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Great review man, inspired me to revisit it after all these years! Also, San Andreas was the first GTA game I forced myself to complete without using one cheat code, that was a big step for me at the time 😆
I remember being blown away by the lack of loading screens between islands and just the ability to fly miles above the clouds. For a PS2 game, it was insane
@@RatedRRaj Just Cause hit around the PS2 time with a way bigger map without loading screens if I remember correctly. Not like I wasn't blown away by SA by any means.
Another detail about Ryder not being meant to die, is that all his missions were genuinely ‘for the hood’. Everything you did for him would help out the grove. Whereas everything you did for smoke turned out to be some sort of trap or ambush.
When CJ finds about smoke betraying them, he didn't even mention Ryder cause the third balla model from introduction movie was replaced with Ryder and also when we kill him in pier 69 his dialouges were reused as the main reason of rockstar eliminating him was because his voice actor left.
I think it would’ve been way more impactful if Ryder had been shot in the back by Big Smoke as his heel turn, rather than just “oH hE kNeW aBoUt ThE gReEn SaBrE”.
San Andreas is one of the most replayable games for me. It has its issues and some parts that drag, but I just love the world and setting. The massive scale of the map still impresses me despite understanding the tricks at play to make it feel larger. I think the map is one of the best laid out in the entire GTA series and I love the details to it
its probably because he needs secrecy. Remember, Toreno told CJ to get Cesar to help him once but not to tell him anything about it. Its government business, its too dangerous for CJ to risk it considering he knew how powerful Toreno is.
He tried, but Sweet didn't wanna hear about it, when you release sweet from prison he tried to tell him about the casinos and stuff and sweet responded with " what have you done for the hood?" and when CJ tried to argue back that the hood dragged him down he told him "you sound just like Smoke now"
He probably knew Sweet wouldn't have been happy with it. I'd imagine he'd rather have a gruesome dead than living thanks to CJ covering up for Tenpenny
I think one of the things that grew on me so much in this game is the friendship between CJ and Cesar. I love how confrontational they are at first but then later it’s revealed Cesar is one of the few people that actually cares about the Johnson family and a lot of the people CJ thought were his friends actually weren’t. I loved all the missions with him in San Fierro.
Fun fact about the gang territory is that if you're in a vehicle that has missions attached (emergency vehicles, taxi, broadway) u can activate the mission if your territory is being raided and it stops it. Cancel the vehicle mission and go back to your business. I just beat SA on ps4 this summer again and it still works.
Hahaha~ i wish i did that, that very helpful but i prefer not cuz i wanted back then to increase the color density of my territory its like increasing your influence and more gang will spawn, but yeah its annoying and worthless because my gangs is useless in gunfights even their weapon is shtty lol....but atleast it will regenerate my money fast so stayed long before i go to the country side, ya know lol i didnt know that cheat code exist, i played and finish this game in ps2 with no cheats i cant count how many death i had...damn i remember the mission how to fly...its super hard its a nightmare! How many times i swear back then lol i love this game its nostalgic.
GTA Should all be set in the past. GTA 4 did current time perfectly. GTA 5 did current time as a meme which didn't age well. They should do gta 6 in the 80s but nope another current day meme. Sadly i dont think rockstar will ever be able to recreate a game like this.
@@Catalanskrrthe entire damn game was hyperbole satire on American culture as a whole. Every. Part. Vice city glorifies the Scarface fantasy, SA glorifies gangbanging, 5 glorifies American idiocy. Made by a European Company btw. The whole game was literally just Rockstar talking shit about American culture while having no idea about any of it, same for red dead 2. Big part of why I don't like the modern games, rather than glorify they ridicule.
@kronicOverseer that's kinda the point of gta... San Andreas and vice city are very exaggerated and ridiculous at times. They're all good for different reasons
For everyone getting annoyed by the Big Smoke train mission, you should know that Smoke literally has perfect aim, you're just driving too close to the train so he can't get a proper shot at any of the Vagos.
