Mafia 3 was a point and apart for a 2k game saga. The hangar 13 survived with the open world, but the rate was not as expected. In fact, it went down in history as the worst in the trilogy. After the fantastic remake of the first batch – Mafia: The Definitive Edition – The developer returns to the load with the mafia: new continent, A a heading that returns to its originWith all that it entails.
The hangar 13 departs from the current trend: massive open world games. Unlike this He chooses a linear impression that rests on his scenario to build a compact game And with any bifurcation. The fact that no one expects secondary missions and alternative pathways, few deviations are made in rare cases and give some contextual information, as well as the documents we find on stage.
Mafia: The old continent is established in Sicily of the early twentieth century. The island resumed with great details: nature, villas full Brands a beautiful account that contrasts with cruelty And the violence operating by the heads of the mafia and its minions.
History is articulated by this new Mafia party
The story of the video game begins in the mines of the Mr. There he works Enzo Favara, a young man who dreams with a better life After years of hard work. During one of his endless working days, something unexpected happens just before Don Torisi, one of the heads of the local mafia. From now on the Enzo swears loyalty family And preparing to serve it with a new pattern.
The hangar of 13 scripts An argument that goes through the character enzo. We liked his evolution and a way of overcoming the Torisi’s criminal universe. It does not move from working to gangster over the night, the game takes time to develop a character’s relationship with the work that is expected from him. Meanwhile, Ants comes to the verbalization that everyone has freedom to decide, but is it really? Its circumstances seem to send him one way, though love can change some prospects.
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Own The character’s fate turns out when greets Isabella TorisiDaughter of the gift. All this set of relationships, including his Luke and Caesare friends and Don Torisi himself, form an enzor’s identity. Cinematographic experience, with clumsy style and direct action.
As for the structure of the story, the video game is divided into episodes, the usual feature of the saga. Its reduced price made some suspicious that this mafia is shorter than the first but in our case We completed it about 12 hours Not looking for good faith.
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Funny but with some archaic mechanics
The study is limited to the search for documents and collecting, and although the outside world is not small, the truth is that history directs you almost all the time. Also not that world is too reactiveBecause outside collecting and listening to some conversation, interaction with its elements is very limited.
Admittedly, the gameplay did not surprise us. Yes, Mafia: Old continent has entertained us And we wanted to get to the end. Yes, Gunplay and Stealth are pleasant enough, but the mechanics are simple and more than exceeding in other modern projects.
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Few weapons, different knives (you can only equip one), grenades and bandages to cure. The coverage system that allows you to protect you And waves of enemies with very effective artificial intelligence. It is not uncommon for them to come out of their own coating to the flank on the sides, but by trying to approach they are shot in their mouths.
In specific moments we fight only with a knife: We can perform several types of capture, break the guard, distract, counterattack and dodge the enemy knife. As usual, there are unchanged attacks that we need to shy away from the extra means. Fun, but easy and without much depth.
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That’s how the Mafia’s steadiness works: Old continent
The stealth is also superficial. We can slowly approach our sacrifice and stab it or leave it unconscious, it doesn’t matter. Modest II and several options leave little room for maneuver. In addition to knocking out the enemy or mislead it by throwing a bottle – they are all very very very – the name does not give great stimuli. What’s more, in all the steels you work with two soldiers who talk together, and then separate and almost indicate that you can kill them without scratching. They also look at the door and walls as inviting you to go to them. In a more advanced section, we killed enemies and NPCs, modest civilians, did not respond at all, continued to engage in their activities without raising their eyes.
There is no progression system as such: Neither points nor tree skillWith the exception of a number of medallions and amulets you can equip to get passive bonuses. You can buy and unlock in the Pasquale store.
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Scheme of Sigil-Social History is impaired in cases in which Enzo is involved in vehicles or horse racingeverything within the main history. It is at the moments when the dynamics breaks down a little, and the game gives some air and the feeling of freshness, although the competitions of cars are not very innovative, given that we have already seen them in another previous mafia.
Hay A collection of classic cars What you can buy as well as horses. Both transportation means serve to move around the world.
Our experience with the mafia on the PC
We played in the mafia: an old continent in a laptop that sets the Intel I7 10087H processor, GPU Nvidia GeForce 3080 and 32GB of RAM. Unfortunately No configuration was satisfactory: Graphic failures, visually contradictory and serious problems with performance, even with blocked personnel of 30 frames per second. However, we asked colleagues in other media, and no one had similar problems, except for some minor mistakes and drop in cinematography. So, it seems that errors are encapsulated in the configuration of our equipment. So we cannot say that this is due to the lack of optimization.
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Hangar 13 put off your usual technology and HA used Unreal Engine 5. Because we were unable to play in optimal conditions, we cannot evaluate this section with the necessary accuracy. However, it is obvious that the video game design has a good taste. The same goes for music that presents very consistent songs with the theme of the mafia. It should be noted that it is bent to the Spanish language, but you can also play in Sicily, which gives it more authenticity.
Despite gaming archaisms, This new mafia will like fans of the sagaEspecially those who seek direct and entertaining experience are focused on history.
Mafia: Old continent goes on sale on August 8 in PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series Sy PC.
2K Games provided us with the Mafia analysis code: the old continent for the PC.
What Mafia: The Old continent returned to the sagi’s origins is good news. There is still a place for narrative and linear games, which, in this case, tell about the good history of the gangsters. First of all, the lush Sicilian atmosphere, heroes and construction and development of the protagonist stands out. Now the return to the roots implies the development of the formula, which with this new mafia has not reached the hangar 13. Playing mechanics are very simple, artificial intelligence of basic enemies and the world is very little reactive. In short, a fun adventure, not overly long (about 10-12 hours), which spends a good time, but will not leave the mafia and mafia 2.
Better
- History and development of the protagonist and other heroes.
- The production is fantastic, and the opportunity to play in Sicily gives great authenticity.
- A game that gets hook.
- A very careful Spanish place.
Worst
- Very simple at the mechanical level.
- There is not enough reactivity in the world: very little interacts.
- AI is a very intellectual and aggravated problems that can be reproduced.
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