This is the first truly open world Mafia game, while keeping cinematic moments characteristic of previous games. Mafia III's take on New Orleans includes nine separate districts. One, the French Ward, was revealed last year at Gamescom following the game's announcement. Our recent hands-on demo took us to New Bordeaux's downtown area, which is situated between the high-end district and the poor district. There's also an industrial ward, a suburban area, a harbor, a shipyard, and the Bayou, the swamps to the south of the city where mobsters tend to hide their most prized secrets. "There's crime run out of the Bayou, but it doesn't have the same structure as some of the other districts, where they're running kind of a criminal enterprise out of it," Blackman said. "You go to the Bayou to do a lot of damage to some of the other rackets that rely on the area. [For example,] there's a moonshining racket in one of the districts, and you can go to the Bayou to hunt down and destroy some of the stills--because that's where they've hidden the stills."

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