Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Announced

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Guesses on who plays the voice of the new character? My money's on Ice Cube.

antexit (antexit), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:36 (twenty years ago) link

How long after the PS2 release do they usually put out the PC version?

Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

I think with Vice City it was like 2 years

antexit (antexit), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link

GUNS NIGGAS

OMG (JMod), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

I think with Vice City it was like 2 years

Seven months in the US, according to IGN.

Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

They need to get with the people behind Gran Turismo so you can pimp your ride(s).

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

I'm actually thinking of buying a playstation just so I can play this game. I played GTA3 GTA:Vice City on PC, but never on PS2. Help me, people, which is better? Are there big differences?

(shit, I've never been so excited about a video game, I'm gangsta trippin)

pingu (gimikz), Friday, 14 May 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

The games looked better on PC than console (like most games do). Also, I've never understood why most people seem to prefer controllers to keyboards for everything, cause in most games, like GTA, I've always found the keyboard so much easier.

Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 14 May 2004 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

I have a wish!

In LasVvegas you do missions for "The Boss", Mr. Tommy Vercetti. Maybe you have a conflict with him. I want them to make this shit so interesting and tense and funny, ohmygodohmygod. I just don't want to see Tommy dead, anything else is fine.

pingu, Friday, 14 May 2004 06:50 (twenty years ago) link

Are there big differences?

Your comfortable chairs already point at your TV? Also it'll be out first on the PS2. Also the analog controller is better for some of the fiddly stuff.

The PS3 will be out sometime next year or the year after, but there's a decent chance that it'll be backwards compatible. Also it's not like they'll stop making PS2 games: they still make Playstation games.

Your concern for an imaginary murderer is touching :)

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:05 (twenty years ago) link

my problem with PC games is my system has never been sharp enough to run them efficiently - always with the hangs, the slowdowns, etc. have never had that experience with my playstation.

stevie (stevie), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:24 (twenty years ago) link

I thought the ps2 control system for Vice City was just perfect. Whereas the one on True Crimes just frustrated me to bits. I can't see San Andreas being too different from VC so I recommend getting a PS2, plus it doesn't crash all the time like PC's. *ducks*

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:29 (twenty years ago) link

wow, really, wow.

I spent the whole of my time in Miami spotting Vice city locations, I'm going to have to go to three cities after this? sheesh!

chris (chris), Friday, 14 May 2004 07:36 (twenty years ago) link

the Dan Houser article has been updated, well it has since I last looked anyway.

Swimming, oh yes, SWIMMING!

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

my eyes are bleeding at the very thought of this game

chris (chris), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

it looks good. keep the faith.

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link

Also it's not like they'll stop making PS2 games: they still make Playstation games.

They still make PS1 games, seriously? And people buy them?

Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

Hell yes. It's only in the last year or so in Japan that the Xbox started beating the PS1 on a week by week basis. I think it's mostly cheap cash-ins for kids (in the west, anyway).

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

time to lay money on odds for voices/songs used in the game:

I vote that Ice Cube's "Steady Mobbin" and a Cypress Hill track will be in there.

Yeah, and Ice Cube would be a great character voice.

"Keep that baby off the STREET!"

Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

Swimming! Thank god! Having the bastard die every time he fell into the water (eg every time you try to get into a boat and missed) sucked!

Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

I just want to let everyone know of my awesome Vigilante mission strategy: get the tank, go to airport and start the mission there. All the target cars spawn either in the runway area itself, or in the adjoining streets, and all you need to do is to touch the cars for them to explode.

Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

I found it more effective and easier to just use the Apache. Fly around and shoot the fuckers with missles. Doesn't matter how many wanted stars you get either. As long as you're in the air, the feds and the army can't do dick.

martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

Apache def. better than the tank, but I couldn't find enough packages to get the copter.

Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, see, the game took me forever to beat, but that's because I spent so much time just sweeping every area for packages and rampages. (I did the same thing with GTA3.) I actually found all of them, and I only consulted a walk through for the last package after spending hours trying to figure out where the hell it was. (Turns out I had just missed it somehow, and it was near the mansion, which was one of the places I was convinced I didn't need to look again.)

martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think I'll ever finish Vice City.

Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

Interestingly, when you complete all of it, the only thing you get is a new outfit at your mansion. If you run Tommy through it, he ends up wearing jeans and a t-shirt... On the t-shirt it says "I beat GTA Vice City and all I got was this t-shirt."

martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

four weeks pass...
new screenshots here, including one of your guy in a barber chair

http://www.gtaarea.com/

oh, i do hope they allow you to get a Public Enemy logo/icon/target-thing buzzed into the back of your hair.

and Terminator X glasses, too.

Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Saturday, 12 June 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...
Three times as much homie shit as Vice City.

So really, 1/10 as much actual music as Vice City.

Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"Country music will be included in the game."

Make that 1/20th.

Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Come closer, let me whisper in your ear: Fuck You.

Dan I., Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I am a "homie".

adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link

The game will take place in the early 90s.

GRUNGE!!

Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

homies love da grunge.

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

you gotta keep 'em separated.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i so did not need that song in my head.

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Has everyone seen all these super-new screenshots? I can't believe how excited I am about this game. It's getting more and more complex--It's like The Sims with home invasions!

AND MURDER

Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry oops, $10 sez its on the soundtrack tho.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

when are we going to have games that advocate more responsible, socially beneficial activities, like KidRaiser or Path of the Philanthropist?

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I just gave myself a flashback of playing some lame Xian video game.

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

San Andreas website is now live here. There's a movie up but still no info on the details of the soundtrack.

57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 21 August 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Adam, what's your beef with the homie shit?

You know there's gonna be a nineties indie/alternative cd and it will be awesome! SCHOOL SHOOTING TO PEARL JAM'S 'JEREMY'!

Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 21 August 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link

The only tracks on the soundtrack that can be confirmed, from what I read, are "Gin N Juice," "Let Me Ride," and "Nothin' But A 'G' Thang," all of which were licensed from Death Row.

antexit (antexit), Saturday, 21 August 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, that trailer is the coolest thing I've ever seen. What's with that blue sheen over it, though?

antexit (antexit), Saturday, 21 August 2004 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you s'pouse there will be east coast/west coast hip hop stations?

Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Saturday, 21 August 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
It gets funnier: IMPORTED MADCHESTER!

alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Should I pre-order it? Even though i am poor again? When is it actually out?

Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 September 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

29 October, for the UK anyway

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 30 September 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

10/25 us

why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 September 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The trailer for it. Gives me an erection.

If I can get into my ride and put on "Fuck Tha Police" I will die. It also appears the Eazy E makes a guest appearance.

Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link


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