If you liked Vice City, or if you liked Liberty City Stories, then you can't reject to buy this game !
San Andreas has lots of graphics than ever before, lots of actions, and lots of advantages while you are in game play, like training in gyms, eating food, exploring underwater, gaining skills for you weapons, gain stamina and muscles, driving, motorbike, cycling, and flying skills all along your way, with territories to overtake, gangs to attack, jobs and side missions to do, all in one legendary game.

In this game you play as Carl Johnson "CJ", and your goal here is to save CJ's family before they cought in the disaster, also to know the truth of CJ's mother death, and to travel the whole state of San Andreas, in order to save his family, and take control of the streets.

This is one of the best games I have ever played.
The game has a very good screen and the graphics are wow!
The sound affects are good the gun shots are like you have s shooting rag a block away.Gameplay is very cool if you want to go into the police station they will not stop you unless if you a gun when you are in there.You can just look at the people in there I saw a girl smocking and a couple of guys smocking,drinking,and talking.
If you want san andreas get it now.

To get a huge airplane called the AT-400 Inside a Big Hanger in Las Venturas Airport after you have beaten the story
Missions
I don't remember the cheat you can use to get in the airport b4 you have a pilots licence but if you need to put that on look around on here for that cheat. Plze rate this

You liked vice city, huh? You ain't seen anything yet. San Andreas is THE best game I have ever played. The graphics are crisp, the sound is better, and the content- ooooo - the content is MASSIVE. One of the island is as big as vice city itself- and it has three islands, with the third one the size of two islands put together, and thats big. When I played the game at my friends house it was brilliant, when I got the game myself, I was amazed. If you don't own this game already, I strongly advise you buy it.
10/10, best game ever!
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the second best game ever made my Rockstar. It is not as good as Vice City in many ways in my opinion but still a great game for any Grand Theft Auto fans. There are some really good new addition including Bycicles, the ability to swim, a Gym, customiseable cars and many more. This is a fantastic game with pretty good graphics and a decent dtory line to it as well. Definatly a must have. 9/10

I think that this grand theft auto game has to be the best grand theft auto game to come out for any platform.

The graphics for the game is excellent and the sound is also excellent.

The gameplay for this game is great but not prefect and I like the fact that you can eat, go into bars and play a bit of pool inside the bars and also play casino games.

My overall comments for this game is that it is the best game to play and I'll gave it a score of ten out of ten.

Gta is a massive series that most people over 16 love! Im mature enough to handle bad language so it doesnt bother me!

Graphics are all right except from the glitches which sometimes are good!!



Gameplay is 10/10 immense! loads of missions, sub missions, races, events and other cool stuff like finding oysters. So cool you can even take photos!!

Lastability: Very good. Stuff like gyms, pilot training and driving test and stuff really rocks!

Overall this is a beast of a game and if you haven't already should consider getting!!

The best games in the world are the Grand Theft Auto games.The best games I think are GTA San Andreas and GTA IV.I don't have GTA IV which was just released but I know it's a great game.But I have GTA San Andreas and I think It's a great and much more better game than GTA IV. It's the best in my point of view.Well it almost has an equal amount of fashion,crime and drug relating activities.I love this game alot .Most people will probably like it if they had it.All who say it's a wonderful game are wise who say the opposited are totally fools.

I can\t say anything about this game.I can't belive how much stuff this game has.R* has given us many new feature's like :

swimming,gangs,eat,go to a gym,modify your car ,and the best tthing you have girlfriends,and manymore.

The graphics are good but when going fast the camera gets foggy.The games storry doesn't relate to Cj's mom.

Its a big state{San Andreas}.Well overall I give it 9.9 out of 10.Wondering why not 10,cause of the bad language.

Good game for mature people and has some bad language so only kids more than 15 could play it .

It has new feature's like: swimming,and gangs ,e new airlplanes,like hydra stuntplane,gym,enter houses,eat,tattoos,haircut,and do the Pimpin style handshake.;).

It's a reaally good game and does'nt reallt relate to Cj's mom.so i'll give points on how much I think it should really get sio I'll give it 9.91 0 .

Wondering why no 10 cause of the bad language.

Bad ass game for mature people .

Kids less than 9 or 10, never play this game it has the f**k words and gf and kids shouldn't play this game.

Again never let kids buy this game.

Its 40 to 50 $ in the US .

You could swim, dance and finally you have a jetpack.

R* thinks tht you put jet pack in it and parachute and many other stuff.

I didnt pass the whole game but still passing it .

I get stuck in the game. I give it 9.9 out of 10.

