Putting together Grand Theft Auto IV might have cost more than $100 million
Posted 04.30.2008 at 8:15 am
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Rockstar Games producer Leslie Benzies says that Grand Theft Auto IV may have cost more than $100 million to develop, which would reportedly make it the most expensive game ever produced.
Apparently more than a thousand people worked on the job. There's a 1,000-plus page script. Photographers snapped 100,000 photos for background scenes. And yes, the developers worked long hours getting things ready.
That $100 million figure might sound shocking—and Benzies says it's a real guess—but it's not that wild considering how successful the franchise as a whole has been. The controversial series boasts global sales of almost 70 million units. Now we'll see whether the latest installment meets the hype.
Via Kotaku
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from Yukon, OK
The easiest way for rockstar to get there money back is to kill the hookers and take the money!
Or they can just type in R2, R2, L1, L1, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up. Just do that a couple times and they'll have their money.
and yet the world in GTA San Andres is biger and there are more veicles such as plains
I would appreciate to see this coming to online game.
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I hated GTA 4, I hated the way how he walked,and talked. I liked San Andreas more than this piece of crap. Oh Rockstar, make a new freaking map! I hate playing in Liberty City all the time, make a map that is like Texas or something.