GTA: San Andreas Review
This game has a lot of hype to live up to, its predecessor GTA: Vice City seemed quite hard to beat at the time. However, there were still many niggles that needed to be sorted. For example, you’re lining yourself up for a jump across a river, you accelerate, you miss, and you land in the water… Wasted flashes on the screen. This has now been fully fixed and now you have the ability to swim! There is even a mission that requires you to be able to swim for most of the mission. That is just one of the many glitches and pains that have been sorted out in this new title.
Now onto the size of the game, if you thought that Vice City was big, think again. I would guess that San Andreas is about 4 times the size of Vice City, with 3 large cities, 1 desert and 1 hilly countryside. I cannot comment on how many different road vehicles there now are, mainly because there are so many. There are now around 15 different flying vehicles as opposed to Vice City’s 6. There has been a lot of effort put into the game to make it more than just an RPG. A new addition means you can now even mod your cars with NOS and hydraulics and custom paint jobs. You can hold up shops like the 24/7 and you can become as big as a pro-wrestler at your local gym, even fight like one as you can learn moves from the gyms. You can now date girls and they will give you things, you can dance to discos and you can play arcade video games. There are now schools to learn how to fly (so you can enter the airports without having to climb over the fences) and drive cars, bikes and boats.
The soundtrack to this game has a LOT of rap on it, which can be understandable as the game is based around rap culture. There are some other radio stations like jazz, blues, country and western, nu-metal/grunge and of course the traditional chat show. So you could say that it was balanced, but in my opinion the soundtracks get repetitive by the time you get to the end of the game.
The graphics have been improved drastically since he dark ages of Vice City, but mainly because they are using the GTA 3 engine. So it is a let down as they are still not up to the standards that the present day gamer is used to. There are times when you wish the graphics were better, especially when you have just climbed a large mountain and see the sun set over a blank canvas below you!
Of course we have to go onto the fun factor. I needn’t say how much joy you can get out of this game; the sickly fact that I can go out and kill a random passer by is very enticing. Just the numerous ways you can kill people is enticing enough. This game appeals to the animal side in us, everything we can’t do, we can do on this game. We can’t drive fast, we can’t fly fighter jets (unless you're a fighter pilot!), we can’t kill people, and we can’t hire prostitutes without having to face consequences.
Gameplay=10/10
Sound= 8/10
Fun factor= 10/10
Graphics=7/10
Overall= 10/10
Wrote By Jacamus |
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