Mafia 4 Trailer Leaks Ahead Of Game Awards, Coming Out Summer 2025

The fourth entry in 2K’s gangster series isn’t far away. A new leaked ad for Mafia: The Old Country ahead of The Game Awards 2024 reveals a summer 2025 release window and our first real look at the upcoming prequel.

An apparent ad for the game went live on YouTube earlier today. X user DJari2020 uploaded a recording of the brief clip that shows a few cinematic snippets, including what appears to be the main character riding across a beautiful Italian countryside on horseback. “This is a family bound by blood,” one of the characters says before operatic singing breaks out over knife fights and shootouts. The end of the teaser then reveals the game will arrive by mid-September of next year, presumably before the release of Grand Theft Auto VI.

Mafia: The Old Country, which Kotaku first reported on back in 2022, is being made by Hangar 13, which made Mafia III and was born of the remnants of 2K Czech, the group behind the first two games. Hangar 13 has suffered several rounds of layoffs in the past several years as various projects were cancelled, and development on the newest Mafia is currently being led by the studio’s Brighton, UK office. The series received remasters of Mafia I and II back in 2020.

Mafia: The Old Country, meanwhile, will take place before those games and be set in 1900s Sicily. As such, cars, motorcycles, guns, radios and other technology embedded in the series’ sandbox mechanics are likely to be less prevalent. It’ll be interesting to see how the time-travelling impacts the core formula, with some fans wondering if Mafia 4 might end up resembling Red Dead Redemption 2 in some ways because of the period it’s set in.

We’ll no doubt learn more about the upcoming blockbuster in an extended reveal at tonight’s Game Awards. New trailers for Borderlands 4 and other big franchises are also expected to debut at the event.

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