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Lazlow, I loved his witty comments. :'(
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Rockstar posted their Q&A and they have some interesting stuff. All of the areas will be open at start. BUT, once you leave the areas you've unlocked and go to another, you get a 4 star wanted level that can't be taken away until you leave. That means you can go explore but cops will be chasing you.
They also say there's no pets or children in the game and they don't like the thought of it in any of them. So I don't think we'll see them, ever. Here's the whole Q&A: 1. "What are some major improvements in the pedestrian/police AI?" - Casey "Zidane" Mongillo / www.gtagaming.com R*: Yes. Enemies in general will now do a much better job of taking cover and attempting to flank CJ. Pedestrians are now frightened of things they should be frightened of (like when a large military vehicle appears in a residential area), they hold hands, they have their own daily lives and destinations. 2. "Have the helicopter and plane height limits been increased?" - Gta-Expert / www.gtagaming.com R*: Massively increased. Mount Chiliad is over half a mile tall, and you can fly well above its height. 3. What methods of air transportation can we expect? – JulioCaesar / PlanetGrandTheftAuto R*: All kinds, most things you see in the air in the real world you'll see in San Andreas. 4. In several screenshots and the first trailer for San Andreas, Carl was playing basketball and pool. Are these cut scenes or can you play them and also what other mini-games are there? - Gangstaman590 / PlanetGrandTheftAuto R*: The one of Smoke and Sweet playing basketball was a cutscene. The pool shot is CJ actually playing pool. There are too many mini-games to list here, rest assured there will be tons of fun stuff to do! 5. Will police chase other criminals besides Carl Johnson? For example, will you see a car chase go by with police going after someone? Or if not that, if someone shoots at Carl and a cop sees it, will the cop chase after him or you? - Arjuna Bosch / PlanetGrandTheftAuto R*: Yes to both questions. San Andreas is a dangerous place, and you're not the only criminal about! 6. "In Vice City, driving a car up onto the packer and then driving the packer results in the car sliding off. Have the physics been changed so that trucks and trailers can carry cars properly? - (GTA3Freak-2001) / GTA Network / GTAScraper R*: We have a surprise in store for you on this one. 7. Will the gameplay of Las Venturas include gambling, if so, what options are open to us? - (zeppelincheetah) / GTA Network / GTAScraper R*: Yes on gambling (a number of the mini-games we mentioned). Details on this will be released soon, but I can reveal that there will be a number of gambling types you can choose from. 8. Will we be able to find any sub-plots in the deserts/woods or just random rampages? - (smithstock) / GTA Network / GTAScraper R*: There are always subplots in GTA games! There will be missions in the countryside and desert along those lines. 9. What will be blocking us from entering the other cities/locations? - (Dead at 4 PM) / GTA Network / GTAScraper R*: There is some story wrapped up in this, but to answer your question, a 4 star wanted level any time you leave the areas you've opened. And this particular wanted level you cannot shed with things like Pay & Spray or Police Bribes. This means that you can explore areas of the state you haven't opened, but only with a small army of police officers hunting you down! 10. How do you choose actors to voice the characters? Is it a long process, or do you just pick people with well-known names? - SwissMiss33 / GTA Warehouse R*: It's a long process, we choose actors who will give us the performance we're looking for. Since we don't promote our games based off the voice actors in it, the name recognition isn't important to us. 11. What role have trolleys (trams)? Can we use others public service vehicles like airplanes and boats? - (lefantome) / GTAnetwork.it R*: They function as public transport, which CJ can use. The train is the other public service you can ride around the state. 12. Will there be animals in San Andreas like dogs, pigs and cows? What kind of interaction we have with them and can they react if scared? - (Thomasbz & El Presy & God_of_GTA) / GTAnetwork.it R*: No, another funny rumor, that one started by an audio clip on the website that mentioned a K-9 unit. We don't particularly like the idea of children or small fuzzy animals in our games. 13. Can we buy vehicles too or we have just to steal them? - (MxM) / GTAnetwork.it R*: You can buy vehicles, but not every one in the game. There will be a couple dealers who will sell some of the higher-end vehicles to you, but only after you've done a bit of work for them. 14. We must spend with a game about 150 hours to complete San Andreas. Is this number of hours to complete main story or 100% of the game? - (Mastah) / GTA.pl R*: That number is really general. We don't like giving a number like that out, because invariably questions like these come up, but people insist on putting a number on the games. Obviously there are very different ways of playing Grand Theft Auto. Some players just like to "play-through", finishing the main storyline or getting to 100% as fast as they can. Other people go at the main storyline at a more leisurely pace. And some people never even really play the story at all, they might just download cheats and sandbox around the map. Our guess of 150 hours is the amount of time we think it would take someone to hit 100% who wasn't rushing through the game as quickly as possible with a strategy guide. 