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Mafia: The Old Country - PC/PS5/XB

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Mafia: The Old Country is developed by Hanger 13 and has a release date: August 8, 2025 across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S.





 
Unfortunately made by the same developers who made the god awful Mafia Remake from 2020, so although slightly excited, I know I will be disappointed again.
 
Played back in the day Mafia: City of Lost Heaven when was released in 2002 finishing it at least 3 times, then 8 years later Mafia 2 was also great. During 2020 onwards I enjoyed a lot the Mafia 1 Remake and Mafia 2 DE, to the point that I was sucked in that world and was invested to experience doing all the additional side content. I never played Mafia 3 even though I have it in my library, the GTA style wasn't my cup of tea to enjoy some authentic gangster environment.

I'm a lot into this new Mafia The Old Country prologue, like waiting to watch a masterpiece movie or to read a great book. From the footage, the game does intensively better what a mafia game should be: great narrative with strong characters, awesome graphical and vibrant environmental details, very nice interactive cutscenes, solid shooting and driving gameplay. This game is pure art, and I think we should support developers with this classic view on projects. Also the price is nice and even if the main content will be short I think overall will be a great replayable experience. I hope that this game will include some great side content plus unlockables and also to choose or unlock some Italian dialog with english subs (similar like Sekiro with the Japaneese voice). I'm so excited and can't wait play it !!!
 
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Less then 3 hours to the release. Salute! :WASTED:

I watched 3 different german speaking reviews on YT and in some parts every one say different things which are good or not so good.

But every one mean it is a good game and it is more like Mafia 1 than Mafia 3.

In one review they sayed it don't have an savegame option. Just one automatic savegame which every time you save your game it overwrites the last savegame. Sounds not so good for me.

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Every cliché about Italy fulfilled: Check!
 
According to HLTB the main + side quests are between 11 and half and 13 hours long, so I feel the price is mostly generous knowing that additionally you also have a free ride mode where you can collect things that you've missed so you can double the playtime. Taking advantage of purchasing a beast of PC my first game on it is this, playing until now through the first four chapters... and damn with everything on max settings this game is gorgeous. That mediterranean scenery reminds me in some way of Witcher 3 Blood & Wine expansion. Very focused on the story and very intensive interaction wise, organically transitioning directly from cutscenes to gameplay. The soundtrack is awesome, like I've anticipated characters have weight performing great with strong acting, and the overall atmosphere is recreated as it should be from that period in Sicily (I've even changed the voice option from English to Sicialian for the atmosphere to be as authentic as posible).

It's a marvelous game, and I hope the gaming industry will have more of those gems on its sleeves. Id rather prefer a game like this to get immersed for 13 hours, than playing some 100 hours ubisoft lame game where the writing and characters are ass, combined with copy/pasta dumb boring nonsensical activities...
 
bsmaff said:
Unfortunately made by the same developers who made the god awful Mafia Remake from 2020, so although slightly excited, I know I will be disappointed again.
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I watched a guy playing it, really not a fan and I'm the biggest Mafia fan you'll see. This doesn't have the magic of the original Mafia 1 and 2. It's all dumbed down mechanics to allow EVERYONE to play it and no skill needed at all, no originality, doesn't even seem like the Mafia games of old, more like Hitman or 1000 other games. It's all hand-holding and spoon-fed slop. WTF is that instincts thing? That's not Mafia. That's some Hitman reduce the difficulty and tension of any stealth situation to zero nonsense. What have they done to my boy?

I'll watch some more, hopefully it improves and adds more interesting elements and some actual gameplay. In fairness the graphics, setting, acting and dialogue are molto bene.
 
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