i'll have to bring it up. on the og loc mission you are able to kill the target earlier than the finish line if you position your self correctly and shoot him, there is actualy a speedrun strat to shoot him in the begining of the chase and be done with it. also in the limo mision you are absolutely able to damage the limo, although it does have a lot of hp but there is a speedrun strat to just blow it up with rockets lol
That's annoying about the limo as I replayed that mission 3 times and every time the limo blew up at the end. I guess if Rockstar made the limo have a lot more health than regular cars it gave the impression that I wasn't doing damage. There was literally no smoke or anything until right at the end when it instantly blew up. Very strange.
3:53 Couldn't be more right. A friend and I recently replayed the original San Andreas side by side, playing it during the evenings after work - Felt just like the good old times. Replaying the 2004 game in 2022 felt like a homage to the game that was a highlight in many of our childhoods.
The focus on the missions taking you away from the main plot is actually meaningful. As Sweet described during Homecoming, Carl forgot about the Hood again, and if you reflect on the other missions like the heist and Toreno, this reflects this message. Since losing all that he rebuilt a SECOND time to put GSF on the map, and since destroying the crack factory that was supplying the drugs to his hood, CJ fully gave up on LS, and it was Toreno that brought him to Venturas. Where CJ openly accepted as a means of something to fill the hole that the now-lost dreams of Los Santos left after the drugs and Big Smoke betrayed him. This was influenced by Kendl who told CJ to forget about the hood now due to what happened and focus on making good for himself.
Awesome, love your very deep and well studied GTA reviews. As a GTA classics junkie, I always look for GTA reviews that offer a different/refreshing perspective while maintaining a good honest review (not a fan of those silly reviewers like gamedunkey etc who just look they're taking the piss in attempt to be funny)
Thank you man, I'm glad you enjoyed it as that is exactly what I'm going for. An in-depth fair review, that has a bit of humour thrown in. Classic GTA is the best. We need full remakes of the 3D trilogy. Imagine a proper SA remake...incredible.
This game is so amazing that the first time I was playing GTA V, I basically expected SA 2.0. How wrong and disappointed I felt. I ran straight back to San Andreas. I have so many things to say about this game and so many memories it will take hours to write down. I am still playing it today.
I got rid of GTA IV which is waay better than GTA V, but I did it because of San Andreas. Lately I watched a youtuber going in LA interviewing gang members and I remembered San Andreas, and what really made me get rid of GTA IV is the fact that there is no cheat code for never wanted level. The story, gameplay and the missions are great, but once you finish the last mission, there is nothing fun to do, because if you start killing people or running into people with your car, immediately get chased by police. You can't be a taxi driver also, can't swim inderwater (to explore), can't fly planes... the atmosphere is the same wherever you go on the map. Doesn't have much color - mainly blue-ish and grey-ish tone... and really nothing interesting to do once you finish the game. Racing missions (the optional ones)- never did them because of the realism of the driving. It's cool though, for the game, but for racing missions - the roads are too narrow for that much realism in driving. Playing bowling is stupid, or hanging out with friends... And San Andreas is based on a true story. The only GTA that is based on a true story. The gang violence/wars in LA. Really great plot. That makes you want to play the game over and over again. Like I said - thanks to a couple of videos that I watched about the gang life in LA, I figured I should play San Andreas again.
As a forty year old man who just picked up the remastered trilogy this game is still great. Sure the cut seen animations are not as good as vice city, but when you're out in the world playing it's a nice upgrade to see San Andres looking a lot better. I would compare it's look to something along the line of mafia 3, but a lot better story. San Andres only fault is that Rock Star didn't put enough effort into the cut seen animations. In my opinion it's still the best GTA game in the franchise.
I think GTA III and Vice City were harder due to bad game design. Like that one mission you do for Umberto in Vice City where you are taken on a boat to destroy 2 other boats doing a meeting. The annoying part was that you were exactly infront of the boats, before you could even shoot a boat down, your body armor and health would've snapped out of existence. And after I found an RPG and destroyed the boats and got the briefcases, a jetty with 2 haitians come and destroy your getaway boat, and then spawn right infront of you and gun you down faster than light speed. It was a terrible mission.
That mission was too much in VC. Your chance of success was literally random depending on how much damage the enemies on the boat do at the start. Took me a few attempts that one.
