AAA Game Company: Rockstar Games

         Rockstar Games is a big game company that fans and gamers alike have loved for years. There is good reason behind the fandom since they have made many different and unique game series that people adore. I myself have loved the Red Dead and Grand Theft Auto Series that they have created. This post will include some info about Rockstar to highlight the background of the company. 




        Rockstar games was founded in 1998 by Sam House, Dan Houser, Terry Donovan, Jamie King, and Gary Foreman in New York City, New York. The company is now owned by Take-Two Interactive and the head quarters are also in New York. The first game released by Rockstar was "Grand Theft Auto: Mission Pack 1 London 1969". Since then Rockstar has expanded and has many different game studios currently. These Studios are Rockstar Dundee, Rockstar India, Rockstar Leeds, Rockstar Lincoln, Rockstar London, Rockstar New England, Rockstar North, Rockstar San Diego, and Rockstar Toronto. Adding onto that the company is at around 2000+ employees which was measured in 2018.


    

        Some of the games that Rockstar has created are Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Midnight Club , Bully, and Max Payne. All of these games are Rockstars biggest hits due to story and extremely likable characters with a good story behind them. Although they have had some failures in the past one big game that comes to mind is the manhunt series. This series was extremely controversial due to the graphic content within the game was never before seen when the game was released in 2003. Another failure was L.A. Noire, the game itself was a new direction that rockstar decided to take where you can solve some of the worst crimes known in the 1940's. The biggest fault was fans saying that the game itself was just plain boring where the story turned into a drag.


    

        Rockstar uses their own game engine which was developed by RAGE technologies called "Rockstar Advanced Game Engine" or RAGE. While using their own engine the company has worked with many others on the games that they have created. Some of the companies that they have worked with include Runecraft, Edge of Reality, VIS Entertainment, Z-Axis, Trans Gaming, and War Drum Studios. While others became different varying game studios for Rockstar as listed above. As for budget the company has an extremely large one as they are some of the most expensive games created, Red Dead Redemption 2 alone was around the cost of $379-$550 million to develop. Not far behind is Rockstar's GTA V at the cost of $291 million so their budget would be in the range of $500 - 300 million depending on the game. With this being said Rockstar has made their mark and clearly deserves being called a AAA game company.


Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_by_Rockstar_Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Games

https://www.gamedesigning.org/game-development-studios/

https://www.thegamer.com/the-15-biggest-mistakes-rockstar-has-ever-made/

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/the-most-expensive-games-ever-developed/



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