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Mafia III (2016)
If Denzel's Equalizer was made into a game, this would be it.
This game starts off slow. You run basic errands and meet people. In the beginning, it also jumps around time periods a bit, which can be annoying trying to figure out if you're in the present or a flashback. But that doesn't last long so just wait it out.
Then the revenge plot kicks in and the action goes off the charts. Yeah it gets repetitive, but that makes sense when you think about it. You're taking down an "organized" crime syndicate. What's that? It's a business with a lot of rackets that have enforcers and street soldiers, set up the same way for easy management. How do you take it down? Grab the street soldiers, interrogate them, destroy the product, steal the cash, make the enforcers and the players come out of hiding, take them out. Rinse repeat until it's all gone.
This is also one of those games where stealth is not required, but it's super fun. I loved sneaking around compounds dropping some underboss's guards and then letting him see me and call for backup, only to realize that he's alone. The stealth takedowns are super violent. You can also choose lethal or nonlethal takedowns. Furthermore, this is one of those games where as you hurt the bad guy's business, you get cutscenes showing his responses to what you're doing and how it's hurting him. As you conquer territories, you also get to assign control to your in-game associates. Showing favoritism can and will piss off some of your friends, so choose wisely.
The game does have it's flaws and wtf issues. For instance, if you're driving and you so much as bump into something, like say, a small tree, doing 5 mph, the game responds like you just drove into a mountain doing 90mph. You also have the basic henchman that can throw molotovs 500 yards and are 100% accurate with shotguns at the same distance. Also, if you're driving really fast, civilians like to dive into the road in front of you for some reason. If you hit them, you better hope a cop doesn't see it, or you're in for an instant chase.
Overall, I don't get the hate. If you're looking for a game set in the post-Nam south where you're a badass soldier taking down a mafia syndicate, this is your game.
War (2007)
Pros and cons make an overall great action movie.
Pros:
Believable fights every 5 minutes: Not the usual B-martial arts movies where they jump into the air and suspend there for 10 minutes fighting. Actual grapples, punches, and environment kills.
Jet Li: Another movie where he speaks 5 lines and sounds like a small child, which is such a great ice breaker for his characters after he just killed 20 people in a room.
The warring clan manipulation: He works behind the scenes to get 2 warring families to obliterate one another, neither one of them suspecting him in the slightest, just to get to his ultimate goal.
Cons:
Lot of underused people: Shiro's daughter? The girl who apparently had an arsenal of weapons in her sleeves that she constantly pulled out. Yet she had no real purpose other than to appear intimidating in America when Shiro wasn't around. I was so looking forward to an awesome fight scene with her. Never happened.
Mathew St. Patrick's character (Wick): Expert in defensive tactics, built like an NFL linebacker. The kind of guy you'd love to see take on a room full of people. Yeah, he shoots some people and then gets shot while aimlessly trotting across a room that hasn't been secured.
Animal Cruelty: The guy opens his scene taking out a room full of bad guys by strapping a pipe bomb to an attack dog. If you're a hardcore animal lover (which we know a real dog wasn't hurt), you might wanna skip that part. On the other side of the coin, it lets you know right off the bat that the bad guy in this movie is no holds barred.
If you get past these disappointing aspects of it, it's a solid action movie. Check it out.