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Real Review: review about game not about society

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 33
Date: October 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks, graphics are as good or better than the last, controls are more than fine with me. The world is freaking massive. The options are great, didn't notice the cussing, but I love South Park so go figure. If you are a GTA fan you most likely are getting this already, if you are a role-play fan you will like this too, you can gain skill, endurance, stregth, and so on. Their are police bikes that are really nice, there are street sweepers, tractors, new planes, and so on...and on. The swimming is really really nice, you can do tread, swim, and dive deep into the sea. Get this game, get it, get it! It seems better than the other GTAs so far in every way! Not sure why people are giving it less than five stars. The following is a run down of the actual gameplay. And it has been said before this game is freaking huge! You will notice that on the fold out map that comes with the game.

I started out by riding around on my bike, doing wheelies and practicing jumps and such, then moved onto swimming and under water diving. I was really freaking cool. You build up stamina, skill, and strength as you practice things. I made some freaking huge jumps or rather I rode off one or two cliffs by accident, but didn't seem to get hurt too badly. I got an afro, and then when it made me choose my wardrobe I didn't see any thing I liked so I roamed about in my undies hopping to get arrested or to stir things up, but every one seemed fine with my tighty whities. Once I was done swimming about I went to hop back on my bike and accidentally pedaled off into the sea so I was stuck far far away from anything in the massive game map(I was doing a little cross country and then following the railroad). So imagine my surprise when there is a train sitting there in idle. I think to my self, can I jack this train, I hit the button, and out goes the conductor (heheheh). The main problem I run into is that I am now stuck where the rails are locked off (the other two islands are still closed in the game and will be till further in the story line), so I hit it in reverse and start traveling in style at 90 miles or so and hour backwards. The camera angle changes to kind of a cinematic view, so not window view which would have been cool. The problem I run into is that in reverse you can go through the barricades that block you from going into the other locked off areas. I notice this when I check the map to see where I am, and well I am over half way through the 1st locked island, almost to the second one. My pausing the game results the train derailing (not sure what I did to cause it but it happened right when I unpaused the game). I think oh well now I have to start my trek back, but the designers had come up with a way to keep people from going to the locked islands early in the game, by instantly giving you 4 stars, and locking off all the safe houses you could run into and save your game (in GTA Vice with very perfect timing you could jump off the north bridge onto a passing boat take it and get to the locked off part of the game, where you could buy a house and save the game with a heli and basically negate the road barricades that kept you from finding all the packages early and using the heli or tank right off). I run into a tunnel that I crashed beside to wait off the stars, but out of no where a police truck jumps the hill outside the tunnel and starts chasing me down the tracks. There is no one else there so I let him stop and get out of the truck to arrest me so I could hop in and take off before he had a chance to get me. I was going to go the quick way back, but I got turned around some how and ended up going onto the next island. It was pretty harrowing dodging the cars chasing me on the tracks and then weaving through the blockades they set up. After a very long drive I got around back to the bridge that connected to the island where I started out at (where I could be safe and save the game). I hit the blocked tracks flipped my truck and had to swim for it. I almost made it across and was down to 3 stars when I was shot to death by the perusing police helicopter. When I awoke at the hospital I made for the tracks to find he train again, I didn't luck out and ended up at a blocked railway bridge high above a river, that is when I noticed boats passing, I figured I would study their path and possibly try to jump on one even though I was most likely well over 100 ft above the river. I hopped on the edge of the bridge and oops over stepped, I believe his next words where' "Damn I hate gravity!" Luckily the water kept him from dieing, and after several failed attempts managed to swim in front of a boat to stop it, climb up onto it, and take it for a spin. The fact that I was on the water allowed me to unknowingly cross into closed off space again...four stars....boat shot to pieces....boat explodes....I am on it at the time deciding if I should swim for it or stay on the boat....I wake up at the hospital again. The coolest thing then is that a plane is some how affected by my actions and crashes feet in front of me bursting into flames (a nice kind of spit fire looking plane). So in my final action I try for the train once more, and derail it down town. While I am busy trying to right it I must some how push it into a couple gang members who start shooting me, I try to hide behind the ten cars (two of the cop cars) in hopes that the cops will go after them when they get hit in the cross fire, but they start clubbing me instead. Luckily they shoot one car too many times and it catches on fire, meaning it will go ka-boom soon and get rid of the nasty old people picking on me. Well while I was right about the blowing up part I guess I didn't quite judge the size of the explosion or think about usually when one car explodes if it is close enough to the other, a couples seconds later that other will go kla-booey too. Needless to say the last thing I saw as the word "Wasted" popped on the screen and as the sound of a chain reaction of 10+ cars exploded was the coolest pyrotechnic show I have seen in a good while. At that point it was very late, and I was pretty sure my wife was going to kill me when she saw what time it was as I woke her up climbing into bed...so not wanting to see the word "Wasted" above my head and seconds later spawn at some near by hospital steps, I called it a night. But needless to say GTA FREAKING-HELLA-MEGA-MANDY-ROCKS! Play it...get it..and you will be cool. Oh and if you are a parent it is adult, so please use your best judgement, I don't think it will affect them in the ways claimed, but it may have them talking about it trying to be the cool kid that played it, and frankly poser kids bother me...and you know if your kid is one of them. They need some good friends and some parental love, not just a game to keep them out of your hair. Oh and there is gambling in it when you get to the Reno/Vegas part so if you do not support legalized gambling you may be offended. Boo-yah!

