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I am a grandma who supports this Game!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 35
Date: October 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hello. I am a grandma of 3 boys. One 8, one 13, and one 18. I already preordered a copy for all of them!

Those who say this game is too voilent, look at american history. This is very tame compared to holocosts and big bombs and soldiers shooting peoples heads off. This game has no holocosts.

The best part is that I play it too. This tight-butted talahassee ginger beer drinking two fluted cowgirl who wrote the review against this game series needs a foot in the caboose. Support gun rights. NRA for life.

Sincerely,
Grandma Potum

A game for the ages... but not for all ages

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 30
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

OK, folks, we have it. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, sequel to the most imitated video games of the last three years. Since GTA3 came out a few years back, everybody has tried to copy its open-ended gameplay, addictive exploration and hours of general fun. No game captures the thrill of a car chase like GTA. No game gives your the freedom to do anything like GTA. The brutality of the crimial world is recreated to a T in GTA: San Andreas and it leaves you with miles and miles of virtual world for you to explore.

On another note, people against games such as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are not building very strong arguments. If your child is being exposed to a game as intense and steeped in violence as this one, you are ignorant. Some people don't even know the names of the games they are fighting. (Grand Auto Theft, anyone?) Kids under 17 should not be allowed to play this game and parents foolish enough to let them do so should not have children.

Video games are a medium of entertainment unlike anything else. They have reached a level where they can depict life as well as any movie. Are people suggesting that profanity, rough situations and violence all together be removed from films? These things are as much a part of the world as anything else and if you close your eyes, they are not going to go away. Your children have to learn about things like these sometime, Moms. Maybe you should educate them rather than trying to tear apart the artistic creations of hard-working individuals.

the main character should be a redneck!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm sitting here trying so hard not to laugh @ all these people who are so angry about the character being black. Why is that such a big deal?? I don't care if he's green, this is going to be the best game ever released. If your so pissed that you want to boycott GTA SA (and with the previous releases being the best selling games ever, i'm sure the good folks @ Rockstar are shaking in their boots), why don't you hit up Rockstar and ask them to do Grand Theft Auto Arkansas next, the character can be a hillbilly named Cletus, an inbred with a rifle. Then maybe some of these idiotic whiners will be happy. in my opinion, there is nothing more pathetic than making racist commits online, why don't you tell some black folks face to face about your problem with Carl being black, i'm sure they'd wanna hear you out.

All out best game of this era!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: August 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

San Andreas, the next and maybe final chapter of the past year's favorite games. Grand Theft Auto has sweeped the nation and has been awed by many at the marvelous game play and freedom these games allow. We've played Grand Theft Auto: Three and Vice City where we've gone through brilliantly mastered storylines that involved crooked cops, gangs, guns, warlords, and of course our friend Tommy Vercetti (and at least a character who took on full resemblance of Tommy without being named). San Andreas goes into the streets of California and goes into a story about a man named Carl "CJ" Johnson who seeks revenge for the death of his two family members. San Andreas allows a lot more features including tatooing, eating, working out, bicycling, robbing homes, and a new aiming system of crosshairs versus the auto aim the previous games have used. You have the advantage to get tatoos and eat as well as get haircuts to make CJ whoever you want him to be. Of course, keep in mind that running away from cops with that extra flab around your waste will not be to your advantage. You can go to a gym to keep in shape as well as gain that extra respect from your gang members. A new feature in SA is the ability to swim. It isn't as easy as it sounds however because you have a stamina level and breath level if you go under water. You can get different clothes to make your appearance different and gain more respect from gang members. As well as have a nice car. New features include dirt around the bottom of cars so if you pass a car wash it might be a good idea to go in. Gangs in the past games have been an important feature. In SA it's a main part of the game. Help your older brother Sweet and friends Smoke and Ryder to avenge the family's name and overtake the Ballas gang (suspected for the murder of your mother and younger brother) and the whole state in this new RPG game which will sweep the nation by storm.

A grandiose leap into the next generation - 4.5 overall

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS, the series' fifth and best installment, is any indicator of what is to come for video games and next-gen consoles, then we're all in for one heck of a ride. And that's precisely what the masterminds at Rockstar have been trying to provide for us: a wild, crazy ride - through snowy Liberty City or the salty sea air of exotic Vice City, in any number of vehicles, fast or slow, colorful or dull, new or old, as you traverse expanses of land so vast you will spend hours just getting familiar with the area, in order to get to and from places as quick as possible.

What put the series on the map was its third installment, a transition from an overhead point of view, as you smash your way through traffic in polygonal cars, to a living, breathing 3-D world where you feel as if you can do almost anything. But it had its limitations, like the annoyingly subpar targeting system or the blocky graphics - character models appeared to have flesh-colored bricks for hands. While the graphics are still not stunning, and the pop-ups are a frequent and irritating blemish on an otherwise realistic world, SAN ANDREAS has improved with flying colors on nearly every aspect addressed by long-time gamers. You can hop over short obstacles, climb fences, and hoist yourself up on rocky ledges; you can swim (hooray!), and targeting and eliminating has never been so easy.

