GTA Creator To Make GTA-Beater?

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the Gamespot news that Grand Theft Auto creator David Jones is dropping hints about titles in development at his new company, Real Time Worlds. An executive at his company hinted: "We are not yet talking specifically about our two titles under development, but I will hint that fans of GTA and next-generation racing games will not be disappointed." Jones is the founder of developer DMA Design, who created the classic carnage-based puzzler Lemmings and went on to make both the 2D and 3D Grand Theft Auto titles. He left the developer after DMA were bought by Take Two and renamed Rockstar North, and his own company, Real Time Worlds, have been operating in stealth mode for a while now.

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Re:Woot, another clone!

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

"I'd rather not play anymore GTA/next generation racing games."

So don't buy them.

Seriously, most entertainments markets operate this way. If the next big thing comes along, the companies flood the market with knockoffs. It doesn't mean that the original wasn't good or that the new copies coming out can't expand on the original concept. For instance, GTA III vs. GTA: Vice City - for the most part, very similar games, but I think in many ways Vice City was an improvement over GTA III.

There are plenty of interesting games coming out on the current batch of consoles - depending upon what you define as interesting. Since you've only listed games that you found interesting, I don't really know. But I'm currently enjoying World Series Baseball 2K3 for the PS2 - a very enjoyable game; we just held our draft, which was a lot of fun.

Anyway, perhaps you could expand a bit on your thought. There are lots of games coming out that aren't based on the GTA game model. And the games you listed, with the exception of Seamen (which I did not enjoy), aren't new genres but just very nice instances of past genres. When Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II were dominating the market and tons of fighting games were flooding the market, I didn't complain about the fact - I just avoided the junk and only bought quality.

Oh, and here's a grammatical note: the Dreamcast didn't put out any games. Companies released games for the Dreamcast.