Reply #21: Don't rent it, buy it!

[EarlG]

You won't get the scope of the thing in five days or whatever the rental period is. This game is friggin' HUGE. I've been playing it a couple hours a day for a week and I only just got allowed out of the first city. I played it for half an hour this morning and didn't do anything but drive around and check out the scenery.

Here you go, here's part of the review from 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 a production value that's second to none, boasts a faithfulness to '90s source material with an eerie accuracy, and provides more hours of entertainment than all the previous Grand Theft Autos combined. In short, it's a terrific unending masterpiece of a game -- and one that will never fall victim to an over-exaggeration of its lofty status. It's the defining piece of software for Sony's successful sophomore system, and it's almost impossible to imagine a PlayStation 2 library without it.