Unreleased Rockstar game called Motocade?

These images are from the guy who used to work for Rockstar and his name is Johannes Mucke.
 

https://imgur.com/uC4z8k5

As you can see Concept art for this unreleased game was created in 2005,and it belongs to Rockstar games.

SOURCE:

https://www.wienenergie.at/media/files/2014/huk_ausstellungskatalog_mücke_140514.pdf

According to his Linkedin profile he used to work for Rockstar Vienna(R.I.P)  as lead concept artist.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/muecke/

Looks like an early prototype/codename for GTA IV, kinda like when GTA V was codenamed Rush.

Interesting, I'm getting a GTA IV vibe from it too. The colour palette seems IV era-ish.

GTA IV's codename during development was "Freeze," if I'm not mistaken. But these pictures still have a GTA IV vibe to them, "Motorcade" could have been a secondary codename (Freeze was the name given during casting calls, perhaps they had a secondary one for artists?). Especially that last picture, which reminds me of how, during development, Niko was actually going to visibly wear body armor when you'd find armor. The cars also look like cars that are in IV, too.

I just contacted Johannes Mucke about these concept art pieces and he told me this:

Oh, sooo close.

At first I was gonna say that "Motocade" wasn't the name of the game, but the name of the artwork itself, like for Boris, The Angel, etc. but Johannes blew it out of the water. 

No f*cking way, Max Payne 3 was originally set in Russia? I guess Rockstar always had it in mind to bring Max to another country. I wonder if the story would have been the same thing with organ harvesting and they basically just switched countries when development shifted over to North, or if it would have been entirely different.

Awesome finds, well done! That's actually rather interesting that R* Vienna took the helm on the Max Payne series before closing. I'd think that they hadn't given the MP franchise to Rockstar until  a lot later than 2005, that's just 2 years after Max Payne 2 released.

Edit: I guess Take-Two gave it to Rockstar right after Max Payne 2 flopped in their 2004 earnings call.