Mafia 3: Definitive Edition could not have acquired a lot in the best way of recent content material, however industrious followers dug up a neat, sudden addition.
Mafia 3: Definitive Edition launched final week alongside Mafia 2: Definitive Edition. Unlike that game, or the upcoming full-on remake of the unique, Mafia Three obtained lots much less love by comparability.
It seems, developer Hangar 13 hid a neat Easter egg within the game’s information in order that gamers could someday discover it. YouTuber Sliderv2 datamined quite a few unused belongings from each Mafia 2 and three’s Definitive Editions. The most attention-grabbing must be the Berlin map in Mafia 3.
The game’s story by no means passed off in Germany, in fact, so we are able to solely assume that the map is from developer Hangar 13’s cancelled venture, which it reportedly began engaged on after delivery Mafia 3. Dubbed Rhapsody, the game was revealed in a Kotaku report from two years in the past.
Set in 1980s Berlin, Rhapsody was pitched as a spy thriller starring a Russian Jew who will get recruited by the eponymous spy organisation. It appeared like a extra actiony model of Hitman, with a whole lot of sneaking across the metropolis and spying on targets.
The map Sliderv2 dug up seems to be from that game, however it’s sadly only a white field model. Geometry exists, however you’ll be able to’t discover the buildings or work together with them in any approach. You can stroll round, although, which the YouTuber does a bit of bit within the video.
Considering the rumoured Rhapsody was being constructed utilizing the identical engine, it is sensible why that map ended up in Mafia 3: Definitive Edition. It’s additionally doable Hangar 13 needed one final little bit of proof about that game’s existence within the wild, in order that it could be remembered by archivists down the road.
