There is a very impressive and in-depth interview on TheGuardian.com with Rockstar’s co-founder and vice president Dan Houser. There are some secrets and challenges that they encountered during the development process. Here is a quick rundown on some key information:
- Grand Theft Auto is the fifth biggest-selling videogame franchise of all time
- four years of development on GTA V
- 1,000-page script, months of motion and voice capture
- eight international studios involved in creating GTA 5
- Los Santos map is bigger than those of GTA IV, GTA: San Andreas and Red Dead Redemption combined
- spent a minimum of 100 days in Los Angeles on research trips
- spoke to FBI agents that have been undercover, experts in the Mafia, street gangsters who know the slang
- transcript runs to more than 10,000 words
- Rockstar has been approached many times by film studios about a film licence but Rockstar says “it’s never appealed”
- Grand Theft Auto IV alone made $310m on release day
See the full interview here.
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