| Grand Theft Auto San Andreas | 
 enlarge | From: Rockstar Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (19 reviews)
Sales Rank: 416
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 27888
Model: 710425278884
UPC: 710425278884
EAN: 0710425278884
ASIN: B000EHQDA0
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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Product Description
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Greatest Hits brings back the incredible action of the hit game series. Carl Johnson left the San Andreas neighborhood of Los Santos five years ago, when it was being ripped apart by drugs and gang violence. When he returns in the early 90s, his mother has been killed, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are criminals. When crooked cops frame him for murder, he decides to save himself and his family by taking over the streets. Advanced role-playing elements -- Unlike previous GTA characters, Carl can swim and he needs to eat to survive Side missions help develop skills that come into play later -- from working out at the gym to gambling in a casino Features well-known actors voicing characters including Samuel L. Jackson, comedian David Cross, Andy Dick, and rapper Ice-T Soundtrack includes Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Best PS2 game ever? September 5, 2008
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.
 grand theft auto San Andreas August 3, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have not yet recieved my purchase. This has never happened to me before and I am really dissappointed. I basically paid for something for nothing. It has been over 2 months.
I recently moved and I gave my new address which is 12361 Oak Park Blvd. NE #307 Blaine,MN 55434. I could have been an error on my part, but I don't think so. I hope this can be resolved.
Emily
The worst GTA EVER July 2, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
BEWARE OF THIS GAME. GTA san Andreas has a lot of mature content, and isn't as fun as the others.
love it June 20, 2008
Driving is realistic. lisences are tough to get. U could play this game for years.
 More of an uninspired side step than a step forward for the series. April 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Most will disagree with me on this, but I consider San Andreas to be the worst of the Grand Theft Auto series. Its not a bad game by any means, on the contrary, I think its quite good which is why I'm giving it an 8.0, or "great" rating. It just seems like its not nearly the step forward from Vice City that I had hoped.
The graphics are pretty much exactly the same as they were in Vice City. It still has all the problems Vice City had, bad textures, shifty frame rate, bad load times, glitches galore, no fingers and bad character design. I really don't notice any visual upgrade at all.
The music is pretty good, although I don't consider it to be better than the music in Vice City or the talk shows from either Vice City or GTA III. I did however have a cool moment when I was listening to the country station: I was driving along in a taxi listening to some country signer sing on about how his ex is in Texas, not paying attention to the road at all mind you, and then bam! I flew off the top of the mountain pass over Los Angeles, probably the highest jump I've ever seen, and land right side up on top of a building, and my car survives. Just a fun moment related to the music I thought I'd share.
The game play is essentially the same with some nice tweaks. For example, you can swim now, a very welcome change. There's a new girlfriend feature, but its pretty boring and very unneeded, plus the hot coffee feature just feeds people like Jack Thompson. The only person I can picture truly enjoying that are horny little kids or pathetic super nerds. Seriously guys, grow up. The territory focused gang wars could've been a nice feature, but in the end it was just a waste of time that had pretty much no impact on anything at all. The thing that really annoyed me about it is that you'd go and capture some territory and then all of the sudden another area you control is under attack, its just irritating and wastes time. The car customization was pretty cool, but it didn't really matter since you'd customize it, then drive it around the corner and it'd explode. The whole thing about you character changing depending on how you play was cool, but it felt more like a slapped on novelty than a true addition to the game play formula. There's more guns now, along with a cool parachute and jet pack. There's also bicycles now. Another thing that ticks me off is the idiotic story. It starts off well enough, but ti gets really stupid really fast.
Overall it just seems like a cash in, but its still fun to play thanks to the winning GTA formula. It really feels like they catered purely to a very immature and gangster/rap obsessed audience, most of which are too young to play this game, but their parents buy ti for them anyway. Then when the kid acts out they'll blame the video games rather than their bad parenting and demand more control and restrictions over the industry.
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