10 Reasons Mafia 3 Will Be Better Than GTA 6

2. A Unique World With Immediate Appeal

Early in the trailer we get the narrator mentioning how New Bordeaux (Mafia's version of New Orleans, which also ties into Red Dead 3) has "survived the war of 1812, the civil war and God knows what else". It's a fairly subtle but effective way of giving the populace around you some much-needed character, history and place.

In GTA you can mow down thousands of pedestrians for days and barely bat an eye, but the violence in Mafia is far more real. It's gritty, repercussive, and felt from alleyway to motorway shootout.

Gun battles look to leave the survivors patching up their wounds and ambling towards the next milestone in their personal vendettas. And the same goes for the world itself. Lincoln Clay's personal vendetta against the very fabric of the city's makeup sounds like from the offset, it'll shake everything to its base foundations.

The character of New Orleans/Bordeaux is not only present in the soundtrack, but in the lively NPC animations taking part in their own lives as you wander past. It'll be a genuinely impactful experience to have a shootout amongst these people, or to barrel through groups as you chase down a wanted target - something that doesn't even register in GTA's more intentionally carefree model.