History Trivia / MafiaIII

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Anna [=McGee=] from the "Sign of the Times" DLC was voiced by an uncredited Creator/SofiaVassilieva.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The [[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-11-mafia-3-cut-opening-so-controversial-all-trace-of-it-had-to-be-erased original prologue]] was supposed to involve Lincoln Clay shooting a cop, thus explaining why he went off to fight in Vietnam. Hangar 13 not only cut the prologue but deleted it from their servers, fearing that, taken out of context, it would've been ammunition for MoralGuardians to claim that the game was about an AngryBlackManStereotype going around killing cops.

* DevelopmentHell[=/=]TroubledProduction: Hangar 13 suffered from many things during and after the games production, including (but not limited to) having to design the game while building a new game engine, cultural clash from the American and native Czech employees, fitting many things in at the last minute, the bugs that ensued from being an open-world game rather than a linear game, and many of the game designers leaving, some of which moved to different studios, left voluntarily, or had to be let go. Despite their ambitions, the game's mediocre reviews was a catastrophe for Hangar 13, causing a mass amount of unemployment and having to move back to the Czech Republic. Hangar 13 would remain quiet until the announcement of a complete remake of ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'' in a touched-up version of ''Mafia III'''s engine in 2020.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The [[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-11-mafia-3-cut-opening-so-controversial-all-trace-of-it-had-to-be-erased original prologue]] was supposed to involve Lincoln Clay shooting a cop, thus explaining why he went off to fight in Vietnam. Hangar 13 not only cut the prologue but deleted it from their servers, fearing that, taken out of context, it would've been ammunition for MoralGuardians to claim that the game was about an AngryBlackManStereotype who goes around killing cops.

* NamesTheSame: Judge Cornelius Holden shares his title and last name with the infamous main antagonist from ''Literature/BloodMeridian''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The [[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-11-mafia-3-cut-opening-so-controversial-all-trace-of-it-had-to-be-erased original prologue]] was supposed to involve Lincoln Clay shooting a cop, thus explaining why he went off to fight in Vietnam. Hangar 13 not only cut the prologue but deleted it from their servers, fearing that, taken out of context, it would've been ammunition for MoralGuardians to claim that the game was about an AngryBlackMan who goes around killing cops.

* BannedInChina: Some Northern Irish politicians asked 2K Games to pull the game out from stores for glorifying the IRA due to during one point in the game, Lincoln helps one of his allies, Irish Mobster Thomas Burke, steal some cars for him so he can send it to his friends in the IRA who will turn those cars into car bombs in their bombing campaigns against the British government and Burke's home turf has graffiti of the Northern Ireland flag vandalized with the words "Traitors" written over it. Burke also expresses anger towards Loyalists, who he claims are "putting down good Catholic citizens". So far, 2K Games have not responded and the game is still selling since pulling the game out from the stores would defeat the game's message on how bad the 1960s were for everyone and the fact [[spoiler:the whole IRA thing was a cover up story as Burke is actually selling the cars to leave some money for his daughter once he dies]].
* DevelopmentHell[=/=]TroubledProduction: Hangar 13 suffered from many things during and after the games production, including (but not limited to) having to design the game while building a new game engine, cultural clash from the American and native Czech employees, fitting many things in at the last minute, the bugs that ensued from being an open-world game rather than a linear game, and many of the game designers leaving, some of which moved to different studios, left voluntarily, or had to be let go. Despite their ambitions, the game's mediocre reviews was a catastrophe for Hangar 13, causing a mass amount of unemployment and having to move back to the Czech Republic. Since then, they've remained quiet with seemingly no new game ideas planned, until the announcement of a complete remake of ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'' in a touched-up version of ''Mafia III'''s engine in 2020.

* DevelopmentHell[=/=]TroubledProduction: Hangar 13 suffered from many things during and after the games production, including (but not limited to) having to design the game while building a new game engine, cultural clash from the American and native Czech employees, fitting many things in at the last minute, the bugs that ensued from being an open-world game rather than a linear game, and many of the game designers leaving, some of which moved to different studios, left voluntarily, or had to be let go. Despite their ambitions, the game's mediocre reviews was a catastrophe for Hangar 13, causing a mass amount of unemployment and having to move back to the Czech Republic. Since then, they've remained quiet with no new game ideas planned.

** 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 as "they pulled back that punch and elbowed me right in the face." In the end, it didn't end up in the game.

* DevelopmentHell[=/=]TroubledProduction: Hangar 13 suffered from many things during and after the games production, including (but not limited to) having to design the game while building a new game engine, cultural clash from the American and native Czech employees, fitting many things in at the last minute, the bugs that ensued from being an open-world game rather than a linear game, and many of the game designers leaving, some of which moved to different studios, left voluntarily, or had to be let go. Despite their ambitions, the game's mediocre reviews was a catastrophe for Hangar 13, causing a mass amount of unemployment and having to move back to the Czech Republic. Since then, they've remained quiet with no new game ideas planned.

* BannedInChina: Some Northern Irish politicians asked 2K Games to pull the game out from stores for glorifying the IRA due to during one point in the game, Lincoln helps one of his allies, Irish Mobster Thomas Burke, steal some cars for him so he can send it to his friends in the IRA who will turn those cars into car bombs in their bombing campaigns against the British government and Burke's home turf has graffiti of the Northern Ireland flag vandalized with the words "Traitors" written over it. Burke also expresses anger towards Loyalists, who he claims are "putting down good Catholic citizens". So far, 2K Games have not responded and the game is still selling since pulling the game out from the stores would defeat the game's message on how bad the 1960s were for everyone and the fact [[spoiler:the whole IRA thing was a cover up story as Burke is actually selling the cars to leave some money for his daughter once he dies]].

* BannedInChina: Some Northern Irish politicians asked 2K Games to pull the game out from stores for glorifying the IRA due to during one point in the game, Lincoln helps one of his allies, Irish Mobster Thomas Burke, steal some cars for him so he can send it to his friends in the IRA who will turn those cars into car bombs in their bombing campaigns against the British government and Burke's home turf has graffiti of the Northern Ireland flag vandalized with the words "Traitors" written over it. So far, 2K Games have not responded and the game is still selling since pulling the game out from the stores would defeat the game's message on how bad the 1960s were for everyone and the fact [[spoiler:the whole IRA thing was a cover up story as Burke is actually selling the cars to leave some money for his daughter once he dies]].

* BannedInChina: Some Northern Irish politicians asked 2K Games to pull the game out from stores for glorifying the IRA due to during one point in the game, Lincoln helps one of his allies, Irish Mobster Thomas Burke, steal some cars for him so he can send it to his friends in the IRA who will turn those cars into car bombs in their bombing campaigns against the British government. So far, 2K Games have not responded and the game is still selling since pulling the game out from the stores would defeat the game's message on how bad the 1960s were for everyone and the fact [[spoiler:the whole IRA thing was a cover up story as Burke is actually selling the cars to leave some money for his daughter once he dies]].

* BannedInChina: Some Northern Irish politicians asks 2K Games to pull the game out from stores for glorifying the IRA due to during one point in the game, Lincoln helps one of his allies, Irish Mobster Thomas Burke, steal some cars for him so he can send it to his friends in the IRA who will turn those cars into car bombs in their bombing campaigns against the British government. So far, 2K Games have not responded and the game is still selling since pulling the game out from the stores would defeat the game's message on how bad the 1960s were for everyone and the fact [[spoiler:the whole IRA thing was a cover up story as Burke is actually selling the cars to leave some money for his daughter once he dies]].