7:29 damn that final fantasy 6 clip caught me off guard. A great review of GTA SA for sure. I wonder why it doesn't have more views. We got the remastered version already. I'm looking forward to see your gta vc and 3 reviews.
Watching you playing the og gta trilogy really brought up a lot of great memories from my childhood and makes me sad because we don't have games like these anymore Keep the great work
amazing review once again I'm glad I discovered your channel and your videos, they're very entertaining to watch, especially since these old GTA games are literally my childhood, also your way of writing and speaking is perfect for reviews and long videos like this keep up the good work!
hey man the driving mechanics for me was a huge Improvement It felt just so Incredible Immersive & soooooo much fun & mostly everything about san andreas Is just so fun the missions gameplay and all such a great fun game my favorite gta & It's one of the best games ever made
I've been really looking forward to this video, especially after seeing your GTA Vice City and GTA III videos. Really good content! Keep it up! Wish you all the best!
I thought the map in san andreas was so much bigger when i was a kid - after gta 5 it seems so small in between the cities you travel between, bit of a surprise when i loaded up the trilogy a couple years ago
Fun fact: you can skip the train chase in snail trail but you have to be quite fast with it. You can enter the train and skip to the next station but the thing is that the train leaves quickly. They really want you to not be creative haha. imagine if you could steal a taxi and take the journalist to his destination.
I rarely take the time to comment on videos but yours is amazing m8! Especially taking into account you have a job and are doing this on the side. Sensational, really. The editing and quality is amazing and it pains me to see the amount of subs you have but I sincerely hope your sub count starts growing and your effort is rewarded because you really deserve it! Wishing you all the best.
I'm a full time working content creator too, so I know what it means to put in 200+ hours/video while keeping up with everything else. The Videoquality and Level to Detail is amazing, keep it up. Best Regards
Played GTA 4... Played GTA 5... But GTA San Andreas is the one i always go back to. Its just such an amazing game. All the different locations. All the great memorable characters. And the amazing soundtrack while driving around.
I thought SA was alright, but then again I’ve never been a big fan of the GTA games in general. One complaint I do have though (aside from the horrible plane controls on PC), is that you don’t see big smoke after his betrayal until the final mission. It would of been great to see him in a few missions, reacting to how CJ is toppling his drug empire, but thats just me.
Same with Sweet too, he goes to prison and we never hear from him again except the odd phonecall, which were 20 hours apart on my playthrough. I think Rockstar were still figuring out how to do character development.
You get a little news on Big Smoke on the radio stations throughout the game. You can’t see him directly of course but his rise as a kingpin is a part of the world.
Well about the frequent spawning, you gotta keep in mind most of the map is full of gang wars, mafia's, mobs and just straight up psycho's, it does make sense for cops to be around every corner. If i lived in a drug filled, gang filled battlefield basically, I'd want cops on every single block too😂
I have to throw something from me. I played SA for the first time in 2005 on ps2 and it blown my mind away - but i was a little kid from poland, barely understanding english, and i was really crappy at games. To add to that my disc got scratched a 2 weeks later and there was no way i could afford another one. In next few years i've fallen in love with Vice City and i replayed it so many times i finally got bored with the formula. Many years later when i picked up SA again i was taken back by it's arcadeyness and put it away. Years have passed and last year i decided to give it another chance, but this time i've realized that i've always tried to shape SA to my liking instead of getting immersed in it's mechanics. This time i just fell in love with it, and to my surprise during whole game i died maybe 10 times in total and repeated missions maybe another 10 times in total (for me vast majority of them were new because before even with cheats i never got past los santos). The key was to immerse myself into life of Carl, to balance missions, with exploration, eating, leveling up and so on. And i started to understand that the core gameplay is actually amazing! And the story and characters are legendary. I like it so much that i have to say i think it's overall equal/very near in quality to my beloved GTA V (story not crap online). Very easy 10/10. One more thing - i beat it on ps2 and i have to encourage everyone to use pc version but mod The Improved Classics from steam guide page. It brings the best elements of every port of the game (like better effects of ps2), ads full controller support with prompts, and eliminates loads of bugs, while keeping the game vanila as much as possible. To finish it - i think GTA San Andreas is still largely better than GTA "clones" from moder period. Mafia games have much smaller scope and way less mechanics, watchdogs mechanics never click together as well creating this coherent world, saints row is just more primitive and so on. Even though SA is a primitive game in terms of technical capabilities, it's much more ambitious and better put together title than most games in that niche.