GTA a big series that sells.

Graphics: Well not very good loads of glitches. 6/10
Sound: Way too much rubish rap music which hurts your ears. 8/10
Gameplay: Very good it's fun to kill HA HA HA 10/10
Lifespan : Took 2 weeks to complete but it's still fun to kill people. 9/10
Overall: Very nearly essential a laughn for some bits. 8.5/10

This is a differen't Grand Theft Auto compaired to the other ones because you can do basically anything. You can get your stats up so you get good at stuff. You can cut his hair and even get fat on your person or take some fat off and make your guy really strong. The new charactor even sounds like a gangster. You can eat or go to a gym. You can't forget about the girlfriends you can get and you can also jump off high building with a jetpack. So this game is a must have.

This is a great game. I advise anyone to get this aged 8+. (If you are 9 or 8 you might want to turn the volume of when adults are arround thres loads of swearring)

This chapter of the legendary series is the most reallistic ever. Here are some of the jobs you can do:

Work for police,
Work for hospital,
Work for gangs,
Work for taxis,
Work for truckers.

If you do not whant to do missions untill yo are used to the game or jusr don't find them fun, here ar some other things to do:
Play pool at bars,
Get CJ's stats as high as possible,
Go to strip clubs,
Dance at clubs,
Do races,
Get lots of good cars,
Buy all the properties,
Get lots of respect,
Fly planes,
Drive Trains,
Parachute of the tallest building in the game,
Use cheats to spawn good things and have even more fun.

If you buy this game you'll love it so get it now if you don't have it!

This game is being sold less and less and many people are rushing to buy it. You could be another one to rush and buy it.

This game features CJ (the main charcter). Then you have to find out who killed his mom that takes him across the state of San Andreas. It's being sold for 30-40 dollars US.

It also features new vehicles, gangs, stats, better cheats, girlfreinds, and gang wars. You can also swim in this game.

The reason why Tommy Versoti couldn't swim was because he was scared of sharks. Well this game is a must buy if your mom lets you.

Since coming out in 2004, GTA : San Andreas has been a massive hit with gamers world wide.

The texture of the game is pure class and ever since the first GTA series gamers knew it wouldn't be long untill a masterpiece was created.

The makers of GTA, Rockstar Games have made games to be good, some not so good, and some just pants, But in GTA : San Andreas they have created a gamers fantasy !!!!!!!

This game has new abilites such as swimming and stats.

You can also wield two guns!

If your into killing people this is the game.

This game, just, has one thing TO say, and that thing is AMAZING!

You can do practically anything. If you played this non stop for a couple of days, you'd probably walk out your house thinking your CJ, it's so realistic, so, let's start off with the gameplay.
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Gameplay:
What can I say? The simplest, the hardest? No, if you have ever played Driv3r, you know hard. The gameplay on San Andreas is like a baby sucking out a bottle. It is so easy, you are comfertably holding your hands on the pad, and the buttons are just right!
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Moves/melee:
Well, theirs alot more to this than GTA: Vice City! Vice city you couldn't climb up walls. You just hit square against a wall and, nothing. But this, you can climb up walls (Which you can reach, it also depends on muscle), the melee is alot better than Vice City. The higher muscle you have, the better Melee moves you can learn. On different islands, different gyms, different things to learn. The moves on this are, amazing.
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Well, this is so much easier then Driv3r for shooting, driv3r you had to actually move the left analog stick. But this, as of every GTA game their is (Except 1 & 2) you automatically aim by pressing R1. Then you shoot away. It depends what weapon though, weapons like Snipers, rocket launchers and other things like that, don't automatically aim (well imagine a rocket launcher automatic aiming!). The closer you are to the thing aiming at, and the aim will move up. Say it's a person, if your quiote far away, it aims at the body, but get nearer, it moves to the head. If your too far away it won't aim atall.
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Special features:
Well.. I'm not listing them all, do you expect me to? Well, the special features have expanded ALOT from Vice City. Here's a list of the most important ones;

Girlfriends: Well, what can I say? You can get girlfriends on this, go meet up with them and take them out on a date, if you keep doing it, depends what girlfriend, with 100% with them, they get you something, take Denise for example, 100% with her gets you the pimping suit! If you KEEP seeing them, you can get married and have baby's (So i've heard..) so i'm keeping a look out for these!

Swimming: THANKYOU R*! You have finally done something that we have begged for since GTA1! In San Andreas, you can now swim. Woohoo! Swim/drive or whatever to another island is what you don't wanna do (Unless it's been unlocked) as you'll get an automatic 4 star wanted level on you..

