Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Announced

I did the low rider race in one attempt, I was very relieved. The last few plot missions before the second city are pretty cool. I felt really disorientated and isolated after getting dumped in the middle of nowhere (during the first mission there I was getting chased by loads of police and FBI in a big police car so I rolled it off Mt. Chilliad, survived with an insane stunt bonus and then offroaded through a bunch of trees with helicopters overhead to drop the photos off at the last second, it were mad good). Now I have a nice house on a big road that allows me to shoot people until I have lots of stars then nip back in and put some sunglasses on to lose the wanted rating.

I made a break for it on the third island, its very colourful with its neon lights it looks like Vice City. I managed to evade the cops whilst listening to "Free Bird". Me and my car blew up in the end.

I really think we should have a spoiler tag on this thread so I can dork out over what it is.

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It's St. Mark's Bistro. In Liberty City. It's mid-winter there, apparently. It's just a big, chaotic shootout and a definite nominee for the "Holy Shit video game moments" thread.

A space-hopper?

thanks!

do they go between islands or just around each one?

I approached some girl in a Driving School building but she said I didn't have much style, how do I improve my 'style'?

are theylike subway trains or just normal rail line trains that share the rails with freight trains?

i noticed that there are no rampages in this one.

SPACE GANGSTA, AWAAAAAAAAAAY

It was worth the spoiler just to read that.

Being able to climb walls if you've misread the map is really useful, though you don't notice it until you're missing it.

Proper camera controls! And being able to turn on and off the types of thing that show up on the map!

The fire engine missions are much easier than in VC, because the passengers don't run so much. I went looking for three that had got away 30 seconds ago, and they were clumped together 100 yards up the road, just blazin. In VC, they'd be specks on the horizon.

The fire engine misions also show that there still isn't anything like an proper economy. Work on the missions for up to $500 per if you're lucky OR spend 20-30 minutes and earn enough to but all the $10,000 houses and everything from the clothes stores.

I know everyone said it about VC, but damn, the cops are so much harsher in this. It takes forever for one star to disappear, and the motorcycle cops will give you that star if you even brush off them.

The race in the stadium seems to be a normal race, without crack-fueled crash-addicts and, as such, is deemed counter-fun.

I think the muscle stuff is counter-fun as well. I built up my muscle, and at one point gained enough respect to form a three man gang. If driving around (eg in the paramedic missions) and its attendant drop in muscle loses me that respect, then that is over the line into Simsland.

I'm obviously only near the start, but the scene with B-Dup and Big Bear is grimmer than anything I can remember in GTA3 or VC.

Earlier i killed several cops with that dildo then took to the skies in a plane (at this point i had 4 stars after a few other killings) i spied a police helicopter so i crashed my plane into that, parachuting out in time to hear the explosion and then having the bad luck to land ON A POLICE BOAT!!!!

ive seen 1 two-player rampage, and thats it. they must be well hidden?

Paramedic missions: These were strange in the previous two games, because the positions of the people would be picked randomly from a fixed range. So the most difficult mission was level 3, because you had to go here and here and here, and if they were miles apart you were screwed. Now they start out really close to the hospital, and by leve 12 they're miles away. Also I think the general mayhem logic must have a clause for the passengers in this mission: several times a car has started to pass me, then stopped before it creamed the passenger that's trying to board.

Holy Shit the trip skip! Seriously, they should have called this one GTA4, it make Vice City look like it was made by Traveller's Tales.

is there a ammu-nation in los santos, because my fire-power seems to be letting me down and i have shedloads of cash...

should i be aiming to get my "muscle" stat to the end of the bar? i've done this with my stamina one, but i don't want to turn into some sort of muscle mary...