bit-tech Shopping: Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

• Action/Adventure
• Racing

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Rating: 10

Time with product: 2 Months

Strengths: Awsome Game!! Lots of action and BIG BOOMS!!!!Looks better on computer than on ps2!

Weaknesses: Can sometimes be a little slow.

Summary: I love this game. I play it for most of the weekend EVERY weekend! It is full of guns,bombs,and lots of fighting. The radio stations have some realy good songs on them. Looks great on my high deaf computer and with my 7600gs video card. It works well on my computer with a 1.7ghz processor and 512mb of video ram. Great Game!!!

Rating: 10

Time with product: 4

Strengths: So much possibilities, better phisical reaction of other objects.

Weaknesses: Still some glitches, that sometimes repeat.Unrealistic plane handeling(too easy).

Summary: Great that Rockstar made similar California and Nevada states.Possibilities of everything:talking to people, buying from a hot dog stand, buying a plane ticket to another city, stealing a plane and flying your self, burglaring houses at night. Nice edition - a country side, desert, three major cities and small towns between.And great story line- all the characters are somehow connected.Thats just 70percent of the game. You can work as an officer, racer, you can go to driving school, buy clothes, jump with a paracute, theese the cops. If you start blasting- cops, medics, firefighters arrive. There are tanks and f-16 fighters.The best third person action game on PC.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 14 Days

Strengths: Same ol great gameplay plus the mouse

Weaknesses: Consistent crashes and sound glitches. Models are low poly count and textures are low res. Same annoying minigames. Changing/buying clothes is a pain.

Summary: I had already beat GTA SA on the PS2 a few months ago so I am comparing it to that. The game pretty much remains intact with some additional features. For one the graphics look superb compared to the PS2's mostly because of the High res and AA. On my 42" Plasma There is a defenite quality increase. However the models and textures in the game are relatively low quality so cutscenes look rather bland. Like with all the other GTA --> PC releases, and maybe even more so in this one, There is a myriad of bugs and crashes occuring. But then again i've had my PS2 GTA SA crash a couple of times, but for the PC it has crashed around 10 times so far with no real reason. There is a specific problem with certain codecs if you have them installed that prevent the game from starting properly however. One of my main reasons to replay this game and it's predecessors on the PC is for the mouse look control for precision aiming and for trainers that allow me to mess around with invincibility and other options. Of course these are not supported features so that's entirely up to the user. They also added in the ability to have your own custom soundtrack by linking shortcuts to a dir which is nice. In the end it's still the great game it was on the PC with many bugs. However if you haven't played the ps2 version and don't have a ps2 you should definetly check this out. Make sure you have a control pad (prefferably with 2 analog sticks) for the full experience. Driving with the keyboard is no fun ;)

Rating: 2

Time with product: 1 Days

Strengths:

Weaknesses: Multiple crashes, unplayable so far

Summary: Game doesn't appear to have been tested adequately before release. Even with updated drivers and graphics set to minimal levels, as advised during 4 calls to customer service, the game is plagued by frequent crashes. How did it get so much buggier than previous versions of GTA 3? Particularly disappointing because it's been out for a year on PS2 already.