Inside the posh New York headquarters of Rockstar Games in a SoHo loft, there's a buzz of round-the-clock activity. It's only weeks before the company releases its much anticipated video game, Grand Theft Auto IV, and employees are scrambling to deliver the finishing touches. "It takes a lot of work to make a crap game," says Dan Houser, Rockstar's co-founder, as he dips into a bowl of candy, "and just a little more to make a great one."
Houser has good reason to debate the difference. Grand Theft Auto will appear on Apr. 29 to high expectations and even higher stakes. Already, game analysts are forecasting that the fourth installment of the go-anywhere, commit-any-crime game, which will be available for Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony's (SNE) PlayStation 3, will be the biggest seller of 2008, with an anticipated 13 million units sold. The three previous versions of Grand Theft Auto have been huge hits, selling a combined 32 million units and pulling in $1.24 billion, according to market researcher NPD Group.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
As we have all been graced by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer, we're ranking the best and worst GTA trailers to date.
We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now
Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.
This site supposed to be for news.
These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.
Grand Theft Auto 4 is an important game for Rockstar, not least because it was the first title in the franchise to use the newly created RAGE engine.
wow thats not small cookies R* is pushing around
If Ea ended up getting Take Two before GTA4(or anytime for that matter) we can all kiss that franchise goodbye.
Not only because of EA's declining videogame quality, but also because they don't normally publish controversial games(I believe Mass Effect was being worked on before EA's "aquisition" of Bioware).
Who knows what they would do with GTA, and even if Rockstar leaves and takes GTA with them, what happens to the 2ksports that gave them competition.
I explain all of my concerns in my recent blog here titled Grinds My Gears: Electronic Arts...
http://www.n4g.com/up/26518...