However, the scene setting does not stop at the obvious use of language and well-known attitudes of Southern America. It can be jarring, but it is no worse than you would hear in a Tarantino film and this is a game set in what is a thinly disguised New Orleans in the late 1960s. Fair warning you will hear liberal use of racial epithets throughout the game most notably the N-word, but the casual use of racial slurs aimed at Hispanics and Italians is thrown around by various characters. Included in the above atmosphere is the language used. The police themselves will automatically suspect you of wrongdoing on sight and NPCs on the street will react to your presence with white women moving out of your way and holding their handbags closer to them when they see you. Stores you can visit will have “No Coloureds Allowed” signs in the windows and if you walk into them you will be met with hostility and eventually calls to the police. While the game is a clichéd revenge story, Lincoln watches as he is betrayed and his adopted family is murdered, the circumstances he finds himself in generally is an immersive recreation of the attitudes, policies and language of that era and place. Whether by design or accident the game hit at just the time when the spectre of this division in American society was rearing its head once again in 2016. Let us get this out the way, the entire narrative is structured around the overt and covert racism that existed in the American South in the 1960s. Lincoln Clay – A Protagonist for the Time Since Mafia III is a game that is only three and a half years old, this release is less a remaster and more a rerelease of the base game and the three story DLC packs. Instead, Hangar 13 were tasked with not only creating DLC for the third game, but with also remastering Mafia II and completely remaking Mafia in the Mafia III engine. Despite a decent critical reception, an aggregate 62 Metacritic score on PC with similar scores on the two consoles, Mafia III reportedly did not meet 2K Games’ expectations and rumours were rife that developer Hangar 13 could be shut down. When news of a Mafia Trilogy collection leaked earlier this month it was a surprising announcement.
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