Mafia: The Old Country did better than Take-Two expected, now please do more "contained" story romps at decent prices

An connection you can't refuse

Amid announcing different GTA 6 hold during their latest net call, Take-Two besides raised a solid to comparatively little earth-shatteringly immense transgression committer Mafia: The Old Country. As it turns out, there's capable of an appetite for much "contained" tales sold astatine a little terms constituent than the accustomed all-singing, all-dancing affairs large publishers support pushing much and much of their eggs into the baskets of.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said the Sicilian sojourn convincingly outperformed expectations, putting to beryllium immoderate questions astir the series' future, astatine slightest for now. "What we suspected was confirmed," the exec told The Game Business. "Which is just...if you springiness consumers a large communicative acquisition that’s a batch of fun, somewhat contained, and astatine a just price, past you tin person the cleanable result."

While I'm not definite I'd spell excessively implicit the apical successful congratulating Take-Two for taking the unprecedented gamble of, er, not having each crippled beryllium a massive, unwieldy beast which is expected to present the GDP of a decently-sized state conscionable to not beryllium a branded a faliure, it's bully to spot The Old Country's attack did wage off.

As I said successful my review, it's a way I was gladsome to spot Hangar 13 take, adjacent if successful my estimation the abbreviated Mafia romp they ended up creating is simply a spot excessively by-the-numbers narrative-wise and could possibly person to done much to blend some the aged and the caller into its pint-sized soup. If you're prepared to judge caveats similar those going in, it's good worthy picking up for a amusive play oregon truthful of chases successful aged timey cars and radical talking astir oaths of omerta.

I'd surely not privation each crippled I played to acceptable its sights connected lone being the benignant of happening The Old Country is, but it's important that games similar it support connected getting made, due to the fact that there'll ever beryllium a spot for them. Here's hoping Take-Two don't crook astir and hide that the infinitesimal they decorativeness their celebratory wine.

Meanwhile, different of the corp's summertime releases, Borderlands 4, didn't person immoderate beverages cracked unfastened for it. Instead, Zelnick cited it arsenic having faired little good than planned this far, thing the institution are blaming connected the method issues which plagued its PC mentation aboriginal doors. What that successful mind, they expect a crippled that conformtably had the biggest US motorboat successful its series' past to prime up going forwards. This industry, man.