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Rockstar Parent Company Says Games Will Look Like Live-Action In The 2020s

Imogen Mellor

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Rockstar Parent Company Says Games Will Look Like Live-Action In The 2020s

Featured Image Credit: betta_RDR2, Rockstar

Every generation, games get closer to looking really real. As technology advances and artists, animators, and devs work on semi-realistic titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 we're all increasingly having to question if what we're seeing is fact or fiction. I mean screenshots of the landscape of RDR2 managed to make it on to a news station when a news team thought it was real.

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Now, there are those who predict that games are going to look like live-action in a few years - not long at all. Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two (parent company of Rockstar Games) has been saying that by the end of the 2020s we'll be seeing developers create astounding achievements visually. At the UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference, reported by GamesIndustry.Biz, Zelnick was asked about the future of games, and this is what he had to say on the matter.

"I'm guessing [Take-Two's] business in ten years looks very different than it does today in the same way that it looks very different today than it did ten years ago when there was no mobile business and no recurrent consumer spending, and I can't quite say what that will involve, but I think what you're going to see is technology will allow our creative folks to do things they've never been able to do before, including make games that look exactly like live-action."

The Last of Us Part II / Credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Last of Us Part II / Credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment
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He goes on to say that although games right now look great, they're not quite photorealistic. "Some of what we do now looks a lot like live-action, but it's still animation. In 10 years, you'll have the option if you want to make things that look completely realistic, all done inside a computer, never mind all the other advances technology will enable."

Realism isn't everything though. Although games like GTA V, The Last of Us Part 2 or Red Dead Redemption 2 look great, there are games that will continue to work better in their own styles like Hades or even the nightmarish Bugsnax. The technological achievements of getting photorealism into games will be an incredible achievement in any case.

Topics: Red Dead Redemption 2, News, Rockstar

Imogen Mellor
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