While the latter two games, released late last year, use music as the central gameplay element - allowing gamers to play along to the included songs using special instruments/controllers - “Grand Theft Auto IV” is a more traditional game, but still one in which music plays an important role. Taken together, these feats make “Grand Theft Auto IV” the most important videogame release for the music industry since “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero III” on promotional and financial levels. Second, it will be the first game that lets players tag songs in the soundtrack for subsequent purchase online.Īnd should it meet early sales forecasts, the handiwork of Take-Two Interactive Software’s Rockstar game studio could break single-day and opening-week records, not to mention potentially becoming the best-selling game of all time. First, it will have the largest soundtrack of any videogame.