

"We added a big rural area to the north of the city, and the main story only takes you out to a couple of spots," he explains. Vévoda particularly loves exploring the serene countryside beyond the busy streets of Lost Heaven in Free Ride. "Once Tommy is kitted up, you can head into the city and start poking around." The most dedicated players may find a few unlockables as a reward for following a trail of cryptic clues.

"When you enter Free Ride, you'll start at Salieri’s Bar, with access to your garage, wardrobe, and armory, plus the ability to change the time of day and weather," says Vévoda. To unlock Free Ride mode, all you need to do is complete the first mission in Mafia: Definitive Edition's main story. We combined ideas from both into one mode, so the Definitive Edition version of Free Ride contains both the tourism part and some hidden bonus content to discover." "There was 'Free Ride,' a city tourism mode with very simple taxi-driving type gameplay, and 'Free Ride Extreme' which added some crazy challenges. "Confusingly, there were two versions of Free Ride in the original game," says Vévoda. It’s an opportunity to check out the beautiful vistas around the city, test drive the vehicles in your garage, find collectibles out in the world, and maybe uncover a few secrets."įree Ride harkens back to the 2002 original Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, letting you explore the 1930s landscape at your own pace. "The basic idea is that Free Ride allows players to explore Lost Heaven freely without any mission objectives. "Free Ride is a bonus mode that we included as a nod to the original game," explains Ondřej Vévoda, Lead Designer at Hangar 13. Free Ride Extreme vehicles with a Taxi sign on them will work for this purpose as well.Even after you've experienced Tommy Angelo's journey into the world of organized crime, there's still plenty to see and do in Mafia: Definitive Edition via Free Ride mode. Picking people up in taxis will earn you varying amounts of money.Destroying vehicles will earn you $100 each.Driving above a certain speed threshold will earn you $100 per second.They will either be one on foot or two in all black "gangster" variants of the Falconer and Wright Coupe.Killing gangsters will earn you $1,000 each.You can also set the density of the pedestrian traffic, police patrols, and vehicle traffic once those options become available. You can also choose between day and night. Town mode - This mode is achieved as you progress through the story mode, and lets you play throughout the city and the countryside.In it you only have available a part of the city. Small City mode - You can play this mode after you finish the first story chapter.Within this game mode, there are two options: Small City and Town. Free ride is immediately available when the game is started, unlike Free Ride Extreme.
