Chris Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 GamesRadar have managed to get themselves an audio Q&A with Matthew Smith, Craig Conner and Will Morton, three senior members of the Rockstar North Audio team. The article talks about the ambient sounds in the game, pedestrian dialogue and the soundtrack of the game. There article is a pretty interesting read, here are some notable quotes from it: Most of the time what you hear is really happening - what’s so great about GTA IV from an audio team’s perspective is that you hardly ever need to fake anything – the world’s so rich and so busy, that if you make individual things sound right, the whole ambience pretty much just appears by itself. Gunfire is a good example of how complex videogame audio has become; a single gunshot typically consists of around 10 individual components, whose volume and placement we control independently with distance, to create a bright, wide, punchy sound up-close, and a more reverberant, muffled sound at a distance. For multiplayer, we balance this so that guns only really sound dangerously beefy when they’re at a distance you can be hit from, so it’s intuitive what’s threatening and what’s someone else’s private war. It’s difficult to quantify how many speaking parts there are, but at our last count there were over 740 unique voices in the game. There are over 80,000 individual lines of dialogue, more than 7000 of which are Niko’s lines. If you were to listen to each line back to back, it would take over 29 hours. Also, these figures don’t take the radio, TV, and mo-capped cut-scene dialogue into consideration. We also decided to make the pedestrian dialogue more realistic in GTA4. As an example, peds in previous games would walk around and randomly chat to themselves if they weren’t doing much else. In real life, people (generally!) don’t go around talking to themselves, so we dropped this behavior from GTA4. However, we realized that the random chat of old GTA games was a good way for the player to pick-up on what sort of personality a ped has, so we created the cell-phone conversations in GTA4 as one realistic way of portraying personality. The DJS have far more AI than previous titles. They know what time of day it is, what the weather is like and what’s going on in LC. They've even done their research on their playlists, some of their own tracks appears on them. In fact all the DJS are either famous singers or musicians (or both.) They have plenty to say about their chosen genre of music as they've lived it, loved it, or are living it. The article also contains a number of brand new screenshots. You can see them over at GamesRadar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenny246 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 29 hours of speaking parts alone. They've really gone all out with this game. Ever new piece of information adds more and more depth to it. I'm going outta my mind waiting for the 29th!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azn Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Here are the direct links to all the new screens: http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/Gam...ticle_image.jpg http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/Gam...ticle_image.jpg http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/Gam...ticle_image.jpg http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/Gam...ticle_image.jpg http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/Gam...ticle_image.jpg http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/Gam...ticle_image.jpg The car damage looks awesome on the last pic. Nice find Chris! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deji Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 (edited) Nice find Chris! Ahaha! Beat you to it Chris. My site had this news this morning! lol. Faster next time I can't understand why people are so excited. I'm patient, i can wait, i got San Andreas! lol Edited April 19, 2008 by Deji Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutu Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 29 hours that's a lot. Im really looking forward to listen what the peds says and listen to the radio. Nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azn Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Nice find Chris! Ahaha! Beat you to it Chris. My site had this news this morning! lol. Faster next time I can't understand why people are so excited. I'm patient, i can wait, i got San Andreas! lol Doesn't matter who uploads it first. TGTAP has more members and visitors then your site so it doesn't really make much of a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deji Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Doesn't matter who uploads it first. TGTAP has more members and visitors then your site so it doesn't really make much of a difference. Ok i guess i did forget to say that i'm just having a laugh. Ever hear of friendly competition? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanoutlaw Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Good read, thanks Chris. I'm really looking forward to the peds this time w/ an average of 200 lines & a back story, they should be really good. For those who didn't read it, I also like the ZiT feature mentioned that can flag a music track & find it on Amazon. Just 1 more week...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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