15. In which way we will choose the second gun? From a menu; using other keys, etc.? - (Mastah) / GTA.pl R*: If you're referring to holding dual-weapons, the second weapon is always the same as the primary so there is no selection process. Once your skill level with a weapon is high enough, holding 2 becomes possible, and they're linked by a single firing button (though you must find a second gun!). If your question is more general, then hopefully this answers it: gun selection works exactly like it did in Vice. You can carry one weapon of each type at a time. If you want to replace your current weapon with another of the same type, hold down L1 while standing over it. Your old weapon will be permanently discarded. Cycle though your available weapons with L2 and R2. Circle to fire! 16. When R* make their vector images of GTA characters and stuff, do they start with an actual screenshot or photo or just start drawing it from scratch? - Tibor Vehicles are often created from renders or screenshots, and characters are most often done off of photographs or concept sketches. You'll be interested to note though, Tibor, that the images are drawn by hand with pencil and ink. They're then scanned and colored in Adobe Photoshop. Once finished, the images are hand-traced in Adobe Illustrator, a labor-intensive process, but the results are worth it! 17. Is it easy to get rich or will have to battle your way trough the game? - (Christoph Decker) / gtareactor.de R*: If you focus on earning money, you will find ways to add to your roll even early on. As usual with Grand Theft Auto, how you spend your time is up to you! 18. When did you start working on SA? Did you work on it simultaneously with Vice City? - Alexander Grenberg / GTAsajten R*: We started work right as Vice City was finishing up. 19. There were 97 vehicles in gta vice city, how many are there going to be in gta san andreas? - (Martin Glomb) / www.gta-action.com R*: San Andreas will have over double the number of vehicles in Vice City. |
IGN and Gamespot have put up some in game footage. The gamespot videos require you to have a membership (which I do). There is one that has CJ on a motorcycle doing some flips and turns in the air and another with CJ driving a car through a small gap in a series of homes doing an insane stunt (you can hear the slowed motion of the helicopters) which ends with a ped saying "Punk ass bitch mother..."
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Yeah, that's pretty ridiculous.
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Wouldn't the bike explode if you did that jump in reality?I thought they where going to put in realistic physics.
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That was huge...and he wasn't going to fast either. Imagine if a cop was hanging on the back.
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This game is gonna be huuuuuuuuge.
We're up to 460 pre-orders at work for it now. |
I haven't watched any of the trailers, so I haven't seen this in motion.
I haven't been following what's in it obsessively, so I think I could be in for a nice suprise :) |
Red X-a-rama.
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That's because GTA Gaming sucks. Hold on I'll find them elsewhere.
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Gamespot has an update on interactivity in the game so I would guess IGN does too. Here's some quick notes:
CJ has many different moods that he articulates through over 4,200 comments. This number excludes the over 3,500 scripted comments and lines in the over two hours of motion-captured cut-scenes. There's fat CJ, pissed-off CJ, wisecracking CJ, and sweet-talking CJ, to name just a few. After being talked to you can tap left on the D-pad for a negative comment and right for a positive. You'll find over 300 different kinds of pedestrians in the game, with 60,000 different comments. Citizens talk to each other about their lives along with taunting and so forth. http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen001.jpg http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen002.jpg http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen003.jpg http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen004.jpg http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen005.jpg http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen006.jpg http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen007.jpg http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen008.jpg |
Game looks absolutely sweet. I don't play games anymore (until Halo 2 of course) but this game may make me come out of retirement early. :D
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*Co-Op Mode - 2 player rampages: either in a car or on foot. The screen is not split. There are also many other two player features, presumably gambling games and the minigames basketball and pool.
