Best GTA

Borat_Sagdiyev

de lioncourt wrote:

well GTA3 for me.
i have played it so many times that i feel its a part of my life now.
lol.
liked the bikes and helis in VC and SA.
but for certain reasons i HATED SA.
games arent fun when you try to make them TOO realistic.
SA has the worst cars ever!

I don't agree with that - it has all the old favourites, PLUS the bullit - a class car. Loads of new fast cars as well.

de lioncourt

Borat_Sagdiyev wrote:

I don't agree with that - it has all the old favourites, PLUS the bullit - a class car. Loads of new fast cars as well.

well i didnt complete the game, just the few first missions and honestly, i didnt like the cars at all.

are there any new cars later in the game?

Alter-Ego

Vice City. The music, the story, the art direction, all brillaint. Spent so much time playing that game. Fantastic.

theCzar

de lioncourt wrote:

well i didnt complete the game, just the few first missions and honestly, i didnt like the cars at all.

are there any new cars later in the game?

Yeah, unlike VC, the good cars seem to phased in. No driving cheetahs from the get go, but by the end there's some real demons.

But in the end, what car can compare to a harrier jump jet of your very own!?

Captain Slow IRL

gta:sa, has all the best elements of 3 and vc; and it's fookin huge!
gta 1 was THE best game on the playstation but it's nothing compared to sa (it was fun running down the hare chrishna's and elvis impersonators in the first one, shoulda put it in later games)

Borat_Sagdiyev

land9 wrote:

gta:sa, has all the best elements of 3 and vc; and it's fookin huge!
gta 1 was THE best game on the playstation but it's nothing compared to sa (it was fun running down the hare chrishna's and elvis impersonators in the first one, shoulda put it in later games)

What was the message that you got again if you managed to run over ALL of the elvis impersonators?? I can't remember it but I know there was one.

Ruu_Old

Finally picked up a copy of SA, must give it a go later on.

projectmayhem

bit late on the train there Ruu, but welcome aboard anyway

you'll quickly realise how freakin big it is, just by the boundaries of the first city... enjoy it!

Tar.Aldarion

I still have to get it, heh.

The original is best for me so far.

philologos

yep there was a good vibe about the original game

Stephen

I loved Vice City. The music, the style of it, everything. It just needed some more hills

I have to say I like San Andreas too. I'm playing it for the second time now. I love it except for the f**king gang wars. Is there any way to just cheat past them? Some kind of 100% territory cheat or something? That 'your hood is under attack!' crap gets in the way of my general mayhem around the city

philologos

the gangs wasnt that great an idea in fairness... its damn annoying running back to Los Santos all the time to gain your hoods again

Ruu_Old

projectmayhem wrote:

bit late on the train there Ruu, but welcome aboard anyway

you'll quickly realise how freakin big it is, just by the boundaries of the first city... enjoy it!

Ah I had it on the PS2 but left all that stuff at home. Now all I have is Vice City and been messing around with that (only on the Death Row mission and

have to rescue that plonker Lance Vance).

I remember a mate of mine had a massive map from SA that you get with the game, should be fun.

has to be the first one, just the best and the funniest ;]

philologos

indeed when you got bonus points for running down choristers or thats what I thought they were at least

Stephen

They were Hare Krishnas

GOURANGA!

Tar.Aldarion

Stephen wrote:

They were Hare Krishnas

GOURANGA!

Hah, that was my favourite bit.

nealmac

Stephen wrote:

I loved Vice City. The music, the style of it, everything. It just needed some more hills

I have to say I like San Andreas too. I'm playing it for the second time now. I love it except for the f**king gang wars. Is there any way to just cheat past them? Some kind of 100% territory cheat or something? That 'your hood is under attack!' crap gets in the way of my general mayhem around the city

There's no cheat that I know of, but here's a half solution. When you get the message saying that you're neighbourhood is under attack, it seems like you have two options:

Option 1: Go and help your mates, win, gain respect and keep your territory.

Option 2: Ignore it, lose respect and lose your territory.

now here's the trick. There's an option 3:

Go to your nearest safe house and save the game when you get the warning. The Territory status will be reset to what it was before you got the warning, IE, You don't lose respect, you keep your territory and you keep your sanity. OK, so it's not a cheat, and you still end up having to find a safe house, but it's better than being interupted and having to travel from the north side of Las Venturas to the South of Los Santos for a silly fight you really couldn't be arsed doing. The downside is of course that you still need to start wars at some stage in order to gain new territories.

suppafly

I vote for the first GTA on the PC. It was the ground breaker. I was awesome. Of the 3D ones I think its a tie between VC and SA. I loved the Music and the feel of stuff in VC but i also love all the extra stuff that they put into SA. Like making yur character yur own by all the customizations u can go and leveling up in all the different areas. The one thing that i was pretty disappointed about in SA was the radio stations. I really don't think they're good at all, nowhere near as good as all the others including the top down versions.

