A lot of people are hyped like crazy over this game and i think that its gettin more credit than it deserves.
Although its still GTA and a very fun game there just are some things that make it not the best. The first GTA games to hit the consols were 3 and Vice City....both games gave you the rugged mafia feel that is always fun to play. I mean everyone would like to serve in the mafia but theyre picky......anybody can join a street gang.
After vice city i was expecting more mafia take over with Tommy Vercetti in the next game but they drop you in LA with gangsters instead. The graphics in San Andreas are good and the landscape is huge but it feels too different to switch from mafia to street gang. But it is GTA were talkin about so its still a definate game to play......but for people who like the story of the mafia for GTA id buy Liberty City Stories or even 3 again before id buy this game.
Video games is such a diverse medium that it is somewhat easy to forget that differing opinions, however alien they may be to your own, are welcome for a critical debate. Recently, a forum user named Melaisis posted a rather interesting article titled “Games Are Not Art.” I won’t go into much detail here, but suffice to say, Melaisis gives the theory that due to the inaccessibility of certain games by the general public, games cannot, all things considered, be art in the sense... read more...