Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas RE-REVIEW - ColourShed 

Mark Sullivan same. Honestly I didn't realize how bad they were until now. Been so long

Mark Sullivan They really pushed the engine to its limits, it looks pretty good on pc in high resolution

At the time of release (2004), and considering the size of the platform, the cutscenes, the AI of NPCs, these graphics are boss af.. Other than The Getaway, this is the best looking open world game of the PS2 era...

Nah, the graphics were pretty bad even for the time. The models looked weird and the shadows and lighting looks kind of flat. It's the sheer amount of stuff on screen that is impressive, you quickly forget about the graphics.

Just play the 360 version.

You know you have a classic on your hands when people still talk about it decades later. Plus 2004 is my favorite year

Grand Theft Auto IV is better in my opinion.

@@Punisher1_1995 yeah i agree, but imagine playing gta sa for the first time in 2004. Wow what an experience.

@@cutehunter9659 I did play GTA San Andreas when it first came out, in 2004 I bought it with a PS2 slim.

Can you play it on a slim?

The only GTA game you mean?

Kind of corny. And the worst thing about San Andreas. Everyone back then in South Central LA sold crack. Everyone. All of them.

@Black Jew Lance vance betraying you in vice city was also sad.

@@armyofninjas9055 bullshit

@@Jebu911 not as sad as big smoke though.

i_have_small_pipi chill mr small pipi

sry for my bad london

thee erisskoo A friend of my has been playing gta san andreas sense it cam out he roleplays on the game and acts like he has a real job in los santos he stops at all the red lights and doesn't even kill people when he picks up prostitutes he masterbates when he goes to either cluckin Bell or Burger Shot or Pizza Shack he eats food in real life he told me he's thinking about moving to vice city he hasn't left his house sense about 07 im not even joking he gets all his food delivered to his house and he collects disability checks im worried about my friend any advice? ? ?

exo szn how do you even know him?

klazzikk we were friends in high school

Nah. Kids won’t appreciate lower graphics. They almost already dont like a game because you dont have an exo suit on jumping around constantly

Do you have the game on PC?

@@chronic19801 no, why?

@@antfrancis9941 you can use mods to make it look better

Listen up tiny balls, He's right your wrong....now YOU fuck off!

@@antfrancis9941 - San Andreas already had a remaster come out for mobile and later on PS3 and Xbox 360. What you're talking about is a remake.

JC Mercado the rapper Yeah the characters in this game are so funny Wasn’t there a hippy ,Chong we had to burn field of weed I can’t remember if that’s was this game or far cry

both lol0

Eric Smith yeah his name was The Truth mission called "are you going to san fierro"

Yea that was my guy lol

@@nflisrigged1395 The Truth?

so he's not your dad?

PHILL SHIVELY it's a trap

+ColourShedProductions You're wrong Rockstar didn't disable the Sex minigame due to bad taste, they did it because they wanted a M 17+ rating rather then Ao 18+ rating. Since a Mature 17+ rating should mean more revenue at least in the US due to all being available in all stores rather than some stores barring sale, which shouldn't really be a thing anyway but that's another story.

;-D

@@Buttterscotched You asked right question buddy

Same

and now TotK is coming...

@@teacherfromthejungles6671 That game might take the #1 spot for me. Did you see the teaser gameplay footage? I need that game right now hahah

That's because SA has 3 cities with their distinct "personalities". Although one thing that I found disappointing about GTA SA's world was the military bases. Gta V and even gta vice city had soldiers guarding their bases. In Sa,however the military bases are guarded by the FBI and police.

Simplicity is something that can be desired at times.

@@lt.patterson6081 m

@@hueynapalm the only thing simple about sa was it's graphics. But there's so many details and side things to do in it that made it more complex and feel whole compared to gta5

Faldi Sugih it’s the details within the open world. Something GTA 5 is lacking. Although the world is large. It’s basically all the same and no details within. Simple details even like going into a burger shop.

