The Old Country is a Sicilian prequel arriving in summer 2025

2K Games’ ever-running Mafia series will return in 2025. Mafia: The Old Country Set in 20th century Sicily, the film will explore the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 has announced that a new mafia title is in development Again in 2022But he gave few details beyond that. Now, we know it’s headed to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series

The first promotional trailer for the game, which appeared for the first time on Game prizes On Thursday, it’s a melodramatic affair complete with the Patriarch’s candlelit monologue, horses galloping across the plains and opera music as the backing track. This is it dramathe people.

Mafia: The Old Country It is a linear, narrative-driven game with stealth mechanics and gunplay set in purposeful, cinematic environments. It stars Enzo, the new original protagonist. Here’s how publisher 2K Games does it describes His Journey: “Enzo has survived a childhood of slave labor in the hellish sulfur mines of Sicily. Now, through a twist of fate, he has the opportunity to join Don Torrisi’s crime family, and he will do whatever it takes to have a better life for… By taking the oath, he has bound… Enzo himself upholds the Torrisi family code of honour, with all the power and hardship that entails.

The Mafia series began in 2002 as a more serious take on the GTA formula, set in reference to 1930s Chicago. The second mafia It lands in 2010 and takes place in a fictional version of post-World War II New York City. Another long hiatus led to 2017, when Mafia III Flash forward to the 1960s in non-New Orleans.

In 2018, 2K merged Hangar 13, the developer of the third game, with 2K Czech, the team that made the first two games, and this joint studio is now working on Old country. A 2025 release window would give us eight years between Mafia installments, which is the right target for the series.