- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
WHAT & WHEN
Shipping in October, the game is set in 90's San Andreas, a state containing versions fo Los Angelos, San Fransisco, Las Vegas and miles of countryside in between (desserts, mountains, rivers, and miles of interstate freeway)
YOU ARE....
Carl Johnson ("CJ"), who returns to his old east Los Santos gang, the Orange Grove Families, after spending the last several years in Liberty City.
NOW YOU CAN...
* Eat at resturants (and get fat)
* Work out at the gym to get buff
* Improve your charachter's skills
* Get haircuts
* Ride a bike (tap X to pedal)
* Wear lots of new outfits
* Buy and build buildings (much more to this than in Vice City)
* Gamble at a casino
* Break into houses to steal cash
* Swim (crashing in water is no longer instant death)
* Dual-weild multiple gun types
* Recruit your own gang to help out on missions
* Do four-person drive-bys.
* Lots more still a secret
IMPROVMENTS
* Five to six times the size of Vice City
* Crammed onto a rare dual-layer PS2 DVD
* No more loading between areas
* New graphics engine
* 35-50% more polygons on screen
* Longer view distance
* Real time reflections
* New lighting effects and realistic shadows
* More deatailed textures
* More realistic animations
* Each character has a brain (better AI)
* More (and better) indoor locations
* More mini games
* Improved gun targeting Manhunt style
* Better hand to hand combat; more fighting stances and attacks
* Each weapon now offers a vastly different play expierience
* New "Impact Animation System" (rag doll physics)
* Much wider range of vehicles
* Improved vehicle physics
* Vehicle get rusty and dirty over time
Much more in 5 pg. article, they even go over some of the new missions. That was just the sidebar from the mag.