Clothes/hairdressers ect: Well, on Vice City, you could only get suits, but hey hey hey! In San Andreas, you can get tattoo's, hairdressers, clothing shops, gyms and more! Just to get you how youl ike it.. And incase your fat, they got places to eat :)
------------------------------------------------------Their is a large variety of vehicles, including cards, motorbikes, pedal bikes, planes, helicopters, jetpacks! Fianlly, their is a jetpack, now c'mon, what more do you want? The vehicles in this are amazing, such nice cars, you can even go to a mod garage, buy nos™, or paint it, go to pay n' spray for that too. Get new engines, and all sorts!
-------------------------------------------------Rumours: Now, we have all heard alot of rumours lately, let me run through some.

Aliens: I'm guessing we've all heard about aliens in the game, but is it true? Well, i've been searching all day and all night for aliens, no sign. BUT, as their is an Area 69 (Meant to be Area 51), their is obviously something. If you wanna look, do, best to look in the sky!

Bigfoot: Yes, the thing that everyone has been talking about. Routing through websites, I see threads on forums called 'The hunt for Bigfoot' and their are about 200 posts of seperate people saying their looking. I've also seen screeny's, fake ones though. But is Bigfoot true? R* said themselves that their is NO bigfoot, but are they having us on, no one knows!
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Hints: Here's just some hints :P

1# Get a sniper, at night, and aim at the moon, and, what else, shoot it! You will see it expanding slightly each time!
2# A house inwhich you can buy, near the big Vinewood sign on the first island, go their. At the back is an empty swimming pool. Get a jetpack (Cheat is: L1 L2 R1 R2 U D L R U D L R L1 L2 R1 R2 U D L R U D L R) and go to the corner of the house, get your jetpack and fly through it, and wala! The underworld, blue hell, whatever you'd like to call it. Your now underneath the floor, what the whole of the game looked like without the flooring. Get 6 star cops ,they know your their, they can't shoot you, you can shoot them :D
-----------------------------------------------------Overall: Overall, this is one heck of a game, a game you have to buy if it is the last thing on earth. Xbox lovers, unbuckle your seatbelts, because this year, your going on a whole new journey of gaming!

10/10!

Excellent!

My first comment is, people under,say, seven, should NOT play this game. they swear and kill too much. Listen to that parents. NO ONE seven or under should play this. For those of you who have matured, (Like me), here is my review. There is much more to do than in Vice city, GTA VC looks like dog fecies compared to this. You can start gang wars, run a gang, work out, eat, bike, boat, fly planes and helicopters, the plot is marvellous, mission are fun, yo can jump on trains, the graphics and detail are marvellous. You can alter your appearances by getting haircuts, buying new clothes, the side missions are cool. You can get a jetpack and a parachute. it is great!!!
Graphics: 10/10
Liability: 5/10
Swearing:1000/10 NOT reccomended for young children.
weapons:10/10
Detail:10/10
Differentwaysyoucangetkilled:8/10
Plot:7/10 ( I dont see how missions are related to finding out who killed your mom)
Overall: 95/100
GO GTA!!

This game is truly the best. To complete storyline-related challenges, it would take the average up to 40-60 hours, and thats only half of the game.San Andreas is very large and long lasting.

In Grand Theft Auto 3...You kill Salvatore Leone,
now he is back from the dead in
Grand Theft Auto San Andres.

You also kill Maria at the end of 3, and she is back in San Andreas.

I was looking forward to this game so much but I was dissapointed, its a great game don't get me wrong it just doesn't live up to the hype.

Ah, can you smell it? This is a game which has a few distinct advantages over others. Selective breeding, for example. Rockstar North make few games, but the majority of the ones they release are absolute corkers. Also, GTA3 and Vice city were two of the best games on the PS2. So this should be good. Is it?

YES. With a capital Y. And E. And S. This is truly the greatest game ver. There is nought wrong with it, and it shall last you as long as your PS2 works. There is absolutely nothing one could ever fault. All the "faults" of Vice City (no swimming, money becomes less vital nearer the end, the enevitable cheaters) have been fully rectified.

And here is a quick taster;
Planes, cargo helicopters, driving, biking, boating and flying school, burgalary, trucking, gambling, p*mping, dancing, races, lowrider faceoffs, destruction derby, shooting ranges, multiple girlfriends, restaurants, car modification, barbers, clothes shops and... multiplayer. And this is but the very tip of the iceberg. T guarantee it will take at least a thousand man ours to see all San andreas has. At this rate, you'll pay £1 for every 30 hours of play. It's called a bargain.
You play as Carl Johnson. Having returned home, you find the city in a mess and start rectifying it. You must find out the truth about your mother's killer, seek revenge, and take control of the streets. The storyline is believeable, even if f**k! and n*gga! are said a thousand times too much.