To add to everything you said: No loading screens anywhere in the open world. Considering how GTA 3 had two and Vice City had one on a much smaller map, I think that's huge..
That's interesting, must be a Rockstar thing along with Guarma in RDR2. I can't think of another game that does this. We went to different cities in Fallout 3, but that was always DLC.
Lol don't think i've ever played a GTA without using the cheats. So many of the San Andreas ones like the health and weapon ones are all ingrained into my brain like muscle memory on the controller.
Currently watching this video from an alt, it's very questionable why this video got age restricted when it really doesn't have anything majorly adult-ish... This video would've been received so much better and got much more views if it wasn't for that... Ik this video is over 1 year old, but it's not too late to re-upload an edited version!
(Main Account is this one) I'm new to your channel and came from the GTA VC & Definitive Edition videos, I really love your content and I wish this video would've received the same support as other GTA videos, because it is really good!
Yeah bit tight really, it's because of the purple melee weapon which I didn't realise at the time. I never thought about re-uploading it with that bit cut out but maybe I will. Shame it's been restricted
This was the first GTA game I forced myself to get through without using one cheat code. Granted, you're right about the game holding your hand to a certain extent, but I still remember plenty of missions that seemed next to impossible to complete. (the damn train CJ!) Eventually I learned how to sort of cheat the game by returning to the horse track betting place over and over until I became a millionaire, that's when I started having so much fun!
I loved this game when it first came out and I noticed its included with Netflix so I got it for mobile and playing through it again I'm absolutely loving it. I forgot how ambitious this game was. It was a huge step up from the previous entry. I like how they focused on the gang and hood life more in this one before getting into other story lines. That's one thing I felt missed in GTA V, franklins hood life seemed so short, before we knew it he was playing just like Michael. Trevor they did great, you really got to understand what Trevors day to day life was like before Michaels chaos was reintroduced to it
Hey fyI, you can kill Millie while dating her to get inside her house and get her keycard. You don’t have to go through repetitive dates to finish the heist chain
I just re played the 10th anniversary 360 version. The controls and the clothes in cut scenes are clunky and not as good as the 2004 OG, but the graphics are mostly better. The game still holds up. I played it pretty regularly off and on for nearly 20 years whether it was the OG, 10th anniversary addition or the let down "remaster" and I still find new things in the game now. Rockstar went in deep with this one and it's honestly one of the greatest games we've ever gotten.
For the Collectibles, AFAIK, Spraying tags give you Respect, even if you didnt finish them all, and each Horseshoes give you 2% more luck in Gambling for the Casinos
There's a bug with one of the snapshots near those 4 tall buildings that are in a square where it straight up won't appear and there is nothing that can be done about it... My frustration figuring this out after collecting 49 out of the 50 caused me to not play the game for a reallllly long time lol
I use to really enjoy making CJ super fat and wear nothing but his underpants. I'd then go to the nearby beach at the start of the game and waddle around. I did this just to hear the insults the NPC's would hurl at him and hear what he'd say back.
I think driving mechanics in gta are sooo underrated - it's a core of a game with cars, and even gta 3 had pretty good ones, and vice city alongside san andreas had great ones (even if different from one another), and same goes for every game since. The only open world gta style game where driving mechanics are really decent are mafia 2/3/and remake of the 1st one, because games like watchdogs or saints row (as great as they can be) have much worse driving than old gta games. And when it comes to bikes, helicopters, planes and boats there is no comparison even.
Speaking of the Liberty city mission. When I was younger I would always try to literally fly there myself outside of missions lol I'd look up on the internet too see if there was any way to actually fly there in game. My mind was blown and ever since then Ive always wanted an open world game with multiple cities where you can fly inbetween them. Maybe even have some Islands thrown in there too. Thats the next step in open world designs
This game was an absolute nightmare to 100% the amount of times I’d have to restart something all over again, due to things out of my control. The janky mechanics didn’t help much either
@@chrisdelgado4621 thank you. I never see people mention this stuff, which should be important because you know, it’s how you will be playing the game. I played VC, and it has some of the worst movement controls I’ve played in a 3D game, so when I watch these reviews, I don’t even know if the game is even fun to play because they never mention it.
11:41 That's actually not true. In that OG Loc mission as well as that limo mission you showed before, I was able to eliminate those targets at a much shorter time without having to reach at a certain point. I know it can be difficult to do, but it is possible.