Plug

I loved GTA vice city, everything about, the storey, the music and the culture backround, san andreas ruined the storey line, some black dude from the getto starts off as a nobody and ends up robbing area 51 and alian crap!:rolleyes:

Boomer23

gotta be San Andreas...minus the Area 51 part

you have gang territory, parachuting, bicycles, jet fighters, girlfriends, tattoos, haircuts, casinos.....i dont even need to go on

Borat_Sagdiyev

Jakkass wrote:

the gangs wasnt that great an idea in fairness... its damn annoying running back to Los Santos all the time to gain your hoods again

As annoying as that message is, I think the gangs idea was definately a good one.

I always hated it in GTAIII the way it was virtually impossible to go back to the mafia territory after you had assasinated the don. This was because your normal mafia gang member now carried a shotgun - so if you were driving through that area of portland with the mafia in it, then two shots and your car blows up. Because so many gang members appear in that area, they all shoot you at once and you're wasted straight away.

In SA you can get it so that you never have to deal with that crap again. You can take over all territories and wipe out all the other gangs. Its not as big a pain to do that as some people think. You get loads of ammo for various weapons from it.

theCzar

Borat_Sagdiyev wrote:

As annoying as that message is, I think the gangs idea was definately a good one.

I always hated it in GTAIII the way it was virtually impossible to go back to the mafia territory after you had assasinated the don. This was because your normal mafia gang member now carried a shotgun - so if you were driving through that area of portland with the mafia in it, then two shots and your car blows up. Because so many gang members appear in that area, they all shoot you at once and you're wasted straight away.

In SA you can get it so that you never have to deal with that crap again. You can take over all territories and wipe out all the other gangs. Its not as big a pain to do that as some people think. You get loads of ammo for various weapons from it.

CAn you actually finsih off the rival gangs? so they're forever finished? I quite like the gang fights but I wish I could turn it off when I wasn't interested!

I love trying to take a territory, getting wasted, respawning with no guns or armour, mug a loan gangster for a pistol and start again...

Stephen

If you get the girlfriend that appears at the country club in San Fierro, you will respawn with all of your weapons You only need to date her once for this.

You'll only lose them if you get busted by the cops. That can be sorted out with a cop girlfriend from one of the middle of nowhere redneck towns in bone county.

theCzar

Stephen wrote:

If you get the girlfriend that appears at the country club in San Fierro, you will respawn with all of your weapons You only need to date her once for this.

You'll only lose them if you get busted by the cops. That can be sorted out with a cop girlfriend from one of the middle of nowhere redneck towns in bone county.

Girlfriends are gay.

Borat_Sagdiyev

theCzar wrote:

CAn you actually finsih off the rival gangs? so they're forever finished? I quite like the gang fights but I wish I could turn it off when I wasn't interested!

I love trying to take a territory, getting wasted, respawning with no guns or armour, mug a loan gangster for a pistol and start again...

Yup. I've taken over 100% of the territories and all you need to do after that is go to the map, toggle the option that shows gang areas so that it doesn't, and then forget that you ever had to deal with rival gangs.

There are some tricky areas though ie areas that are tiny, but still classified as an area that you can take over. I would advise getting the two girlfriends that were mentioned above before you do this though - that way, you never lose weapons or ammo even if you die trying to take over a territory.

Ruu_Old

Ah after finishing Vice City yesterday (very late I know), nearly brought a tear to my eye *sniffs* What am I to do now?:) Don't really like SA at all.

projectmayhem

Ruu wrote:

Ah after finishing Vice City yesterday (very late I know), nearly brought a tear to my eye *sniffs* What am I to do now?:) Don't really like SA at all.

you wait for about 2 weeks and get a PSP with vice city stories

Motley Crue

you gotta give your vote to GTA Vice City. Best selling game EVER in the history of video games, and its based in the 80s, that tells u something lol

But its just my favourite game of all time

Ruu_Old

Here and all, 80s ftw.

Borat_Sagdiyev

Ruu wrote:

Ah after finishing Vice City yesterday (very late I know), nearly brought a tear to my eye *sniffs* What am I to do now?:) Don't really like SA at all.

Get 100% in vice city - its well worth it:

weapons appearing at your houses
infinite ammo
tougher vehicles
hunter near your house
and a brand new T-Shirt!

[how can you resist that last one? ]

antogrimes

Borat_Sagdiyev wrote:

What was the message that you got again if you managed to run over ALL of the elvis impersonators?? I can't remember it but I know there was one.

The message was GOURANGA!!!!!

Well I have played every single GTA game to date, (except Liberty City Stories And VC Stories - mainly cos I stay well clear of Sony!) also the (literally unknow) GTA London 1961 add on for GTA London '69,

That means getting 100% in every game (even GTA 2 collecting those GTA icons dotted around the place)

What can I say, I loved them all, but though most will disagree GTA SA is the best without a doubt,

Some of the many best features may have been overlooked in this thread (e.g rallying up you gangs, modding your cars/character, the limited but insanely funny 2 player mode - great when your locked! The ability to SWIM!! Pig Bikes, the NRG bike, LOADS!)

