Step into the blood-soaked cobblestones of 1900s Sicily, where vendettas simmer and loyalty is a currency more precious than gold. Mafia: The Old Country plunges you into the brutal rise of Enzo Favara, a desperate soul clawing his way from the sulfur mines to the shadowed ranks of the Torrisi crime family. This isn’t just a game; it’s a cinematic descent into a world where every handshake hides a blade, and every oath echoes with sacrifice. From stealthy stiletto strikes to roaring lupara shootouts, the tension never lets up. Welcome to a tale where honour is earned in blood, and betrayal is just a heartbeat away.

Mafia: The Old Country Review Pros

• Beautiful graphics. 
• 40.59GB download size. 
• Platinum trophy. 
• 2K account linking, which is optional but can give rewards. 
• HDR and brightness sliders. 
• Earn costumes and rewards for owning other 2K games. 
• Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, vibration intensity slider, duel’s camera relative movement, and set sprint to toggle or hold. 
• Three game difficulties – Easy, medium, and hard. 
• Camera settings – camera shake, camera view (near/far/medium), camera follow on and off for – on foot, horse, vehicle, orbit cover. 
• Stance when using cover – persistent crouch and classic Mafia options. 
• The simulation driving option is where you choose whether you have handling assistance when driving. 
• Manual and automatic gear options. 
• Gameplay settings – aim assist, skip drive and ride, and choose if you have navigation signage when in a car or on a horse. 
• HUD options let you customise it fully from selecting what elements are on screen, objective visibility (always on/manual), and whether you use contextual HUD. 
• Graphics settings – quality preset – quality or performance, and v-sync on/off. 
• Language settings – speech, text, and subtitles support. 
• Audio settings – preset (TV/night mode/home theatre), volume sliders for – master, SFX, dialogue, music, and the Dualsense speaker. 
• Accessibility options – subtitle size (extra large/large/standard), subtitles colour, subtitles background opacity, HUD elements scale, Colourblind mode for UI, and simplified struggle (turn off quick time events). 
• When starting a new game, you can again change the subtitles, text size, vibration, and difficulty before playing, regardless of the settings. 
• In-game cutscenes and character interactions, which you can skip and click through. 
• Button prompts can show up. 
• Full 3D game world, and you have 360-degree camera control. 
• The game is played in third-person view. 
• Excellent top-tier voice acting. 
• The vibration is used for immersion, so climbing a ladder, for example, will have it vibrate as you climb. 
• You can pause the cutscenes without skipping. 
• Lock picking is just a case of holding the button down. 
• Full stealth mechanics at pla,y including the enemy giving off triggers and warnings before going after you. You can take enemies out quickly and quietly, and knock them out or kill them. 
• Full cover-based hiding and shooting. 
• Many collectable items, from letters to postcards, they all stored so you can reread them. 
• Instinct is an action you can do it will show outlines of enemies through walls and doors. 
• Knife sharpness plays a part as the sharper the knife, the more damage you do, amd the quicker you can take people down. Lock picking with it will dull it, but using a whetstone will sharpen it. 
• You can loot bodies. 
• Has a great recipe for Valentine’s pork Spezzatino. 
• Charms can be found and equipped which give gameplay buffs. 
• Full chapter select on the main menu so you can replay chapters of the story. 
• A fantastic and varied cast of characters. 
• Dinari is the criminal currency of the game and is used for buying items, vehicles, clothing, and weapons. 
• Trinacria are artefacts you can sell for Dinari. 
• Many knives and types of knives are in the game, as said, some pick locks faster, some can be thrown, and some make light work of killing. Each can be viewed before buying in full 3D, and every knife has different and unique stats and abilities. 
• Guns are much the same as knives in terms of each being unique and having strengths and weaknesses. 
• You can pick up and carry bodies, dumping them in tall grass or behind cover, even in stash boxes and wardrobes. 
• Even when locked into a small area of the map or a set piece, you get enough room to attack situations in different ways and explore. 
• Sades can be found and cracked by looking for the safe code nearby, and a really handy thing is that the code gets displayed when you are using the dial. 
• The stables let you pick and buy a horse each time, and you can buy accessories for them. 
• Camera spots can be found to take pictures, and any taken get added to the collection. 
• A few optional side quests can pop up as you play. 
• The game is a lot more locked down than an open world. You follow the story exclusively, with areas allowing a bit of wriggle room and openness during the first few hours, then it does get a lot more open world. 
• The garage lets you pick and buy a car, and some let you customise it and repaint it. 
• Pasquales Store is where you can buy and sell items, gear, and antiques, along with charms. 
• When placing a mission marker, it involves driving; you can enable the option so you can skip it. 
• Collectable coins and newspapers to be found in the world.
• Pick up and use enemy guns. 
• The story is good and is definitely the reason you keep coming back, with the second half being almost unmissable with its twists and turns. Your character goes through.

Mafia: The Old Country Review Cons

• You cannot remap the controls or change the sticks. 
• The opening prologue is long and stop staring lot, but it’s to build the story. 
• The game does have a few performance hiccups when it’s a built-up area or fire is about, and fast movement is happening. 
• Character eyes look dead and don’t always match what they are doing. 
• You could say there is too much to find and read; it’s absolutely everywhere. 
• Not always sure when the game has saved or hit a checkpoint, you cannot manually save when you want. 
• Combat, especially duels and knives, takes some getting used to as you need to learn patterns, dodge, and parry attacks, but also attack wisely and break guards. 
• Interactive prompts are not great, and you may have to do some extra movements to get the game to trigger them. 
• Pacing is not the best. When it’s action packed it’s flowing, but out of that, it’s stop-start, and interactions are drip-fed. 
• Aiming and throwing coins is not easy when you can’t see an aiming line or anything in the bright sunshine. 
• Stealth is not as great for feedback or alerting you to possible capture. 
• The only problem with the photo element is that you have to twiddle the exposure and light to get it right, and until you do, you cannot take the photo. 
• Areas can suddenly become quite small, and you only know this when you keep getting the ” leave the mission area pop-ups, there isn’t a visible line or anything, just the pop-up.
• Not all the cutscenes can be skipped. 
• It’s really annoying how many unvaultable objects and obstacles there are, including doors and windows that don’t open; it kind of kills the immersion and openness of it all. 

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Mafia: The Old Country

Official Website: https://mafia.2k.com/en-US/the-old-country/

Developer: Hangar 13

Publisher: 2K

Store Link:

Steam