09-06-2005 00:26									#1
	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for XBox (and PC) Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Just was able to pick this up for my XBox. All I have to say is... SWEET! The game world looks massive and the West Coast early 90s theme is really fun so far. I can't wait until I get to go to the Vegas-like city

	09-06-2005 04:44									#2
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I want to play it now, but I don't want to get it until I have bought the new G70.

	09-06-2005 05:29									#3
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I plan to play this in about a week or so.

	09-06-2005 07:55									#4
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Maybe in a week if...well you know...cash flow issues.

	09-06-2005 08:22									#5
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Looks fun. And unlike other games out there, you get your money's worth. But I bought the Xbox double pack a while ago. I finished GTA 3 but haven't started Vice City yet. So it'll have to wait...

	09-06-2005 18:23									#6
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I've finished GTA 3 and Vice City to 100%, so I'm about due for thiefy type fix.

	09-06-2005 22:44									#7
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So far so good. It's been super fun so far and the eating/working out parts are well integrated and are not annoying in the slightest. I was exploring the other day and was just driving in the country, looking around. The world is HUGE!

	09-06-2005 23:49									#8
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They say this in the Gamespot review:

quote: The Xbox one has 480p support, but when enabled, the aliasing is out of control. Portions of the environment look so unbelievably jaggy that you'll wonder if your eyesight is failing you. At times it looks like you're playing a 3D game without putting on the glasses. But if you can get past that (it isn't quite as noticeable in standard resolution), the game generally looks great.

Have you noticed it?

	10-06-2005 00:40									#9
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Yeah, some times it gets pretty jagged, but its actually not that bad. It happens every once in a while, but doesn't interfere in gameplay at all.

	10-06-2005 05:08									#10
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My PS2 broke nad scratched my disc so I've been in limbo for a few months now.

Last tiem I played I was doing the missions for the casinos. Flying has to be one of the coolest parts of the game.

	10-06-2005 18:39									#11
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I haven't gotten to any of the locked places yet, but I like it that you're now able to swim to those places

But damn they're not happy about having me outside the start city, I get a 4 police-star rating as soon as I get on land

	11-06-2005 20:55									#12
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I haven't swam yet, but it's about time that was included .

	16-06-2005 23:48									#13
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Just got to San Fierro! The game rocks! It's loads of fun .

	16-06-2005 23:56									#14
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What Imran said, although I've already spent a while in San Fierro. The game is huge and so rich with all sorts of things, I could spend the whole summer with it.

	17-06-2005 04:12									#15
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The countryside is just amazing. It seems like there is some real distance between the small towns. It feels like a real world. I can't wait to use the casinos in Las Venturas. San Fierro seems like a nice town. Better than Los Santos anyway .

	20-06-2005 19:19									#16
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Does anyone else have the PC version and having trouble with sounds?

I am having trouble getting all of the sound effects to work. The music plays, and I hear most of what is going on, but when I finish a mission I don't hear what the characters are saying. I don't hear the engine of whatever vehicle I have or the steps when I'm running.

My sound card is a Soundblaster Live! and has the latest drivers. The game box says it recommends a Soundblaster Audigy 2...though I don't really want to buy a new soundcard just for this game. Any help would be appreciated.

	20-06-2005 19:25									#17
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Nope, sound works fine here
My sound card is built in my Asus MB

	20-06-2005 20:52									#18
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There is a known problem with the SB Live card. I should know, I have that too.

Set your speakers to quadraphonic and reduce hardware acceleration for your soundcard to the 2nd lowest (or lowest) setting. The lowest setting was buggy for me and still skipped, but the second lowest seems to work fine.

	20-06-2005 23:52									#19
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It worked. Thanks!

	21-06-2005 18:06									#21
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I have it for the PC, and I have an SB Live, but I haven't experienced any problems (then again, I'm only playing with 2 speakers right now.) Sound is set to high. Check out GTAforums for help with your issues.

Great game, though the jaggies are sometimes grating. I tweaked the draw distances to 2 - 3x normal, so I've been looking for optimal settings. 1024 x 768 looks a bit rough, even at 3x AA & very high graphic settings, but one step up (1152 x whatever) with 2x AA & just high settings starts giving me the occasional hesitation when looking around quickly. I may have to reduce the draw distance a bit.

Regardless, wonderful game. Between this and Battlefield 2, June is a great month for gamers.

	22-06-2005 09:45									#22
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I'm having a blast with this game. Much more fun than Vice City. I especially like taking over other 'hoods. I now have targets to kill rather than just randomly shooting people.

	25-06-2005 22:14									#23
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Got it for the PC a couple weeks ago, been having an absolute blast--been in San Fierro for a while now, it seems like it is starting to wrap up.

The only thing I like better about Vice City is the soundtrack. Otherwise, this game kicks about 37 different kinds of ass.

	26-06-2005 06:04									#24
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I, on the other hand, dislike many of the changes that have been made.

For instance, almost all of the radio stations suck completely and utterly. The speech of the characters is difficult to understand at times even with subtitles. The whole skipping speech thing due to the SB Live didn't win any favours. No longer do we have numbers that can actually be used to convey information - we have a red bar for health and a white bar for armour. If we get hit, we have a less-filled white bar. If we train up our muscles, we have a bar that is somewhat longer - it must be, it has a plus sign next to it. How much bigger it is is anyone's guess. No longer can you do any missions in any order either - at the start of the game you cannot do any missions that increase your stats like health or muscles before "unlocking" those features by doing storyline missions, otherwise the game will crash. The crosshairs from previous series are also gone. Now we have to right-click and then aim and shoot.

	26-06-2005 11:05									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Guynemer Got it for the PC a couple weeks ago, been having an absolute blast--been in San Fierro for a while now, it seems like it is starting to wrap up. The only thing I like better about Vice City is the soundtrack. Otherwise, this game kicks about 37 different kinds of ass.

Though I have it for XBox. The countryside is so freaking cool.. though it sucks having to drive the whole thing for a mission.

I am also in San Fierro (haven't been able to play it too much due to studying). Woozy is a blast!

I also like the cameos by people in the other GTAIII series games (GTAIII and GTA:VC). Nice touch. The abilility to change your look is fun as well (and gives you a reason to spend your cash at times ).

Some of the voice actors they got was great as well. Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Fonda, Chris Penn, James Woods? Whoa!

	26-06-2005 16:39									#26
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I just found an easy way to do the vigilante missions:

First you need to get a tank (Area 51 anyone?), then press the key to start the missions. This should be easy as a walk in the park

If you don't like having a 5 star police rating during the missions all you need to do is to go to a pay 'n' spray garage. When you get there find a normal car, but be quick to get this car into the garage before your car is destroyed by all the shooting. As soon as the stars stop flashing just take the tank and do the missions
If you're afraid you'll screw up you might want to "save" the tank. Just go to the garage in San Fierro, it's large enough to hold the tank, then save the game and you now have a tank to go back to in case you fail

	30-06-2005 00:38									#27
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Whose from Vice City in San Andreas? I had the PS2 version, but gave it to my friend. I'm gonna pick up the X-Box version in a week or so...didn't see anyone from Vice City in the game when I was playing it on playstation...

	30-06-2005 02:31									#28
	Got spare money?

Ken Rosenberg & Kent Paul.

	30-06-2005 05:51									#29
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Catalina (GTA3) makes an appearance too.

	30-06-2005 08:12									#30
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Far more than just her makes an appearance from GTA3 .