Mens de fleste konsolejere er ved at gå ud af deres gode skind, mens de venter på lanceringen af GTA V i morgen, så minder The Guardian om at spilserien næsten aldrig var blevet til noget. I et interview med skaberne af det originale Grand Theft Auto mindes holdet bag hvorledes udviklingsprocessen gik helt galt, og at spillet næsten blev lagt i graven adskillige gange.

“The writers were driving at one way. The level designers were driving at another way. They weren’t meeting in the middle,” Gary Penn, the producer and creative director who joined the project to help bring it all together, said.

“So you ended up with something that read badly, that made no sense, and it kept breaking.”

“The milestones they were meant to uphold didn’t really materialise,” Penn said. “We’d have conference calls at least once a week with the US. They wanted to kill it every week. Every week they wanted to kill this game, and we’d have to argue to try and keep it going, because we had some faith.”

Du kan se hele videointerviewet hos The Guardian. Tænk engang. Hvis udviklerne ikke havde udgivet det originale Grand Theft Auto, ville morgendagen bare være en almindelig tirsdag. Heldigvis kan vi alle nyde den femte udgave af GTA-serien fra i morgen.

16 KOMMENTARER

  1. #9 og #10 så smut tilbage og spil GTA1 hvis i er utilfredse :p
    Syntes selv både historie og gameplay har udviklet sig rigtig meget siden det originale GTA, og det er kun blevet bedre og bedre

  2. Gud hvor er jeg ved at være træt af GTA 5 nyheder, og konsolfanboys

    Ja.. vi har hørt jer nu… spillet bliver sikkert mega fedt..

    Og ja, vi er stadig sure over at det ikke kommer til PC..

    Gå nu væk…

  3. Citat fra artiklen:

    Penn, now internal development manager at Denki, said: “It was like trying to nail jelly to kittens. Eventually there were enough hands to hold this thing together, but please nobody move, because this thing is going to fall apart. That’s what it felt like right at the end. It was like, we’d just got to put this out now because if we don’t it’s just going to break again and we’ve lost it forever.”

    Hahaha det er en fed beskrivelse af udviklingen af spillet.