Hesoyam

XON3D6IXXGODD flying cars was so nice

I have 3 papers of gta cheats since 2008

R1 R2 L1 R2 L D R U L D R U is programmed into my head to this day

My PS4 password is R1, R2, L1, R2. Lol never forget those cheats

Blinsky Goth maybe gta v would have that if it got another big city with an airport

Kevin Ghifari that's the only thing that'll make me get on gta again fam I need them to remake Vegas and San Francisco again slowly into it

Kevin Ghifari Vegas being part of it is one of the dopest parts of San Andreas

Yung Stomach Pump couldn't Agree more

With all the gambling mini game ,,vegas style

I agree

damn never knew that

@@StreetDrilla me neither. That's some good info.

Yes the san fierro one let me keep weapons and I respawn in here house

Cause it aint exactly true.Just,having them as girlfriends in the first place allows those privileges.No need to higher the love stat that unlocks different things

Most underrated feature. Get the other gf in san fierro for an extra pay and spray

Reinis Maurers I would argue that both Gta SA and IV are better than V under any circumstances

Mr Beckegruvan Agreed

Mr Beckegruvan SA is the best in the entire series IMO. GTA 3 is the most revolutionary, VC is the most memorable, IV roughed out all the edges and V lived up to the hype (sort of). But again, SA did everything right and then some; even doing more than V in most places.

for real

I remember when it came out I was actually a bit disappointed. Huge city with nothing to do, shit graphics, it felt half baked. GTA V is way better

Pain

I just finished playing GTA V and I have to say, apart from graphics, GTA SA was better in every single way.

Simple; they wanted to upset PC gamers with the single greatest game ever being made with the PS2's limitations in mind instead of PC's near limitless power.

@@nikoskabbadias I think what GTA V is missing is some kind of charm that Vice City and San Andreas had.

@@joellouisfire For its time, the things you could do and interact with, in SA, was completely mindblowing. Compare that with GTA V where the only buildings you can enter are very specific shops and properties. GTA San Andreas deliberately did NOT output the max graphics it could, and focused more on gameplay. But lately Rockstar and most big companies, completely max out the graphics to the last drop they can squeeze out of the game, they also max out draw distance and size of map, at the expense of everything else. RDR 2 is a game that came out in 2018 AD , and it consistently falls below 20 fps in lots of places, for crying out loud.

@Lucien You have heard of consoles, right? The biggest gaming community? But even in PC, when you choose lower graphics that doesnt create content which could utilise the spare processing power. It just increases framerate, up to a certain point. When a game is designed for PC, they target certain system capabilities (hence minimum and recommended specs). Those finite specs , they choose to use in the way that they do. If I want my game to be able to play on a 1080, I will have to go by 1080s limitations. If 1080 can render 1.000 polygons at a time, and I want one character and some buildings in the game, I can have a character with 200 polygons, and 10 buildings of 80 polygons each = 1.000 or a character with 500 polygons , and 10 buildings with 50 polygons each = 1.000 and so on. Another factor is drawing distance. The more buildings have interior that is interactive and well designed, the less good they will look on the outside and the less drawing distance you will have. Everything is connected, and to gain something you have to sacrifise something else. When GTA V came out everyone was talking about how far you can see, how high you can fly ( drawing distances) , how big the map is and how beautiful the graphics. Thats because the developers focused on those aspects. If they focused more on things being interactive (like being able to enter more buildings , having more mini activities, more things being interactive/ destructable) have no doubt that people would be praising that.

Ernesto Lone Wolf lol I was looking for this comment

Ahhhh go back to the krat brothers zabo

zaboomafoo same

GDAH DREE

It was an accent-dent.

i literally have no idea i watched pulp fiction when i was like 8 years old (parents werent very strict) but for some reason i just didnt recognize him in san andreas

After 15 years on the east coast...it was time to find out.

Dude are you serius?! How?!?

MyName AChef I didn't know too. How dafuq did I miss this? It's like in Fallout 3 where the voice actor of your "Dad" was actually Liam Neeson. LIAM FUCKIN' NEESON. Who else are some famous celebrities that made some works in video games?

