Former Rockstar developer Leslie Benzies is launching a brand new recreation, MindsEye, in June. Naturally, individuals are connecting the sport to GTA, which Benzies labored on whereas at Rockstar. Benzies has now reacted to the phenomenon of individuals evaluating MindsEye to GTA, saying it solely is sensible, but additionally asking followers to evaluate MindsEye for what it’s.
“There’s all the time comparisons, and I believe that is how people work,” Benzies advised GI.biz. “As youngsters, we’re taught to place a triangle right into a triangular gap, and a sq. right into a sq. gap. I believe we do this for the remainder of our lives, and we like to explain one thing new as ‘it is X plus Y, with a little bit of Z in there’. It makes issues straightforward for us. It is possibly people optimizing the best way we talk.”
These comparisons serve MindsEye and developer Construct a Rocket Boy properly in some respects and poorly in others, he mentioned. To make his level, Benzies recalled a quote from musician Dave Grohl who mentioned when he shaped Foo Fighters that nobody cared in regards to the new band; they solely cared about Grohl’s earlier band, Nirvana.
For MindsEye, Benzies mentioned he hopes followers give the sport a good shake. “The blokes have constructed one thing very cool, and I simply hope folks can see it for what it is attempting to be,” he mentioned.
Additionally within the interview, Benzies mentioned Construct a Rocket Boy thought-about many various choices for what would grow to be MindsEye, however making a direct competitor to GTA was by no means the plan.
“I am unsure it might’ve been sensible as an organization to say, ‘We’re going to compete with the most important recreation on the planet.’ I am unsure that will be one of the best enterprise determination to make,” he mentioned. “We went by a bunch of various designs, and to inform our story, that is what we landed on.”
What’s MindsEye?
So what’s MindsEye? And how is it related to Construct a Rocket Boy’s In all places? Benzies defined that MindsEye is “one story in an epic universe,” with this story specializing in the character Jacob Diaz. Different tales will deal with totally different characters in different durations of time.
“That is the best way we’ll fill out the universe over time–so if you journey round, all of the tales will probably be related by one overarching theme, and every story can have totally different mechanics. And we’ll give these mechanics to gamers throughout the creator instruments,” Benzies mentioned.
Benzies mentioned the staff has purposefully held again info and photographs for “enormous components of the sport” to keep away from spoilers in a narrative that may “take some uncommon twists.”
“MindsEye sits bang in the course of our story. So, we’ll return 10,000 years, then we’ll go ahead a sure period of time. It is the related piece of the puzzle that may have gamers asking questions of what the larger story is,” he mentioned.
As for In all places, this venture is “going to point out up once more fairly quickly,” Benzies mentioned, and when that occurs, the corporate’s wider plans would possibly make extra sense.
“Every little thing we’re engaged on, there is a story behind it–a huge overarching story. So In all places will come again, and it matches into this story someplace. I am unable to inform you [where], as a result of it might be a spoiler. However that is going to reappear quickly, and it’ll all be part of the identical product,” he mentioned.
In different information, Construct a Rocket Boy co-CEO Mark Gerhard has steered that the unhealthy phrase of mouth about MindsEye is a part of a “concerted effort” to trash the sport and his studio.
MindsEye launches June 10 for PS5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC. As for the GTA franchise, GTA 6 is ready for launch in Could 2026.