The soundtrack is amazing, as you would expect from a GTA game. There is much humourous banter on the radio, and there are songs by RATM, G'N'R, Lynyrd skynyrd, 2pac and Cypress hill.
The gameplay is immensly varied. You can swim, go to the gym, or start a gang war. Never has there been a game with so much to do. Please buy it. You know it will be the best decision you'll have made in a long time.

Graphics: 97% This is really as good as it gets
Sound: 98% Great radio, tonnes of humourus speech, realistic cars and environment
Gameplay: 99% As deep as it is wide
Lifespan: 98% Will last you forever
Overall: 98% This is a game that you must buy. Now. Every second playing any other game is a waste. I purchased it for a meagre 45 euro. It is worth ten times its value.

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Has to be proven to be the best GTA game in the series. "in my opinion anyway" it has more features like jetpack's, swimming, eating, player stats, dating, flying bigger planes, schools and much much more. I have completed the game and I was sad that I had completed it :'( its too gooood.
Hope you enjoy it and it rawks

If Your looking for a game that you can get stuck into GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS is the game that you should be looking for.

This game goes from robbing cars, Killing people to Doing missions you can even get a girlfriend (or a few).

Lucky game buyers this is the one for you

GTA San Andreas is by far one of the best games I have ever played, and thats coming from someone who has had nearly every single console that has been around in the last 5 years. The beginning missions are all pretty easy, for someone who's played any of the other GTA games.

You basically just have to try and get your fallen apart gang back together and make them as big as they used to be. Most of this is relatively easy. I only failed 5 times in the entire of the first island and one of them was because I was talking to my brother and drove of the edge of a cliff. However there are many incredibly good points about the game that make it so much more realistic than the previous games without making it boring.

The only thing that annoyed me about it was that you can't use the ammu-nation until your nearly done on the island. I also didnt like the way that you lose control of the whole map and can't even get back to your house without getting shot. Besides the bad points the game does have hundreds of good points;
*you can visit the gym to exercise
*you advance in skills such as machine gun skills so you can increase your accuracy, driving skills and muscle
*you can take gang members around with you (until they disappear)
*you have access to all three islands, however visiting ones you haven't unlocked brings you a nasty for star * * * * wanted level.
* there are tons more vehicles such as combine harvesters, GTs (Ford GTs), BMXs as well as many of the classics like banshees, infernus', cheetahs etc.
* eventually you can dual weild weapons to deal double the damage as usual.

And yes for those sad acts who can't complete the game on their own there are cheats. The not wanted level and wanted level cheats are the same as the Vice City cheats and I think the weapon cheats are the same as well but I haven't been bothered to find out.

Over all I think the game is incredible, and after only an hours play I was hooked.

GTA:SA is a good game, but the gameplay can be a little difficult at times. You can get lost very easy because San Andreas is so much bigger than all the other games put together. Almost all of the cheats from Vice do work on SA but you need to be careful which ones you use. I used the flying car code and every single last car flew and it was very hard to turn back off. There are some good things.

The language and actions are alot more adult oriented. R1 can be used as a high speed E-brake for making sharp turns. Rockstar has incorporated some Sims like actions into the game for your main character, which I loved. When you fail a mission, it is a lot easier to redo the mission instead of restarting over.

All in all, this is a good game, but I still think Vice is better.

New Features

The New Features list is a collection of all of the new features which will be in the game. It's generally for people who aren't particularly hardcore GTA fans, just to see what the next game will contain. We will not be posting every piece of confirmed information from magazine articles due to the fact magazines don't always provide truthful information, plus the fact that some stuff is not worth knowing anyway as players will pick up on it while playing the game in October.


