Sam Houser: "GTA IV crazier than ever"

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- Why Miami? "When we were doing the London pack for the first GTA, the idea we had after that was to do Miami in the '80s, but for some reason or another it didn't come together... The idea that seemed to have the most meat on it, the one that had the most material that we could work with - the vibe, the storytelling, the culture, the fashion, the music and on and on and on - was Miami in the '80s."

"To me, it's still hands-down the grooviest era of crime because it didn't even feel like it was crime. You had Cuban hitmen gunning people down in the street, but it was still celebrated in a sort of haze of cocaine and excess and Ferraris. It was everything that was crazy about the '80s, and it was in America so it was crazier."

- "A dream of mine and Dan's is to have a montage in a game, actually. We're on our way; we'll get it one day - a montage of your experiences set to music. Come on, that's going to be amazing, right? With hard drives in consoles, you know it'll happen."