We're still a few months away from the release of Mafia: Definitive Edition, but we're starting to get a clearer picture of how this remake is shaping up. In an interview with USGamer, Hangar 13 president and CCO Haden Blackman s🌠poke about how the team approached touching up this PC classic and what differences players can expect when the game releases inꦬ August. The biggest takeaway is that the cops won't be as stupidly aggressive this time out.
"With Mafia, we're leaning back into thꦺe time period. It's set during the 30s, so it is a little bit more iconic, it's a slower pace," Blackman stated. To that end, players will be able to manually adjust how picky the cops are about traffic infractions. In the original, going 41 MPH would immediately call a squadron around you, completely screwing up the pace of the story. This time out, you'll have a chance to experience th💦e story with fewer restrictions if you want.
If that isn't your thing and authenticity is what you're after, the original cop AI will also be an option. You can even toggle a mode between the original driving model and something closer to Mafia 3. It won't be as sloppily implemented as in the latest game, however, as Hangar 13 have up💝dated it for this new take.
Another big gameplay tweak is the addition of the cover system for the game's shooting mechanics. The original released in 2002 before the idea of cover systems really came to fruition in game design. Players were obviously ducking behind objects in the world, but there wasn't a mode to snap to scenery and pop out from behind cover. For Definitive Edition, Hangar 13 is drawing from lessons it learned during the production of Mafia 3.
"The original was a challenging game and that was part of its appeal," B💛lackman stated. "So trying to walk that line with our normal difficulty mode and make sure that it feels still like a compelling experience for those that remember the original, but doesn't alienate new fans and players. We're trying to solve that by providing you with control over a number of different options."
There's a lot of skepticism surrounding this remake considering how poorly Mafia 3 turned out. It doesn't help that the latest re-releases of both Mafia 2 and 3 have been met with general dislike due to rushed development. Hangar 13 seems to be trying its best here,❀ so we'll need to simply wait and see if that care translat൲es to a better final game.
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