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General Information
The next GTA game will indeed be called Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and will, as far as we have been told, be Sony Playstation 2 exclusive. The game is said to be based on a number of recent films relating to the Californian gangster theme. The game will be produced on a dual layer DVD due to the enormous size and should take no less than 150 hours to complete for the average player.
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The Story
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.
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The Cities And Locations
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas will not just be a single city like it was in the previous two games. This time it will be a full state, which includes not one, not two, but three main cities and a number of towns and villages throughout. The state of San Andreas is made up of the cities; Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas which will be named Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturras respectively. Word has it that each single city will be the same size as the whole of Vice City therefore resulting in the full game being in the region of four to six times the size of the previous game. Along side the cities are the countryside and desert regions along with a mountain known as Mt. Chiliad which happens to be the biggest single object in the entire game. These out of city locations will provide a very big change in experience and also include a further twelve small towns for exploring. A few sources have also stated that each City will have it's own airport where a Full Winged Dodo can be found and flown.
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Buildings
We are promised that there will be a lot more buildings which are open to entry than in Vice City. Each of the interiors are amazingly detailed and there are a number of different things which can be done inside of buildings. We have also been told that the only loading times in the game will be a short pause when you enter buildings which will certainly be a change from previous games. Some of the more interesting buildings include Reece's Barber Shop, a Tattoo Parlor and some of the fast food restaurants.
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Graphics
The graphics engine from Vice City has been tweaked and as a result the graphics are looking a lot better than before, although it still looks like a GTA game. Smog will be present in Los Santos, and alongside that will be reflective surfaces, realistic shadowing and other types of lighting techniques. Every model in the game will have an independent model for day and night to improve the visual effects and shadowing. GTA San Andreas will take ideas from Manhunt in the way it introduces the ability to sneak through shadows where you will be able to pick off unsuspecting enemies. Real sunlight will be simulated and shadows will be placed realistically across the map. Along with this comes an addition to the weather effects. Vehicles will now accumulate dirt and rust as you play through the game. The Draw Distance in the game has been greatly improved from that in Vice City and will now be four times better in the countryside and up to two times better in the cities. When climbing the altitude on Mt. Chiliad, clouds will start to appear and in addition to this, the foliage in the countryside will only be drawn when the player can see it which improves the frame rate and keeps the game feeling vibrant and alive.
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Game Play
A number of magazine articles have informed us that rag doll physics, or rather 'impact animation' will play a part in the game. Rumours also state that players will be able to buy and build, then run a casino in Las Venturras. You can recruit gang members and use them to do four person drive-by’s. More importantly we're told that being a Gang Member only makes up about 15% of the total game. Carl and the Orange Grove Families can take over areas and generate money from them. This is just one of the many things which can add to the replay value even after the game has been 'completed'. There are parts of the game where you will work as a gang, and parts where you will work alone. The game is now very non-linear, and depending what choices are made, it will be rare for 2 players to have the same type of game. The missions will be the same, but so much can change depending on choices you make. The characters have more bones which results in numerous different facial expressions. With the additions of sneaking, there are now many more ways to complete missions. You could run straight in shooting, or sneak through the shadows and pick off the enemies one by one. When the player only has one wanted star, hiding in the shadows should be enough to throw police off your trail. The camera will automatically zoom behind the player at the touch of a button and the player then has the ability to freely target using the analogue stick. The auto-target will still be a part of the game though. The longer the player holds down the R1 button, the more chance there is of getting a headshot on an enemy. The player can adjust the camera angle with the right analog stick. Carjacking animations have improved. Rather than pulling the driver out of the vehicle, CJ opens the door, whacks him in the face, and throws him onto the road. When using a gun, the right analog stick lets you aim with any and all ranged weapons. You can look in any direction, even when you're driving. Cars get dirty (even rust), and in turn you can now take em' through the car wash. Gangs now sport their own "social" clique. Have a good enough relationship inside the gang and they'll always be watching your back. The Police chopper searchlight now serves a much more important purpose. When shining down on you, you'll find that the searchlight impairs your ability to see clearly, making it harder to drive and shoot.
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Weapons
Weapons can now be dual wielded in GTA San Andreas. This means you can be running along a street firing two Uzi's as the same time. We are also told that the choice of weapons will match the weapon selections of the early nineties. An accuracy meter will be displayed at the top left of the screen and the more enemies who are hit, the better the players accuracy will become. Crosshairs are also different and now more like those seen in Manhunt. They will turn Green if the targeted person has high health, yellow if the person has medium health and red if the character will die in the next shot.
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Vehicles
A number of vehicles from GTA3 and GTA Vice City will reappear with slight modifications from their original models along with a huge selection of new vehicles including a BMX Bicycle, Mountain Bike, Police Motorbike, Monster Truck, Combine Harvester, Gas Tanker, Quad Bike and Full Winged Dodo to name a few. Some vehicles are made specifically for the countryside, while others are for the streets of the city. It is now possible to attach and detach the trailer on the back of large trucks. The Monster Truck does not have a hand brake, but rather the ability to switch to 4x4 steering mode, which gives the vehicle an extremely small turning circle which is great for navigating through the trees in the country side. Players will have to be very careful when driving the Gas Tanker as it will Jack-Knife very easily.
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Artificial Intelligence
