5 most expensive games in history

What's more: to develop a AAA game or shoot a Hollywood movie? Neither one nor the other. Today, the cost of producing top-end games and movies are about the same. For a video game has a large team of designers, artists, animators, script writers, voice actors, marketers - the list can be long.

How much more expensive that makes modern games? Consider the example 5 games with the highest budget.

Star Wars: The Old Republic

design: 200,000 000 dollars

Games "Star wars"Always turned into a disaster when it came to the budget for development. But the project Bioware 2011 broke all records. This is an online game, which takes place over 3500 years before the events of "A New Hope". Her creation at a cost of 200 million dollars (about 13 billion rubles). Even now, after 8 years after its release, this budget remains the largest in history.

Grand Theft Auto V

design: 137,000 000 dollars

Marketing: 128,000 000 dollars

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Rockstar Games literally paid dearly for such a reputation - however, not more than a fifth of the establishment. GTA V belongs to the second place both for the development and for marketing. And that makes it the most expensive game on the total costs (265 million dollars).

Max Payne 3

design: 105,000 000 dollars

The second project from Rockstar Games to our list, Max Payne - is another popular series with a long history. The third part in the series third-person shooter released in 2012, and for the first week, it sold 3 million copies. Playing from the beginning conceived as a trilogy, and the finale fully repaid the creators of all the risks associated with high budgets.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

Marketing: 200,000 000 dollars

This game in 2009 still holds the record for the marketing budget among games. Developers turned to the legendary publisher of Activision, and this is another case where the risks were worth it. A huge advertising campaign has allowed just one day after the release to sell 4.7 million copies - it brought the creators of 310 million dollars.

Halo 2

Marketing: 80,000 000 dollars

Halo 2 is the third largest advertising budget. It is also the oldest game on our list: it came out in 2004. Even today, this series space shooter remains one of the most successful in history, receiving and love the fans, and recognition in the industry. After the original trilogy of the story continues in the form of spin-offs, graphic novels and books.