Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

[DayleJ]

Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

March 01, 2004 - Ending all the speculation about the next installment of the Grand Theft Auto series, Rockstar Games announced today that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is indeed coming out. GTA: San Andreas will be an exclusive title for PlayStation 2 and will ship on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 in North America, and Friday, October 22, 2004 in Europe.


In the past few months, the latest Grand Theft Auto continuously has been rumored as Grand Theft Auto: Sin City, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Grand Theft Auto: Anything You Can Think Of. To make things even more confusing, Rockstar Games registered those names for Internet sites in addition to other titles like Grand Theft Auto: Bogota and Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo. Unless these are potential future cities for the franchise, these names were most likely done to create red herrings for the press and fans of the series.

In the original Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas was a city that was based on the likeness of San Francisco. Sections of the city in the game had names that were variations of the names of different Bay Area neighborhoods. With the hilly nature of the city by the bay, gamers might be seeing some more terrain than previous installments.

With more than 11.5 million copies of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and more than 10.5 million copies of Grand Theft Auto 3 sold worldwide, there's a lot of pressure to make the next installment live up to the name. Leslie Benzies, president of developer Rockstar North, acknowledged this by stating, "We are extremely humbled by the success of the Grand Theft Auto series and it has made us push ourselves further than ever to create a title in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that will hopefully redefine the Grand Theft Auto series and revolutionize open-ended gameplay and video game production values."

"In the past couple of years, we have put an enormous amount of pressure on ourselves to ensure we do everything possible to exceed people's expectations with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," stated Sam Houser, president, Rockstar Games. "Even though we still have eight months to go, we are starting to become very proud of what we have achieved and we can't wait to get the game into players' hands."

IGN spoke with Rockstar Games officials, but no more information was revealed. GTA: San Andreas completes Rockstar's exclusivity arrangement with Sony Computer Entertainment, which was modified last year to permit GTA III and GTA Vice City to appear on Xbox last fall. Thus, we suspect GTA: San Andreas might very well appear on Xbox one year after the fall 2004 PS2 release in fall 2005.

[Dark Realms]

Apparently 'thugs' are planning to 'invade' the shipment of the games...lol.. lame.

Cheers man *should have checked alot earlier*

[Laguna Loire]

Very nice information there...I heard something about San Andreas being set in the 60's or 70's...but I doubt whether that is true.

[pitt12177]

the time thing may happen since there is a pattern moving on...it went from now, to the 80 or whatever..by the time GTA 5 comes out...it will be 20's Mafia with better gameplay

[offensive cheat]

Actually ItsIn Oakland. I have the Playstation Magazine And I Was Looking Through All of them and it said The crime scene starts in Oakland In the 60's-70's. Rckstar Games tought to put the starting scene in Los Angeles or Las Vegas.:tup:

[Stryker82]

Originally posted by pitt12177
the time thing may happen since there is a pattern moving on...it went from now, to the 80 or whatever..by the time GTA 5 comes out...it will be 20's Mafia with better gameplay

If they did that, then it would be just like Mafia, being set in the 1930s

[Laguna Loire]

Originally posted by offensive cheat
Actually ItsIn Oakland. I have the Playstation Magazine And I Was Looking Through All of them and it said The crime scene starts in Oakland In the 60's-70's. Rckstar Games tought to put the starting scene in Los Angeles or Las Vegas.:tup:

Oakland? What? Errr.....well they might make San Andreas into a sort of Oakland style place but believe me...it is DEFINETLY not going to be called Grand Theft Auto: Oakland. OPM is a good source, however, Rockstar hasn't released any official details about a theme Oakland as far as I know so OPM could've been just printing rumors...:rolleyes:

[juan]

i have been reading in the spanish and the english playstation2 magazines, gta 5 is going to be in san andreas.

and the 6th one in tokyo.

[JoshC]

i cant wait for san andreas...theres something realy g*y in the play mag...i read this

"dear rockstart i would like u to make the new gta where you can wake up next to your wife have breakfast...kiss her goodbye go to work...have a break and eat sarnies...go back to work come home....have *** with your wife...2 weeks later you find your wife with another man....take her to court...and win money"

dont know who sent it in but they need a life beatin...if that was the new gta...that would be like brockoly bieng the favourite food on the planet...

[pitt12177]

is that a serious writin in a mag? cause if so...they are very troubled people who must be dealt with violently...jk lol...i am so hyped for this game

[Laguna Loire]

Heh, me too. I can't wait for San Andreas. It's gonna be awesome. And yeah, they out sh*te stuff like that in Play. I read OPM. (Official Playstation 2 Magazine) It's the best and most reliable.:tup:

[JoshC]

ye opm is a better mag than play by miles.....in the new gta i wish u could swim tho...and have more done up cars...coz i love them cars...the graphics will probaly be more realistic than vice city..its a shame that we gotto wait all this time till october for it..im busting for it aready and its only aprill!!!!!!!!