Monday, August 11, 2025

Two positive reviews for new game "Mafia: The Old Country "

"Hangar 13 builds a deliberate slow-burning story that’s heavy on a sense of place and belonging. It’s a sharp turn from the bombastic openings of the rest of the franchise, but it sets the stakes well and creates one of the most compelling historical settings I’ve ever seen in a video game."

"The media has long been fascinated with the mafia, but more for its iconography than its history. Organized crime is treated as a shortcut to making a sexy flick with high stakes and lots of action potential baked into the premise. Few pieces of media are actually interested in the conditions that birthed Italy’s history of organized crime. It’s a shame because the history of Sicily is especially compelling. The island was a hotbed for boiling social issues throughout the 1800s, as peasants were pushed deeper and deeper into poverty at the hands of barons implementing high tax rates. A distrust of authority in the wake of national unification intersected with a rise in banditry, and the modern mafia was born somewhere within that tension."

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There are some extra guns to collect and some play-style customization in equippable rosary beads