Thank you mate. I appreciate you watching the whole thing. SA does try to do too much and it could have been scaled back to focus on the great content, but you can't argue that it's an incredible open world with some oustanding missions. Which is your favourite GTA if you don't mind me asking?
this was such a great review on gta sa enjoyed and loved it! and i really agreed with your problems with collectibles and others! oysters was definetly such a pain in the ass for me i remember one time where i literally had 49/50 and dont know where the last one is cause i missed one but saw that there was a spot i havent went yet frustrating collectible but still a great game
@@TwinSticksReviews what vehicle i mainly use is the sea sparrow which spawns all the way in the desert which is also a pain to get cause u have to fly to los santos to start the pearl collecting
The thing that always bugged me about this gamevwas the gun sounds. I don't know why they didn't just copy the ones from vice city where they actually sounded like guns. I mean the pistol sounds like a cap gun and the rest just sound weird
Good review but I disagree about content that should of been cut the more the content better so I disagree strongly there it's optional content should those things be better yes but cut no
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i'll have to bring it up. on the og loc mission you are able to kill the target earlier than the finish line if you position your self correctly and shoot him, there is actualy a speedrun strat to shoot him in the begining of the chase and be done with it. also in the limo mision you are absolutely able to damage the limo, although it does have a lot of hp but there is a speedrun strat to just blow it up with rockets lol
That's annoying about the limo as I replayed that mission 3 times and every time the limo blew up at the end. I guess if Rockstar made the limo have a lot more health than regular cars it gave the impression that I wasn't doing damage. There was literally no smoke or anything until right at the end when it instantly blew up. Very strange.
@@TwinSticksReviews i usualy had rockets when i played so i never really shot them with guns so i dunno
What limo mission? Can you give me the name? My memory is kinda bad Last time i replayed San Andreas was 2 years ago
@@user-cz2cg6sr5d the limo mission for Jizzy in San Fiero. One of his girls is trying to leave with the priest and Jizzy orders you to kill them.
You can do it naturally by just staying close to him or shooting from your bike also.
San Andreas is and always will be the greatest GTA game ever ❤️❤️
Delusional.
@@RCEngineTuner not delusional, it's a fact
FACTS
GTA 3 on ps2 🤫
Red dead redemption 2 would be my pick.
i still think this is one of the best open worlds in gaming
I agree, completely revolutionary for 2004.
3:53 Couldn't be more right. A friend and I recently replayed the original San Andreas side by side, playing it during the evenings after work - Felt just like the good old times. Replaying the 2004 game in 2022 felt like a homage to the game that was a highlight in many of our childhoods.
The focus on the missions taking you away from the main plot is actually meaningful.
As Sweet described during Homecoming, Carl forgot about the Hood again, and if you reflect on the other missions like the heist and Toreno, this reflects this message. Since losing all that he rebuilt a SECOND time to put GSF on the map, and since destroying the crack factory that was supplying the drugs to his hood, CJ fully gave up on LS, and it was Toreno that brought him to Venturas. Where CJ openly accepted as a means of something to fill the hole that the now-lost dreams of Los Santos left after the drugs and Big Smoke betrayed him. This was influenced by Kendl who told CJ to forget about the hood now due to what happened and focus on making good for himself.
Kendl was wise compared to the stubbornness of Sweet.
both of them pretty much made CJ astronomically successful after the game ends
21:54 the fact that he use the casino heist meeting scene is hilarious!!!!!
Awesome, love your very deep and well studied GTA reviews. As a GTA classics junkie, I always look for GTA reviews that offer a different/refreshing perspective while maintaining a good honest review (not a fan of those silly reviewers like gamedunkey etc who just look they're taking the piss in attempt to be funny)
Thank you man, I'm glad you enjoyed it as that is exactly what I'm going for. An in-depth fair review, that has a bit of humour thrown in. Classic GTA is the best. We need full remakes of the 3D trilogy. Imagine a proper SA remake...incredible.
This game is so amazing that the first time I was playing GTA V, I basically expected SA 2.0.
How wrong and disappointed I felt. I ran straight back to San Andreas. I have so many things to say about this game and so many memories it will take hours to write down. I am still playing it today.
