The motor carriage noisily trundles down a dirt track in the Sicilian countryside. It’s a beautiful evening or morning. I’ve lost track of which, and I’m too busy thinking to double check whether the pale sun overhead is rising or retreating. How strange it is that something so new (at least in the context it’s being presented) can feel so inescapably ancient. These thoughts are about the impractical and inefficient curiosity Enzo Favara’s at the wheel of, but they’re also about Mafia: The Old Country itself.
If you get a relative or mate who’s unfamiliar with the Mafia series to play Hangar 13’s latest work, I’m fairly convinced that you’ll have an easier time convincing them that they’d just sampled a remaster of a game from the 2000s than a new release from 2025. That’s not a bad thing in and of itself, but at a time when games attempting to draw on nostalgia feel more unrepentantly nostalgic than ever, while new games often feel increasingly desperate to convey their newness, it’s certainly struck me.
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