Mafia: The Old Country - Man of Honor
Aug 14, 2026·Hangar 13
About this game
The Old Country was, for me personally, one of last year's most pleasant surprises. It didn't reinvent anything. The gameplay was stiff in places, the combat repetitive, and anyone expecting the sprawling open worlds of Mafia III was going to leave disappointed. But what it did - telling the story of Enzo Favara's descent from enslaved mine-boy to Torrisi family soldier across early 1900s Sicily - it did with an emotional weight and historical specificity that genuinely moved me. I wasn't prepared to care about Enzo as much as I did. By the time the credits rolled I sat quietly for a few minutes, which is more than most games manage. So when Man of Honor was announced at Summer Game Fest 2026 on June 5, I was immediately on board. And the reason it has me more excited than a standard story expansion normally would is a single name: Ennio Salieri. Long-time Mafia players will know exactly why that lands. Ennio Salieri is the future Don of the Salieri crime family - the main antagonist of Mafia: Definitive Edition, the man Tommy Angelo spends that entire game working for and ultimately betrays. Seeing him appear in The Old Country's expansion as a younger man, fresh out of prison and intent on reclaiming what's his, is the kind of franchise connective tissue that rewards the people who've been following this series across its entire history. Hangar 13 clearly understands the weight of bringing him in here, and the fact that the expansion is literally named after him - Man of Honor, the term used within the Cosa Nostra for initiated members - signals how central he is to what these two new chapters are building toward. The setup is tight and purposeful. It's winter, 1905 - a few months after the events of the base game - and Enzo has established himself as a reliable soldato under Don Torrisi. He's no longer the frightened kid from the mine. The Don entrusts him and Cesare with a delicate assignment: assist Salieri, newly released, as he moves through the underworld of the Valle Dorata to reclaim what he believes is owed to him. At Salieri's side, Enzo is drawn even deeper into the volatile power structures of Sicilian organized crime, where loyalty is currency and every decision carries consequence. Two new story chapters, fresh environments, new weapons, vehicles, and Charms are all confirmed for the main story content. Beyond that, the expansion adds new content for Free Ride mode - Salieri acts as your point of contact for a new set of extreme challenges and exclusive jobs, alongside new collectibles and previously unseen locations dotted across the map. It's a meaningful expansion in both breadth and depth rather than just a quick mission pack tacked on for money. What excites me most, beyond the Salieri connection, is what this means for Enzo's arc. The base game was fundamentally a tragedy about a man being slowly reshaped by the world around him, losing parts of himself with each increasingly dark thing he does for the family. Having him now work alongside someone who will eventually become one of the franchise's defining figures adds a new layer of historical irony to his story. He's unknowingly brushing up against a legacy that stretches decades beyond his own. Man of Honor launches August 14, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam. The base game is required. If you haven't played The Old Country yet, it's currently on sale alongside the broader Mafia franchise at some fairly substantial discounts - which feels like perfect timing given what's coming. For a series that's spent years rebuilding trust after Mafia III's complicated reception, The Old Country earned that trust back convincingly. Man of Honor looks like it's going to deepen everything that made the base game worth caring about.
