For anyone interested, these are the changes in the first release and what to expect from the next one:
Story and Missions:
Added additional quests from story characters.
New mission “Wheels On Fire” from the presentations of the game in 2009.
Possibility of choice in missions.
Various minor changes to missions such as new dialogues or new enemies.
Gameplay changes:
New additional activity “Fistfights”.
New game mode “Free Ride”.
The system of breakage of master keys.
New difficulty mode.
Ability to buy and read newspapers.
Added player reputation level.
Added melee weapons.
Added a license to carry weapons.
A more vibrant city.
Sounds, textures and graphics:
New sounds of shooting and braking from the beta version.
New filter and environment similar to the beta version of the game.
New season Autumn.
Added cut soundtracks from missions and cut music on the radio.
Cut locations such as Culver Dam, Maxwell’s Supermarket, Millville Garage, Parking Lot, Hunter’s Point Apartment, Hillwood Villa, Diamond Motors Dealership and Brothel.
New interface, close to the beta version of the game.
Updated map.
In addition to the content for the first version, we want to tell you what things we want to add in the next versions:
Buying houses and cars, racing, more side quests, more cut dialogues and changes in story missions, trunk and inventory limit, new ending in the game, public transport, new cutscenes, more locations, more interactions with the game world.
Thanks for adding this here. I was too lazy to copypaste it last night
I wonder if it´ll be possible to use Friends 4 Life alongside this, or if the Final Cut will try to incorporate stuff from it
Ok, so this wasn´t just my imagination when watching the videos. Honestly, I don´t like the filter and hope that they can somehow make it optional or that someone will make a mod restoring the original look. The filter just throws the game into the heap of games from the late 2000s with an overtly brownish look (wink wink GTA IV).
I can’t believe they finally choose a location outside of US. And I was worried that there won’t be cars in the 1900s setting but there seems to be anyway. I am looking forward to this!
Like I mentioned in the other thread, I wouldn’t count on there being many of them given the time period and locale
But yeah, I’m looking forward to it as well. I’m glad they chose Sicily. Apart from being a pretty logical step, it’s a beautiful, atmospheric, and heavily underutilised setting (outside of WWII games), and I always felt disappointed by how cut it ended up in Mafia II. Gives off some neat Godfather/Puzo vibes and I’m looking forward to some old-fashioned weaponry as well.
Also, I’m curious whether it will cover a longer timespan. It would be cool seeing changes from the traditional rural society, modern technology creeping in, all the way until the advent of fascism and Mussolini’s clampdown on the Mafia.
Outside of Sicily in this period, the one other non-US setting I’d kind of like to see is Italy/Sicily in the 1980’s and early 90’s.
I’m guessing they named it that way because it’s a prequel and maybe because they might want people to forget about the mess that was Mafia 3. I really hope Old Country is more Mafia 1 DE and less open world shite that was 3 not to mention, less glitches
I think this was the game that started the trend of comparing modern games with ones from 20 years ago to point out certain features
This was a nice read actually, with quite a bit of meaningful info (the bit about Sicilian knives and knife fighting got me particularly interested). Glad they confirmed that they are taking the way of Mafia 1 and 2 in terms of storytelling, and that the open world will serve primarily as a backdrop (though I hope there still is some level of interactivity, at least in a free roam mode). Still a bit uncertain how to feel about UE5 though…
Gunplay and “stealth” look reused (again) from Mafia DE / M3, as does the car driving. The trailer certainly hasn´t aleviated my concerns about UE5 visuals. It sadly looks rather bland and soulless so far to me. I do like the idea of the knife fights though. Aaand, it´s got both horses and cars!
The pricing is good though. Not that that helps me, cause I have nowhere near the required specs, lol.
It looks alright. Despite gunplay and combat looks similar to previous H13 games, I think it could be a fresh experience with new stuff like rural world and horse riding. And they did mention it’s a linear, movie-esque story, so I suppose they took the positive feedback from DE. Maybe it’s time to replay that game again to refamiliarize myself with the series before the Old Country comes out.
Oh, definitely. I think the choice in setting here is an excellent decision, both within the series and open-world games in general. And a more linear approach to the story has always been the better course of action for this series. But it would be nice if they gave the gunplay and driving a more unique feel compared to the previous two entries.
Having watched the other video now, a lot of the scenes here, especially those around 5:57-6:06, look actually quite a bit more colourful and vivid than the gameplay trailer, so hopefully it will be possible to tweak this stuff in the graphics settings.
As long as I don’t finish that race in the Mafia remake I can’t forgive them for changing the voices and won’t touch further games in this series.
The original is one of my favorite games of all time. Can’t believe how old it is now.
I love 2 to death. It’s a cult classic of mine and I often find myself replaying it. Didn’t care much for 3 but loved the remake of 1 and optimistic about this new one.
Reminds me of some other game…