Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Purple Useless Redemption 2 is the “smartest thing” he ever labored on throughout his time on the studio.
Houser – who, alongside together with his brother Sam, co-founded Rockstar Video games in 1998 – wrote 12 video games within the Grand Theft Auto collection beginning with the primary recreation’s growth spin-off Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 and ending with Grand Theft Auto 5.
He additionally wrote Bully, Purple Useless Redemption 1 and a pair of, Max Payne 3, Midnight Membership: Los Angeles and Purple Useless On-line, however left Rockstar in 2020 to type a brand new firm, Absurd Ventures.
In a brand new interview with IGN, Houser was requested which of the video games he labored at throughout his time at Rockstar was his favorite of all.
Though he replied by citing quite a few highlights in his Rockstar profession, Houser said that Purple Useless Redemption 2 was, in his eyes, the very best recreation he was concerned in.
“Purple Useless 2, I feel, was the very best factor that I labored on,” he replied. “The perfect single realisation of open-world storytelling, thematic consistence and understanding how the video games are assembled to take you on an emotional journey.”
Houser then went on to record his favorite elements of different video games, together with earlier Grand Theft Auto titles.
“I additionally suppose GTA 4, as a result of we did try to evolve how we did the storytelling and did it in a elementary method. I feel the center part of GTA 5 is wonderful after we obtained the three characters working. I feel it was not flawless, nevertheless it was so clean. That center part, I assumed that was actually wonderful. After which the tip of Purple Useless 1. These are form of my favorite bits.”
He additionally famous that Purple Useless Redemption, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Bully had been all vital to him “as a result of they had been all basically new (or almost new) IP – doing that for the primary time and assembling one thing robust, that’s a extremely gratifying expertise that I’m making an attempt to take into what we’re doing now.”
Earlier this 12 months Absurd Ventures, the brand new transmedia firm based by Houser, revealed its new recreation and animation universe, the ‘Absurdaverse’.
“Put together to fulfill some new sorts of heroes (and watch them undergo),” reads an announcement in February, accompanied by a picture of twenty vibrant characters, starting from acquainted GTA-style protagonists to a Viking and a hooded ghoul.
Extra info on Absurd’s plans for Absurdaverse will come this 12 months, together with animation initiatives and an “authentic story-driven action-comedy journey recreation” set to star a number of the characters revealed.
Along with Absurdaverse, Absurd can be engaged on two additional fiction ‘universes’: American Caper, which can start life as a graphic novel, and A Higher Paradise, which is an audio fiction collection.
