Far Cry 2 creative guy: No doubt that Rockstar borrowed our buddy system for GTA

What do booty calls in GTA and blowing up jeeps full of drug dealers in the middle of Africa have in common?  They’re the same thing! In a CVG interview with Ubisoft creative director Clint Hocking defends the upcoming game’s phone-based Buddy System as an original creation, turning the tables on anyone that would dare call it a copy:
CVG: We’ve seen a phone and a buddy system in another game recently. In fact, aside from location there are a lot of similarities between Far Cry 2 and GTA IV. Was this just a coincidence?
Hocking: I think the way you work with a Buddy in FC2 and the way it is done in GTA are completely different. In any case, it’s pretty clear if you look back to Leipzig where our Buddy System was first detailed, well, there was basically no information about GTA IV at that time - we […]

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