Unfortunately Moscow Rhapsody was made for publisher D3 and not for 2K Games. I think that the game had hope of success and we worked on it for two years, helping to make the engine on which Mafia runs. The player then had to move in this situation and try to solve it. When some people go crazy and shoot the president, creating total chaos in the country. The story took place in Russia and was inspired by the book Icon, which dealt with the coup. So it was the FPS where you used the covers, and when you were in the cover, the camera just switched to 3rd person. The first was Rainbow Six : Vegas, which combined 1st person and 3rd person cameras. Marek Rabas: “Moscow Rhapsody was a First-Person Shooter that had some interesting inspirations. So was it’s cancellation a reason for you to leave?

Could you tell us more about this game? Apart from a few pictures, not much can be found about it.

We have it in the archive, it’s Moscow Rhapsody. VG: So you mentioned that you left after the unannounced Illusion Softworks project was canceled. Moscow Rhapsody is a canceled First-Person Shooter published by D3 Publisher and developed by Illusion Softworks, between 20, for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles.įor several years, little information was available regarding Moscow Rhapsody, until August 2019, when the Czech website interviewed Marek Rabas, who was lead programmer on the game, in order to learn more about its concept and the origin of its cancellation:

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