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[Don Carlo]

A new Hangar 13 job listing for a Lead VFX Artist strongly hints that the next Mafia game will feature multiplayer. The posting specifically requires experience with multiplayer or networked gameplay VFX challenges for an upcoming Unreal Engine 5 AAA title.

Since the series is famous for its strict, cinematic single-player focus, this would be a massive shift. Given the heavy narrative focus also mentioned in the listing, this likely points toward a co-op campaign rather than a traditional competitive mode.

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[adamsapple]

The Old Country was a perfectly fine single player experience.

 

[Gonzito]

C'mon man

 

[kiphalfton]

There's a reason so many games that try and break into the multiplayer scene flop.

Reminds me of those people who see professional athletes and say "I can do that too". Not that simple.

 

[StueyDuck]

"How does gta make all that money"

Basically the conversation had

 

[R6Rider]

Now you can whack your friends.

 

[PontiusFeeb]

This is a very bad idea.

 

[nikos]

Good.

I loved The Old Country but there was absolutely no reason to continue playing when it was over. Give me GaaS Mafia.

 

[forsakkenSoul]

Meh, I have zero interest in multiplayer in a Mafia game.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Could be cool if they do something unique with it. If it's trying to be GTA Online I'm out.

They should do something with turf wars like the old Godfather games. Taking over businesses was fun.

 

[Deerock71]

 

[R3TRO]

No thanks.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Good.

I loved The Old Country but there was absolutely no reason to continue playing when it was over. Give me GaaS Mafia.

 

[carsar]

Bluebox studio makes innovative game mechanics)

 

[Solarstrike]

 

[pudel]

Co-op option...why not?

 

[The_Observer]

The Old Country was perfect so they have to ruin the sequel of course. Hopefully with slay queen protagonists included.

 

[xrnzaaas]

This was bound to happen, even with Old Country's good sales number 2K would always want to include some mp elements, hoping to increase the longevity and inject some mtx's while they're at it.

If it's some separate additional mode, then I'll just ignore it. If it makes the whole product worse it's going to be either deep sale or pass.