I felt fairly strongly affected by how the game handles that theme in its early hours, but I'm also a white guy who has never faced racism in his day-to-day life. This adds another layer of righteousness and fury to the anger that drives his crusade.Īs mentioned elsewhere in this review and in our first impressions, Mafia 3 is very much a game about race. Lincoln isn't just mistreated by mobsters he's despised by most of the people he's up against, and even society as a whole, reviled and demonized for the color of his skin. city in the late '60s, that means everything.
What sets the events of Mafia 3 apart is the element of race: Lincoln is black, and in a southern U.S. Clay starts at the bottom - or, rather, restarts there after everything is taken from him - and must not only destroy his enemies but slowly build up a crime empire of his own, recruiting allies to run each district of the city that he takes over. The setup is standard rags-to-riches crime story cliché. After an exhilarating first few hours that include a bank heist mission played out between flashbacks, Clay sets out on a path of vengeance, vowing to kill everyone between himself and a rival mafioso leader.
Framed as a historical documentary, Mafia 3 tells the story of Lincoln Clay, a Vietnam War vet who returns from combat to find his home city of New Bordeaux (a spin on New Orleans) caught up in a struggle between various underworld crime organizations.
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