I got rid of GTA IV which is waay better than GTA V, but I did it because of San Andreas. Lately I watched a youtuber going in LA interviewing gang members and I remembered San Andreas, and what really made me get rid of GTA IV is the fact that there is no cheat code for never wanted level. The story, gameplay and the missions are great, but once you finish the last mission, there is nothing fun to do, because if you start killing people or running into people with your car, immediately get chased by police. You can't be a taxi driver also, can't swim inderwater (to explore), can't fly planes... the atmosphere is the same wherever you go on the map. Doesn't have much color - mainly blue-ish and grey-ish tone... and really nothing interesting to do once you finish the game. Racing missions (the optional ones)- never did them because of the realism of the driving. It's cool though, for the game, but for racing missions - the roads are too narrow for that much realism in driving. Playing bowling is stupid, or hanging out with friends...
And San Andreas is based on a true story. The only GTA that is based on a true story. The gang violence/wars in LA. Really great plot. That makes you want to play the game over and over again. Like I said - thanks to a couple of videos that I watched about the gang life in LA, I figured I should play San Andreas again.
just because it's not SA 2.0 doesn't mean V isn't a masterpiece like SA aswell
@@Wertybergta 5 isn’t as great as ppl say it is
@@oscarg332 it is though
As a forty year old man who just picked up the remastered trilogy this game is still great. Sure the cut seen animations are not as good as vice city, but when you're out in the world playing it's a nice upgrade to see San Andres looking a lot better. I would compare it's look to something along the line of mafia 3, but a lot better story. San Andres only fault is that Rock Star didn't put enough effort into the cut seen animations. In my opinion it's still the best GTA game in the franchise.
I think GTA III and Vice City were harder due to bad game design. Like that one mission you do for Umberto in Vice City where you are taken on a boat to destroy 2 other boats doing a meeting. The annoying part was that you were exactly infront of the boats, before you could even shoot a boat down, your body armor and health would've snapped out of existence. And after I found an RPG and destroyed the boats and got the briefcases, a jetty with 2 haitians come and destroy your getaway boat, and then spawn right infront of you and gun you down faster than light speed. It was a terrible mission.
That mission was too much in VC. Your chance of success was literally random depending on how much damage the enemies on the boat do at the start. Took me a few attempts that one.
@@TwinSticksReviews Same
7:29 damn that final fantasy 6 clip caught me off guard.
A great review of GTA SA for sure. I wonder why it doesn't have more views. We got the remastered version already.
I'm looking forward to see your gta vc and 3 reviews.
Watching you playing the og gta trilogy really brought up a lot of great memories from my childhood and makes me sad because we don't have games like these anymore
Keep the great work
I was 12 when it came out and It'll always hold a special place in my heart. Those were better days.
amazing review once again
I'm glad I discovered your channel and your videos, they're very entertaining to watch, especially since these old GTA games are literally my childhood, also your way of writing and speaking is perfect for reviews and long videos like this
keep up the good work!
Thank you, that is really great to hear. Glad you enjoyed the review.
hey man the driving mechanics for me was a huge Improvement It felt just so Incredible Immersive & soooooo much fun & mostly everything about san andreas Is just so fun the missions gameplay and all such a great fun game my favorite gta & It's one of the best games ever made
I've been really looking forward to this video, especially after seeing your GTA Vice City and GTA III videos. Really good content! Keep it up! Wish you all the best!
Ye I been also looking forward
The same with me.
great review and breakdown with some original takes on the mechanics! Criminal that this is below 1000 views!
Good video my dude, I've been waiting for this one!
Thank you man. Hope you enjoy it :)
Very nice editing as well as writing, keep up the great mate, hard work will pay off
I thought the map in san andreas was so much bigger when i was a kid - after gta 5 it seems so small in between the cities you travel between, bit of a surprise when i loaded up the trilogy a couple years ago
Fun fact: you can skip the train chase in snail trail but you have to be quite fast with it. You can enter the train and skip to the next station but the thing is that the train leaves quickly. They really want you to not be creative haha.
imagine if you could steal a taxi and take the journalist to his destination.
I rarely take the time to comment on videos but yours is amazing m8! Especially taking into account you have a job and are doing this on the side. Sensational, really. The editing and quality is amazing and it pains me to see the amount of subs you have but I sincerely hope your sub count starts growing and your effort is rewarded because you really deserve it! Wishing you all the best.
Another Great Video!, this channel is so underrated.
I'm a full time working content creator too, so I know what it means to put in 200+ hours/video while keeping up with everything else. The Videoquality and Level to Detail is amazing, keep it up.
