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Yep, Rockstar Games is Still Working on Agent

Do you want more details? You're not going to get them.

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Rockstar Games is a notoriously secretive developer. When Sony announced the company was working on a PlayStation 3 exclusive called Agent at its E3 press conference in 2009, one might have expected there would be more details about Agent coming sometime after that.

You know, or not.

On a financial call today, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick was asked if Agent and Max Payne 3 were still coming. We've seen screen shots of Max Payne 3 recently, but that's not the case with Agent.

"Max Payne 3 and Agent are still in development," said Zelnick.

He didn't elaborate beyond that, as you might expect. So...there's that.

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Is it telling that I don't even remember hearing about Agent at all?

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@positron said:
Any word on Bully 2?
It's all but confirmed that it's happening. There was a few leaks about it last year.
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Well, if Rockstar is making it, I'm interested at the very least. The name 'agent' sound promising. Secret Service Agent? DEA agent? CIA or FBI agent? ICE agent? The possibilities are endless! Please make a game about undercover police work - that stuff's fascinating and the agents who take part in that sort of thing earn my respect due to the constant danger they are in.

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Does anyone still think its just a PS3 game?
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It'll never come out.

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After what they were able to pull off with LA Noire I have confidence that this will get done.
 
Unlike other games from other publishers like "I Am Alive".

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I'll be honest: another open-world game is not what I want from Rockstargames, and if that's what Agent is, it will be quite disappointing. Maybe it's all the talk from last week's Bombcast about what it would be like to have Rockstar working in a small focused space. It could also be that while I looooooove LA Noire, the game is basically "look at things and talk while we give you the option to ignore this whole world we created around you". I honestly don't know WHAT I want from them now, as I'm sick of their open world games. It's all getting a bit TOO dense now, isn't it?

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@Kyle said:
@positron said:
Any word on Bully 2?
It's all but confirmed that it's happening. There was a few leaks about it last year.
Imagine the facial expressions of wedgied teenagers that will be possible with Bondi's face tech!
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Wait... wasn't this cancelled?

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as someone who won't even watch trailers most of the time, I kind of like this

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Honestly do not want another open world game. LA Noire is great simply because of the linearity to it and it's focus on story and investigation. Open world games need to do something special because they're so damn bland now. 
 
Also, I remember hearing something about this game a long time ago and how it was a multiplayer focused shooter? Back when it was announced it was being compared to APB. 
 
Also also, who wants to bet that Rockstar will want to put this out on the 360 too? Their games sell better on the 360 so it would be weird for them to do a PS3 exclusive.

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After Sony's blatant mess that has been all over the place for the last month Im amazed that developers wanna have anytning to do with Sony at all.

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@KingX: I'm not. Companies like money. 
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This is some deep, extensive, 3-page news. Or not.

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@Vegetable_Side_Dish: Exactly, and how much money have they been doing latley when the store was and still is broken. ps3 sales on physical games have dropped like crazy around this area at least.
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@KingX: Uhuh, and how much money will they be throwing away by ignoring a platform that would almost double their potential user base for future games?  
I can't see how this isn't completely obvious. 
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I don't think people are just ignoring it. I think ppl got tired of waiting and got a 360 instead. I guess we'll see what Sony has in store to gain back trust.

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@KingX: Dear lord. That's because PSN wasn't working. As soon as its all back up theres no doubt sales will shoot back to somewhere close to where they were before.
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@Vegetable_Side_Dish: I don't think the lord has anything to do with this, sir! :) Well, time will tell. I'm not rurling out that this will be a really good uphill for Sony. 
But regarding agent, the worst that can happen is that Sony just looses its exclusivness, which to me ain't a problem.
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Super hyped about this even though i know absolutely nothing about it. Rockstar hasn't let me down yet this gen.

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I want to see a PS3 optimized open world Rockstar game before the end of this gen, inFamous 2 looks sick but it's god-damned Rockstar and their budget is way up anything SuckerPunch could have spent on a game.

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I thought they released an article stating that Agent was cancelled? 

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Really? Thought that was cancelled a while back. 

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"GOOD JOB AGENT!"

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@SteamPunkJin said:
So when do they buckle and admit it's going multiplatform?  I honestly don't see why any 3rd party Dev would make an exclusive in this day and age.
Because the 360's so old it feels like churning a wheel at this point.
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Always bet on Agent.

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Oh my god it sounds so good!!! Oh wait...

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I hope this gets as good a budget as LA Noire. 

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alright then. 
 
EDIT:@thehexeditor said:

@Goopynose said:
Could this PS3 Agent title be something along the lines of Heavy Rain? That would be neat....but I kind of doubt it.
I was hoping it would be like a Hitman meets Heavy Rain
That sounds frickin awesome.
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i'm gonna go ahead and guess that this game isn't coming out in 2011, there hasn't been jack shit for updates for like 6 months....