Wouldn't that be great? a new-gen GTA game set in the world of Blade runner.
I mean I have no interest in the new GTA game, but if it was set in the Blade runner universe. I would buy a PS3 and the game today!
actually "Blade runner" could be replaced by pretty much any cyberpunk or SF theme "world": Like Dune, Total Recall, Shadowrun, Judge Dredd, Fallout, Johnny Mnemonic, Robocop or even Waterworld
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The concept sounds good to me. GTA doesn't interest me much at all because it's trying to emulate a real world setting. What would excite me is a completely immersive setting set in a sci-fi world. Doesn't even need to be all free roaming and shit. There are ways to make an immersive game other than vomiting an entire city onto a disc
A new breed of a free roaming city based game; An investigate-em-up where you try to uncover a giant replicant conspiracy while trying to keep human casualties at a minimum.
I'd buy it!
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Anyone played Body Harvest? It's an N64 game Rockstar (née DMA) developed that was sort of a spiritual predecessor to GTAIII. It had huge free-roaming environments and tons of different vehicles to steal, but instead of kicking hookers you fought enormous alien bugs in five different time periods. I'd like to see Rockstar make another game like that.
But it is a good idea. I like GTA games, but they're definitely in need of some new ideas. I've put around 35 hours into IV, but it just feels like Vice City with way better graphics and really good characters/story telling. Doing missions has just become kind of stale and almost pointless feeling.
nimitz wrote:actually "Blade runner" could be replaced by pretty much any cyberpunk or SF theme "world": Like Dune, Total Recall, Shadowrun, Judge Dredd, Fallout, Johnny Mnemonic, Robocop or even Waterworld
Yeah, it'd be awesome. Even better IMO if it was in an anime cyberpunk style. Anyway, free-roaming in a futuristic environment (not grungy cyberpunk though) was actually the main subject of Nintendo's Project Reality demo back when they were demoing off the Ultra 64.
The SG and SNES Shadowrun games already covered most of the aspects of GTA so it'd be a natural fit if Microsoft (who unfortunately owns the software rights to FASA's Shadowrun and Battletech) tries to make a Shadowrun along the lines of GTA's play mechanics instead of the waste they created last year.
