BKK2 on 29 April 2008
US: FL
Grand Theft Auto Mania Hits Central Florida
It may be the biggest video game retailer Blockbuster ever and it debuts this coming Tuesday. Grand Theft Auto IV could rake in $540 million in the first two days of sales.
Many reviewers already give it a ten out of ten scoring.
Soon, millions of gamers will move their players through Grand Theft Auto IV.
The storyline has a newcomer to America and getting caught up in a revenge drama on the streets of a fictional New York City. Gamers like fifteen year old George Jeffry must have it. He told us, it feels like it’s an escape out of life.
Jeffry still plays the old version of this videogame for hours at a time- an escape into an intense world of fantasy.
“You get to steal cars and drive around,” he said. “I can't do that in real life, or I'll go to jail.”
Robert Catto is a big kid at heart. He's program director for the videogame development program at Full Sail University. Catto says playing Grand Theft Auto is like going to a movie. Except now you can be a part of it, and the decision you make can change the outcome, and you can restart it should anything dangerous happen.
Catto says the graphics are impressive on the new video game, but serious gamers focus on the storyline. They relish the challenges of navigating through the game and taking on a new character. It's the ability to take on a whole different character. It's the ability to be somebody different than who you are in real life.
Catto knows some parents and girlfriends won't approve of the violence, the nasty language, the hustlers, hookers, dealers and junkie’s players meet on the way. They encounter all that while they run down people and steal cars.
“I'd rather them be playing a game,” Catto said. “And running over game characters than doing it in real life.”
Store managers at the Lake Mary store say they pre-sold almost two hundred games at that store. The Lake Mary store is sold out but will restock this week.
It may be the biggest video game retailer Blockbuster ever and it debuts this coming Tuesday. Grand Theft Auto IV could rake in $540 million in the first two days of sales.
Many reviewers already give it a ten out of ten scoring.
Soon, millions of gamers will move their players through Grand Theft Auto IV.
The storyline has a newcomer to America and getting caught up in a revenge drama on the streets of a fictional New York City. Gamers like fifteen year old George Jeffry must have it. He told us, it feels like it’s an escape out of life.
Jeffry still plays the old version of this videogame for hours at a time- an escape into an intense world of fantasy.
“You get to steal cars and drive around,” he said. “I can't do that in real life, or I'll go to jail.”
Robert Catto is a big kid at heart. He's program director for the videogame development program at Full Sail University. Catto says playing Grand Theft Auto is like going to a movie. Except now you can be a part of it, and the decision you make can change the outcome, and you can restart it should anything dangerous happen.
Catto says the graphics are impressive on the new video game, but serious gamers focus on the storyline. They relish the challenges of navigating through the game and taking on a new character. It's the ability to take on a whole different character. It's the ability to be somebody different than who you are in real life.
Catto knows some parents and girlfriends won't approve of the violence, the nasty language, the hustlers, hookers, dealers and junkie’s players meet on the way. They encounter all that while they run down people and steal cars.
“I'd rather them be playing a game,” Catto said. “And running over game characters than doing it in real life.”
Store managers at the Lake Mary store say they pre-sold almost two hundred games at that store. The Lake Mary store is sold out but will restock this week.
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