Folks rooting round within the current launch of Mafia III‘s Definitive Edition have found part of Berlin, a level scrap likely from a cancelled espionage game. Supposedly a project Hangar 13 started after Mafia 3, the game known as Rhapsody was never announced but whispers have leaked out before. Now here’s a tough define of Berlin, which could be essentially the most we’ll ever see of Rhapsody. That’s a pleasant little discover, although it’s much less good that some gamers are reporting the Def Ed has introduced new technical issues too.
As Kotaku reported in 2018, Hangar 13’s game codenamed Rhapsody was supposedly about Cold War espionage in 80s Berlin. As Kotaku inform it, Rhapsody would star a Russian Jew who joined a spy organisation after his mother and father have been murdered in a Soviet labour camp. He’d be sneaking round Berlin on spy missions, investigating spy issues, enjoying with spy devices, driving a spy automotive, and making an attempt to get spy revenge for his mother and father.
Given that the wildly unfinished little bit of world discovered by fileminer “Sliderv2” right here clearly has the Berlin TV Tower, appears probably that’s what we’re taking a look at right here:
Not vastly thrilling however hey, it’s greater than we’d seen earlier than. The precise destiny of Rhapsody is unclear, I feel? Sounds like the concept modified a complete lot over time, with concept tossed round together with turning into a superhero game, shifting location, having rhythm game-y bits… if the challenge nonetheless lives on, it’s probably in a unique type. It’s not uncommon for large publishers to scrap initiatives, thoughts. So many extra games are began than we’ll ever know.
As for what’s truly supposed to be in Mafia III: Definitive Edition, that’s a bit messier. Launched on Friday alongside a remaster of Mafia II, the Def Ed is supposed to be principally the identical game simply with the DLC thrown in. It got here as a free replace, in order that’s good. But a fair few player reviews on Steam are saying the game’s efficiency has tanked. People have even more complains about Mafia II Def Ed, which is at the very least a separate model for folk who owned the unique. Oh pricey.
All that does put a dampener on the massive information these Def Eds launched alongside: the first Mafia is getting a full remake in August.
