Malik
(5/12//04)
GTA:SA Partially Unveiled at E3
Some
new details
and a handful of screen shots have recently left Rockstar's
secretive mouths about GTA:San Andreas. It looks like SA will make a
strong departure from the settings of GTA3 and GTA:VC. Instead of
focusing more on the organized crime side of things, you will
instead play someone more in tune with the streets. It seems that
you play a character (Carl Johnson) that left town to escape the
pressures of the ghetto 5 years prior to the start of GTA:SA and has
just returned. After your release, you find that your mother
has been killed and your friends and family are spinning out of
control towards chaos and some crooked cops are trying to frame you
for a murder. So, being a GTA protagonist, you do what comes
naturally...you do what you can to take control of the streets in
order to save your family and friends (and to help pad your
wallet).
Some
other revelations are that the game will (thankfully) not take place
in the 1970's like many wannabe informants have said. I personally
never bought into that type of speculation; I mean it was based on
nothing more than, "GTA3 was the 90's, VC was the 80's, so SA
must be in the 70's). Instead, you are playing in the early to mid
90's on the west si-eeed. The game is going to have a large gangsta
flavor to it. This will definitely be a big jump from the Mafia
influenced heroes of GTA3/VC.
Considering
how my least favorite part of VC was the music (the 80's, in terms
of music, are fun for a few songs, but not for a whole game), I just
hope that there will be plenty of variety to the music of SA. I am
the type of person who needs music for driving (and driving games),
so I just hope the genres will all be represented. I think it's safe
to say some old school gangsta rap will be present, but I hope they
will also include some genres less associated with the flavor of the
game. I just don't want a repeat of True Crime, where we are
surrounded by a good selection of rap, but no selection in other
genres. Anyways, that's my only concern.
Besides
the possible music selection issues, the details all seem to suggest
SA will have a lot of the good old familiar tastes of GTA3/VC, but
plenty of new touches to make it worth the money and the time. I
guess only time will really tell, but I personally have more faith
in Rockstar (mostly their GTA series) than any other company in
terms of game quality and meeting release dates. Anyways, the web
site for GTA:SA is showing a bit more info all the time, so it's
worth a browsing. More news will come as the info slowly leaks from
Rockstar.
Malik
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