GTA San Andreas

[Dark Realms]

This is the official GTA San Andreas thread.

Here is the place to talk about this awesome up coming game. :P

Click Here (http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas) for screenshots!

When the game has reached the stores there will be a special GTA San Andreas forum section.

[Laguna Loire]

Ok, just for those who don't know, here's some information on it...

You play as Carl Johnson, or CJ.

CJ can eat food. Probably to get more health and stamina. Yes I know this isn't a new feature but if CJ eats too much food he gets fat and you have to go down to a gym and lift some weights and stuff to make him slim again.

You can get four people in a car and have a four man drive-by shooting.

There will be cops on motorbikes.

There will be pedal bikes and quad bikes.

You can have safe houses in forests and many other various locations.

The game is released on October 19th for the PS2. No official dates for the release of San Andreas being released on other systems at the moment...

[Dark Realms]

Awesome, thanks for the info man.

Im goin to love making him an Obeese lard! lol :P

I wonder if he could die from obeesity? ha haa imagine him running!! ahahahahaha...

[Nitrous]

Nice screen shots..... no wait I can not view them..... stupid java. :mad:
Can someone save them and post the pics as attachment? :)

lol nice info, I'll make him look like skin and bone if that feature is in the game oh and then feed him lol. The four man drive-by shooting sounds cool :D

[Dark Realms]

Hmmm, your java still not working? try a restore man!

Here ya go:

http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/ss/screen01.jpg

http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/ss/screen02.jpg

http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/ss/screen03.jpg


I badly wanna know if u can mo down people on ya BMX, lol. :P

[~Felly~]

yeah this game is going to rock and Black Snake its three people in a car that will shoot

[JoshC]

i wan him fat aswell...bounce...bounce....bounce......*no offence to any large people who are here*..i know large people thei r tidy ....back to the gta san andreas subject....

[Dark Realms]

Ha haa, pie eating contest *rolleyes*... :P

Must find more facts!

[Laguna Loire]

Black Snake its three people in a car that will shoot

Four people including youself. ;)

[Dark Realms]

ha haa. Nice recovery. :P

[Laguna Loire]

Why thank you. :P

Anyhoo, I have some ideas on what to put in the game but I doubt these ideas will be featured in it:

Put animals in the game. Perhaps on one mission you could ride a horse for some reason or something. However, they would probably not put animals in the game because if there will be rampages in the game and you've got to kill 30 cows with a rocket launcher...Well, Rockstar would have the RSPCA nagging at them 24/7.

Include natural disasters in the game. Imagine. You're walking down the street just minding your own business when BAM! A tornado comes out of nowhere and starts ripping buildings apart and people being blown to kingdom come. And you've got to try and survive! It'd be so awesome. I wish they'd put diasters in the game. :P

[JoshC]

na they now wats best....well just heve to keep dreaming....

[Dark Realms]

heh, still it seems like an awesome idea to me. Especially the cows bit. :P

They better have more topless bars in this one. *shocked* :P

[JoshC]

yeah...like proper nudity the more u pay the less clothes she has on.....an u can become manager and pick all the girls that are in ur club....candy xxx.....i wish jordan or pamela anderson was init....:-)...

[Laguna Loire]

yeah...like proper nudity the more u pay the less clothes she has on.....an u can become manager and pick all the girls that are in ur club....candy xxx.....i wish jordan or pamela anderson was init....:-)...

Heh heh, now that's a good idea. You pick what girls are in your club. It wasn't fair in Vice City though. There was only ONE strip club. ONE. I was shocked. I was expecting topless girls as far as the eye can see...:D

[JoshC]

well i hope u can own more stuff etc.houses clubs land!! buisnesses...

[Dark Realms]

Ha haa, nudist beach. That would be awesome. :P

[Laguna Loire]

There was a fair amount of stuff to own in VC but I also am hoping that there will be more property and stuff to buy...

[Dark Realms]

I coudlnt care less about property. I hope there are NOT any gay hidden packages, those just piss me off.

I just want loads of difficult missions....:P

[Laguna Loire]

Lol, I hate them hidden packages. You could get the Hunter in VC by just doing all missions instead of getting all the hidden packages...It's just so much easier!

