GTA: San Andreas confirmed and dated
Rockstar Games announces that it will release Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas exclusively for the PlayStation 2 in October.
After registering a number of potential Grand Theft Auto titles earlier this year, Rockstar Games has today confirmed that the next game in the series will be Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. A PlayStation 2 exclusive, the game is currently scheduled for release in North America on October 19, and in Europe on October 22.
"In the past couple of years, we have put an enormous amount of pressure on ourselves to ensure we do everything possible to exceed people's expectations with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," said Sam Houser, president of Rockstar Games. "Even though we still have eight months to go, we are starting to become very proud of what we have achieved and we can't wait to get the game into players' hands."
"We are extremely humbled by the success of the Grand Theft Auto series and it has made us push ourselves further than ever to create a title in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that will hopefully redefine the Grand Theft Auto series and revolutionize open-ended gameplay and video game production values," added Leslie Benzies, president of Rockstar North.
We'll bring you more information on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as soon as it becomes available.
By Justin Calvert, GameSpot [POSTED: 03/01/04 05:22 AM]
Lookin' forward to it.
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These games are always good.
I wonder what decade it will be in?
If they're smart, they will add these little characteristics to it:
The sneaking engine from Manhunt along with its executions.
The aiming capabilites of True Crime.
The fighter engine from Dead to Rights with its disarms to boot.
And we CANNOT forget the slow-mo leaping action.
Hopefully they will fix the unresponsive movement that keeps annoying me in Vice City.
Also, not to sound ungrateful Rockstar, but could you optimize the faces too. Like in True Crime or Dead to Rights perhaps.
My dream game.
damn, they should make this for PC also, i find PC controls so much easier
I wouldnt place much faith in the word "Exclusive",things always seem to change on that front!
I remember when PS2 owners were told all new Resident evil games would be exclusive to Gamecube,yet I've recently read about the new PS2 Resi game thats coming!
Give it six months to a year after the PS2 release & you'll prolly get yer PC version!
It has to do with Vice City, and the Lawrence Taylor Character. I can't remember if it precedes Vice City, or happens after Vice City.
There are a few hints about it being San Andreas. I wanted Sin City, and I was disappointed. But they stuck to the script. What the fuck is in CA?
Anyways, at the airport in Vice City, around it, anyways, there is a warehouse (actually closer to the docks) and a crate or two has writing with the words San Andreas etched on it. Question is, was it to San Andreas, or from San Andreas? Also, Lawrence Taylor's character, who owned the car dealership, did interviews on the radio station. Mentioned playing a game in San Andreas with two broken legs. Denotes past tense, so I figure this might take place in the 70s, early 80s. BUT, when Tommy Vercetti buys the dealership, LT says he is coming out of retirement. SO...The game could just as well be taking place in the late 80s
Best guess? late 70s to late 80s
Disco to hair bands.
I read somewhere that it will be in San Franciso, not Los Angeles like many people think.
San Fransico during the 70's. Think of all the hippies you can run over, shoot, and kill.
and disco's! and sailors!
Is it wrong for me to request a better pickin'-up-whores-and-fucking-them-rotten AI? If I'm gonna pay money for tail (then run it over to get it back), I wanna see some action!
Switching the skins to an all-nude wimmens city ain't gonna cut it anymore!
heh an Adult rated game, yes Adult not mature, interesting
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New GTA: San Andreas plot details
A Los Angeles casting call hints at the forthcoming Rockstar game's story line.
Officially, Rockstar treats the plotline of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas like a state secret. However, its efforts to cast voice actors have revealed clues about the upcoming PlayStation 2 game's story, including the names of several characters.
Two weeks ago, veteran casting director David Vaccari, who has worked on films such as The Bone Collector and Finding Forrester, placed a listing on the Los Angeles-based agency Shadowfax under the "Interactive/Home Videos/Video Games" category. The project advertised is listed as "ROCKSTAR - GRAND THEFT AUTO" and offers reading scripts for three roles--"Maccer," "Mad Dogg," and "Maria."
On the top of the role's reading script, Maccer is described as a "Manchester-born white male, 22." The dialogue also gives a taste of Maccer's personality, since it is taken from the 1999 film Human Traffic, which followed a group of young British clubbers on a drug-fueled night of partying. Coincidentally, Moff, the character who uttered the lines in the film, was played by Danny Dyer, the actor who voiced Kent Paul in Vice City.
