So apparently people have been having an issue with the new Mafia 3.

[Goatseye]

Kane1389 said:

NiKKoM said:
Really? People complained about that? For once we see the other crime families besides the Italian one and yet people complain? Or do these people have no historic sense besides Hollywood and really think crime back then was only by those Italian people?

Mafia is exclusively Italian criminal syndicate . So much so that a non-italian person would never be accepted as an official member of the mafia. So by defenition of a mafia, a black person couldnt be a part of it. He could be a part of some other criminal organisation sure, but not the Mafia. Thats the first problem.

The second problem is that you are not even playing as a mafia member at all, which runs totally against the previous games in the series. You are playing as some self righteous dude taking out the actual mobsters, which is not what the franchise is about. 

So because of this, I can see why people might be upset at the concept of this game

Mafia: A mafia is a type of organized crime syndicate whose primary activities are protection racketeering, the arbitration of disputes between criminals, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements and transactions. Secondary activities may be practiced such as drug-trafficking, loan sharking and fraud.

The word is just a description of the organized group. It could be called gangsters, mob, etc...

What you're thinking is Cosa Nostra...