Mafia 3 'April 26th, 2016' On Best Buy Pre-Order Card, GameStop Also Lists April
More marketing material is spilling the release date beans as pre-order stand-in cards at US retailer Best Buy declare 2K Games' Mafia III as launching April 26th, 2016 in the US. This matches with rival GameStop who also let slip talk of April.
This new instalment to the organised crime simulator takes place in New Orleans during 1968 where we play as a mixed-raced former Vietnam veteran, Lincoln Clay, who comes home to find his adoptive black crime family wiped out. Naturally this doesn't sit well and we go on a vengeance spree and build up our own criminal empire.
"It’s 1968 and the rules have changed. After years of combat in Vietnam, Lincoln Clay knows this truth: Family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you die for. Now back home in a reimagined New Orleans, Lincoln is set on escaping a criminal past. But when his surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and wiped out by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln blazes a path of revenge and redemption through the Mafioso responsible. It will take more than a few friends to make it in this new world. Intense gun fights, visceral hand-to-hand combat, white knuckle driving and street smarts will all be needed. But with the right crew, tough decisions and some dirty hands, it’s possible to make it to the top of the city's underworld. It’s time to create a new family on the ashes of the old."
Mafia III releases on PC, Mac, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this year. April 26th is the alleged US date.