Mafia: The Old Country is getting a big free update with new modes and content

2K is releasing a free update for Mafia: The Old Country tomorrow, November 20.

The Free Ride update is a free expansion that adds car and horse races, combat challenges, a new first-person driving mode, Photo Mode, Classic difficulty mode, and new weapons, charms, cars, and outfits.

Developer Hanger 13’s associate design director, Josh Zammit, discussed the update on the PlayStation Blog.

“We’re super proud of everything the team has achieved, so I find it hard to pick one that I’m most excited about,” they wrote. “I love the races; it’s a ton of fun to drive around our world at high speed in the amazing old cars. There’s loads of technical corners, and the better you get, the more satisfying they are to navigate.

“The Combat Challenges are great as well. Standoffs push your limits when it comes to openly engaging enemies, and Assassinations are fun to experiment with until you nail that perfect run.

“There is one piece of content I think players are going to find especially intriguing and unexpected, though I don’t want to spoil it. Keep an eye out for notes in Enzo’s apartment—one may end up revealing something cool to investigate.”

VGC’s Mafia: The Old Country review called it, “a brief but brilliant Sicilian story”.

“Mafia: The Old Country returns to the series’ roots with a more linear adventure, delivering a solid story (if a cliché-heavy one) and satisfying combat.

“The character models and environments are stunning to look at, but the latter raises our main issue: as much as we appreciate the focus on a linear story, this wonderfully sculpted Sicily map is begging to be explored more and is sorely underused as a result.”