GTA: San Andreas - The saga continues!

Rockstar Games has confirmed that yet another GTA game is in the works and will be released for sale in the US by October 19. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is going to prove to be better than it's predecessors. 3 times the size of VC and with even more things to do. Then, if you thought it was over there, Rockstar will come out with another GTA game, Grand Theft Auto 4: Sin City. There's nothing on that game for the time being, just it's release date, which will be November 4. Two months after GTA: SA. I have, however, read everything they have so far on GTA: San Andreas, and it is so cool! I just can't wait to get my hands on this game. You guys better preorder it now, because it's gonna sell out the first week! :D Check out this site for more info on it: http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/gta4/index.html

Make sure you read EVERYTHING on it! ;)

Thanks for telling me like, last month's news. Your timely reporting is appreciated.

yeah, its old, but whatever

I dont know if im happy or sad for that fact how huge the cities are going to be. I think i read somewhere that each section of the city will be as big as the whole thing of Vice city. i thought it took forever to get to one end to the other. Now it's gonna take even longer....

yeah, but it's still kinda cool. :)

w00t. cant wait to drag an innocent victim out of his/her sportscar, then back up over his head, and then taking a nice ride over the sidewalk.

Rockstar got trapped in the endless cycle of crappy game production. GTA3 is the best and probably always will have the highest ratings. Before you know it next it's going to be GTA: Golf Cart Scramble or GTA: Bicycle City. Oh yeah, I can't wait.

GTA3 'tis the best one so far, defintely.

Jin my friend you are quite mistaken. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the final in the grand theft auto trilogy (the gta's on ps2). There is no grand theft auto 4: sin city. And Vice City was and still is better than 3.

No, I think Jin's right. Here, check this out:

http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/article....41&sectionID=29

GTA:VC was freaking awesome so stfu.

Kanji did you read the update at the top. I have extremely reliable sources that state grand theft auto san adreas is the final in the trilogy

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GTA:VC was freaking awesome so stfu.

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agreed. Unfortunately some bitch "borrowed" it and now "can't find it"

GRRRR!! :pissed:

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Kanji did you read the update at the top. I have extremely reliable sources that state grand theft auto san adreas is the final in the trilogy

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Are you sure? So if it doesn't come out, what will they have for Playstation 3? They must have something in mind at least to have already come up with the name.

GTA VC = crap, all they did was just add features which left it EXTREMELY lacking in the gameplay department.

GTA 3 = very fun still play it, while i can't stand playing VC for 20 minutes because it's so dull.

San Andreas looks to be just like another VC where all they're going to do is add features and "improve graphics" even though the graphics in VC were lackluster IMO. Now Rockstar is trying to rush out as many GTA's as possible to maximize profit it seems, they tried to push VC out as fast as possible for more sales. Only took about a year to finish VC. While GTA 3 was worked on for two or three.

i didnt know so many people liked the 3rd over VC....

To this day I still haven't beaten the 3rd one. I got bored of it...I think im stuck on the one where you have to run over some wooden stands of some gang while cars chase you other something. oh god..im starting to remember how i hated the 3rd island...

I really liked the aditions of motorcycles and better holicoptors and better boats....

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GTA VC = crap, all they did was just add features which left it EXTREMELY lacking in the gameplay department.

GTA 3 = very fun still play it, while i can't stand playing VC for 20 minutes because it's so dull.[/b]

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Aaarrgh! Thou dost not notice subtleties wench! How can you even begin to say that GTA 3 is better? After playing Vice City, you notice just how much was wrong with the third one. Graphics, cars, boats, all 'o' that pales in comparison!

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San Andreas looks to be just like another VC where all they're going to do is add features and \"improve graphics\" even though the graphics in VC were lackluster IMO. Now Rockstar is trying to rush out as many GTA's as possible to maximize profit it seems, they tried to push VC out as fast as possible for more sales. Only took about a year to finish VC. While GTA 3 was worked on for two or three.

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It took 3 years to make GTA 3 because Rockstar had no idea how to make a game like that, the Playstation 2 was still new don't forget. When they made Vice City, they had a solid idea of what they were doing, having done it before.

