'There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else,' Samson studio founder says: 'I think there's a space for us there'

Samson, the open-world crime brawler being developed by Liquid Swords, looks to me like a Grand Theft Auto game leavened with a healthy dose of Condemned: Criminal Origins. It’s a much smaller-scale project than (relatively) recent GTA games, of course—because what isn’t?—but a tale of a low-level mook making his way in a city filled with crime and cars? Yeah, that sure sounds like GTA alright.

The studio has previously acknowledged those comparisons—in February, mission designer Donald Young told PC Gamer that the comparison to GTA “makes sense, just because it’s an open world city game”—but also pushed back on them, pointing out that both the game and the development team are much smaller than Rockstar and the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6.