00:00:03hello this is Chris your fellow geek
00:00:05speaker here today with watchmojo.com
00:00:07today what we’re doing is we’re
00:00:09continuing our series on what I think
00:00:11are the five most influential companies
00:00:12in the gaming industry today and
00:00:14undoubtably one of the companies that
00:00:16must be brought to bear is the
00:00:19incredible rock star rock stars been
00:00:22making games since 1999 and has just
00:00:24blown up to the point where they have
00:00:26offices all over the world rock star is
00:00:29most noted for their development of the
00:00:32Grand Theft Auto series which if
00:00:35anything else has caused a huge amount
00:00:38of controversy and change in the gaming
00:00:40industry as a whole one of the first
00:00:43games was actually Oni and only along
00:00:46with their midnight club racing series
00:00:48were in the launch lineup of the
00:00:51original PlayStation 2 system and
00:00:53actually received a lot of critical
00:00:55acclaim at the time for being sort of
00:00:57really well-defined entries into the
00:00:59genre since then they went on to make a
00:01:02grand theft auto one grand theft auto
00:01:04two and the game that gave them the most
00:01:07success at that point was grand theft
00:01:09auto 3