Hangar 13 are working on a new Mafia

Publisher 2K, which distributed games from the Mafia series, announced the development that is being carried out on the next part of this saga. Hangar 13 are working on a new Mafia, and you can see it on the title's official website.

However, don't expect the game in the near future, as Roman Hladik, general manager, has announced a release that will take place in a few years. He did not reveal any interesting details regarding the development or what will happen in the next game.

The community does not need a lot of information in order to build some hypotheses and Mafia is no exception. Rumors have already begun to appear on the Internet about options for what exactly the next part of the game will become. According to some rumors on the net, the next Mafia will be a prequel and will tell the story of Don Salieri, the main antagonist of the first part and the remaster.

If the information turns out to be true, then the players will take on the role of this mafia in order to go through the path of his formation from an ordinary bandit to a don and understand the motivation for certain actions that were visible in the original Mafia.

Kotaku journalists reported that they have some information, according to which the game will take place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Sicily will become the scene of events.

Hangar 13 last released a mafia game in 2020. Then came the release of Mafia Definitive Edition, a remake of the original Mafia. The title was met on average quite warmly, but it was not without criticism. Mafia Definitive Edition was criticized for its departure from the classics and realism in some moments and the abundance of action scenes, but was praised for the more elaborate presentation of some characters and the disclosure of their characters.

At the time of release, the game was full of a large number of bugs, and various collections of such moments can still be found on the Internet.

The last numbered part of Mafia was released in 2016. She told the story of Clay Lincoln. The game stood out from its predecessors by having several endings that depended on the player's actions both throughout the game and in the final scene. On Metacritic, the main rating aggregator, the game had an average rating of 62 out of 100, and users rated the title 3.9 out of 10.