#Gta s_f Pc#

Like I said, I wish I'd waited for this version of San Andreas before picking up my digital Glock and embarking on a pixellated life of crime, as the newly arrived PC version is better than the PS2 version in a couple of significant ways. This brings me nicely to the point I touched on earlier. While not the best fighters, they do provide a welcome extra dimension to GTA's combat.ДЄh, combat. Any areas you control will be populated by recruitable thugs who follow you around, attacking enemies and performing drive-bys. San Andreas has a turf war system that requires you to grab rival gangs' territory and claim it as your own. The higher it is, the more gang members you can entice into your entourage. Another important stat is Respect', which rises as you plough through missions.

Other additions include RPG-style skills, which become improved through practice: bump up your rifle skill and shooting becomes sharper: increase your motorcycling proficiency and you won't tumble off as often. There's a mind-boggling amount of stuff to do. We haven't even mentioned the numerous girlfriends you can squire, the burglaries, the fat stat or the properties available for purchase. None of this is purely cosmetic: changing your appearance gets the cops off your back, while weightlifting increases the amount of damage you deal in a fight. Hell, you can even trick out your ride in several garages dotted around the map. For instance, CJ can get tattooed, have a haircut, bulk up in the gym and buy clothes. San Andreas adds an incredible amount to this core gameplay, and it makes the game feel even vaster. Other mission types include illegal street races, heists and lowrider bouncing contests.Д«ut if you're thinking that this is simply a rehash of earlier GTA games with a bigger map, think again.

#Gta s_f crack#

So you jump in a car, bum it round to the crack den and proceed to knock seven shades of shit out of your target with the baseball bat you looted from the corpse of an earlier victim. A typical mission might see you tasked with beating up a drug dealer. The core gameplay has changed hardly at all from Vice City. It's not the most interesting of hooks -although there's a pleasing amount of backstabbing, betrayal and brotherly love thrown in - but it works, and the promise of new areas to explore helps drive you on. Dragged back to the hood by the death of your mother, you start running with your old homies once more. The plot is pretty much thus: it's the early 1990s, and you're Carl CJ' Johnson, a Los Santos native who's spent the past few years thugging it up out of state. Wisely, Rockstar feeds you fresh slices of San Andreas as you advance through the game's story, opening up routes to new areas as you progress. Fully five times bigger than Vice City, it's home to three cities and numerous small towns, with plenty of redneck-packed, hillbilly countryside in between.Д«ut as with other GTA titles, you can't see everything right from the start. Inspired by California (and a certain neon-lit corner of Nevada), the game world is huge. The main departure is that instead of being given the freedom to roam around a single city, you get a whole state in which to indulge your gangsta leanings. Rockstar North's latest sticks closely to the formula. Embark on the sort of whore-murdering rampage that recently got Hillary Clinton's knickers in a public twist, or simply cruise around town looking cool - the choice is yours.

#Gta s_f free#

You have the option of undertaking missions - some of which keep the story ticking along, some of which don't - but you are also free to roam around the city if you wish the game world is very much your oyster. But here are the revision notes for anyone who may have recently awoken from a coma: you're a career criminal in a fictional city (although one that's clearly inspired by a real-life metropolis) filled with people and vehicles, any of which you can kill/drive (delete as appropriate). Unless you've been squatting in a Saddam-style hidey-hole for the past ten years, I'm going to assume you know what the GTA games are all about. But now I wish I'd had the patience to wait that half a year, because after spending time with this version I'd much rather be playing San Andreas through for the first time on my PC. As Proud PC gamers, you may feel a little aggrieved to be reading this review now, rather than nine months ago when this game first reared its tabloid-baiting head on the PlayStation 2.1 myself crumbled in typical lily-livered fashion, holding out until around last Christmas, at which time I decided that I couldn't wait another half a year for a game that all and sundry were raving about.