Mafia The Old Country Official Art and Technology Overview Trailer

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Join developer Hangar 13 for a behind-the-scenes look at Mafia: The Old Country. The team discusses how the art and technology bring the world and characters of the action-adventure game to life.

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00:00Mafia is a game that's always defined by its cinematic presentation.

00:06It was important that the game has the same production values

00:09that players have come to expect from a Mafia game,

00:11and in fact, that we've managed to elevate those.

00:16The ambition to make sure that this is the best-looking game

00:19is definitely there.

00:22Mafia, the old country, utilizes features

00:25that give us a lot of artistic freedom.

00:27It allows us to tell that story in a way that we just wouldn't be able to

00:32with other technologies.

00:40From metahuman to nanite to lumen,

00:43you know, these are all different technologies

00:45which we are pushing to the max, to be honest.

00:48It's allowing us to grasp the intricacies of a performance.

00:52It's allowing us to automate some parts of the process

00:56to be able to get to a point where we can really start to put our human thumbprints

01:00on some of these assets.

01:02Do you wish to commit yourself, your life, to this family?

01:08I do.

01:09It's a whole new tech.

01:10And I would say the biggest benefits are especially in animations,

01:14facial animation, wrinkle maps, shaders.

01:19There's a notable improvement in visual fidelity.

01:22It's the polycount, it's the shaders, grooms, eye shader.

01:27We did use a specific color palette to distinguish the families,

01:32the fashions and the enemies.

01:34So there is a color code for every faction.

01:37When it comes to characters, it's just ensuring

01:39we've got amazing looking high fidelity characters

01:43that I think are on par with some of the best in the industry.

01:46We are hugely benefiting from metahuman technology,

01:49very good facial expressions,

01:52very nice looking hairstyles.

01:55You look beautiful.

01:58Facial hair was something for a man of that period,

02:01which was like a well-groomed,

02:03the opposite spectrum for either the peasants or the bandits.

02:08The artists have really kind of been unleashed on,

02:10not just the environment art, on the characters, on the vehicles,

02:12on the weapons and everything.

02:14We are trying to deliver the vivid world of Sicily.

02:19The majority of the textures we have in game

02:21is created procedurally in Substance Designer,

02:24that allows us to have better control over what we see on the screen

02:28and also do easy tweaks.

02:30If we want to change something,

02:32thanks to it being procedural,

02:33we can just do adjustments on the fly.

02:36This is a tool that gives us the ability to regenerate

02:39the whole building sets basically in a couple hours

02:43whenever we need to change the whole system.

02:45It just reacts to it.

02:47The cities look beautiful and consistent in the art.

02:51It allows us to make sure that we've just got the diverse

02:53of the environments that we wouldn't really be able to see

02:57with some other engines.

02:59In the past titles, like Mafia 3 or even Mafia Definitive Edition,

03:03one building, for example, had around 20-30,000 triangles.

03:08One building in Mafia Old Country,

03:10it can have more than one million triangles.

03:12The world can be quite detailed,

03:15so we can reflect how real Sicily is,

03:18how diverse it is,

03:19and we can put a lot more into our game.

03:22Mafia games have always been attractive,

03:24we've always had great art,

03:25but this new game really takes that to a whole new level.

03:28We are trying to create the experience for the player in a way

03:32that there is a storytelling behind those places.

03:35Give me a minute!

03:37I have no hesitation that this will be the best looking Mafia game in the franchise.

03:43If this is how he wants it, this is how it will be.

03:47I have no hesitation that this will be.

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