GTA San Andreas is the first Mature 17+ game that I've played. Once I got over the strong and sometimes violent language and drug use it became very entertaining and enjoyable on several levels. First of all, growing up in Los Angeles and currently living in San Francisco, the developers did a great job capturing the feel for both cities as well as Las Vegas. The voice acting and script for this extremely long game is probably the best I've ever seen in a PC video game. It's not only a "shoot em up" game but also includes several other smaller games within the main game. And it seems that you discover these smaller games on a daily basis. One of my favorite aspects to the game is the music and other radio shows you can enjoy when driving a vehicle, hip hop, old rock, hard rock, country, and reggae (that I can remember). The only draw back to the game are the graphics and maybe this is due to the game being a couple of years old. This only takes away slightly from the gameplay. Other than that, you can literally play this game for 2 or 3 hours a day, every day for 3 or 4 months before you become tired of it. Another nice thing about the game is that you can find several copies on EBay for a reasonable price. There are several FAQ's on line to help anyone navigate someone through this game if you ever get stuck or just wonder how the game works.Read full review
Since I was familiar with this game already, I'll just write about my initial experience. For a mentally mature adult, its a great game, with many aspects that could appeal to a wide range of gamers. From car races, chases and stunts, exploring land and sea for "items", Police vigilante, fireman, ambulance driver, flying a good variety of aircraft. These are all seperate from the actual game plot, which is a criminal gangster working his way through the ranks, gaining respect, taking back his "hood",building his body, and other activities of pride, outlaw, and vices. of which I do not indulge so much as the flying and stunts. MCMCreations
I haven't loaded it yet. But my forum buddies (after dawn official graphics card and gaming thread) who have enthused so much about gta4, have also said the earlier san andreas was really good. They like gta4 for the better textures, but while I own that title, I already know without trying that my current cpu won't run it - the port from console to PC wasn't well done on gta4 - it puts a heavy load more on the cpu than on the graphics card - not a great port over from console. But the earlier san andreas MAY run on my pc - the specs want me to have a bit more main memory but I might give it shot before I do my new build - if I have any time left in the day after playing Left 4 Dead all the time now! LOL
I bought this game as a gift for my husband who is a big fan of the GTA series. Personally, I prefer Vice City. Tommy Vercetti is awesome, as are the other characters in the game. However, personal preferences aside, my husband could not be more pleased. I thought Vice City had more missions and activities to complete than one person could handle, keeping my husband entertained for hours. However, I don't see him finishing San Andreas anytime soon. I like the fact that you can put user tracks on the game, just like VC. I don't like all the foul language, and in my opinion, way too many vulgar sexual references. Yes... it can get worse than VC. However, all personal opinions aside, the game installs beautifully on laptop using Win 7. My husband is happy, and in the end, that is the reason I purchased the game.Read full review
I have GTA III, GTA VC, and GTA SA all for PC. I liked this one the best of all three. Technically, the graphics aren't all that great. They are updated however from GTA VC. Artistically, they're pretty great though, especially in Las Vegas. This is quite possibly the largest game ever made. The map is humongous. I'd imagine it would take about 30 minutes to travel the perimeter of the map in a car. Sometimes it is so big that it gets boring. The story mode is a lot of fun. There are tons of cool side games. There are also some RPG elements to the game. You can weight lift to build muscle, run on a treadmill to lose weight, swim to increase your lung capacity, use weapons to build your weapon skill, drive cars or bikes to increase your driving skill, etc. There are a lot of different pedestrian characters in this GTA game as well. There are also plenty of places to purchase. The weapons are a lot of fun to use, especially the satchel charges. The game can sometimes be a little glitchy--but hey, that's what makes GTA fun! The aiming system is a lot better in this game. You can aim with every weapon and there is a useful health meter above anyone you are aiming at. I'd highly suggest this game before you buy any in the other series. My only complaint really is that the game is too big (and the profanity). Hope this helps! Brad kgj08@comcast.netRead full review
