History YMMV / MafiaIII

** Some people take the exposition of Lincoln as a war vet as some made up apologism for his crimes, especially since in ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' Victor Scaletta never uses this as an excuse, neither does Niko from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' making this a case of PoliticallyCorrectHistory, PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, or {{Anvilicious}} at the very least.

** Some people take the exposition of Lincoln as a war vet as some made up apologism for his crimes, especially since in ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' Victor Scaletta never uses this as an excuse, neither does Niko from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' making this a case of PoliticallyCorrectHistory, PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, or Anvilicious at the very least.

* BrokenBase: Immediately after the announcement, fan opinion were divided about the protagonist and the setting. While some see it as an interesting new take, with potential especially lying in playing as a black man during one of the most racially tense periods in American history, others think it is too much of a change of genre and want the classical Mafia setting back.

* InternetBackdraft: In two respects. First, after the game was announced, a group of white supremacists began raiding the game's Steam forums to complain about the game having a non-white protagonist and using lots of racial slurs. Second, naturally this lead to a lot of backlash back at said supremacists, who were accused of being "nothing but a bunch of racist idiots."

* BrokenBase: Immediately after the announcment, fan opinion were divided about the protagonist and the setting. While some see it as an interesting new take, with potential especially lying in playing as a black man during one of the most racially tense periods in American history, others think it is too much of a change of genre and want the classical Mafia setting back.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: An early one comes up in-universe with Lincoln Clay thinking of his adoptive father Sammie as a shrewd businessman, honorable man, and pillar of the community. Cassandra, by contrast, considers him a weak brownoser who was nothing more than Sal Marcano's puppet.

** Further analysis shows that the game also upscales from 720p regardless of how powerful your hardware is, resulting in blurriness even if one turns anti-aliasing off ([[UpToEleven even despite also seeing jagged pixels]]). What makes this stand out is that the Xbox One version of the game does the same thing, while the Playstation 4 version upscales from 900p, meaning the Playstation version technically looks cleaner than both the Xbox and PC versions. Furthermore, button prompts involving keyboard and mouse are prone to be glitchy for abnormal reasons, and switching an input for control seems to ''crash the game when it's pressed.''

** Further analysis shows that the game also upscales from 720p regardless of how powerful your hardware is, resulting in blurriness even if one turns anti-aliasing off ([[UpToEleven even despite also seeing jagged pixels]]). What makes this stand out is that the Xbox One version of the game does the same thing, while the Playstation 4 version upscales from 900p, meaning the PS4 version technically looks cleaner than both the XBO and PC versions. Furthermore, button prompts involving keyboard and mouse are prone to be glitchy for abnormal reasons, and switching an input for control seems to ''crash the game when it's pressed.''

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The Haitians. Whether's a plainly exaggerated French accent or an Jamaican accent trying to sound Haitian.

* Main/UnfortunateImplications: Zig-zagged at best; During private preview events gaming press were shown a tool Lincoln Clay can use against enemies, a Voodoo doll. As an object based in stereotypical images of Voodoo and conjuring Black tribal savage imagery, it's not a good look. The devs tried to work around this by explaining that Lincoln is a psychological warfare specialist and while he doesn't believe in Voodoo, the Italian mobsters he's fighting are superstitious enough to react to a Voodoo doll fearfully. [[http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/the-giant-beastcast-episode-64/1600-1693/ While discussing their respective preview events]] Vice Gaming's EIC Austin Walker--who is Black--thought the justification was still pretty flimsy and problematic while Italian-American Vinny Caravella of [[Podcast/GiantBomb Giant Bomb]] summed up having the explanation told to him during his previewing: "They pulled back that punch and hit me right in the face."

* Main/UnfortunateImplications: Zig-zagged; During private preview events gaming press were shown a tool Lincoln Clay can use against enemies, a Voodoo doll. As an object based in stereotypical images of Voodoo and conjuring Black tribal savage imagery, it's not a good look. The devs tried to work around this by explaining that Lincoln is a psychological warfare specialist and while he doesn't believe in Voodoo, the Italian mobsters he's fighting are superstitious enough to react to a Voodoo doll fearfully. [[http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/the-giant-beastcast-episode-64/1600-1693/ While discussing their respective preview events]] Vice Gaming's EIC Austin Walker--who is Black--thought the justification was still pretty flimsy and problematic while Italian-American Vinny Caravella of [[Podcast/GiantBomb Giant Bomb]] summed up having the explanation told to him during his previewing: "They pulled back that punch and hit me right in the face."

