Mon, Mar 31, 2008 | 13:12 BST

IGN posts megaton Dan Houser interview, wins GTA World Word War record by distance

Here. This is fucking epic, frankly. There are more words in this Dan Houser interview related to Grand Theft Auto than you could possibly ever need. A quick cut and paste into Word reckons this article’s over 9,000 words long.

Unbelievably, this is part one, with the second piece being published next week. Author Hilary Goldstein’s piece shits all over the previous record-holder, Edge’s 16-page GTA marathon, which in turn trumped Australian site Gameplayer’s ten-page playtest at 5,000 words.

Hilary and IGN: we salute you. You have more words on Grand Theft Auto than anyone else. If you can make part two more than 11,000 words, you will have written a third of a novel on a crime action series. No one, no one, is going to beat that. You win.

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22 comments

Blerk
31/03/08, 1:18 pm

That Edge interview was actually really good. Loads of great insight into the series as a whole.

Blerk
31/03/08, 1:20 pm

Seen these?

http://www.gta4.tv/article/785307/official-hud-revealed-zoo-weekly-aus/

patlike
31/03/08, 1:21 pm

I’m sure the Edge piece was good, but I have a massive aversion to giant word counts.

patlike
31/03/08, 1:27 pm

Cheers. Just done a story on those shots.

Zumi
31/03/08, 1:28 pm

The difference is that one page from the Edge preview is worth more than the entirety of anything in shittest-site-on-the-internet, IGN.

patlike
31/03/08, 1:32 pm

Good as it may be, I’m guessing aside from Blerk, there are about three other people in Britain that read the entire thing. Call me a cynic.

Blerk
31/03/08, 1:37 pm

I’m a huge ‘interview cynic’, I hardly ever bother to read them even if I like the interviewee’s games. They’re generally dreadfully boring, full of interviewer sycophancy and/or just glorified adverts for the dev’s forthcoming title. This one seemed different, though. Doubt I’ll bother with IGN, though.

patlike
31/03/08, 1:43 pm

I’d probably give the Edge article a go. If I read Edge

Blerk
31/03/08, 1:46 pm

The whole thing’s on Next-Gen.biz, officially like.

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patlike
31/03/08, 1:49 pm

I’ll have a looksie.

#11

AMG
31/03/08, 2:21 pm

I can’t be arsed to read the IGN article. How many times does it use the word “ton”? “Tons of options, tons of guns” etc.

Can anyone condense it into a couple of bullet points for me?

#12

patlike
31/03/08, 2:25 pm

I can condense every article written on GTA IV for you so far:

“It’s good.”

#13

deftangel
31/03/08, 2:36 pm

I read the whole thing admittedly. Not sure I can stomach a whole 9000 words on IGN…is there anything actually new in it?

#14

patlike
31/03/08, 2:40 pm

No idea. There’s no way I’m reading it.

#15

grandmaster
31/03/08, 4:52 pm

I’d sooner read an IGN megaton Doogie Howser interview – only the power of Neil Patrick Harris himself can save us from the ‘oncoming storm’ that is GTA IV.

#16

patlike
31/03/08, 5:00 pm

I bet KITT could save us from it. He could rocket-boost away from it.

#17

grandmaster
31/03/08, 5:36 pm

EXCLUSIVE footage of Pat’s exclusive GIGATON interview with ~~Doogie~~ Dan Houser!!!

http://i27.tinypic.com/24n2opk.gif

#18

patlike
31/03/08, 5:38 pm

That fucking kills me. It’s the punch at the end that does it.

#19

Zumi
03/04/08, 12:01 pm