It's actually not true that it will be very similar, San Andreas will be extremely different. I received an expose' type of thing in a playstation magazine, and there are many different things:

- CJ (the main character) can get fat or build himself up.
- Pedestrians will help other pedestrians instead of just walking past
- Many motorists will fight back rather than let you steal their car, so some pistol whipping or punching will be in order
- Spraying your car will not mask you from the police forever, you can get a haircut or change your clothes to avoid being noticed.
- Four person drive-bys

There's a lot of other stuff, if you feel like argueing more, albeit past me to bag your preferences, i'll be happy to state a few more. :)

I just hope this one isn't too "gansta". Look, there's a line between originality (having a main character that isn't Italian or in the mob), and catering to a music-genre demographic (today's "gangsta" rap). If I'm going to turn on the radio and only hear rap on the radio, and have other stereotypes of the sort, I might not be able to play the game out of my own reasons. Now I'm pretty open to the new character, the ideas about eating and getting fat, and the size of the islands, but I just don't want to see a total "mainstream-attack" on the game.

It's set in the early 90's. Just because it starts out in a Ghetto-type area, won't mean it'll stay there. You do realise that the foundations of the GTA series are mostly stereotypes right? :|

Yes, I realize that. But what I'm trying to say is I don't want that image repeadily thrown in my face while I'm playing, just because they want some people to say "Dogg that drive-by was the shit!" eveytime it happens with "gangstas" in the car, like it hasn't been done dozens of times in the rest of the series.

More features in a game does not necissarily make it a better game.

Even the quality of the radio stations were far superior in 3, VC just has crap everything. You can't say a game was better than another that was similar to it just because it has more features, and "better graphics" even though the graphics in VC were horribly done, too many things out of proportion, bad sound, crappy textures, and so on.

The GTA series is a hit or miss type series, VC missed completely, and San Andreas looks like it'll be missing too. :(

which one of gta 3 and VC is just a matter of opinion. I liked VC better much thx to its cool 80's feeling. I thought 3 was a little too gray.
And about that GTA:4: I think I've heard some rumors that it will be an online-only game. like a mmorpg where you play together with thousands of players. I dont know if its true... but it would be REALLY cool. Maybe thats why its not coming to the ps2 as someone mentioned.

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The GTA series is a hit or miss type series, VC missed completely, and San Andreas looks like it'll be missing too. :(

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just your opinion, buddy.

Ragdoll physics (impact animation) is supposed to make its debut on this third game in the PS2 GTA series. The endless possibilities with ragdoll physics . . .

http://oldsite.havok.com/xtra/demos/demo-ragdoll2.html

Check this out! :D

ragdolls are nothing new - standard nowadays.

Yeah, Postal 2 had them ages ago. Maybe it's just Rockstar hyping it up..you know..."NEW NEVER BEFORE SEEN* RAGDOLL ...PSYHICS"

*in any gta game

how could so many people say that 3 was better than VC? The main character in 3 was a frickin mute and never said one word. Besides that game was way too damn quick

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Yeah, Postal 2 had them ages ago. Maybe it's just Rockstar hyping it up..you know...\"NEW NEVER BEFORE SEEN* RAGDOLL ...PSYHICS\"

*in any gta game

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Postal 2 O_o .... You mean Unreal 2003.

Cuz thats they engine they use.

oh dear god...change your sig now please...that is TOOOO big

Vice CIty was cooll, but it seemed like GTA3 kept more to the original series than VC, which made it fun. The '80's theme kinda got on my nerves after awhile, along with the ungodly lens flares. WTF, lens flares? I don't remember the last time I've seen a lens flare outside a lens. Otherwise VC was pretty good, and all the work (I'm pretty sure) was done from scratch, as opposed to every other game on the market which uses the unreal engine.

The thing was, GTA was much more fun that VIce City.

Plus, any form of entertainment uses stereotypes, else you'd have to watch two days of boring crap just to figure out one character.

Topic kinda late... :P Wasn't it announced at E3? Vice city pwns, so eat shit and die. I thing the fourth will be good, and I'm looking forward to playing it even if it does suck.

How many of you guys are going to buy it, and how excited are you?

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*raises hand* I only have one complaint though, but...im not going to say...it will sound racist, but it's just that i dont like the "ghetto thugz in the hood" attitude(which it does look like it now)

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How many of you guys are going to buy it, and how excited are you?

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*raises hand* I only have one complaint though, but...im not going to say...it will sound racist, but it's just that i dont like the \"ghetto thugz in the hood\" attitude(which it does look like it now)[/b]

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Finally...Someone knows what I've been talking about!

yeah. I dont want to fight gang wars and roleplay some 'nigga from da hood'.

