Mafia: The Old Country Is Getting a Story DLC Very Soon

Mafia: The Old Country is getting a astonishment communicative enlargement this August. The archetypal trailer for Mafia: The Old Country's DLC, Man of Honor, confirmed that Don Salieri volition instrumentality successful this communicative expansion. The charcater was prominently featured arsenic the antagonist successful the archetypal Mafia game. The caller enlargement volition lone outgo $10 and volition merchandise connected August 14th, adding 2 caller communicative chapters that instrumentality spot successful the mediate of the main game's communicative and further Free Ride content.

The caller missions instrumentality spot successful wintertime 1905 and sees Enzo assisting Ennio Salieri pursuing his merchandise from prison. The enlargement volition diagnostic caller weapons, vehicles, and environments for players to enactment in.

In an interrogation with Polygon, subordinate plan manager Josh Zammit explained the determination to revisit the quality of Salieri, agelong earlier helium becomes the kingpin we cognize him arsenic successful the archetypal Mafia.

“We dive into immoderate of the stories astir what [Salieri] was doing beforehand, worldly that players of the erstwhile games won't know,” Zammit told Polygon. “Ultimately, his extremity to get to America is his driving origin astatine this point. And possibly that plays into the aboriginal story, right? Plants a small spot of a effect successful Enzo's caput astir what helium mightiness privation to bash with his future. That was an absorbing happening for america to play with arsenic good — this thought that wherever did helium get this thought of going to the caller life? Maybe determination was idiosyncratic determination that was driving it location and benignant of yet it stuck with Enzo arsenic an accidental arsenic well.”

The quality was a spot of a surprise, arsenic Mafia: The Old Country was designed arsenic a smaller-scale title. It was released past twelvemonth arsenic a $50 rubric and isn't a large AAA open-world crippled that takes dozens of hours to complete. However, the crippled was a sizable hit, prompting Hanger 13 to support supporting it.

We gave the crippled an 8/10 successful our review, praising it for being a "conventional but effectual instrumentality to the linear and tightly story-driven format of the archetypal Mafia and Mafia II, and it boasts a fantastic oculus and receptor for detail."

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