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4. Mafia III

Despite it being labelled as "too repetitive" from the vast majority of critics, I'm still heartily endorsing Mafia's cool brand of individual mayhem. If anything, you can't jump between fights and gun battles fast enough, never mind that being a bad thing when you do.

Regardless, we've not seen an open-world crime game do such an excellent job of recreating an entire time period since GTA's Vice City and San Andreas. Thus, Mafia 3's gameplay is a meld of Shadow of Mordor-esque enemy recruitment and grinding, third-person shooting, quickfire Assassin's Creed-style stealth and Far Cry-esque enemy outpost-clearing.

Together it forms a very solid and engaging series of gameplay loops, one that yes, is repetitive in its overall scope, but that nails what it sets out to do from beginning to end. Something I don't by any means think is a negative.