The next character, Mad Dogg, is described as "Black American Male, 23." Judging by the script, Mad Dogg will not be the paradigm of social responsiblity. His lines are those of O-Dog, the homicidal teenager played by Larenz Tate in the 1993 classic Menace II Society, and are drenched in hardcore profanity and mid-'90s gangsta slang.
Last comes Maria, referred to in the script as a "young Italian female." The script is taken from the 1988 film Colors, which focused on two Los Angeles police officers' efforts to stem the rising tide of gang warfare. The lines were borrowed from Maria Conchita Alonso's Louisa Gomez, the Hispanic love interest of Senn Penn's rookie LAPD officer in the film.
Although Rockstar did not respond to inquires about the characters, several other details about GTA: San Andreas' plot can be inferred from the scripts. First, given the vintage of the films and the modern vernacular, the game will take place in semi-contemporary times, as opposed to the 1970s-set game some had speculated. Second, the film will feature a West-Coast gangsta prominently, perhaps even as the lead.
By Tor Thorsen -- GameSpot
Posted: 03/25/04 01:56 PM
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rexstardust said:
These games are always good.
I wonder what decade it will be in?
I would love it if they set it in the 1910's
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rexstardust said:
These games are always good.
I wonder what decade it will be in?
I would love it if they set it in the 1910's
Try Mafia, that was set in the 20s or 30s, its the closest u'll get to 1910.
Here are some pics from E3:
I still have no clue when this is set. I'm guessing the 70's. I can't tell from the pics.
From gamespot:
Late today, Rockstar gave many PlayStation 2 owners what they've been waiting for--their first glimpse of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
A trio of images on the official San Andreas Web site seemed to confirm what many who have been following the game suspected. It will be set in modern times (not the 1970s-set game some had said) and will have a heavy West-Coast gangsta flava.
The first image could be taken from any one of the many late 1980s/early 1990s gangsta films, such as Menace II Society or Colors. It depicts a quartet of corn-rowed, Uzi-toting O.G.s performing a drive-by shooting from a car from the same period.
Shot number two shows a young hood, also with an Uzi, squatting in front of a tricked out old-school convertible, often called a "hooptie" or a "hoo-ride." He is wearing what looks like a Carhartt jacket and Timberland boots--the de facto gangsta uniform circa 1994.
The last shot shows the same character riding a bicycle down neighborhood straight out of Compton, with single-level homes set against a smog-colored sky. No information was released on whether bicycles can be ridden in the game.
The Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas site also has a new splash page, which changes each time the site is loaded. One shows a blond woman bending over to show the tattoos on her décolletage, another features a baseball-cap wearing gangsta sporting what could be called "mad bling." A third shows, a scantily clad Latina in a bandana halter top, and a fourth shows a snarling thug with tattoo sleeves and a shaven head.
All the shots indicate that the controversial Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has not lost the rough-and-ready nature of its predecessors. GameSpot will have more on this highly anticipated title--which is due in Q4 2004--as they become available.
By Tor Thorsen -- GameSpot
This game is gonna be off the hook!
I post on a messageboard. So yes.
But how do you buy them without leaving your basement?
Can you get them on Ebay or Amazon?
I don't believe in ordering things offline. So while I was in here these past few decades, I created a device that makes the house sprout legs and walk to the store. From the parking lot, I pay a guy fifty bucks to go in and get the chems I want. It's usually lysol.
This game is gonna be off the hook!
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Pariah said:
So while I was in here these past few decades, I created a device that makes the house sprout legs and walk to the store.
oh, my god. You're Baba Yaga!
This game is gonna be off the hook!!
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Pariah said:
I don't believe in ordering things offline. So while I was in here these past few decades, I created a device that makes the house sprout legs and walk to the store. From the parking lot, I pay a guy fifty bucks to go in and get the chems I want. It's usually lysol.
You just watched Howl's Moving Castle, huh?
Actually, my torrent for that just got finished.
SPOOOoooooky!
This game is gonna be off the hook!
SUIT OK'D VS.GRAND 'SEX' AUTOA Bronx grandma and outraged parents who bought the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" for the teens they love - not knowing the game featured a secret kinky sex scene - can go forward with a class-action lawsuit, a federal judge ruled.
