I only just finished it weeks ago for the first time and pushed through and enjoyed aspects of it. If it had an actual story that followed a straight line path then I'd have liked it more. Instead it had that assassins creed style where you have zones and each zone you have x amount of collectables to "find" (easily shown on the map when you get close enough) and you had x amount of samey missions to do to bring out the boss to then kill/recruit. All this done in any order too. Wasn't a big fan of that as it felt too open.
The fighting was good and felt really satisfying. The dialogue was fine. The graphics good enough.
I remember a mod for mafia 1, I think it was called lost Haven mod, or something like thst, which tried to add having an empire, areas you control, being a bit mod mob boss like, and mafia 3 seemed to try to do this too. It did it well enough, I just don't think it worked perfectly.
Id rate mafia 3 6/10. The story of mafia 1 mixed with the game play of 3 I'm hoping for a game I'd rate 8/10, with 2 points missing because I'm sure it'll be so dumb and hand holding. I think I'll be putting a post it note over the map almost straight away.