Personally, I'm a big believer in both cultural authenticity and in not knowing what's going on. That's why I play games like Assassin's Creed, Metro 2033, and Indika in the native languages of their settings. Why should I listen to British or American voice actors affect accents when I could hear the game's script in proper Deutsch, Español, or Russkii?
It initially seemed that I would have no such option in the upcoming Mafia: The Old Country, the fourth game in the Mafia series and the second (or third, if you count the Mafia 1 remake) from dev studio Hangar 13. Fans have been a little perplexed to find that—in The Old Country's list of languages on its Steam page—it's set to launch with full audio dubbing in English, French, German, Spanish, Czech, and Russian, but no Italian. This despite the fact that The Old Country is about the origins of organised crime in Sicily, and every previous game in the series—including the one set in a fake New Orleans—had the option. That's right, folks:
