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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: July 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think this game will be much better than the others because you can do a lot of new things like swim and eat food. This game will be kind of like a sim because they have made it so realistic . My favourite game is vice city but i have a feeling it will change soon enough. You can also round up a gang of three people and do drive bys and if you eat to much you will be called fat by pedestrians. The story line of the game also is suppose to be fantastic. I eill buy this game as doon as it comes out who ever dosn't by it is a fool because this game is going to be sensational

A milestone in a new art form

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm an older dude (41 at this writing) who is not really interested in short-attention span games. I was originally attracted to GTA3 because of the TV commercials with the slow motion and the opera music. I enjoyed that game a lot. I played Vice City and liked the new features (motorcycles and helicopters!) but found the aethetics less interesting (I liked the grunging GT3 look). Well, with San Andreas, I think we are really seeing some pieces put together that convince me that we really are looking at a new art form. There is starting to be the ability to play the game as if you really are a character making decisions about how to live. And, the cut scenes are beginning to have much more content. They are not just explanations of what you need to do to pass the next mission. There's actually story, character conflict,and the like. Now, overall, the story is still linear with lots of branches so the game still is predetermined. But, in between the missions, there so much more freedom to go do things. Dates, workout, robberies, play pool, gamble in casinos, more races. It really is starting to be an artificial world to live in. I'm sure I'm late to the party, but this game convinces me that we are looking at the beginnings of a new art form that will certainly replace movies and TV. Why watch a character when you can be the character. I just hope that there are enough technical breakthoughs to keep the progress up. And, more importantly, there is now a great need for truly creative people to be part of the story development.

Would be great if you were the good guy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 24
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed the graphics and overall gameplay, but as the son of a police officer I was horrified to see you can just go up and shoot cops in the head. I know it's called "grand theft auto" but I don't think any game should give someone in the video game environment the ability to walk up with an AK-47 and blow away a police officer. Why not make the games so you are the cop? That way kids that are playing them can maybe feel they are part of doing something "good" instead of doing something to break the law. In the game you get away with it, but in real life you don't, and the cop you shoot has a family that loves him and needs him.

I'm glad I just rented it. Again, overall techncally and storyboard wise it's a well programmed game with excellent graphics and interaction, I just can't justify pretending to be a thug and killing people on a sidewalk for a few dollars in cash. There is to much crime and hate in the world already and we don't need to embellish it and put it on a pedestal for people to "play act".

A GTA fan's review.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto III was an awsome game. Vice City was an even more awsome game. San Andreas is awsome also, but some of the new features make this game inferior to Vice City.
There are some cooler things about this game. You can now swim, but if you try to swim to the other areas to early you get a 4-star wanted level for no reason. One thing I really I like is, the Rhino is more like an M1-A1 tank, not a WWII tank. But the best thing is the area for this game is huge, it's really almost too big.
But, having to eat, work out, and worry about all of the statistics is annoying and should have been left out. I don't like the camera angle as much as in Vice City, it is hard to see stuff in front of your car, especially when going down hill. Vice City also had better Radio Stations. Steering seems different too. The missions are also more difficult, some will take several tries. And when the missions have several parts, redoing it over and over gets very frustrating. This game also has about 10x as many Vulgar words as Vice City; almost every sentence has "Mother F###er" or "F###".
Overall, I had a lot more fun when I first played Vice City than when I first played San Andreas.

San Andreas Faults

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

(...)

GTA Vice City was the only video game I had purchased in the past 12 years until San Andreas came out. Obviously, I find something remarkable and long-lasting about this particular franchise. The play-ability has got to be bigger than both Vice City and III combined. There are so many places to scavenge and accidently lose yourself in, that I couldn't even try to count them all.

Listen, Rockstar Games wants you to play the game, right? They want you to KEEP playing the game, right? Now how do they make sure that happens? By giving you something to work for. Duh. That's the purpose of any game ever played. If a level's too hard for you, then quit the game. It's not for you. It's too hard for you. Bullsh*t, people.

I will keep my ass up all night, toiling again and again until I trick myself into falling asleep, or until the game itself freezes. Why? Just to beat the level... That's why we bought this game, to lose ourself in the story and interact with it until this whole damn state belongs to GROVE STREET, BABY!!! C'MON, WAKE UP AND STOP BITCHING about how the levels want you to figure them out. Guess you'd better run and hide, 'cause this one'll take some trial and error, right? They're puzzle pieces, now let's make 'em fit!

