GTA: San Andreas progress thread (NO SPOLIERS PLEASE)

[Beware the Beast Man]

So how far have all you gamers made it so far? I'm still in the early stages of Los Santos. I have the Sweet missions finished, one more Big Smoke and Ryder mission each to go, and I finished one OG Loc mission. Anyone pimped yet? Or bet on the horses?

[EarlG]

1. I'm outside of Los Santos now

And I've got to tell you: Mt. Chiliad ROCKS :)

[DrWeird]

4. Hell yes it does!

I just got there yesterday too. It takes like five minutes just to get to the top on a motorcycle. Its a lot faster coming down.

[Huckebein the Raven]

12. Have you been to Area-51 yet ?

I'll say no more.

[DrWeird]

13. No, I haven't unlocked that area yet.

And I'm not sure how to.

[EarlG]

22. Yes, especially if you take the

really quick way down ;)

You know what I'm talking about.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. I opened up the map on the first day.

Best place to do ambulance missions is in Montgomery, because it's only 3 blocks wide.

[NJGeek]

2. Is that on XBox?

I haven't pulled my xbox out of the closet in a while, we moved recently. I was thinking of picking this up. How would you rate it?

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. I dont think it's out on XBox Yet, just PS2.

I give it a solid 10/10. It is by far the most expansive console game i have ever played. There are all kinds of new features and hidden missions. In a word: awesome.

[DS1]

6. Expansive Good!

I love huge areas to explore in a game, it's what drew me to a number of Ultima successions. After the 2002 Election I dropped it back in the PC and cruised around for hours picking people off. Alarming as that might sound, it was a real stress relief :-)

Perhaps I'll rent this one and give it a shot

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. The area is five times the size of Vice City.

Three cities: Los Santos (LA), San Fiero (SF), and Las Venturas (Vegas). Los Santos alone is bigger than the whole of Vice City.

[Huckebein the Raven]

8. Is there a Beverly Hills in Los Santos ?

Also, how's the dating scene in the game going for you ?

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. I haven't made it too far on the dating scene,

but I did pick up a bouquet of flowers during a mission (??). The Beverly Hills-like area is called Rodeo. The place names are very similar to place names in Southern Cali. For example, Carl Johnson (your character) starts the game out in Ganton (Compton).

[DS1]

14. I'm assuming Vice City is bigger than GTA III "Liberty City"

aka the first one, which is the only one I have...

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. Yes, Vice City was roughly twice the size of Liberty.

So you can imagine how huge this game is.

[EarlG]

21. Don't rent it, buy it!

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.

[DS1]

23. I'm poor

:-)

Maybe later

[The Minus World]

9. OG Loc!

I'm exactly where you're at in the game. I played that Space Chimp game in the bar and got a score of 100,000, thinking that it was going to unlock something cool - it didn't.

The game's pretty remarkable so far.

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. Funny thing is,

If Space Chimp came out in 1982, that game alone would have run $40-$50!

[Kid_A]

16. I did something incredibly fun in the game yesterday...

I was doing a mission in San Fierro that in involved driving a small boat, so I thought I'd head towards Las Venturas to see what it's like. The bridges are blocked off, so the game doesn't want you to go there yet, but the beach was wide open... I landed the boat on the beach, and automatically got four wanted stars, so I freaked out and jacked a truck and headed into the desert. A frantic chase ensued where I led the cops all over the northern section of the map, down the Las Venturas strip, back into the desert, through the train tunnel, and past the military base where I was promptly blown up by overzealous guards. All the while listening to Merle and Patsy and Willie on the radio of my stolen dune buggy.

My God this game rules...

[Huckebein the Raven]

17. If you jump the fences at the airport in Los Santos

and steal a plane and try to go to San Fierro or places you haven't unlocked yet, you get shot down by Harrier jets

[Kid_A]

18. I thought about trying that,

but I figured you had to go to flight school before you could fly planes...

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. If you flew off the map in the older games,

the game would lock up. I never wanted to take my chances.

[Beware the Beast Man]

19. There was a think like that on the Daily Show a few months ago

There was a couple in New York who lived in a house that was crashed into 23 times by oncoming motorists. The Daily Show crew decided to create a "dramatic reenactment" that showed Tommy Vercetti flying down the street, rolling his ride, crashing into a building, emerging barely alive from the exploding wreckage, and mowing down cops with the "minigun." I laughed to the point of tears and stomach pains!