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Rockstar Charts Its Past Through Three-Volume Book
Here's a little something for the Rockstar fan who has everything. Develop reports that the studio is working with German bookmaker Steidl to release a three-volume collection of concept art, stills, wireframes, and more that tracks the history of Rockstar since it was founded in 1998. In addition, the collection includes a DVD filled with undescribed "exclusive content." Tantalizing!
Here's a taste of what's inside, according to Steidle:
This enormous compendium celebrates a decade of Rockstar Games with spectacular artwork and detail drawings of stunning environments (the hoods, grand canyons, asylums), death-defying tasks (races, executions, carjacks, drug runs), colorful subjects (bullies, smugglers, prisoners, hit men), and passersby with whom your characters interact, so that even a non-player may understand how exhilarating a Rockstar experience can be. Characters switch perspectives and radio stations, navigate through real time day-to-night changes and weather cycles, and participate in society with total moral freedom – actions that the company’s founder and executive producer describes as an “experiment in narrative.”
As with just about everything else in this world, if you want the book, it's going to cost you. According to Steidl, the price is about $450. Ouch. Amazon UK has it priced at a more affordable $115 or so, which is still expensive but definitely within reach.
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