actual game footage in this

 

[JudgeDredd]

Well I'm 3 hours in and I'm loving it.

Story is great. Animations are great. Facial expressions, speech...Gameplay is what gameplay was in previous ones so no issues with that yet either.

The previous Mafia games, for me, have been about immersion and story.

I would take this chance to let you know that there's lots of cut scenes and they are pretty lengthy in places - but stay with them - they are great and key to the story. Don't do what I did and not take note - I lost who was who in places.

Car handling is like the previous two - which is ok...I eventually got used to how they handled and I will do here.

Graphics - I haven't managed to nail them down yet. It's a bit dark for me in places at times and also there's a lot of "bloom" - so I need to meddle. But otherwise, top notch. I have no idea what the issue with 30fps is about. It's running at 30fps on my system and looks and plays great.

So far this is hitting the spot.

[Longknife]

Glad you are enjoying it!

How bid a download is it? At my downsteam of 126k a sec that is always a significant consideration.

[Don_prince]

Im doing some parts after I finished a bit of work, so bid by bit, Am realy enjoying it, its like playing a movie...

its a 41gb download...

[JudgeDredd]

Oh...and the music is superb to do far

[Don_prince]

Oh...and the music is superb to do far

Oh yes, I leave the game open and make that im sitting in a car, so when working alt tabbed I can listen to the in-game radio...

[Don_prince]

Soo I found the way to put the game music on my phone. The quality of the music files is pretty high so its worth the effort to extract them.

In order to do so get the following tool:

http://www.scampers.org/steve/sms/other.htm

then hit open file and browse to the following:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mafia III\edit\audio\packages

Or any other steam map you put Mafia III in...

In there select radio_global.pck

Now you are in to all the music files. As you can see they are in .wwise_v format. The tool wil be able to play the files. If you hit the save button you can convert it to either .ogg or .wav however, you can only do one file at a time.

Extract now and thank me later...

[Don_prince]

Found the way to extract and convert all, its in the extract menu...

By the way,

First up warning for people thinking about buying Mafia 3:

Mafia 3 is amazing but not everyones cup of tea, especially in its current state. The graphics are below moderate (gras and nature is stunning though), game is pretty resource heavy, runs buggy crashes now and then..

Appart from that it has a lot of scripting and AI issues, scripted scenes will not work as intended, AI will drive horrible, some things will spawn in front of you, there is invisible walls, bushes are walls (Really?) there is train and tram tracks but no train, cars are not saveable and you cant (yet, as there will be a free dlc) modify them, and so on and so on.

If you want a new shiny game and are easaly bothered by this stuff described this game is not for you. This game is a game with amazing driving (for the cars at the time) and an awsome story line. It is spot on by creating the right atmosphere and you will feel like beeing a character playing in a movie in that time period. The music, the narration, the adds on the radio and billboards, the magazines, artwork, conversations, subjects in conversations, the music all spot on. Where in areas the details have been left out as in AI behavior and scripting and some things just lacking or wrong (did they run out of budget or something?) in some areas there is unlimited depth.

The gameplay however is a mismatch between Mafia 2 and I would say leaning more to the Saints Row series. The missions is a lot of the same stuff as done in Saints Row. That does bother me but hey its Mafia 3 and I dont care, for me it does not matter how bad or good it is, I enjoy this game. Hopefully dlc's and updates will make it better later

I am not regretting my purchase, you may though, so think twice or even four times before you buy, be realy sure you are okay with all its quircks, fails and bugs, and that trough whatever it is now you can enjoy and in your mind fill in the gaps that have not been filled (yet maybe)

[Don_prince]

 
Just a grab out off the selection

The playlist:
 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtftT1Xp1HWE2dy7yJq7d6imYMSnZZRK_

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtftT1Xp1HWE2dy7yJq7d6imYMSnZZRK_

[Don_prince]

 

That is comming from diehard fans,

See? they share my oppinion, Spot on.