Video Game Reviews: PlayStation 2
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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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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AtomicGamer
The year is 1992, and your character this time around is Carl Johnson. He went into a self-imposed exile on the east coast after the murder of his little brother five years ago, and now he's returning to Los Santos (which is modelled after Los Angeles)
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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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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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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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Team Fremont
Within the time that has passed since the release of Vice City, Rockstar North has taken virtually everything you know about the series, and expanded on it in every way possible. You want big? You got it. San Andreas is a state, made up of three cities
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WHAM! Gaming
head around Vice City's mind-boggling scope was tough enough. Well, I was wrong. Blessedly so. GTA: San Andreas isn't just much bigger than the previous genre-busting, generation-defining games that have gone on to become two of the PlayStation 2's top-s
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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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Inside Gamer Online
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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GameSpot
Carl Johnson is going (going) back (back) to Cali (Cali).
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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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IC-Games
The amount of attributes that you can actually improve is staggering. CJ must learn how to drive, shoot, swim, workout, be healthy, sprint and participate in relationships.
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Games Xtreme
San Andreas puts you in the shoes of Carl “CJ” Johnson. It’s 1992 and you’re in the fictional state of San Andreas. CJ is back in Los Santos (the first of 3 cities available throughout the game), San Andreas after 5 years in Liberty City. His
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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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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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Future Gamez
The story in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is wonderfully presented and superbly put together. Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and
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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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Gamers Europe
The second you start playing this game you realise that the latest Rockstar title is about a hundred times more complex than its predecessors. Not only is there a load of new weapons, cars and a huge new environment available, but the gaming experience
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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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Electric Playground
Calling this game huge is an understatement...All told, San Andreas is about four times the size of any previous GTA game.
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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 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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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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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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VGPub
My biggest beef with San Andreas is the implementation of the gang warfare system...It takes away a certain element that was found in the earlier games, that of the feeling that you were running an entire city.
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Ferrago
as making the title easier but to me it felt more of an open invitation to play about and explore the streets to the fullest. Granted, the huge map can often feel a little too big, especially when you're required to traverse vast sections of countryside r
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Fragland
The hype-haters will already look the other way now thanks to my enormous praise. But I’ve got good intentions with you guys. I’m trying to play in a cup. Because of your gruff attitude, you’re missing one of the best titles of this year and I
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PALGN
in the previous games is just inspiring. An example of this would be at 8am on the game's clock Playback's DJ commented how it was time to rise for the early morning, or on the K-Jah West station where DJ commented on how it was going to be a rainy day an
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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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GMR Magazine
killed by an idiotic A.I. driver. The most bothersome flaw is that the targeting still has not been completely fixed. Cycling through multiple targets is easy enough, but sometimes acquiring an initial lock is difficult, and the camera doesn't always coop
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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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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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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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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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