Mafia: The Old Country is coming in 2025 and takes the series to early 20th century Sicily

Here's the news: There's a new Mafia game. It's called Mafia: The Old Country. It's set not in America, as in the previous three games in the series, but in 20th-century Sicily.

That's what we know so far, but if you look below you can find the trailer.

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The Old Country is being developed by Hangar 13, the studio that also developed Mafia 3. Technically, in a way, they're also the studio that made Mafia 1 and 2, since those games were made by Illusion Softworks and renamed 2K Czech and were folded into Hangar 13 in 2017. What a twisted web capitalism weaves.

This new Mafia was revealed during tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Livestream, with a brief coda where Hangar 13's head Nick Baynes said The Old Country would return to the “roots” of what people enjoyed about the series and have a “deep, linear narrative.” I thought Mafia 3 had a linear narrative and was better than people gave it credit for – at least once the bugs were fixed – but oh well. Hopefully going back even further into the past means the cars are slower and trashier than ever. I hope the cars are so old and shitty that they have legs.

2K will be showing off more of Mafia: The Old Country in December of this year, and it's scheduled to release in 2025. This was a big day for 2K overall because they announced Borderlands 4 and set a release date for Civ 7 as well.


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