The Mafia Twitter account just tweeted for the first time in almost two years to say just one word: “Family.”
Admittedly, Mafia’s Twitter account normally doesn’t have much to say. It’s not an ongoing “game as a service” title, so once Mafia III’s litany of DLC came to end, 2K Games let the Twitter account go dormant. That is, until Mother’s Day when it spontaneously sprang back to life to utter a single word.
It was Mother’s Day, so the word “family” makes some sense, but it also fits with Mafia III’s tagline: “Family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you die for.”
Mafia III came out in 2016 as the most successful game of the franchise, with 5 million copies sold as of February 2017. It didn’t exactly redefine the crime sandbox genre, but it did take it to an interesting narrative place by being set in 1960’s New Orleans. You play as Lincoln Clay, a Vietnam vet who returns to an America that’s still too racist to give him a decent job, so he turns to a life of crime. Violence and profanity ensue.
Although the game has mixed overall reviews on Steam owing to a technically rocky launch, recent reviews are more charitable thanks to the developer finally ironing out the bugs years after Mafia III’s release.
If we had to guess what that one-word tweet could mean, we’d have to say there’s a remastered version of Mafia III on the way. Of course, we could be totally blind-sided by Mafia IV, but we wouldn’t complain.
Source: Twitter
