Hello everybody, I’m Josh Zammit, design director at Hangar 13 engaged on the Man of Honor expansion* for Mafia: The Old Country. We’re tremendous excited to share the primary look gameplay above, and I’d prefer to reveal a bit extra in regards to the Free Experience content material included within the DLC.
Man of Honor options two new story chapters set within the earlier days of Enzo Favara’s service to the Torrisi crime household, letting you group up with revered mafioso Ennio Salieri to settle outdated scores. Along with the 2 new story chapters, proudly owning the Man of Honor expansion grants you entry to a brand new set of unique jobs and excessive challenges we’re including to Free Experience mode, together with new collectibles and areas added to the Valle Dorata map.
When you haven’t performed Mafia: The Old Nation but, Free Experience mode helps you to discover the Sicilian countryside at your personal tempo, or tackle a group of repeatable Challenges separate from the essential path that embody fight encounters, stealth missions, and totally different sorts of races. Within the new Man of Honor Free Experience content material, you’ll tackle new assignments from Salieri himself, who has arrange store in a Porto Almaro warehouse the place he spends his days devising new schemes and smuggling stolen items.
Longtime Mafia followers know Salieri effectively, given his central position because the Don of his personal crime household within the metropolis of Misplaced Heaven, the place the unique Mafia and Mafia: Definitive Version happen. Making Salieri the focus of Man of Honor lets us showcase who he was earlier than his emigration to America and subsequent rise to energy, deepening his backstory in a extremely participating means. Although nonetheless feared and revered in Sicily, this youthful Salieri is way scrappier and has to hustle to get his minimize of the Household’s numerous rackets.
With Salieri as your new level of contact for Man of Honor’s Free Experience content material, you’ll drop by his hideout to choose up two varieties of contracts: Challenges and Jobs. Salieri’s Challenges observe an analogous format to those you may presently tackle in Free Experience mode, however with amped-up issue that can take a look at the mettle of even probably the most seasoned soldato. Salieri’s Jobs introduce brand-new mission varieties, tasking you with monitoring down your goal and coping with anybody who tries to get in your means. Searching for hidden caches of worthwhile loot, towing high-value automobiles again to Salieri, delivering stolen vans full of precious-but-fragile items—whichever job you’re taking, success will line your pockets with additional Dinari.
You’ll be able to spend these ill-gotten features so as to add new outfits, Charms, weapons, automobiles, and horses to your assortment, all unique to this expansion. As you may see within the gameplay footage, the distinctive weapons and Charms you may earn in Man of Honor gave us area to mess around with perks that push simply past the bounds of period-accurate realism.
For instance, take the Rimbalzu throwing knife, which bounces to a second goal so you may rapidly and silently take down a number of enemies from the shadows. It might take near-impossible ability to throw a ricochet between targets each time, however the impact is extremely enjoyable and empowering, particularly for gamers preferring the stealthy method. We needed to design contemporary and thrilling weapons for a spread of playstyles, and the added stopping energy of these additions to Enzo’s arsenal might help offer you an edge throughout Salieri’s most troublesome assignments.
Together with all the brand new objects and missions on provide, there are a lot of elective actions you may hunt down as you discover the Valle Dorata. Hold your eyes peeled for collectible Wished Posters which, in line with a enjoyable collection custom, use members of our growth group (myself included) in period-accurate apparel for his or her mugshots. You can too soar via the air in your turn-of-the-century vehicles through added Stunt Jumps, or destroy supply vans loaded with sulfur to hit again on the individuals who betrayed Salieri.
The Man of Honor expansion for Mafia: The Old Country arrives subsequent week on August 14. We are able to’t wait to see the way you sort out the brand new content material in Free Experience mode, and what the followers assume of a youthful Ennio Salieri within the added narrative content material. Till then, mafiosi.
*Base sport required. Some content material requires unlocking through gameplay.