10 most expensive games in history

DigitalBattle.com website named the top ten video games with the largest budget (various speculations on this subject are possible - after all, development companies rarely name the actual budgets of their games) ... nevertheless, an interesting fact, interesting numbers =)

10. Killzone 2: $ 45 million

One of the most anticipated titles for the PS3, which has been under development for 4 years and initially set its value at a modest 20 million - but time has shown that this was clearly not enough.

9. Final Fantasy XII: $ 48 million

The Final Fantasy series of games has always been famous for its quality, development duration and duration ... and were also known as one of the most expensive ones made in Japan. Therefore, the amount of 48 million looks quite organic here - and this is not counting the cost of advertising.

8. LA Noire: $ 50 million

LA Noire - thanks to a statement by the president of the Association of Australian Game Developers - Tom Crago - is known at the moment as “one of the most expensive games in production at the moment” - all this, thanks to a serious financial support from Rockstar (currently expressed in the amount of 50 million), trying to create a truly cinematic game, designed in the style of the 40s of the last century.

7. APB: $ 50 million

Dave Jones, the founder of Realtime Worlds, the company responsible for developing this unusual MMO, has already stated many times that APB is the most expensive game he has ever had to work on ... 50 million were needed to problems overpower the long development, stretching for 5 long years. In addition, it is planned to spend a million dollars a year on maintaining and finalizing the game after its full launch.

6. Halo 3: $ 55 million

The first two parts of Halo were so successful that, theoretically, Halo 3 had an unlimited budget - if only by the time the game was released, it was as good as possible in all its aspects. As a result, 55 million spent on development and another 200 million on advertising support for the game.

5. Metal Gear Solid 4: $ 60 Million

The biggest, most beautiful and complex game from the Metal Gear Solid series is long hours of cut scenes, an outstanding visual performance for its time and 4 years of development.

4. Too Human: more than $ 60 million

During the development of the game, its creators - Silicon Knights - faced many difficulties that entailed a several-fold increase in the budget. One of these “difficulties” was a lawsuit with Epic Games, regarding the use of the Unreal Engine 3 engine in the game, which ended with the “silicone knights” having to redo the game engine from scratch at the moment when it was almost finished. All this added to the total development cost of at least $ 10 million.

3. Shenmue: $ 70 million
The budget of this game, released for the SEGA Dreamcast console, was unheard of for electronic entertainment of that time - for 10 years no one could move Shenmue from the top line of the most expensive games ... huge spaces for research, a system of dynamic weather changes, incredible attention to detail - even now, games are not made with such "thoroughness." However, for one reason or another, many did not notice or appreciate all that the game could offer. As a result, unreasonably low sales.

2. Gran Turismo 5: $ 80 million

The fifth part of Gran Turismo is preparing to become the largest and coolest racing simulator in the history of video games - this is 5 years of development, 1000 simulated cars and ultimate realism in everything. In mid-2008 - $ 60 million was already spent on creating the game, two years later this amount will grow to 80 million - which will allow it to become the second in the list of the most expensive games in history.

1. Grand Theft Auto 4: $ 100 Million

The main thing here is scope. About 1,000 people have been working on the game for 3.5 years - this includes many months of walking around New York with a camera in their hands, trying to capture all the features of traffic and human behavior, and negotiating with thousands and thousands of people responsible for granting rights to use the music that appeared in the game (only the presence of the melody in the game costs about $ 10,000, not including the purchase of a license and royalties). The game has enough content to keep the average gamer at the TV screen for 100 hours ... in general, $ 100 million ... and GTA 4 is the most expensive game in history.

author: rick_casey
taken: qeek.ru