Black Games Archive

Context, Culture, and Representation


Mafia III

Developer: Hangar 13
Publisher: 2K Games
Release Year: 2016
Platform: Mac/PS4/Win/Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Taxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; voice acting; Black cultural traditions; politics/ ideology/ history; Narrative themes; Black NPCs; Intersectionality; fandom/community/reception; Anti-Blackness; mechanics

Set in New Bordeaux that is surging with change in response to the Civil Rights movement, Lincoln Clay is double-crossed and left for dead by the mob. Hell-bent on revenge, he works to rebuild a new crime family to supplant the Italian Mafia.

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