Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas Details Revealed

Thanks to Eurogamer for its article revealing many new details about Rockstar North's ravenously-awaited PlayStation 2 title, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which had first screenshots revealed during last week's E3 show. Hitherto unavailable information includes the setting ("comprising Los Santos (Los Angeles) where you start out, San Fierro (San Francisco) and Las Venturra (Las Vegas), it's an epic environment allegedly six times the size of Vice City") and unorthodox new features ("through dozens of accurately modelled restaurants and other eateries, the criminal wannabe will be able to top up his stamina meter, and actually visibly gain weight"), with Eurogamer concluding happily: "We fancy that Rockstar North's dark and satirical sense of humour, and passionate obsession with minutely detailed gameplay will see us through many a lonely night in San Andreas."

Comments

BUT

[Lord Bitman]

is it possible to obey the law?
will police get all over you just for not slamming on your brakes when a light turns red?
can I hit someone over the head, drag them into a warehouse, chain them up, and fuck them with a dagger?
If I kill someone, will the police not just give up after 5 minutes of looking for me?
Are acciidents persistent?
Can I completely eliminate the prostitute population of the city?
If I start killing all the taxi drivers, will the taxi drivers stay home?
Will all the various murders which are just too fucking easy to pull off in vice city be harder to do en-masse?

I want a game that will let me kill people, but will beat me down if I dont do it clean!

Re:BUT

[Triprotic]

I want a game that will let me kill people, but will beat me down if I dont do it clean!

You've never tried Hitman?
Ok granted it's not on the same scale as GTA, but it does the job. (Shame the Hitman series seems to be getting worse with each new game)

Anyway, back on topic...
Reading that article it sounds quite promising. I'm still a little worried that not putting it in the 70s would make the game lose the tounge in cheek that Vice City had lots of!

I'm worried

[tprime]

I am seriously worried that a large amount of this game will never be seen by gamers. Why?? I am sure that everyone here remembers all of the whining and crying that was done by the Haitian community over the "Kill all the Haitians" phrase in VC. What did Rockstar do? They caved and blurred out that phrase in future versions. Go ahead and flame me about being a killjoy on what looks like an incredible game, but does anyone else here think that the NAACP won't scream wildly and make a public scene about what they think is racial stereotyping in LA? You are a black man, in a gang, committing murders and robbing houses with your homies. This non-racial issue will be turned into a racial scene by the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

God, do I hope I am wrong and we all see this game how it was intended, but I will not be surprised if it is changed just prior to release.