The lawsuit seeks damages from Take Two Interactive Software and Rockstar Games for including simulated sex scenes that are easily accessible with the right software. Florence Cohen, 86, and parents who joined her in the suit claim they were duped by the "M" rating on the ultra-violent "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" when it was released in 2004.
Industry regulators later changed that to an adults-only rating upon learning of the pornographic content.
In a ruling issued yesterday, Manhattan federal Judge Shirley Wohl Kram refused to dismiss the class-action lawsuit, which was filed last year and is being brought on behalf of anyone who bought the game between the time of its release and July 20, 2005.
Oh please...
The supposed "porno" scene is only available is you use a computer to hack the code on the disc. AND, I suppose it's okay to shoot or gut policeman and hookers, and any other person in there....as well as cursing, violence, drug use, and the like....but, sex? Oh that needs a lawsuit. What utter bullshit...
I have to agree with Pro...In light of the senseless violence, how is sexual content worse? I really, really don't get the mixed up logic there...
Its our "Puritan" roots...centuries of prudes being in charge have warped our sense of morality. Just look at how some US conservatives still think Clinton getting a blowjob is worse than Bush starting the war in Iraq....
The lawsuit aside (because it's total bullshit), I'd rather have violent media than sexually explicit games. The fact of the matter is that society shuns violence too much for games to actually inspire it in the players. Sex, or sexual proclivities, is exactly what society is opening itself up to. In which case, GTA is not going to produce serial killers, but games like Magna Cum Laude just might help in the evolution of a Stifler or Van Wilder. It's a pretty scary development.
On one level I suppose a legitimate claim could be made that the makers of the game engaged in, for lack of better term, a form of fraud. They marketed the game as violent, but not sexual. Sort of a "false advertising" cause of action.
But I agree the lawsuit is b.s. Its just a way for someone to try and make a few undeserved bucks.
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The lawsuit aside (because it's total bullshit), I'd rather have violent media than sexually explicit games. The fact of the matter is that society shuns violence too much for games to actually inspire it in the players. Sex, or sexual proclivities, is exactly what society is opening itself up to. In which case, GTA is not going to produce serial killers, but games like Magna Cum Laude just might help in the evolution of a Stifler or Van Wilder. It's a pretty scary development.
I.....I'm actually detecting the absurd sarcasm in that post. Nice. 
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On one level I suppose a legitimate claim could be made that the makers of the game engaged in, for lack of better term, a form of fraud. They marketed the game as violent, but not sexual. Sort of a "false advertising" cause of action.
But I agree the lawsuit is b.s. Its just a way for someone to try and make a few undeserved bucks.
Not only is it B.S. in the instance you cite, but, in the fact that the player would have to "illegally" break into the code of the game disc itself, search for the aborted subroutine that they decided not to include in the game at the last minute, and integrate it into the regular gameplay.
Rockstar is at no fault here. In fact, the fucker who first hacked the disc should be brought up on charges.
If there's a law for that. I don't know.
But, it's bullshit nonetheless...
There are clauses in the End User License Agreements of most games that are supposed to restrict the amount of modification a buyer can perform on the game software itself. The restrictions are weak enough that there's a lively trade in trainers and third-party mods, and it's only a small stretch from there to no-CD cracks, and from there to full-blown duplication of the rules. The issue isn't so much the regulations in place in this instance as it is the ability to enforce EULAs and other limitations on modification/distribution of game software. Whether or not the mod in question was 'legal' is a very grey area.
You know if parents actually monitored what video games their kids played we wouldn't have this problem. But that makes too much sense.
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rex said:
You know if parents actually monitored what video games their kids played we wouldn't have this problem. But that makes too much sense.
So you're saying that parents shouldn't monitor what games their kids play?
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rex said:
So you're saying that parents shouldn't monitor what games their kids play?
No, last I checked I agreed with you. Parental involvement, while not really en vogue anymore, would solve a lot of issues that seem to plague kids nowadays.
Then why did you say I was stupid?
I said "I'm
with stupid" - it was a nice alternative to
without depreciating the value of any of my trademarked catchphrases through overuse.
This game is gonna be off the hook!
