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Mafia: Definitive Edition remake officially announced for AugustThe other two are upgraded for free
The other two are upgraded for free
A real pretty remake ofMafiais coming on August 28, 2K announced today. After accidentallyblowing the surpriselast week, they’ve now madeMafia: Definitive Editionofficial. As well as remaking the 2002 wiseguy ‘em up, they’ve given the less-good 2010 sequelMafia IIa less-dramatic remastering, which is due to launch today as a free update. AndMafia IIIis getting its DLC thrown in for free. Together, they call this Mafia: Trilogy.
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Mafia’s a good’un, a third-person drive-o-shooter about a taxi driver who semi-accidentally falls in with the mob in the 1930s. It’s a solid bit of mobbing. Comparisons to GTA are a bit weird because while it does offer a good slice of virtuacity to drive, run, and shoot around, it’s not really much trying to be a sandbox to play in. That’s not a knock against it, mind. Also, as someone who sometimes likes to follow traffic laws in games, I find it unreasonably pleasing that you do get fined for speeding.
Mafia: Definitive Edition will hit Steam on August 28th, then the Epic Games Store “at a later date.” It will be sold separately or come as part of the Mafia: Trilogy collection. Yeah, not surprising this one will cost you money.
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Mafia II has been remastered rather than remade, with what 2K call “greatly improved visuals and audio”, including reworked facial animations. And the DLC is included too, natch. Neatly, if you already own Mafia II on Steam, you’ll also get the Def Ed for free as a separate game (so the ‘Classic’ version is still playable). That should be liveon Steamnow, though it isn’t quite yet as I write.
John’sMafia II reviewback in the day was not thrilled, saying that while it’s “an extraordinary game in many ways” with a lovely city, decent violence, and some good acting, ultimately it’s “an emotionally dead, frequently boring game, mostly spent slowly driving.” Yeap.
Lastly, Mafia III only being four years old, the only change it’s getting in the move to a Definitive Edition is having the DLC bundled in. And like Mafia II, folks who own it on Steam are getting upgraded to the Def Ed for free. That one isalready live.
