Rockstar's Agent due out in 2010

By Robert Purchese Published 7 September, 2009

Website Q&A spills beans.

Rockstar's PS3 exclusive Agent could be released as soon as next year, if a Q&A on the official website is to be believed.

"We appreciate the enthusiasm of PlayStation 3 owners and believe us, we understand where you're coming from," begins the post.

"That's why we are working hard on a line-up of PlayStation 3 releases for 2010 that we know you will be very excited to play - including Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne 3, and the PlayStation 3 exclusive Agent, which is a brand-new title from Rockstar North, the creators of the Grand Theft Auto series.

It adds: "Plus there's more yet to be announced... Thanks again for your patience and please stay with us!"

Agent was announced at E3 this summer but so far nothing has been seen of the game. All we know, in fact, is that Agent will be set in the "shadowy world of espionage and assassins in the darkest hours of the 1970s".

Take-Two boss Ben Feder reckons it will be "genre-defining" and show us a "whole new way of experiencing videogames", too.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • MiniAmin #1 2 years ago

    Agent will sell a truckload of slim PS3s.

    Edit: Many, many truckloads.
    Edited by 1 at 07/09/09 @ 09:55

  • Dizzy #2 2 years ago

    >Agent will sell a truckload of slim PS3s.

    Ha! So 2010 year of the PS3?

  • Lachsgeruch #3 2 years ago

    "[...] show us a "whole new way of experiencing videogames""

    Que!? So it'll use the wand and stereoscopic goggles? Or just "press x AND y to not die"? Hate those claims... -_-

  • Eraser #4 2 years ago

    "Agent will sell a truckload of slim PS3s. "

    Why? I never heard of it before. It's not like GTA, where every gamer and their grandma know about it.

  • Spekingur #5 2 years ago

    There is nothing in the article about the game fully utilising a BR disc. Plus, most games have the same data on multiple places on a BR so the read header doesn't have to move as much, thus improving read speeds.

  • comissars_handgun #6 2 years ago

    This might actually make me get a PS3, it sounds awesome. For my wallet's sake I hope it gets a 360 release though, and I don't see why that would be impossible. Worst case scenario would be some disk swapping required.

  • myiagros #7 2 years ago

    My understanding of the exclusivity was that Sony are doing quite a lot to help out Rockstar North with the tech stuff on agent.
    Therefore it is very unlikely to be released elsewhere.
    Edited by 1 at 07/09/09 @ 16:52

  • Spekingur #8 2 years ago

    Tech stuff? As in, "how to program for PS3?"? X)

    If they said they needed more space then okay. Most space is used for textures and sounds (or cg movies if you are a japanese developer) - not code.
    My point about BR discs still stands. It is a known fact and disregarding it is just another sign of being "special". It is very likely that Agent will use this as well.
    As for space, it IS possible that X360 will allow developers to install files (extract) onto a HDD in the near future. However, as some developers have pointed out, when you have a game that uses more space than a DVD9 then you are normally either spending too much time in developing or "doing it wrong".

  • Spekingur #9 2 years ago

    @svd_grasshopper: In simple terms? Yes.

  • ParmaViolet #10 2 years ago

    I'd love to know how you know so much about this game SVD....or are you just talking out of your arse, as usual?

  • ParmaViolet #11 2 years ago

    I did, but I don't recall them coming out with some of the utter rubbish you've been spouting....again - do you have some kind of inside information about the development of 'The Agent'?

    If not - do shut up.

  • ParmaViolet #12 2 years ago

    No - you've never left CVG. In fact, we really wish you would....it's nothing to do with us being pretentious, it's all about you being an utter knob.

    Grow up.

  • Spekingur #13 2 years ago

    All I see by quickly skimming over linked articles is a PR guy (Take-Two Bossman, read, not a programmer) saying that PS3 "better suited" Agent. But no mention of in what way. While I agree that X360 has its limits I won't agree that DVD "has seen its day". It is still used almost everywhere in the world of PC and due to its high reading speeds probably won't ever go away in the console world.
    BR is nothing but a reinvention of the wheel rather than a improving it - as far as I see it. PS3 has nothing to do with it.

  • SeesThroughAll #14 2 years ago

    This PR reply hardly is informative at all, is it?

  • comissars_handgun #15 2 years ago

    A lot of fanboys here. I think this game sounds amazing, I've always wanted an openworld spy game and would love a 70s setting but it's perfectly possible to split the game map in two and swap discs when you cross into the next area. Vice City and GTA3 had annoying loading times between areas but it didn't destroy the gaming experience. Tons of PS1 games came on multiple discs. All this magic of blueray talk is pretty stupid. Sounds like the real reason this doesn't seem to be coming to 360 is sony throwing a bunch of money at Rockstar, just like MS did with the GTAIV DLC.

    And like mentioned above it could have an install disc and a play disc and so eliminate swapping. PS3 fanboys are familiar with installs, right....

  • Skorms-Boss #16 2 years ago

    Humm, will the latest rockstar game persuade the 360 loving crowd to convert to the ps3 (slim or fat)?
    probably not
    (Not after the farce that was GTAIV)
    oh and svd_grasshopper saints row 2 rocked, not an argument, a fact
    Edited by 1 at 08/09/09 @ 14:45

  • Spekingur #17 2 years ago

    Sheesh. SR2 was amazing FOR ME. It might not be amazing for anyone else but I liked it quite a bit (mostly because the storyline somehow reminded me of a 90s movie).
    We can't say weither Agent will be good or not because we haven't really gotten any concrete info on it in the forms of screenshots or gameplay. Not until then can we estimate how good the game itself is.
    Weither the game is good or not has nothing to do with weither it is on BR or not.

  • Chazmeister #18 2 years ago

    Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't read a single word that pertains to Agent being an openworld game. In fact SCEA boss Jack Tretton is quoted as saying, it "will take a player across the globe amid the shadowy world of espionage and assassins in the darkest hours of the 1970s". So if anything, surely a game where you will be off globe trotting around the world, will mean it very likely won't be an openworld game, as I think even Rockstar don't have the resourses to make a planet sized open world just yet.

  • makeamazing #19 2 years ago

    as some developers have pointed out, when you have a game that uses more space than a DVD9 then you are normally either spending too much time in developing or "doing it wrong".

    Whoever said that is so wrong and probably only makes causal games :) Do you know how much space sound files take up alone in a game these days? If its a AAA game then its alot. From a graphics point of view, as games get higher level of graphics etc then of course the amount of space required is going to get higher. If you look back to the days of the spectrum when only tapes were available, many games were on double sided tapes and some on multiple tapes as they couldnt fit the game on one tape alone. That was only a 48K machine ;)

    So anyone who thinks DVD is enough is crazy :)... MS were kinda unlucky with their timing...they knew Sony were backing Blu-Ray, and they knew they couldnt put that in their system, they didnt want to risk backing HD, the extra cost and supporting a system that might not win. So they decided to go with DVD knowing that some games were definately going to exceed it in the future midway through the life cycle.

    The interesting thing will be what MS do in the future... they need a better storage solution than DVD... if they have any sense they will go for Blu-Ray, but that might be too bitter a pill to swallow. I dont see any other possible way (and please dont go on about digital content only being the way...).

  • Spekingur #20 2 years ago

    Super high res textures and super good sound quality haven't really got any home on the current generation of consoles. Currently those are reserved for high end PCs. Next generation consoles will support those super high res and super quality sound much better.

  • Ubiquitous #21 1 year ago

    ... Is it 2010 yet? ... ☭