Anyone else been playing it? I've logged 30+ hours so far, which is insane since I rarely play games anymore.

I have to say that at this point, I'm pretty certain this is my favorite game ever. Vice City was pretty fucking huge, and this has to be at least 3-4 times bigger than it. Rockstar has fixed practically every problem there was with the previous games (AKA swimming).

Thoughts?

Is it multiplayer yet? If not, then they still have a big issue to fix... That would have made both GTAIII and Vice City fucking incredible if they were multiplayer compatible.

Yes, it is multiplayer, and it kicks some serious @$$!!!!

yeah, i got it the day it came out and it rocks! it's (GTA3 + GTA:Vice City)^10 . there's more cars then ever and the new add ons are great. i love it how you can get into a semi truck and tow a trailer or get into a tow truck and tow another vehicle. it's also cool to see some of the cars from GTA3 like the stallion. i dont know how long i've been playing it but im already in san fierro doing my new set of missions. oh yeah, the lowriders in san andreas rock! i love the chopped, lowered truck!

yeah its really good. If somebody who hates rockstar as much as he hates EA can enjoy it, then I'd say its a pretty good game.

Vice City did have a multiplayer. It was called MTA: Multi Theft Auto. It was buggy as hell and didn't have much of a point since there were no pedestrians, but it did exist.

Yeah, I knew about Multi Theft Auto (it was apparently out for GTA3 as well), but it wasn't available for PS2 or Xbox, only PC. And it wasn't included with the game, it was a mod you had to add yourself. I was wondering if Rockstar finally included multiplayer support in the original format of the game for all platforms.

GTA really isn't a multiplayer game, though. what are you supposed to do, besides teammate drive-by's or car chases. if you think about it the map is so huge you'd never see each other the entire game

yeah SA is a really great game, but the plot really kinda lagged (spoilers i guess if anyone really cares). for instance, when you are in Los Santos you have all these options and missions like "start a gang war with the ballas" you take over their turf and defend your own turf, build an army and wage war. i am armed to the teeth with weapons and cash, when all the sudden i beat a mission and i am kicked out of los santos with no weapons and no gang! so finally i beat the "whetstone" area and we go to san fiero, where my missions seem to revolve around (OH BOY!) starting a mod garage. wtf?! what about the ballas? what about that other gang that tried to kill sweet in the "sweet's girl" mission? what about the russians?! i want to kick their asses!

also, i'm kind of disappointed with the main character. he's kind of a puss. just like tommy in vice city. remember billy no-name badass in GTA3? didn't say a word, just kicked a lot of ass (he has a cameo in san andreas). now whenever i bump into another car i have to hear CJ yell some stupid phrase in a whiney voice "what, did you buy your license, foo?" god shut up already

i'm not a big fan of the "dating" function. i could really care less about my progress with denise, especially when i've been exiled to san fiero and she lives in los santos

i would have liked to have seen a less linear storyline. for instance, instead of doing grove street have you choose which gang you want to be a part of. adds tons of replayability. but they haven't done that since GTA2

other than a couple of control flaws, this game really is great. definatly the best by far. the map is huge, the language is way more profane, and the graphics are some of the best i've seen on PS2 in a while. i think it's amazing how they removed all the loading times that lagged the previous two games. and i really like how they removed teh "trails" (an option in the last two games) that made the graphics look like shit, and added the high speed blur htat really makes you feel like you are cruising in that buffalo! the weather is excellent, earlier today i shit you not after a rain i saw a rainbow. is there anything this game doesnt' have!?!?

one really cool feature i would like to see would be like a speedometer, so you can see how fast you really are travelling

one bad thing with this game is after hearing all these conversations with the grove st. gang "nigga" sort of accidentally becomes part of your everyday curse words. which is fine when making fun of the game (i accidentally flip a car while being shot at by the ballas, it's on fire, and smoke from the passenger seat yells "get back in the car, nigga!" haha you are own your own buddy) but not so good if you are hanging out in public

In the room next door, where my friends recently acquired the game, that word has also been added to the vocab. It is a pretty bad deal, since it can deeply offend many many people.

you know what pisses me off a lot? not just in GTA:SA but a lot of new games that come out? the fucking bugs.. seriously, two of the biggest games to be released this fall (GTA: san andreas and tiger woods 2005 (for xbox)) are full of fucking bugs. what is the fucking deal? it's very insulting that they release these video games and charge $49.99 a pop and they are full of bugs. "inferior product" seriously. it seems like with the oncoming console wars that they are rushing the games to market as fast as possible, with the negative effects happening to US.

yeah, and now we have to deal with "xbox2". because i just spend $300 on a console not even 2 years ago. now i have to buy ANOTHER console? they haven't even reached the full graphical potential of the first xbox yet! nintendo never did this to us... they saved their best games to the last years of their newest console.. (donkey knog (snes), perfect dark(n64)....)

i believe we are being played for chumps...........

wait, is this the "xbox2" forum or the "GTA:SA" forum.......?