Hangar 13 has announced its previously promised Free Ride update for Mafia: The Old Country finally goes live on PS5 tomorrow, 20th November 2025. This all-new mode opens up the map for free roam and populates it with new activities and rewards. Learn all about it in the trailer above.
Free Ride works separately from the main story of Mafia: The Old Country, and allows you to “revisit the world in a more self-guided way”. As you explore Sicili, you will discover horse races, car races, and challenges testing your combat and stealth skills.
You earn the Dinari in-game currency from completing the challenges, and this can be spent on new rewards like outfits, cars, charms, weapons, and more. There’ll also be new locations added to the world map for you to discover, and some hidden secrets the developer isn’t sharing in its PlayStation Blog post.
“We want players to explore the world in a freeform way, and Free Ride turns it into an expansive hub where you’ll find and access various Challenges by travelling around, unlocking Hitching Posts, and meeting contacts,” explained content manager Peter Amato. “Challenges are instanced and accessed via these contacts, and doing so will place you into a combat location or special world state.”
Tomorrow’s update also improves the base game with first-person driving and a Photo Mode, then offers a new way to experience the story in Cinema Siciliano mode. This option turns the game into “a genuine piece of classic Italian cinema. The visual treatment is stunning and it feels like you’re experiencing a black-and-white movie shot on an old-school sound stage, while the vintage-sounding audio convincingly brings the whole thing together”.
Free Ride is rounded out by a Classic difficulty mode, which increases the challenge even further. Everything you earn in Free Ride can then be carried over into the main campaign, giving you access to new guns and customisation items you wouldn’t have had at that point before.
The update works to expand and enhance a PS5 title that publisher 2K is considering a success. “What we suspected was confirmed, which is just… if you give consumers a great narrative experience that’s a lot of fun, somewhat contained, and at a fair price, then you can have the perfect result, said CEO Strauss Zelnick earlier this month.
What’s more, if you’re a PS Plus Premium member, you can try Mafia: The Old Country as part of your subscription with a Game Trial from Friday, 21st November. This will let you sample the first few hours of the game.
Are you returning to Mafia: The Old Country to try out Free Ride mode? Let us know in the comments below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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