Sadly, most young male adolecents apprantly do.

It's like.....you can read me. This is exactly what I have been trying to say! And, I'll bet you most of those male adolescents are in fact white male adolescents.

50 cent and Eminem loving "wiggas"

Pathetic drones following the trends.

You my friend, have seen the light! I just hate to see what the next trend will be, because I doubt this music will last until the end of the decade.

In Europe, its trance/dance music.
And "Hardstyle" for the really cool and hardcore party people.


I'll just keep listening to my punk music and ignore them.

Makes me wonder if punk will seriously become mainstream stuff :shock: Oh Jesus, no!!!

See, it's the mainstream-like nature of rap and "gangsta" music that turns me off it. The songs are played out to no end in order to pacify a demographic. This is leading us to such a primitive nature. People aren't expanding their intake of different music because either they're sick of the "popular" stuff, or they love it.

Seriously, I find myself watching Fuse because it does not cater to these whiny children. They have a hip hop show, but they don't center a whole channel around it. They have musical balls.

And how does a new song suddenly get classified as popular? First day it comes out and it's being played non-stop! Doesn't anyone call in and say "Well, to tell you the truth, I like this mainstream stuff, but this song actually annoys me to no end..."

Eh.... :(

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Makes me wonder if punk will seriously become mainstream stuff :shock: Oh Jesus, no!!!

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Allready kinda had that phase. Pop-punk/emo.
The nature of 'punk' however is to be anti-mainstream.

Talking full-blown here. With they way technology is advancing, and other factors, I-I.....I don't know anymore....

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Let's just say I'll pick up Fable and Halo 2, and then go to town. And by town I mean my bedroom.

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Let's just say I'll pick up Fable and Halo 2, and then go to town. And by town I mean my bedroom.

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That just sounds really sad.






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VICE CITY WAS TEH FORTH ONE

san andreas is gonna be teh fifth

no vice city was teh fifth

Yeah, London was one.

Hey reminds me. GTA2 was awesome.

Actually, London (which was awesome) is considered GTA one still, and Vice City is still considered GTA3. Kinda like Starcraft and Brood Wars. But otherwise, yes, Vice City was the fifth release in the GTA series.

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Let's just say I'll pick up Fable and Halo 2, and then go to town. And by town I mean my bedroom.

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That just sounds really sad.






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I will have the last laugh! :D Though after the life-waster Morrowind was, I don't know if I will be able to even touch ze Fable.

Wasn't GTA London an expansion on the first GTA? Cause i've got it, and you need the GTA disc to play it. :|

yeah it is.

But Rockstar released it free to download :) (GTA, GTA:L and GTA:2)

Personaly, I liked GTA 3 better then VC. But I perfer first person, old school, and role playing games. Like maxamo, aliens vs predator (best game ever!), and Odessy: the legend of nemisis.

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Let's just say I'll pick up Fable and Halo 2, and then go to town. And by town I mean my bedroom.

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That just sounds really sad.






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I will have the last laugh! :D Though after the life-waster Morrowind was, I don't know if I will be able to even touch ze Fable.[/b]

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is fable ever comin out for the pc or what... I used to love Black&White by lionhead studios/peter molyneux and after hearing so much about the open endedness of fable and the whole do what you want thing (like morrowind? loved that game) I got pretty interested but I havent heard anything about it in a while. o_o

Yes, I too loved Morrowind...but I think the PC verison of Fable is the least on their minds after this long in production. And I still think there's going to be a whole lot of bugs, just like Morrowind Xbox.

Morrowind needs such a good computer it's not funny.

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Personaly, I liked GTA 3 better then VC. But I perfer first person, old school, and role playing games. Like maxamo, aliens vs predator (best game ever!), and Odessy: the legend of nemisis.

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*Reads what wer says, has a heart attack and dies*

I too liked GTA III better than Vice. Even though my character never spoke, it was still cool to be in an Italian Mafia setting and such. The closest reference to drug-gang wars and such was only touched upon lightly (in 3).

Morrowind ran fine on my computer, but then again mine is pretty new so...I would suggest at least 512 in memory to run it. Besides, loading on PC takes 5 seconds, and 2 minutes on the Xbox. (I have an Athalon 2800 XP). A fast hard drive might help to I suppose...just a little.