@Shorty Same here because of Pulp Fiction and Star Wars. Lmao

I couldnt agree more

fax

He have 100k now XDD

Me too on mobile

Me too on pc and mobile

how come you haven't played the mobile version yet? it makes the game look so much better you just have to get used to the on screen controls that is if you don't have a controller to use with your tablet

I DESPISE THE MOBILE VERSION. Really, it sucks. On my Honor 8 lite it has insane graphical bugs, (stretching lighting issues) and it crashes quite often. Considering the fact that my phone should be perfectly capable of running the game technically, it is so bad. AND it has a bug which prevents people from finishing the game. The controller support is also quite poor, it uses the same mechanics as touch when you are using a controller, for example shooting is retarded with a controller and some buttons are in the wrong places when you are using a PS3 controller. This is all from my personal experience btw, except the finishing game bug i talked about.

If you count samp aswell I've played about 2600 hours of San Andreas lol

300 hours is the most? im a pretty casual gamer and i have 1600 hrs on payday 2

@@lonttugamer2939 those bugs, glitches and frame rate issues occurs because of the optimization of the game...90% of newer android devices runs gta sa badly...only the older ones and ios devices runs gta sa perfectly ..sorry for my english

Why delete it in the first place?

Alfredo Meireles can buy the trilogy on PSN. I did.fucking awesome too. So nostalgic.

Yep. I've played & beat the game on all systems😁

Do you have it for android?

But with glasses

A decade of heavy cocaine will do that to you

Underrated GOAT comment 💯💯👌

Why am i seeing this now where were you when i was re playing gta sa again 2 years ago?

@@0x00Fyou wait why?

@@AVGyerra22 why wouldn't I replay one of the best games of all time?

@@0x00Fyou No I meant the vigilante mission thing, why activate it during a hood attack?

BioHazarD Yes, it is. I recently purchased it again and it's still so much fun. I've played it more than IV and V.

Best but also the hardest out of all the Gta games

BioHazaRd you could argue the same for vice city, but san andreas is better

dankmemerboi -also a trippy boi I played Vice City again recently and maaaan Tommy is so slow and fragile compared to CJ lol. He falls off motorcycles with the smallest bump, he stumbles while running and loses health, he can't swim, can't climb, can't maneuver while aiming, etc. Even though that's the case because Vice City came first, it also works because Tommy is much older than CJ.

Rockstar needs to make the next GTA more animated graphic. The realistic graphics take away from the game. GTA 5 is an amazing game on its own, but San Andreas qualified as the greatest free roam game of all time. There's just something about it

thicc cj confirmed

@@joaquingonzalez834 I think it implies that ice cream is for kids and coffee for grown-ups since Rockstar said several times afterwards that it was a dumb decision to ban this part of the game whereas the rest was kinda ok.

@@no_alias_for_me looks like u didnt get the joke, i must woooosh u

@@joaquingonzalez834 i accept my wooooshing

@@no_alias_for_me cj fat

GTA sa “is” pure magic

Was games ass now

@@seansean3659 what?

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@@seansean3659 are you on coke

You can also buy a flight ticket. There are 3 parachute locations in SF, LS and LV. You can actually bet your money in casinos. Theres a shit ton of stuff you can do in GTA San Andreas, after beating the game i Still didnt know about these things.

Yeah, I think GTA V is better, due to online, but I wish you could drive the train, airliners and go to the casino in SP.

The first year GTA 5 became my favorite game of all time but then it slowly became boring and cliche

all GTA games after San Andreas started removing a lot of features that were in San Andreas.

Gta v ain't gangsta gta san andreas is way better then gta v. GTA five has you do to many repadtive bank robbery' missions.and working for the FBI. The gta san andreas missions were Way more gangsta

@@soniablanche5672 Yes I remember being excited when liberty city stories was close to coming out and I remember thinking why does this not have things like San Andreas.

@@soniablanche5672 all the 3D air Grand theft autos are better released in the early millennium than the hd ones

Running llama Xbox 360 version is 720p. Soon upscaled to 4k on Xbox One X backwards compatibility. ❤️

Ps3 has a hd version

You mean Full HD remaster? For nowdays all versions of GTA SA have at least HD/720p resolusion, even original "ps2 classic"

Download mods that make game look better in pc

PS3 version HD version exists. Use a PC and emulator to get high res. For PC version use mods to get high detail.

lookatmeanimator at sucking?

lookatmeanimator Ah good old Xbox nodding, ps2 modding is cool but Xbox modding is king.

