The Old Country Game Size and System Requirements Are Even More Impressive

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The Old Country Game Size and System Requirements Are Even More Impressive

******: The Old Country was announced at last year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, and since then, it has largely kept a low profile until recently. We just got a gameplay trailer for the game with a release date reveal of August 8 and a $50 price tag. There are two notable things here.

First is the price tag. Nintendo and Xbox recently raised their game prices to $80, and instead of following along, Hangar 13 is making ******: The Old Country even cheaper than current AAA games. Second, the game will run on Unreal Engine 5, so what system requirements are we looking at?

******: The Old Country is defying industry standards

We got new details for ******: The Old Country earlier this week via a new and gritty gameplay trailer and a developer panel at PAX East. The game will officially launch on August 8 with a $50 price tag. The story of this latest entry into the franchise revisits the roots of organized crime in early 1900s Sicily.

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This decision on the game’s pricing is a pleasant surprise given the recent state of the market. It comes in the middle of a market where new games like Mario Kart World and future Xbox exclusives are climbing to $80. So, to price it lower in this situation is definitely a move that sets it up for success.

Despite its lower price, The Old Country is no lightweight when it comes to technology or production values. The game is powered by Unreal Engine 5, which tells us a lot of good and bad things. For one, it means that we can expect the best graphics that modern games have. But on the other hand, it also means that it might have the typical optimization and performance issues.

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Fortunately, Hangar 13 appears to have accounted for this by designing a more focused experience. Studio president Nick Baynes confirmed that The Old Country isn’t going to be an open-world game. Not only does this make sense in terms of the franchise, but it will help the constant asset streaming required by open-world games. This should lead to better performance.

The performance requirements are quite steep

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You know what’s even more impressive than the price tag? It’s the game’s system requirements. First, let’s talk about storage. The PC version of ******: The Old Country requires just 55GB of storage. This is a surprisingly modest figure in 2025 because we’ve seen that most UE5 games easily surpass 100 GB.

And then there are the main hardware requirements. The minimum system requirements for the game are a Ryzen 7 2700X or Core i7-9700K CPU, 16 GB RAM, and a Radeon RX 5700 XT or RTX 2070 GPU. That’s enough to run the game at 1080p on medium settings.

When we move up to the recommended settings, players will need a Ryzen 7 5800X or Core i7-12700K, 32 GB RAM, and a Radeon RX 6950 XT or RTX 3080 Ti to play it at 1440p on high settings. If we compare this to other recent Unreal Engine 5 games, most other games only need GPUs like the GTX 1060 or the RX 580. So the minimum requirements are a decent bit higher.

Given how demanding Unreal Engine 5 is, this is no surprise. But why exactly does it have way higher requirements than other games? You’d think being linear and not an open world would reduce the hardware needs, but it’s the opposite. Still, we know Unreal Engine 5 games have issues. Whether The Old Country manages to avoid them remains to be seen.

******: The Old Country is set to be released on August 8, 2025, for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

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