Playing With Politics

October, 2016

Mafia III’s violence, racial tensions and apocalyptic dread are set in the 1960s but rooted in the nowPlaying With PoliticsGAMESMafia Ill’s violence, racial tensions and apocalyptic dread are set in the 1960s but rooted in the nowThere’s a disorienting moment early in Mafia III, the latest installment of 2K’s richly plotted drive-and-shoot series: Somewhere in the fictional town of New Bordeaux, which strongly resembles New Orleans circa 1968, you stumble into the basement of a seedy jazz joint...