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F ing TIght

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 21
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is sick, it has just about everything you can want in a game, gta3 was amazing because of the time that it came there were no other games like it, but this gta is great you can do what ever you want in it, the island is huge, you can swim, u can fly, the cars seem to be a lot faster, you can ride a bike n you can kill as many people as you want and as long as the cops dont see you it is not a problem, you can get tatoos, haircuts, eat, multi person drive by, and much more, this game is incredibly detailed.. i would def get it if you have not already..

A fun and entertaining game with a world to explore

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: February 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

San Andreas is a great game, and just gaming aside, it's wonderful to be allowed to roam around and explore and entire city, as well as all of the out of town places that dot the landscape of hills and forests. With this game you also have a GPS system so you can track your progress, or go back to a particular place, much more easier. The vast levels as well as the immediate rewards and retension that come with trying to build up your gang and escape the law makes for hours of fun play!

I am a bit confused on the review by Antoninio. I agree with some points, but am confused as to why you spent paragraph after paragraph of your review in some sort of tirade against political opinions which have absolutely nothing to do with San Andreas. This is a place to tell people why or why not you liked the game, and if people deem it helpful or not, it may give them better confidence in purchasing San Andreas...or not.

You write very well so I suggest that you stick to reviewing and please leave your political statements to the likes of blogs or chat rooms that are tailored for those kinds of subject matter. Again, I know a great many "right wing" fanatics that play this game, so where your going with that I am not quite sure. It sounds like you are the one that is paranoid of a takeover instead of them.

Really Antonino, I don't think we're going to be losing our games, despite the current political oppresion, video games are the last thing anyone should be worried about. If you are, then you really should find something better to do with your time than sitting in front of a television all day long.

I agree with some of your points, I dont think it's things like this game that bring on a school shooting and the such. However, I just think it's reviews like yours that ruin the amazon review experience for the consumer who is thinking about purchasing something, and trying to increase their knowledge of it by reading reviews.

GREATEST.GAME.IN RECENT MEMORY.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

To start off, if you own a PS2, you must buy this game. This game has a massive arsenal of insanely details, including:
-3 Huge Cities
-Massive highways connecting the cities
-Helicopters/Airplanes
-A character customization feature (fat,muscle,clothes)
-Nice selection of weapons.
-100+ Main story missions
-Easter eggs...
This game is the best game I have played in a LONG time. There is minor stereotyping focused on black people, but it shouldn't be enough to offend people. I don't think African American folks would be offended by it, anyway. But enough about that. There are three massive cities (they have real-life counterparts, too) called Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas. In these cities there are so many things to do, I couldn't even begin to name them. There are over 100 story missions, and a couple non-required missions (although most of them are required to beat the story). After beating the game, there are PLENTY of things to do, as well. Returning features include:
-Aquirable assets that generate revenue daily
-An export list
-Purchaseable safe houses
-RC missions
New features include:
-Drug delivery missions (courier)
-Gambling
-Change clothes. Tons of combinations.
-You've gotta eat and work out to maintain your desired shape.
-A respect system
-A territory system (take over territory for your family!)
-Recruitable gang members (for drive-by's & territory)
-Random attacks on your own hood
-Driving/Bike/Pilot/Boat schools (learn how to perform stunts with various vehicles)
-Different collection items for the three cities (Tags for LS, Photo-Ops for SF, & Lucky Horseshoes for LV, as well as Oysters for the water).
-Racing missions.
-Miles of highway/wilderness to explore
-Minigames out the ying-yang (too many to name)
-Some people believe there are myths (Bigfoot, Leatherface...Aliens)...Keep looking!
This game has 120+ hrs. of gameplay. If you liked the other games in the GTA3 series, you will absolutely LOVE this game. Even if you didn't like/didn't play the other two games...you still must buy this.

This Game is Hot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: October 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As an admitted fan of the GTA series - here is my review: This game is hot. The music is better than GTA vice city, and that music was hot. This game is set in a huge setting! You can drive forever, and end up on Mulholland drive and the hollywood hills. I was just amazed at the depth and size of the setting of San Andreas. The place you start, canton, is very accurately depicted and has the 'boys in the hood' feel to it. I immediately made my character, CJ, get a gheri curl and a new tatoo.

If you like the series, you will like the improvements that they made in this game. New meters, pimp style, health, sex appeal, you will like it all. If you eat too much junk food you will get fat, and you have to work off the fat by running around. I am only a few percentage points into this game, but you can tell it is hot.

The language is not for those who are young, it is accurate for the setting and definitely strong. Joseph Dworak

THE BEST GTA GAME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In GTA San Andreas,you are a character named Carl Johnson and you can swim, ride bikes, and have better cars than before. Also, you have a Stamina meter that makes you fat if you eat too much, and skinny as mess if you don't, making it more challenging to keep your character in good shape, so you have to excercise too! You can also rob houses and plan to rob banks, also with the help of four gangsters you can hire. And now you can enter all buildings unlike the other GTA's, and expect a huge map and lots of missions. I can't wait to buy it!!!