Best Regards
Played GTA 4... Played GTA 5...
But GTA San Andreas is the one i always go back to. Its just such an amazing game. All the different locations. All the great memorable characters. And the amazing soundtrack while driving around.
And is based on a true story. The Gang activity in LA. ;) That is also why is my favorite and the best and unique GTA game :)
The stat thing needs to come back in VI. And working out and eating. The lines the clerks at restaurants are comedy gold
Sounds like you wanna play sims 🤣
I thought SA was alright, but then again I’ve never been a big fan of the GTA games in general.
One complaint I do have though (aside from the horrible plane controls on PC), is that you don’t see big smoke after his betrayal until the final mission. It would of been great to see him in a few missions, reacting to how CJ is toppling his drug empire, but thats just me.
Same with Sweet too, he goes to prison and we never hear from him again except the odd phonecall, which were 20 hours apart on my playthrough. I think Rockstar were still figuring out how to do character development.
You get a little news on Big Smoke on the radio stations throughout the game. You can’t see him directly of course but his rise as a kingpin is a part of the world.
In the definitive edition, flying planes is broken and cops spawn way too frequently
Well about the frequent spawning, you gotta keep in mind most of the map is full of gang wars, mafia's, mobs and just straight up psycho's, it does make sense for cops to be around every corner. If i lived in a drug filled, gang filled battlefield basically, I'd want cops on every single block too😂
You don't even have 3k subs?? Bro this is the best GTA San Andreas review I have seen!
First time playing this game now! Was never allowed it as a kid, grew up on GTA IV and V
Excellent video OP! Hope you do more for other GTA titles or Max Payne. 👌
Thank you mate! I'll be doing all of the 3D GTAs and maybe stories. Max Payne is also on the list.
I can't wait for the GTA 4 review it is my favorite GTA game
Thanks, it's nearly ready :)
I have to throw something from me. I played SA for the first time in 2005 on ps2 and it blown my mind away - but i was a little kid from poland, barely understanding english, and i was really crappy at games. To add to that my disc got scratched a 2 weeks later and there was no way i could afford another one.
In next few years i've fallen in love with Vice City and i replayed it so many times i finally got bored with the formula.
Many years later when i picked up SA again i was taken back by it's arcadeyness and put it away.
Years have passed and last year i decided to give it another chance, but this time i've realized that i've always tried to shape SA to my liking instead of getting immersed in it's mechanics.
This time i just fell in love with it, and to my surprise during whole game i died maybe 10 times in total and repeated missions maybe another 10 times in total (for me vast majority of them were new because before even with cheats i never got past los santos).
The key was to immerse myself into life of Carl, to balance missions, with exploration, eating, leveling up and so on. And i started to understand that the core gameplay is actually amazing! And the story and characters are legendary.
I like it so much that i have to say i think it's overall equal/very near in quality to my beloved GTA V (story not crap online). Very easy 10/10.
One more thing - i beat it on ps2 and i have to encourage everyone to use pc version but mod The Improved Classics from steam guide page. It brings the best elements of every port of the game (like better effects of ps2), ads full controller support with prompts, and eliminates loads of bugs, while keeping the game vanila as much as possible.
To finish it - i think GTA San Andreas is still largely better than GTA "clones" from moder period. Mafia games have much smaller scope and way less mechanics, watchdogs mechanics never click together as well creating this coherent world, saints row is just more primitive and so on. Even though SA is a primitive game in terms of technical capabilities, it's much more ambitious and better put together title than most games in that niche.
Great video! Really enjoyed this one! :)
What a fantastic game this is! It will hold up forever
To add to everything you said: No loading screens anywhere in the open world. Considering how GTA 3 had two and Vice City had one on a much smaller map, I think that's huge..
Vice City is actually slightly bigger than Liberty City overall. Vice City just feels smaller because of the way both maps are designed.
@@chrisdelgado4621 I meant small compared to San Andreas, but yeah.
@@Jouzou87 Oh, my bad.
Great review man!
Man great video and great editing!
Thank you!
Greatest Game ever imo just love it since 2004 😍
You mentioned Guarma in RDR2 but that returning locations are better. What about RDR2 including the entire map of the previous game?
18:23 You forgot to mention that this was the first game in the series to have dynamic radio stations.
My favorite side activity in the game was playing a round or two of blackjack in the casino!
