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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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TotalVideoGames
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 corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now,
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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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Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
to the experience, I can't possibly describe them all here, but I will attempt to outline what makes San Andreas such a significant game. Based on my progress for the OPM exclusive, you could extrapolate that it would take about 72 hours to score 100 perc
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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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GameSpot AU
corruption throughout the city and the police force - especially one such Sergeant called Tenpenny (voiced by the ever excellent Samuel L Jackson). Los Santos is huge. It is around the same size as Vice City or Liberty City, but it's only when you steal y
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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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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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Game XC
But there’s more to be had in this game. More of what, you ask? Well…everything. Was Vice City too small for you? How would you rather rampage across a whole state? Are three big cities, lots of smaller towns, and the countryside surrounding each
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Jive Magazine
As it stands at the beginning of writing this review, my CJ is losing muscle mass because he was so ripped from working out that he ran slowly, so he’s on a starvation diet. He has blond cornrows, tattoos all over, an outfit from the Zip, and a silver
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UnderGroundOnline
Obviously, it's a great game. An instant classic. But you already knew that before you even started reading this review, didn't you? Hell, it was a given before the twelve-millionth copy of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was sold. Still, I'll try and
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Xequted
Surprisingly easy to pick up, and startlingly difficult to master, San Andreas offers the most complete gaming package ever made on the current generation of consoles.
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Electronic Gaming Monthly
Holy f***ing s***. (Sorry...I'm swearing a lot more now because of San Andreas.) I can't wrap my head around how much stuff is packed into this one disc. It's grand, it's ambitious, and funny as this may sound, it's legendary.
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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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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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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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Game Power Australia
Computer and Video Games
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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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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AllGame
Players take the role of a young man named Carl "C.J." Johnson, who thought he had escaped the gangland lifestyle by moving away from his Los Santos home. When his mother is murdered, he returns to the neighborhood of his childhood, only to become
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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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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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GameSpy
Few games in history (if any) carry the amount of cachet
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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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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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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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Next Level Gaming
Without a doubt the greatest game every created on the Playstation 2 videogame system. It is the best hands-down. No other game can come even close to this one...The possibilities of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas are endless.
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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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Videogame City
When things are all said and done, 2004 may end up being the biggest year for gaming in a long time. It’s not because there have been more games than usual, or even more hype than usual (which after Halo 2, seems a bit understated). 2004 seems to be
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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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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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3D Avenue
San Andreas is set in the 90's where gang warfare is rife. You play as Carl Johnson, affectionately known as CJ amongst his hood. The game begins with CJ returning from Liberty City upon hearing his mother has been murdered and the city of Los Santos is
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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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PGNx Media
The game’s targeting system has been improved and is very reminiscent of the developer’s "Manhunt," which overall makes it more cohesive. The game allows you to get better with guns and you’ll have different phases, which will give you more control
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