Jacked - The Outlaw Story of Grant Theft Auto

Just finished reading this book about Grand Theft Auto. Actually, the book is more about the guy who founded Rockstar Games, creator of Grant Theft Auto. I have heard a lot about the game in the past. Did not really know a lot about it.

The real surprise was that Sam Houser, CEO of Rockstar Games, comes from Britain. He did bring his boys with him to New York to develop the games. But they all fared from England.

A large portion of the book covered the fight of Jack Thompson. Jack was against games such as Grant Theft Auto. He was a lawyer and was good a getting the media to follow him. He really was a pain to the Grand Theft Auto developers.

This book goes through Grand Theft Auto I through IV. I like how the developers did research on the cities where the games would take place. That was a dangerous mission as they set their scenes in some pretty dark neighborhoods.

It was disappointing that many original team members tried to spin off with their own game development companies but failed. Rockstar Games has a number of other game lines other than GTA that have had some level of success too.