Started playing it again yesterday. I enjoy music and gamestory.
Those large areas actually work as nice shortcuts too
Could you also make a video about Manhunt? I love your voice and narrative.
Manhunt isn't currently planned as I always preferred Rockstars other games. Maybe one day though!
You couldn't have been more right about the radio in this game. This was the game that got me into Alice In Chains. Them Bones is a fantastic song!
4:22 that timecyc
GTA V did a pretty similar thing like the Saint Marks Bistro where we went back to Ludendorf
That's interesting, must be a Rockstar thing along with Guarma in RDR2. I can't think of another game that does this. We went to different cities in Fallout 3, but that was always DLC.
Very quick question: what mods are you using in your PC version of SA?
the 2nd Chiliad Challenge race Birdseye Winder is the most toughest in my opinion
It's nice to see you playing it all patched up RESPECT+
@33:39 What game is that? I live in Colorado Springs and know Cheyenne Mountain well, so this caught my eye
Lol don't think i've ever played a GTA without using the cheats. So many of the San Andreas ones like the health and weapon ones are all ingrained into my brain like muscle memory on the controller.
Currently watching this video from an alt, it's very questionable why this video got age restricted when it really doesn't have anything majorly adult-ish...
This video would've been received so much better and got much more views if it wasn't for that...
Ik this video is over 1 year old, but it's not too late to re-upload an edited version!
(Main Account is this one) I'm new to your channel and came from the GTA VC & Definitive Edition videos, I really love your content and I wish this video would've received the same support as other GTA videos, because it is really good!
Yeah bit tight really, it's because of the purple melee weapon which I didn't realise at the time. I never thought about re-uploading it with that bit cut out but maybe I will. Shame it's been restricted
This was the first GTA game I forced myself to get through without using one cheat code. Granted, you're right about the game holding your hand to a certain extent, but I still remember plenty of missions that seemed next to impossible to complete. (the damn train CJ!)
Eventually I learned how to sort of cheat the game by returning to the horse track betting place over and over until I became a millionaire, that's when I started having so much fun!
I loved this game when it first came out and I noticed its included with Netflix so I got it for mobile and playing through it again I'm absolutely loving it. I forgot how ambitious this game was. It was a huge step up from the previous entry. I like how they focused on the gang and hood life more in this one before getting into other story lines. That's one thing I felt missed in GTA V, franklins hood life seemed so short, before we knew it he was playing just like Michael. Trevor they did great, you really got to understand what Trevors day to day life was like before Michaels chaos was reintroduced to it
Wanted to see a liberty city stories review ended up watching this till the end
Cheers! Both stories games are planned at some point
It's a mixed bag where the ambition outshines the weaknesses and rushed nature of the game itself
yesss i loved the VC and III ones
It drove me crazy seeing you fly the jet with the landing gear out.... Click the stick to put that away and fly wayyyyy fasterrrrrr lol
Hey fyI, you can kill Millie while dating her to get inside her house and get her keycard. You don’t have to go through repetitive dates to finish the heist chain
Cheers, that's good to know for next time.
This video is awesome
I will never forgive Rockstar for not making DLC for San Andreas. Everything after GTA II got one but San Andreas was ignored.
The prima strategy guide was my Bible when I was a kid. Can 100% it with no guide, I've played through it that many times.
which version did you play? steam? rockstar launcher?
35:57 same, but to play abything, was just curious if i could get inside. But maybe this was because i played 3 after san andreas
I just re played the 10th anniversary 360 version. The controls and the clothes in cut scenes are clunky and not as good as the 2004 OG, but the graphics are mostly better.
The game still holds up. I played it pretty regularly off and on for nearly 20 years whether it was the OG, 10th anniversary addition or the let down "remaster" and I still find new things in the game now. Rockstar went in deep with this one and it's honestly one of the greatest games we've ever gotten.
No one is allowed to say this game isn’t great. Not necessarily better than the other big games, but still…
For the Collectibles, AFAIK, Spraying tags give you Respect, even if you didnt finish them all, and each Horseshoes give you 2% more luck in Gambling for the Casinos
There's a bug with one of the snapshots near those 4 tall buildings that are in a square where it straight up won't appear and there is nothing that can be done about it... My frustration figuring this out after collecting 49 out of the 50 caused me to not play the game for a reallllly long time lol
18:32 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I use to really enjoy making CJ super fat and wear nothing but his underpants. I'd then go to the nearby beach at the start of the game and waddle around. I did this just to hear the insults the NPC's would hurl at him and hear what he'd say back.
