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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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GameSpy
Few games in history (if any) carry the amount of cachet
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IGN
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the single best PlayStation 2 title I have ever played. It's larger than the biggest RPG, has more story than the heftiest adventure game, and has almost as many mini-games as Nintendo's Mario Party. Additionally, it has
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GamePro
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas offers more missions, more cars, more features and more mayhem. But in the case of San Andreas, more isn't automatically better.
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Games Radar
What does make it great is that it actually delivers on nearly everything it promises while still being fun to just pick up and play.
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Worth Playing
I have to subtract a point for what, in my opinion, is a total lack of overall upgrading. While there are hundreds of more things to do in San Andreas, I feel, in my heart of hearts, that the game looks and plays just like its two predecessors.
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Game Rankings
Well, here it is: This newest installment of the GTA series is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the biggest living worlds ever comprised in a video game. It's great fun, and several much-needed tweaks have been made to the gameplay. Yet, the game's
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Gaming Age
I usually complain that many single player games these days do not have much in the way of "replayability". That is one aspect where San Andreas sets the bar so ridiculously high, that I can't imagine any non-GTA games coming anywhere near it for years
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GameZone
By now you think you’ve heard everything that has been said about the Grand Theft Auto series. You’ve heard about how the last two ground-breaking installments changed the face of video games or--for the most part--how it took us off
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Gaming Target
Non-linear, absolutely packed with things to do, entertaining radio stations, great missions, great story, great characters, enough diversions to keep you playing for months, so much diversity in the cities that you may never stop discovering new aspects
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Game Revolution
Freedom has always been the GTA hallmark, and in that regard, San Andreas piles on the features to ludicrous proportions. Comparing San Andreas to any other game is like comparing King Kong to the other monkeys; it is the Overgame.
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Yahoo! Games
Unlike Vice City's somewhat flat and faceless setting, San Andreas' three cities all have strong identities. Each one -- the LA-like Los Santos, the neon gambler's delight of Las Venturas, and the Frisco-clone San Fierro -- is huge, not far off the size
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1UP
Enormous, diverse, engrossing, daring, liberating, sophisticated and -- most of all -- ambitious. Yet at the same time it can be restrictive, banal, childish, unpolished and -- most of all -- frustrating.
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Eurogamer
It's no exaggeration to say that you could be still be playing this when the next GTA game comes out, even if it takes Rockstar another two years to finish. It's not perfect then, but so much of it is so good that you won't care.
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Amped IGO
The first bit to address is the information for those that have already played and enjoyed the PS2 version of San Andreas - just how well does the Xbox version improve on the original? What's changed? It's a mixed bag with the end result being that
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PopCultureShock
As expected, the Xbox version of San Andreas just plain out looks better than its Playstation 2 predecessor. Load times are reduced dramatically making walking in and out of buildings less of a pain as it was on the PS2. Textures are sharper and
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GamingExcellence
San Andreas follows the story of CJ (Carl Johnson) who is returning from Liberty City in the early 90’s, after a five year exodus, to bury his mother, clear his name and reclaim his territory. If San Andreas only followed CJ’s story it would still be
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DreamStation.cc
One such innovation is the ability to recruit gang members by aiming, with no weapon equipped, at one and pressing up on the D-pad. When a gang member is recruited he will follow CJ around and shoot anyone CJ shoots. While this is a great idea and very
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ESC Magazine
San Andreas is every bit as expansive as Vice City and much, much more. The sheer size of the game's world is daunting the first time you peek at your map and see the amount of land you have left to explore. Never before has a video game offered up so
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Gamecritics
This is arguably the most important videogame this year - yes, even more important than "Halo 2" - not only because it's a superbly crafted videogame, but because it's also a bona fide sociological artifact, one that manages to effectively evoke a
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Pro-G
One of the most celebrated series of recent times has to be Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto games. From the original top-down versions through to the huge-selling 3D incarnations of III and Vice City, not many games can match the popularity (or sales
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Club Skill
You may think I'm getting ahead of myself, by saying that but you only have to play San Andreas for around 30 minutes to be sucked into the game; with the vast amount of things to do and explore. One of the biggest things everyone has been talking
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Game Chronicles
No one should deny that San Andreas is a great storytelling game. It's just that, between gradually caring less and less about the main characters, and performing many game actions that are nearly identical to those of previous titles in the series, San
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Gaming Nexus
What you have here is the most polished, feature-laden, action-packed Grand Theft Auto title to-date. I've had my qualms with the franchise in the past but this is the first time that I was able to sit back, shut off my brain and enjoy the experience.
