| Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Rockstar Games / Take-Two Interactive Software | 2005 | |
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The follow-up to the immensely popular Grand Theft Auto III and Grand
Theft Auto: Vice City draws upon a conceptual style reminiscent of the
popular 1990s gangsta films like Boyz in the Hood and Juice. 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. The game will be about 5 times the
size of Vice City and features a 50% increase in polygons. There are
actually three cities in San Andreas based on real life locations like
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. They are all interconnected
with miles of interconnected freeways, deserts, mountains, rivers, and
more. Communities are a lot more believable; civilians go around with
purpose. You'll notice customers drive up to a pizza shop, park (and
sometimes crash), enter the Pizza place, order some food, eat it and
get on with the rest of their duties. It's entirely possible to drive
from one end of the county to the other without ever seeing a loading
screen (only a slight one whenever you enter an interior location) thanks
to enhancements made to the streaming technology. Riding a bike in GTA
is going to provide a lot of fun, whether it be nipping down a tight
alley to avoid pursuers or hurtling down the infamous mountain range
that apparently takes close to 30 minutes to cycle up. There is now
the ability to customise CJ through the food he eats, the clothes he
wears and his choice of haircut. There are consequences if you don't
eat or eat too much. Additionally, CJ can now swim, has improved hand-to-hand
combat skills, has the ability to recruit NPCs to follow him in his
gang, can wear various new outfits, and can work out at a gym to become
stronger. CJ can even improve specific player attributes and skills.
There will be on-rails shooting segments where we have to gun people
down while literally riding shotgun in a car that someone else is driving.
There are also gambling mini-games of unknown type that apparently makeup
a fully operational casino. More cab-missions (pizza deliveries, ambulance
driving stuff, vigilante stuff, et cetera) will also be included. Side-missions
also now help develop "skills" for use in later plot-critical missions. Due to political uproar over a user-made Hot Coffee mod which allowed hidden simulated sexual scenes in the game to be viewed, the video ratings board forced the removal of all copies of San Andreas from stores. A 2nd version was then released on September 20th which complied with the M rating and had the offending code removed. In Nov/2021, the original was removed from sale and replaced as part of remastered single player versions in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. |
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