Just use a PC better than both in every way. Better graphics, better fps, free online. And u can use a controller if u like that crap :) ITS A NO BRAINER. Consoles are for kids or really broke college kids or homeless people maybe.

BQNG no pc's are not better in every way (when it comes to ease of use) However, mouse and keyboard are literally the infinitely best way when it comes to controls on all but racing/flying games. (Also bad ports aside, the best library of games ever) I just feel that whole it's gotta be one or the other is a false dichotomy.

BQNG fuck off. consoles are good but u are just sallty because you havent got one

Better personalities, too, even if San Fiereo kept grabbing my ass.

ya really wish V had 3 cities...

How can you compare cities to characters?

i hate hearing things like "gta iv is better than gta v" its extremely fumb

I tried getting into this game but Oh My God, when does the plot actually start?!

Htf did you forget no watching CJ have sex?

Some Licensed song deleted from steam release, one of them is rage against machine. Undetectable until you did a bad date and you realize the song doesn't fit

Or maybe they're just busy making GTA VI so they fund the development with GTA Online? GTA V took 5 years to make. GTA VI will probably be insanely good, given the 8-9 years of development time it will take.

A Dz I get that, but they shouldn't monitize gta v the way that they're doing right now, shark cards/microtransactions should be completely optional, not shoved down your throat to get you anywhere in the game. It's greedy.

Mtn- Dewgang I made $3000000 after playing GTA 5 online for a little over a year .

Mtn- Dewgang I don't play online so it doesn't bother me. Let the idiots spend their hundreds of dollars on it, and fund the creation of an even bigger and grander GTA 6. Lol.

You know if that happens, they won't need a gta vi. Gta is their cash-cow and they don't need to make another gta game if that one is still extremely profitable with minimum work.

@Jon Jones fan That was the main problem, if they had implemented all of the cut content the game would've needed two CDs. Still, would've really been interesting to see everything the developers had planned into the final product.

Too bad they couldn't release the game with all its content for the next consoles after ps2/xbox. Sort of like what the movies do with director's cut. That woulda been dope and made them more money, but hey...

gta3 was better than gtav

@@bittasweetsymphony726 hahahaha no it wasnt its so boring and barley anything to do in thst trash game

@@drippyog3935 @ shut up gta sa is good game

@@drippyog3935 if you are saying this, i assume you are a 12 year old kid If you would have played gta 3 back in early 2000s, you would know how big and fun the game was

The Angry Dudeist That sucks, I’m glad I still have my ps2. At least you can play the game on almost anything 😂

Admiralex91 PC Master Race

PC Version is inferior sadly...

PS2 supports couch coop gameplay..

@Shorty ugly? Man thats exactly why i miss PS2 xD

same, im 18

What do you mean skill?that was auto aim lmao

Oh...My....GOD why did rockstar not allow that?!?! like i would love to be able to pimp a towtruck xD

MAN_ON_WHEELZ it took five years to make los Santos (gtav) to make all the states would prob be more than 40+ years unless they partner up with other bigger companies like Ubisoft cause if you don't realize rockstar only has about 3-4 hundred staff Ubisoft has 8000 staff so it will be difficult to create the US rockstar alone and also you will need heeps of cash but its not impossible with Ubisoft its possible but hard

That is a horrible idea. Id rather book a flight at the airport to travel to another city

@Bombeast true u got a point there but a whole map of the us would take a quick minute to make lol

@Bombeast I still can't believe I made that comment 11 months ago

@Bombeast oh definitely I think this would be more of a PC Port I mean console will probably never be able to handle this

​@Ertan Soner delusions. stop praising a blatant Scarface knockoff.

@Ertan Soner Vice City does have some better aspects than SA, but SA is the more superior game. It aint even close imo.

@Ertan Soner gta 5 is better than both :p

@Ertan Soner SA has far better gameplay with better aiming (can switch targets), crouch shooting, rolling, climbing over ledges and fences, swimming, player stats, weapon upgrades, car customization, and just a shitload of more stuff to do in general. The sound, atmosphere, and radio station are subjective, but SA has better music variety. SA does look a bit worse, but that only because it has 10x the amount of shit going on compared to VC.