

Even though most of the information seems credible, we should wait and see what Hangar 13 has to announce when the time comes.Click to expand. Summing up, we have Mafia 4 releasing in 2021 with a new protagonist and a much more ambitious gameplay system. We remind you one more time that this is only a leak. Mafia 2 is getting a remaster sometime before that and both are using a new version of the existing engine, suitable for large-scale projects that can take the franchise to the next level. Summing up, we have Mafia 4 releasing in 2021 with a new protagonist and a much more ambitious gameplay system. If that’s true then its release won’t take as much as the next games and we might get to play it sometime next year. One small inside Hangar 13, set in Czech is working on a remaster for Mafia 2, using the Mafia 4 engine.

Given the back and forth with its development team, it wouldn’t surprise us if the project is still very early in its development.Ĭlosing up the leak, we find out that there might be a Mafia 2 Remaster in the works. If the leak is to be trusted then it will release in 2021. The project is ambitious and that means better and in-depth gameplay.ĭon’t expect Mafia 4 to release for this generation of consoles.

That means that missions won’t follow the same dull procedure as before. In that time, you’ll be able to use an empire-building system that will let you buy out, build and transform buildings into casinos and more.Īccording to the leak, the MAFIA engine has been redone and “remastered” to be ready for the fourth game so that most of the issues that were present in Mafia 3 won’t be the case with that one. In terms of setting, the Mafia 4 map will be bigger and its setting will span across a whole decade. However, there are a few major differences in numbers. Every Mafia member has a unique function and unique attributes, much like the Town and Coven. Unlike the Town, the Mafia know who each other are from the beginning of the game. All members have one common goal: to kill anyone that will not submit to the Mafia. Last but not least, Hangar 13 won’t follow the flashback storytelling that we were used to and instead, it will adapt a present-day plot. The Mafia are a faction of evildoers that serve as the primary enemy of the Town. Motion Capture has started 8-9 months ago, so the studio is going the extra mile for the needed realism. You are back in the Italian mob, this time as a new character with no words of any old faces making a return. The leak suggests that Mafia 4 will be set in Las Vegas in the ’70s and will be a straight sequel to Mafia 3. For years, we've been hearing about rumors of Mafia 4 being in development at Hangar 13, whose only two releases include Mafia III in 2016 and Mafia Definitive Edition in 2020. This doesn’t fall far behind from what we know since only two months ago Hangar 13 filed trademarks for Mafia. A small team was working on Mafia 4 in Brighton, coming up with an ambitious prototype that managed to catch the team’s attention and since then, most of the studio is working on it. Back then, Hangar 13 dropped the project to work on a new IP, which unfortunately didn’t work out.

Mafia 4 has started its initial prototyping as soon as all DLC for the third game were over, according to the leak. While this is a credible lead, this is nothing more than one man’s information so take everything we state below with a grain of salt. The raids resulted in the arrests of 11 members and associates of the Solntsevskaya and Izmailovskaya clans. The leaker, Reddit user TheTruthTeller1985 claims that his sources are ex-developers for the project as well as one journalist. On 26 September 2017, as part of a 4-year investigation, 100 Spanish Civil Guard officers carried out 18 searches in different areas of Malaga, Spain related to Russian mafia large scale money laundering. The Mafia franchise is far from over, with the 4th installment being well in development and with a potential release date of 2021. A huge leak about Mafia 4 and the state of its development surfaced yesterday, containing vital information about Hangar 13’s next project.
