Rockstar voted GTA “Most Likely to Fail”

A lot happens in 25 years.

Yesterday’s job grand theft auto 25 years, we are celebrating on a grand scale. Rockstar North, formerly DMA Design, didn’t believe in partying 25 years ago. An internal survey of staff in the Edinburgh office revealed, on the contrary, that there were few hopefuls GTA.

Voted “Most Likely to Fail”. DMA’s Colin McDonald tells us BBC that employees were given an informal poll in the office about which of the seven games they were currently working on had the greatest chance of success and vice versa. for GTA So the punishment was harsh.

The one voted most likely not to succeed is Grand Theft Auto.

The reasons were many. You didn’t know then and there which direction you wanted to go, and that was it “nice carriage”. She was constantly crashing so the confidence in the match wasn’t high.

DMA at the time was known for games like rodents (above all), body harvesting And the uni rally.

GTA Its path began as a tech show where you, in the role of a dinosaur, smashed into buildings. Cars were brought in to give the city more life, and then someone had a flash of genius: wouldn’t it be fun to control a car instead of a dinosaur? the game Race ‘n’ Chase It had a glitch that meant the AI-controlled cars hit the player-controlled car. This caused ripples in the water, and the idea to play as a criminal was born. Then Dan Houser himself cracked the title grand theft auto.

370 million copies of the series have been shipped. Just GTA V game It has sold 170 million copies.