GTA San Andreas: Impressions from all you playas

[Perfect Stu]

GTA: SA raises the bar in so many different areas. It's tough to absorb the size of this beast when you first start playing. But, at about 7 hours in, I've began to tame the beast. And man...what a beast it is.

Visuals

-While not the most amazing textures or highest-poly character models, the game looks very good. Great lighting, a distinctful, fitting art style, and sheer variety of what you see around you is boggling.

Gameplay

-Better than any other GTA, period. Variety is fantastic...I've danced in night clubs, played pool, rode cars, lowriders, dune buggy's, BMX bikes, choppers and motorbikes. There have been motorbike chases, lowrider races, and train pursuits on a dirt bike. Drive-by's, gang beatings, and picking up hookers. Ive lifted crates of guns from a forklift into a stolen van. I also showed off my lowriding skills by hopping my car around on hydrolics, based on a minigame that is not unlike a simple version of DDR.

-One thing that has changed since past GTA games is character custimization. You can pick your clothes, you can build up muscle at the gym, and you can pack on the pounds by eating fast food (if you feel like it). NPC's will react to your appearance according to your appearance.

I feel that I've taken a decent chunk out of this game, but apparently I'm only 9% in. I havent seen either of the other two cities, or most of the countryside.

Ive looked around, and there's really nothing to complain about. You can look hard for glitches and imperfections, but you'll soon get caught up in the atmosphere of cruising down the beachside in your lowrider listening to "Aint Nuthin but a G Thang" or tearing down the highway at night on a chopper listening to "Free Bird".

Games dont get much better than this. And I'm less than a 10th of the way though it.

[Dylflon]

Yeah. I picked it up today and I'm not very far yet. I find the radar a bit frustrating. It's hard sometimes to see where you're going. Especially with a million icons cluttering it up.

[Typhoid]

The Icons confuse me.
I do have one compaint about this game, I will get usedf to it, but my complaint is with the driving. The camera is always changing, one second it copuld be behind you, the next second you turn the corner and your lookin at your hood.

I've gotten used to it now, and fixing this with the R3 button is standard now. No complaints.

I got the last copy of this in Future Shop today. I was happy.

Im only 4% in the game, but I've been playing for an hour.

I cant seem to get my respect up at all.

And another thing, is three a way to like, recruit gang members? Or do you ave to do a mission before this happens. Considering im only 4% in, im missing a VAST majority of everything.

[Perfect Stu]

I havent recruited gang members yet, but I HEAR there will be a focus on turf wars later on in the game...taking over other gangs territories, etc.

As for respect, mine is still very low and I'm 10% through. Stay patient, have fun with the missions, but most importantly, have fun with the city.

*edit*

oh, and you can make the radar much less cluttery in the options menu...and once you get familar with the landscape, you'll know where each place is (vaguely) anyways

[Joeiss]

My guy is quite muscular. He wears green shoes, beige pants, a black tank top and a green bandana over his hair. I use to wear a green hoody, but I had to switch to the tank top to show off my muscles. Also, when I got on killing sprees, I like to wear a green bandana over my face, you know, to look more gangstaaaa.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Joeiss

My guy is quite muscular. He wears green shoes, beige pants, a black tank top and a green bandana over his hair. I use to wear a green hoody, but I had to switch to the tank top to show off my muscles. Also, when I got on killing sprees, I like to wear a green bandana over my face, you know, to look more gangstaaaa.

Can you put a bandana on and off on the fly, or do you have to go back to the hosue first and change there?

And damnit, i wanna steal things from peoples houses!

And me and Dyaln decided (after playing this game) that now, on MSN conversations, instead of using a comma, you use "Nigga" or "Muthaf****". Try it, they both work, heres an example.

Hello mother nigga how are you today? Today is very nice out nigga there is no rain in the sky muthaf****.

See nigga flawless.

[Joeiss]

i use nigger anyways because im racist. plain and simple.


haha, jk. I do say nigger too often though... Just because there are no black people on my floor.. oh well nigga haha

[DarkMaster]

lmao they go eat fried chicken. awesome.

[Crono]

I just bought this game. Only did the first couple missions, fooled around for the rest of time. It is a sweet game though.

[TheGame]

I want this game... its killing me that I can't afford it yet Even to this day I still play GTA3 on Xbox... and I'm sure GTA:SA is much much better.

[Perfect Stu]

Originally Posted by TheGame

and I'm sure GTA:SA is much much better.

it is. it really, really is.

whatever, you'll save up eventually.

[Joeiss]

TheGame, your black too. And if you are the stereotypical black gangsta thug (which I know you're not, but lets pretend), then you'll love it!

[Dylflon]

I like how the game doesn't just give you vast sums of money. It's more realistic in that way. But still...respect doesn't pay the bills.

[Perfect Stu]

Originally Posted by Dylflon

I like how the game doesn't just give you vast sums of money. It's more realistic in that way. But still...respect doesn't pay the bills.

yeah you gotta find the rich neighbourhoods and run over a handful of people every now and then just to buy some threads. I love it...you cant settle, you always gotta diversify

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Perfect Stu

yeah you gotta find the rich neighbourhoods and run over a handful of people every now and then just to buy some threads. I love it...you cant settle, you always gotta diversify

I went around yesterday in this one plaza by the Hospital and killed like, 30 people, and got $4000.

Yipee.