Trivia / Mafia III

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• Celebrity Voice Actor: Anna McGee from the "Sign of the Times" DLC was voiced by Sofia Vassilieva.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Some Northern Irish politicians asked 2K Games to pull the game out from stores for supposedly glorifying the Provisional IRA, as Lincoln helps Burke steal cars for him to send to his friends for their bombing campaigns against the British government, alongside Point Verdun having graffiti showing 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". This despite the fact that 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.
• Development Hell/Troubled Production: Hangar 13 suffered from many things during and after the game's 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 Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven in a touched-up version of Mafia III's engine in 2020.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The 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 Moral Guardians to claim that the game was about an "Angry Black Man" Stereotype going around killing cops.
  • There were quite a few ideas cut over the course of the game's development, such as plans for a DLC centered around Vito that would have involved going to '60s-era Empire Bay. While this never really panned out, unfinished maps for it could still be found buried in the game's files.

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