I want more missions like the Bank Job mission in the Malibu...Hehehe, stupid Hilary! :P

[Anubis]

hahaha, yeah, i get Game Informer, it was talkin bout GTA San Andreas, it looks awesome, Someone send it to me for my birthday would ya? :P

[Laguna Loire]

Ok, I got this other piece of small info. San Andreas seems to have it's own equivalent of Hollywood because I saw a screenshot of it and it had 'Vinewood' in the hollywood letters. I think it was Vinewood anyway...

[sil3nt_warri0r]

Well the only sad thing is that I dont got no PS2, plus they dont even sell it here.......DAMN RETARDS!!!....the game sounds great....I wish I could play it as soon as it comes out....nooo

[Laguna Loire]

You havn't got a PS2?! Good lord man, how are you still alive?! You don't know what you've been missing man...I take it you don't have an X-Box either?! I think I'd die if I didn't have my precious X-Box and PS2. :P

[~Felly~]

ha well i dont have to worry my cousin has a ps2 and i can take not having a ps2 so dont worry bout me im kinda sad though that i dont have a ps2 but i got over it but i wish i didnt trade it in cuz i found out about san andreas after i traded it in im soo :mad: now i hate my self but i got over it but i can still play vice city

[sil3nt_warri0r]

No, no XBOX either. This sucks. What can I do when we decided to live in a remote area anyway??? No, I think I do know what I've been missing....FF!!!GAWW!! By the way, I thought GTA was meant fer PC?

You traded in fer what Fire Element Lord?

[Dark Realms]

GTA was actualy first designed to run on a PC before a PS2. But they found out that most PC graphics cards would have to have a huge upgrade in order to handle the game.

So they left it for a while and started onto PS2.

It was such a shock after playing GTA 1 & GTA 2 to play GTA 3. Rockstar have made some dramatic improvements. :)

I just hope they have taken a leaf out of Reflections games looking at Driv3r.

Make the damn guy be able to swim! What 30+ year old gansta cant swim?

lame... :P

[Laguna Loire]

GTA1 ruled! I've still got it but it doesn't work on my PC for some lame reason...Stupid XP!! GTA2 works though. That's an awesome game but I never play it. :P

Anyway, I got a little more info on San Andreas from looking at screenshots. You can get CJ a haircut if his hair grows too long. Or you could probably grow his hair all the way down to his shoulders. Also, you can pop wheelies on pedal bikes as I saw a shot CJ doing a wheelie on a BMX....More info soon. (If I can find it :P)

[~Felly~]

well i traded my ps2 in for a gamecube but if u cant swim in gta san andreas im going to go crazy

[Dead Man]

When Will It Be In England On The XB

[Dark Realms]

God knows about the X-Box. Rockstars priority is for PS2 and PC at the moment.

[JoshC]

i think driv3r is like gta san andreas.....swimming keep ur car in a garage loads more cars.....i do like driv3r but it will never be as good as any of the gta's on ps2....and who agrees with me that CJ looks like tierry henry.....lol....

[yamu_yugi93]

im wid snake on dat

i thought that all the women would be topless an ther would be loads of strip clubs man

[Dark Realms]

lmao Josh, Tierry Henry :P

The face of CJ has always looked familiar to me...

I agree that it will never be as good as GTA.. Rockstar have just got alot more free-roaming areas etc...

[JoshC]

check this out more screen shots....

http://img44.exs.cx/img44/5200/gtasanandreas2.jpg

hope u like.....

[Nitrous]

Well I can not wait for GTA now and those pics Josh are cool.
Nice find mate, well done ;)

[JoshC]

According to Rockstar, the beach is definitely a good place to work off some of those pounds. As we told you back in May, San Andreas will force players to think about what they eat and the exercise they do in order to stay in shape, and the beach is a good place to go running, biking, or swimming. Swimming sounds very easy, too - CJ treads water automatically, uses breaststroke when you push the left ****ogue stick and front crawl when you hold or rapidly tap X (the latter for a speed increase, dependent on your stamina), and can even head underwater when you press circle, to evade people on the surface and hunt down any underwater surprises. You can even jack boats from within the water, we're told, and if you happen to drive into the water, you'll be given a small amount of time to get out before your car sinks. Rockstar North is apparently touching up the wave physics right now, so look forward to getting caught in swells this time too.
Finally, there are some shots of Doc G Records, inspired by the Capitol Records building, and the Brown Streak railroad, which offers another means of transportation that fans of the original GTA - and by that we mean the first, top-down PC title - will be pleased to see again. Imagine the crashes. You'll also have fun imagining the sorts of pile-ups you can achieve on the various freeways connecting Los Santos to San Fierro and Las Venturas. And you shouldn't have any trouble finding your way around them either thanks to the effort the developer is putting into getting the correct street signs in place.

