If you haven’t played a Mafia game - don’t worry, I hadn't either. On the outside, they look pretty familiar. An open world. A big city. Cars to drive. Cars to steal. Guns to shoot. And people to kill.
But Mafia 3 isn’t just an open-world game where you can drive and shoot and steal and do whatever you want in a crime-infested city. After spending around six hours playing a hefty chunk of the opening, it became pretty clear Mafia 3 is something more than that.
Here are the basics: Mafia 3 takes place in New Bordeaux - Hanger 13’s version of New Orleans. It’s set in 1968 in the deep south, and is seeped in all the tension and blatant racism that comes with that.
The story follows Lincoln Clay, a mixed-race orphan who finds a new family in the Black Mob before he’s shipped overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. He comes back and wants to go legitimate, but suffers a betrayal that pulls him back into a life a crime and sets off Mafia 3's chain of events.
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But Mafia 3 isn’t just an open-world game where you can drive and shoot and steal and do whatever you want in a crime-infested city. After spending around six hours playing a hefty chunk of the opening, it became pretty clear Mafia 3 is something more than that.
Here are the basics: Mafia 3 takes place in New Bordeaux - Hanger 13’s version of New Orleans. It’s set in 1968 in the deep south, and is seeped in all the tension and blatant racism that comes with that.
The story follows Lincoln Clay, a mixed-race orphan who finds a new family in the Black Mob before he’s shipped overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. He comes back and wants to go legitimate, but suffers a betrayal that pulls him back into a life a crime and sets off Mafia 3's chain of events.
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