For those who appreciate the sophomoric, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the ultimate indulgence. This particular storyline follows Carl Johnson, "CJ", who takes it upon himself to regain his "street cred" in his old Grove Street neighborhood, all the while cleansing his home city of gang violence and building his business empire across the cities of San Andreas. Despite the challenging missions, what makes the game so much fun is that it is truly a cartoon for adults. Character voices include the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Charlie Murphy, and Peter Fonda, among many others. The developers' attention to detail and variety of side-missions will have any gamer discovering new features and laughing at new jokes many months after starting a game. In other words, San Andreas has a very long shelf life before it gets old. Like its most recent predecessor, GTA: Vice City, San Andreas could be considered a "period piece"--this time for late 80's/early 90's West Coast living. Get into any vehicle, and as you surf the radio stations you may hear Ice Cube, Stone Temple Pilots, or Eddie Money--with George Clinton or Axl Rose as the radio DJ. Whereas previous GTA games focused on one city, San Andreas is a state with 3 major cities--caricatures of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas--with countryside in between, thus making the landscape of this RPG absolutely enormous. The developers' sophomoric sense of humor spares no detail in their creations. Virtual doppelgangers of places like Luxor Las Vegas and Camelot are renamed into much raunchier (and funnier versions). You may ride in a boat called a "Reefer" or a car called the "Bf Injection". As you walk past pedestrians in different neighborhoods, you overhear strange parts of silly (and sometimes nasty) conversations. There is even a "secret" army base in the desert, called Area 69. Needless to say, this game is not for children. Even clean jokes may be over the heads of some minors because of the subjects they parody. All in all, if you like a challenging role playing game and can appreciate the little details in a big world; you will get your money's worth from San Andreas.Read full review
good game, lots of violence so dont give it to the young young kids. graphics were good, very large area to explore and many new vehicles and people from Gta III. New interesting twists that always had you going. overall 8.9/10, The game has high high requirements. its a good game but if you do not have a semi-good system you will not enjoy the game fully due to lagging problems. Even if you do have more than the system requirements such as myself you may still notice lagging issues. But overall an interesting and very expansive game.
GTA:SA is the fifth instalment of the Grand Theft Auto series, and has come a long way since that bird's-eye-view simple driving game perspective. Playing the role of Carl Johnson, gangster wannabe, after you find out your mother has been murdered you are forced to come out of hiding in Liberty City and return to your home state San Andreas. Once being part of a gang called "Grove Street", Carl's aim is to build up this once powerful gang, find out who killed his mother, and ultimately take control, of the streets of SA. San Andreas is HUGE, and I do not exaggerate when I say this. It consists of 3 areas: Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas (spin-offs of Los Angeles, San Fransisco and Las Vegas), each of which are huge and boast many things to do. Game-play is the sole aspect of GTA:SA. The missions themselves are great and range from tasks such as infiltrating an huge army tanker and stealing a fighter-jet to using a combine harvester in a hillbilly farm to mince up the opponents! GTA:SA is a hard style to describe, but it seems a cross between stealth sections to full-out extremism. Fans of violence will not be disappointed, there are plenty of guns to put holes into victims, plenty of grenades to explode things, and plenty of vehicles to take if you fancy them. Even after you've completed the missions the fun doesn't stop there, no GTA:SA is such a mammoth of a game that it will take ages to complete and even after a year you'll probably still be playing regularly like me. Since GTA:SA is such a free-roaming game you'll free that you really can do whatever you want, whenever you want. After all, where else would you get the chance to knee a hapless thug in his private parts, and then shatter his skull with a baseball bat? Highlights of extra activities include gambling, a range of schools such as flying, driving and motorbike schools), recruiting members of Grove Street for hardcore gang wars, and various car stunts and drive-byes that you can perform. Graphics I'll keep pretty short. GTA:SA has more of a cartoon feel to it visually, which is probably why we don't take the fact we've just blown someone's head off with a shotgun seriously. The good thing about GTA is that since it doesn't over-dramatise the death, we an laugh at it. GTA has some impressive graphics though such as that everything has its own physics engine. The fact you are surrounded by walking, talking civilians makes the feel of a living and breathing society more believable. I also love the different looks of each area which