GTA San Andreas Goes Swimming, Gangbanging, Smuggling 81
Thanks to Eurogamer for its article revealing a number of new details on Rockstar's forthcoming Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as printed in the UK's Official PlayStation 2 magazine. Topics discussed include the 'invention' of swimming ("We just got pissed off with people saying, 'We can't do swimming'... so if you drive off a bridge you're not going to drown"), the advent of gangs ("You can now recruit a gang and take over territories with them, and then lose territories if you don't look after them. So you've got the idea that bits of the map become personalised to you as much as your own character becomes personalised to you"), and the widening out of the game world ("We love, from a technical point of view, the driving in the open spaces on Smuggler's Run. It's awesome. Now you'll be able to do that in GTA, with all of the GTA gameplay.")
Oh, the possibilities... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Bitch at What Makes You Rich (Score:-1, Interesting)
Anyways, talking poorly about the system that keeps their business afloat is fairly hypocritcal. That fact also puts a damper on the jokes. When you're trying to show your personal opinion in a joke, it helps to stay true to that opinion. Otherwise, the joke's message isn't delivered and is less funny as well; as if it should have been told by somebody else.
Re:Oh, the possibilities... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Bitch at What Makes You Rich (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Oh, the possibilities... (Score:2, Interesting)
I have to admit that for the first half of my play through Vice City I did exactly that -- reloaded any time I died. The main reason I did this was because it took longer for me to get new weapons than it did to reload.
However, after playing for a while I gradually began to realize that there are weapons and cash everywhere. It was actually more fun to continue playing rather than reload. Sure, I no longer have a zero deaths count, but I don't have to look at a loading screen anymore either.
Later in the game you have so much money that its fairly pointless to reload. Once you have a few million you can just head on over to the store on your way to the mission and buy anything you want.
My favorite way to get money in the game is to stand behind the wall near the sidewalk outside the Northpoint Mall and snipe people until I get six stars and the tanks start rolling. Turns out if you are behind the wall the cops can't hit you and they are too stupid to just walk around the wall. You can snipe the driver of a tank through the very tiny window in front of the tank. Then you walk around the wall, grab a tank, and park it in your garage.
Vigilante missions in a tank = easy money.
Suicide Button? (Score:5, Interesting)