Official GTA: SA Thread - (XBox & PC 7th June '05)

rockykabir said:
Anyone see Gamespot's video preview? Does it show any footage of the game? :shock:
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No it doesn't. They basically just say the same things that are mentioned in the txt preview. They pan around some screenshots but that is about it. No new footage.
 
The Las Venturas Preview + Screens

The Las Venturas Preview + Screens from GTAGaming.com

-- There are plenty of casinos to gamble in, like the V-Rock Casino, styled like the Hard Rock Cafe. Other Casinos include "The Visage", "Pirates in Men's Pants", "Caligula's Palace" and "The Pink Swan".
-- While in a casino, there are a variety of minigames available to play, such as Blackjack, Video Poker, Wheel of Fortune, Slots and Craps.
-- Elvis Presley impersonators are present in Las Venturas for a little bit of drunken humor.
-- The famous Las Vegas cowboy sign is included in San Andreas, but features Avery Carrington (of Vice City Fame) instead.
-- A giant Candy Suxx statue adorns the exterior of one of Las Venturas' buildings.
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Las Venturas
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/lasventuras1.jpg
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/lasventuras2.jpg
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/lasventuras3.jpg
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/lasventuras4.jpg
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/lasventuras5.jpg
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/lasventuras6.jpg

Los Santos
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/vinewoodcar.jpg
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/gangfight.jpg
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/screenshots/tunnel.jpg

**For some reason off-site image linking seems to have been disabled, even my avatar has gone!

Looking good :D
 
ReActor said:
GTA: San Andreas has been delayed by one week, the new release date is October 29th.
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Id heard that :(
So much for booking a day of work in advance eh lads ;)

Whats coming out that week other than GTA?
 
Boro said:
ReActor said:
GTA: San Andreas has been delayed by one week, the new release date is October 29th.
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Id heard that :(
So much for booking a day of work in advance eh lads ;)

Whats coming out that week other than GTA?
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Crimson Tears
LMA Manager 2005
Manchester United FC Manager :roll:
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Viewtiful Joe
 
ReActor said:
GTA: San Andreas has been delayed by one week, the new release date is October 29th.
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The delay doesn't bother me cause I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this will probably be the most emersive I've ever played........

Las Venturas looks sooooooooooo sweet!! :shock: :D



(I still think it'll be full of glitches tho... ;) )
 
the delay is good news to me. i ordered it and they said it will arrive 2-3 weeks late. they didn't say why but at least i wont be too far behind :roll:
 
September 09, 2004 - Buried (somewhat) in Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive's third quarter 2004 financial results is mention that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is indeed planned, and expected to be released in the third quarter of 2005.

To take that out of Business Time, think approximately a year from now.

Of course, most of us guessed a PC (and Xbox) version of San Andreas would be released eventually, but thus far Rockstar had not said anything officially. As is often the case, the desire to provide accurate information to investors trumps the desire to keep gamers on the edge of their seats, panting for knowledge.

Interestingly, the financial report did not mention an Xbox version of the latest Grand Theft Auto. However, we have little reason to doubt that the massively-anticipated (and generally massive) sequel will make its way to Microsoft's console as well.

Stay tuned for more on San Andreas PC as details come in.
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No way I'm waiting that long, will be getting the PS2 version, assuming I've sorted out my credit card problems :)
 
Dialouge Boxes: When communicating with NPCs, players will be given simple answer options for posed questions.


Climbing: Your character now has the ability to jump, gra-on and climb over almost any "reachable" object in the game. This includes crates and backyard fences with animations reminiscent of the foot component of Tony Hawk Underground.


Altitude: Gamers expecting the flat terrain of Vice City will be shocked by the extreme variety in altitude through SA. Not only is there a mountain, but the countryside drifts between highs and lows like a drawn out rollercoaster. Even in the cities there are some sharp slopes, which is great for jumps.


Vehicle Jacking: Almost everything in the game can be jacked. In our demo we saw; pushbikes, motorbikes, quad-bikes, dirt-bikes, Harley's, Monster Trucks, 4WDs, convertibles, lowriders, dinghys, tractors, combine harvesters, speedboats, helicopters, light-planes, trams and there were some tasty hints regarding trains and possibly even skateboards. The animations and AI reactions were quite varied too.
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Some new info :)
 
Pires7 said:
Dialouge Boxes: When communicating with NPCs, players will be given simple answer options for posed questions.
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Whats an NPC?
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A Non-Player Character. Someone who is there but not being controlled by you or a mate
 
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I was just thinking to myself and just realised GTA is just over a month away
 
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woo hoo!!! just one more month... after awhile of winning 11 8, i need a change of a new game... i really need metal gear... i'm still playing metal gear on me ps2...
 
