With Mafia: The Previous 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. In accordance with YouTube channel Mafia Recreation Movies, one of many actors who labored on Mafia: The Previous Nation—Carina Conti (Isabella Torrisi within the sport)—has stated that the writer has greenlit one other Mafia sport.
In accordance with the YouTuber, Conti stated 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 stated that “they had been accredited for one more Mafia sport, that is true.”
It’s price 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 Previous Nation. Nonetheless, there’s a free replace within the works that may carry with it a Free Experience Mode.
Nonetheless, with the title having reportedly offered greater than 800,000 copies in its first 4 days alone, each the writer and developer eager to make one other title within the franchise wouldn’t be too shocking. The identical report famous that the PS5 model of the sport was the best promoting one, adopted by PC in second place Xbox Sequence X/S in third place.
“The sturdy early gross sales underline the enduring enchantment 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 mirror the platform’s strategic alignment with story-focused single-player video games.”
Mafia: The Previous Country was the primary entry within the franchise since Mafia 3, which had initially come out all the way in which again in 2016. As the newest entry’s identify would possibly suggest, nevertheless, the sport leaves behind the collection’ conventional US setting to as an alternative return to the birthplace of Italian organised crime.
The current 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 Previous Nation utilizing Unreal Engine 5. Again in July, studio president Nick Baynes and sport director Alex Cox had spoken in regards to the selections behind the engine swap.
“Nicely, Unreal, I believe as many, many gamers might be acquainted with now, brings an terrible lot to new video games, provides us cutting-edge visuals specifically,” stated Cox. “And for the type of sport we had been seeking to make this time round, we actually, actually needed to place an enormous emphasis on portraying the great thing about Sicily, the improbable 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 improbable. Wonderful 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 type of let’s say visible innovative specifically, setting artwork and cinematics, was actually entrance of thoughts after we determined to make the transition.”
Mafia: The Previous Nation is out there on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. For extra particulars, try our assessment, in addition to our ideas about the way forward for the franchise.
