Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Announced

And I hate to say it, but after seeing the Donkey Kong looking bigfoot on some other pages, I'm beginning to think that I never saw bigfoot before that race. It might've been that smelly, long-haired hillbilly pedestrian in the overalls that was cheering me on.

Sorry.

Playing this after really loving Vice City. I was a little afraid i wouldn't like it as much, cos the stylized Vice City was so neon and cool. But yeah, this game is HUGE. I've only just gotten to the countryside and I'm realizing how effing big this game is. Amazing.

Also, the music is awesome. Haven't heard this much gangster rap since the first summer my family got cable and my TV was on MTV all the time.

Plus, it's kinda badass to do drive-bys to Hank Williams.

It's incredible that there are like 200 vehicles in this game you can drive. This an A/C definitely going to get me through the summer.

My last playthru I noticed the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, which was neat.

coolest part of the game: when you get "dropped off" in the equivalent of bartstow, and you have to hijack a semi (blaring Hank, of course) and drive fifteen IRL minutes back to L.A. to continue the story.

this is one of my favorite games of all time

^^^ right on

kinda doubt gta will ever top san andreas imo

Yeah, i hijacked that semi. Came at a nice time too, cos I was just getting into gang wars and then hit a snag. I kept getting frustrated by them and I'd look at the map and see these huge purple spots and think, 'this is going to take forever'. And now I'm in the country! Being a trucker! I can't wait til I can buy a cowboy hat.

Gotta feel bad for all those folks who really buckled down and did the gang wars before the countryside.

Yeah this is probably the best videogame since Super Mario Bros. 3.

I haven't played any basketball or pool yet, where do i go to do that?

This game is so much fun. I can see completing all the missions and then spending a while just exploring and then doing all the side missions. So rad! I already got the pimp missions completed and those were pretty entertaining. Picking up and dropping off hos, running off to rescue one of them from a non-paying customer or some punk trying to mess with her. Really interesting stuff.

For all the senseless violence that occurs in this game, there is a lot of problem solving. And the pimp game actually reinforces non-violence against your women.

there's a bar called 10 Green Bottles or something like that on Grove Street with a pool table. There's a b-ball court somewhere behind a barber's in El Corona or that end of the woods.

i don't think i ever played bball!

Oh yeah, i think I've been on a date to that bar. Both of us had our own handles of liquor.

basketball that I remember was near Grove street, south of the arena.

did you just play horse or was there a mini nba jam kind of thing happening

CJs brother has a playable bball hoop in his yard

cant remember is name?

Sweet

San Andreas fans would be recommended to also try out Saints Row 3

lol after my first date with Denise i didn't bother with her for a day or two and somehow my relationship rating went up. Absence making the heart grow fonder...

CJ playing some TPUA game there

The drivers in this game are WAY more aggressive than VC. Except when you get out to the country, which is kinda nice and funny and sort of true in a real-life kind of way.

The cops are way more aggressive too. Sometimes I will just be spraying a tag and a cop will start shooting at me!

The first time you meet Peter Fonda's character he offers you DMT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qkP8SvHvaU

Really, all this music is making me heavily nostalgic for that time period. I may have to look up MTV's programming that summer and rip appropriate music videos from youtube.

Oh yeah i was like 12.

The first time you meet Peter Fonda's character

Forgot about this. <3

I just replayed some GTA 3 on an iPad and it was awesome. Will they do the same for San Andreas?

Holy crap. So I was helping Peter Fonda destroy his weed crop with a flamethrower with a police chopper overhead, the screen getting shaky while more and more of the stuff burns. Then he hands me a rocket launcher.

Really, this game just keeps getting better and better.

Thank God they made the 50 taxi missions cumulative. Don't have to do them all in a row! Between valet, trucking, driving school, shooting practice, b-ball, pool, etc. it's one of the mini games i won't miss.

Yeah, any game that forces you to marathon that shit is one that ensures I don't play that aspect.

the best place, I found, to do the paramedic missions, was the desert town where you meet the cop girlfriend. the missions cover a smaller area than most other places.

Have you reached the missions for the toy store guy yet? Man they were brutal.

oh yeah those were hellish

the only thing in this game i don't look back on fondly and being reminded of them now settles in my head the gta:san andreas vs. red dead redemption battle for my fave video game all time.

Yeah i just met up w David Cross's character. I still have to buy his store to unlock those missions but from what I've heard I'm not exactly jumping at the case. Plus, I'm a few thou short, so I've been just driving around, shooting people, picking up paper, etc.

I tried doing a truck mission (number 2?) and there were cops on me from the start and they just destroyed my cargo! Have no idea how I'm going to pull that one off...

and getting gold in the driving licence missions. oh dude i have to replay this game.

Uff, getting gold in the "spin reverse directly onto this spot" is near the top of the "10 things I am glad to have done in a videogame that I am equally glad never to have to do again"

yeah the sheer brutality of some of SA missions was quickly mirrored in the vast satisfaction you got from completing them.

but i guess that's just true of any challenging game.

would like to re-brag about how I one hundred percented this game btw.

Me too!

As regards bits of computer landscape that have embedded themselves into my brain (and caused occasional real-not real confusion), this is second to GTA3, though.

a buddy of mine and I 100%ed this sucker over a couple years. It is a source of great pride and shame.

Andrew, same here. What's even more confusing is when you then play Liberty City Stories to death which has a slightly altered map of gta3. Then go back to play gta3. mind fuck.

i won one of the "Beat the Cock" races last night and i was so freaking happy

i too, have done 100%

fucking shells

- My driving experience level tends to go up right when I am crashing into everything around me.
- Started dating Katie, now if I die i keep all my weapons. Nice! I just have to remember not to get busted and I can basically do whatever I want. A shame gang wars aren't active right now.
- Also i installed Hot Coffee, so i can see what that's all about eventually...
- David Cross isn't that annoying, he's kinda funny, in an insufferable prick kinda way. His first mission w the mounted Gatling gun was fun!
- Pimping is the best way right now for me to make a bunch of $$$ quickly.
- No way in hell i am going through driving school.
- No way am I doing those car/bike-in-a-giant-bowl time trials where you have to run through red circles and stuff. I am not a good driver in this game.
- I really love MC Forth Right, have been keeping mostly it at Playback FM and Radio Los Santos. The German DJ on SF-UR is hilarious.
- Being a valet was fun! Plus i now own the hotel! Or something!
- At first I really hated driving between the islands, but I'm getting used to it now. I just wreck a lot of cars.

- The OTT radio commercials remind me a lot of Robocop, which is a good space for this game to exist.

- The random plane crashes in this game are insanely entertaining.
- Ended a firefighting mission w my truck laid over a median on the highway, couldn't go anywhere, so i jumped out. Cars started ramming into it, piling up. Pretty soon there were over a dozen. I ran a good distance away, climbed up a hill, and pulled out my rocket launcher. Fireworks!

- Driving through the countryside is best on a bike with "Freebird" on the radio.
- The radio sounds different on different vehicles. Motorcycles have less bass.

This is currently on sale on Steam for 7.50. If you hurry, you can grab Saints Row 3 for like $12 too.

The social satire bit went waaaaaay down in GTA4, unfortunately.