Ahead of tonight’s promised airing at The Game Awards, a trailer for Mafia: The Old Country – the fourth entry within the greater than two-decade-old open-world crime collection – has made an look on-line by way of a YouTube advert.
As anticipated, the trailer brings a primary tantalising glimpse at Mafia: The Old Country’s 1900s-set Sicilian motion. It additionally offers a launch window: summer time 2025 for PC by way of Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Developer Hangar 13, which labored on 2106’s Mafia 3, introduced it was engaged on a brand new Mafia recreation again in 2022 to mark the collection’ twentieth anniversary. At the time its launch was mentioned to nonetheless be “just a few years away”, however the legal guidelines of temporal development being what they’re, that time – following a teaser reveal in August – is sort of right here.
Mafia: The Old Country does, after all, convey one more time shift for the collection. While its first two video games spanned the Nineteen Thirties, 40s, and 50s between them, and Mafia 3 set its sights on the late 60s, The Old Country – as its identify suggests – appears to be like prefer it’ll whisk gamers again to expertise occasions previous to these video games.
More particularly, this fourth outing guarantees to ship “gritty mob story set within the brutal underworld of 1900s Sicily”, that includes “genuine realism and wealthy storytelling” in a “harmful and unforgiving period”. And now, due to this yr’s first The Game Awards leak, we now precisely what all that appears like.
Stay tuned for a full model of the trailer tonight at The Game Awards, which kicks off at 12.30am UK time. Grab a espresso and be a part of us later!
