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I picked up GTA: San Andreas last night, and just like Vice City and even GTA3, this game is reason enough to own a PS2, even if you never bought anything else for the system.  You need to go buy this game, right now.

I played for about three hours last night, and San Andreas is HUGE.  The residential neighborhoods are enormous.  Right now I think I'm only allowed in one of the three cities, but I can't really say yet...  I haven't seen all of Los Santos (first city) yet.

There are some great control improvements over the last game.  You can actually climb up over fences, bushes, and walls.  No more jumping fifty times and hoping a glitch puts you on top of a fence.  You can also grab onto ledges mid-air when jumping from rooftop to rooftop.  You probably all also read about swimming.  One other more minor thing is that you can cancel getting into a car midway through the motion.  In Vice City, if you hit triangle to get in a car and then a cop came up as you were in mid-motion, you were screwed.  Not so anymore.

Another nice feature of this game is that you can set your own custom map markers.  In Vice City, when you were learning your way around the city, you had to keep switching between the map screen on the pause menu and the little mini map on-screen.  Now you can put a marker on the pause screen that will direct you via the on-screen mini-map.  Soooo nice.

The exercising and eating thing is interesting.  No final verdict on that yet, though my initial reaction is it's kinda cool.  I'm still not sure yet though, because if what I've built up declines too quickly, it could get annoying.

So far, so good.  Oh, the soundtrack is good, but it doesn't seem to be on par with the brilliance of the Vice City soundtrack.

Must. Own.

Have computer. Will wait.

Do not have my own PS2. Will also wait.

I think i'll go get a PS2 because of this game.

It's not out here till thursday. I won't get it though, I don't have money for it at the moment.

I'm in the same boat as Arr. If I had money, I'd go get a ps2 and then the game.

If none of you guys have dough I guess my idea for "The Leon gamers fund" is bust then.

Ahahahahahaaaaa. I don't give my hard earned cash out to anyone. I have a little story that emphasizes this point extremely but i'll save it for now.

I am debating getting the PSTwo or just waiting till after Xmas for sales, or just getting a used PS2 or just any PS2s that might be left in stock cheaper.  Or just not buy one and get like between 5 and a-crap-load games instead .

I don't think you guys understand.  This is the game of the year.  It's probably the best game to date on PS2, and possibly ever.  You need this game.  Sell your car.  Pawn your N64.  Steal it from your friend who bought it already.  Do what you have to do, but you need this game.

I've already put 15 hours into this.  Yup.  15 hours in about 35 hours of my life.  Sad?  Yeah.  But hey, I haven't really sat down and played a video game for more than 15 minutes since April, so you can't be too mean to me.

This game is ENORMOUS.  Take Vice City, multiply it times three, add some more to that, and add a whole buch of countryside in between too.  The graphics and effects (fire, water, weather in particular) are a lot better than in Vice City.  Also, cars take a lot more realistic damage.  In general, all of the graphic effects are better in this game.  Then, there are all of the control features that I mentioned before - swimming, climbing, etc.

Lots of new mission types as well, but I'm not gonna spoil any of that for you.
[hidden]DDR-style dance missions (which are kind of annoying honestly) and gang wars, allowing you to take over territory and earn money from it - these are sah-weeeet.[/hidden]

I'm telling you on% more time.  Go buy this game.  NOW.

I can't and won't. I've tried to play GTA 3 and Vice City and I got motion sickness from both. Some games do that to me, mostly 3D which is why I'm stuck in old skool land..

This happend to a girl i knew so i got 2 brand new PS2 games from her for 40 bucks. Dark Cloud and Jak and Daxter.
I think i am going to end up buying a PSTwo. I will ask for San Andreas for Xmas(or vice versa).

I'll wait for the PC version.

WTF?  San Andreas is a two player game.  I'm not really sure how, but sure enough it says 1-2 Players on the box, and there's a spot in the game that tells you how to activate the two-player game.  I'd try it out, but I don't have anybody here right now to play alongside me.  Weird.

Two player? That's just fucked up.

Maybe one person plays a rapist and the other is a rapee?...lol

I don't know how that could work either. I didn't even know anything about it till now.
I don't know how you could work Co-Op in a game like that.
Does any one know if State of Emergency had 2 players?
If so that might answer the question.

The xbox one did, it didn't make it any better.

NO! I woulod rather watch someone play that game then play it myself. I have not spent more then 10 minutes playing a GTA game since GTA 2.

After about 5 minutes of running around killing people it gets old.

I gotmy step brother to enter a cheat for me and i went to the top of a  parking garage and just started blowing EVERYTHING up it was pretty fun.

Well if all you do is run around and kill people, you may as well play State of Emergency, perhaps Rockstar's worst game ever.  The missions, extra modes (taxi, vigilante, etc.) jumps, packages, rampages, property ownership, gang wars, etc., etc. make these games great.

I tried the missions and I still didnt have much fun. Weird thing is I don't mind watching people play it. I just don't like playing it.

Is GTA:SA going to come out on the X-Box next year like GTA:VC did? IF so maybe I will try it then.

YOU LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bigno:

I haven't been able to find any information about an X-Box or PC release of San Andreas.  A friend of mine claims that it will be PS2 exclusive forever, but I highly doubt that.  They claimed the same kind of thing about the Tomb Raider series on PSX, GTA3 on PS2, etc.  I'm sure it will come out eventually, but who knows when?

For games like Doom yes I am lying. Nice simple controls. For a game like GTA I tell no lie.

YOU STILL LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's all true. This really is the best game ever. There's sooooooo much stuff in it. It terrifies me to think about how much time it's going to take me to get 100% completion. We're talking 100 hours of gameplay easily. A lot of the crap parts of the last GTA have been tweaked too. The shooting system is awesome now. It's totally different. It's more like SOCOM.

Everybody has been talking a lot about the fat/skinny for months and it's pretty cool, but I think people are missing the point. It's not just about getting fat or skinny. The same system is applied to everything else in the game too. Your character has a skill level associated with each and every action in the game as well as ratings for other traits which effect gameplay. There's a lot of RPG influence in that system.

As Nep brought up, there is also a two-player feature now. I haven't had anybody around to play with, so I played two-player Chow-Yun-Fat style. It's somewhat limited. It looks like the only missions you can do in two-player mode are the rampages, other than that you just run around on a killing spree. The only really cool thing is both players can get in the same car, and one drives while the other shoots. It reminded me of Halo.

NO YOU LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is the music any good? There was a lot of good music in the early 90's but also a  lot of bad stuff that could easily have been included.

For the greater good of the, whatever you call this, I call an end to the Lies.

OK sounds good.
:laugh:

Whoa... I played it and practicly didn't stop for three days.

Yeah, that's part of why I have been here a little less lately....  that and the fact that I have finals tomorrow.  I should have gone to bed an hour or two ago, but here I am, posting in the GTA thread...

Is the X-Box version coming out this spring? If so maybe I will try it then.

It comes out some times early next year.
I will double check later when i have more time.

Well when Capt Nintendo gets it next year I will borrow it from him to try out. No need to look up the date it will be released.

Borrow it from me ? And how are you so sure I will be buying this ? :crazy:

Just kidding , I might as well buy it....  :D

You better get me one too.

I will lend it to you when I am done.  |D