英语翻译ECONOMICS REPORT - For Fans of Anarchy,Grand Theft Auto IV Is a Big SmashThu,15 May 2008This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.经济报道：对于追求暴力刺激的狂热玩家而言,GTA(侠盗猎车)4是重磅出击.2008

英语翻译ECONOMICS REPORT - For Fans of Anarchy,Grand Theft Auto IV Is a Big SmashThu,15 May 2008This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.经济报道：对于追求暴力刺激的狂热玩家而言,GTA(侠盗猎车)4是重磅出击.2008
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ECONOMICS REPORT - For Fans of Anarchy,Grand Theft Auto IV Is a Big Smash
Thu,15 May 2008
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
经济报道：对于追求暴力刺激的狂热玩家而言,GTA(侠盗猎车)4是重磅出击.
2008年5月15日.
这是VOA特别英语的经济报道.
A lot of marketers would kill for a product like Grand Theft Auto.GTA Four is the newest in the popular series of violent video games.
The Rockstar Games division of Take-Two Interactive Software in New York is responsible for Grand Theft Auto.Estimates suggest that Rockstar spent about one hundred million dollars developing the newest version.
Take-Two said about six million copies were sold worldwide in the first week,with a value estimated at more than five hundred million dollars.The first-week performance represented,it said,the largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment.
Some players reported problems with the game.Rockstar released a software patch to deal with those problems.
Grand Theft Auto started as a two-dimensional video game in nineteen ninety-seven.It was moderately successful.But in two thousand one,Rockstar released the third version.This time,players felt like they were inside the game.Three-dimensional graphics made it a hit.
Together,the first three titles sold more than seventy million copies.
Gamers say they like the realistic action and interesting storylines.Critics of violent video games -- well,you can imagine how they feel.
Grand Theft Auto takes place in Liberty City,a fantasy world of criminals,prostitutes and guns.Players can rob,kill,drive wildly and gain points in the process.The game is rated for players seventeen years and older.
The success of Take-Two has made the company a target for bigger players in the video game industry.Electronic Arts,the industry leader,has offered to buy Take-Two for two billion dollars.Take-Two has rejected the offer; it says it is worth more than that.
The Entertainment Software Association says nine and a half billion dollars worth of video games were sold in the United States last year.
Electronic Arts just reported that its sales were up nineteen percent in the last year,to more than three and a half billion dollars.Still,EA says it had a loss of four hundred fifty-four million dollars,compared to a profit of seventy-six million the year before.
And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report,written by Mario Ritter.Archives are online at www.unsv.com.I'm Steve Ember.

英语翻译ECONOMICS REPORT - For Fans of Anarchy,Grand Theft Auto IV Is a Big SmashThu,15 May 2008This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.经济报道：对于追求暴力刺激的狂热玩家而言,GTA(侠盗猎车)4是重磅出击.2008
经济报道：对于追求暴力刺激的狂热玩家而言,GTA(侠盗猎车)4是重磅出击.
2008年5月15日.
这是VOA特别英语的经济报道.
许多市场人士会封杀诸如GTA这样的产品.GTA4是暴力游戏中最流行的版本.
位于纽约的摇滚之星游戏部(结伴互动软件公司)负责GTA.估计数据表明,摇滚之星在开发最新版本中花费了大约1亿美元.
结伴互动软件说,头一个星期内,全球的销售量大约为600万份,估计价值超过5亿美元.结伴互动软件说,首个星期内的业绩表明它是互动娱乐界历史上最大的举动.
一些玩家报告了游戏的一些问题；摇滚之星发布了软件补丁,处理这些问题.
GTA于1997年以二维游戏面世,并取得了一定的成功.但是,在2001年,摇滚之星发行了第三版；这次,玩家感觉置身于游戏之中.三维图象使其大获成功.
前三个版本合计销售超过7000万份.
玩家说,他们喜欢真实的动作以及引人入胜的故事情节.当然,对于暴力游戏批评人士,你可以想象他们的感受.
GTA发生在自由之城,一个罪犯、卖淫以及枪战的乐园.玩家可抢劫、杀戮、飙车,并从中获利积分.这一游戏评级为适用于17岁及其以上玩家.
结伴互动软件的成功使其成为游戏业界大公司的目标.电子艺术公司(EA)以20亿美元的价格企图收购结伴互动软件.但是,结伴互动软件拒绝了这一报价,说其价值超过这一报价.
美国娱乐软件协会说,去年美国销售的游戏价值为95亿美元.
电子艺术公司(EA)刚刚报道说,去年的销售收入上升19%,超过35亿美元.但是,EA说,仍然亏损4.54亿美元,而前一年却盈利7600万美元.
这是由Mario Ritter编写的、VOA特别英语的经济报道.文稿,请访问www.unsv.com.我是Steve Ember.