I understand how reviews work for major releases. Just about every game has an embargo, that's undrstandable, but having no reviews up until launch day does look like they don't have confidence in their game. Given the number of high profile games that have come out and had huge problems at launch, I would again urge people to maybe wait till next week before dropping cash on this.

No reviews this close to launch is a MAJOR red flag for me. No harm in waiting till next week. Sure, you might pay an extra £3, or you might save yourself £27.99....

No reviews this close to launch is a MAJOR red flag for me. No harm in waiting till next week. Sure, you might pay an extra £3, or you might save yourself £27.99....

Might be worth waiting on this one, early impressions are good but it's locked to 30fps for the moment, patch in development

There's user reviews on the steam site.
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Game is apparently locked to 30FPS .. 2K have said they are working on a patch to unlock the FPS, but no details of when it will be released ... just "soon"

Wait for fixes and reviews. 30 fps lock and I heard it renders at 720p and upscales, dunno if that's true. I've also heard talk of sluggish controls due to the framerate. Also getting it from cdkeys means no refunds if it never gets fixed.

I understand how reviews work for major releases. Just about every game has an embargo, that's undrstandable, but having no reviews up until launch day does look like they don't have confidence in their game. Given the number of high profile games that have come out and had huge problems at launch, I would again urge people to maybe wait till next week before dropping cash on this.

There is a thing called logic and if you have ever studied it you might know one of the basic principals, if A implies B then it does not follow that B implies A. In this case Doom releasing in a good state without sending out review copies for release does not imply that if a publisher doesn't send out review copies the game will release in a good state.

If you know how reviews work for major releases then you'll know the common reason given for this practice is the company doesn't want the game reviewed without a day one patch. You should also know that games quite often release day one with a lot of issues despite the patch as the publisher is keen to push out the game to hit a deadline. For a game like Mafia 3 we could also be looking at a polished first 8 hours before hitting more bug ridden quests, memory overflows or the like, always a favourite tactic of mine when a company releases a game that looks great for the first few hours to encourage people to rush out and buy it, but something that would have been picked up if someone was given longer to explore the game.

As always, if you pre-order it is a gamble and that is how any pre-order works, not just big releases.

I'd only ever pre order a game if I'm a fan of the franchise or genre, if the game doesn't live up to expectations well at least then I've played it and it's my own opinion. Mafia 3 is a sequel to 2 very good games that I am a big fan of, so I would buy it despite bad reviews/no reviews... will be buying my copy tomorrow and hopefully the patch is out to fix bugs and the fps problem.