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Okay here's the story fellow criminals and co-conspirators:
The streets are gritty and tough, enemies are everywhere. This is the inner City of Los Santos, and we're talking gangs, turf wars, drugs, heavy artillery, loud blaring music, and never knowing for sure when the next guy you bump into will want you toe-tagged.
It’s the early Nineteen Nineties and you are Carl Johnson, known as CJ to most of your friends, family and gang members. Estranged from your family and away in Liberty City for five years you return home to pay your respects to your Mom, who just recently passed away. While home you will be set up by two corrupt cops (Tempenny and Polaski) and, you will be dragged back into the turmoil and violence of inner City gang life. And don’t think that your ascent up the criminal ladder will be an easy one. No, no, no, no my friend! Because, you have been blamed by your family for the death of your ten year old Brother Brian, who died in a “tragic incident” five years, which is why you went away to Liberty in the first place. Particularly angry with you is your brother, Sweet Johnson.
So here you are, as CJ you have returned home for your Mother’s Funeral and what do you find? Well, for starters, your family and former gang (the Orange Grove Families in East Los Santos) are in chaos and complete disorder. Your brother Sweet and your sister Kendall are also fighting and your best friends Smoke and Ryder have been ousted from their former positions of power on the streets. The Orange Grove Families gang has now fragmented into factions and petty squabbling and your old crew has fallen under the control of Frank Tempenny and Eddie Polaski. CJ wants no part of his old gang life, but regardless, soon finds himself sucked back in. You will be fighting to restore order in your family, in your gang as well as on the streets of San Andreas.
What about gameplay you ask? Well, expect a far more seamless blend of Career missions, side missions and other tasks you do, even while not advancing some part of the plot or storyline. This will tie everything together in a much more cohesive manner even than the previous GTA titles.
For those of you not keeping up with the staggering array of information surrounding this game here is the general lay of the land:
We are looking at a State (not a City) that will be approximately six times the size of Vice City and be comprised of three cities, desert, rural terrain and, if you can believe it, a HUGE mountain, called Mount Chillad, which you can climb! The three cities are modeled after three real life Southwestern Cities and are Los Santos (Los Angeles), San Fierro (San Francisco) and Las Venturas (Las Vegas). The cities will be separated by huge expanses of terrain ranging in type and from what Rockstar promises, will have some amazing areas to explore and its own set of populations and dangers! They even hinted at missions given by some of the locals in this very rural environment.
Los Santos, based upon Los Angeles will feature lots of gangland activity and will be replete with many of the things we would expect a rendering of LA to have, including Rockstar’s versions of Hollywood, Rodeo Drive and many other touristy attractions!
San Fierro, based on San Francisco will have all the hills and hazardous terrain we would expect in the “Rice-A-Roni City”, which will no doubt spice up your typical GTA-esque jumps with fast cars and bikes! While here, you may want to take a tour on the Trolly or drive over the Golden Gate Bridge. Hey why not head over to Haight Ashbury (called Hash & Garcia) and check out where the whole Bay area counter culture started out way back in the Sixties?
In Las Veturas, which is of course, Rockstar’s version of Las Vegas, you should be prepared to go toe-to-toe with the high Rollers and big money players! In fact, hardly a spectator you will be building and managing your own Casino’s! Nice. And you were worried about whether Rockstar would be able to top the “Asset Properties” in vice City oh ye of little faith?
You should definitely check the features section of this site, but I will explain a few of the things that have been added to upgrade the seemingly tired old GTA: III engine that San Andreas is built on.
Ragdoll Physics, AKA impact animations, death animations and other less known synonyms have been added. What this means in English, is that you will have a myriad of injury and death sequences that will be both random and based upon the way the impact (whether it be fist, bullet, knife, bat or grenade) hits the body and will give you some pretty nifty little death sequences! Quite the improvement over the tired old “pre-scripted”, repetitious death animations of both GTA III and Vice City, wouldn’t you say?
Eating has also been added to San Andreas, but this time it is NOT something you will do just to add a measly 25 points to your Health by stopping in the local Pizza joint like in vice City. Oh no my GTA brethren! In fact, you will need to eat to maintain your stamina. Stamina you say? Oh yes. Because not eating will cause you to waste away to a skinny little bulimia victim that will have trouble running, punching and swimming. What’s that you ask? Did he say swimming?
Why yes indeed he did! You will be able to swim in San Andreas. No more getting “WASTED” the second you step into knee deep water! In fact even landing your car into the drink will no longer be an automatic death and de-weaponing sentence, leaving you dropped off at the nearest hospital. Because now you can swim out of the water, again depending upon your stamina.
So you better eat when the game tells you your character is hungry or you may just drown trying to extricate yourself from that rapidly sinking Cheetah! And while we are on the subject, you will have to pick your meals carefully. Too much Pizza and Deluxe Burgers and you will soon be the CJ version of Re-Run from good times and will get heckled by the locals, as well as run slower, get winded quicker while running and be a general mess of a tubby criminal. So make sure to also eat healthy.
And not to worry my young Padawan criminal; If that unsightly paunch around your midsection has been getting you laughter and verbal abuse whenever you leave the house, turned down for dates by the “local girls” and causing you to not be able to fight your way out of a proverbial paper bag, then just hit the local gym and turn that fat into muscle!
You can not only buff out your character but you can choose from a myriad of hair styles and tatoo’s to make you look and feel your very Gangsta-best! And hey, why stop there right? There will be plenty of apparel establishments where you can custom tailor yourself with threads to get you some respect Dawg!
Stay tuned, there’s PLENTY more to come
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