As a wink and surely for documentary purposes so that the project does not get lost in history, Mafia 3 incorporates a map of Berlin in its files.
Fans who dig deep into game archives and general data looking for Easter eggs, unused content, and other surprises have found a good surprise in the recent update for Mafia III, which has been relaunched under the Definitive label. Edition like Mafia 2, which we could offer you an Reviews recently commenting on the differences between versions. Although the biggest noise has been caused by the images of the original Mafia remake. the truth is that Mafia 3 treasures a detail that will delight historians and archivists of the medium: a map of Berlin, vestiges of the Rhapsody project that was going to be the next Hanga 13 game after Mafia 3.
One wrong step
Although Mafia 3 was not a critical success, mainly due to its technical and mission design problems, it achieved good sales and its history was celebrated, along with some achieved stylistic details in the recreation of New Orleans and a great musical selection, elements that They opened the door to the studio to choose which project they wanted to undertake next: a Las Vegas-based Mafia IV inspired by Martin Scorsese's Casino or a new IP. The then leaders of the study chose the second option and went to work on a project that would end up receiving the name of Rhapsody, based in Berlin of the cold war and starring a Jewish Russian hired by an American espionage organization and with a tragic personal story in which his parents died in a gulag, leading him to a path divided between personal revenge and the search for the common good.
The original idea was an open action game, with fantastic elements typical of spy movies such as special cars with which to cross the wall between east and west, gadgets and other instruments with which to carry out missions of different kinds, from espionage to executions . As Jason Scherier related in his detailed report on the interiors of Hangar 13 after Mafia 3, the project strangely mutated until it became a superhero action game in which the protagonist could use the power of music to display special powers, generating confusion and lowering the general morale of a group that was very excited about the general idea.
In the end the project ended without a defined address and canceled. One part of Hangar 13 is working on what is rumored to be a new Bioshock, while the other part would be working on that remake of the original Mafia as a way to revitalize the franchise before taking another step with it. The Rhapsody map, only present in its most basic version, remains as irrefutable proof that the project existed, a tribute perhaps to one more broken dream in the video game world.