gives it a different characteristic - the orange and sun-bathed streets of the urban Los Santos, the metropolis of San Fierro, and the blazing neon lights and Elvis impersonators of the hectic Las Venturas. Bloodied footsteps after trampling over someone's dead corpse, the shimmer of light on the ocean and day/night affects are also a nice touch. Sound plays like a dream. he real key are the radio stations. This ensures that you'll be happy whatever your taste whether it be classical music, rock or even a country folk station with a psychotic host. In Conclusion GTA:SA does everything we want, and to be honest it couldn't do a lot more. If I could sum up this beauty n a few rods: Best..game... EVER! If killing sprees are exciting action are your thing, this is THE game for you. However violence is not your thing don't bother buying. With this and various sex and drug references, this is NOT for a child to play.Read full review
Carl ''CJ'' Johnson is coming back home to San Andreas after five years spent in Liberty City. But just as he enters a town, he gets stopped by his old pals, officers Tenpenny and Pulaski. The thing is that those two aren't really the most honest cops in the state, so poor CJ gets left without most of his personal possessions. After a friendly chat, officers left CJ in Ballas territory. It would all be good, if the Ballas weren't CJ's mortal enemies. This small intro movie is trying to introduce us to situation on streets of Los Santos, one of three cities in the state of San Andreas. Although the game is placed in early 90's, during the first few missions it looks like San Andreas isn't much different than Vice City, but during the game you'll realize how much GTA: San Andreas has advanced than earlier games. But, as I was saying; the state of San Andreas consists of three major cities: Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas. Each one of these cities by name and thematic reminds us on some of real cities; Los Angeles for Los Santos, San Francisco for San Fierro and Las Vegas for Las Venturas. So you will, for instance, in Los Santos lead your own gang, while in San Fierro you could drive insanely fast races along the town, or you could have a great time in Las Venturas visiting casinos and strip clubs (well, the game IS rated 17+). You will open each city gradually, completing missions and revealing storyline, which is very good developed. Talking about missions, GTA: SA consists of almost hundred (that's 100!) missions which are very original. Original missions, it is true, have always been specialty of GTA franchise. Another thing that increases value of this game are mini-missions, on which you will spend a lot of hard work if you want to complete the game 100%. So you will, for instance, be collecting horseshoes and oysters (instead of hidden packages), you can spray graffiti on walls of Los Santos or just perform good ol' sub-missions. One of (many) new mini games is gang war. Let me explain that; Los Santos consists of territories; gang areas controlled by specific gangs. As CJ you can gather your gang and take over territories which are under control of enemy gang. It's interesting how Rockstar made it simple. If you enter enemy gang's territory and start shooting their gang members, you will start a gang war. Then you need to survive three waves of attacking enemies to make the territory yours. Gang wars are definitely one of the most amusing parts of the game. But, like that's not enough, Rockstar put in some other stuff to make the game more fun. Remember how we could change into specific clothes in Vice City? GTA San Andreas brings that to a whole new level. In the game we can buy over 200 parts of clothing in six different types of stores. Clothes affect CJ's sex appeal and respect. Respect is a very important aspect of this game. You get respect by completing missions and/or killing members of enemy gangs. The more respect you have, the more gang members you can have in your gang. And sex appeal? Sex appeal increases chances of CJ getting a girlfriend(s). That's right! CJ can have girlfriends. There are six girls in San Andreas that you can take for a date or… well, something else. Also, Cj needs to eat. Food gets new meaning in the game. If Cj doesn't eat, his health will start decreasing, which isn't good. But, also don't eat too much, cause then CJ will get fat, so his stamina won't be big. There are other thingsRead full review
This is the best installment of the GTA series yet. The graphics are great, and the gameplay’s movements do not cause any viewing imperfections. The sound, including the radio, songs, and commentary/conversations, are hilarious. They never get old, and vary throughout the game. The storyline is very complete; all missions require some sort of skill, and, most importantly, very original. There are 3 gigantic cities, all which employ different terrains and environments to satisfy nearly every gamer. The controls [for the PC] are customizable, allowing for controllers, etc. Firing a weapon is quite easy, done using the mouse.
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