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GTA:SA First Impressions & reviews
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27-10-2004 3:31pm#1I know theres loads of threads about GTA so merge this if you want but I think more people will read it if it has its own thread
Just been playing it for an hour or two and heres a few small things ive noticed.
-You are broken in much easier than Vice City.Lots of small missions that get you used to radar, shooting, fighting, haircuts, working out, driving, spraypainting, buying clothes ETC you have alot longer to get used to the game.
-DEAR GOD the play area is massive.... its like comparing Ron Jermerys lad to a midget childs eskimo shriveled pecker!
-You can leave the city but early on you get a phonecall from a cop telling you if you leave you will chased down
-The graphics havent improved at all from Vice City but I dont really mind!
-The 90s setting works really well, I wasnt mad about the music stations when I read the track listing but they are surprisingly good. There is a chat staion called WCTR - Talk Radio.
-Lots of little improvements like aiming - much easier. you can now walk up to a fence and press jump , you will scale the fence.
-The bike is great fun You can hold x or tap to go fast. L1 makes you do little jumps.
-Instead of "100 health" you have a red health bar,Also theres a fairly wide variety of foods to buy!
-There is a motorway with sliproads and theres a good few massive bridges in the first city.
-The map is much better.Areas you havent been are shaded grey and you can zoom in and out. I havent been in the countryside but from the map it looks like there is **** loads of it!
I know they are only small impressions but will post more as I play on.0
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-Much better animations for the characters
-People on the streets talk alot more , feels more alive. You can walk up to them and press left on the D-pad to say a negative comment or Right for a posative comment.
-If you get a van you can drive to a house at night time.Brake in and load the van full of stuff - then drive it to a store house. You have a noise metre, if your noisy you will wake the people up and they call the cops
-If you hold L1 your stats come up on the screen in a little box. They are Respect, Stamina, Muscle, Fat, Sex Appeal
-I dont know what its for but in your house ( where you save ETC ) there is a camera which you can take and save pictures with, you can then view them in a gallery. There is also a spray can for spraying over rival gangs tags. I guess they are like hudden packages as there is 100 to find and spray over. Some are hid on the roofs of buildings.
-You have skill levels for your weapons. Im poor with everything except pistol which im "gangsta" with
-There is loads and loads of stats which you can look at from the options menu. Much more than were in Vice City.
If anyone has any questions I'll try my best to figure them out. Oh and ive been playing 1:45 mins and im 4.81 % into the game.0 -
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Damn. I hope there's some mental hard missions, tho.Tusky wrote:-You are broken in much easier than Vice City.Lots of small missions that get you used to radar, shooting, fighting, haircuts, working out, driving, spraypainting, buying clothes ETC you have alot longer to get used to the game.
Well, hope its bigger on the PC.Tusky wrote:-DEAR GOD the play area is massive.... its like comparing Ron Jermerys lad to a midget childs eskimo shriveled pecker!
Excellent. This sounds like fun. Usually I have to run down @ least 2 coppers, grenade the car, before they even notice me. Me loves being chased by the pigs :cool:Tusky wrote:-You can leave the city but early on you get a phonecall from a cop telling you if you leave you will chased downTusky wrote:-The graphics havent improved at all from Vice City but I dont really mind![/QUOTE}
Its a PS2. The graphics CAN NOT get better, as there's a limit on how far they can push the graphics, due to hard-ware constrictions. On the PC, however, they'll be so... so... sweeeet, no doubt
Not bothered. I'll just do the usual putting-of-MP3-shortcuts into the MP3 folder. There's nothing better than listening to Exodus when killing the bystanders.Tusky wrote:-The 90s setting works really well, I wasnt mad about the music stations when I read the track listing but they are surprisingly good. There is a chat staion called WCTR - Talk Radio.Tusky wrote:-Lots of little improvements like aiming - much easier. you can now walk up to a fence and press jump , you will scale the fence.[/QUOTE}
For aiming; buy a mouse. It makes it so easier.
Seemingly, without exercise, your character can become overwight. This mean he or she can't run as well from the cops, gangsters, etc, before running out of breath/stamina.Tusky wrote:-Instead of "100 health" you have a red health bar,Also theres a fairly wide variety of foods to buy!
I wonder is there any animals you can run over. Also, is there any farm viechles. Imagine; mowing people over with a combine harvester [spelling?].Tusky wrote:-The map is much better.Areas you havent been are shaded grey and you can zoom in and out. I havent been in the countryside but from the map it looks like there is **** loads of it!
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All in all, I can't wait till the game comes out on the PC Its gonna be so so sweet :cool:0 -
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the_syco wrote:Damn. I hope there's some mental hard missions, tho.
Well, hope its bigger on the PC.
Excellent. This sounds like fun. Usually I have to run down @ least 2 coppers, grenade the car, before they even notice me. Me loves being chased by the pigs :cool:
Not bothered. I'll just do the usual putting-of-MP3-shortcuts into the MP3 folder. There's nothing better than listening to Exodus when killing the bystanders.
Seemingly, without exercise, your character can become overwight. This mean he or she can't run as well from the cops, gangsters, etc, before running out of breath/stamina.
I wonder is there any animals you can run over. Also, is there any farm viechles. Imagine; mowing people over with a combine harvester [spelling?].
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All in all, I can't wait till the game comes out on the PC Its gonna be so so sweet :cool:
Yea you do get fat if you eat too much and dont exercise/work out. There are farm vehicles but I aint come across any yet.
- The damage on vehicles has been done up with different kinds of damage ETC
-The A.I of drivers and cops is alot better, cops dont seem to come out of nowhere as much.
-Terrible terrible pop up. As bad if not worse than Vice City. People pop up almost right in front of you as you drive along...I dont really care though because the rest is soooo good.0 -
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I wonder is there any animals you can run over. Also, is there any farm viechles. Imagine; mowing people over with a combine harvester
IGN says there is a combine harvester
with graphics this bad, i think its a joke that this game got a 9.9 from IGN, and a 9.6 from gamespot. It should automatically lower the score to at least 9.0
For me graphics don't count as long as they are functional. If the game is great fun then it doesn't matter if it looks crap. Classic examples are mario 64 and Doom. They look dire now but are still ridiculously good fun.
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