awesome new trailer for the game out: http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/trailers/GTASA_TRAILER2_480x360.wmv --GNR yay

also a lot of locations in the game with videos and screenshots are on the main site:
http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/

Oct. 26 release date. I can't wait.

9/26/2004 3:01:26 AM

probably the best part about it is that there has been no news/anticipation on this game until lately and that it is coming out very soon. damn you Fable(which turned out to kinda suck) and Gran Turismo 4 and Halo 2 and Half-life 2.

9/26/2004 5:19:55 AM

i will be a proud owner of this game.

9/26/2004 9:09:09 AM

i got mine on preorder

9/26/2004 10:36:09 AM

I would get it if I were more than 20% through Vice City. I need to finish that one up first.

9/26/2004 1:56:53 PM

fuck yes GNR

9/27/2004 2:25:19 AM

Rockstar just released some info about the soundtrack/radio stations: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/557/557665p1.html
Also, there is a flash cassette player on rockstar's site with sample songs from the stations
http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/

A few I listened to: Killing in the Name by Rage Against The Machine, Crazy by Willie Nelson, I Don't Give a Fuck by 2 Pac, Two Tickets to Paradise by Eddie Money.....great selection.

10/15/2004 10:55:30 PM

Ive had it preordered for months now. I had almost forgotten it was coming out so soon until I saw the commercial for it on Comedy Central.

10/15/2004 11:13:07 PM

I heard some register jockey at EB Games in Winston-Salem telling someone that if he didn't preorder, he wouldn't be able to get the game until next year. That shit pisses me off, especially since he "cited" that happened with Vice City before. Except I walked into the very same EB 5 days after Vice City came out and got a copy just fine.

10/16/2004 1:39:07 AM

yeah, that's pretty low, but from what I hear, the higher ups are always on the manager's ass to get more preorders.

10/16/2004 1:43:01 AM

the website has a radio station smapler up, and a full tracklisting for the soundtrack cd will be up monday

[Edited on October 16, 2004 at 1:47 AM. Reason : it's got RATM!]

10/16/2004 1:46:42 AM

this game is gonna take so much time to beat it almost pisses me off...almost

10/16/2004 1:57:13 AM

I'm so fucking ready for this one.

10/16/2004 2:09:37 AM

idk if someone already said this but it is 5 times as big as all of vice city

10/16/2004 2:28:32 AM

I read there were no load screens between cities, I think that would really help with the flow of the game. I use to hate that crap popping up while I was doing something, lol.

10/16/2004 3:30:19 AM

when is it coming to xbox?

10/16/2004 3:33:39 AM

The load screens in Vice City were so predictable that I got used to them. I don't know what the PS2 version was like, but it was like a two second interruption whenever I travelled from the the west island (downtown) over to the middle islands. Other than that, there was no loading.

10/16/2004 3:47:03 AM

load times on the pc version were a lot less than the ps2 version

10/16/2004 3:48:02 AM

^^ sounds like the ps2.

it won't be coming out on xbox for 6 months. i heard something like a 6 month exclusivity for the ps2 before it can be released on any other platform and that on the 6 month anniversary you can expect it.

10/16/2004 4:06:06 AM

when is the PC version coming out?

10/16/2004 1:25:16 PM

^ yep that is exactly what I am waiting for

10/16/2004 1:36:56 PM

Hopefully this version won't fuck up my eyes as much as VC. That was just too painful to look at. They really need to stop sacrificing things to make it look nicer.

10/16/2004 1:46:44 PM

well viec city was in the 80s, there was a lot of pastel, which is why it hurt to look at it

10/16/2004 2:19:13 PM

in vice city it helps a lot if you go into options turn trails off...idk why rockstar put the trails on in the game as default, it really hurts your eyes

10/16/2004 7:09:32 PM

yeah that's really dumb and takes away from the game.

BTW god i can't wait til i get my copy.

10/16/2004 11:20:11 PM

Did anyone actually have problems getting vice city on release day because they didn't preorder? I preordered vice city but I dont really want to preorder san andreas unless I have to.

10/17/2004 1:26:01 AM

i find with some of these games its hard to get the day it comes out without pre-order... but a two days later shouldn't be too difficult, at least it was that way for Doom3

10/17/2004 10:46:12 AM

you could walk in the day after to get fable insanely easy. they know they are high demand and stock up hardcore.

10/17/2004 11:38:38 AM

btw the toys r us on glenwood where i preordered said they givin em out the 19th to preorders

and many people that ordered from Eb/amazon said their credit cards have been charged...which they dont do unless the order is being processed

status changing from "preordered" to "open"

10/17/2004 2:23:49 PM

I'm gonna mug a little kid walking out of Toys R Us on Oct. 19

10/17/2004 3:32:21 PM

Quote :

"A few I listened to: Killing in the Name by Rage Against The Machine, Crazy by Willie Nelson, I Don't Give a Fuck by 2 Pac, Two Tickets to Paradise by Eddie Money.....great selection"

Oh man, this is going to kick so much ass.

btw, i picked up Vice City at KB Toys in Cary Town Center the day after the release with no pre-order. actually, there wasn't even a line now that i think about it.

