Mafia: Definitive Edition has been added to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service. This game is a remaster of the 2002 original, featuring enhanced visuals and refined gameplay. The original Mafia title was developed by Illusion Softworks during the open-world gangster gaming surge of the early 2000s.
Games like Sleeping Dogs and Saints Row, alongside Mafia, provided gamers with immersive crime lifestyle sandboxes and engaging narrative progression systems. Mafia: Definitive Edition brings players back to the early 1930s, focusing on the Cosa Nostra, the Italian crime syndicate heavily popularized in film and television. Released notably alongside the hit HBO series The Sopranos, Mafia tapped into themes of family, power struggles, and omerta—the mafia’s code of silence.
While James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano was an established Capo, Mafia’s protagonist Tommy Angelo starts as a lowborn taxi driver, demonstrating the climb within the organized crime hierarchy.
Mafia game added to Game Pass
Hangar 13, a 2K Games studio known for Mafia II (2010) and Mafia III (2016), published the remaster in 2020.
Originally a Windows game, Mafia was later ported to console, a key aspect of the remaster to ensure it aligns with modern gaming standards. The fictional city of Lost Heaven sets the stage for this crime saga amidst the Great Depression. Players can dive back into history with tommy guns, classic cars, and Chicago-inspired architecture, highlighting the finely tailored suits and rainy environments emblematic of the era.
Subscribers to Xbox Game Pass can also look forward to new additions such as Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Valorant for consoles. Monthly updates include the latest DLC for No Man’s Sky and Sea of Thieves: Season 13.
