Hangar 13 has crossed a line…

Andrew Wilson, Mafia III‘s executive producer, was interviewed by Eurogamer, and he revealed that the intro they planned for the game was too cold-hearted and controversial, and they had to wipe every trace of it!

„That whole [Mafia III] cold-open has been burned from our servers. It does not exist. Because if ever that had come out without any context in any form it would have looked terrible because disconnected from the game it’s apparently even more shocking.

We went back at the eleventh hour and added a cold-open to the game that was an extraordinarily violent prologue which shows Lincoln and a couple of his friends getting ambushed by the mob. It’s super-violent, and Lincoln has to resort to violence to escape. This cold-open was going to explain why he left for Vietnam. He ends up killing a cop and has to flee to Vietnam.”

However, Wilson also added that the „real reason” (sure, sure…) behind the removal of this „cold opening” was that it felt tacked onto Mafia III: „Lincoln never really talks about [what happened during the cold-open]. I think we added one scene where he has a conversation with this Priest, Father James, and they talk about it a little bit, but we never really paid off on it. There were characters involved in it who he encounters later but doesn’t acknowledge. It felt exploitative instead of something that grabbed you and put you in Lincoln’s shoes and made you afraid for him and wants to help him, so we ended up cutting it because of the feedback.”

Mafia III‘s developers are now working on an AAA IP. Maybe Hangar 13 might show more of it next year…

Source: WCCFTech