According to an insider, the next Mafia game won’t be set in America like in previous games.

Earlier this month, a report emerged that Hangar 13 is supposedly developing Mafia 4. The report also claimed that it is being developed in Unreal Engine 5, instead of the in-house engine used for the remasters. Now though, a new claim suggests that Mafia 4 won’t actually be set in America, but in Sicily instead.

As spotted by DualShockers, Shpeshal Nick, a known insider, claimed on the XboxEra podcast that Mafia 4 will be a prequel. And in some classic mafia stylings, it will be set in Sicily, Italy, with a focus on how Don Salieri and how he rose to power. Interestingly, this next Mafia game won’t be as large and non-linear as Mafia 3.

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Rather, it will be more like Mafia 2, which didn’t really have an open world. Nick did make a point that this is all just “rumours and mumbling,” and “never 100%“. And he’s not actually played a Mafia game before himself, so he isn’t certain on the relevance of the crime family to the story. 

According to Nick’s source though, in terms of time period you should think very late 19th century very early 20th century. Rather than the mob boss central that was the 1930s. But as Nick himself said, this is just a rumour, so best to take it with a pinch of salt.

Hopefully this next project from Hangar 13 does see the light of day. As one of the studio’s last projects was cancelled, despite costing millions of dollars.

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