I always went up the ramps that appear a bit down the tracks on the left that go up to a small building, get off the bike, jump on top of the train, then kill them myself. You have to do it a bit quick though cause there's an overpass that will knock you off the train a bit further ahead.
… people get so close that Smoke shoots the train? And then complain about it? Is that serious or are you making it up? I never had problems with the mission. I liked chasing the train and tried different things. Like many (at least I assume I’m not one of the few) I just jumped on top with the bike and gunned them down myself. I really has to lose the train somehow to fail it.
I heard the line so many times and just now realized how funny it is when Ryder was stickkng up the pizza place: "Ryder, not this again" "It aint me fool"
I just realized how many times Cj commits treason in this game -Stole from a military storage unit and kills weekend soldiers -Broke into Area 51, killed soldiers and steals a 60-million-dollar jetpack because his hippie friend wants it -Use aforementioned stolen jetpack to attack a freight train transporting top secret government hardware and steal mysterious green jar of goo of possible extra-terrestrial origin, because again, your hippie friend wants it -Broke into a military ship and steals a goddamn fighter jet and uses it to destroy spy ships -Broke into a military compound in Las Venturas to steal a military helicopter, to steal an armored van so you can use it to steal from a casino I fucking love this game
I did not expect to see a clip of my CJ mod for Yakuza 0 in this one. I was already enjoying watching the video but that bit made it even better! Great work on making such awesome content, I love your videos!
Why would they hide it? The industry back in the ps2 era didn't had this shitty obsession about secret projects and hiding stuff that happened during development. Specially since dev cycle was lightning fast.
I was obsessed with this game back in the day but its only now that i realize what an absolute star studded cast this had. Samuel L Jackson, Chris Penn, James Woods, Peter Fonda, Ice-T, Charlie Murphy, David Cross, William Fichtner, Axl Rose, Danny Dyer. I always knew that they had some big names in every title but as i went down the list proper i was blown away at some that i didnt even realize when i was 14-15 playing, like Axl Rose a radio host or Peter Fonda as The Truth. Thanks for making this, it was an awesome trip down memory lane! Well done sir!
That entire homecoming sequence is iconic and probably the best part of the best game in the series. Smoke, in particular (I will always hate him for his selfish betrayal of The Grove and my mom) has an unforgettable intro.
This game was so ahead of it time it was crazy... To this day I played every console release of it and platinumed it twice. Vice city is also very dear to my heart.
I always thought Tenpenny leaving Pulaski to kill you was him letting you live and getting rid of Pulaski at the same time. I think he has a little respect for CJ at least more than for his lackey Pulaski.
I don't really think tenpenny ever intended to kill CJ before he dealt with Smoke. CJ kills smoke, tenpenny kills CJ, his fellow officers are also dead, no loose ends.
@@unsoundmusic8348 Nah, he wanted to keep doing business with smoke, they were making major money, the only reason tenpenny takes the the money and flees is because of the riots which were caused by him being acquitted for some of his crimes. He didn't plan on betraying smoke imo.
I never took ryder insulting CJ as hostile, its like old friends insulting each other but because they like each other, sometimes sweet is bothered for it but its more like that ryder is high and propably doesn't know how to speak other than insulting as he is a gangster after all, the fact that he "turned" on CJ is just rockstar his character doesn't protray that nor this actions.
San Andreas had alot of messages and points to keeping your family and your neighborhood on the right morals and principles in life. It showed what happens when you get to much money and power, it will make you so crazy things. But my point is, i feel like the creators we’re trying to push a message
My favourite game ever. Nothing will ever ever top this masterpiece. The map, for me, is still perfect, not only in variety, but also in size. It still feels huge when cruising from Los Santos to Back'o'Beyond. Let's not forget all the mysteries surrounding this game; Yeti, UFO's, the ghost girl in the desert, Leatherface, the mysterious phone call near the aircraft graveyard, the ominous blue lights from the church where you steal the harvester... This was more than a game, it was a world of its own. I know the map better than my hometown lmao. The radio stations, the absurd number of side activities... The orange and purple sky that makes you feel like you're in California. While GTAIV has grown a lot on me after initially hating it, it lacks the wackiness and variety of San Andreas. Best game ever!!
