New GTA: San Andreas Trailer Released

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New GTA: San Andreas Trailer Released

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday October 20, 2004 @03:45AM from the i-still-want-lazlow dept.

Thanks to Gamespot for the heads up on the newly released San Andreas trailer. It features, among other things, landmarks, dialogue, combat, and a new game feature: parachuting. The trailer is set to a song with explicit lyrics, so viewer discretion is yadda yadda...

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THE CHILDREN! by opposume · 2004-10-20 03:47 · Score: 4, Funny

OH SWEET JESUS! WON'T SOMONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN? Yet another game for people to boycott and claim is deconstructing the fabric of society. *shakes head*

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1. Re:THE CHILDREN! by SkyWalk423 · 2004-10-20 06:28 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Why do people seem to lose their sense of sarcasm when they get /. mod points?? I wish we could metamod individual posts, scoring parent -1:flamebait is asinine.
parachuting! by WormholeFiend · 2004-10-20 03:53 · Score: 1

I hope there are going to be bonus points/cash/statistics attached to parachuting...

And not just from aircraft... BASE JUMPING YEA!
1. Re:parachuting! by wheany · 2004-10-20 21:55 · Score: 1
  
  Well, if it doesn't have it, I'm pretty sure GTA: The Next One will have it, since it seems many people really noticed that part of the trailer.
  
  I just want to drive the combine harvester. And the bulldozer sounds interesting as well. And thank god the boats won't be such deathtraps as before. You got in the boat but you never got out. Either the boat exploded with you inside or you missed the shore when jumping out.
More than just the trailer released by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 03:53 · Score: 3, Informative

This comes on the heels of the game being released on the 'net as well. http://www.nforce.nl/index.php?m=nfo&id=7 7819
GTA and the Sims by Acidic_Diarrhea · 2004-10-20 03:53 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm really excited about this game. I think one of the nice additions is the weight change that your character can go through in the game. Apparently, if you eat junk food all day and never work out [just drive from place to place in other people's cars] you'll gain weight and become a fat mess. Pretty funny.
It seems like more and more, GTA and The Sims is set to converge into a game where you buy a house, decorate it, and kill people in the streets. Time to build a new garage!

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1. Re:GTA and the Sims by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 04:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm surprised you can enjoy a game made by a bunch of liberals.
2. Re:GTA and the Sims by Jimmy+The+Leper · 2004-10-20 05:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Are you crazy? Liberals make awsome computer games. Conservatives should stick to what they are good at: action movies!
  
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3. Re:GTA and the Sims by Txiasaeia · 2004-10-20 05:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Lol... the feature you're most interested in is your character gaining weight. Perhaps you'd be more interested in something that skips the violence and gets straight into what you're interested in?
  
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4. Re:GTA and the Sims by Corngood · 2004-10-20 05:51 · Score: 0
  
  liberal
  
  adj.
  
  Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
  
  Yeah, that's me, unless you meant Liberal.
5. Re:GTA and the Sims by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 10:39 · Score: 0
  
  Whatever, Barbie. Gotta keep the trolls in their place, that's what *I* like to say.
6. Re:GTA and the Sims by Txiasaeia · 2004-10-20 11:31 · Score: 1
  
  Sure thing, sweet lips. Keep on telling yourself that.
  
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7. Re:GTA and the Sims by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 15:06 · Score: 0
  
  Well, here we go! ***ZAP***
  Wat the hell? he killed himself! who the fuck are you? he must have really trusted you to obeey you like this.l.. tx, rest in peace.
Explicit Lyrics! by binaryspiral · 2004-10-20 03:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Oh joy... another game to piss off the congressperson-of-the-day who's against video games.

This post contains explicit lyrics - oh, too late.
Kick-ass by igzat · 2004-10-20 04:07 · Score: 0, Troll

more hookers to kill. Can't wait! LOL

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Swimming? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 04:12 · Score: 2, Interesting

Forget parachuting, will they be adding the ability to swim this time? Or will they continue to treat water as some ultra-toxic substance that paralyzes and kills you the second you fall into it?
1. Re:Swimming? by Acidic_Diarrhea · 2004-10-20 04:17 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Yes, there is swimming in the new GTA. It also counts as exercise and makes your character stronger.
  No more toxic water!
  
