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- Platform: Windows XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 18 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Limited Edition includes Novella
- Based in the fictional state of San Andreas, featuring 3 cites
- Explore internal locations and the countryside
- Set in the 1990s
- Purchase property and build a criminal empire
- Improved AI, allowing for gangs to accompany you
- You are what you eat--gain or lose weight to affect game physics and character appearance
- New vehicles, including bicycles
- New weapons and targeting system
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Considering how massively popular the last two GTA games were Rockstar could’ve knocked out any old rubbish as their last GTA game this generation, but despite Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas not being a full sequel (it still uses essentially the same graphics engine as GTA III) it has more new features and ideas than the majority of official follow-ups.
For a start San Andreas itself is not a city but a whole fictional county, containing the San Francisco-esque San Fierro, the Las Vegas style Las Venturra and the Los Angeles inspired Los Santos. You can drive anywhere else you like in the countryside, between making the game four to six times the size of Vice City.
You can also now start up your own gang in the game, recruiting members and claiming territory--you can even build and operate your own casino once you get the necessary moolah. You can’t just sit around and wait for the money to roll in, though--eat too much junk food and your character will grow fat and have to work out at a gym, as well as keep an eye on a new stamina meter.
The list of other additions and refinements are almost endless; above and beyond the usual claims of an improved aiming system for weapons you can now swim, ride bicycles, get your hair cut, take part in random break-ins and robberies... pretty much anything you were ever told not to do as a kid (except the getting a haircut bit). --David Jenkins
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I have spent probably far too much of my time playing this game, and on one level really love it. The problem with it is that the missions themselves are unbelievably boring. Some revolve around achingly mundane things, such as getting your hair cut, a boring enough activity in the real world; the vast majority are based on how fast you can drive somewhere - which gets *incredibly* tedious and frustrating very quickly. I stopped even bothering after the first ten or so missions - and thankfully what makes this game so great is the open-endedness of it. You can totally forego all the missions, and just spend hours driving around the huge map, exploring and listening to your own music; you can find a bar and play some pool (in what is a surprisingly well-executed minigame). In this sense GTA SA is completely immersive, and great fun. Apply some cheats and you can while away huge amounts of time on it. I just wish the missions were more imaginative.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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One word sums up this game: perfection! Yes, that's right, perfection. There is nothing bad about this game.
Although the game itself is very similar to the previous instalments in terms of looks and gameplay, it takes it much further. For example, there is almost nothing that you can't do in this game.
Steal vehicles, shoot people, run your own gang, date girlfriends, eat at restaurants, go to the gym, buy weapons, rob houses, etc. The "city" is not a city at all but rather an entire county! Three cities (Los Santos, Las Venturas and San Fierro) are all linked together with miles and miles of countryside, smaller towns and villages, all with their own unique characteristics. Of course, you can only explore the area of Los Santos and the surroundings when you start as you need to "unlock" the other areas via missions.
However, even just Los Santos is enormous and will take you ages to explore.
The storyline is thus: you play a black American guy called Carl Johnson, commonly known as "CJ" who has returned to San Andreas to bury his Mum and take revenge on those who are to blame, restoring the neighbourhoods' credibility and power in the process.
Just as in Los Angeles, there are areas of the city of Los Santos that are controlled by rival gangs who will stop at nothing to take you down. Of course, the entire city isn't a gang-infested hellhole, only certain parts (mainly the eastern and south-eastern parts of the city) There are also extremely wealthy and aesthetically pleasing parts of the city, mainly in the north and west of the city.
All I can say is, if you've played GTA3 and GTA: Vice City and enjoyed them, BUY THIS IMMEDIATELY! If not, buy this anyway. I can't believe that anyone would not appreciate the time and effort gone into creating such a work of art. Long live Rockstar!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
GTA SA is an awesome game. Its enthrawling missions build up your respect and money. Watch as Cj the main character whom you play become a criminal king pin. You can spend you ill gained cash on anything from cars to guns. New aspects of the game mean that Cj needs to eat, if you just give him fatty foods then he becomes fat. The graphics in the game are some of the best i have ever seen and the ai is amazing. If you ever get bored of missions then do something else like: race cars, go to the gym, side missions, play basket ball and loads of others but if all else fails then do a classic gta killing spree and just kill everyone in sight with a huge arsnel of weapons from knifes to shotguns, uzis to rocket launchers,sniper rifles to grenades and many more. This game is a brilliant buy!!!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
GTA Works 100%
Well what can I say this game is old school :D , Best GTA around even better then GTA IV but hopefully the new GTA will beat it or at least be compared against it but anyway it... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Robert
amazing!
this is an amazing game for an amazing price. It came out in 2008 but the graphics are great.
pro's:
-good graphics
-really good and long story mode so the game... Read more
pro's:
-good graphics
-really good and long story mode so the game... Read more
Published 2 months ago by oli.b
Comic book gangsta fun for all the family
I bought this game a few years ago but it dodn't run on my old laptop, so I kept it against the day I had a computer it would run on. I'm very glad I did! Read more
Published 3 months ago by james of the north
Good game
Bought this game for my little brother for Christmas but he has stopped playing it for now. The description said it was limited edition but the game came in normal form and it... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lara
Gta Sa
This game was Terrible, I put it in my pc, loaded it up, installed it and the game started but didn't even play
Published 6 months ago by James
Game
This item arrived very quickly and also in excellent condition, it has given my son plenty of hours of fun, thank you
Published 8 months ago by steve
Amazing! Brings back memories!
Great game, fun to play, easy installation. Comes with DirectX 9.0c.
This CD is the wrong version to play SAMP/San Andreas MultiPlayer. Read more
This CD is the wrong version to play SAMP/San Andreas MultiPlayer. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Fewtch
Very much the same as previous titles but not as much fun
Probably better on a console than on pc. Graphics were not very impressive and missions became repetitive and boring. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Arron Blocksidge
Not the best
Played this quite some time ago. Had high hopes to play this game, but to be honest. It sucks
Published 18 months ago by Phil
unreceived
The game was ordered, but for whateer reason was not received. I contacted the seller and he was very good about it and refunded the money without my even having to ask; and told... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Karen
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