Grand Theft Auto Xbox 'Double Pack' Explored

Thanks to GameSpy for their brief interview with Rockstar Vienna's managing director over the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto/Vice City 'double pack' for the Xbox, which ships on 4th November. He reveals this conversion of both GTA games has "upped the resolution for HDTV usage, enabling 480p support along with a 16:9 aspect ratio for widescreen TVs", significant other graphical enhancements, including "much higher resolution textures", "specular lighting" and "reflection maps", and best of all, that "...players will also be able to create their own stations and can make multiple soundtracks by ripping their favorite CD's onto the Xbox hard drive. Grand Theft Auto 3 recognizes each soundtrack as a CD that can be changed by the new CD changer."

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also 720p

[gearheadsmp]

It also supports 720p, aka 1280x720.

My unusual opinion...

[okayplayer]

I had the wonderful fortune of being able to work at Rockstar Games as a tester for the GTA Double pack as well as a few other games. I thought I should just share my two cents as I have a lot of hands on experience with the games.

Firstly, in my OPINION, GTA3 is better than VC. Its just my opinion, no linked articles needed. Thats not to say that I do wish GTA3 included motorcycles but the way I see it, motorcycles just aren't part of the game. Much in the same way that children aren't in the game. They are just not there. Understand?

Now down the the details.

In GTA3 the graphics really are much improved even over the PC version. Vienna really did a good just with the graphics hardware of the xbox. Check out the new car models, they even have engines under the hoods. The rims on the banshee are fly. They are different enough that the first time you pull the e-brake and slide through the turn, you notice them. The reflections as well have been improve A LOT. You can see the traffic lights on the top of the cars, and the people on the sidewalks as you drive by. The editable sound track feature is also a plus. Especially when your testing the game for as many hour as I did and can recite the Dormatron commerical in my sleep, All in all the improvements are really worth the look.

One important note is that a lot of care was taken in NOT changing the feel of the game too much. Like I said before, I'm a GTA3 fan so I was quite happy with the results.

VC gets the same type of makeover. The pastel colors never looked truer. I never got a chance to test the final control scheme (I had to go back and finish college) but I'm sure everything got ironed out.

I got to see the game in HD a couple of times and I think those of you lucky enough to take advantage of it will be very pleased.

I never got a chance to see any PS2 version as it wasn't being tested at my office. It was all done by North I believe.

Well I know there was more I wanted to post but I'm sure I'll get a chance when replying to the flames.

Buy the Double Pack, you will be paying my salary.

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