The Old Country is a Sicilian prequel arriving in the summer of 2025

2K’s classic Mafia game is back in 2025. Mafia: The Old World is set in 19th century Sicily and will explore the origins of organized crime. The developer of Hangar 13 has announced that a new Mafia title is in progress back in 2022but he gave more than that. Now, we know it’s heading to PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in the summer of 2025.

The first trailer for the game, which debuted on The Game Awards On Thursday, it’s a fun story full of one parent tending candles, horses galloping across the plains and opera music as a form of support. These are dramapeople.

Mafia: The Old World It’s a linear, story-driven game with stealth and gun mechanics in deliberate cinematic environments. It stars Enzo, a new, original protagonist. This is how the publisher 2K Games he explains his journey: “Enzo has survived a childhood of self-employment in the hellish sulfur mines of Sicily. Now, through a series of twists and turns, he has the opportunity to join the criminal family of Don Torrisi, and he will do whatever it takes to find a better life . By swearing, Enzo has committed himself to the Torrisi family’s code of honor, with all the power and hardships that entails.”

The Mafia series began in 2002 as an expansion of GTA, which was set in the 1930s in Chicago. Mafia II arrived in 2010 and took place in a fictional post-World War II New York City. Another long gap resulted in 2017, right Mafia III appeared in the ’60s in not-New Orleans.

In 2018, 2K merged Hangar 13, the developer of the third title, with 2K Czech, the team that developed the first two games, and the combined studio is currently working on it. The Old World. The 2025 release window will give us eight years between Mafia episodes, which is fitting for the series.