Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Drive through the largest GTA environment ever -- The game has three cities players can explore, for a gaming area 5 times larger than Vice City
Recruit new characters into a street gang and take over by leading drive-by shootings against rivals Steal all-new vehicles, including bicycles
Improved fighting elements -- smoother hand-to-hand combat, plus the ability to hold a weapon in each hand
New graphics elements as cars get dirty and even rust, the longer you drive them
Advanced role-playing elements -- Unlike previous GTA characters, Carl can swim and he needs to eat to survive

Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the best on the market
Comment: This game has to be one of the best PS2 games that money can buy. For the whole GTA series i can only say good things. i really do recommend this game.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Game Ever
Comment: This is the best game I have ever played PERIOD. it disappoints me to see how bad GTA IV was compared to this

Customer Rating:
Summary: My son loves this game!
Comment: My son wanted this game and we couldn't find it any cheaper than here. He loves this game.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Best PS2 game ever?
Comment: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is by far the best ps2 game I've ever played!

The game has incredible gameplay that no other game even comes close to! You can do almost anything; from playing a game of pool at a local bar, to flying jet planes thousands of feet in the air! You can even jump out of that plane and parachute back down if you feel like it!

There's hundreds of vehicles at your disposal, and the physics that go with them feel great.

Besides having great gameplay, San Andreas also has the most complete, detailed, and immersive gameworld ever created. The state of San Andreas (a parody of California & Nevada) feels like such a real place! You'll see gangsters and drug dealers walking around the bad neighboorhoods, rich people hanging out in Vinewood (the games version of Beverly Hills), and sunbathers hanging out at the beach. If you leave the city and go out to the country side, you'll run across small villages inhabited by stereotypical rednecks... If you travel all the way to San Fierro (a parody of San Francisco) you'll even run into some hippies.

Besides having an immersive world to explore, there's also a very well-crafted story. You'll come to like many of the characters in here, from a hippie named the "Truth" to a secretive government agent (straight from the X-Files) known as Toreno...

The whole story arc also has a strange resemblence to the Rodney King case and the riots that happened afterward (this game is set in a parody of California, in 1992). I won't go into detail, but many of the situations feel eerily similar to real events, which makes the whole thing feel even more real.

I'll admit that this game is far from perfect though:

-poor police A.I. means running from the police is more frustrating than fun.

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-the graphics can look pretty awful at times...

But other than that (and a few glitches here and there) the game is perfect, and I can't imagine any PS2 collection being complete without it.

I highly recommend this game to any Mature gamer.

















Customer Rating:
Summary: sucks, sucks sucks
Comment: one of the worst gta games ever made!
I mean come on grown men riding around on bicycles?