Dan Houser: GTA4 rocks

Unless youve been living in a cave for the last year you will know that the imminent release of Grand Theft Auto 4 has gamers literally foaming at the mouth in anticipation, just to wet their appetite a little more, Dan Houser (Rockstar co-founder and creative VP) has said that the Jump from GTA 3 to GTA4 is huge:

"What we wanted was the feeling when you saw GTA III after GTA II", he said in an interview with Variety. "The feeling when [you] see IV compared to III, hopefully it's not difficult to see differences."

Houser also touched upon the need to protect the Grand Theft Auto license from exploitation, debunking any remaining rumours for a movie adaptation.

"The intellectual property is the main asset in the company. That's why 'GTA' is still relevant ten years later. We haven't put one out every year. We haven't fleeced it. And we haven't put it on 50 different formats.

"We're not per se against moving properties between different media but for GTA it just seems so perfect as a game. You lose a lot of what makes it what it is if you move it into being, say, a movie. It just never seemed interesting creatively".

Its safe to assume that GTA 4 will sell well, frankly Rockstar could have got a copy of GTA3, stuck a "4" sticker on the box and it still would have sold by the bucket load. Grand Theft Auto 4 is set for a worldwide launch this in just over a weeks time on 29th April...like you didn't already know.

Source: CVG