You can watch the scene for yourself below in a YouTube video courtesy of the Gamer’s Little Playground channel. Mafia 3 ends with the player able to make some choices about whether Lincoln Clay carries on as New Bordeaux’s new crime lord or takes off to the west coast to live a quiet life, but whatever choice you make, a final scene of the Senate hearing with Donovan awaits after some of the credits roll. He had to have ulterior motives, right?Īs it turns out, yes, absolutely. Fair enough, but he strikes me as the kind of character who wouldn’t do something like this unless he got something out of it. Senate Committee about his actions, and he frequently justifies them here by saying that Marcano needed to be taken down and the police and FBI weren’t getting the job done. Why would this clearly resourceful, smart, savvy CIA agent help Lincoln Clay do this? The game’s framed narrative features Donovan testifying before a U.S. Throughout my time playing Mafia 3, I kept wondering why. Donovan not only provides Lincoln with the tools he needs to carve a path of destruction through New Bordeaux, but he frequently verbally pushes him in that direction as well. To make explicit what the game’s frequent symbolism suggests, Donovan is basically the devil on Lincoln’s shoulder to the angel played by Father James, a priest who frequently tries to get Lincoln off the path of revenge and bloodshed. In New Bordeaux, he provides Lincoln with weapons, tech and leads on how he can continue dismantling the Marcano crime family. Donovan is a CIA agent who, we discover, served with Lincoln as part of an elite military group in the Vietnam War. There’s a narrative problem Mafia 3 faced in this revenge quest: How does a relatively poor guy who’s just lost everything go toe to toe with a rich, powerful crime organization? The game’s answer appears early on in the form of John Donovan.

After returning home from the war, Clay finds himself set up against the Italian mafia, led locally by a crime boss named Sal Marcano, after they kill Clay’s family and leave him for dead. For everyone else, let me provide a little bit of context.Īs mentioned in the review, Mafia 3 follows the story of Lincoln Clay, a mixed race Vietnam War vet living in New Bordeaux, a fictionalized version of New Orleans. If you haven’t played Mafia 3 and don’t want anything ruined for you, quit reading and don’t watch the video at the bottom of this story. With that said, I’ll place an obvious big old spoiler warning right here.

That is, up until the very final cutscene in the game, which. Whatever my problems with the game, I think the story is relatively well-done and worth experiencing.

When I reviewed Mafia 3 a couple of weeks ago ( read that here), I went out of my way to avoid story spoilers.

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