Go to Rolling Stone to read the full interview with Blackman. Honestly, I was doubtful that we'd be able to get this wide spectrum of '60s artists.'

'So Creedence, the Rolling Stones, we have the Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Elvis. 'There were artists that I thought there would be no way we'd ever get, and yet they came through,' Blackman said. There's something really special about the thunder of the Misfits doing this song that's very poetic and powerful.'īlackman also said he was very doubtful at first that 2K would be able to secure the rights for some of the songs it wanted to include in the game.

Then later we have a really powerful turning point for one of those characters and you hear just a brief snippet of the Misfits version. 'It's playing on a radio in the background and it's very fitting of the moment. 'We have a moment in the game where you hear the Duprees version and it's a really dramatic moment between two characters,' he added. 'I actually was introduced to that song through the Misfits version of it. They weren't the first ones to perform it but that's the version we have in the game,' director Haden Blackman told Rolling Stone. There's a song in the game called 'You Belong to Me' from the Duprees. 'When I look back on some of this music, the way I encountered a lot of it without even realizing it is through covers. This gave developer Hangar 13 some new opportunities for music. The game itself is presented through flashbacks from a 2016 hearing that dives into the events of Lincoln Clay in 1968 New Bordeaux. For example, the CCR song 'Green River' comes on when players are hunting someone down in the bayou.Īnother interesting element of Mafia III's soundtrack is that it features licensed cover songs, too.

These songs will play throughout the game and sometimes are used strategically to support the story.

Mafia 3 soundtrack