10/18/2004 9:18:06 AM

i'm gettin mine from best buy since i got $35 in reward zone certificates

10/18/2004 9:35:04 AM

Quote :

"btw the toys r us on glenwood where i preordered said they givin em out the 19th to preorders and many people that ordered from Eb/amazon said their credit cards have been charged...which they dont do unless the order is being processed status changing from "preordered" to "open" "

rumor is on an ign board that the game has been leaked, so it maybe possibly could be that R* is trying to combat this by releasing early!

10/18/2004 9:46:46 AM

i think it's pretty sad that the biggest thing people talk about a game is its soundtrack.

i'd like to know what will make it better than the other GTA games, other than having new songs, being in a new city that's the same as the old cities but bigger, doing the same kinds of missions with a rehashed storyline, and pretending to have better graphics.

10/18/2004 10:44:14 AM

video games with killing and violence make me happy inside

10/18/2004 10:46:07 AM

there is a shitload that will make the game better than previous GTA games, the soundtrack included, check ign or gamespot for all the new stuff they added

10/18/2004 4:45:34 PM

and the fact that you can make your gangsta a fatty or a j_hova like balla. I thinki im gonna make my guy big pun-ish...lots of trips to the cluckin chicken

10/18/2004 5:34:53 PM

EBGames had a flyer that I picked up today with GTA: San Andreas pictured on the front. It looked like Easy E and Dr. Dre. I was like omfg.

10/18/2004 8:20:22 PM

anybody got anymore news on this early release rumor? if anything, i think it's just that toysRus didn't get the memo last month about the week delay.

i haven't seen any news that it's even gone gold yet.

[Edited on October 19, 2004 at 1:10 AM. Reason : .]

10/19/2004 12:55:44 AM

nah, it's not coming out early. release date is the same, 26 & 27. those people saying they had been charged hadn't really been charged. like, it showed up that their account had been charged, but money hadn't actually been taken out.

so who did everyone pre-order from? if you pre-ordered that is.

10/19/2004 9:30:08 AM

can anyone embed the countdown that ign has on their site?

10/19/2004 2:00:39 PM

I wonder if this will be the first game with the word "nigga" in it. I would expect R* to be faithful to "real life" or at least close to the media and Hollywood's portrayal of black gangstas. And I guess the songs will be uncensored as well.

10/19/2004 2:40:22 PM

Other games have had "nigga" in them before.

10/19/2004 2:57:49 PM

[Edited on October 19, 2004 at 3:19 PM. Reason : aha]

10/19/2004 3:15:23 PM

Quote :

"And I guess the songs will be uncensored as well. "

they had damn well better be. I couldn't imagine playing while listening to
"____ YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! _____ YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! . . ."

just wouldn't have the same effect.

[Edited on October 19, 2004 at 3:16 PM. Reason : formatting. blah]

10/19/2004 3:16:21 PM

Quote :

"i'd like to know what will make it better than the other GTA games, other than having new songs, being in a new city that's the same as the old cities but bigger, doing the same kinds of missions with a rehashed storyline, and pretending to have better graphics."

Ya, what's new? The biggest difference I remember between GTA3 and Vice City were the chopper missions, motorcycles and boat missions.

10/19/2004 3:44:27 PM

new stuff i can think of without going back and reading all those articles are:
-18 wheelers and missions associated with them...also you can use gas tankers as "rolling bombs" according to R*
-new vehicles that i can think of: lawnmowers, tractors, bicycles(i think), freight train(with missions)
-valet parking missions for these vehicles
-complete rework of the fatigue and weapons systems--you have to train your shooting to get good at aiming, fireing, reloading, etc. and progress to being able to actually have a weapon in each hand at the same time. You also have to eat and exercise, eat too much and get fat, dont eat enough and you can't move as fast, etc. I also heard that exercise will speed you up but if you exercise too much you will get musclebound and become slower.
-the map is 5 times bigger than vice city--country towns, mountains, beaches, city streets, everything.
-the biggest action game soundtrack ever. Also, it isn't a loop-the DJ's will introduce a song differently every time. The commercials will also be dynamic and news stories will go with what you are doing in the game. Cars also have differences in the way they play the music, shitty car=shitty speakers, no bass...lowrider=subs, tons of bass.
thats all the updates that I can think of right now, but gamespot and ign and any videogame related site will have stories with more details.

[Edited on October 19, 2004 at 4:07 PM. Reason : hi]

10/19/2004 4:06:20 PM

from what I've gathered you actually have to use the money you earn to buy food. also, you can train at the gym, dojo, etc to learn new fighting techniques. there's a bmx bike, i assume you can do tricks on it. i don't know what else. listening to cool music while exploring the cities and vehicles and creating general mayhem is more fun than the missions to me. so i'm looking foward to it.

[Edited on October 19, 2004 at 4:12 PM. Reason : ^beat me to it before i posted but i'm leaving what i had.]

10/19/2004 4:10:24 PM

Still forgot a big one: YOU CAN SWIM (though for a limited amount of time)

10/19/2004 8:29:58 PM

hell yeah swimming

10/19/2004 9:15:47 PM