Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
 

https://www.gtagaming.com/images/sana...s/screen01.jpg

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It's looking like it's going to be based on Compton/South central rather than Las Vegas.

Man i hope you can just ride bikes lol riding a bike with a mob after you come on no better feelin in the world.

found more info about the improvements over the previous games..


Screenshots
- One pic shows the inside of a house, with rendered interior environments. There is furniture inside the house.
- One shows a helicopter with its searchlights on a runaway criminal.
- The others show how the main character can get fat, its a pic of him (fat) crossing the street with a donut shop in the background.
- One shows two other characters that are apart of the main character's crew.
- One shows a gang carjacking. Three guys with doo rag masks are carjacking other guys.
- One with two men sneaking around the back of a house about to rob it. They are crouching and carrying guns.
- Another one shows a california type pimped out car.
- The last one shows the background of LA with a smog sky.
- The rest are the three we have already seen.

General
- The game is more serious than the others, but the elements of comedy are still there.
- A full staff of reasearch personnel at Rockstar have been studying Las Vegas, San Diego, and Los Angeles for months to ensure that they truly capture the feelings of these cities.

Location
- The game will not take place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Las Vegas. It will take place IN ALL THREE as well as the countryside in between.
- Los Angeles will be called Los Santos, San Francisco will be called San Fieero, and Las Vegas will be called Las Venturra.
- Each city is about the same size as Vice City.
- Not all cities will be open at the start of the game.
- The entire game will be about four to six times as large as Vice City.
- San Fierro (San Francisco) will have hills. This city is more driving based.
- You can drive from LA, through the countryside, up a mountain, into San Fran, and onto Las Vegas.
- Driving through the desert won’t be empty and plain with a couple cacti...it will be vibrant and alive with weird things to see.
- There will be a lot more buildings with open interiors.

Graphics
- The graphics engine has been tweaked. Smog will be present in LA, and real-time reflections on cars, windows, and mirrors, as well as new techniques like radial lighting, which allows for more realistic shadowing, and soft-shadow lighting for interior levels will be present.
- Everything in the game now has independent models for day and night to give better lighting and shadowing.
- The game will have ragdoll physics, or “impact animation” in Rockstar’s words.

Vehicles
- As for vehicles, there will be pimped-out lowriders, and 90’s versions of some GTA3/VC cars will return.
- There will be bicycles.

Story
- Characters from the past will return.

Gameplay
- In the Las Vegas city, you will be able to buy and build a casino - and then run it.
- You can then gamble your money in the casino.
- Your character can dual wield pistols and potentially other weapons.
- You need to eat to retain your stamina. If you eat too much fast food, you become fat and pedestrians mock you for being fat. You also run slower. To remedy this, you can go to a gym to exercise.
- You can now rob homes. The robberies will require skill and planning, however.
- You can recruit gang members and use them to do four person drive-by’s. (seen here)

Weapons
- The choice of weapons will match the time in which the era of the early 90's.

Artificial Intelligence
- Enemy/pedestrian AI will be greatly revamped and they will think more logically. You can't beat someone to death in broad daylight and not have people notice and react.
- Your enemies will be smarter, which will make robbing houses take a lot of skill.

Music
- There will be a rap station, but there will be a variety of other stations as always.

https://www.gtagaming.com/ : visit here for the screenshots

:roflmao: Excellent can't wait to work-out in the virtual gym! Like that three city-thing, just imagine the freedom...

That is quite amazing. I find it pretty funny how they bother to include the L.A. smog, though. :P

Wait... is that Beyonce in one of those scans? BeyoNce doesnt even really fit in a gang type setting.

Well, I guess if they made Jenna Jameson fit...

And hey, I see tupac also, cool.

I may be mistaken but the scans from the french website are taken from an English PS2 mag called PSM2. I cud be wrong but they look like they are.

thanks for posting that info infenal, to be honest i wasnt really excited about this new gta game, but after reading all that info, it got me all excited again.. :D

new screens
 

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https://www.gtagaming.com/

hey Vic, doesn't seem like this game is way too ambitious for the ps2? I wanna see how they pull all this off without horrible loading times. The ones in Vice City weren't that bad but for all the stuff they adding into Sand Andreas..

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nvermind..

:D

game keeps getting better and better:), and its good to hear they're doing something about the load times.:)

OKay guys and gals heres a site that informs us about everything on San Andreas so far i think its true and there are real pics https://https://fivestar.thegfcc.com/list.htm :pimp:

link doesnt work.. :boo:

yea the link didnt work it took me a while to get used to this hyperlink thing the other site i go on is way different here it is again and sorry.. https://fivestar.thegfcc.com/list.htm should work now i didnt erase the http that comes up and this has a http on it so i had 2 http...lol :pimp:

hey i could see it now, thanks.

GTA San Andreas Boxart



btw, how come i cant post pics anymore :confused: :(

they probably shut that function off for this part of the forums.. :irk: pretty wierd..i think it works fine everywhere else.

anyways that box art looks tight! :arrr:

thats acool cover but ive seen otha 1s and the cover is just black with gta sa on it..pretty gay..the 1 u have is cool

I heared that San Andreas will be 3 sities?? Or it will be one big sity parted into 3 lockations (like Vice, you start in one and then open the other side?)

