2K has released the first gameplay footage of its lavish Mafia: Definitive Edition remake in action.
Nearly 15 minutes of video lies below, narrated by Hangar 13 boss Haden Blackman. We get a good look at the game’s city of Lost Heaven in the 1930s, and then an action sequence set in a more rural location, on a rainy night full of tommy gun shooting and car chases.
To mark the occasion, we’ve been chatting with studio Hangar 13 about its work on the from-the-ground-up remake: what’s changed, what’s the same, and whether Mafia 2 might one day receive the same treatment.
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“I’ve sat there with people that haven’t played Mafia 1 again since they originally did to watch them and talk to them about it and get an idea about how we would upgrade the experience,” associate game director Alex Cox told my colleague Tom Morgan, describing how work on the remake project began. “And they loved the setting, the story, the characters and all of that stuff they remember – and then they’re obviously seeing it rendered in its original resolution and polygonal graphics.