Mafia 3’s opening used to be much more intense, the game’s director has revealed. A “cold open” sequence that ended with the main character killing a cop was eventually cut from the game — and apparently deleted from the developer’s servers, so it never gets out.
For all its other problems, Mafia III was a very good-looking video game, so it’s a treat today to get to check out some of the art that went into its creation.