MAFIA 3 IS MY FAVOURITE OF THE SERIES AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO ADMIT IT
I'm doing my fourth playthrough, now that the remaster is out, this time on Xbox Series X, and it's still amazing. Love the story, the characters, the setting (I love NOLA IRL), the "empire" building, the documentary sequences, the DLC chapters. I'll probably do another playthrough sometime next year, after I've played a bunch of GTA 6, this time on PC, to see how the changes effected the PC version. But I have to say, so far, the remaster looks PHENOMENAL. It was always a great looking game, all the Mafias always were for their time, but I find the game to be even more beautiful now and the gameplay improvements they've done have certainly made the game even more worth going back to.
Also, a random sidenote, knowing what we know now about GTA 6 from journalist/creator previews/interviews, can't help but to notice a lot of features from Mafia 3 are going to be appearing in GTA 6 as new features for the GTA series. Hangar 13/2K have no relation to Rockstar whatsoever, besides a shared parent company (TakeTwo), and I did find some information about developers from both companies working together on each others projects in the past, but idk how credible that is. Just interesting.