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GTA San Andreas Goes Swimming, Gangbanging, Smuggling
Thanks to Eurogamer for its article revealing a number of new details on Rockstar's forthcoming Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as printed in the UK's Official PlayStation 2 magazine. Topics discussed include the 'invention' of swimming ("We just got pissed off with people saying, 'We can't do swimming'... so if you drive off a bridge you're not going to drown"), the advent of gangs ("You can now recruit a gang and take over territories with them, and then lose territories if you don't look after them. So you've got the idea that bits of the map become personalised to you as much as your own character becomes personalised to you"), and the widening out of the game world ("We love, from a technical point of view, the driving in the open spaces on Smuggler's Run. It's awesome. Now you'll be able to do that in GTA, with all of the GTA gameplay.")
Now with more gangbang action!
"Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home" - Cicero
On stupid hair: "If you've got a stupid haircut, people will say, 'You look stupid'."
Something i'm sure the Slashdot crowd is already used to.
Sadly no mention of supported online play. But I suppose it's still early days.
If this game doesn't have gourangas, i'm gonna be super pissed.
"I'm not sure which is the bigger disappointment; my failure to formulate a unified field theory, or you."--Stephen Haw
I'm still waiting for them to implement an XBTF-style fully functional economy into the game and maybe add permanent consequences (i.e. if you die or get arrested you have to load your last save). Basically I'd like to see an Elite-style game but on earth, with cars, cities, etc. But then turning GTA from a crime simulator (well, as far as you can call a game where death isn't permanent a simulator...) into a "simulation" game would probably drive the core audience away.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Or maybe it's just a joke. You're not allowed to notice or point out some of the absurdities in consumerist culture without completely rejecting our culture or fighting against? No one is ever allowed to find humor in himself or something of which he is part? The world would be a much worse place if everyone had to take themselves as seriously as you suggest, being afraid to point out any of the absurdities of their own society lest they be labelled a hypocrite for being part of that society.
I'd rather be lucky than good.