Sam Houser: "GTA IV crazier than ever"

San Andreas

- "Is there any such thing as too big?" Houser demands to know, in response to the issue of San Andreas being just too epic for some gamers to enjoy. "You know, if you don't like driving over that distance, the point of the game is don't go there, then. You don't have to go there. We give the people an infinite amount of choice, and for every person who felt it was too big there were probably a fair amount that really got off on the scope of the whole thing, and wanted to take one of those single-propeller aircraft through the canyons."

- Why LA? "Well, what's after Miami in the '80s? Well, of course, the Bloods and the Crips and the LA early-'90s gang-banger culture. I remember being in the UK at the time it was going off and being completely fascinated and terrified by it. Fascinated by how they looked - they dress amazingly - but these guys are all like soldiers, and are treated like armies, and this is very serious, scary stuff."