Mafia: The Old Country is nothing like GTA 6 say devs ahead of 2025 launch [Video]

The first brand new Mafia game in nearly 20 years is set to launch not long before GTA 6, but developer Hangar 13 doesn’t seem particularly worried.

Aside from Borderlands 4, the other 2K published game expected to show up at The Game Awards 2024 was Mafia: The Old Country, the newest entry in the Mafia series that was teased at Gamescom in August.

Some of the anticipation was diluted somewhat when a short trailer leaked yesterday, which also gave away the game’s release window, even if it didn’t really offer any info on what Mafia: The Old Country is about.

While the full version of the trailer isn’t much longer, clocking in at less than two minutes – most of which is cut scenes – the developers at Hangar 13 have provided further details about its story and what fans can expect from the gameplay.

Set in Sicily during the early 1900s (something that was accurately rumoured in …