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Midway bets on This Is Vegas

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Feb 6, 2008 6:03 am PT

Stranglehold developer announces new title, which will allow "players to live out their wildest Vegas fantasies."

Once a remote desert stopover, Las Vegas has become a world-famous destination thanks to its legal gambling, drive-thru Elvis weddings, and the original CSI television series. Today, the Nevada metropolis will also be the site of the first day of this year's D.I.C.E. Summit, where game development's elite meet up for the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.

Now, those people disinclined to pay the world's favourite gambling destination a real visit, can run amok in a virtual Sin City courtesy of Midway's This is Vegas. Currently in development for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC at internal studio Surreal Software (The Suffering: Ties that Bind), the game is expected to hit store shelves toward the end of 2008.

This is Vegas' story has gamers standing up to a powerful businessman who is determined to turn Las Vegas into a family-friendly tourist trap. Described as "an open-world, lifestyle action experience," This is Vegas will incorporate fighting, driving, partying, and--of course--gambling elements as players struggle to "put the Sin back in Sin City."

66 Comments

  • Kayotic81

    Posted Mar 15, 2008 1:41 pm PT

    I Have High Hopes for this game, but the trailer looks poor, still early days tho

  • Mush_Mouth

    Posted Feb 19, 2008 5:20 pm PT

    This has got to be the most backwards idea for a game I've ever heard. "yeah, stand up to those evil people that want more family attractions!! let's fight them with legalized prostitution and wayne newton!!" what a bunch of crap.

  • truenextgen

    Posted Feb 17, 2008 10:15 am PT

    Sounds odd, But it wont work unless its M. Gamble fight, But vegas. And what the game is trying to show. Sex is a must. I know, sounds racy and stupid, but true.

  • damariners

    Posted Feb 15, 2008 5:19 am PT

    gta 4 maybe come to pc, just the pc gamer will get it late.. hehe (maybe) anyway this vegas thing seem like to be interesting game.

  • damariners

    Posted Feb 15, 2008 5:08 am PT

    gta 4 maybe come to pc, just the pc gamer will get it late.. hehe (maybe) anyway this vegas thing seem like to be interesting game.

  • arrow89

    Posted Feb 14, 2008 2:54 am PT

    i hope this game will equivalent with GTA 4.....n release soon if GTA 4 isn't launch in pc(damn!!!!!)

  • silent_riku

    Posted Feb 13, 2008 8:28 pm PT

    I have to agree with thescorpion1983,
    this game is putting in too many different elements from totally different genres into one game that it might just alienate players who like to play gambling games but don't really like GTA style games and then there are the players who like GTA style games but end up calling this game too weak because it might not have an 'as strong as' GTA feel to it, instead it may feel like a hand me down feature of what GTA is.

    But I guess this may be a good place for them to shine. seeing as GTA IV will probably be the better of the two in terms of 'open world' lifestyle action gameplay, This Is Vegas may just be a good game if it can manage to merge the two areas of gambling and 'open world' gameplay to make it its own unique game.

    Here's me wishing This Is Vegas will have a good career ahead of it.

  • Treblemaka

    Posted Feb 13, 2008 7:00 pm PT

    The plot sounds weak

  • K-Grogg

    Posted Feb 13, 2008 3:09 pm PT

    Wicked, looks like a great time-spender, in a good way.

  • kansas17171

    Posted Feb 13, 2008 3:02 pm PT

    id like to see it for the 360.

  • Ryozo

    Posted Feb 12, 2008 3:42 pm PT

    If nothing else, Midway and Surreal do deserve -some- kudos for trying something a little different with the genre. For the curious, I recommend perusing IGN's articles on the subject.
    Note that you'll be interacting with a quartet of distinct factions over the course of the storyline; it will be interesting to see if Surreal took any pointers from Mercenaries (which, in turn, learned from the old-school GTAs) about the interplay among same.

  • thescorpion1983

    Posted Feb 11, 2008 10:03 pm PT

    What they are promising for this type of game never end up right. They try to mix too many different stuff into one game and it ends up not having a category. People into gambling will find the rest too weird, people who like GTA will complain that its not as good as gta etc..this game might try to be like too many genres. Gambling, Las Vegas, Women, drinking, party...sounds more to me like a vacation then a videogame.

  • assasinsgreed

    Posted Feb 9, 2008 4:17 pm PT

    rainbow six without guns sounds lik fun o wait rainbow six 2s comin out maybe not

  • Dryker

    Posted Feb 8, 2008 1:18 am PT

    Grand Theft Vegas... bomb!

  • MichaelMorbid

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 4:13 pm PT

    throw in some vampires... then we got something...

  • sdkingsht

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 11:29 am PT

    you've gotta love a game where the objective is to stop family friendly business men and put the sin back in sin city.

  • pourya_ahmadian

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 11:08 pm PT

    it must not be so good;these game show you great things but not allow you to play them;

  • BlueRaptor7

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 10:07 pm PT

    It's kind of interesting to think about how this may turn out.
    Or we could just go to Vegas.

  • TehUndeadHorror

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 9:48 pm PT

    Hmmm i wonder if this is gonna be like the sims or GTA... or both... is that possible?

  • DarkStreetDev

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 9:27 pm PT

    Looks very cool - can't wait to see some screenshots.

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