[Laguna Loire]

Ha ha! Some sweet info and shots Josh! I told you San Andreas had a place called Vinewood...Look at the top shots. Look at the shot with CJ fat. Hah!!!

Hey, I just heard that you have petrol on the cars. Meaning you have to go to petrol station every now and then to refil your car.
For all those in the USA and probably other countries, petrol = gas.

Oh...My....God. I am currently looking at 126 screenshots of San Andreas....You guys have GOT to see this:

http://www.gtagaming.com/sanandreas/screenshots.php?page=1

There are some amazing shots on this site man...

[JoshC]

omg wat awesome screen shots.....i love them!! some cars are from the old one but i dont care...nice pics black snake....

[Dark Realms]

Im already dispaointed just looking at the screenshots. It just does NOT look real!!!

They need to look at Driver 3 (Driv3r) at how real that is and take a leaf out of there book. :P

[Laguna Loire]

Heh...Yeah, all the graphics on the GTA series so far have been the same. Except from the conversion of top-down to 3D...San Andreas would be awesome if it had some realistic graphics...But I'm more concerned about the gameplay rather than graphics. :P

[JoshC]

yeah u rite there i mean the graphics of the gta games now are ok but not up to its possible standards...but now they are saying that san andreas is gonna be a 5x bigger than VC then the graphics are not gonna get anybettter becoz they will be more ocupied on making the landscape first....i reckon the gamplay will be verygood....but if they are gonna make it 5x bigger than VC then they will have to have san andreas on like 2 disks!!!

[Josh]

Blahh i dont know if this has been mentioned already (theres to many posts) your gonna be able to break into peoples houses and rob them blind

[~Felly~]

cool that would be nice id steal everything in the house it would funny

[cHilli]

yeah u rite there i mean the graphics of the gta games now are ok but not up to its possible standards...but now they are saying that san andreas is gonna be a 5x bigger than VC then the graphics are not gonna get anybettter becoz they will be more ocupied on making the landscape first....i reckon the gamplay will be verygood....but if they are gonna make it 5x bigger than VC then they will have to have san andreas on like 2 disks!!!
I highly dount it will be on 2 discs because Rockstar have said there is NO loading times apart from going inside buildings, and obviously starting the game up.

[Josh]

now that is a feature im gonna love :P

[Laguna Loire]

EVERYONE!!! Go to www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas NOW! Some major improvements to the site! There is a trailer of San Andreas for god's sake! Check this out now!

[Josh]

WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE IS IT AT :confused:

[Dark Realms]

Nice.

[~Felly~]

swweet :P

[Josh]

stupid java i cant see it... BUT WHO CARES I GOT A BOOTLEG VERSION!!! :cool: oo yeah my cousin got it somewhere, it actualy is only like 1/4 of the game but its cool never the less

[Laguna Loire]

Bootleg? Ripping off Rockstar....You should be ashamed of yourself! :P

[Josh]

no my cousin should be ashamed of himself he ripped off rockstar i just ripped him off, see he dosnt exactley know i :P have it

[Nitrous]

Well I got some kind of bad news for you all... but GTA has been delayed a little.
This does not suprise me at all. here is the info I got from a trusted site that I visit.

News has emerged this morning that the eagerly-awaited (understatement of the year) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has been delayed. However, before you start crying into your DualShock envisioning a protracted, GT4-style development hell, breath deeply and relax, because the wait should only amount to one extra week of nail biting.

The news of the delay emerged in Take-Two's quarterly financial report, released this morning, which suggests that the game has been held back in order to complete Rockstar's thorough playtesting of the code.

The new release date for GTA: San Andreas is 29 October in Europe, with North American stores getting hold of it just three days before, on 26 October.

[Laguna Loire]

Yeah...I thought it'd get delayed. Halo 2 did, Half-Life 2 did...All the games that everyone want get delayed...Bah!

[Nitrous]

Well it's Nitrous again and he has a lot of good info that never seems to be fake.
Guns, planes, lorries - more San Andreas details: Long Read.
The full game is due out on PS2 on October 29th, and PC in the middle of next year.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Rockstar has this month detailed the intricacies of the game's firearms system, and given us a look at some of the many activities that CJ can get up to in the vast Californian countryside that separates the cities of Los Santos, San Feirro and Las Venturra.

