Twitter user Kurakasis has claimed that Take-Two is preparing for a mafia series announcement in the near future.
Kurakasis has previously found early information on games by discovering trademarks, which could suggest that the game has recently had a trademark filing and could be gearing up for an announcement.
Previous findings from the user include finding game names, including Metro Awakening, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, and Marvel’s 1943: Rise of Hydra.
Last year, a job listing for the next Mafia game said that the game was to be an ‘unannounced multi-platform game currently in pre-production using Unreal Engine 5.’ The job listing did state that the game is in ‘pre-production’, which implies that the game could be a couple of years out from release. Nonetheless, if the game is gearing up for an announcement, trademark information on the game’s name is likely to become available.
In the job listings, it was stated that the ‘next iteration’ of the Mafia franchise would feature ‘engagement stealth and combat gameplay loops,’ which should make for a more enhanced experience over Mafia 3’s relatively basic ‘creep-around-and-stab-people’ stealth platform.
Kotaku reported in May 2022 that the game will be a prequel set in Sicily – the birthplace of the mafia – and it’ll be set years before the first Mafia game, which saw players assume control of Tommy Angelo in the 1930s.
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