Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Reviews

Welcome to San Andreas!

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 6 April 2012 09:54

In 2001, Rockstar North release Grand Theft Auto III to the public. Unlike the first games, this made the series a household name by its addicting game play, concept, the freedom to roam everywhere, do a lot of things, and the controversies it got at release due to the content of the game. After Vice City and Advance came out, a new game in the series came out in 2004 which has been called one of the best in the series called Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

The plot is about Carl Johnson who returns to Los Santos after he found out about his mother’s death. After arriving to Los Santos and getting involved by police officers who know him a few years ago. He’s back in his house to find that the Grove Street Families gang spit apart and his family in bad times. To win his family’s respect back, Carl helps the Grove Street Families regain land from other gangs, getting weapons, and killing specific gang members. While it works, someone betrays Carl and a series of events happen.

Like GTA 3 and Vice City, you can do story missions to unlock more places to go. Also while not doing story mission, you can freely roam around the areas doing a lot of things like doing side mission like taxis to earn money, exploring the areas you unlock, or straight out cause chaos and destruction while getting away from the cops. There was a bunch of new features they added in the game for its time. One is the ability to finally swim without the chance of dying, and the ability to climb on to things. Now you can go into gang wars and if you succeed in killing the foes of that area, you will earn that piece of land and earn money from it. However there is still a chance that emeries can take over you land so you have to go quickly to protect it. For the vehicles, you can customize your car by giving it updates. You can now ride on bicycles, hovercrafts, and even take over a train. In side missions other than taxi, police, and paramedic. You can go into burglary that you have to go and steal things before the morning light comes. Also you can take on train missions that you travel around stopping at stations to drop off packages before the timer goes off. There are mini games like video games, basketball, and others you can play around the area. Lastly players can go multiplayer to play modes.

A big change to the customization side of the game is the level up system. If you shoot people down with a handgun, its skills increase. This applies to vehicles, planes, swimming, lung capacity and your muscles. There is also sex appeal level when you have certain clothes and other things like jewels on that increases or decreases it and get reactions from the citizens of the area you’re in. You can earn respect by completing missions unlike the past games earlier; you have to keep him healthy by eating without overdoing it and work out often in the gyms around.

One of the things I really enjoy from this game is the freedom it gives you. The map is huge with each area is different, and when you not doing any missions. I find myself just exploring the map and doing whatever I like. The level up system is very easy to get to and never becomes a pain to do. The gameplay still has that addicting fun from the past games and it never gets boring due to how open everything is. The music is variety and I find myself humming to some of the songs. The controls are really good and it doesn't feel odd most the time. The story is pretty good with engaging characters and pretty good voice acting. Honestly I couldn’t think of anything bad about this game while I will say that some parts can be annoying like the mission where you learn to fly that it feels awkward, and can be very annoying to pass. Some may not have a problem while some will have an issue with that part.

Overall this is an excellent game with great gameplay, good story, huge map, and complete freedom to do as you like. I highly recommend this to all gamers.


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san andreas

Posted : 4 years, 7 months ago on 18 October 2008 05:28

The graffics are rubbish, the game is... bad! There is nothing more boring than shooting people then watch them dissapear. The best bit about the game is when i turn it off.

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I don't need coffee to have fun

Posted : 5 years, 2 months ago on 18 March 2008 12:25

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the 6th game in the series and one of the best.

The player takes the role of Carl Johnson, an ex-gang member that just heard that his mother was killed and comes back for home for answers. He is almost instantly brought back into his old gang and for the rest of the game he goes on trying to take over his neighborhood and later that whole state.

Players that have played GTA3 or GTA: Vice City know what the game is like; killing, shooting, racing, and just running a muck. And nothing really has changed since the previous games other then a couple little things like the player is able to swim and not die instantly, flying is easier and parachutes are added, lock on isn't perfect but better then before, and the game adds a fat-fitness part where the player has to watch what Carl eats and exercises so that he isn't too fat and slow or too skinny and weak.

One major thing over previous installments is the shear size of the state of San Andreas which it is about 2 to 3 times as big as Vice City's layout and is full of things to do.

The music is a mixed bag for me as most of the soundtrack is full of rap/hip-hop and the only stations I would listen to was the talk and rock stations and sometimes those got boring so I was glad I could mute the game and listen to my iPod.

The voice acting in San Andreas is awesome as all the characters from Carl to Officer Tenpenny all sound like they are real people in this faux world.

Now unless someone was living under a rock for the past couple years, San Andreas came under fire for having a "hidden" sex game but was only unlockable if the player owns a cheat device or has the PC version and unofficially patched the game so really the game got a little more heat than it should have. And in this edition that part of the code has been removed totally so players wanting to see the "hot coffee" are out of luck.

In whole the game is a blast to play and if you own a PS2 you shouldn't be caught dead with out it.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas review

Posted : 5 years, 11 months ago on 6 June 2007 12:36

'It's just another GTA game' I thought to myself as I loaded it up. That's not a bad thing considering I enjoyed Vice City immensely. This installment really is something else though. The main character is much more likable, the world he lives in is truly massive and the number of vehicles at his disposal means you find it very difficult to get bored of this game. You might even finish the missions quite easily, but the game never ends there. There is just so much to do and see, I found myself wondering aimlessly around the deserts at night, with no objective in sight, just enjoying the experience! Same for driving through the expansive countryside listening to some cheesy (awesome) dance music on a motorbike in the rain. Superb fun!

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Grove Street, representin'

Posted : 6 years, 3 months ago on 27 January 2007 03:44

Just when you thought GTA couldn't give you any more to do...

This game has so many fun things to do in it that you really don't even need to do missions that often (although they are fun in themselves). You can learn skills, build stamina and fight power, drive around, collect things, get new clothes/hair/tats, do side missions... tons and tons of variety and replay value here, a must own for whatever system you have. Not for kids though.

Sometimes I just blow things up and start shooting.... all for mayhem's sake.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas review

Posted : 6 years, 10 months ago on 22 July 2006 03:32

Good as this game is (and it is) the rapper/twat speak is too grating and too frequent, and the quotient of annoying characters is unbelievably high. Hard to resist failing missions by shooting Ryder's or Sweet's stupid face off. And CJ is a pussy. He cries.

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GREAT GAME

Posted : 7 years, 7 months ago on 24 September 2005 07:22

Don't let the hot coffee spill on your lap! Dispite that drama over the mod/in-game extra, GTA is still the best game to play. Not for all ages, but it is especially fun for the 18 and up croud.

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