We finally know more about the new mafia game and it seems as if long-established fans in particular are getting their money's worth.
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The Mafia is a family affair. For me more than for other people. Oh right, with itthe mafia
I mean the game, of course... not that there are false rumors here. It would be a shame if we had to silence you.
Enough of the confusion! My father showed me Mafia. Or rather: I watched him play. I was certainly too young for it back then, but my father garnished all these violent impressions after the legendary end of the story with a dry “criminals don’t pay,” and in doing so left a lasting impression on me.
I certainly didn't want to become a real criminal after that, but it was only after that that I really wanted to play more games about the mafia. I'm always most pleased when this game, which has been so formative for me, gets a new successor.
In 2025, after almost ten years of waiting for a completely new offshoot, the time has finally come again. WithThe fourth offshoot of the gangster saga appears and takes a journey into the past.
At the Game Awards, after the teaser at the Summer Game Fest, the first real trailer was shown, which deliberately only reveals the bare essentials. But what kind of mafioso would I be if I couldn't organize some additional information!?
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Maybe it makes you suspicious that Fabiano starts this article and Heiko ends it. To be honest, we had planned things differently if Fabiano hadn't gotten sick. And no one should work sick, which is why temporary mafioso Heiko, who has a similar passion for 2K's gangster series, had to step in.
So before the Game Awards, I grabbed Nick Baynes (President of the developer studio Hangar 13) and Alex Cox (Game Director) to get a little more insight into how the wheels of organized crime are grinding this time. This much has already been said: the title doesn't just refer to the setting.
Everything at the beginning
Tommy, Vito, Lincoln... Enzo! Mafia: The Old Country has found its new hero, although Enzo is probably even further away from that term than Palermo is from New York. In the trailer, the focus is already on the young man when we witness his initiation. An almost religious ritual that welcomes Enzo into the Torrisi family.
Enzo comes from Italy, more precisely from Sicily, and will probably stay there for the duration of the game. Because The Old Country is the first part of the series in which we don't play an emigrant. The name suggests it: Mafia 4 takes place in the old homeland, as Don Salieri would say. What's more, it has never gone as far back into the past as in the new part.