Although Vice City made a small leap in terms of shoot-'em-up mechanics over its predecessor, San Andreas includes a further reworking that should help iron out any lingering doubts. R1 still locks onto the nearest target, and circle still fires, but this time the default lock-on will focus on the nearest hostile with a 90-degree arc only. R2 and L2 can then be used to cycle targets. However, if there's nobody worth shooting in the vicinity, the game automatically switches into free aim mode, with a control scheme that then resembles the average third-person shooter: the left ****ogue stick has CJ move forwards and backwards and strafe, while the right ****ogue stick lets you target manually, and L1 becomes the fire button. And if that's not what you want, you can always snap to a target with R2/L2.
In-keeping with the persistent nature of the rest of CJ's world (the effect of his eating/exercise rituals and so on), his proficiency with weapons will also improve over time. When he first gets his hands on the new Desert Eagle, for example, apparently he'll barely be able to hold it while firing, but in time his skills will improve. Reloading, fire rate and accuracy will all improve as CJ handles more weapons, and as before crouching will improve accuracy in general. With certain weapons, CJ will also start out barely able to move while holding them, but with time will be able to move, strafe faster, run backwards, and even wield a pair of firearms at a time. And if the guns fail him, cruder weapons like chainsaws and hammers may return, and there's definitely a shovel to make use of at some point - with a new block function on the square button to help keep CJ alive during tussles.

Moving away from the weapons, Rockstar has also been explaining what goes on in the countryside. Travelling around will take up quite a bit of time by the sound of it, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun - a newly winged Dodo will give players the chance to fly around, and, like the new crop-dusting biplane, will be highly manoeuvrable compared to previous planes, capable of barrel rolls, hammerheads and loops - with an altimeter in the bottom left of the screen to help you judge things in the air.

Then there's the prospect of lugging 18-wheel lorries around, picking up jobs from "RU Haul," which work in the same way as taxi missions and the other diversions - allowing you to make some extra cash by racing across the countryside against the clock with an expensive load in tow. The more interesting the load, the more cash it's worth (and the more cops you'll have to evade), and of course there'll be gas-filled tankers to play around with too. We doubt we need to draw a picture.

The countryside will also play host to various off-road pursuits. 4x4 races, motocross, and of course downhill mountain biking on "Mount Chiliad", complete with bunnyhopping and a whole mountain bike championship if you can beat the folks to the bottom without dying in the process.

Other distractions include a fully operational bull dozer, with a right ****ogue stick-operated front plough that can be used to flip cars and tear up highly destructible environments full of picket fences, plants, outdoor furniture (and of course hapless locals), and there's even a lawnmower to drive around drunkenly - as you admire things like the increased level of foliage detail (down to something called "procedural rendering") and a new moon in the sky that goes through a full 30-day lunar cycle. They really do seem to have thought of everything. Heck, there are even forest fires to contend with. CJ can operate a fire extinguisher now, but we have a feeling the hot arid locations of San Andreas will prove quite popular with pyromaniac types who miss the original GTA's line-cars-up-then-blow-the-lot mechanics.

[Laguna Loire]

Cool....Some sweet info there Nitrous. :D

[Devilman]

I hear there are seven bars you can own. (but i dont no what types they are?) :cool:

[JoshC]

well...i heared theres quads monster trucks...and hopefully some sweet modified cars....

[Laguna Loire]

There are quad bikes...Not sure about monster trucks but I wouldn't be surprised if there is going to be monster trucks.

[Nitrous]

quad bikes possible I guess to go along with the off road bikes.
18 wheeler truck now this is possible like in Driver 3
Monster trucks?????? lol we can dream I guess.

[Laguna Loire]

Lol, it'd be so cool having a monster truck...Instead of cars just suddenly exploding like with the tank in Vice City, you could run them over. Crush and annihilate them...Hehehe! It'd be so much fun.