22:43 i never knew there was fast travel in this game. I thought the airport was just there to steal planes from.
18:14 what game is that?
My favorite of the franchise. California in the late 90's early 00's was a very colorful time.
It certainly has the greatest theme tune of any game, if not media product ever.
PS2 version of Black Project mission is best because of that fast alarm
I think driving mechanics in gta are sooo underrated - it's a core of a game with cars, and even gta 3 had pretty good ones, and vice city alongside san andreas had great ones (even if different from one another), and same goes for every game since. The only open world gta style game where driving mechanics are really decent are mafia 2/3/and remake of the 1st one, because games like watchdogs or saints row (as great as they can be) have much worse driving than old gta games.
And when it comes to bikes, helicopters, planes and boats there is no comparison even.
San Andreas in 2021/2022 is still the best GTA Game.
Why is the algorithm ignoring the video?
Speaking of the Liberty city mission. When I was younger I would always try to literally fly there myself outside of missions lol I'd look up on the internet too see if there was any way to actually fly there in game. My mind was blown and ever since then Ive always wanted an open world game with multiple cities where you can fly inbetween them. Maybe even have some Islands thrown in there too. Thats the next step in open world designs
This game was an absolute nightmare to 100% the amount of times I’d have to restart something all over again, due to things out of my control. The janky mechanics didn’t help much either
How is the movement on foot with this game? I hate the movement of the previous of 3 and VC games, but I haven’t played San Andreas.
It feels significantly better than those two. The basic control is a lot snappier and sprinting down stairs doesn’t send CJ flying off.
@@chrisdelgado4621 thank you. I never see people mention this stuff, which should be important because you know, it’s how you will be playing the game. I played VC, and it has some of the worst movement controls I’ve played in a 3D game, so when I watch these reviews, I don’t even know if the game is even fun to play because they never mention it.
Finding a lone montain bike at the top of Mount Chilliad*.
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what game is this?
Finally!!!
11:41 That's actually not true. In that OG Loc mission as well as that limo mission you showed before, I was able to eliminate those targets at a much shorter time without having to reach at a certain point. I know it can be difficult to do, but it is possible.
Just watched the entire video, great review mate GTA SA is not perfect but it's amazing, it's my 2nd favourite GTA.
Thank you mate. I appreciate you watching the whole thing. SA does try to do too much and it could have been scaled back to focus on the great content, but you can't argue that it's an incredible open world with some oustanding missions. Which is your favourite GTA if you don't mind me asking?
@@TwinSticksReviews My favourite GTA is GTA IV
@@TwinSticksReviews by the way do you have discord
Very nice. That seems to be a lot of peoples favourite too. I'll see when I review it next.
not currently, but maybe one day
The best in the series (especially the soundtrack)
My favorite game from the childhood. Finished with cheats and without, almost 100%
18:14 what's this game?
this was such a great review on gta sa enjoyed and loved it! and i really agreed with your problems with collectibles and others! oysters was definetly such a pain in the ass for me i remember one time where i literally had 49/50 and dont know where the last one is cause i missed one but saw that there was a spot i havent went yet frustrating collectible but still a great game
The oysters were the worst. I played for 60 hours and found 9 lol. If there ever is a remake I hope the collectibles are reworked.
@@TwinSticksReviews what vehicle i mainly use is the sea sparrow which spawns all the way in the desert which is also a pain to get cause u have to fly to los santos to start the pearl collecting
If only the could bring back some features for GTA 6 I'm mean #Rockstar you made Red Dead Redemption 2 I know you still have that dawg in you 😮
san andreas top 5 all time game for me
quick answer: absolutely fucking yes it is. one of the best games ever, and certainly the best GTA game ever
Honestly think it beats every grand theft auto including 5. Maybe I'm biased because it was my first gta but I still love it out of 4 and 5
This Game Never Die For Me.
The thing that always bugged me about this gamevwas the gun sounds. I don't know why they didn't just copy the ones from vice city where they actually sounded like guns. I mean the pistol sounds like a cap gun and the rest just sound weird
Good review but I disagree about content that should of been cut the more the content better so I disagree strongly there it's optional content should those things be better yes but cut no
Always will be my favorite game ever