After all the hype - hugely disappointing; tedious, repetitive
User Rating: 4.6 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PC
After the rave reviews this game had received, I had really looked forward to this coming out on the PC. Having just spent 5 hours trying to give it a fair go I am almost at the point of uninstalling it and taking it back. Its not just that the way the PC interface is put together is both un-intuitive and clumsy. Its more that the whole game combines repetitive storylines, superficial plot, graphics that are at best average, and a sense of total pointlessness to the action that makes it bloody tedious to play. I mean how many times did the developers think it would be interesting to go out with your "homies" and drive around shooting things. Missions are horribly scripted - being made of up of little but, talk to your homies, look at the map, spot the targe marker, drive there, shoot it, drive your homies ...eeerr...home. That's it. Oh yes - and there's the supposedly "immersive" day to day stuff like going to the gym to bulk up. Beleive me - clicking on a set of weights and then spending the next five minutes alternately clicking 'space' and 'LMB' may get you the points on the muscles index - but it's REALLY, REALLY DULL. In addition, the lack of realism is awful, the traffic wanders about and gets jammed, often up against police vehicles, the shoot outs seem to attract minimal police interest, bad guys magically appear, ready to be shot up. I could go on, but would myself start to become as repetitive as the game. The key elements of the game - guns, lots of vehicles, limited plot and girls in skimpy outfits is clearly aimed at the just pre-pubescent market - for most others it will probably come across as stereotyped, immature, shallow and (worst of all) tedious - which in undoubtedly is. I suspect this works better on a console where both the equipment and the player base are a great deal less demanding, but as a PC game its not. How on earth anyone could want to continue playing this to its conclusion is beyond me - its a kiddies game for console kiddies and really should have stayed in that format. 
