Take-Two Interactive Software

Nov 2020

A Yelp listing already exists for Take-Two Interactive Software and the street address, phone number, and web address are all current, which surprises me. Guess I'll be the first to review.Take-Two owns Rockstar Games and 2K so, needless to say, they're a major player in the video game industry. While gamers are most familiar with the Rockstar and 2K labels, the employees of these companies ultimately work for parent Take-Two, based in Midtown Manhattan.Rockstar is responsible for developing and publishing, in my opinion, one of the greatest video game franchises in history: Grand Theft Auto. Currently, Grand Theft Auto V (2013, PlayStation 3) is my favorite game of all time, edging out modern classic The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017, Nintendo Switch). It's mind-blowing the level of detail and development that goes into games these days and the GTA series is a testament to that. Collectively, it gets everything right, from gameplay to story to acting to music.I've 100%'d every GTA game I've played. In the old days, yep, that meant I painstakingly completed all the ambulance and taxi missions. Here are the trophies I got in GTA V: psnprofiles.com/trophies….If I had to rank all the GTA games I've played, it'd look something like this:1. GTA V (2013, PS3)2. GTA: Vice City (2002, PS2)3. GTA: San Andreas (2004, PS2)4. GTA IV (2008, PS3)5. GTA IV: The Lost and Damned (2009, PS3)6. GTA III (2001, PS2)Through GTA V, I played a lot of GTA Online as well. I glitched out the game to basically get unlimited money. That was fun. Outside of GTA Online, the games I poured the most hours into were San Andreas (93:29:00) and IV (85:06:30). I pretty much consider all the games, down to III, masterpieces.I 100%'d Red Dead Redemption (2010, PS3), the GTA of the Wild West, as well. RDR was another great, epic game.The 2K label is known for its 2K Sports games, particularly the NBA 2K and WWE 2K series, as well as popular first-person shooter series BioShock and Borderlands. NBA 2K unseated NBA Live as the preeminent NBA video games series. I was really into Live and went through periods of time when I purchased a new Live game every year. I remember playing the original NBA 2K (1999) on my Georgia Tech dormmate's Sega Dreamcast and we had a lot of fun. I did end up purchasing a couple NBA 2K games for my PS3, NBA 2K10 (2009) and NBA 2K12 (2011), but I didn't have as much fun with with them in single-player mode as I did with the Live series. I mainly got them for online play.On the FPS side, I completed BioShock (2007, PS3) and BioShock Infinite (2013, PS3) as well as Borderlands 2 (2012, PS3). All three games were critically-acclaimed. I thought each game was incredible with my favorite of this batch being BioShock Infinite. The worlds of BioShock and BioShock Infinite, while vastly different, really did a magnificent job of sucking me in. The games had really unique settings and atmospheres that creator/developer Ken Levine pulled off to perfection. Borderlands/Borderlands 2 was another triumph in terms of creativity and world-building. The art style is something to behold.As a fan of the old WWF games, mainly on the Super Nintendo, the only WWE 2K game I've played is WWE 2K20 (2019) for the Switch. The best thing about WWE 2K20 is its roster. You can play as legends from wrestling's past and multiple versions of them too. A couple examples include Sting '91 and Sting '99 (when he looked like The Crow) and WWF Razor Ramon and WCW nWo Scott Hall. While the gameplay and controls are clunky and not very good, WWE 2K20 works as a funny party game.I'll probably buy any future major installments of the GTA and BioShock franchises. Thanks for the awesome games, Take-Two.

Nov 2019

After working here for a year and some change, the staff is some of the warmest and most accepting I've ever experienced in the security field. The offices are beautiful, the conference rooms are state-of-the-art, and the staff is professional and extremely kind.