I come from a rural area and it was so cool driving around in trucks and stuff in the countryside. My dad was a teenager at the time set in the game and thought it was cool watching me play around in a time he was familiar with. He loved the music too
Great retrospect for an amazing game I love how you called out Torino being a government agent flooding the streets with drugs with taxpayers dollars then sarcastically say that would never happen in real life things like that make the game a masterpiece replayable it's a shame what they've done with the definitive Editions
I appreciate the hard work for this quality content man! I hope you'll cover the spinoffs such as Vice City Stories, Libery Stories, and Chinatown Wars.
I hear a song on the radio and start singing to it. My husband knows now instead of asking "You know this song?" He just says "You know this from GTA or Guitar Hero right?" And I say, "YEP." 😆
Honestly this game was the most complete GTA game/story ever made. Yeah, some of the subsequent games had great bells and whistles (fun gameplay features), but the vibe and spirit of this game was equal to Vice City. I'd argue the story was slightly better because it was more intricate and you really felt how hard CJ worked to truly take over and be both legit and a gangster. Even as a kid, I didn't feel the need to rush through the game and could take my time to enjoy it. And yes, WOOZIE was my favorite friend of CJ's.
Amazing video as per usual, it’s nice to just sit back, relax and remember all these missions all those years ago! Definitely recommend GTA VCS & GTA LCS if you’re a fan of the series like i think you are.
Hey. Found your channel by happenstance. Your mix quality was great, the review was palatable even with its length, and I enjoyed your personal and objective opinions about the game. It gave me an appreciation for GTA SA I never had. You deserve a break in January.
Great video! This is the game I have more hours on, I completed this game main history more than 25 times, and to 100% completion more than 5 times, as I played in multiplatform, including mobile eheheh. Just to say that the second asset mission on Zero, where you complain about running out on fuel, you don't need to throttle everytime, you can simply accelarate a bit and then let go so the plane can glide, which does not uses fuel. I hope you continue the good work! Cheers!
in many ways this game has yet to be topped. its atmosphere, characters, customizable protagonist, licensed soundtrack (all genres represented perfently), story and most importantly atmosphere/vibe come together to form an unmatched experience
I think that people know how good GTA SA is, that's why they don't analyze it or somebody analyze it saying it's bad for easy views. As for the story, as far as I've seen on the Internet, everything that was cut due to lack of memory on one CD is nothing but a tragedy, and yet again whenever I play GTA SA everything gets better and I remember why I live and that life is cool sometimes.
JUST NOTICED SMOKEY WAS REPEATING THEIR MEALS AND ONLY ORDER TWO 45S FOR HIMSELF... WILD, AND ALSO RYDER COPIED CJ WHICH SHOWS CJ IS HIS CLOSE AND FRIEND AND THAT HE MISSED HIM
FUN FACT: the pc version of this game was modded and released unofficially in iran. cars were changed to the local cars found in the present day iran. the dialogues were persianized so heavily that some of the lines are still used in day 2 day convos. also we refer to it as gta 5. back in the day it was the 5th gta game so we called it gta 5, after the release of gta v there was a huge discussion about the title of the game. one more fun fact. look up gta 5 in tehran
Great video! This will always be my favorite gta. I just finished a 100% playthrough of SA last month after years of not being able to run the game on modern hardware. (Thanks to TGIM for making that possible) It was like being high on drugs, good times! 😂
I absolutely love the writing of GTA4 and yes GTA 5 sold a crap ton and earned millions but San Andreas is legendary in the entire gaming history and the future of gaming as well, that game is an emotion
still the best gta game ever made i replayed it multiple time over different console and many years and still find it engaging and funny the chrchters are the best ever written cj, big smoke tenpenny the truth i still remember every single one of them compare to the last gta where i can remeber only trevor and only becasue he is an insane psyco
This was a great video wow. Thank you. Your view counts on your videos are really awesome for the amount of subs you have. Your channel is a perfect example of good quality videos. I could definitely learn a thing or two from you.
