Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - First Look!

[Dameon Angell]

What and When
Shipping in October, the game is set in 90's San Andreas, a state containing versions of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and miles of countryside in between (deserts, mountains, rivers, and miles of interstate freeway).

You are...
Carl Johnson ("CJ"), who returns to his old east Los Santos gang, the Orange Grove Families, after spending the last several years in Liberty City.

Now you can...
-Eat at resturants (and get fat)
-Work at the gym to get buff
-Improve your character's skills (RPG elements)
-Get Haircuts
-Ride a bike (tap X to pedal)
-Wear lots of new outfits
-Buy and build buildings (much more to this than in Vice City)
-Gamble at a Casino
-Break into houses to steal cash (Home invasion robberies)
-Swim (crashing into water is no longer instant death)
-Dual-wield multiple gun types
-Recruit your own gang to help you out on missions
-Do four-person drive-bys
-Lots more still secret

Improvements
-Five to Six times the size of Vice City
-Crammed onto a rare dual-layer PS2 DVD
-No more loading between areas
-New graphics engine
-35 to 50% more polygons on screen
-Longer viewing distance
-Real-Time Reflections
-New lighting efffects and realistic shadows
-More detailed textures
-More realistic animations
-Each character has a "brain" (better A.I.)
-More (and better) indoor locations
-More mini-games
-Improved gun targeting (Manhunt style, over the shoulder)
-Better hand-to-hand combat; more fighting stances and attacks
-Each weapon now offers a vastly different play experience
-New "Impact Animation System" (rag-doll physics)
-Much wider range of vehicles
-Improved vehicle physics
-Vehicles get rusty and dirty over time

Taken from PSM Magazine August 2004 Issue


After reading the first 3 missions, they are gonna be very cinematic, action packed, and have much more depth than before. This is gonna be the best Grand Theft Auto to date, and already Game of the Year material.

[Noah]

awesome o_O

[Exotic]

Sounds great, so i'll get it. Thank God for the -No more loading between areas

[Overburn]

"Originally Posted by PSM Magazine"

hahahah, that was so funny when I saw it, but it might be becasue I'm tired. zZzZ


but, this games sounds awsome. (no loading and 5-6X larger than Vice City = $$)

[Adman]

is it just for ps2 or do i have to wait a year for it to come on xbox?

[Dameon Angell]

It's just for PS2, but in a year or so, there is always a possiblility.

[Adman]

that what happened with vice city, as soon as it comes on pc it comes for xbox.

[Pan]

Hmm I honestly doubt it will be game of the year, but the game still looks great :up:

[Heatha]

-Swim (crashing into water is no longer instant death)

YES. In Vice city always flew over the edge into the ocean and that was not awesome. But now maybe I wont be wasted every 10 minutes.

[BleakFuture]

They have to put it on Xbox & PC , how else will they make any money off of it :P

[Bilbo]

Fuck swimming. Real gangsters don't know how to swim.

[Jerome Scuggs]

damn

[cundor]

Hmm...looking good. Can't wait to play it

[Jeansi]

"Originally Posted by PSM Magazine"

hahahah, that was so funny when I saw it, but it might be becasue I'm tired. zZzZ


but, this games sounds awsome. (no loading and 5-6X larger than Vice City = $$)

5-6 times bigger isn't good news IMO if they don't use tha area better than in Vice City. Hope they push in a little big of country side and stuff too though (à la Mafia)

[Cylor]

This game is too ambitious for it's own good.