The next game Mafia would take place in the late 19th and early 20th century. Gameplay-wise, this one would focus on more linear storytelling, similar to the first two games in the franchise.
The next Mafia will he be up to it? Nick Spheshal, co-founder of XboxEra, shared on May 14, 2022 a new rumor about the new game Mafia in the XboxEra Podcast. Speaking on the show, Nick said the next game could be set in Sicily. He also announced that the game’s fourth installment would focus on Don Salieri’s family.
A Mafia 4 in Sicily?
Lately there have been a lot of changes within Hangar 13 – the developer behind the franchise Mafia. After the departures of studio head Haden Blackman and chief operating officer Matthew Urban, uncertainty reigns over the future of their projects. However, according to a recent report from Kotaku shared on May 5, 2022, Hangar 13 studio in Brighton, UK is leading the development of an upcoming and new game. Mafia.
Fans hoping to get their hands on the franchise’s next installment quickly will be disappointed. The game is only in early development, according to the same report from Kotaku. Mafia 4 (working name) is apparently codenamed Nero and should run on Unreal Engine 5. Hangar 13 would therefore drop the Mafia 3 engine, which was recently used for remasters of the original games.
The story should focus on Don Salieri, the head of the Salieri crime family for whom protagonist Tommy Angelo works in the first installment. The journalist also claims that the next episode of Mafia would not be an open world, but something more linear as the first games of the franchise could be.
A new chance after the failure of Mafia 3
Unfortunately, the developers of Hangar 13 struggled to achieve their goals with Mafia 3. Fans of the franchise had often complained about always doing the same thing: interrogating, destroying, murdering…
In Mafia 3, we embody a Lincoln Clay just back from the Vietnam War. The character finds his adoptive family which is none other than the Black Mafia, managed by a certain Sammy Robinson. The latter also has a debt problem with the Don of the Italian Mafia, namely Sal Marcano, and to erase it, he sends Lincoln Clay to carry out a heist.
Our character is also accompanied by Sammy’s son, that is to say Ellis, but also by Thomas Burke and Giorgi Marcano, who manage the heist successfully, except that obviously everything does not go as planned. Sal Marcano then commits the irreparable by killing Sammy Robinson and Ellis in their own bar, as well as Lincoln Clay, left for dead.
With a challenging gameplay in terms of contextualization, the title did not try to make us believe that we were doing something different. It was above all a vicious circle where you had to do the same thing over and over again. The next Mafia will it live up to our expectations? Only the future will tell us. It will obviously be necessary to take all this information with tweezers, pending a potential formalization of Mafia 4 on the side of Hangar 13.