"Targeting and eliminating?!" I hear you cry. Yes, you shoot people. In fact, you can brutally murder them with a frightening range of weapons that includes machine guns and pistols to shovels, swords, chainsaws, grenades, and even old-school brass knuckles. Mothers have had heart attacks. Children have cried. Along with casual genocide and stealing cars (sometimes at stoplights, when people are still driving them), you can perform a number of outlandish terrorist attacks with your character CJ, including shooting at landlocked targets with jet planes, torching a field of marijuana with a flamethrower, slicing and dicing farmhands with a combine harvester, and more. Folks, this isn't to be taken lightly. Kids ARE influenced by this game, I've seen it firsthand, and it's caused a lot of controversy. But if you are mature and sane enough, GRAND THEFT AUTO is merely an opportunity in which to live out your basest criminal fantasy in the safety of your own living room, with no repercussions.

And you really can do just about anything (too much to cover in this review), and you can do it in a state - which encompasses three major metropolitan cities and a sprawling rural wasteland - that is roughly estimated to be 17 miles around. No game has ever come this far, created a world this large and real. While driving between bayside San Fierro and high-stakes Las Venturas, flip on the talk radio to shows like Gardening with Maurice (hosted hilariously by voice actor Andy Dick), or if you fancy, sing along with big names from Guns 'N Roses to Dr. Dre. Hear commercials, movie previews, TV show advertisements, and more - and when you get bored of that, take a stroll in downtown Los Santos to hear pedestrians conversing about current events, like the fall of the Berlin Wall (SAN ANDREAS is set in '92) or a provisional ban on smoking. That's not to mention the missions, driven by a story so enthralling that connecting with characters has scarcely been more poignant. The world is your oyster: conquer and clean out casinos, buy hotels and mansions, infiltrate and bring down drug rings from the inside, and countless other dangerous and exciting scenarios.

In short, it is easily the most fun I've ever had staring at a TV and sitting in the same spot for hours. SAN ANDREAS will provide you with months of fun as you build up your character's stats and see through his rise to fame - or rather infamy - in a colossal world where anything goes. Just remember to go to work every once in a while, and bathe every week or so, okay?

Simply Beautiful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. It had been consuming my life for almost 3 weeks until I completed all the missions which were all fun. The only thing that the game should have incorporated was a chapter selection. There are a couple of missions which I could do over and over again. Besides that you can do whatever the hell you want whenever you want. I love the wide selection of planes. And by the way for all those who don't know how to fly the Hydra, after you get into rise to a safe altittude and then push forward on the right analog stick for it to fly normally and just hold it back to go into vertical mode. Buy this game now even though its been out for quite a while

The Most FUSTRATING Game EVER

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sure this new version has plenty of fun extras, but who can honestly say they enjoy playing one pointless mission after the next. About 75% of the missions in this game could be taken out because they either have nothing to with the actual story or they are extremely aggrevating to play...seriously, some of the missions could almost make me kick my television in. And for anyone who has been to the flying missions knows that the controlls could use a vast improvement. Other then that, I'll agree with anyone else that San Andreas has (some) qaulity moments, but only play the missions if your looking for stress.

Video-games should be fun, and this one is FUN.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: February 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

By now you've read & heard most of the reviews about why this game is easily one of the must-have games for the PS2. Maybe you're one of the few who's still not sure, and want some new information that maybe you haven't heard before, so here goes.

First off, this game really creates the illusion that this is a living, breathing world that goes on with or without you. People don't just yell random statements at each other, they also have little conversations with each other, or even hold hands as they walk down the street. Sometimes there's a car accident and the drivers will get out and argue, and sometimes fight each other. I've seen cops & gangs actually having shoot-outs with each other, ducking behind their respective cars as I look on. It's nice to know I don't always have to be the one to initiate some kind of activity all the time. One of the weirdest moments for me personally was when I was riding my bike on Mount Chiliad, and I heard an engine and some screaming, so I spin the camera around just in time to see a flaming biplane with thick, black smoke scraping along the mountain to it's inevitable doom. And this wasn't on a mission, just another random act of something happening. The missions are crazy cool, but to see bizarre things happen when you're just riding around for fun is just really neat.

Another thing about this game is that you are pretty much in control of everything. How you look, how you act, everything. For the most part, you decide which missions to do and when to do them, and sometimes even how to do them. Depending on how creative you are, you can actually make some missions much easier than they were supposed to be. For example, at one point I had to steal some sticks of dynamite before the man in the hardhat detonated them, so obviously this was a mission with a time-limit. Instead of running around hoping to make it on time, I simply ran up to the guy and killed him, thereby giving myself all the time I wanted. The game is full of opportunities like that, so you can try almost anything you think will work.

