Mafia: The Old Country’s Sicily’s turn-of-the-century setting was getting a little more explicit than Take-Two Interactive would like. The publisher has issued a takedown notice to Nexus Mods to remove a pair of custom nude mods that left the game’s lead female character, Isabella Torrisi, without anything to wear.
Nexus Mods acknowledged the request from Take-Two (via PC Gamer), and complied by removing the Nude Isabella mod and the Extended Textures for Nude Isabella mod, both of which were created by a user known as norskpl. PC Gamer speculates norskpl may have used Isabella’s model from her love scenes in the game. Norskpl’s non-nude mods created for The Old Country appear to have been left intact. That includes a few mods that let players assume the role of other characters from the Mafia franchise.
In the context of the game, Isabella is the daughter of Don Torrisi, the boss of the player’s character, Enzo Favara. Although the Don is fiercely protective of Isabella and has his own ideas about who she should marry, she and Enzo have a clandestine affair behind his back. That’s the primary romantic relationship in the game, and the source of inevitable conflict.
Getting rid of the nude mods may keep them off of Nexus Mods, but there’s always the possibility that someone can create new mods and post them somewhere else. This may only be a temporary solution for Take-Two, and it only brought the issue to the forefront.
The Old Country developer Hanger 13 recently stated that a future update will introduce a Free Ride mode that will let players escape from the linear narrative of the primary story and allow them to explore the countryside around them. The game already has a free-roam mode through the Chapter Replay menu, but the background characters and their surroundings aren’t as compelling to see in that mode.
Mafia: The Old Country is out now for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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