Enemy and pedestrian AI will be greatly revamped and they will think more logically. You can't beat someone to death in broad daylight and not have people notice and react. Your enemies will also be a lot smarter, which will make robbing houses and passing missions take a lot of skill. Each pedestrian has his or her own actions and animations based on where they live, and where they're at in the city or the country. It won't be uncommon to see two pedestrians walking down the street, holding hands. They will react it you walk between them, then hold hands again. Pedestrians have around an hour of dialogue each, as opposed to Vice City's 10 minutes. Pedestrians also have an independent existence in the game. You can follow them as they go through their daily routine (e.g. leaving their house, going to work, going to the store, meeting someone). Gang member AI is very advanced now. Gang members no longer stand around doing nothing during their downtime, they'll be chilling out with each other, smoking, drinking, greeting each other, and throwing gang signs. They'll even have conversations, too. Gang members also have different tactics to get you out of their territory. They may come at you at full force, or sit silently back waiting for you to get close and ambush you with a surprise attack.
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Music
There will be a large number of radio stations in GTA San Andreas which will contain over three times the amount of licensed music than Vice City. Some of the new Radio stations include: SF-UR, Flash FM, Hit Radio and K-Jah West FM which will be playing a selection of Country, Rock, Funk/Soul, Reggae House, Alternative and Hip Hop with more expected.
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New Features In Detail
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House Robbery
One of the new features which we have heard about in GTA San Andreas is the ability to rob peoples homes. It seems this will be triggered like other R3 missions but can only be activated at night. It will involve sneaking into a pedestrians home, moving through their house and picking up objects to steal. They can then be placed in a truck and taken to a fence where they can be pawned for cash. Due to pedestrians living their own lives, players can expect to sneak up on sleeping victims and have the ability to hold them up with a shotgun or whatever other weapon they like. Be warned though that some pedestrians may be expecting a break in or have security defences in place which will make the robbery a bit harder, especially if you want to come away with your head intact.
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Statistics And Ratings
Every previous GTA game in the series has contained scoring and statistics in some ways or others, and in a differing level of detail, however San Andreas aims to push this a lot further. No longer will statistics be used simply for score, but they will now effect the way your character changes. For example the more time you spend perfecting your skills on Motorbikes, the better you will become, and you will eventually 'level up' your skills which will increase certain attributes such as balance on the bikes, speed, handling and a variety of other things. This goes for everything too, the more you run, the longer you will be able to go for without getting tired, the more you shoot, the better accuracy you will have. The list goes on. Rockstar Games have also stated that some missions will require you to be skilled in a certain way before they can be completed successfully, although we have been assured that stats will be for the benefit of the player, but not required. Hardcore GTA fans can spend the time to level up all of their skills and make the strongest, toughest, most skilled character in the game whereas smaller players may just wish to keep everything simple. This is sure to increase the replay value after the game has been completed.
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Eating
One of the stranger new addition to GTA San Andreas is the ability and requirement to eat food to stay fit. GTA Vice City introduced the ability to purchase food to regain health, however GTA San Andreas has actually implemented this as what could be considered a major part of the game. The player will have to head to one of the many restaurants and order a meal every few days or Carl will start to lose weight and become skinny and weak. Alternatively, eating too much food will result in Carl becoming overweight and moving extremely slowly. It will be up to the player to work out the perfect balanced diet for CJ. Rumours also have it that Carl will vomit should he be fed too much food in a short space of time.
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Staying Fit
The eating section of San Andreas is undoubtedly a big factor in the gameplay, however one which is possibly bigger is the Staying Fit idea of the game. Previous games rewarded the player for the work they did. If they ran a lot, they would be able to sprint for longer before getting tired, but San Andreas will introduce a whole new set of objectives. The physical work that players put in while playing the game will have visual and physical effects on Carl and the gameplay. It will be very important to keep Carl in shape and the best way to remedy too many pizzas from the well stacked pizza company is the treadmill at the gym. Yeah, that's right, you can go to the gym to work out. We have seen such things as a treadmill, punch bag and a boxing ring so far and we've also been told that in each of the three gyms around the cities, different fighting techniques will be learned. In Los Santos we'll learn the basics of hand to hand combat, in San Fierro we'll be learning martial art kick combo's and in Las Venturras we'll be learning more rough and tough moves. Some missions require Carl to be in physical shape before they can be accomplished, however players will actually be building up his physique as they play through the game, sometimes without realising it.
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Swimming
Another hugely requested new feature has been placed in the game by Rockstar. Once recorded as saying "Gangsters who swim are not cool", Rockstar have given in to the fans and allowed Carl to swim in San Andreas. This is great news for the reckless drivers who head straight off bridges and into water because as soon as you hit the water you'll have to option to escape the car and swim to shore. By default Carl will tread water however the player has the option to swim underwater where they have a limited supply of breath, or swim faster on the surface. It's unclear whether there'll be anything special under the water, although we can be pretty sure that there will be.
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Haircuts
This is another new feature, however not exactly one which will add a great deal to the gameplay. The player now has the ability to get a haircut and wear a new style on his head. From what we have seen this is relatively simply done however it has been well documented so it was worth a mention. You walk into Reece's Barber Shop, sit in a chair and choose a new haircut, then pay for it, providing you have enough cash. The benefits of changing your hair adds to the uniqueness of each players character in game, but will also draw different reactions from pedestrians and gang members alike. If you want to be popular with the chicks, you're going to need a cool looking hairstyle. It seems that apart from the visual benefits and a few new pedestrian comments, haircuts will not be a massively important feature in the game, although good to have anyway.
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Tattoos
Another new feature similar to Haircuts is the ability to get tattoos. Very much like the haircut feature you will walk into a tattoo parlour, sit in a chair and choose a tattoo and presumably a location you would like it done, then pay for it and watch the tattoo artist do his work. It is currently unknown if tattoo's will do anything in game apart from changing the look of your character, however gang respect may increase with more ink on your chest. We have also heard that you will be able to get a different selection of tattoos in each of the different cities, so they could become something of a collectors item. Tattoos could also be the prize of unlock able missions or side objectives.