* Main/UnfortunateImplications: Zig-zagged; During private preview events gaming press were shown a tool Lincoln Clay can use against enemies, a Voodoo doll. As an object based in stereotypical images of Voodoo and conjuring Black tribal savage imagery, it's not a good look. The devs tried to work around this by explaining that Lincoln is a psychological warfare specialist and while he doesn't believe in Voodoo, the Italian mobsters he's fighting are superstitious enough to react to a Voodoo doll fearfully. [[http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/the-giant-beastcast-episode-64/1600-1693/ While discussing their respective preview events]] Vice Gaming's EIC Austin Walker--who is Black--thought the justification was still pretty flimsy and problematic while Italian-American Vinny Caravella of [[Podcast/GiantBomb Giant Bomb]] summed it up with "They pulled back that punch and hit me right in the face."

* Main/UnfortunateImplications: Zig-zagged; During private preview events gaming press was shown a tool Lincoln Clay can use against enemies, a Voodoo doll. As an object based in stereotypical images of Voodoo and conjuring Black tribal savage imagery, it's not a good look. The devs tried to work around this by explaining that Lincoln is a psychological warfare specialist and while he doesn't believe in Voodoo, the Italian mobsters he's fighting are superstitious enough to react to a Voodoo doll fearfully. [[http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/the-giant-beastcast-episode-64/1600-1693/ While discussing their respective preview events]] Vice Gaming's EIC Austin Walker--who is Black--thought the justification was still pretty flimsy and problematic while Italian-American Vinny Caravella of [[Podcast/GiantBomb Giant Bomb]] summed it up with "They pulled back that punch and hit me right in the face."

** Mildly averting this trope is the developers' decision to leave out the Mercedes-Benz Superdome (even though it was in construction stage in 1968), but one too many still remembered the stadium being used as an shelter for displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina.

* BrokenBase: Immediately after the announcment, fan opinion were divided about the protagonist and the setting. While some see it as an interesting new take, with potential especially lying in playing as a black man during one of the most racially tense periods in American history, others think it is too much of a change of genre and want the classical Mafia setting back.

** Mildly averting this trope is the developers' decision to leave out the Mercedes-Benz Superdome (even though it was construction stage im 1968), but one too many still remembered the stadium being used as an shelter for displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina.

* TooSoon: Anything dark or eerie in the game will most likely fall victim to this trope because The 2016 Louisiana floods, universally deemed as the country’s ‘worst natural disaster’ since Hurricane Sandy if not Hurricane Katrina, predates the game's release later in October.

* InternetBackdraft: In two respects. First, after the game was announced, a group of white supremacists began raiding the game's Steam forums to complain about the game having a non-white protagonist and using lots of racial slurs. Second, naturally this lead to a lot of backlash back at said supremacists, who were accused of being "nothing but a bunch of racist idiots."

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The game's main selling point. Lincoln is a [[VietnamVet Vietnam veteran]] with a stick up his ass, a bullet drilled into his head, and an explicit desire to make Sal Marcano suffer like hell. How does he take away Sal's brother? ''By sabotaging a ferry full of upper-class fundraising a corrupt politician, who is set on fire''. ''And then it explodes, killing everyone but Lincoln''. Every execution is in some way excessively violent, and every mini-boss uses some form of chaos and excessive violence. The entire narrative is about interrogating Lincoln's minions after he single-handedly ''destroyed New Bordeaux''.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The game's main selling point. Lincoln is a [[VietnamVet Vietnam veteran]] with a stick up his ass, a bullet drilled into his head, and an explicit desire to make Sal Marcano suffer like hell. How does he take away Sal's brother? ''By sabotaging a ferry full of upper-class fundraising a corrupt politician, who is set on fire''. ''And then it explodes, killing everyone but Lincoln''. Every execution is in some way excessively violent, and every mini-boss uses some form of chaos and excessive violence. The entire narrative is about interrogating Lincoln's minions after he single-handedly ''destroyed the Mafia in New Bordeaux''.

* BrokenBase: Immediately after the announcment, fan opinion were divided about the protagonist and the setting. While some see it as an interesting new take, with potential especially lying in playing as a black man during a time where racism was commonplace, others think it is too much of a change of genre and want the classical Mafia setting back.

* BrokenBase: Immediately after the announcment, fan opinion were divided about the protagonist and the setting. While some see it as an interesting new take, with potential especially lying in playing as a black man during a time where racism was commonplace, others think it is too much of a change of genre and want the classical Mafia setting back.