This game is a remake of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (2002) with for modern consoles with the latest graphical enhancements. The game adds more in-depth character development scenes including giving characters like Pauli and Sam last names and showing more scenes with Sarah, Tommy's wife, who only appeared in the original game once.
Czech actor and voice-actor Petr Rychlý reprises his role as Paulie in the Czech version after 18 years.
The actor who voices Paulie, Jeremy Luke, played Mickey Cohen in the short lived TBS show Mob City (2013).
The game will feature collectible cards each with the characters full names, which were not revealed in the original game.
The "service revolver" appears to be modeled on the Colt Python. The game takes place in the 1930s, but the Colt Python wasn't manufactured untill 1955.