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Car Modifications
One of the latest new features we've heard about is the ability to modify your vehicle. Apparently any vehicle you take to Fender Bender will allow you to make changes to it, such as Exhausts, Front Bumper, Rear Bumper, Roof, Spoilers, Wings and the Colour. Obviously the prices are not cheap, and the changes will not effect physical vehicle performance, however it is what the fans asked for and once again Rockstar Games have provided. More information is certain to be released about this in the future, but this is pretty much all we know for now.


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Side Missions
There are always side missions in GTA games, however San Andreas will have a huge number for players to entertain themselves with. We have only heard of a few, however these include Truck Driving where you must transport cargo in a time limit, Valet Parking where you are rewarded for parking a car in style and sources have it that you can make money by farming. There will of course be more side missions which we'll post when we hear about them.

I've waited on pins and needles for GTA San Andreas and after playing three hours last night (10-25-04), I'm disappointed. Sam Houser thinks "we're going to kick ass". Yes, maybe with the African American audience but not with "whitey". If I was African American I would be just as offended as were the Hatians with thier portrayal in Vice City.

I know it's just a game and I understand that but most groups of people do'nt. Houser is going to lose sales to the white community simply because San Andreas is very ethnic and the majority of whites deep within are fighting their own self realization of prejudice. Whites will find this game "too Black" for their own comfort.

Me...I find the game, thus far, disappointing in the fact that the language prevents me from enjoying it with my kids. Vice City was somewhat acceptable to liberally minded adults such as myself who believe discussion with their chilren is better than omission (if they do'nt see it at home, they will see it elsewhere, so explain reality and gaming with them as to differentiate what is acceptable behavior and what is not).

To say that San Adreas is not as good or is better than the other GTA titles so early in game would'nt be prudent. There are plus and minuses thus far and I as a white guy am fine with whatever can be construed by others as proper or improper portrayals within the game...besides, it's my only fantasy chance to ever be a part of the hood and the "cool" I by birth will never be.

Amen AA Brothers out there? Let's all have fun and get along...we've all got the red stuff running in all of us and we all like to have fun. Rock n' Roll and Ram and Jam...play on.

First who ever told you you could go in every house and have people on the back of your bmx they are wrong.

I have GTA San Andreas no joke I am half way thruogh it.

Yes, you can have girlfriends no you can not chew gum.
there are more sharks in here than vice city as you can dive under water and see. Your best mate is carlos as you will find out further in the game (if you get it.)

On the new GTA you can swim, eat do up your car, work out at the gym play basketball rob houses buy houses get hair cuts get tattoos learn new fighting moves and when you rob houses people call the cops and you must walk out with the stuff you stole.

Advice, take a van with one person from your gang and both of you steal real expensive stuff or make one of you search the house for people and the other grab stuff and put it in the back of your van you also have to eat to survive you can climb fences become obese, theres loads of suff you can do and its out on the 26th of October, if you don't believe me check the website.