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Gaming Horizon
As far as actual content goes, I don’t think there’s been a game in history with more, so you almost need to own this game just so you can see how packed a game can be.
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GamersMark
Through the first part of the game, most of the missions you do will exhibit one new improvement or addition Rockstar has made to GTA: San Andreas. Some missions teach you basic skills that have already been introduced in the series, like when they show
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Game Industry News
Upon arrival to his mother's home, he is reunited with his brother, as well as his gangmates Ryder (MC Eiht), an Eazy-E look-alike who likes using the “N” word a lot, and Big Smoke (Clifton Powell), a large gangbanger who has moved to the neighboring
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Netjak
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is to the gaming world what "The Matrix" was to the film industry: it breaks so much ground and introduces so many significant things that it will no doubt have an impact on how games are made for a long time to come.
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Armchair Empire
Only the graphical bugs, slow-down and other nit picks associated with the fact that the game is pushing the aging PS2 to its limits keeps this from being the first perfect entry into the series.
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Jaded Gamer
There is also a fair amount of inefficiency within the game. Missions often require you to drive very long distances to begin your objective (instead of say, showing a cut scene of you going there), and when the goals are met, many missions require you
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Game Over Online
Thanks to the sheer level of detail and the amount of gameplay you'll be able to engage in during C.J.'s adventures, San Andreas surpasses just about any game that’s come along in the PS2’s history.
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XGP Gaming
The story to San Andreas is by far the best of any GTA game to date. As you progress, you will experience turning points to this story that drive you to see the next cutscene, something that has never been done in a GTA game before.
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NZGamer
Where do I start? There is no denying, this game is massive. Stealing cars, robbing houses, beating down innocent pedestrians, this is Grand Theft Auto and you can do whatever you want. Grand Theft Auto gained a cult-like following when first released on
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GotNext
Ultimately, San Andreas embellishes a much higher caliber than Vice City in nearly every department. It goes without saying that the graphics have been improved, albeit in subtle touches that some could easily miss without a closer inspection. For
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Cyber Gaming Net
This time around you play as Carl Johnson, a hardened gang member that escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas, a city brewing the crime and corruption. Five years later, Carl returns home to discover that his mother has been
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TotalPlaystation
A weaker soundtrack and nagging problems with the interface take the game down just shy of getting a full 10, but this is the digital embodiment of a killer app.
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GamePlasma
If any of you have had the privilege of playing any of the other games in the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) saga then you know that when this game arrived on shelves people were in for something wonderful. One of the new features that appear in Grand Theft
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Game Vortex
San Andreas looks better than Vice City, but isn’t that great of a jump. The game still retains the same GTA style of graphics, but ups the details. This results in better looking environments, sharper looking cars, and more variety in player models.
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Firing Squad
Play mechanics, the movie-epic plot, the sheer scope of the landscape and the missions—all combine to create the most near-perfect experience that I have ever had with a game.
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Games First!
To understand why San Andreas is so great I think you need to look at why Vice City was a bit of a disappointment. It was still a fun game, but it was definitely missing something that GTA III had and after playing San Andreas it is pretty obvious. The
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Jolt Online Gaming UK
But don’t forget we’re gamers, and you can be sure that if we get on two knees and kiss some ass, it’s not because we’re paid to, it’s because we’ve just played the kind of game that reminds us why we’re doing this in the first place.
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GameCell UK
GTA III was set in Liberty City (based on New York), then Tommy Vercetti had his adventures in Vice City (Miami). San Andreas is a state modelled on California and Nevada, and contains three cities (each one as big as Vice City) comprising Los Santos
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Thunderbolt
It has such an enormous amount to offer (did I even mention the two player option?) and carries everything off with such confidence and style that it's hard to fault.
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Games are Fun
San Andreas is the newest and largest of the now nearly decade old GTA series. And, suffice to say, it is also the best one in the series to date. Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design) knows a winner when it makes it and, in order to keep the winner going
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DarkStation
I can't express in words to do the game justice how large and well drawn out these cities are.
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Gameplanet
Apart from its size the major feature of the environment is the hilliness. Previous games had similar sections, but nothing approaching what is in San Andreas. Steep hills and even a mountain cover the countryside and cities, with one city obviously
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Lawrence
No one would ever think that Vice City would seem small. It does now. San Andreas has a whole three cities to eventually express your freedom in with at least 20 hours of gameplay strictly for the underlying story. Even the in-between roads pack some
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Da GameBoyz
Let it be known right off the bat that I am not that big a fan of the series. I never picked up 3, but I did grab Vice City. While I certainly enjoyed the game it was by no means the best game around. Many people hailed it as being the definitive video
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