2K Games will rebuild the Mafia trilogy with a definitive edition in which we will relive an excellent gangster story with updated graphics.
The Mafia trilogy can be included in the privileged list of titles that, due to its past success, deserve a twist and return to the showcase of the great releases with a remake that does not represent a substantial revolution, but allows you to once again enjoy its story with greatly improved graphics and increased fluidity.
2K Games has created a remake of Mafia II and Mafia I that can be played together with the third title in an installment that combines the three plots, Mafia: Trilogy .
At the gates of the launch of the new console generations, the Playstation 5 and the Xbox Series X, the developer Hangar 13 has worked meticulously to honor the 18th anniversary of a classic that covers more than 40 years of history and the evolution of gangsters in United States.
The new versions of the second and third installments are already available, while the first will be released at the end of August and will be the one that will take the most work, since almost two decades have passed since its release on PS2, Xbox and PC .
In fact, the only remake in use will be of the first title, which has been made completely from scratch while the second, although quite a few things have been touched, has maintained the main structure of the original.
Moreover, for its development the graphic engine of the latest work is being used, so that the graphic line is uniform and there can be a homogeneous common thread that does not collide too much.
The idea is clear: reinforce the idea of the trilogy as independent stories but with the common denominator of gameplay , graphics and narrative.
Precio
The Mafia trilogy will come out in a game pack in which you can purchase all three titles for €60, although they can also be purchased individually. In addition, everyone who has the second will receive the reissue completely free of charge. The same will happen with the third. To enjoy the first one, we will have to have its title, although we will not have to buy the entire package: we will receive a small discount so that we only have to pay money for it: around €30 .
Haden Blackman, president of Hangar 13, assures that the intention to redevelop the first Mafia is none other than to have the “incredible opportunity to introduce this beloved game to a new generation of players and give lifelong fans the opportunity to relive Tommy’s story.”
Plot
And although perhaps the narrative has not aged at all —his narrative was one of the first proofs that video games could also tell stories like good blockbusters— , the gameplay had become very old due to a rough style of play due to the limitations of The time.
Even so, the intention is clear: they do not want to make a change that distances the work from what was shown in its day, but rather to update it to the time. The Mafia have always stood out for being very well articulated open worlds and with a freedom of movement quite well attached to the time in which it came out. The design of the buildings, the play of light and shadow, the presence of a greater number of NPCs…
In short, the classic story of Tommy Angelo returns with a graphic engine that expands the capabilities of the original sandbox , with a slight expansion of the plot and more modern mechanics, cinematics with current technology and a soundtrack that knows how to perfectly recreate the United States of the 1930s plagued by prohibition.
Initially, Mafia: The City of the Lost Sky was made with the aim of imitating the great cinematographic productions of mafioso films, such as The Godfather or GoodFellas . And although the comparisons between works of different media is somewhat cumbersome to do, the game does not have much to envy those two movies.
The game perfectly reproduces the soulless atmosphere of a nation that was hit by the Great Depression through a very personal story that accurately assimilated the atmosphere of a class that was forced to any trick to survive.
From the end of August we will have another excuse to once again put on the mafia outfit and play a game that for many years was considered a cult. With his return to the mainstream, those who, due to lack of attractiveness or ignorance, did not rejoice with the intrepid adventures of a Tommy Angelo who left his taxi parked and got carried away by the succulent organized crime that would solve his economic problems.