[Nitrous]

More news for you and it turns out that the Monster trucks thing is true.
*kicks old news in the bin* This was a short demo that was played.
Hope ya like reading as it lets you in on a few of the new features seen so far.
*copy, paste's and edits*

The demo kicked off with CJ tearing around in a monster truck in an area called Leafy Hollow. As well as offering four-wheel drive, the outsize truck features four-wheel steering (which you can make use of via clever manipulation of the handbrake). So, despite its size, the vehicle boasts an incredibly tight turning circle - which can come in handy for getting yourself out of scrapes. We passed an assortment of truck and tractor-driving yokels on one of the game's many backroads and also passed a river (which, visually, wasn't actually that good looking) before then embarking on our first countryside mission. Entitled Lure,

^^ not good looking… I hope the graphics are ok

The Midnight Club-inspired escapade features CJ being chased through dense woodland in Flint County by a pair of dirtbike-riding thugs. You simply have to make it through all the checkpoints before your truck is shot to bits. You'll eventually enter a tunnel underneath Mount Chiliad and, after a total of about four minutes of frantic racing, you'll clear the final checkpoint and garner an $8000 reward in the process.
It's not a hugely sophisticated task by any means but it looks to offer a great visceral thrill, no doubt aided by the fact that, as you'd expect from GTA, you're free to take any route you like between each checkpoint. Indeed, Rockstar are eager to highlight the fact that anywhere you can see in the game you can actually get to - providing you have the right vehicle, of course.

^^ cool

We then saw CJ jacking a car - showing off one of the charming new animations in which the hapless driver's face is smashed into the steering wheel - before he drove off to Angel Pine, one of the 12 small towns that populate the game's rural areas. Here, he heads straight for the local trailer park (no town's complete without one) where he picks up another mini-mission. This one involves the troubled Los Santos native assassinating an informer and having to take photos as evidence (any pics you take during the game can be viewed as an in-game gallery). The victim is hiding out in a shack on the side of the huge Mount Chiliad - the largest object in the game. This section gives the chance to ride a quadbike - on which you can pull off assorted tricks and wheelies, once your skill level is sufficiently developed.

We were then shown single-propeller plane the Dodo, which made its debut in GTA III. The brief flight gave us some idea of the sheer size of the game - its overall area is around four to five time larger than Vice City - and proved that the Dodo could well end up being an invaluable way to quickly transport yourself across the sprawling state. Finally, we got to see CJ jump aboard a Harley Davidson-alike and ride from just outside a small town called Dillimore to Richman to the Vinewood Hills and via Mullholland all the way back into Los Santos itself, where he finally pulled up outside his house in the east side of the city.

Rockstar claim that the progression from Vice City to San Andreas is a "bigger leap than when we went from 2D to 3D". While that may be overstating the case somewhat, the game continues to look hugely impressive in almost every regard. Bring on the end of October. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is released for PS2 on 29 October, with a PC version to follow in mid-2005

A little more news I know about from a mag.
You can make friends and enemies out of gangs

[Laguna Loire]

Awesome........Yay monster trucks! :D

[xboxwizz]

go the monstertrucks!!! :D

[CarCritic]

Why thank you. :P

Anyhoo, I have some ideas on what to put in the game but I doubt these ideas will be featured in it:

Put animals in the game. Perhaps on one mission you could ride a horse for some reason or something. However, they would probably not put animals in the game because if there will be rampages in the game and you've got to kill 30 cows with a rocket launcher...Well, Rockstar would have the RSPCA nagging at them 24/7.

Include natural disasters in the game. Imagine. You're walking down the street just minding your own business when BAM! A tornado comes out of nowhere and starts ripping buildings apart and people being blown to kingdom come. And you've got to try and survive! It'd be so awesome. I wish they'd put diasters in the game. :P

that would be sweet, jump on a motorbike and race away, although it would be a pain in the ass if you were in a mission and it showed up

[Undertaker1945]

This game is going to kik so much ass! I just kame from www.gtasanandreas.net and they say that u can have up to 8 people on your minny gang and that u can bay hats and other bling-bling! This game is going to revolutionise the gameing industry! :) :cool: :-)

[xboxwizz]

cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!! :happy:

[whyte_raven]

ya there is be quads, 18 wheelers, all kinds of planes, dune buggies, and just so you no one of the planes is a harrier that has locking on heat seeking missiles, and there is a jet pack.

[CarCritic]

i rented this game yesterday, although i couldnt go around the entire map without getting shot down by the damn fighter jets, the overall game kicked ass, i used the leer jet to go around the entire map to uncover the foggy area, i dodged the fighter jets missiles for awhile until i hit the ground or one came outta nowhere, i couldnt find the monstertruck or any quads, but i had a fun time kicking peoples asses and workin out and stuff, the game is much better than the previous ones, although i was disappointed by the multiplayer function of only being able to do certain missions in multiplayer

[~Felly~]

This is the best game ever created! For Grand Theft Auto that is.