Yet another thing about this game is that it rewards you when you take your time and develop your skills before tackling too many missions in a row. Improving your shooting skills literally allows you to shoot faster & better than when you start. Improving your motorcycle skills allows you to stay on instead of falling off at every little wreck. Do enough fire truck missions, and your character CJ will become almost fireproof. Apply that logic to things like cop car missions & ambulance missions, and you'll realize you have the potential to make CJ a force to be reckoned with. Besides, you'll find that missions are much easier to pass when you've taken the time to explore and practice things. Speaking of exploring, you'll often find some cool weapons you can't buy at the Ammu-Nation, and you'll come across some neat vehicles you wouldn't normally see on the roads of San Andreas, IF you take the time to explore the world. Plus, you'll see some really strange & unusual things that will really make you smile.

Finally, the story itself. It's surprisingly good, I'm happy to say. Yes, it's over the top, with certain things happening that wouldn't necessarily fly in the real world, but the game's not claiming to be a realistic rpg. Rather, it's like a twisted action-movie, and you're the star. There are a few twists & turns in the plot, and you'll find that you actually are starting to care about some of the characters and what will happen to them. The dialogue, the ending, everything about the story seemed as if the creators actually cared about presenting a fun & engaging story, and that goes a long way. Even more surprising, the game seems to point out the stupidity of drug addiction and gang banging without being preachy or sappy about it. It actually made me feel fortunate that I had better luck with my life than some people, and it's ironic that so many people protest a game that drives home the lesson as to why the bad things you do in a game really aren't such a great idea in the real world.

So to sum up, there's a lot of variety, exploring, sex, violence, and healthy amounts of humor. Enjoy this game for what it is... a really big playground with lots of neat toys.

Still the biggest reason to own a PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As someone who gave GTA: Vice City a shiny 5-star review, I was reluctant to admit that though it was a great achievement, Vice City (the city itself) was dull and boring when compared to Liberty City. Landscapes as various as those presented in the three parts of Liberty were suddenly replaced by a dull, flat topography that was as fun to drive through as the average racing game (i.e. not very fun). Rockstar's fault? Not really - Miami is as flat and boring as the game made it out to be. Well, all that changes in San Andreas.

Shortly after you begin the game, you will see the grandeur of the game - Los Santos alone is 6 times the size of all of Liberty City. The beautiful and varied landscape that made GTA3 such an excellent game is back in SA - only ten times better. Begin a drive in the ghetto, moving through country, desert, beach, freeways - just about anything else you can imagine. Drive, bicycle, fly (in a staggering number of vehicles, including a jetpack), and ride just about anything you want - including trains. GTA: San Andreas is basically another world on a disc - without all the unpleasant consequences characteristic of one leading a criminal life.

Contributing to the overall realism of the game are such nice additions as lack of in-game loading (except when one enters and leaves buildings), more realistic flames, and water effects. The game's character can also swim, parachute, gain/lose weight, work out to build muscle and stamina, change his appearance by choosing clothing, hairstyles and tattoos, and keep a number of girlfriends (most of whom will annoy you at the worst times). The cars in the game can also be modified in a number of different ways - from changing colors and patterns, to adding nitrous oxide, hydraulics, etc...

Perhaps the two most fun features of SA are the addition of freeways, with the occasional pileups (very fun to watch), and addition of gangs, who do a nice job of taking care of anyone not "being nice" to you - including the annoying cops.

Simply put, San Andreas took everything that was fun in GTA3 and VC, added a horde of improvements and new features, then increased them tenfold. There are tons of characters and references from/to the previous Grand Theft Auto games - like Kent Paul, Catalina, and Fido/Claude. The amount of groundwork laid with regard to the storyline of Grand Theft Auto 3 (which chronologically comes after SA) is simply excellent.

So is San Andreas perfect? Well, yes and no.

As a very big fan of the GTA radio stations, I find the media content in SA incomparable to either of the two games that preceded it. Of the 10 or so radio stations, I find myself listening to only 3 or 4. The talk radio station WCRT is also a bit of a letdown, as though the content is dynamic (it changes 3-4 times during the game), it doesn't come close to KCHAT or VCTR, in terms of playback length. San Andreas also happens to be the most bug-ridden GTA game yet. The bugs vary from things like mild annoyances - like the character running ten laps around a motorbike, in an attempt to get back on it (something that almost never happened in Vice City), to glitches that make continuing the game very difficult - if not impossible - like people being spawned inside freeway ramps during vigilante missions, or the infamous gym glitch, where it becomes impossible to work out. Yes, the number of glitches in this game alone is staggering, which is the only side-effect in this game. Even thus, San Andreas is STILL the best game on the PS2, and the only reason I own one.

Get it if you are over 17...parents don't buy this for kids!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 31
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Just got it and it is rediculously sweet but only for those who are old enough to realize the difference between fiction and reality. I think this game is far more realistic than III or Vice City. Gotta get back to it!

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