Sam Houser - Biography

Biography

Credited as executive producer and co-writer, Houser is also the creator of the Grand Theft Auto series with his brother Dan. On Grand Theft Auto III his responsibilities were, in his words, to be "militant on ensuring the game had a look, a sound, a story and a feel that worked." His description of the series as a whole is that the three sixth-generation Grand Theft Auto games form a "trilogy, our distorted look at the East Coast around the time of the millennium (Grand Theft Auto III), followed by our reinterpretation of '80s Miami (Vice City), and lastly, our look at early-'90s California ."

Despite their status as creators of Grand Theft Auto and one of the most successful video game franchises of all-time, Houser and his brother Dan have shied away from the spotlight. They have focused on the Rockstar Games brand, rather than any one person getting the credit for the games' success. In 2009, both Sam and Dan Houser appeared in Time Magazine's most 100 influential people of 2009 list. Houser has most recently produced Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3.