![]() Your lieutenant might turn on you, leaving you no choice but to kill him on his home turf.Īnd then, there’s the obvious first the explicit, head-on discussion of race. Depending on who you decide to trust, the story will take permanent turns. This is the first Mafia game with branching narratives. During my demo, I was given a general mission-destroy and take over a local racket-but I was also given liberty on when and how to do it. This is the first Mafia game that is truly open world. The game covers Lincoln’s quest for revenge as he rebuilds his surrogate family and destroys Marcano’s at the same time. ![]() In Mafia III, you play as Lincoln Clay, an orphan and Vietnam veteran whose adoptive family, the black mob in New Bordeaux, is brutally slaughtered by the Italian mob, headed by Sal Marcano. Because of that, you have outside groups starting to come in and you have the rise of the drug trade.” “When JFK became President and Bobby Kennedy became Attorney General, one of the things that Kennedy did is he really went after the mob. “The 60’s heralds the end of the Golden Age of the Italian mafia,” says Mafia III head writer Bill Harms. ![]() That was the year the Ku Klux Klan declined in popularity, but began splitting into smaller, extremist groups in the process. That was the year President Johnson signed the first hate crime legislation into law. That was the year Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. was assassinated and race riots swept the United States. That was the year Martin Luther King, Jr. The game take place during the turbulent 60’s-1968, specifically. The new Mafia III, due out October 7, heads south to the fictional city of New Bordeaux, inspired by New Orleans. The birth and death of “the dream.” But despite America’s diversity, the Mafia games have always starred and featured white protagonists. ![]() The franchise has always been about quintessentially American themes. Car models, weapon models, and period clothing captured the feel of both decades, and history was the backdrop to the games’ events. This time, the action took place in Empire Bay, a clear send up of New York City. Mafia II (2010) also starred an Italian mobster, and was set during the World War II era. The action took place in a fictional city named Lost Heaven, an amalgamation of Chicago and San Francisco. The first, eponymously named game (2002) in the franchise starred an Italian mobster and was set during the Great Depression. And for the past 15 odd years, the Mafia video game franchise has hewn close to those distinct, Italian roots. The term “mafia” is derived from the Sicilian word "mafiusu", which describes something that is bold or brash. ![]()
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