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2 days to go,hope they wer'nt tellin porky's :-)
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Posted: 2004-06-15 09:54:50
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Looking good!
Monday 14th June 2004
NEW GTA: SAN ANDREAS DETAILS THIEVED
Drive-bys, farms, haircuts and swimming all to feature in latest GTA game
15:22 Rockstar has leaked yet more details of its forthcoming crime-athon GTA: San Andreas, and by all accounts it's sounding like being the biggest underworld event in the UK since Reggie Kray kicked the bucket.
Detail certainly seems to be the name of the game, with tons of new features poised to enter the fray. Firstly, there is the importance of appearance - gamers can whisk their budding criminal off to the barbers for a stylish new cut, and depending on the outcome, NPCs will either react with approval or chortle uncontrollably (a Keegan perm should be a guaranteed winner for the latter).
There is also a considerably larger playing area, with farms, fields, rivers, forests, deserts and even a half-mile-high mountain existing on the city outskirts. No news of any banjo-strumming inbreds lurking about, however.
Elsewhere, plummeting into a river won't result in immediate death - characters are now blessed by the ability to swim. Darkened areas and shading provide hiding places for evading police, and enraged cops won't give up the chase as soon as you've sped away in a vehicle (apparently, desperate hero-types will attempt to cling onto your bumper for dear life, recalling the famous action sequence from Terminator 2).
Oh, and if you fancy yourself as something of a Tony Soprano/Don Corleone, we've also heard that there is poised to be a greater 'organised crime' aspect too, with opportunities for controlling parts of the map and making a quick buck.
As for missions, early reports reveal that there will be one involving fleeing corrupt cops at an airport on a... wait for it... BMX pedal bike, and gamers will also be given the daunting task of steering a car while its passengers perform a drive-by shooting.
Saying this isn't the most ambitious gaming project on the PS2 yet is like saying France didn't fluke it against England in the Euro 2004 group game; i.e. a complete load of crap. Face it, San Andreas is going to be the mother amongst mothers, the videogame Tarantino would have made if he spent his younger days playing Spectrum instead of watching films.
Look out for it on PS2 in October this year (we hope).
Stephen Daultrey
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Posted: 2004-06-17 02:55:10
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I want it !
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Posted: 2004-06-17 13:09:46
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October cant come soon enough! :-(
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Posted: 2004-06-17 19:25:12
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Got the new PS2 mag. Huge review in there.
You are called C.J. and are in a gang with your brother.
It looks excellent. No news of online play though
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Posted: 2004-06-18 23:22:01
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Has the mag got a website to it?
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Posted: 2004-06-18 23:57:41
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Ive never been very interested in plots, where characters have names and backgrounds. I really dont care, id rather just play the game. Thats what was great about the first 3 GTA games, the main character had no name, making him you.
The games market is over saturated with game characters, Lara, Sonic, Mario, Tommy Vercetti... who cares ?
No online play in GTA:SA wont be a disaster, but it will be a major disappointment for me.
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Posted: 2004-06-18 23:59:21
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No online play for gta san andreas,
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/[....].php?section_name=pub&aid=3642
No online play for GTA San Andreas
Rob Fahey 12:07 21/06/2004
Problems with doing GTA gameplay online haven't been solved, says Houser
Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will not feature any online play when it launches on PlayStation 2 later this year, according to Rockstar creative director Dan Houser, who claims that it would be "impossible" to implement GTA online.
Speaking in an interview with Dutch games magazine Power Unlimited, Houser categorically stated that "San Andreas will not be online," going on to explain that "we would have to sacrifice too much for it."
"We have a lot of script writers working on GTA, and they use so many scenarios to build the story - it's impossible to do that in an online game, that problem has not been solved," he explained.
The lack of an online mode in the PS2 version almost certainly also rules out the possibility of online play in the Xbox and PC versions which will probably appear at some point in 2005 (although Rockstar has not as yet confirmed the existence of anything other than the PS2 SKU).
However, Houser would not rule out the possibility of the GTA franchise moving online at some point in the future - and admitted that the company has already looked into the possibilities presented by online play.
"We are thinking about it," he confessed, "but it's simply better to do the things we want to see in GTA in a single-player game. I'm not saying that online games aren't fun, but I do believe that online games are not yet ready for the immersive gameplay that GTA has to offer."
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Oh well,maybe the next one will have it,on Ps3
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Posted: 2004-06-22 20:23:34
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Ah to hell with them, they're talking tripe. If the actual fans of the GTA games can make their own GTA online mod, then why cant Rockstar ?
Who cares about the single player storyline..? everybody wants the game to go online, something id sacrifice a couple of things for. Im sorry but their excuse is just plain ignorance to what the fans want from the game, its like they cant be bothered to let it go online as they'd probably need to fun the servers..
GRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !
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Posted: 2004-06-22 23:05:27
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so has whos pre-ordered their copy the of GTA: San An
i have and i cant wait!!
[ This Message was edited by: The Little Master on 2004-06-22 22:29 ]
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Posted: 2004-06-22 23:28:56
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