Yo Billyum7 thanks for that info website man. :)

Also confirmed on ceefax pager 375 on channel 4 (UK Veiwers)

A dodo has wings to fly proper, and a farmers plane, yay!

i found this on another forum, san andreas MAP. dont know if its legit or not.

iv seen some maps in magazines and they all tend to look like that so maybe it is going to be something like that.

Not long left now.

the trailer with CJ parachuting from an exploding plane is twisted...i cant wait

I heard there's a leaked version available and they're trying like madman to get someone to sue there ass.

Here's something I found about it...

Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive Software are aware that an illegally obtained version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and images from the game and manual have been posted to various Internet sites. The proper authorities are investigating the theft and are continuing to investigate all possible leads to ensure there is no further dissemination of our creative content.
Downloading, possession and distribution of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, including making the game available on the Internet, is theft.
We take the theft of our intellectual property very seriously and we are and will continue to diligently and aggressively pursue this matter. If anyone finds information on websites with links to unauthorized downloads, information, scans or videos, please contact us at...
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The launch date of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas remains the same. The game will be on store shelves in North America on October 26 and in Europe on October 29."

The source is unknown( got it from a dutch BB-forum).

yea it wa sleaked

just like Halo 2..too bad they dont get soo upset as to push the release date up

just found out that Axl Rose is the DJ for K-DST fm

:shock: No way! Wow...this was unexpected...:shock:

Something Better Happen!
 

This time two years ago nearly this forum was smoking, I mean literally post after post bomb barded with people enjoying VC, ATM this forum is a morgue and no one getting excited or anticipating the game we’ve so long been waiting, I hope some familiar faces come back to this forum, new members or such to make the GTA forum what is once was and why I enjoyed it so much here. :P

from what i here, this will be the last installment of the gta trilogy(EGM reference) so perhaps the next gta will be on next-gen software.

It's sad, but true. There's a lot of people who are busy with school and jobs...they may not have time to come on here and post. Either that or they're on another GTA forum or something. :P

Another thought for the reason why not many people are on here is probably because the hype for SA isn't as wild as VC? I mean, there are a lot of people who are anticipating this game so much, but considering that a lot of information has already been revealed on what CJ can and cannot do and what SA is all about, maybe the "thrill" has just disappeared because everyone knows?

or

VC's hype was much greater because it was a such a drastic change from GTA3. Vercetti was able to do so much more things than the "Nameless" guy. So, that's probably where all the anticipation came from. As for CJ, we all know he'll be improved but it's not the same as "No name guy" from GTA3 to an actual character like "Tommy Vercetti." Have I confused you? I hope not. :right:

No, You haven’t confused me, but your explanation writes it out in black and white, VC was completely different to GTA 3 and a whole new experience, i'm anticipating SA as much as VC but..... The character Tommy Vercetti was awesome from the no named thug who couldn't talk, ride bikes or buy assets etc etc. I really thought SA would bring home the bacon with all members posting, maybe I might be being paranoid and all the posts will flow this week and next week and the future when Sand Andreas is out with people asking for mission help or I found this secret! :D :)

I completly agree. I didn`t like the Idea of changing the main character of the game, we all Loved Tommy and so.. we are afraid of the new character or something like that!! :right:,
about me, I loved Tomb Raider for example because of Lara ofcourse.. so if they released anew character as a Tomb Raider new character I simply won`t buy the game :(, but I Loved Tommy (30%), but the game style ofcourse (70%) :D, that`s why I`ll buy the game BUT with 70% saticfied and 30% worried (I hope youve got the point :right: )

Eb called, going to be picking this game up tonight after 7. First impressions will be posted tonight.

Ok Ok, nice one Infernal Mass, I live in the UK so won't get my copy until Friday, the eve of GTA SA tonight, its came quick for sure...


Edit - Try and warn us if your post includes spoilers, thanks. :)

Sinful new GTA: San Andreas trailer revealed

Explicit lyrics, parachutes featured in new GTA: San Andreas trailer; official site also updated with info on Las Vegas-style city.

With the release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas merely a week away, Rockstar Games has updated the game's official Web site to include lots of new information on Las Venturas, a desert city inspired by Las Vegas. The site features information on landmarks and other places of interest in the city, which, in GTA tradition, are clearly based on real-world locations--but injected with plenty of biting irony.

In addition, a brand new trailer for the game has been released, and GameSpot's got it. Featuring some of the dialogue, cutscenes, and action from the full game, the trailer also reveals some surprising, new gameplay elements, such as the ability to bail out of airplanes by parachute. Notably, the trailer is set to the thumping beat of 2Pac's "I Don't Give F***." The song is uncensored in the trailer, much like it will be in the game--as such, parental discretion is advised before viewing. This latest trailer is available:https://download.gamespot.com/d4/free...railer3_qt.zip

This will be ******* awesome!