Amazingly good game - but pay attention to the MATURE rating

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 29
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas is now out for the PS2. The game lives up to its hype - both good and bad. I'm writing a walkthrough for this game, so have been playing it pretty much non-stop since its release.

First, the gameplay. If you've been living in a cave and haven't heard of this game, it is definitely MATURE. The other two GTA3 games were mildly mature. This one is full blown mature. There is more swearing in 5 minutes of the game than in most full length R-rated movies. You are beating up people with baseball bats, having drive-by gang shootings, and more. This isn't a game for kids.

That being said, there is a lot here to entertain adults who are into gang life and rap music. The graphics are really quite amazing, and the maps are HUGE. You can drive all over intricately detailed streets, hopping in and out of whatever cars you see. There are different areas of town, each with its own look and feel.

The music immerses you in this world which is both bad and good. If you love the rap / hiphop music, you're all set. But unlike the other games that gave you a wide selection of music to choose from, in San Andreas you're pretty stuck with that one genre. I suppose there is one country station, plus the traditional (and fun) talk station too.

Gameplay is typical GTA style. You go on missions. In your missions you shoot the bad guys and go on object-finding hunts. There are tags to spray paint, people to talk to and deeds to do. A lot of blood is spilled along the way.

An addition to San Andreas is the customization of your character. You're a black male adult, and can go into barber shops to change your hairstyle at whim. You can also hop into a tattoo shop to add tats to various parts of your body. As you eat and run, you can get muscular, slim, fat or so on. If you eat too much and get fat, it slows you down. If you don't eat enough, you end up weak. Balance is key here.

The game is flying out of stores at an incredible rate, and the pre-orders for it were collossal. Loyal fans will not be disappointed - the game really amps up every aspect. Those who want to complain about the violence and language will find plenty to be upset about - but remember, this game is for adults only. It clearly says mature on the box. So if an adult chooses to play this game and have fun with it - well, that's their decision to make!

Overall... the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: October 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the next level... there is NO game on the planet that comes even close to it.

Yes there are a few flaws to the game and a few things that I would have liked in there (I'm thinking that the map could have done with a bit more work, not least having a "tool tip" kind of thing for icons, and the "arrows" are the wrong colour and a bit confusing) but consider the following:

* You can gamble AND play pool...
* You get a cool "blurred, 2 fast, 2 furious" effect when going at high speed...
* You can get on a motorbike, go to the top of a 50 storey building, put on a parachute, ride off the building ditch the bike and parachute down into the city... James Bond eat your heart out... (it's just a shame that the parachute doesn't regenerate... next time I'm gonna get real fat, strip down to my shorts, get a machine gun and blast at stuff on the way down...)
* I'd also recommend getting a truck and hitching up a trailer... yee haw... (and better still crash the train...)

This game will keep me playing for months...

This game is rated 'M', got it?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

That means this game is for mature audiences. I seriously don't understand why some of you people must give a game 1 star because "its bad for the kids." Does a game with mature themes automatically mean that its a bad game? No it doesn't, so I honestly don't know why some of you people are so freakin irrational/ignorant.
If GTA scares you or your kids, then stay the hell away from it, but don't write a review whining about how the game offends you. Rate the damn game itself for christ's sakes.

With that off my chest, here's my review of the game: It-is-good.

The next big game?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 25
Date: October 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Aside from Halo 2 on Xbox, one of the most talked about games thats going to be released this fall is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Many new features have been added from previous games in the series. Its going to be a much larger game. You're not just stuck in some small cities, you've got a much bigger area to explore. The graphics look improved from what I've seen in screen shots, and I doubt they're will be any pop in, because for a next generation game, pop in would be pathetic this far into PS2's lifespan. You can steal new vehicles, including trackters, and my friend told me he saw a screen shot of a guy mowing a lawn. You have to eat in this game to keep up, but, like in real life, if you eat too many fatty foods like donuts and you dont exercise it off, then you're charecter, Carl, will become a fat guy. This game will be set in a ghetto type area in California. Early rumors said that the next Grand Theft Auto would be set in Las Vegas, but those were false... its set in California (that would have been cool, though). In the past four Grand Theft Auto titles, it was annoying how you couldent swim. You could rob a store, you can steal a car, but you couldent swim. Well, this time, like in the recently released (and dumbly titled) "Driv3r", you can now swim. Woo hoo! If Rockstar North (previously DMA (Doesent Mean Anything) Design Games) can add exciting missions and enough new gameplay to keep this fresh and fans happy, then it'll have yet another hit on its hands. This is not a final review.

