author: Luc
Our Mafia III wishlist
Years of waiting for the new release in one of the best gangster series are soon to be over. The intensifying rumors regarding the third Mafia seem to have a strong basis – let’s round up our expectations.
Table of Contents
- Our Mafia III wishlist
- A bigger, open and lively city that we can explore freely
- An inclusion of an optional multiplayer
- Continuing the plotline and bringing back the good old crew
- Weapon upgrades, modification, and a license system
- Vehicle modification and a chance to legally purchase them
- Houses and apartments we can buy
- Many sidequests of great variety
- More ways to make money and a bribe system
- A day and night cycle influencing the missions
- More radio stations with music fitting the time period
- Our own small gang
- More cutscenes and character customization.
More radio stations with music fitting the time period
If the next Mafia will be set in the 50-ies, we hope that the developers put more effort in the audio. As a matter of fact, we did get radio stations in the second one, but there was only three of them, and apart from that, the music played wasn’t necessarily representative of the time period. While the radio was still the dominant medium in America after WWII, the range of available tracks should be extended a bit – the 50-ies were full of distinguished music. Patti Page, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra dominated the radio waves back then, and while purchasing a license for such artists’ songs might be costly – it will surely be a good investment that will quickly pay off.
Deciding upon music from that era, the developers must make sure that the tracks on the air fit the times. Let’s elaborate – the tracks in Mafia II obviously fit the era, but the more attentive players quickly realized that some were outdated – for instance, in 1951, a track from 1943 was played. Apart from that, sometimes the developers allowed some time travel, giving us tracks that haven’t been recorded yet in the time of the game. On the one hand, we don’t blame the designers for trying to make us feel the ‘vibe’ of the early 50-ies, but on the other though, it could have been done with more faithfulness to music history – and there are certainly plenty of artists to chose from.