The Outdated Nation is a Sicilian prequel arriving...

2K Video games’ persistently sporadic Mafia sequence will return in 2025. Mafia: The Outdated Nation is about in Sicily within the 1900s and can discover the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 introduced {that a} new Mafia title was in growth back in 2022, however gave few particulars past that. Now, we all know it is heading to PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S in summer season 2025.

The sport’s first trailer, which debuted at The Game Awards on Thursday, is a melodramatic affair full with a patriarch monologuing over candlelight, horses galloping throughout the plains and opera music as a backing observe. That is drama, individuals.

Mafia: The Outdated Nation is a linear, narrative-driven recreation with stealth and gunplay mechanics in purposefully cinematic environments. It stars Enzo, a brand new, authentic protagonist. This is how writer 2K Video games describes his journey: “Enzo has survived a childhood of indentured labor in Sicily’s hellish sulfur mines. Now, by means of a coincidence, he has the chance to affix Don Torrisi’s crime household, and can do no matter it takes to carve out a greater life for himself. By swearing an oath, Enzo has dedicated himself to the Torrisi household’s code of honor, with all the ability and hardship it entails.”

The Mafia sequence began in 2002 as a extra critical tackle the GTA components, set in a Nineteen Thirties nod to Chicago. Mafia II landed in 2010 and occurred in a fictionalized model of post-World Struggle II New York Metropolis. One other lengthy hole led to 2017, when Mafia III flashed ahead to the ’60s in not-New Orleans.

In 2018, 2K merged Hangar 13, the developer of the third title, with 2K Czech, the group that made the primary two video games, and that mixed studio is now engaged on The Outdated Nation. A 2025 launch window will give us eight years between Mafia installments, which is correct on course for the sequence.