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Rockstar is looking into using MotionScan – the face capture technology used in LA Noire – for all of its future games, including the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V.
Asked by PSM3 whether Rockstar was considering MotioScan for GTAV, Team Bondi co-founder Brendan McNamara replied:
“Yeah, I think they’re looking at it for every game. As much as LA Noire is a huge game, Grand Theft Auto is incredibly huge, so you’ve got all the problems of how big the cast would be and how many lines would you have to record and all that kind of stuff.” he said.
“Obviously we’d like them to, and they’re more than welcome to use MotionScan, but if they decide it’s not right for that and want to use it for another game, then that’s fine too.”
“I think it brings a level of humanity to the experience that means people will – in the first few minutes – start relating to the characters on screen,”
“They don’t have to make that decision about ‘whether I like this guy’ or ‘do I actually believe them? – but they can make all the like or dislike decisions based on the actor’s performance.
“Rockstar will make those decisions. They generally make the right decisions in terms of what they do for their games.” he added.
In the wake of the scandal that exposed Team Bondi for allegedly forcing staff to work in ‘sweat shop conditions’, it was revealed that Rockstar will not publish Team Bondi’s next game. MotionScan will live on regardless, though, it seems.
Via CVG.
If GTA 5 is going to use MotionScan, it’d be nice to think the technology had been integrated early on in development. It took Team Bondi a good few years to bring LA Noire to fruition, after all, and fans are starting to get fidgety over GTA 5.
According to sources close to Rockstar, a 2012 release is likely for the game, and given McNamara’s comments that Rockstar is only just ‘looking’ at MotionScan, it therefore seems unlikely that the game will have it. That or the game is still years away. OR it will launch next year, with MotionScan, and McNamara simply doesn’t know anything about it.
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