A few little things keep the PC version from being the best. But its still excellent.
User Rating: 8.1 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PC
Ah yes, Grand Theft Auto.... A game that revolutionized the industry. A few days before every new GTA comes out are filled with excitement. Gamers can't wait to beat up cops and run over people in car. Is it still good times on the PC? Yes, yes it is. After some gang fighting and violence, Our hero CJ, leaves the hood' to avoid some of the violence alone and let it die down. Now its 1992, you decide to come back to your hood' and want to come back to your homies. Over the 5 years you've been gone, Your mother gets killed( In the game. ) when you come back to town, you get falsely accused by the police. Not starting off good, is it? This game has a lot of different changes. First off, YOU CAN SWIM! Secondly, you have weapons skills. Depending how much you use a weapon, your skills with it go up. That makes you even more death incarnate! Lastly are CJ's needs as i call them. You need to eat. You also need to work out in a gym. This reminds me of the Sims. I don't like these elements and I'll tell you why... GTA is suppost to be a different experence then other games. The fact the you do all this crazy unrealistic stuff makes the games fun. Now you need to go to a gym to work out and find places to eat. In games like Metal Gear Solid 3, i can under stand the eating thing. It makes since in that, but not in GTA. Other then that, the game remains great, mostly. The PC version has 100% customizble controls. It also allows you to use the mouse to aim your gun. This is much better then using a controller. The game has a large amount of missions. So it isn't entirly killing. The problem is that the missions are annoying. It features ALOT more racing missions, which i don't like. It also features airplane missions. These are among the most annoying missions in ANY GTA game! Play the mission, "Supplylines" and you'll see what i mean. Also try "N.O.E" The control of these planes are bad. At least in the missions they are bad. The PC version also has glitchs. For example, in the end of the game, I was in a fire fight.... All of a sudden bullets didn't damage me at all! That hurts the experence a bit. The graphics are the best yet for a GTA game. While you can't compare it to Half Life 2, at least actually look good! If you use a High Powered machine, you will get some very odd lip syncing problems during cut scenes. And its pretty bad. The sound can go either way. Its fill of gangster rap. If you like that stuff, your in heaven. I personally don't so i was stuck listening to Radio X and WCTR. SA features Rap, Rock, Country, and your talk show like station. Not to mention the PC version supports mods. Theres a mod that allows you to play GTA SA ONLINE! A big plus! This helps the games considerably. If these things don't bother you, you're in for a hell of a time. I still enjoyed SA, but it didn't live up to the hype i feel. 
