Customer Reviews
A Day in the Life of Me(Carl Johnson a.k.a. CJ)
As I walked out my house, I only had one thing on my mind. Sheer destruction. I looked around and saw a few drug dealers on my block. I walked up to one and he asked me if I wanted any. My being the good citizen that I was could have just walked away. Instead, I pulled out my knife and shanked him a couple times and collected the $2000 he had dropped in a puddle of blood. His buddy, just a few feet away, saw what I had done and pulled out his 9mm to cap me a few times.
I could have just avoided the situation and ran away. But I ain't no punk, so I whipped out my Silenced 9mm and shot him dead. Stand-byers that had not ran away after the killings ran away as I took aim on them.
As the ambulance came, I noticed I had a few gunshot wounds so as soon as the medics jumped out I hopped in a drove away. I drove the ambulance down the street to the gym. There I did a few minutes on the treadmill and exercise bike to work off the pizza I had eaten last night.
As I left the gym I saw a few members of a rival gang(The Ballas) dressed in purple walking on the opposite side of the street. They saw me and I jumped in the ambulance and start shooting me with Tec-9s. I slammed the pedal to the metal and drove straight toward them. Two of their dodged me and the other two weren't so lucky. I whipped the car around and tried to hit the other tow. They dodged again and continued shooting as I ran into a telephone pole. Now with the ambulance smoking black, I got out and started returning fire with my Tec-9. I killed one but the other hide for cover behind the ambulance. I knew I that I didn't have much health left but could easily dispose of a single Balla with a gun. I wanted to make a statement so I carefully placed a remote explosive in front of the banged up hood of the ambulance. I ran across the street and detonated it. The car exploded with such force that the whole neighborhood shook! After all that killing, I was starving.
Since I had just exploded my only mode of transportation, I had to find another option. Luckily for me some dumb fool came riding a pretty nice BMX bike up the street. Before he had time to react, I capped him a single shot from my Silenced 9mm. I got on the bike and pedaled quickly as up the street to the local chicken joint in East Los Santos. After a good meal, I decided I was going to go to see my girlfriend up in San Fierro. But I wasn't going to drive...
I walked out of Cluckin' Bell and jumped back on my BMX bike. I rode it down the street to the Los Santos International Airport. I had already gotten my pilot license so boarding the plane was a breeze. As soon as I got over Red County I realized I didn't change my clothes for the date. I didn't want to go in my gang (Grove Street Families) colors so I decided to fly to my safehouse at the Verdant Meadow Aircraft Graveyard. I didn't realized the mistake I had made till I had flown over the No Fly Zone and saw two heat-seeking missiles headed my way. I didn't have enough time to dodge the missiles so I jumped out the plane with a prayer and my parachute strapped on. The missiles hit my plane and it exploded on contact. I was now alone in the big open sky. I safely landed a few miles south of the safehouse and hiked through the desert the rest of the way.
Once I got there, I changed clothes and decided to pull out something memorable for our date. I ran to the back of the garage and strapped on my jetpack, courtesy of my hippie friend The Truth. I soared through the sky at breckneck speeds. There was no way I was going to miss this date. I laughed as I saw a traffic jam on the Garver Bridge. That could have been me I thought. Once I got to Michelle's house I was ready for our date. But I forgot to bring a car. So I rode the jetpack to my safehouse in Doherty. I hopped in my hot pink Cheetah I had stolen from a wealthy patron of the city and sped off to Michelle's house.
The list of things you can do in this game is unbelievable. Well worth getting. Hope you enjoyed my story.
Very Addictive. Makes GTA III look like Barney and Friends.
After recently hearing all the hype about the first edition of GTA San Andreas, I had to check it out. Instead of buying the censored 2nd edition, I went to Ebay and got the first edition. While I do agree that games like this should not be played by children, what I don't agree with is that mature adults have to be forced to play a censored version of the game, just because some parent does not monitor what they buy for their kids and want to cause a big stink about it. Some idiot grandmother in New York wanted to sue Rockstar because she bought this game for her grandson and saw how bad it was. How can you sue them for the game when YOU BOUGHT IT FOR HIM! Why even have the rating labels on games if parents aren't going to pay attention to it anyway? Rockstar should not have succumed to the pressure and continued to sell the 1st edition. Like another reviewer suggested, if you want this game, get the 1st edition, and not the censored 2nd edition one.
While I really enjoyed GTA III. I thought Vice City was very boring and after playing it for a couple of days, I got tired of it. San Andreas is totally different. It took a couple of plays to realy get into it, but now I can't put it down. Rockstar has really outdone themselves this time. Your character, CJ can do almost anything. You can buy all types of clothes down to different color bandanas and chains, go to the gym, get haircuts, tattos etc etc.
