best gta..including sa

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Jimmy Enslashay
Well, I've read both reviews, the IGN one twice (I was very hyped up for San Andreas), and I don't recall anything too much like that said.
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IGN San Andreas Review
it's the first game I can ever remember that asks its players to wonder "What can't you do" as opposed to "What can you?"
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yeti
"I wish I could do this... I wish I could do that"... However SA kinda asks the question... "What can't I do?"
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Are you sure you read the IGN review? :)

It's obviously not a direct quote and he made not have even read it but he's saying pretty much the exact same thing.


KM.
 
Hmmm... It is a bit close isn't it... damn my cursed memory... I didn't mean to do that... IGN subconciously overruled me.

C.
 
Haha, half my bad on that one. Well I did read it, but I don't exactly remember it. Just like my body is 70% water, my mind is 90% San Andreas.
 
That's the worst call I've ever heard from you :lol:

No, even for you that is bad.
 
Well, it's kind of expected. Ask this poll in 2-3 years. See the Statistics then. I expect San Andreas to win then, too, but by a lesser margin.
 
seansheep
bit of a one way poll at the moment...
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What do you expect when the game has only been released for a good 3 weeks (?) now? Honestly though, not even San Andreas can compete with GTA:III. That game was a milestone in the GTA series.
 
In terms of leaps and bounds, sure. GTA III set the bench-mark for many games, and basically set very high standards. It leapt from 2D Birds-Eye-View to 3D Third-Person. It was a great game in its time. It was also my favourite, until San Andreas.

San Andreas redefined the RPG category, once again, and it has been a fairly large leap from Vice City. San Andreas is definately my favourite, and will be for a long time, if not until the next GTA comes out. But I'm not certain on that, as I loved Vice City when it came out, but I began to like GTA III more. But I haven't loved a game as much as I love San Andreas.
 
Jimmy Enslashay
In terms of leaps and bounds, sure. GTA III set the bench-mark for many games, and basically set very high standards. It leapt from 2D Birds-Eye-View to 3D Third-Person. It was a great game in its time. It was also my favourite, until San Andreas.

San Andreas redefined the RPG category, once again, and it has been a fairly large leap from Vice City. San Andreas is definately my favourite, and will be for a long time, if not until the next GTA comes out. But I'm not certain on that, as I loved Vice City when it came out, but I began to like GTA III more. But I haven't loved a game as much as I love San Andreas.
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San Andreas is just new. I thought Vice City was all that when I got it, but after awhile I realized just how **** it actually was. While San Andreas is miles better than Vice City, it still fails to portray the whole organized crime gangster life that GTA was all about. Ever since Vice City the GTA series has transformed into more or less just a go-off-and-kill-people type of game, only now with San Andreas there's the added overhead of having to eat, workout and so forth.

Don't get me wrong, I'll still be vegetating in front of San Andreas for many weeks/months to come but from what I've played, it'll never live up to GTA:III.

Oh BTW, there were 3rd person games way before GTA:III. ;)
 
San Andreas is just as big as leap from GTA3 then GTA3 was from GTA.

look how big it is now, and the load times, vechiles, how much is in it. you can do what ever you want. its soooo much better and bigger its not funny. now with a good 70hours + of SA id say SA is the roxor of em all. and i think i had prolly close to 200 hours on VC and maybe 80 hours on GTA3
 
This si the first GTA gam I've actually stopped playing within a month of getting it, it's not 'cause I don't like it I'm just over the excitement of it. I'll propbably start playing it when my holidays start, but realistically I don't see myself playing it while I've got school on, I've got too much else that I'm doing that GTA has to play 2nd, 3rd or even 4th fiddle.
 
Shannon
Oh BTW, there were 3rd person games way before GTA:III.
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I didn't say there weren't...:confused:

Small_Fryz -- I think GTA 3 was a much bigger leap, than San Andreas, but San Andreas is still a big advancement. I can see what you mean though.

Also, I see where you're coming from. I haven't played it an awful lot lately either, but that's because I have a lot on my plate at the moment. I love the game, and I can see it being probably my favourite GTA game, but I have had a lot to do lately.
Shannon
San Andreas is just new. I thought Vice City was all that when I got it, but after awhile I realized just how **** it actually was.
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Not the case with me really. When we first played GTA 3, it was something very new to what we (Blake and I) were used to playing, and I idolised that game alot. Then I went on to Vice City. It was a great game, but I didn't have the same excitement as I did with GTA 3. With San Andreas, I think I have had the most fun playing this game, as the story is great, new features, all the side things you can do. It's a great game.

Over-playing it does not, however, mean that you don't love the game, some times. I haven't overplayed San Andreas, but it's in my head a lot and when I do play the game, it's hard to tear away from it.
 
Shannon, don't say that, I have to go back to playing that game in the holidays so I can finish my Vice City Guide. You're not making me all that excited about it...then I'll have to do GTAIII.
 
