https://mafia.2k.com/the-old-country/

"Uncover the origins of organized crime in Mafia: The Old Country, a gritty mob story set in the brutal underworld of 1900s Sicily. Fight to survive as Enzo Favara and prove your worth to the Cosa Nostra in this immersive third-person action-adventure set during a dangerous, unforgiving era.

Enzo will do anything for a better life. After a brutal childhood of forced labor, he's ready to risk everything to become a man of honor in the Torrisi crime family.

His oath to the Cosa Nostra, with all the power, temptation, and hardship it entails, is a burning reminder of this simple truth:

Family Takes Sacrifice.

This thrilling narrative is brought to life by stunning visuals, cinematic storytelling, and the authentic realism that the critically acclaimed Mafia series is known for. Enzo's story unfolds in a time when skill with a stiletto blade was a deadly asset, a lupara sawed-off shotgun was a go-to firearm, murderous vendettas raged for decades, and mafiosi patrolled their protection rackets on foot, horseback, or behind the wheel of turn-of-the-century motorcars."

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never played any mafia games, are they good?

Consider Grand Theft Auto: a fictional equivalent of real-life locations, always with the core premise of using a criminal perspective to crudely satire American culture. GTA is "in the middle", with Saint's Row being full-blown parody and Mafia in the opposite direction: stone-cold serious, but every bit as evocative.

IMO Mafia 1 and 2 are great atmospheric, story-driven games (including the Mafia Remake) and 3 is ok as a period revenge drama (although quite monotonous and bloated gameplay) but doesn't quite feel satisfying as a sequel to Mafia 2. Still, IMO the series is great and well worth your time... if you enjoy story-focused open-world games. Sure, you won't be creating crazy characters and running around causing unbridled mayhem in the satiric, "upside-down" worlds of GTA, but you will have generally good stories, interesting "histocic" locales, some great music, pretty decent gameplay, and a lot of atmosphere. For me, the Mafia series sits alongside the Red Dead Redemption series as my favorite non-fantasy open-world games. Looks good... although I wish they'd shown a bit more of the story instead of straight action. One might think from this trailer that the Mafia games are part of the Uncharted series. But, I love going back to the mafia's "roots" in Sicily. May even read Mario Puzo's The Sicilian to get ready for the release.

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I would totally insta-buy this on GOG. Please vore on the dreamlist to keep the interest up!

Looks great, but i'm gonna wait two years for the GOG version.

Also it's nice to see the price is $50 instead of $70 or $80 on a new AAA game. :)

I would add, that Mafia 3 gets much better by its DLCs, that do add more side stories, more side missions and by that way the very needed missions, that are differently to the main "paint the open world in my color" stuff.
You got the "collect the money automatically" upgrade - do something else after...

Interestingly for me Mafia 2 is the weakest of the bunch.
Mafia 1 is a linear game within an open world. The open world doesn't do much and doesn't offer many things and there is not much need for it. It just looks pretty and adds to the feeling.
Mafia 3 fully embraces to be an open world game, including the conquer sectors of the open world gameplay, that can be satisfying, if you don't overdo it (which Mafia 3 does without DLCs). And how your black character is treated often enough can be interesting. But because a GTA like, you can shoot the people into the face, rob their money and get away with it right after...

Mafia 2 pretends to be in need of the open world, but doesn't offer that much to do there.
But if you want certain things you have to do open world stuff, just to get everything you worked for stripped from you by story missions several times.
ANd there will be the point where you notice, there was no need to work for all that stuff in the first place, and there is no need to work for the stuff again, because you will get many things within the next story mission anyway - at worst by taking it from the dead.
The problem here is not that much that you got everything taken from you - the problem is more that you are back on track a story mission later.

Story Trailer
Deep Dive

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Breaking Omerta: "Art Meets Technology"

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I'm impressed with what I've seen. The last game just didn't work for me as a Mafia series installment (although again, I would have enjoyed it as a separate IP that maybe expanded on the dlc of a Vietnam vet returning home to NOLA to track down a serial killer). This game looks like Mario Puzo taking The Godfather series back to The Sicilian.

If it showed up on GOG today I'd probably purchase it. As it is I'll probably pick it up on PS5 when the price falls a little.