Mafia 3 Reviews: 10 Early Reactions You Need To Know

2. It's Not As Linear As Previous Games

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While other games in the Mafia franchise seemingly used their massive open worlds to funnel you from one hallway shootout to the next, giving you a series of "kill everyone" objectives that could only be accomplished by murdering everyone in sight, it seems like Mafia 3 places a much bigger emphasis on player choice.

According to the International Business Times the game occasionally (and almost always for certain side-missions) allows you to consider your routes through levels in advance. Deciding whether to move in guns blazing or with a larger focus on stealth, entering through the front door or by a hidden entrance, there isn't only one way to accomplish combat encounters.

Interestingly however IBT notes that the "the developers clearly favour the violent option as non-lethal takedowns have to be switched on in the options menu."

To be fair, who wants to play a game like Mafia without all the bloody, violent good stuff enabled from the get-go?

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