This game does come out Oct. 26. I saw the preview on MTV Oct.13.04. It was expected to come out on the 19 of October, but I guess they changed it for some reason. I also saw it in a sale paper, so I know for a fact that it will come out on October 26, 2004.

SWEET, this game will be the best game ever made to mankind, I'm not kidding the abilities are absolutely super, climb, swim, eat,workout, get tatoos, get a haircut, buy clothes, play basketball, recruit your own "wreckin crew" to help you through the missions, rob houses (how "gangsta" can this game get?).

I've heard alot about this game and its deals with interscope records, this game is just bad to the bone it will make you sick, I'm not going be off this for a month or more solid, it was originally set to be on the shelves on the 22nd of October (my bruthday) but if anyone can let me know why it was pushed back please tell me, the vehicles look awesome from bmx's to civil jet airliners, I like the bigness and superiority of this game and I do like the idea that they change the charachter a little, the screen shots look amazing I hope everyone will agree when I say this is a must have game of 2004.

I am sick of people saying you can learn new fighting moves at the gym, you can't. You have to go to the martial arts Dojo, the gym is only to lose wight and to make your hits stronger .

PS. I heard that the farm on San Ferrio is for sale part way thew the game and when you buy it you can sell the weed that is growing there?

I got all news on the cars and bikes in GTA SA:

Cars & Trucks:
GTS Dodge Viper, Corvette, Low Rider, Ninga Bike, Harley, Quad, Jet Ski, Go karts, Bikes, Scooters, Ford Trucks on Big WHEELS, Escalade w/ Spinners, Dirt Bikes, and much more.

Also there is air types like passenger planes

And all differnt types of boats like Mohawks

GTA SA coming -10-19-04


















YEAHHHHHHHHHH GTA §A

In gta san andreas there is going to be so much stuff you can do that you can do that you could not do in vicecity for example eating.

In San Andres you have to eat but if you eat to much fat foods like fast food take away you'll get fat and people on the streets will laugh at you to get thin again you can go to a gym and work out.

You can swim but not forever to swim for longer you must go to the gym and work out to increase your stamina. you can get tattos new clothes and new hair styles.

There will be peddle bikes such as mountain and bmxs. there will be a greater range of cars and bikes including combine harvesters and atv quad bikes. the map will be 5 times the size of vicecity and there will be 3 citys each the size of vicecity.

The rest of the map is made up of country side badlands and coast line. san andreas will be cramed on to 1 special dual layer disc and the only loading times in the game are when you enter building there will be a slight pause.

There will also be passenger jets and the dodo will be able to fly(unlike the dodo in gta 3 which had its wings clipped).

this reveiw was by niall nixon

Hey all you GTA fans i want to tell you a little bit about the new GTA. San Andreas.

IT has got loads of cool cars and some cars have returned from vice city, there are helicopters, passenger planes, dodos(the kind of plane that was in GTA 3 and it couldn't fly but this one can), you can ride on trains, monster trucks, tracktors, combine harvesters, montain bikes, bmx's, quad bikes(atvs), motor bikes, cool boats, you can eat, you get fat(if you eat too much without exercising).

Go to the gym, play basketball, go to the barbers if your hair gets too long, buy tatoos, buy new threads and change when ever you want, buy houses and its all packed on a dual disk (two sided disk).

All that coming on the 19th October in the U.S and the 22nd in the U.K and Astralia. Great!

Listen all you Grand theft Auto Freaks out there, this one is going to be the best you get to control a gang of four - you ride a bike a pedal bike there are 3 huge Islands.

*Get this game*get this game*get this game*get this game*
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Quads,pedal bikes,kamakase cops,cars get dirty&rusty&scratched,can buy hats&shoes&hoodies and more,licence plates on cars,highly graphical,

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas seeks to not only expand on what GTA III and Vice City were, but also to bring it into a new era. With Liberty City taking place in 2001 and Vice City taking place in the 1980s (specifically 1986), San Andreas is set in the early 1990s. Taking place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, it will be one of the largest video games ever created.

San Andreas was one of the cities that was originally featured in the first Grand Theft Auto game. Since then, the city has been rebuilt and now has its own game coming out on the PlayStation 2 this October. It is sure to be one of the best gaming experiences ever.

Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers.

Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster.

On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.

Liberty City. Vice City. Now San Andreas, a new chapter in the legendary series. Grand Theft Auto returns to the PlayStation®2 this October.
It was said," That Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is set to be release on PlayStation 2 October 19, 2004 in the USA and set to be release in Europe on October 22, 2004."