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I just had a chance to install and play San Andreas PC for a few minutes and completed the introductory mission. I must say I am very pleased with the quality of the graphics and the gameplay so far. The mouse look is inverted as default so that felt a bit strange, but after some quick rummaging around the settings
Our Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas cheats page has received a slight rearrangement with the introduction of the new ports. The PS2 cheats have remained on the main cheats page, but will be accompanied by the PC and Xbox cheats. There are also individual cheats pages for the different systems for quicker navigation: GTA San Andreas PC cheats, GTA San Andreas XBOX cheats and GTA San Andreas
The east coast of North America will be waking up in a few hours, which means game retailers will also be opening soon. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has officially been released today for the PC and Xbox platforms in North America. If you haven’t preordered the game, stop by a local retailer, pick up a copy of the game
The following image was posted on our forum, showing the GTA San Andreas PC packaging. Someone was able to buy a copy of the game from “Bart Smit.”
Following up the early first-hand impressions of the game, a handful of new technical details have emerged. Most interesting of which, is that the video menu now seems to have an option to enable MIP Mapping. For those unfamiliar with the term, basically, MIP Mapping is a technique used to smooth out textures as they get further away from the camera.
NavOmicron, the bloke who was able to purchase GTA San Andreas for the PC and take some screenshots, was kind enough to answer some questions for us. Since everyone is curious about the PC those screenshots were taken on, it is a Pentium 4 3.4GHZ with a GeForce 6800 graphics card and 2GB of RAM. Apparently there were no performance problems
Updated: These screenshots are coming from Nav Omicron on the Something Awful forums. Apparently “there were 3-4 copies at the 24 hour Wal-mart Supercenter on I-30 in Garland Tx.” This news post will be updated with new screenshots as they arrive. Just as with Vice City, it seems that some stores have started selling Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the
IGN have posted 6 brand new GTA San Andreas Xbox screenshots. The screens were also accompanied by this article, but sadly there’s nothing in there that we didn’t already know. Just as a quick reminder, the Xbox version will be released on June 7th in the USA and June 10th in Europe/Australia. Pre-order your copy today by using the links at the top of this
Gamespot has posted another Q&A session with Rockstar North regarding game physics, AI and modding in the upcoming PC release. While most of the information will be old news for PS2 gamers (and quite a few PC gamers as well), technical details seem to have become much more “sophisticated” now that we’re enterting the PC realm: “The buoyancy forces that are applied
GamesIndustry writes that the coming issue of PC Gamer UK is going to have the world exclusive review of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PC. I’m not sure how Future Publishing works with their magazines in different countries, so PC Gamer US might or might not also have a San Andreas review in the new issue. Look for PC Gamer UK
