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Mafia: The Old Country has officially dropped, and it is delivering some cinematic mob drama straight from early 1900s Sicily. If those gaming skills have gotten a bit rusty, this is the time to trade grand theft dreams for slippery cobblestone streets and dusty crypts.
Mafia: The Old Country Is A Return to Roots, with Style
The Old Country takes players back to the raw, unforgiving underworld of Sicily’s criminal founding era. It is developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K. In no way it seems like a reboot for a newbie, making it a perfect point to drop in the Mafia game series.
Released on August 8, 2025, and available now in Pakistan on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, it returns the series to its narrative-driven origins with a focused storyline that abandons the open-world chaos of Mafia III.
Story, Cast, and Immersive Audio
Playing as Enzo Favara, a former carusu forced into crime, players must navigate a minstrel-like descent into the Torrisi family’s world. Voice acting in authentic Sicilian dialect deepens immersion. While the cinematic environments like sulfur mines and cinemas, add layers of texture.
Performance Options That Let You Choose
The game lets you choose your own adventure with:
- Performance Mode, which delivers a stable ~60 FPS
- Quality Mode prioritizes visuals, perfect for 4K setups
- PS5 Pro users gain enhanced benefits like 120 Hz variable refresh rates and dynamic resolution scaling.
Critics are applauding the game’s tight plot and emotional weight, giving it the second-highest Metacritic score in the series. They especially laud that the game doesn’t reinvent stealth. And it is “dense, tasty, and a little cheesy” as game critic Luke Reilly from IGN describes it.
Fans still coming up short on player buildup, with a peak of 27,585 concurrent Steam players; less than earlier entries but a respectable starting point for a series reboot.
