I've played GTA III and was blown out by the liberty (city) you had. I didn't played the other GTA in between and quite frankly I didn't want to play San Andreas cause I tought it was the old same old concept only in a bigger city. So you can imagine how blown away I was when I began to play San Andreas.
The shear number of things you can do is absolutly and completly mad. I think this game is better than The Sim 2 in simulating the life of someone. I really get a sense that I'm a real person with his car (stolen during the third mission) modified to my liking with mags and body modification. A person with his own hair and clothes style, with his three residences and his assets, his boat, his bike, his chopper, his friend and his girlfriend who was pretty difficult to date because of her hate of speed when driving around.
I made most of my fortune at the casino playing Blackjack and Roulette. For sure, the territories I held back in Los Santos provided with some pocket money and my garage, my car dealer and my RC shop provided me with enough money to pay for my expensive taste in terms of car modifications but I had to complete my budget by doing some deliveries in the country side and taking on some challenges such as races, stunt and many more.
You could have a great game just by wondering around and take on all the little side missions/challenges but the missions structures and the story is a very good and very engaging.
Graphic wise, everything is in there and while it's not the best around, it's sufficent. Sound are greats and should I mention the overwealming numbers of Radio stations providing known music performer.
BUT!!!!! And I hope this "but" will be corrected in a patch soon cause I'm getting very frustrated. I encountered about 5 differents crash situation that requires me to manually delete the "set" file or even scrap a save game. The joypad support is lame as it doesn't support the right analog stick. Since you need to aim with the analog stick, I sometimes find myself pausing the game in a midle of fight and switch it to Mouse-keyboard until everyone is down and then come back to joypad to drive my car. The control scheme is so bad, I had to rewrite it.
The website of Rockstar does not have a forum and there is no news about a patch coming. Only trought SanAndreas.com did I saw that I was not the only one with problems. Apparently the PC version is plague with bugs which I find odd considering it took two months to get it out after the console.
Once a Patch will be issued, this game will surely become one of my classic.
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