To every one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: December 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this goes out to all the ignorant people in the world
this consists of quotes from other reviews and my inner thought after reading them
this is a great game in opinion
-I hope this does not get pulled
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critic "critic"
"Wuz up nig*er ?" is a sentence?
-Yes it is a sentence.
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A Kid's Review
dont get this piece of crap.when will they give gta a multiplayer.
-it does have multiplayer

and whats up wiht exercising to lose weight.
-or trying to say you don't exercise in order to lose weight
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C. Wolfe "Game man"
The characters are all PS2-ish, why not have more realistic characters? All that cursing, that's really offensive.
-its on the ps2 of course the chars are going to be "PS2-ish"

This game is the same as about a million other games out there, (i.e. True Crime), why pay another $50 bucks for the same all over again?
-so what if it like a million other games sports game, driving games, RPGs, RTSs are all alike, it makes no deference if it is like others, it all depends on how it is delivered.
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A Kid's Review
this game is a slap in the face to Black people everywhere. I know, I know the other games poked fun at Italian moffia stereotypes...but this one goes TOO FAR.
-stereotypes are stereotypes, how does it go to far

and the story line is very Boyz in the Hood.
-I think that is what they were going for
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Mark Dowoen
Shoot-Em-Up games are good and all, but only when your not shooting innocent people off the streets or killing hookers.
-hookers are not innocent people, neither are other gang members, a few innocents might get harmed in a crossfire but your main objective is to kill other "bad guys"
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harold "hair"
there are 5 rap stations and only 1 rock staion.
-no, there isn't five rap stations

its about worth as much as a landfill.
-landfills are worth a good bit of money

the graphics bring me back to the days of the games pong and pac-man,
-did you not like the days of pong and pac-man
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Jennifer N. Thorson
First off, the game was so dark that even after I turned up the brightness on the game and some on my TV, I still could barely see what the hell I was doing.
-try to turn on your TV

I kept crashing over and over again because I couldn't keep control.
-this is simply because you apparently are garbage at driving games
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TSOP
Good word of advice for Rockstar: Stick with Microsoft...and leave that Zero(PS2)alone! The PS2 is dead!!!!!
-this is about the game not the system
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lala land "pipipooh"
the game does not have to glorify such vulgar language, it just proves how stupid they must be if they can't find better words to use. I wish they would have kept Tommy as the star of the game, he is awesome and he never swore so bad like C.J., I'm so mad, they
took what could have been an awesome game and ruined it. If they feel that those words are necessary to use then they need to have a censor option for those people who have morals and decency
-the words are for expression and we live in a day where foul language is heard by most everyone, the game is changing with the times, if you are upset about the language wait till you find out you commit countless homicides, if you live by the strict moral code of not cursing, you should have not bought this game, the title is "Grand Theft Auto" not "purple hippos in a field"

And people who use those words so loosely like C.J. can go [...] their Mothers because they are just [...], because that is what it means
-the above sentence made no sense what-so-ever, but I understand what you mean the mf word implies that one f's mothers, most dads I hope are mf'ers
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l3ig_YeSh "l3ig_YeSh"
mission where you pick someone up on a mountain and drop them off at a hotel! WOW! Anyway Halo2 is a much better game and it made me realize how this game is poor.
-you cannot compare Halo 2 and GTS:SA fairly that are completely different genres
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John McMorland "John"
FPSs that don't teach violent morals. Like Halo, for example. You fight to survive, instead of living a life of crime.
-first off GTA:SA is a third person shooter, all FPSs teach violent morals, CJ is fighting to survive in the Ghetto
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Olozbal "olozbal"
you're this gangster punk who wears his pants down by his underwear and cusses every 20 seconds. I felt like shooting myself after seeing this loser.
[...]Think about what you just said, he does not cuss every 20 seconds I counted

Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: November 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I may be one of the few "grown ups" who love this game, but I do. It's an awesome and challenging game, it will take over your life! I know it's hard to believe, but I think it's better than Vice City! A warning though, if I am not the only adult reading these reviews. We all know abotu the violence factor, so there's no need to adress that. However, the profanity is RAMPANT on this game, more than Vice City and III. The radio plays un-edited NWA - 'nuff said. That doesn't take away from the game, just remember to keep the volume down if the kids are up.

Dum dee dum... my first game review... :P

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: November 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It seemed to me that not much of a buzz was generated around this game. People around where I live didn't even know a new GTA game was in development, not to mention that they haven't heard the game was just released. Weird, huh? But still, this game didn't seem to have the buzz that Vice City had (or even the third installment). Maybe it's just me, but I'd thought I'd start out my cheap review by mentioning this debacle.