*Use your camera to take pictures of things and save them to your memory card *You must spray over a possible 100 other opposing gang tags around the cities with your own gang sign and a spraypaint can, for a part of the 100% *Oysters are the equivalent of the underwater hidden package, find them all for a reward *Horseshoes also need to be found, (speculation: maybe the new hidden package)? *The addition of girlfriends in the game, who'll you'll have to please to get something in return *There is dancing in the game, DDR style, which is used to impress dates *You learn to parachute (either from a plane or base-jumping) from a flight school *There are hovercrafts, and even a forklift *Play poker, craps, blackjack, wheel of fortune, or slots The annoucement of the following voice actors: Carl Johnson - Young Maylay Sweet Johnson - Faizon Love Ryder - MC Eiht Cesar - Clifton Collins Jr Kendl Johnson - Yo Yo Zero - David Cross OG Loc - Jonathan Anderson Frank Tenpenny - Samuel L. Jackson Maddog - Ice T The Truth - Peter Fonda Wu Zi Mu - James Yaegashi Ran Fali (Farlie) - Hunter Platin Mike Torreno - James Wood Maccer - Shaun Ryder Eddie Pulaski - Chris Penn Officer Hernandez - Armando Riesco Jizzy B - Charlie Murphy T-Bone Mendez - Kid Frost Ken Rosenberg - William Fichtner --------------------------------- I guess Some actors put fake names on. From: http://gtadomain.gtagaming.com/ |
I've downloaded this ishhhh. Will play it when I get back home on Sundayyyyy
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Well, I've given into temptation and have pre-ordered this game for when it comes out friday. I'll be honest, I haven't been following the development of this game at all. All I know about it is that you have to eat right and can get hair cuts. I loved the previous 2 games, so there is no doubt that I will enjoy this one too.
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Rosenberg is back that is cool, and what an awesome cast of voiceactors. I'm most excited for Samuel L. Jackson
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I can't wait to drive an oil tanker down that gigantic mountain that looks so fucking high from the video at the official site. I just hope that there's some kinda path for me to drive on so I can get to the topic easily. I'm looking forward to working out a lot since I don't wanna end up skinny or fat. I'll probably drive bikes up and down the hills of SF to stay in top shape during the game. After I get a 100% I'm gonna get extremely fat!:D
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Going to drive a tanker into a huge group of rival gang members and laugh as I'm setting fire to their homes. Just need to wait until Tuesday.
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We've gone over 500 pre-orders for this game at work now. Release weekend is going to be fucking insane.
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I get to dress up all thuggish for work today and tomorrow for the game. We spray painted poster board and such to put up around the store as well.
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Wicked :cool:
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I'm gonna spend my money on other things. That way by the time I save up my money to get this I won't have to worry about it not being there or there being huge crowds...
Then again, I bet there is a whole population of stinky fat kids who have their parents buy the game six times over a month because they either break the disks, lose them, or just want extras. Those kids will piss me off something fierce, and I won't get out of their way when they're walking down the aisle. I'll bump into them. I swear I will! |
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3 More hours until I pick my copy up
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I'll probably buy it around December/January.
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Hey man, you do crazy shit for awesome games. Definitely +1 in my book. PS, this shit is going to go crazy tommorow. The Blockbuster where I ordered my game has ordered 1500 copies for tommorow and the rest of the week.
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CHARLIE MURPHY!
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FUCK YEAH! I called EB and they say that I can pick up the game TONIGHT at 7:30!
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I only took about 5 pre-orders today, but it all looks set to be manic on friday.
Get to play it a couple of days early, but Im not allowed to take a copy home. So lame. |
Little brother is going to pick it up in an hour....
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I'm waiting to pick it up tommorow. If it is in stock. I hope it is in stock!!!!
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I just started playing it and I gotta say that it's better than GTA 3 and Vice City. But it does seem extremely different from them for some reason. But in a good way IMO.
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