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i thought hdloader wasn't working with DVD9?
 
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I thought someone said it could/would?

Edit: From a google.....

There certainly is a way to play DVD-9 PS2 games from a HD in a PS2 unit. I'm playing Madden 2005 Collectors' Ed. (with bonus stuff) and Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance from the PS2 HD. You essentially "flatten" the double layer image into one large single layer image and use Winhiip to copy it to your PS2 HD. The step-by-step instructions plus links to the software are by a person known as nemisis6m or just nemisis over at another psx forum. It'll be nice when/if Winhiip is modified to write to the PS2 hd from the PC instead of pulling the PS2 hd and hooking it onto your PC in slave mode. Good stuff and works fine. Enjoy. Regards.
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nice, so there is a way with some tweaking. guess i'll get me a network adapter soon then, along with the controller adapter for xbox.
 
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Even if GTA doesn't work with it I still think it has its advantages, I get bored cleaning my laser every month or two :)
 
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DVD9, isnt that the dual layered disc? so the game wont fit on a 4.7 gig disc?
Damn.
 
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I just say can't wait and HDLOADER did pay and was profitable for me.

Straight outta Compton - fuck the police. lol
 
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Mor info on Countryside going's-on from CVG:

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR PS2: NEW FIRST-HAND SAN ANDREAS IMPRESSIONS!

The GTA countryside comes to life as Rockstar tells us "this is a bigger leap than we moved from 2D to 3D". Who's to argue?

17:10 It's all very good sounding hot on paper, but having lots of cool features means absolutely zip if it plays like a limbless turkey when put into practice.
When Rockstar announced the latest countryside details for GTA: San Andreas the other week, we were like "there is no possible way this is going to work on PS2."

Haircuts, yes, fitness/fat ratios, maybe, puking on fast-food diner's floors, okay, but a sprawling state environment split into towns and cities with their own individual look, people, vehicles, terrain and weather, including an entirely separately countryside on the outskirts?

No chance, we said, arms folded, disinterested eyes now focused towards the good-looking blonde at the end of the office. This is just far too ambitious to work.

Laughing at our cynicism, Rockstar promptly dragged us into its London H.Q. demo room to give us an in-depth demonstration of San Andreas' countryside settings. Not only did we re-emerge with egg on our face, we seriously felt we'd just been on holiday. It looked that good!

THE COUNTRY TOWNS

What Rockstar told us:
"We really wanted the country landscape to be as impressive as everything else in the game. There are dozens of rivers, pastures, a cliff, a mountain, dozens of hills - it's a beautiful area to explore. It's like a holiday.

"It's a fully living, breathing environment with its own micro populations, individual missions, characters, visual style and weather. It's so different, but still feels like GTA. San Andreas represents a bigger leap when we moved from 2D to 3D."

WHAT WE SAW:

The opening farm town...
Rockstar takes us for a ride in the 4x4 monster truck, spinning over dusty terrain and crashing through rows of fenced bordering, turning up the steep roads and steaming past streams of pretty pine trees. The whole scenery is one of bright greens, warm browns and glowing yellows. It's so summery and peaceful, we keep expecting Yogi Bear to pop out at any second.

Driving up a narrow road, we get a sense of vertigo. We peer out at the brilliant blue river dozens of feet below, its waters flowing gently against the grassy banks. The lovely clear sky is pure bliss, and we're leaning back, relaxing, almost smelling that clean country air and - oh no - fresh manure. Has someone in the room just... Let one go?

In "sleepy town" Angel Pine
Country bumpkins and rednecks wander down the country roads, their shoulders hunched at an awkward angle, bits of well-chewed straw stuck between their browned teeth. Flat-roofed shops specialising in liquor and fishing equipment sit opposite vast rows of log cabins, their residents rocking quietly on their humble porches.

Cyclists drift past on absurd looking contraptions, while just past more pine trees lurks the customary trailer park, housing folk who no doubt appreciate the simplicity of a fresh trout and tinned beans dinner. It seems the only thing missing is the banjo-strumming minstrel with wonky eyes and gap-teeth. But then we didn't see everything.

Up on Mount Chiliad
Standing at 2,500-feet tall, this picturesque mountain is the biggest 'object' in the game. Rockstar took CJ up its many winding, narrow ledges via a quad-bike and the view from up there is really very impressive.

As well as excellent gritty terrain, you can stand at the side and peer off into the distance and get an almost dizzying perspective on the town below. Zoom in with your camera lens and you'll just be able to make out the sleepy day-to-day bustle of simple country life. Just as Rockstar says, it's almost like being on a holiday yourself, so impressive are the visual effects.

