14 DAY TRIAL // Once Grand Theft Auto IV was out, a small but vocal minority of fans and industry analysts quickly demanded to know when GTA V would be coming out.
Rockstar and Take Two managed to placate them for a while by announcing two DLC episodes, The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, but now that group is growing quickly and is ready to assault the publisher and developers with questions until it gets at least an announcement of an announcement.
Strauss Zelnick, the man who leads the board of Take Two, snapped when repeatedly being asked about a possible announcement about Gran Theft Auto V. He said that “We're not going to announce it. We're not going to announce when we're going to announce it. And we're not going to announce a strategy about announcing it or about when we're going to announce it either, or about the announcement strategy surrounding the announcement of the strategy.”
On the one hand, it makes sense for the response to be less than welcoming. On the other hand, a lot of people are still thinking about Take Two as being the guys who put out GTA and not much else and the delay of games like Max Payne 3 and BioShock 2 does nothing to change that image. But the publisher should be more accommodating and give fans of the best selling series at least a hint related to when they can expect another GTA title.
As if trying to compensate, the publisher has announced that LA Noire is still being worked on by developer Team Bondi. The game has been in development since at least 2007 and a lot of people have said that it would never be released. Still, it seems that Rockstar and Take Two are not giving up on the videogame, which should recreate the Los Angeles of the 1940's while tasking the player with solving a number of bloody murders.