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2. Re:Swimming? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 05:08 · Score: 0
  
  I AM A LIBERAL!
3. Re:Swimming? by hibiki_r · 2004-10-20 05:30 · Score: 1
  
  It's already been announded that yes, you can swim in GTA:SA.
4. Re:Swimming? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 07:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  Being a liberal also makes your character stronger. Oh, you meant the game character.
5. Re:Swimming? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 07:43 · Score: 1
  
  Good. I haven't been following this game much at all; I just remember my frustration in GTA3 and VC whenever I'd accidentally fall off a dock or boat or something and immediately drown.
6. Re:Swimming? by jvalenzu · 2004-10-20 14:03 · Score: 1
  
  +1000 Insightful
7. Re:Swimming? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 22:45 · Score: 0
  
  Surfing?
Hmmmm by Lord+Kano · 2004-10-20 04:13 · Score: 4, Interesting

Makes me want to fire up Vice City just to stay in practice.

I like the idea of having a parachute. It'll make running from the cops more interesting.

LK

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1. Re:Hmmmm by Gherald · 2004-10-20 04:28 · Score: 1
  
  > I like the idea of having a parachute. It'll make running from the cops more interesting.
  
  Yeah, I can see it now...
  
  "Suspect is on the roof of the Heinz building, running fast."
  
  "He jumped! Wait.. there's a parachute! He's headed down into the mall on 5th street."
  
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Anybody have a link to the trailer... by Sevn · 2004-10-20 04:24 · Score: 1

That doesn't require some sort of registration?

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1. Re:Anybody have a link to the trailer... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 04:36 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/trailers/G TASA_TRAILER3_480x360.wmv
  
  There's the windows media version from rockstar's site, but it's sloooow.
2. Re:Anybody have a link to the trailer... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 04:47 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_gtasa3.html
  
  fast download and in quicktime. death to windows media player!
NOT COOL by ForestGrump · 2004-10-20 04:41 · Score: 3, Funny

Want me to register? no, its alright. I'll wait for someone to post a torrent or something.

HINT HINT. SOMEONE TO POST A TORRENT OR SOMETHING.

Grump

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1. Re:NOT COOL by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 15:24 · Score: 0
  
  I'm pretty sure the trailer was on Suprnova.org yesterday, though I'm at work and can't check...
Torrent of WMV by inio · 2004-10-20 05:12 · Score: 4, Informative

http://www.inio.org/~inio/GTASA_TRAILER3_480x360.w mv.torrent
Here's the high res version.... by SteWhite · 2004-10-20 05:17 · Score: 5, Informative

Here's the high res, high quality Quicktime version, on the official site:
http://63.236.94.187/satrailer/GTASA_TRAILER3_480X 360.mov
1. Re:Here's the high res version.... by Lord_Dweomer · 2004-10-20 06:53 · Score: 1
  
  Thanks for posting. No way in hell I'm going to register with Gamespot just for a trailer that is on the official website. Yet another slashvertisement...
  
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Parachuting... Maybe? by OriginalSpaceMan · 2004-10-20 09:57 · Score: 1

Based on that trailer. It seems that the ability to parachute is tied to that mission. As in: Get on play, Do thing, Jump out back. Cut scene: You, jumping and parachuting. Personally, I hope that's not true. I want to grab a parachute and use it as a way to escape something or whatever. I'm just saying what it looks like.

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Where is the physics by JPyObjC+Dude · 2004-10-20 11:33 · Score: 1

I really did enjoy GTA. Actually all my brothers love it and are sickened by the fact that we liked it.

I hope these guys spend more time on the physics engine though. If they could get to 70% of Driver3's physics I'd be happy.

I really just love getting a fast car and driving (running over people is secondary).

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Explicit lyrics, oh no! by node+3 · 2004-10-20 13:20 · Score: 1

How can this even make sense?

"What's that? Looks like a game where you go around killing people, and which focuses on the glorification of the criminal, gangster lifestyle? Cool. Turn up the volume so I can hear!"

<faints>
Oh god by caitsith01 · 2004-10-20 19:01 · Score: 0, Troll

How much free advertising does ./ want to give these companies?

HINT HINT HINT

A *TRAILER* being released is NOT NEWS. A *game* ACTUALLY being released (not 'possibly being released soon according to some guy on a bulletin board' or 'being pre-loaded on Steam') is BARELY news.

I mean, how dumb are we? The news may as well say:

ARockStarEmployee writes: The Internet is abuzz with news of the forthcoming release of Rockstar Entertainment's latest blockbuster game, GTA: San Andreas (tm)! Although it's unclear at present whether the game will break the all time sales record set by The Sims (tm), what is clear is that players will have a blast in the totally new, 3D ultra realistic simulated mayhem of GTA: San Andreas (tm)! Early reviews have already given an unprecedented 101 out of 100 to GTA: San Andreas (tm)! So don't delay, read the article and become a witless pawn of the game marketing machine today!!!

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Donuts sandwich by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 19:37 · Score: 0

Clicky
A trailer eh? by __aailob1448 · 2004-10-20 19:56 · Score: 3, Funny

And to celebrate this joyous occasion, a torrent for the full game has appeared on suprnova :p