Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Launch 419
The first of this year's AAA titles has launched, and the first reviews are in. Gamespot, IGN, and OPM all have looks at the game, and it sounds great. If you want to keep track of the pool-shooting race track driving everything-under-one-roof extravaganza, the GameRankings page is available as well. When you play the game this week make sure and tune in to WCTR News to catch Anchorman Richard Burns, TV's Wil Wheaton. More seriously, reviews aren't the only thing the developers are looking for. Commentary regarding Take Two Interactive's slipping stock is available on CNN Money's Game Over.
Not just more of the same (Score:5, Informative)
Fortunately, it isn't - I found the main game much more interesting than the previous two, so it'll probably have a longer play-life for me.
I have to admit being surprised that they've managed to keep it mostly fresh - it seems like people can't make a sequel without fucking up the mojo these days.
don't forget... (Score:3, Informative)
I have to say that this year there are way better games coming out for consoles than for PCs, at least from a single player perspective.
Started playing last night...best GTA ever! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:New Features (Score:2, Informative)
if you eat too much, you get fat. Eat too little, you go gaunt and lose stamina. Work out a lot early in the game to build up some nice guns and just go back every once in a while. Treadmills and the Stationary Bike remove fat and impove stamina, while a bench and dumbells just increase muscle. More muscle, more stamina, and less fat are all very good things. Work out in gyms and in dojos to improve your fighting,running,and biking abilities.
Re:GTA Source (Score:3, Informative)
Multi-Theft Auto http://www.mtavc.com/ [mtavc.com]
So go play your online GTA and stop bugging us to change the opus that has been created.
Actually I've spent a couple of good hours on MTAVC and have enjoyed it... Personally I think the GTA series is what it is because of the stories. They work well with 1 "hero/villan" not with 40,000 of them running around causing chaos.
Re:PC version release date? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:GTA Source (Score:5, Informative)
For example now a "tree" like system is used for drawing in the various levels of details rather than the linear system that was used in the previous games. Yes, the look of the game is similar, but it is certainly a greatly improved engine to handle the new game's massive size. I mean you wouldn't say that an AMG V8 is the same engine as that honda 4 cyl would you?
Re:hard to get excited (Score:1, Informative)
and as for anonymous coward posting I think this is the first reply i ever made to this site so it wasn't worth registering i usually just come to read.
Re:Awesome! (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:Awesome! (Score:4, Informative)
Were both voice actors in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
-PHiZ
Re:GTA Source (Score:3, Informative)
Some interesting game behavior... (Score:5, Informative)
Another intersting change is the geography-relevant vehicles. You're not likely to encounter a fancy import car in CJ's home neighborhood, nor will you find any two-tone beaters in the glitzy parts of town. If you drive out into the countryside, you'll encounter 10mph tractors, and on the highways, you might even see some 18-wheelers (although I have yet to see any carrying a trailor: If they are present, it might be another optional mission type, like the vigilante, rescue, and fire missions in other GTAs).
Also, car surfing is alive and well. You can ride on someone's hood clear around town, and this is a good way to quickly explore the city. It is a bit confusing, however, to see the particular pathways some drivers take. Also, it's interesting to note that since the clock goes at 1 game-minute per real second, several traffic lights take 15-20 minutes. Man, that's awful.
Re:Best holiday season in gaming history (Score:3, Informative)
Re:New Features (Score:3, Informative)
you laugh, but apparently there IS a DDR-like minigame.
Re:Australia - no censorship (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Which month is it? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Which month is it? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Awesome! (Score:3, Informative)
I could just see their focus group "you can't have a game where you commit crimes and run over civilians! Let's have the paper thin excuse of him being an undercover cop, and commit the crimes anyway! And oh yeah, make the civvies leap dramatically out of the way unharmed no matter how fast you come at them!" That cop thing was ludicrous. Like when you're 'protecting' the president in the final mission but all the FBI guys are trying to kill you 'cos no-one has clued them in to the fact you're really a cop. Er, guys? That car you just kamikazied into a wall? You do know the president was in there? (If it had've been Bush I suppose...)
And then GTA3 comes along, and says "Fuck it" and it's a million times the game Driver was, and is so damn successful it destroys the Driver series forever and makes them look like the fence-sitting milque-toasts they are.
I think GTA3 itself best summed it up, in the mission where you had to kill the rat in your organisation, an undercover cop who was a good 'driver' but 'hopeless out of the car'.
Driver, you were utterly, utterly owned by GTA3. Time to give up and think of what could have been.