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The narrative is uniquely presented through a format, utilizing modern-day depositions and interviews with supporting characters like Father James and CIA operative John Donovan to contextualize Lincoln's past actions. Gameplay Mechanics

is a 2016 action-adventure video game developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K. Set in 1968, it breaks from the series' traditional focus on the Italian Mob to tell a gritty tale of revenge and racial tension in the American South. Plot and Setting Mafia III

The story follows , a biracial Vietnam War veteran who returns to the fictional city of New Bordeaux (a reimagined New Orleans). After his surrogate family, the Black Mob, is betrayed and slaughtered by the Italian Marcano crime family, Lincoln survives a gunshot to the head and vows to systematically dismantle the Marcano empire. The narrative is uniquely presented through a format,