My comments on the game:

size -- Sweet Maria, this is a biggie, no load times, just boggling at some points. 15/10

action -- smart, swift, sometimes comic book-ish, always spectacular. Nerve-wracking. 10/10

character -- hey, I like customizing Carl, keeping him healthy yet thin. He looks dope right now with those aviators and the Cesar cut. 9.5/10

story -- once again, a little comic book-ish, but thanks to DJ Pooh's rather foul-mouthed script and uncomfortably realistic ghetto details, it keeps grounded in reality. 11/10

radio playlist -- as with Vice City, nail on the goddam head. Stop whining about how you don't like rap... You Don't Like Rap... Tough sh*t. Carl and his ilk certainly do, so get used to it, it's the most realistic variety of stations yet in the franchise. There's nothing quite like pulling into San Fierro (the clone of the city I live in) at around midnight for your first time and America's "A Horse With No Name" serenades you as you try to locate your video-game version of your apartment building. Moments like that are what make these games priceless. Just how they feel. 12/10

handling -- get the hang of 'em and motorbikes are easy as hell. Cars seem to get hung up on others more, as well. Makes you grind your teeth when you're in a hurry. Cars have about the same handling as VC. Oh, you can also steal a train. 8.5/10

graphics -- were never a strong suit in this franchise, but you can work with them no sweat. The motion capture is smoother than VC, and facial details more elaborate. But all the best details are saved for the terrain, climb the mountain and you'll find out. 8.5/10

girlfriend -- cool addition, just keep Denise happy. (She's crazy dangerous, and likes the forties.) 11/10

Bottom line: probably deserves Game of the Year, and I'm not even halfway through it. Am I disappointed? Oh, no. Just stunned, stunned how Rockstar can fit so many oodles of info onto a single disc. This game's headed for the parking lot and a busted windshield (...)

About the remarks concerning this particular video game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: February 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"I have never killed anyone and I have been playing video games for over 25 years."

Get a life.

Antonino, in looking back through the last 60 reviews, I see nothing where anyone is attributing a violent game as the cause of violent behavior in real life. I've worked in law enforcement for 12 years and know the facts. Your review is best left on the shelf, for someone who is apparentley over the age of 25, you sure do a great job acting like a fourth grader who didn't get thier turn at "show and tell".

Violent games have not been overly found to contribute to violence, but to me it's more about overall respect. Like the one reviewer said, why can't you also be a cop trying to catch the criminals? I see your types all the time: self righteous, diarrhea of the mouth about things you know nothing about. Noone in the political structure is trying to take away your games, or mine. That is why we have the ratings systems for games, so that little kids don't easily get ahold of them. From there, you are looking at people who are upheld by the law, regardless of playing games or not, because they are legally adults, over the age of 18.

In looking at your "statement" it is apparent to me you need to stop spending so much time playing video games and start educating yourself in the current legislation that is or is NOT currently out there to change the way video games are developed, bought, and sold.

Crappy physics, and it perpetuates black stereotypes.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 43
Date: February 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't understand how this game got a "Best Game" rating at the Spike TV VG Awards, other than by bribe.
My friends and I rented this game, to see if it was as good as its hyped to be.

Looks to me like Rockstar did a rush job on this game because the physics suck. How realistic is it for a guy on a biycle to be able to knock over a telephone pole? Or to be able to explode a car by punching it enough times? These guys aren't doing drive-by's, its more like a "park & shoot." And the driving physics also suck worse than Davilex's "Knight Rider: The Game."

The worst part of San Andreas is the "Gangsta DDR" segment where you press buttons to "dance" although you're actually just doing the same boring moves to the same song over and over (Nuttin' But a G-Thang). Snoop Dog musta been stoned outta his mind or paid an arseload of royalty fees for use of his and Dre's songs because I'm sure he's played better games than this one. Or maybe Snoop hasn't even played the game at all and just decided he'd endourse it for no reason.

The bottom line is this game sucks. It plays out like a really crappy Urban Gangsta flick and it perpetuates the stereotype that all black people sell drugs, beat hookers, do drive by's on each other and kill cops. Believe it or not there are some really intelligent African Americans out there who have college degrees in medicine and don't speak in ebonics.

I'm black and I'm proud

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Actually I'm white, but that didn't stop me from getting this game.

To say SA is an improvement over VC is a VAST understatement. I keep losing track of all of the things that are not only new and improved but that are just new. Rockstar really outdid themselves on this one.

A lot of people will argue that there is no good purpose for these games but I disagree. For one I find GTA tremendously cathartic. If you're stressed out and feel like doing some damage it's better to do some virtual damage than the real thing. And while the morals of the characters of the game may be decidedly unpleasant, the morals of the game remains consistent: If you commit these crimes you will either die or be arrested.

Another favorite: The gunshot sounds are so much more realistic! I have my xbox going through my stereo which makes being in a shootout seriously nerve-jangling just like it should be.

This is a must-own and the pinnacle of video game design.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 25
Date: May 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is going to be a box office hit. you can many new things on this game, such as, rob people in their houses, and swim, and fly a real plane you can buy cars that are not on the streets yet, and customize it with rims and window tents, and fire power.

Rockstar has done it again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Here comes the next chapter in the gta series. San Andreas is absolutely huge with three cities, Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas, along with countryside in between, makes for a long storyline, and much content hidden in between the cities.

San Andreas is so huge that it can get annoying driving from one city to the next. But this however can be solved and it makes for a taste of something different.

With SA long storyline it can keep you busy and entertained for months on end.

Overall a fantastically made game. Not recommended for kids under the age of thirteen. Rockstar shows how a game company can push a game to its limit.

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