What do we know about Agent, Rockstar North’s recently announced PlayStation 3 exclusive? 1. It’s an action game. 2. It’s an international spy thriller set in the 1970’s. And that’s about it. Pretty much no other details have surfaced since Jack Tretton revealed the above logo during Sony’s press conference. Even so, that hasn’t kept Take-Two CEO Ben Feder from declaringAgent to be the best thing since virtual sliced bread:
"The game, like anything from Rockstar North, is going to be very, very cool. It's going to push the edge, it's going to be genre-defining and it's going to be a whole new way of experiencing videogames that we haven't really seen before.”
"They're the best development team on the planet. We have a lot of respect for Sony, we have a lot of good business relationships with Sony. The PlayStation platforms are best suited for the title."
To be fair, most companies tend to bill their games as “genre-defining” and “revolutionary” early in the product cycles, but that doesn’t keep Feder’s remarks from sounding any less presumptuous, given that they’re about a title we know next to nothing about. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if his statement turns out to be true, or if it’s just another case of PR hyperbole.
EVERY game developer needs to read that. Just announcing a new IP with a logo dosnt really mean anything. Hell even teaser trailers dont really mean much or create hype, unless its freakin Metroid or GTA or some other established IP.
So Feder is basically praying that this game, whatever it is, both steals some thunder from GTA (Rockstar North does those, right?) and stays PS3-exclusive? That's a rather tall order...
I totally agree. They can say "PS3-Exclusive" all they want, but at one point or another it's coming to 360 and PC (Don't believe me? Look at every title they've made over the past few years, they all made it to other platforms at one point or another. Nothing Rockstar makes stays exclusive, unless you pay them enough).
And I agree with the notion that this game needs to be shwon before any kind of hype talk can begin. But I already know it WON'T be genre-defining, because every developer that says that is usually wrong. I am intrigued at the thought of RS making a spy-thriller.
They have me interested. Made by Rockstar after they seriously upped their writing and story execution for GTA4? Globetrotting spies in the 70s? Even if it's just made in the normal Rockstar framework, the style and environment could make it pretty damn entertaining.
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