Basically the story starts off when CJ returning from Liberty City, to bury his mother. As soon as he gets back, he is stopped by some crooked cops and is basically forced back into a life of crime. He meets up with his old friends and with them they start rebuilding their gang. One of your first missions is spraying over rival gang graffiti with your own.
All of the elements from the previous GTA games are back; carjacking, picking up prostitutes, beating up robbing people for no reason etc. But also this time around there is so much more you can do. First of all you can go to the gym and make yourself stronger. You start off pretty skinny, but after a while you are given the opportunity to go to the gym to build muscle and stamina. In addition to this you can get haircuts to pretty much any style you want, you can get tattoes all over your body, you can buy clothes and change them as you like. You can even go outside in nothing but underwear if you want. The game gives you so much freedom is amazing.
The voice overs are done amazing well. MC Eiht is the voice of one of the main characters (Ryder) and he does a very good job. Other notable voices in this game are Samuel L. Jackson, The Game, Ice T, and Charlie Murphy. One of my favorite things is that this game has so much more varieties of music while driving. As for me, growing up in the late 80's early 90's, a lot of these songs I remember playing in my own car crusing around with friends. A couple of song's from Dr. Dre's Chronic are on there, as well as the soundtrack from Deep Cover with Dre and Snoop. Tupac has a song as well as NWA. include Cameo, Isley Brothers, Rick James, Slick Rick, James Brown, ths list goes on and on. I don't even play my own CD's during the game, because there is such a wide variety of music.
The graphics are pretty good, but nothing spectacular. During the cut scenes you will see alot of pointed edges and the animation is sub par. However this does not take away from the game at all, the game is so fun to me, that I don't even pay attention to the graphics all that much. They are just good enough to keep you involved, and don't distract you at all. While walking down the streets of San Andreas you will feel that you are actually there. The scenary seems lifelike and the styles change depending on what part of the city you are in. The game even went so far to add the famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign in the hills. Although it does not say "HOLLYWOOD". Also the Watts Towers are in the game as well. The people you encounter as you are walking also change depending on where you are. If you are downtown, you will see a lot of people in business suits.
One of the downsides about the graphics is that its easy to get stuck in very weird areas and not able to get out. I recall I went to a club and jumped behind the counter where the bartender was. I ended up on top of the bar and couldn't get down. I finally had to turn the game off. I don't know if its because I enabled the "Hot Coffee" cheat, but that was pretty frustrating to say the least.
Another complaint is that it can be very cumbersome to shoot people especially when performing drivebys. There is just so much stuff you have to do to aim, you will find your hands fumbliing all over the place. Hopefully I'll get used to it as time passes.
One of the coolest parts of the game is just interacting with the various characters in the game. People are always walking down the street talking to each other and even to you sometimes. Outside your own home people are always hanging out with the occasional prostitute or bum walking by. Go to the wrong hood, and you will get shot at by rival gangs, if you are driving and stop, they will pull you out of your car and beat you up and/or kill you. I found myself in redneck country one afternoon and saw people driving tractors in the road. I even got in a fight with a couple of hillbillies because I hit their car with a pool stick. To top it all off, a cop in a cowboy hat got out of his Ford Bronco cop car and started shooting at me. While I enjoy the missions as well, the freedom to do anything you want is probably the most enjoyable part of the game.
After being dissapointed with Vice City, I didn't expect to like this game very much, but I plesantly suprised. It is very addictive, and I rarely even play my other XBOX games anymore. It is a very fun game but IS NOT FOR KIDS. There is a lot of cursing for one thing; every four letter word is said in this game, something I never even heard in a game before. I have a small child, so I only play this game if he's not home or has gone to bed for the night. This is the first game that I honestly can't play around my son. Like my title suggests, GTA III is nothing compared to San Andreas, but its still a very good game for mature ADULTS.
For the parents who complain about their kids playing this game, I have one simple solution. DON'T BUY IT FOR YOUR KIDS! DUH!
interesting experience....
...best GTA on the ps2 and xbox systems. the sheer size and things to see in the game alone is a reason why any gamer should own this thing...the world is HUGE and quite acurate. the missions didnt really interest me after i played through them. i just play it like the sims..you can buy your guy clothing, pimp out your cars, eat to keep your energy up...its basically like an actual life simulator. on xbox, you can put your own music into the game so it plays on the radio. its all a really neat experience....
cons: not that many..when you recruit guys, half the time, they cant hitt a guy wh0s 5 feet infront of them and it takes about 20 shots to hitt him :| but its actually pretty funny more than an annoyance. also, if one of your guys shoots someone infront of a cop, they dont chase him...but if you even let one single shot off into the air, the cops are all on you. i put in the Lock Wanted Level code so the cops dont bother me regardless...so no problems there. everything else is pretty minor...
i like to recruit 7 guys and take them into an opposing hood and start trouble :) now that its only $20, no xbox owner should be without it....period
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