Developer: "Eye of Heart" does not intend to compete head-on with "GTA"

2025-06-01 21:14:46|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

Former Rockstar developer Leslie Benzis will launch the new game "Eye of Heart" in June.As expected, people linked the game to the GTA series that Benzis participated in the development of during Rockstar.Benzis recently responded to the phenomenon of players comparing "Eye of Heart" with "GTA", saying that this association is "common sense", but also called on players to judge based on the game itself.

“Comparison never stops, I think this is a human mindset,” Benzis said in an interview. “When we were kids, we were taught to put triangles into holes in triangles and put squares into holes in squares. This thinking has accompanied us throughout our lives, and we are used to describing new things with ‘this is X plus Y, and with a little Z’. This makes communication simple, perhaps humans are optimizing the way they communicate.”

He noted that this comparison is beneficial to Eye of Heart and its development team Build a Rocket Boy in some ways, but not in others.To illustrate the point, Benzis quoted a passage from musician Dave Groll, who mentioned when Groll formed the band Foo Fighters that no one cares about this new band, and people only care about his former band Nirvana.

For "Eye of Heart", Benzis hopes that players will give them fair opportunities.“The team created a cool piece and I just hope everyone can see what it wants to be,” he said.

In the interview, Benzis also revealed that Build a Rocket Boy had considered multiple directions when conceiving "Eye of Heart", but "competing directly with "GTA" was never planned.

“As a company, it’s not necessarily wise to claim ‘we want to compete with the world’s best-selling games’,” he said. “We tried many different designs and finally chose the direction we are now in order to tell a good story.”

So what exactly is "Eye of Heart"? How does it relate to Build a Rocket Boy's "Everywhere" project? Benzis explained that "Eye of Heart" is "a story in the epic universe" focusing on character Jacob Diaz, and other stories will revolve around different characters from different eras.

“We will build the entire universe step by step in this way—when you explore it, all stories are connected by a core theme, each story contains different mechanics, and we will also hand these mechanics to the players through the creator tools,” Benzis said.

He revealed that the team intends to retain information and live videos for "most of the game" to avoid spoilers of the plot containing "unusual twists".

"The Eye of Heart is in the center of our storyline. We will go back ten thousand years ago and look forward to a certain point in the future. It is a key puzzle that will cause players to question the grand narrative behind it."

As for the "Everywhere" project, Benzis said that it will be released again soon, and the company's overall plan will be clearer by then.

"Everywhere we're developing has a grand storyline that runs through the whole time. Everywhere will return and it has a place in this story. I can't tell the specific position because there will be spoilers. But it will soon be back and become part of the same product line."

It is also reported that Build a Rocket Boy co-CEO Mark Gerhard hinted that the negative reputation about "Eye of Heart" is "premeditated acts of discrediting the studio and its works."

"Eye of Heart" will be available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC platforms on June 10.The new work of the "GTA" series, "GTA 6", is expected to be released in May 2026.

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