Rockstar: The Lost and Damned a Full Game

Rockstar’s upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV expansion, The Lost and Damned, releasing tomorrow, should be considered a full game, says Rockstar dev boss Jeronimo Barrera.

“There’s nothing ever been out like it,” Barrera told Major Nelson in the first section of a two-part audio interview.

“We’ve done a full game in my opinion, in terms of the production quality and the new gameplay mechanics.

“We’ve literally reached the maximum memory size that we can do for DLC with Microsoft.

“You’re going to get a lot of game.”

Barrera did not state an amount of play-time that you’ll get with the downloadable content, only saying that players will get “hours and hours and hours” of new play.

Rockstar believes that what they’ve done with downloadable content is better than what others have done with premium content.

“That’s not to say there hasn’t been good downloadable content: obviously, there has been, but I find a lot of the time the stuff you can download to be more of an appendage to a game in terms of, you know, a new area opens up, or you can travel to another island, or something like that,” he said.

“You know, it’s cool, and it keep fans coming back, but [there’s] nothing that’s crossed story arcs and that’s what we’re trying to do, to push this, to deliver… a new experience, and I think we’ve hit it right out of the ballpark.”

Rockstar: We’ve made a full game in The Lost and Damned [VG247]