With Mafia: The Outdated Nation having been out for over a month, eyes at the moment are on writer 2K Video games and developer Hangar 13 about the way forward for the franchise. Based on YouTube channel Mafia Sport Movies, one of many actors who labored on Mafia: The Outdated Nation—Carina Conti (Isabella Torrisi within the sport)—has mentioned that the writer has greenlit one other Mafia sport.
Based on the YouTuber, Conti mentioned this throughout a livestream by Bubbly Nuggets, the place, in response to the host asking whether or not 2K or Hangar 13 have confirmed one other entry within the franchise, she mentioned that “they have been accredited for an additional Mafia sport, that is true.”
It’s value noting that neither Hangar 13 nor 2K have formally made any bulletins about the way forward for the Mafia franchise. Neither of the businesses have confirmed whether or not there might be DLC made for Mafia: The Outdated Nation. Nonetheless, there’s a free replace within the works that may deliver with it a Free Journey Mode.
Nonetheless, with the title having reportedly offered greater than 800,000 copies in its first 4 days alone, each the writer and developer desirous to make one other title within the franchise wouldn’t be too stunning. The identical report famous that the PS5 model of the sport was the best promoting one, adopted by PC in second place Xbox Collection X/S in third place.
“The strong early gross sales underline the enduring attraction of the Mafia IP and validate the studio’s option to ship a linear, narrative-driven expertise with cinematic presentation,” wrote monitoring and evaluation agency Sensor Tower in its report. “The stronger efficiency on PlayStation might replicate the platform’s strategic alignment with story-focused single-player video games.”
Mafia: The Outdated Country was the primary entry within the franchise since Mafia 3, which had initially come out all the best way again in 2016. As the most recent entry’s title would possibly suggest, nonetheless, the sport leaves behind the sequence’ conventional US setting to as an alternative return to the birthplace of Italian organised crime.
The latest launch has additionally been described by Hangar 13 as marking its new period, because it moved away from its personal proprietary sport engine, as an alternative making Mafia: The Outdated Nation utilizing Unreal Engine 5. Again in July, studio president Nick Baynes and sport director Alex Cox had spoken concerning the choices behind the engine change.
“Nicely, Unreal, I believe as many, many gamers might be conversant in now, brings an terrible lot to new video games, provides us cutting-edge visuals particularly,” mentioned Cox. “And for the form of sport we have been seeking to make this time round, we actually, actually wished to place a large emphasis on portraying the fantastic thing about Sicily, the unbelievable landscapes, plus the MetaHuman tech and the entire stuff that’s actually allowed us to do actually, actually high-quality cinematic presentation.”
“The performances of the actors are actually, actually unbelievable. Superb high quality facial, and that’s key to this Mafia sport because it was for all earlier Mafia video games of their time of launch and attaining that form of let’s say visible leading edge particularly, surroundings artwork and cinematics, was actually entrance of thoughts once we determined to make the transition.”
Mafia: The Outdated Nation is on the market on PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S. For extra particulars, take a look at our assessment, in addition to our ideas about the way forward for the franchise.
