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GTA IV Audio Q&A
Friday, April 18th, 2008
GamesRadar has an interesting Q&A with the senior audio team
at Rockstar North;
Matthew Smith, Craig Conner and Will Morton - about the pedestrian
AI, dialogue, soundtrack and all other kinds of audio heard within
the game.
"The pedestrian AI is much more complex in GTA4 than
it has been in previous games, and we have to create dialogue to
cope with this - peds now do a lot more than they could do
previously, and can react in more ways to what happens in the
game.
We also decided to make the pedestrian dialogue more realistic
in GTA4. As an example, peds in previous games would walk around
and randomly chat to themselves if they weren’t doing much else.
In real life, people (generally!) don’t go around talking to
themselves, so we dropped this behavior from GTA4. However, we
realized that the random chat of old GTA games was a good way
for the player to pick-up on what sort of personality a ped has,
so we created the cell-phone conversations in GTA4 as one
realistic way of portraying personality."
Included in the Q&A are 6 new screenshots. Don't forget to
discuss this news article on our
forums.
Rockstar North Five Week
Holiday
Now, to some lighter news as we head to the release of Grand
Theft Auto IV in only 10 short days. As you may know, GTA 4 was
originally scheduled to be released 6 months ago in October 2007 but
was delayed due to the game not being finished. During that time
Rockstar North staff have been working extra-hard to get the game
finished, putting in a lot of hours!
That hard work has paid off
and now the staff will be treated to a five week, fully paid
vacation - starting next week April 21st.
The question is, after the five week vacation, what next? GTA...?
Lazlow Talks About GTA 4
Here are some of the points gathered from
what Lazlow said on the Opie and Anthony
show this morning:
- Jim Norton plays a worker in a porn shop. "That's a vintage
bush" is a line he says.
- Here's a random line: "Eat my fat hairy fist!"
- There are over 100 radio commercials.
- Sometimes there are announcements in the subway about police
harassing you and searching you randomly.
- There are Piswasser commercials mocking the Budweiser radio
commercials played in America. Lazlow played one of them and
it's sung by Anthony himself.
- You can go on different news websites in the game and read
about different crimes you've committed.
- You can date girls you've met on dating websites.
- When you get shot in individual places, there will be
different reactions e.g. if Niko gets shot in the leg, he will
begin to bleed from there and he will also begin to limp.
- Recording sessions went on for weeks, ten hours a day, every
day.
- There were a lot of weekends that were spent by Rockstar
employees trying to make the game as great as possible.
- Lazlow says he prefers the Xbox version because of
downloadable content: new missions, characters, comedy, etc.
- O&A admit that it's amazing and as Anthony puts it
"everybody will have a blast playing."
Thanks to
Planet GTA for both news |
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