Dan Houser Talks Up GTA 4 with Variety

[CSN NewsBot]

Dan Houser, of Rockstar fame, had a rather lengthy chat with Variety on all things Grand Theft Auto 4 and Rockstar.

The idea that if a guy falls down a wall, we have that running in real time the way he crumbles or compacts. It’s stuff you could only do in pre-rendered CGI before. That’s amazing and we’re the first ones to use that technology.



We’ve got this city that feels alive. It has all these activities you could never have gone and done in that amount detail.



On a story level, the obvious one is that we can have some degree of emotion now because we can go in close on the characters and their faces look great. We’ve got this very good technology for animating faces. We can get emotions across. It happens in cut scenes and in the game. That gives it a degree of life that could never happen before.

You can read the entire interview courtesy of Variety.

[_PeNgUiNs_ lord]

I hate it when people in the game industry don't look at the rest of the game industry.

"The idea that if a guy falls down a wall, we have that running in real time the way he crumbles or compacts. It’s stuff you could only do in pre-rendered CGI before. That’s amazing and we’re the first ones to use that technology."



Don't even make me start a list, i couldn't possibly list every game with ragdoll or variations of the ragdoll.

[FatboyTim]

What?

[Zom-B]

He's talking about endorphin/euphoria. No other RELEASED game has used it yet.