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Rockstar Announces GTA San Andreas
Tickenest writes "According to a Yahoo-reprinted press-release, Rockstar Games has officially announced Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the latest in the GTA series. The press release continues: 'Developed by world-class designers Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be available exclusively for the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system and is expected to be in stores in North America on October 19, 2004 and in Europe on October 22, 2004.'" This confirms earlier rumors of (initial?) PS2 exclusivity and possible name for this much-awaited game.
If you download your free copy of GTA 1 from the Rockstar web site ( here ) , you'll find that "Liberty City", "Vice City" and "San Andreas" are the names of the three playable cities from that game.
Is this console exclusivity or won't it be reaching the PC at all.
If any previous game with PS2 exclusivity (including Rockstar's games) is any indicator, this announcement has no impact on any possible PC release. That being said, it's doubtful it will be released for the PC for a while.
They've been vauge in the past and having just released 3 & 4 for the xbox I expect that cash will speak the loudest words
Just a note, GTA:Vice City isn't GTA4, and neither is San Andreas. VC and SA are simply continuations of GTA3 (given that Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas are the playable areas in GTA, and that Rockstar was very explicit about this before and during the launch of Vice City). GTA4 has been hovering around for quite some time, but it doesn't really appear that they've done much on that, given the amount of work they've put into the GTA3 titles.
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Sony has the rights to the franchise, so they grant themselves a period of time where it is only available on their platform (the PS2). After that, if they choose to, they allow other platforms to pick it up. That's why it took so long for PC & Xbox versions of GTA3 to come out, etc.
Seriously it would be awesome to have an earthquake in a game, I don't think any other GTA-style game has done something like that (i.e. disaster scenarios).
One of the objectives in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3's LA level is "start the earthquake". Later on the same level you have to deal with a car teetering over the top of the broken freeway.
The PS2 title Disaster Report places you in an earthquake ravaged city.
Quake, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be earthquake related.
My guess is that it's the later, from what I remember GTA 4 was supposed to be an all-together new game.
Yes, rumors are that the real sequel to GTA3 (e.g. not just an "expansion pack" like vice city/san andreas) will be developed for next-gen consoles (xbox2, ps3). Always remember to take your grain of salt.
In case are wondering about the city
Libery City = New York City (Modern Day)
Vice City = Miami (1986-87 there or about)
San Andreas = (I Imagine that is Los Angeles, but when?)
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due to Rockstar's pre-existing agreement with Sony it's unlikely that it will happen until quite some time after the game's initial release
Well, you may not have to wait too long. The exclusivity deal with Sony ends this year. So you could see an xbox version as early as Jan 1, 2005, just a few months after the ps2 release.
No way...
Liberty City = New York City. Big chunks of the roads in the game remind me of similar streets in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Vice City = Perhaps you're too young to remember Miami Vice???
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is over here: http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
Actually, for both GTA3 and Vice City, the PC version was released around the May after the October the PS2 version was released in. So we're looking at maybe 7 months. (Unless you bought a PS2 just to play GTA and Gran Turismo, like me)
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I think Vice City was, in Rockstar taxonomy, a continuation of the "GTA3 line." I believe the idea was that GTA4 would be "revolutionary" instead of "evolutionary," and probably not available until the next generation of consoles arrives.
An official site is up (but no content yet):
http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/
One thing worthy of note: the script in the logo for the words "San Andreas" is in that faux-English "newspaper-title" font that is popular among Latinos who put it on the back of their pickup trucks (often along with a decal of the virgin Mary - I don't get it either) and what not. Dunno if that means anything...
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To those complaining that Rockstar lacks production polish, citing games that came out 3 years ago like 'Oni' (see Bungie for that one)Let's just have a little history lesson, shall we?
Manhunt - Excellent twist on the stealth genre, great game play, killer sounds. Hollywood stars rounding out the voice casts. "..the most important game in the last 5 years..." -The Chicago Tribune
Max Payne 2 - Love it or hate it, this game on Xbox/PC is gorgeous. The textures and level designs are top notch. Story is on par with most movies being churned out by any major hollywood studio. Artistic storyboards, full mo-capped character models, and again, excellent voice acting round out this game. Several PC GOTY and Action GOTY nods.
GTA:VC - Dozens of authentic tracks from the time perioud. Amazing radio stations and voice acting. Full hollywood cast. Beautiful cut scenes. Immersive, large locale. Game of the year almost everwhere, including an Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences award.
Midnight Club 2 - 9.1 out of 10 IGN. 91 out of 100 Gamerankings. Killer music, awesome graphics and killer gameplay including online component. Set a new standard for environment freedom in a racing game.
What makes Rockstar great is not just their awesome games, but their attention to production and detail which blur the lines between games and other traditional forms of entertainment, such as movies. I have a feeling GTA:San Andreas will be no different.
well it's kind of a hack but check out Multi-Theft Auto @ http://www.mtavc.com/
not the greatest thing but it does work and is pretty fun to boot!
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Except that that's not entirely accurate. Half-Life was the only thing even approaching an original game in there. Opposing Force was the expansion pack and so was Blue Shift.
Team Fortress Classic is something that TFS had been working on for a while before Half Life ever came out (TF2 was originally going to be a Quake 2 mod, then development shifted to making it a mod for Half Life and eventually Robin Walker and the rest of TFS got hired by Valve). Essentially it's still a community mod that just got a little bigger.
Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat are both mods as well. Valve just decided to box them up and try to make some cash off of them.
If you wanted to get this right you're thinking of Gunman Chronicles. The pretty damned terrible TC that ended up getting backed and released by Valve as a stand-alone game. Otherwise you really only have one game there.
Ah, so the names probably go like:
San Andreas==Los Angeles
Actually San Andreas==San Francisco.
It's laid out like San Francisco and many of the neighborhoods are plays on San Francisco neighborhoods.
that makes me sad to hear that. You may think that the GTA3 engine had dated graphics when it was released on the PC, but I just finished playing it last month, probably 2 years after its release, and my 1ghz Athlon with Geforce2 could barely run it at 640x480. 640x480 is the minimum resolution you can possibly run the game at.
Meanwhile my roommate who has a 1.4ghz Athlon and Geforce3(?) also had terrible framerates.
You may think that GTA3 has dated graphics, but there's not much sense in releasing a game that people won't be able to run on $3k PCs for another 3-5 years...
But yes, the innovation part is a good point to think about. Even though I loved GTA3, it spent a LOT of time playing it, and don't intend to get Vice City if it's the same routine in a new city.