I never thought I would buy a GTA game in my life. I never played the previuos one's until Vice City came out and a guy let me play it. The game I remember was fun to play but the content was extreme so I gave it back to him never thinking I would in turn buy the next installment a year later San Andreas.

But the game caught my attention because I grew up in the early ninties and remember the L.A. riots in 92', Boyz to Men ABC 123 and all that Jazz. I even remember Low Riders being the commmon vehicle on the road and bass systems everywhere copied from California trends and movies.

I thought I woulld give this a try for once. I wasn't shocked with the language other than it being so vouger. The violence didn't effect me neither since i knew what to expect from playing Vice City. What did shock me was the dificulty of the story line missions.

The game does do a great job of easing you into the game's missions by giving you simple tasks at first to complete but once your in it gets down right hard. Right now I am stuck on the Big Smoke mission called "Just Business" because of mainly the aiming controls in the game. You have to do a varity of things overall in the misssions which creates a good varity but there is no easy, medium nor hard dificulty setting just plain hard which is not good for me since I am not some GTA gaming expert. I have used some cheats just to get through some of the misssions not that I wanted to but the game seems unforgiving in some of the misssions. Maybe it's just me I don't know. I played through Half Life 2 no problem, Far Cry no problem, this is a hard game to get the hang of and just when you think you have it down a they pop a crazy mission at you which you have to repeat a 100 times just to get through it until the next crazy mission that comes along. This is not fun and the more you play the more you get angry. The best part of the previous GTA's was the openness not a impossible story line that you can't complete? I rather be racing or riding dirt bikes up in the mountains than trying to pass a mission just to progress the story line just to open the other areas so you can go to them. What fun is that? Shouldn't they have opened all the areas up from get-go and let you decide if you want to play the story line misssions or not? Isn't that more fair than pushing you to play the way they want you to play? That is not openended at all and certinly not for beginners!

Anyway, I don't think I will ever finnish this game's 100 some missions nor get out of Los Santos but to warn newbe's to the genre, this is a hard game so you better be ready in spending some teadious hours upon hours just trying to pass one single misssion to progress the story line. No easy, medium or hard setting just frustration, frustration, frustration!

To me that is unfair and certinly not fun nor openended but rather discriminating if you ask me and certinly not like the userfriendly Vice City was! Be warned!
I never thought I would buy a GTA game in my life. I never played the previuos one's until Vice City came out and a guy let me play it. The game I remember was fun to play but the content was extreme so I gave it back to him never thinking I would in turn buy the next installment a year later San Andreas. But the game caught my attention because I grew up in the early ninties and remember the L. A. riots in 92', Boyz to Men ABC 123 and all that Jazz. I even remember Low Riders being the commmon vehicle on the road and bass systems everywhere copied from California trends and movies. I thought I woulld give this a try for once. I wasn't shocked with the language other than it being so vouger. The violence didn't effect me neither since i knew what to expect from playing Vice City. What did shock me was the dificulty of the story line missions. The game does do a great job of easing you into the game's missions by giving you simple tasks at first to complete but once your in it gets down right hard. Right now I am stuck on the Big Smoke mission called "Just Business" because of mainly the aiming controls in the game. You have to do a varity of things overall in the misssions which creates a good varity but there is no easy, medium nor hard dificulty setting just plain hard which is not good for me since I am not some GTA gaming expert. I have used some cheats just to get through some of the misssions not that I wanted to but the game seems unforgiving in some of the misssions. Maybe it's just me I don't know. I played through Half Life 2 no problem, Far Cry no problem, this is a hard game to get the hang of and just when you think you have it down a they pop a crazy mission at you which you have to repeat a 100 times just to get through it until the next crazy mission that comes along. This is not fun and the more you play the more you get angry. The best part of the previous GTA's was the openness not a impossible story line that you can't complete? I rather be racing or riding dirt bikes up in the mountains than trying to pass a mission just to progress the story line just to open the other areas so you can go to them. What fun is that? Shouldn't they have opened all the areas up from get-go and let you decide if you want to play the story line misssions or not? Isn't that more fair than pushing you to play the way they want you to play? That is not openended at all and certinly not for beginners! Anyway, I don't think I will ever finnish this game's 100 some missions nor get out of Los Santos but to warn newbe's to the genre, this is a hard game so you better be ready in spending some teadious hours upon hours just trying to pass one single misssion to progress the story line. No easy, medium or hard setting just frustration, frustration, frustration! To me that is unfair and certinly not fun nor openended but rather discriminating if you ask me and certinly not like the userfriendly Vice City was! Be warned!