20 Great Games That Still Get Unjustified Hate

Mafia III is the third installment in the iconic gangster series, but ask your average Mafia fan about it, and they will tell you that it’s actually not a Mafia game at all.

At the time of Mafia III’s release, a lot of people criticized it for straying away from the classic Italian mob storyline, but it also didn’t help that the game was riddled with bugs upon its release.

However, these days, the bugs have been mostly patched out, and when you look at Mafia III not as another tale of the rise of Italian mobsters in America but as a separate, broader depiction of the various crime syndicates during the 1960s, the game becomes a much more compelling and interesting narrative experience.

The protagonist, Lincoln Clay, is a genuinely interesting and complex character, and the game shows the many pitfalls of his work for the criminal underworld perfectly.

The repetition in the open world formula that everyone complained about in 2016 is sadly still there, but even then, at a heavily discounted price and with this good of a setting and story, that doesn't sting anywhere near as much as it did a decade ago.