Good, but no Vice City

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After spending hours and hours playing Vice City and GTA III, I must say I was slightly disappointed, yet still pleased with San Andreas. I think that certain aspects were greatly improved while others just didn't live up to my expectations. See Below:

The Good: Of all the hardcore improvements Rockstar made to the game, I have to say one of my favorites is the ability to jump and climb. Swimming is also a plus. Being able to modify yourself and your cars is good too. The missions are better too. They are more in depth, and most of them have several different stages CJ must encounter before completing them. The graphics during the movie segments of the game are vastly improved. There is also no loading time, which really speeds things up. However, I think the sheer mass of the game is probably the aspect of San Andreas. Five times the size of Vice City, alright!!!

The Bad: None of these negative comments are THAT bad, just a little disappointing considering how much time Rockstar dedicated towards some of the improvements. First the graphics are not as good during most points of the game. I don't like the way people fall when they're shot, react by being hit by a car, etc. I think it is also difficult to see when it is night. It is a lot like GTA III, whereas in Vice City you could see just as clearly during the night as you could in the day. I also like the life and armor numbers in the two previous games, and not so much the life meter in this one. Rockstar also put the eating factor in, which is more realistic but takes time away from the game when you actually have to go out of your way to get a burger or taco. The worst is aspect is having to use the analog buttons to run and drive. Give me the button paddle!!!

All in all this is a great game, and any fan of the GTA series should pick it up. But don't expect the same flawlessness as you saw in Vice City.

ONE OF THE BEST GAMES OF ALL TIME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: May 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game really is one of the best games ever and by far the best grand theft auto game. you can do everything youve ever wanted to do. its crazy all the things you are capable of doing. this game will keep you busy for months maybe years. theres so much to do and see and acomplish. if you havent bought this game yet...get off your @$$!!!! you havent played a video game til youve played gta san andreas. its just that good. if you love violence and dont mind vulgar language. BUY THIS GAME!!!!!! you wont regret it.

San Andreas.......TWO THUMBS UP!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 20
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wow..and we all thought Vice City was good. Wait until you see what this game has in store. Three cities modeled after San Fran, L.A, and Vegas and many many more side missions, plus Carl can swim, finally a guy that can swim away after a car chase or wreck. The perfect game for the cold days of Winter.

An open letter to MAVV and their senseless supporters.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 25
Date: October 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Dearest MAVV, You people are a shining example of what happens when bandwagon stupidity bonds with 'I'm a soccer mom and I can b*tch until I change the world' disease. Raise your children like responsible and intelligent adults and your children will grow into responsible intelligent adults themselves. If your child can be so easily provoked to destructive or harmful behavior with a violent video game as the catalyst, I think you've got some other very big issues that need immediate attention. Namely, your parenting, or should I say, lack thereof. How's about you stop relying on video games and other forms of media to teach your kids the difference between right and wrong, and you get off your @$$es and do it yourself. Stay out of America's living rooms. If people want to buy gory games loaded with sex, drugs, violence, and profanity, that's their business. -Just like it should be your business to keep that game out of your kid's hands. Stop policing the world and try policing your own home. Here's a little smiley to end on: Americans love everything about games like, oh let's say, Grand Theft Auto. : ) We love Sex, we love violence, we love blood, we love gun fights, we love explosions, and we absolutely ADORE raw acts of senseless debauchery. Oh yeah, and Rock and Roll. - NEVER forget the Rock and Roll. Today's games provide us with all of these things on a very entertaining vicarious level. - Your b*tching and whining is going to do a short toss from NOTHING to stop the video game industry from releasing the glorious blood-drenched games that its software teams develop each year. - You will stop nothing. Everyone is making way too much money off of vids. Retailers, middle men, white collar corporations, and even our dear Uncle Sammy. - All rolling in cash each year from phenomenal video game sales. Oh yeah, did I mention that? - Americans absolutely LOVE $$$$$$ as well. The video game industry is a multi-billion dollar a year media market cornerstone. And guess which games sell the most? That's right, stupid! - You guessed it! - The violent ones! Nothing is going to stop the vid train. Not you, not anybody. So go hug a tree and then talk to your b@stard kids about drugs and violence. Hey! There's an idea! -Maybe you can take all that time and energy that you put into MAVV and reinvest it into something useful and new. Something like, oh, I don't know... how about parenting?

What's up with the racist morons writing reviews?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 23
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'm a fan of the Grand Theft Auto Series, and will very likely purchase this game when it is released. Since GTA 3, the games have become progressively better, with more options and larger areas to explore. I'm not sure how much more Rockstar can do, but I'm sure they will find something to improve on what is already an extremely fun series with tremendous replay value.

What I don't believe is the idea that just because the main character in the game is black, people are saying they won't buy this game. I don't believe it for a second, anyway, but it's the idea that makes me sick to my stomach and disappointed in people in general. One reviewer said he was sick of the "it's cool to be black" ideology. So, is it "cool" to be a mobster if your white? The main character in Vice City had just broken out of jail, is that "cool" if your white? You are an idiot. How about this, instead of buying and playing GTA SA, you can watch your mother iron your klan hood before the big rally, scumbag.

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