There are so many great things about SA, too many to mention, however the one game of them all that I played the most was definitely GTA2 when it came out, I just loved the radio stations and the insane handling (with extra screechy turning mechanics )

But overall GTA SA kicks ass over them all!

Zonko

In the GTA3 series, it's probably San Andreas > GTA3 > Vice city.
After that, probably 2 > 1 > London

brain damaged

San andreas is definatly the best!
theres so much to explore and so much to find out

Vice city is a close second because of its amazing soundtrack
and its just great fun

Gta 3 is just as good as Vice city but its just slightely more basic
but its still amazing!

Borat_Sagdiyev

brain damaged wrote:

San andreas is definatly the best!
theres so much to explore and so much to find out

Vice city is a close second because of its amazing soundtrack
and its just great fun

Gta 3 is just as good as Vice city but its just slightely more basic
but its still amazing!

I totally agree.

There are a few posters here saying SA was a huge dissappointment - I'm not sure they're rating it fairly.

When GTAIII came out, we didn't really know what to expect - we got a totally savage game, streets ahead of Driver 2 which happened to be out at the time (as one person reviewing GTAIII said, "This is the game Driver 2 should have been").

When GTAVC was released, we were now used to the new GTA generation, and we expected more - VC definately delivered. Basically the same game, but our lead character was speaking for a change, the music was savage, and flying was a real option (of course there are more but I'm not going to go into every single one here).

When San Andreas came out, we expected even more again. I think expectancy can ruin a person's experience of a game. If you hadn't played GTAIII or VC before playing SA, then IMO you would be of the opinion that SA is a class game - it has its flaws of course, but there are endless opportunities for entertainment. There are loads of mini games around the place, and the addition of the manual aiming system is a godsend (there is something hugely satisfying in shooting down a helicopter with a gatling gun). Yeah sure, the map is huge, but that's what we wanted and expected. Vice City was a class game, but the map was very much on the small side of things. People complaining about certain areas of the map being empty, what did you expect? Its the countryside - there are going to be fields and hills. They can't make EVERY SINGLE SQUARE FOOT on the map interesting. They've managed to fit in a huge variety of landscape types: Desert, Las Vegas type city, Countryside, Normal everyday city, and a gang-controlled city.

Yeah its a huge game, but thats what we were asking for after VC. We got the huge game we wanted, its not perfect, but its definately an improvement from VC. The only real hassle I have with it is the fact that you can't buy as many properties as I would have liked to buy, and the whole "ten different safe houses, ONE type of building" thing was annoying. Loading times just to go in/out of doors is silly too.

Don1

San Andreas wins it for me. Vice City was class but a little on the small side.

Vice City Stories is very good. I think the gang system in this is slightly better. Taking over businesses and stuff. Add in jet-skis more wierdness from Ranni Wassulmeyer, missions starring Phil Collins (including a concert) and another '80s soundtrack and this is turning out to be quiet good.

Jesus Wept

Hi,

I have played some GTA on PS2 before, but I'm not even sure what one,

what do you think is the best GTA?

Ruu_Old

Vice City for me without a shadow of a doubt.

Sea Devils

I would have to go with Vice City. Although the twist at the end was a little hard to take some of the missions in this game were unreal. Plus the things they came up with Lovefist, Mercedes and Mitch Baker. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if that really did happen in Miami in the 80's

Kanney

Some of the missions in VCS were new and the system was great in it. Gotta say San Andreas tho.

DarthWraak

I've prolly already said it somewhere in this thread, but Vice City > all. The soundtrack and the atmosphere cannot be beaten in any current GTA game. San Andreas may have had lots more to see and do, but you just can't beat the 80s man

Naikon

Vice city>All other rockstar titles:)

BazMcG

Has to be Vice City for me.

Mr. CooL ICE

Before reading this thread, I would have said San Andreas, with Vice City a close second, but I got reminded of how great the atmosphere of VC is. As mentioned before, from finishing a mission and doing a wheelie on starfish island to beating up roller skaters near the lighthouse, the atmosphere is unbeatable, and for me, was verging on complete escapism.

philologos

Lets just hope that the staff at Rockstar come across this and take all our criticism into account

csk

Vice City. great storyline, great sound track and Tommy Vercetti just oozed cool.

Creamy Goodness

has to be GTA3, the sheer wow factor you got from the leap from 2d to 3d was unreal. the story line may of been better in the latter games but gta3 wins it for me.

so it goes for me

gta3 > VC > GTA1 > GTA2 > SA

DonkeyStyle \o/

Yeah GTA3 had a certain magic about it... good times.

DtotheK

my favourite is vice city, second is london 1969 and third gta3.

Ruu_Old

Vice City for the PS2 is £4.99@Play.com if anyone missed the Bargain Alerts post. Link.