His wife, Marianne, sees negative changes in her husband as his agent-informant relationship with Whitey grows, including accepting expensive gifts and money from the gang.Īn associate, Brian Halloran, fears for his own life and goes to the FBI to report Whitey's involvement, much to Connolly's displeasure. Blinded by his past, Connolly grows closer to Whitey and the gang and even invites them to his house for a cookout.
The FBI arrests the Angiulos, thus eliminating the remaining opposition to Whitey's power.
When Connolly demands information on the Angiulos' racketeering locations, Whitey gets pictures of the rival gang's hideouts, allowing the FBI to plant wiretaps. Whitey increasingly exploits his status as an informant, using Connolly's "protection" as a cover for his crimes. Douglas suffers from Reye syndrome, leading the devastated Lindsey to remove him from life support over Whitey's furious objections.Īlthough Connolly is supported by his co-worker John Morris, their boss, Charles McGuire, is suspicious. Although Whitey hates the idea of being a rat, he understands the protection doing so would afford him, his gang, and his family. Connolly believes he can infiltrate the Angiulo Brothers' organization with Whitey's help. FBI agent John Connolly returns to the area, having grown up in South Boston as a friend of Whitey and his brother, Massachusetts Senate President William "Billy" Bulger.Īfter the Angiulo Brothers send a motorcycle-riding assassin who murders a Winter Hill soldier, Whitey becomes an informant for Connolly. Bulger lives with his longtime partner Lindsey Cyr and their young son Douglas.īulger's supremacy is challenged by the North End-based Angiulo Brothers, a rival gang that is part of the New England Mafia family. In the meantime, though, you can check out the official reveal trailer and gameplay teaser just below.In 1975, James "Whitey" Bulger, leader of the Winter Hill Gang, controls most organized crime within South Boston, along with his right-hand man Stephen Flemmi, newcomer Kevin Weeks, and callous hitman Johnny Martorano. The game’s story seems fairly straightforward: Players are stranded on the aforementioned island, which has been “corrupted by a strange antediluvian substance,” and they’ll have to use “powerful abilities and immersive first person combat” to fend off the crazed villagers and “attempt to cleanse the land from its demoniac possession, if such a task remains possible.” Right now, there’s no set release date for The Black Masses, though the game’s Steam page says that players should expect it to enter Early Access this spring.
Although the game is somewhat unfortunately named - though it presumably refers to the fictional Satanic ritual, we hope - it seems to make good use of the technology pioneered by the studio’s first title, the slightly absurdist sandbox Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator, which The Black Masses utilizes to render “hundreds of thousands” of enemies across the game’s “16 square kilometer island.” If hacking and slashing your way across an island filled with throngs of possessed inhabitants sounds like a good time to you, then you might be interested in Brilliant Game Studios’s upcoming co-op RPG The Black Masses.
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