Breaking Omertà: "The Sounds of Sicily" | Mafia: The Old Country

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28/06/2025

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00:00I think the sound design in any video game gives players a real tactile sense of immersion in the

00:11world. These kind of sounds really take the animations and the models that we've created

00:17and give them a real solid sense in the world.

00:20Our main goal for the weapons was to just make them feel ultimate. Completely change the

00:32storyline by just one slight pull of trigger. This is actually the reason why we put a lot

00:39of effort into sound designing every weapon. All the guns the player encounters in the game

00:47are real so it's not a big deal to get to them and to record the high quality sounds in a

00:53way we need them. But that's just the starting point. Our main inspiration went from the Hollywood

00:58movies, especially the best modern westerns, to make the sound punchy as we want them.

01:07Enzo! We can't let them get away!

01:11I drive! You shoot!

01:12Cars have always had a big role in our project and I'm really glad that we continue this tradition.

01:23We're also at a time when cars are all hand-built. Every single car is created by a craftsman so

01:29every car's got a kind of a hand-built feeling to it.

01:33The cars are loud, jolty on the streets. When you get them up to a top speed it's a kind

01:38of a hair-raising experience. Our goal was to create car sounds as authentic as possible.

01:48Fortunately for us there are highly passionate people who still cares about these beautiful cars

01:53so we were quite easily able to find all necessary vehicles in a few weeks. We decided to record all

02:00vehicles on the road. That gives you some advantages. You can capture the true sound of the cars.

02:10It sounds completely different to a modern car. There's just a completely different character.

02:15There's no muffling of the exhaust in any way and so it's a really raucous raw feel to the car. It

02:22makes driving them really really fun. The game score was composed in a classical way but as well we

02:35used some traditional Sicilian instruments. These all are the instruments that like creating nice

02:41feeling and the vibe that we want to achieve. The music underscores the emotional content of the

02:48cinematic or the gameplay experience. The music in a way makes the graphics look much better than they

02:54would do otherwise. There is as well the diegetic music. It means this is the music that is happening

03:01into a real game world such as street musicians or miners in the silver mines singing their labor

03:07songs. All these are songs together with the game score and they are quite nicely sometimes blending

03:14into each other. In our game the ambience are very important. They help to convey the mood but also

03:20to sell the experience. They need to be immersive. That's why we recorded mainly voice lines with a

03:25Sicilian studio. They helped us build up some of the soundscapes that you will hear throughout the

03:30countryside and in different locales. For example going to the coast will sound and feel very different

03:36from going to a market in a town and it was sort of collaboration between the narrative teams,

03:42the audio team do help us really sprinkle in that level of authenticity. It's through that process

03:48that we've kind of layered up the sounds that you hear throughout the game to make these areas feel

03:53alive. The vibe is completely unique. This is a distinctive experience that I've never played before

04:02and I'm sure that players are going to feel the same.

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