Når man laver et remake i stedet for et remaster, så har man naturligvis muligheden for at kigge nøgternt på spillet, og dermed lave mere gennemgribende ændringer for at sikre et mere moderne produkt. Det har udvikleren Hangar 13 tænkt sig at gøre med det kommende Mafia: Definitive Edition, så der vil være dele af oplevelsen der rent strukturelt er blevet ekspanderet i forhold til originalen.
I et interview med USGamer fortæller Hangar 13's Haden Blackman, at de ekspanderer og udvikler videre på spillets historie, samt en række af missionerne.
"For example, Sarah, the love interest in the original, she doesn't get very much screen time, but she's the heart of why Tommy Angelo is doing what he's doing. At the beginning of the game you learn that he's trying to arrange a way out of the life and he's doing it all for his family, so we wanted to make sure that as a player you knew what it was that he was trying to protect. We wanted to make sure that Sarah got more screen time; she's in the game more, has an understandable kind of role in the lowercase family and uppercase Family."
"We took a hard look at each mission and looked at whether or not we could add additional set pieces. If there was additional content we could put into those missions to flesh them out a little bit, or add a couple more memorable moments to each without sacrificing the core narrative beats or the intent of the mission of the story overall."
Det lader til at Mafia: Definitive Edition bliver en del større end originalen, og det udkommer d. 28 august.