Mafia 3: 8 Big Things It Got Wrong

8. Frustrating Environment Design

The city of New Bordeaux, based off the real-life city of New Orleans, is simply incredible. The detail that has gone into the different neighbourhoods is awe-inspiring, and really helps Mafia 3 stand out from its rivals.

Sadly, travelling around this beautiful city doesn’t always go smoothly.

There are a lot of areas with fences, walls with only one or two entrances, meaning if you go quite far in - usually when looking for collectibles - you have to run all the way back to a particular entrance to get back out. The map doesn’t show many of these barriers either, meaning you can run towards a section of an area thinking it’s open-ended, only to find a wall in the way with no door.

This wouldn’t be as annoying if you were able to just jump over fences, but Lincoln has a hard time climbing over a lot of ledges and walls that you would otherwise assume he should get over.

Lincoln’s climbing truly becomes rage-inducing when you end up in water. If you crash your boat or just jump in the water for a shortcut, you can often end up having to swim for ages just to get back onto land, thanks to only a couple of specific ledge-heights being the ones you can pull yourself onto.