GTA IV developer gives insight to game length
- Posted March 29th, 2008 at 12:35 EDT by
- 23 Comments
Many of you will recall that Grand Theft Auto IV has approximately 100 hours of gameplay worth playing; however, it was never confirmed as to whether this was actual single-player storyline gameplay or if it included all of the side missions as well. Jeronimo Barrera, a senior developer at Rockstar, has given a bit of insight on the timing that it has taken most game testers to complete the single-player campaign of GTA IV:
"...it takes testers playing 4 hours a day, a good 2 weeks to get through the whole single-player game.”
If these game testers are throwing in overtime on Saturday and Sunday, this would figure out to be roughly 56 hours of legitimate story playtime. It makes perfect sense that this would be the case considering you can usually spend countless hours completing all of the side objectives within a Grand Theft Auto title. Even though it is more likely they spent 40 hours completing the experience, that is still a substantial amount of time for just the main story of the game.
As the day of release draws near and everyone's anticipation increases steadily, we'll bring you anything else new regarding this title.
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Steffantj1
- 12:43pm GMT - March 29th, 2008
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Wasent this in the forums yesterday? Oh well should be fun, but i got my GCSE'S :( So i wont be able to play it much
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psycho_mantis |
makaveli_71- 12:55pm GMT - March 29th, 2008
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i will probably lose my job, get kicked out of college and go to jail becasueof this game lol
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1solidsnake |
solid1snake67- 1:05pm GMT - March 29th, 2008
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this game will be cool. i'm looking for a summer job and hopefully i get my driver's license back. but, due to the gas prices. i might not be driving to far. but, due to the fact GTAIV and MGS4 lol i won't be leaving my room for days on end!
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Undying_Darkness
- 2:29pm GMT - March 29th, 2008
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thats just missions, side missions and messing around. now add online and you have like 300 hours plus!
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AclayPS3
- 5:22pm GMT - March 29th, 2008
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Hmmm. If those testers played for 4 hours a day for about 2 weeks to get through the whole single player portion of GTA4, it will take me about 3 months or longer because when I play GTA games, I don't go straight through the game. I'll do 3 or 4 missions and then I'll roam around and explore new areas for an hour or more and then I wont play again until the next day. It probably took me about 2 months to beat San Andreas because of the way I play the GTA games.
GTA4 will easily last me until Killzone 2 comes out. We've got just another month to go!
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D3v1lwqer23
- 6:52pm GMT - March 29th, 2008
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Nice change considering games this gen are horridly short.
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MatrixSixaxis
- 7:37pm GMT - March 29th, 2008
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After comleting the game, I'd like to see somebody try to finish the game in a day!
Also, heard rumours that the DS may be getting a GTA4 game??, if so, I hope the PSP also gets one!?!
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Undying_Darkness
- 9:08pm GMT - March 29th, 2008
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GT5P and GTA4 will kill cod4 online. i dont see me going back on there for a while. well unless...
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 12:40am GMT - March 30th, 2008
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I'm surprised devs can still make games over 15 hours long. Just goes to show some games cough Heavenly Sword cough need to be longer.
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Hedgie09
- 12:17am BST - March 31st, 2008
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It took me 70-71 hours to finish GTA San Andreas 99.66% (I only had to get 1 more gold medal on the driving school) playing about 2 hours a day (after school) and 5 a day on weekends. GTA IV should take me a while though considering I will be standing staring at the city in awe over the sheer size and visual quality.
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ReppinDaNorth89
- 12:13pm BST - April 1st, 2008
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PSN ID! ReppinDaNorth21...Okay GTA4 obviously will be a great game. Besides the fact the story will be long 56 hours pretty long and thats good. You will have more hours then 56 jsut for the simple fact I know everyone will just shoot go off and shoot random people and get the police after them. Ive done it and I am sure others have too. Best part will be the online on this game...without the online its a great game..with the online it can be one of the best ever. The only problem I have is the online can be very bad, worse then COD4(i hope its not) and if it is then this game will not be as good as it can be. The video game industry is changing its more or less about a good story+having a good online experience.instead of jsut beating a game now you can go online and play other people. Witch is an exciting feature and I hope it only gets better.
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