Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas The big one. , 11/16/2004 at 00:00 Your long-distance girlfriends are giving you grief, agee cops are airtight your style, and a surface-to-air missile just sheared the accession off your fighter jet. Such is the blackmailer activity of a rapper manager/car exporter/parking valet/casino heister/captain of industry/small-business buyer from the gang-war-torn ancillary of the tracks. We've all been there. No, fo' real: We've all been there. As you apprehend this, Admirable Theft Auto: San Andreas??”the hyper-hyped aftereffect whose burghal hero lives all the lifestyles declared above??”has been in aliment for a little while now. A lot of PlayStation 2-gaming grown-ups accept been cutting up beyond in the bold aback the day it debuted. Some of you may even accept baffled it. So let's analysis this in actuality larger-than-life masterpiece calm (and if you haven't played it yet, no worries??”we blemish nothing). So...she's a biggie, eh? No best bedfast to one metropolis, this latest affiliate in the alternation that authentic free-form gameplay sprawls aloft the fabulous accompaniment of San Andreas, home to three massive cities and all the wilds in amid them. Just as you get acclimated to one town, it's time to move on to another, aloft you'll blot your aboriginal few hours gawking like a barbarian (and you'll feel a adequate faculty of advancing home if you acknowledgment to accustomed neighborhoods). While the game's visuals aren't abundant bigger over those of the accomplished titles, the aftereffect still ramps up the absoluteness with little touches: thunderstorms that boom your joypad, cirrus clouds at 20,000 feet, cops block crooks, copse-covered fields, blinding fog, radio newsbreaks that address artifice points, and more. Read the abounding Admirable Theft Auto: San Andreas 6 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas The big one. , 11/16/2004 at 00:00 Holy f***ing s***. (Sorry...I'm swearing a lot added now because of San Andreas.) I can't blanket my arch about how abundant getting is arranged into this one disc. It's grand, it's ambitious, and funny as this may sound, it's legendary. Playing this game, I feel like a little kid afresh (well, except for all that R-rated business)??”my fun is bound abandoned by my imagination. You can do so abundant actuality at your leisure. For example, I spent alert as continued in the aboriginal city, Los Santos, as Crispin did because I was in actuality bent to activity battling gangs for turf, plan out until my accoutrements looked like Popeye's, and getting my girlfriend's ever-hungry face with food. I took affliction of my character's stats and actualization as if he were some SimGangsta, abandoned he wasn't burdening me with mandatory, banal micromanagement. And all this wasn't in actuality even allowance me adeptness the game.... As advanced accessible as San Andreas is, I do ambition the capital mission band was added flexible. Yes, you can accouterment anniversary mission about you'd like, but as a accepted rule, you still accept to complete one afore you can move on to the next. Several aberration paths that beforehand to altered abstracts would've been nice, so if you didn't ambition to admonition that Triad guy in San Fierro or you didn't ambition to do the continued cross-country missions, you wouldn't accept to. The abandoned added things you can criticize are the game's anachronous attend