Mafia remake has been postponed to September 25

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/08/2020 08:31 AM | source: | 5 comment(s)

Mafia: Definitive Edition has been delayed by a month. The game was scheduled for release on August 28, but will be rescheduled for September 25.

According to the developers, the postponement is due to the corona crisis. On July 22, the makers show gameplay of the game. Publisher 2K and developer Hangar 13 said in a joint statement getting the game ready for release on its planned 28th August release date had become "increasingly challenging" due to the pandemic. It will now launch on 25th September 2020.

"Mafia: Definitive Edition will now release worldwide on September 25," wrote the company. "Though we’d originally planned to release the game one month earlier on August 28, finalizing everything in time for that launch date has become increasingly challenging due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, and the last thing we want to do is compromise the quality of the experience."

For a taste of that organized crime, Hangar 13 has gameplay reveal trailer coming later this month. On July 22, we'll see the Mafia remake in action.

lukas_1987_dion
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#5806783 Posted on: 07/08/2020 12:07 PM

''and the last thing we want to do is compromise the quality of the experience''

Yeah right.. Mafia 2 and Mafia 3 Definitive Editions are buggy as hell, even more than original cuz they did not fix any bugs from the original games and even added more lol

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#5806814 Posted on: 07/08/2020 02:05 PM

don't quote me on this but if I remember correctly
the game was pretty much "stolen" from the original developers and then "given" to another favored studio and this is when quality became trash
I can't remember which other game was like that recently but there have been others from other studio that had the same fate, oh yeah...pretty much everything Take 2 releases now is made like this wwe2k20 etc...and they all horribly bugged crap
Take 2 is the Disney of video games, take a good IP give it to a random trash director/dev who hates the original audience and let him/her destroy that IP

edit : originally a 2K Czech game (1+2) Mafia 3 was "transferred" to Hangar 13 in California and then it became a buggy hell
can 't wait to see how bugged Kerbal Space Program 2 will be it follows the same "let's start a project in one studio and then unemploy half the people/re-hire at lower salaries the rest before release"
someone inside wouldn't be very angry with something like that and wouldn't leave bugs in it purposefully...no sir..would never happen

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#5807280 Posted on: 07/09/2020 08:08 PM

Mafia, wasn't the 1st one that game with the super-slow old cars, the got you in trouble for driving over the speed limit, released in 2001?
If so, yes I tried it, for about 30 minutes one time, and said 'really, a drive 20~25mph speed limit simulator with old slow cars? That is not fun!'.
That was back when I was around 20 or so when it came out, if so, what a horrid game. It had positively nothing over GTA III at the time, besides maybe some better character for the npc's and main characters in the game. Mafia II was okay but I never got far in it, never really held my interest that long.

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#5812655 Posted on: 07/27/2020 03:19 PM

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#5812686 Posted on: 07/27/2020 05:42 PM

Mafia 1 was an all time favorite game of mine, I am looking forward to this. Loved the setting, story, music and gameplay. And yes, even loved the old slow cars (which did get faster as the story progressed in years). The game felt very authentic.

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