On the road from Dillimore
This upbeat American small town is populated by traditional '50s-style buildings and diners - kind of like a modern-day Back to the Future, or if you've seen it, Oliver Stone's U-Turn. The type of resident is slightly different from the straw-hatted farmboys of Angel Pine, with most opting to crash across the bumpy environment in 4x4 off-road vehicles.

However, driving up the open roads on a stolen Wayfarer Bike, day switches to night, and slowly but surely, the scenery begins to gradually alter from country tranquillity to urban bustle. We end up careering through the glamour of Vinewood Hills, with its telegraph pylons, mock Tudor buildings and lines of parping yellow cabs.

We suddenly hit the Mulholland Intersection, and trees become eschewed in favour of large, cubic buildings and billboards. In the distance, a full moon hangs high (San Andreas features a full 30-day moon cycle), while on the roads lamps and city lights emit gorgeous glows of yellow, red and green. We have to ask, is this really running on PS2?

Flight of the Dodo
You can fly properly now, which is handy, because according to Rockstar getting from some parts of the countryside back to the city can take up to 15 minutes by car. So CJ jumps into the mini-plane known as Dodo and ends up gliding poetically through clouds - yes, GTA now has real clouds - which inevitably partly obscures your vision of the forestry and farmland below.

"It's a lovely scenic tour" Rockstar needlessly tells us. "We've raised the roof considerably too." With a 2,500ft mountain to crash into, it'd need to.

THE MISSIONS WE SAW

DECOY OF DEATH
Task:
Escape a load of mad bikers in a van.

The Story:
Some gangster chum is being hounded by a load of bikers who want him dead. Arriving at his countryside abode, you must play the decoy, which involves driving his van through a perilous forest route, while the biker gang - armed with sub-machine guns - chase after you. If they shoot your van doors off, they'll realise that you're not the target, and will leave you alone, which means mission failed.

What Happens:
This mission looks damned hard. The van, which is hardly the speediest of vehicles, twists clumsily across the gritty, narrow roads, while the persistent bikers squeal menacingly behind, pummelling your dusted chassis with endless blasts of bullets.

Our damage meter becomes dangerously low, so we decide to take a more hazardous route through the forest itself, narrowly missing trees by literally inches. Finally, we arrive at a tunnel, which enables us to be crafty and make a couple of bikers crash as we enter. Sadly, our doors are eventually blown off, and the bikers try to pull up alongside for a clear shot at us. Thankfully, our driving is just about expert enough, and after a frantic few seconds, we leave the irate gang in the distance, coughing up dust.

What We Liked:
Tense, fast, action-packed and set in an environment quite unlike any other GTA game. Well, duh...

WASTE THE WITNESS
Task:
Assassinate a key court witness and take a photo of his corpse.

The Story:
A witness due to give evidence against one of your employees is hiding out in a cabin up in the heights of Mount Chiliad. It is your job to kill him for cash, although be warned - he's being well guarded by FBI agents. Oh, the horror...!

What Happens:
A totally brilliant shoot-out followed by a dramatic chase, that's what. We hare up towards the log building on a quad-bike, CJ showing-off by performing wheelies and standing up off his seat (the animation is great, with CJ hunching his shoulders with impressive realism). There are numerous black-suited agents standing around, but being able to shoot firearms whilst riding, they are no match for us.

CJ one-handedly pumps a few of them with lead courtesy of his sub-machinegun. He then leaps off the bike and eliminates a couple of others at point-blank range with his pistol. Sensing near death, the witness makes a bold dash for freedom. He leaps into a car and speeds off down the crooked mountain ledges.

We give chase on the bike, shooting like mad. After several hits, the target falls off his vehicle and lays sprawled out on the road, breathing his last breath. Just to prove to our employer he's dead, we snap a photo of his still-warm corpse. Mission complete.

What We Liked:
Hmmm, just see what we wrote for the previous one.

All in all, GTA: San Andreas looks incredible, brilliant, staggering... Do you need us to go on?
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GROOVY!!!!
 
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Wow!

This is sounding better and better, I hope that there will be no or very little slowdown.

Somthing that's not been mentioned at all yet is cheats, whilst I very rarley use cheats to complete a game in Vice Cith they were a good laff so it'llbe interesting to see what cheats they will be implementing in this one.

Roll on the 29th October!!!!
 
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Every time I comment in this thread I keep saying the same thing, "This sounds fantastic, cant wait til its finally out!" So from now on I am not going to say a thing.....honest
 
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Just re-reading that preview and it says that the 'roof' has been raised to 2,500ft.

How high was it in Vice City????

I remember that you could just about scrape on top of the Hymen Memorial Stadium, that looked only about 200 - 300ft high to me.

Any clues anyone????
 
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