Maybe the best game in the history....Certainly the best of PS2
San Andreas offers total freedom of space where the player can "walk" around all the cities, the player is surrounded of total realism of play, in graphics and surrounding environment. For me the best in this game is the free mode. The surrounding environment is just awesome, the perfection of buildings, grass, other cars. The graphics are good not very good but very acceptable because if the graphics were even better maybe the game had to go to the new generation consoles. San Andreas offers a variety of cars, clothes, food it seems real life (gang life), if tou stop to see the other people in the streets they seem that are living their own life, also very realistic in form and graphically.
Gta: San Andreas is purely gang street game, like I said, offers a lot of freedom to walk around the 3 cities that are available and can be unlocked with the story mode. But San Andreas is gang game where the player have a variety of weapons that can be bought at "ammu-nation", the player also can enter in a lot of stores like , barbers, clothing, food, weapons, driving school (with the advance of the story) and more.
Another thing that is awesome is the story mode with dialogues very well written and very good surprises. Another aspect that is great is the lenght of the story mode that is incredibly big and the player take their time to play. San Andreas is not one of those games that end fast and are quick to finish which is a little boring and disappointing. The story mode consists in the end of all missions that the characters have to offer in the advance of the mode. the game has also a lot of mini-games like Casinos, spraying grafittis, try to end bike missions, courier missions. The objective of the game is end the story mode but also try to finish in 100% which is very very difficult. In Gta games something that is tipical on this game series is the killing, chase and theft auto. Killing: the player is offered a lot of weapons that can be used to kill cops, people, etc... also you can kill people with your bare hands that can be trained in gyms with masters, the purpose is to defeat the masters (that also contribute for the 100%). Chase: all the chases in grand theft auto are very realistic and exciting all because of the quality and speed of some cars. The cops can do a really good job to stop with your goals, there 6 stars possible of level of want of the police being 1 the lower and the 6 the higher with different cars, motorcycles, helicopters and swat, FBI vans chasing you. Theft auto: is always exclusive in GTA game series, the violence in this game being upgraded to another level.
Other cool thing in the game is the upgrade you can do to the body of your character making him stronger and bigger something unique and exclusive in the games.
The player also have mini-games with other missions like, taxi, ambulance, vigilante, pimp, etc...
I could review even more this game but the game very large and extensive.
I gave 10 which is a perfect score. The score really reflects what the game is about. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was released in 2004, three years ago and it is still the best game in PS2 and maybe the best in the history of games.