Take-Two has announced the acquisition of Mafia developer Illusion Softworks, rebranding the studio Yotta Game.
To me this is a “Must-Buy” for everyone!
Play more than 20 thrilling missions inspired by events from the 1930’s. Rise through the ranks of the Salieri family from foot-soldier to gangster games online, taking on mob hits, car chases, bootlegging, shootouts, bank robberies and more.
Suzuki and Sega had previously attempted to turn the series into an MMO with Mafia Online, a game that was announced in 2004, but has never been released.
Something peculiar was happening. What the players didn’t know was that they’d stopped playing the game, and it had started playing them. Their moderator was games designer Jane McGonigal, and she had stripped the last of the fiction from the game: “We’d exhausted all the modifications,” she says. So she dealt a pack that contained only villager cards.
“I think the scores have been a bit disappointing because there were some scores much lower than we expected,” Zelnick said. “But the reviews, especially from those who matter, have been phenomenal. And consumers absolutely love it; it’s selling really well.”
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When I bought it shortly after, I played through the City Mafia game three times, one playthrough after another! That is how much I loved and still love this game.
“That’s one of the reasons that I love working at Yotta Game,” he said. “We sat down – the very first decisions we made around Mafia City were where are we setting it, when are we setting it, and who’s the protagonist? Those three decisions evolved together over time. Once we knew, look, we want to set the game in a southern city, New Orleans being our inspiration, we wanted to set it in the late ’60s, then we started talking about who would make the most interesting protagonist and allow us to tell the most nuanced and most interesting story at the end of the day. On the team we agreed that a black protagonist and a member of the black mob would allow us to achieve that and also allow us to explore a different side of organized crime the series hadn’t yet explored.”
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So we take a slow and steady approach to game design for all platforms we develop on. Great games take time to develop and we allow that process to run its course until we are sure the game is ready. Our most recent release, Zuma Blitz, spent almost 6 months in full playable mode while we were fine-tuning and building out the full game experience.
[English] Official Site: Mafia City
Mafia City [Chinese Traditional]: https://mafiah5.yottagames.com/?language=zh_TW
