I am extremely disappointed in Rockstar North, the developer of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV. As you know, the game is coming out in October for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. That means there will be one version on a DVD-9 disc, and another on a 25 GB Blu-Ray Disc. Yet somehow, Rockstar finds it reasonable to make the city in GTA IV smaller than that of San Andreas. This is what we in the world of logic would call bull****. They've made a statement that this new Liberty City would have more in it, but that's not nearly a good enough reason to actually make the city smaller.
There's no excuse for this. The Xbox 360 version will allow them 9GB of space, more than any 360 game has needed so far. GTA San Andreas was only a 5GB file and its world was bigger. Even if GTAIV has no empty space in it at all, ever, I know for a fact that Rockstar could fit an enormous world in the PS3 version. With 25 gigabytes, they could make Liberty City twice as big (possibly three times depending on their desired level of detail) as its 360 counterpart.
This is just another case of lazy a** developers making games for the money. I realize that the goal of running any company is to make money, but I feel that I still have the right to be upset about it, as do all gamers, since we're their paychecks. They're trying to make money, and we're trying to get the most out of our money. If you're going to make a game and call it "next-generation", go the extra mile with it! Do what most people would think is excessive or impossible. Don't just ride the success of your previous titles. Resistance promised 40 person, lag-less online multiplayer and to this day I have people watching me play it who can't believe it runs that well. Gears of War promised intense firefights and stunning graphics and that's what we got. Oblivion promised to be an all-inclusive, massive game with 100 hours of single player playtime at least, and it is. I'm not saying that GTAIV will be a bad game, but as I play it, I know I'll be constantly thinking about how much bigger and better it could have been. There are only maybe four next-generation titles that feel like they're beyond anything that we would've played last generation, and Rockstar should be doing all it can to get to that level, not making excuses because they want to get a hyped-up game out the door ASAP.
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