Mafia 3 is going to be an action game with some heavy ideas regarding race, gangsterism and family, it’s also going to be the kind of game that wants to make driving feel real yet accessible.

Lincoln Clay is a Vietnam war veteran who is about to show us just how bad it was to be not white in the racially-charged 1960s of the American south in Mafia III.

Mafia games are a weird lot. They’ve got sandbox elements within them, except that they’re massively tempered in favour of an actual story that spins a tale over several hour. Mafia II was a fantastic example of this, a tightly-controlled single-player experience from 2010 that dropped players deep into the World War Two era of organised crime that you didn’t …

Get your first extended lookat Mafia 3 with a full twelve minutes inside New Orleans in the politically tense 1980s.

Despite the change of protagonist and the new the scenic locale of New Orleans, developer Hangar 13 is insistent on Mafia III being a "true" Mafia game that doesn’t ignore the events of Mafia II and will in fact bring closure to that first sequel when it ties up a few dangling plot threads.

When you think Mafia, you most likely think of a very specific stereotype. Namely a wiseguy with slick hair, an even slicker suit and some sort of Sicilian heritage. That’s your typical Mafia goon. But Mafia 3 is ditching that kind of protagonist, for some new blood.