Venice Open-ended Thread

Imagine a GTA3-esque game set in Venice. Complete with gondolas, vespa-riding thieves, Vivaldi concertos in the San Marco square, and of course the mafia.

I've been dreaming about such a game/mod for months now, and have concluded that it would rock beyond belief. Finding a good story to slap into such a wonderful setting may be difficult, but would be well worth it.

Tell me what you guys think. If other people besides me think it would be awesome, I'll start recruiting some people.

~San-J

Meh, not that original over all, so I'm not really interested in the idea.

The genre has been raped ever since GTA3 came out, but I think that the setting is farely original. Only games that I can think of off hand that have a Venice level are some wakeboarding games, and Painkiller (which wasn't actually venice).

i like it, think you should develop the idea more, just remeber if you dont have any real tangible skill (coding or modeling) you probably wont get anywhere.

Ah, but I do! I am a mapper (1.5 years) and programmer (3.5 years).

Then good luck, man! I might consider downloading it if you ever get finished

san-j dont get me wrong, im not trying to put down your mapping abilities but to tangible skills (especially in the mod scene) are ones that are not readily found (mappers, pr guys, idea guys and webdesigners all fall under the easy to find category), im happy you can code, i recomend you start doign some serious pelimenary work and once you have something to show for yourself than go ahead and recruit. I hope you follow thourgh with this great idea of yours, good luck.

Hehe, its OK. I'm working on three other projects (two mods, one 2d game), so once those are out people may be interested in joining my team. I'm just wondering which game engine I should use... Vice City would be most convenient in some ways, but its comparatively hard to map.