2 days to Vegas VS GTA4

After seeing 2 days I'm really impressed with this game because just look at the cars in the game and the customization options.  Also, the people and the city in the game look pretty cool.  Anyway to sum this up I think GTA has some stiff competition with this game if it is anything like GTA4.

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"Steel Monkeys was liquidated a couple of years ago. But in some shady manner one of the founders set up a new studio in Belarus. And somehow, despite not having released any products for two years, they've been able to self-finance the development of an in-house engine as well as the game 2 Days to Vegas for I think three years now.

This is their most recent (July 2005) game, Ultimate Baja Madness for PC:


And here's a render for the same game.


And they haven't even bothered looking for a publisher because they want full creative control. Seems like quite the risk and a potential waste of millions of dollars don't you think?

Also I remember their actual CEO, Tim Dvoskin, wrote me an email like two years ago stating more info would be released that summer. Which never happened, and continued to not happen until recently. And their idea of purposely staying under the radar because media coverage and hype is bad sounds quite odd.

So yeah I think it's quite fair to consider this game vaporware. And also to not put any weight to their comments."

Let's put it like this.
90% chance of it never being released.
80% chance of it looking and/or playing like ass if it is.

So basically there's a 2% chance of it being able to even compete with GTA. Unless my maths suck, which is quite probable.

Copy/paste from other thread.

"Steel Monkeys was liquidated a couple of years ago. But in some shady manner one of the founders set up a new studio in Belarus. And somehow, despite not having released any products for two years, they've been able to self-finance the development of an in-house engine as well as the game 2 Days to Vegas for I think three years now.

This is their most recent (July 2005) game, Ultimate Baja Madness for PC:


And here's a render for the same game.


And they haven't even bothered looking for a publisher because they want full creative control. Seems like quite the risk and a potential waste of millions of dollars don't you think?

Also I remember their actual CEO, Tim Dvoskin, wrote me an email like two years ago stating more info would be released that summer. Which never happened, and continued to not happen until recently. And their idea of purposely staying under the radar because media coverage and hype is bad sounds quite odd.

So yeah I think it's quite fair to consider this game vaporware. And also to not put any weight to their comments."

Let's put it like this.
90% chance of it never being released.
80% chance of it looking and/or playing like ass if it is.

So basically there's a 2% chance of it being able to even compete with GTA. Unless my maths suck, which is quite probable.

InsaneBasura

Wow had no idea it was like that with them because the pics that I saw of the game looked really impressive but I guess its all just for show. 

the first couple of screens are very impressive for 2 days to Vegas, and what are they, almost 2 years old?Tjeremiah1988

Well News4gamers posted some pics of the game yesterday but I don't think they are old and they did look cool, go check them out and tell me if they are old or not but they shouldn't be since the link was posted yesterday.

Wow had no idea it was like that with them because the pics that I saw of the game looked really impressive but I guess its all just for show.  odin2019

I've heard there are rumors that some of the in-game assets (vehicle models, textures etc.) are illegally stolen from other games. It would explain why they are able to survive two years without publisher funding. Perhaps 2 Days 2 Vegas will turn out to be no more than a downloadable PC mod of sorts.

[QUOTE="Tjeremiah1988"]the first couple of screens are very impressive for 2 days to Vegas, and what are they, almost 2 years old?odin2019

Well News4gamers posted some pics of the game yesterday but I don't think there old and did look cool go check them out and tell me if they are old or not but they shouldn't be since the link was posted yesterday.

its new :) 

[QUOTE="odin2019"] Wow had no idea it was like that with them because the pics that I saw of the game looked really impressive but I guess its all just for show.  -Spock-

I've heard there are rumors that some of the in-game assets (vehicle models, textures etc.) are illegally stolen from other games. It would explain why they are able to survive two years without publisher funding. Perhaps 2 Days 2 Vegas will turn out to be no more than a downloadable PC mod of sorts.

actually they have exact replicas of the cars from real life in that game like the honda civic, taxi cab, 1960 mustang, police car, etc.....  It looks very real.

Let's put it like this.
90% chance of it never being released.
80% chance of it looking and/or playing like ass if it is.

So basically there's a 2% chance of it being able to even compete with GTA. Unless my maths suck, which is quite probable.

InsaneBasura

Conditional probability? on system wars? Talk about ambitious!!!

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[QUOTE="odin2019"] Wow had no idea it was like that with them because the pics that I saw of the game looked really impressive but I guess its all just for show. odin2019

I've heard there are rumors that some of the in-game assets (vehicle models, textures etc.) are illegally stolen from other games. It would explain why they are able to survive two years without publisher funding. Perhaps 2 Days 2 Vegas will turn out to be no more than a downloadable PC mod of sorts.

actually they have exact replicas of the cars from real life in that game like the honda civic, taxi cab, 1960 mustang, police car, etc..... It looks very real.

I doubt any of those screens were actually ingame at the time. Plus you can just tell they were all prerendered stills just like how they show most of todays up coming games anyways.  

I stand corrected. It looks like 2 Days 2 Vegas might actually make it. I kind of hope it does now. NeoJoe

Based on what? And why? Anyone can blabber on about gameplay concepts and premises, it's another thing entirely to actually implement them. Steel Monkeys' track record tells me they might not be too successful with that. The screenshots could just as well be renders, again. That they're a bit uglier than the first ones doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Sadness and 2 Days to Vegas are the new DNF's. I actually think DNF has a bigger chance of being released in 2008 then those two.