San Andreas is a big game with alot to offer, A must for all fans of GTA.....
In this game you will play as Carl Johnson or C.J if you like. You come back to Los Santos to find your mom dead and your old 'Grovestreet' Gang in tatters.
You meet up with your old mates, your brother and sis to put grove street on the map again, but due to corrupt cops and your 'mates' turning you in you find yourself on the run!
At the begining you will be completing missions for your gang and mates, but later on you will work for various people and you will be moving around the map to all the different places! The storyline will take you anything from 25hrs to 40 depending on how much you concentrate on the storyline!
The map is huge, there is 3 main city's and there connected by vast areas of countryside! There are many ways to travel, theres cars, bikes, motor-bikes, airplanes, choppers and tractors? There is a vast variety of cars from bangers to sport cars! Also the landscape is varied and u never feel that your in the same old city.
The cast of characters in the story are very varied and extremely inspired. Like the main crooked cop is played by 'Mace Windu' from the star wars series! Theres characters that are gangsters and hallucinative drug dealers, there just so varied. Also the missions are varied too. Some missions your delivering packages and sometimes your robbing betting shops or busting other gangs, but because of the length some of the missions are a bit familiar but that is understandable.
The customization in the game is probably the best part of it! C.J can get fat, skinny, muscly and you can by different items of clothes from all around the game. You can change his hair style, get tatoos go to the gym and get muscly and fit, but if you dont go to the gym and dont eat you'll get skinny and if you eat too much you'll get fat! You can even customize your car, from paint jobs to getting a soft top or the hydraulics or the bumpers or speakers and more! You also have your stats bar, it shows you your total respect, muscle, fitness, fatness, and even sex appeal!
But with all this there is still a few downsides, like the graphics arent great, i mean this game came out like 6 years ago so its understandable but it still detracts from the experience. Also the game will sometimes encounter problems and randomly take you back to the dashboard and you wll have lost all you unsaved game data. Also the targeting system is extremely floored, some weapons it will for some reason not let you auto lock on, and sometimes you zoom in and it will just spin your guy round and look the other way. Also some missions are extremely hard and will take you many tries to complete them. And if you need a 'low-rider' car for a car race mission you pay $1500 for the lowrider mod and then only like win $1000 anyway! And you cant even access the xbox live menu while playing the game of xbox live so you cant talk to your mates while playing it, and there's also no multiplayer.
So overall i think this game is very good, the customization and the huge map is just amazing the lengthy story is just great. But the bad graphics and sometimes frustrating missions and bad game designs do detract from the overall experience, dont get me wrong, i think this game is great but could be improved and made as good as gta 4!
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas: 9/10