We all know how each GTA game (PS2 versions) had developed over the years. The third game introduced the freedom of doing anything. Vice City had taken the storyline a bit more serious and added loads of celebrity voices (Ray Liotta, Jenna Jameson, etc.) and somewhat better graphics and lighting as well as a much bigger city. Now with San Andreas, I didn't even think what I've heard about this game was gonna be true. Swimming was the major addition. Now our character, named C.J. (Carl Johnson), can swim, unlike how badasses Tommy Vercetti or the mute character drowned immediately. Not only that, C.J. can climb over fences or walls (short enough for him to reach, that is). The freedom to do anything has truly lived up to its word on this latest installment.

A few other new additions would be the improvement with drive-bys. Your character isn't the only one who can shoot. Now his other buddies (or girlfriend) can join in on the drive-by shooting spree. Did I mention that C.J. can have a girlfriend to care for? Yep. Treat her right and you'll do fine. Treat her like crap and she dumps you.

Eating and working out are just another few additions as well. It's like having your own Tamogatchi (is that spelled right?) pet to care for. Eat plenty to keep C.J. active. Eat too little and he becomes weak and skinny. Eat too much and he gets fat. To get off them pounds, you gotta exercise. Exercising also makes C.J. stronger, going from a skinny wimp (or fat guy) to a muscular beast. Running is also a must as it helps build stamina (so C.J. can run or bike-ride longer). Did I mention that a bicycle is the new... "mode of transportation"? Yep... jump around and exercise on a bicylce.

San Andreas' vast city puts Vice City to shame. This place is HUGE! Like what another reviewer said, you'll wonder how the PS2 was able to pull this off. As you know, there are many different areas like rundown places to rich urbanized communities to tiny towns on the outskirts... it'll take you days to explore everywhere. Since San Andreas is big, you'll find yourself getting lost quite a few times.

The graphics here are similar to Vice City, so it gets a bit blurry or certain obstacles don't appear until it's too late (I still think GTA III has better graphics and visuals). The graphics may put a strain on your eyes.

Foul language is a lot more common here than on the previous games (the "f" word is finally said, but expect to hear it a lot... and I do mean A LOT).

I won't go into the storyline of the game. I fear I may ruin it for those that haven't played this game, but expect a better storyline here than Vice City.

All GTA games are top-notch. Each have improved over the other. Though as mentioned before, the graphics here aren't necessarily "wow"-factor, but don't let that detract you from experiencing a video game with unlimited possibilities and new stuff to find. There's much more to do here than what I've already mentioned.

Is "San Andreas" the best GTA game to date? Play it and decide for yourselves...

Superb addition to the series!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: November 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Typically, sequels to games are seen sometimes as an excuse to bump up the special effects and keep the same basic gameplay. Those games can be boring, if done wrong. GTA:SA is NOT boring. This is one of the most exciting new games to be released in a while and an excellent addition to the GTA family of games, the new golden child, if you will.

First of all, it's not the same game as Vice City or any of the previous offerings. The streets are rougher, the help is non-existent for the most part, and you really have to start from the ground up. Still, that challenge is part of what makes the game so exhilerating. You don't even have a cokehead lawyer like Ken Rosenberg (GTA:VC) to give you tips and an office.

Second, the plot is intriguing and perhaps at some times forumlaic, but nonetheless exciting and riveting. It's an easy story to get into and a realistic look at life on the streets of a tough urban area. This game does not pull any punches and at times only offers a bleak outlook on city life.

Third, the gameplay itself is amazing. You have the same essential controls as GTA:VC, but with so much more added, you might still be trying to get the hang of it all at the end. For example, each weapon and vehicle handles better depending on your skill level in each. The more time you spend with either the weapon or ride, the better you will handle each the next time you use it. You can also change clothes, get tattooed, play mini-games, upgrade your muscle, stamina, sex appeal, respect, and other qualities, and one of the most anticipated vehicles in the game delivers big time, and that is the police motorcycle. It's a thrill to ride.

Another complaint that was addressed, by the way, was the size of the map. Instead of one city with two sides, this is basically a state with three major cities to explore. Not only are each of the cities themselves about as big as Vice City was, but there is ample countryside to explore and tiny towns along the way as well. The total map is simply enormous.

My only complaint, if I had to make one, would be the graphics. While they changed a bit of the general schemes, the basic graphic styles are still there. A bit blocky and boxy sometimes and every so often a glitch, but not as annoying as VC was. The sounds are different, too, by the way. In case that is an issue for you.

Overall, one of the best games to hit the market and the PS2. Rockstar Games and Rockstar North delivered big time with their latest GTA opus. Enjoy!

NICE TRY HILLARY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 20
Date: July 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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