Shannon
San Andreas is just new. I thought Vice City was all that when I got it, but after awhile I realized just how **** it actually was. While San Andreas is miles better than Vice City, it still fails to portray the whole organized crime gangster life that GTA was all about. Ever since Vice City the GTA series has transformed into more or less just a go-off-and-kill-people type of game, only now with San Andreas there's the added overhead of having to eat, workout and so forth.
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In GTA III, therre was no more or less "go-off-and-kill-people" type missions or rampages or whatever than there were in Vice City. And what exactly is in GTA III that makes it a good portrayal of gangster life that's missing in Vice City?


KM.
 
In fact, I agree wholely with KM there. GTA III was just as much a "Go-Off-and-Kill-People" type of game as Vice City. There weren't many features in GTA III, so it was probably more-so one of these games.

It also doesn't "depict Gangster Life better than Vice City", but what I like better is that the Gangster life in that game is darker and more underground. Which is good. The Mafia made that game.

But Vice City depicted the Cuban wave of the 80s as good as GTA III depicted the Mafia life in recent times. But GTA III wasn't all about the Mafia, I know.
 
Jimmy Enslashay
But Vice City depicted the Cuban wave of the 80s as good as GTA III depicted the Mafia life in recent times. But GTA III wasn't all about the Mafia, I know.
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GTAIII was "The Godfather", GTAVC was "Scarface" and GTASA is "Dangerous Minds" crossed with "Ocean's Eleven".

GTAVC is best. :D
 
Crossed with Ocean's Eleven? It had 1 set of missions on a heist. I highly doubt it's partly based on that movie. Same goes with GTA III. It's not entirely based on the Godfather, although Portland Island's missions are.

Vice City is a mix of Carlito's Way and Scarface. San Andreas has many different mixes. As with GTA III, although the first island is all Godfather.

That's my take.
 
Interestingly, in the whole "True Crime" comparison, go back and do Big Smoke's mission "Wrong Side of the Tracks" again. Check the sign as the Vagos jump onto the train... :D

I've seen homages in San Andreas to many things - there's two references to Terminator 2 in there, alarmingly...
 
Famine
there's two references to Terminator 2 in there, alarmingly...
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Two? The mission where you're on the back of Smoke's bike being chased by the truck down the flood channel and the cop jumping and hanging onto the back of your car?


KM.
 
Yes - and then he finally drops off and rolls, exactly the same as the T1000. Scary!
 
Vice City is my favorite GTA game. I'm sure it mainly has to do with the fact that I played it before GTA III so it was more of a break through game for me. The theme of VC appeals to me a whole lot more than SA's. I actually havn't been playing SA very much since I got 100%.
 
I'm still not sure what to vote.

If I had played San Andreas before Vice City then there's not doubt that I'd think San Andreas the superior game, but Vice City is my benchmark and I had a lot of expectations about San Andreas and I'm vaguely dissappointed.

When I say dissapointed, I don't mean it's a bad game, or even a mediocre game. It's an excellent game, undoubtedly one of the best games I've ever played, but it's not the improvement on Vice City I was expecting.

Despite the hype and rumours, I think that Vice City was more of an improvement over GTAIII than San Andreas is over Vice City. Vice City seemed to have more radical improvements like motorbikes and helicopters, a central character with a proper personality and a coherent plot.

The major improvements I like are a much bigger game area, plenty of offroad and countryside areas to explore, being able to swim, a bigger collection of motorbikes (especially the NRG500) and a decent variety of airplanes. I don't find things like the recruit-a-gang interesting or useful. I much prefer GTAIII's and Vice City's bonuses for hidden items. At least in those games you could get bonuses without a guide. In San Andreas, you don't get anything unless you collect ALL of a particular item. If you collected half the items in either GTAIII or Vice City at least you'd have some decent collection of weaponry to pickup at safehouses. In San Andreas, you get nothing you've got all items, which means you can't get anything during casual gameplay, you have to make an effort to collect every single item before you get anything. And when you've collected all 250 items, you don't even get a freakin' rocket launcher as a bonus! Just a selection of mediocre weapons at your hideouts.

It's still an excellent game and probably worthy of being called the best of the bunch, especially from the point of view of a casual GTA player, but I can't help criticising it as a huge fan of the serious and a hopeless Vice City addict.


KM.
 
I'm very tempted to put Vice City as my favourite, but one thing about that game dissapointed me a great deal, the size of the map! I was so small. Even compared to 3 it feels awfully small.
 
I voted GTA3, there was something about the first time playing GTA3 that just made it amazing.

It was probably the most fun I've ever had playing a video game, and every five minutes I'd find myself looking at my friends going, "Did I just do that?!"
 
GTA 3 was my breakthrough game. I would put it at a tie with Vice City, but I still love San Andreas.
KM
Despite the hype and rumours, I think that Vice City was more of an improvement over GTAIII than San Andreas is over Vice City. Vice City seemed to have more radical improvements like motorbikes and helicopters, a central character with a proper personality and a coherent plot.
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I disagree. There are a lot more additions and improvements in San Andreas from Vice City, than in Vice City from GTA 3. San Andreas is a very different game, where as Vice City still had a very similar feel to GTA 3, not including the different feels of the locations.

I still go with San Andreas.
 

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