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    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    Game » consists of 45 releases. Released Oct 26, 2004

    The follow-up to Vice City takes the Grand Theft Auto series' free-roaming violence into 1992 and the fictional state of San Andreas as several criminal gangs wage war for control of the streets.

    glockstararmani's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Xbox) review

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    Gangster's Paradise

    Glockstar Armani presents this game with 5 *GLOCKIE* awards for:

    *BEST GAME OF 2004*

    *BIGGEST ALL-STAR VOICE CAST*

    *BEST VILLAINS: OFFICER TENPENNY & BIG SMOKE*

    *FUNNIEST CHARACTER: CATALINA*

    *MOST FREEDOM*

    This is my favourite game of the GTA series, beating out Vice City and GTA IV by a Kate Moss-thin margin. Why does it win? Because this game is the bizarro-world alternate of Seinfeld: it has EVERYTHING. Everything. Deserts. Jetpacks. Oil tankers. Casinos. Hippie vans. Military stealth jets. Samuel L. Jackson. Parachutes. Lowriders. Tattoos. Haircuts. Alien goo. Commercial airliners. Clothing options coming out the wazoo. BMX bikes with little bells on them. James Woods. A gimp costume. Flying lessons. Boating lessons. Driving lessons. Chris Penn. Car customization. Country music.

    Everything about this game just continuously blew me away, over and over and over again, even on second & third playthroughs. You have so much freedom to do whatever you so choose. I don't know WHY Rockstar felt they had to pull everything back when they made GTA IV, but I really hope future games bring back the absurd fun that was San Andreas.

    Being a hopeless nostalgic, I'm also in love with the setting: L.A. circa early 1990s brings back childhood memories of classic hip-hop, gang warfare, the riots, and Boyz N the Hood (my childhood was complicated like that). Even CJ -the main protagonist -reminisces about his innocent years, since the game begins not in a strange new town (like every other GTA title) but literally in the house where he grew up. He even comments during one particularly violent mission that he recalls a certain tunnel scaring him when he was little, as he now drives through that very same tunnel, gunning down rival kids just like him. If that doesn't make you get shivers of nostalgia, nothing will.

    The music is excellent, too. Even the country station, naysayers be damned. I could go on for hours about, this, but I'll stop here. San Andreas...you complete me. I'm having your babies as we speak.

    Other reviews for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Xbox)

      Greatest Xbox Game 0

      Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was the best game to be release on the original xbox console.  The story was more than compelling and kept me interested all the way through, however it took a backseat to the driving force behind this game, which was its incredibly huge scale.  San Andreas is a state, based on the West Coast, namely California and Nevada.  There are three major cities, Los Santos (Los Angeles) San Fierro (San Francisc) and Las Venturas (Las Vegas.) Sausalito, home of Giant Bomb is ...

      0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

      Shows that the series keeps improving. 0

      It took me a while to play San Andreas. After going through GTAIII and Vice City in a relatively short period of time, I felt sort of burned out from Grand Theft Auto so I skipped San Andreas when it was released in late 2004. Recently however I decided that the time was right to plunge myself again, and here I am, being very impressed by the latest installment of this extremely popular series. In San Andreas you play the role of Carl Johnson, a man raised in the hood with his family of two bro...

      0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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