my dad got me GTA 3 at 6 years old lol... went from playing Mario to this. Ever since then I've played in San Andreas, Vice City and Liberty City. Now im 28, I still love to visit all these places.. so many memories, nostalgia, im hoping gta 6 brings me similar feelings of when gta 4 dropped at 14
My youngest nephew is 2 years old. I’ll tell you this. The second he’s able to hold a controller and play video games. Im buying him a ps5 and Gta definitive edition. Yes our mom will want to kill me along with my sister in law. But it’s ok I have a loop hole that anytime I use it on my sister in law she knows I won. I just tell her “it’s a gift you can’t say no” Plus it’s just me and my brother. So I get to be the uncle who buys him all the things that I shouldn’t buy him
Fun fact. The Madd Dogg mission will be impossible to complete if you cheat the game using mods up to that point. Madd Dogg will always fall to his death. Its some sort of save corruption or something from what I'm aware but its a funny soft lock non the less and pretty fun fact. I had it happen to me when I was modding mobile with cleo. It also happened on PC one time.
Just finished the video a year after its release, and a few weeks from the release of the first GTA 6 trailer. I wonder where will we be 20 years from now! I hope youre preparing that video! hahah One thing that I always remember from that game are the awesome radio stations. Really good track selection, and also famous hosts, like Axl Rose. It all felt really alive, because as you progressed in the story, the radio hosts would mention it somehow, I remember that being such a nice feeling!
You did well my brother. I watched til the very end and I thoroughly enjoyed it too. I was playing GTA San Andreas on my Galaxy S20ULTRA 5G phone as I watched thinking man, this game for all its immensity is now on a mobile phone! And it is an exact port! The graphics have been fine-tuned a bit and the Radio stations are lacking some songs I think maybe cos of licensing issues. But otherwise its all there, bugs and all LOL What a world we live in when your mobile phone has more processing power to play a game than the console that it was released on. Thanks again for the video and I will definately be giving you a like and a sub. Well done.
I've played the game and completed the storymode only once. I still have memory card with the completed missions!! Watching this bought out the nostalgia in me and I just might replay those missions again. Greatest GTA game of all time. UK fan.👌
My favorite part of the original release is the gangs everywhere glitch. Don't know why they patched it out but it sucks every release after that didn't have it. It allowed the gang turf mechanic to spread across the world and even unlocked "cut content" in the form of different gangs in San Fierro and Las Venturas.
Grove street VS the Saints who would win? LOL🤣🤣🤣 GTA San Andreas is an awesome game truly ahead of it's time. Other than that a great video/retrospective keep up the great work👍 And greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
The amount of weed I smoke while playing San Andres is insane. Goddamn I loved it. Great game, great times, great vibes. Just started the video and I know it will be great.
I hate that rc plane mission so much. I’m glad you mentioned how frustrating it is. I ended up giving up on it. Idk how they thought putting that mission in with the terrible controls was a good idea 😂
It was confirmed that with the wrong side of the tracks mission that the issue wasn't big smoke's aim But the vargos are tanky af. Hackers would managed to get cj on the top of the train and it took a lot of bullets for them to go down
Are you sure the Vagos are tanky or the Devs just programmed incoming damage from CJ to be very little? Big smoke’s bullets seem to kill them easy enough
I'm 28 and my little brother is 21, but some of the phrases we use to talk to each other, to this day, are from this game we played together more than 15 years ago.
One thing that I sorely miss other open worlds not doing is how the player progresses through the world map during the story. San Andreas is amazing at this, at first sectioning you quite a while in east side of Los Santos and slowly spreading out to the west. But then it throws a curveball and teleports you in the middle of bumfuck nowhere adn has you run around the woods. You feel so out of place, lost and kinda worried, like you're never gonna get back to the city you already got comfortable in. It almost feels like you're playing another game, or at least, like you start the game from the start again, but in a different place. And every single "mission center" feels so different and you get around them slightly differently. Sure you drive around, but it how you drive around that makes San Fierro's hills feel different to get around from Las Ventura's desert. All with you doing a loop through the entire map and ending back to Los Santos at the end. GTA 5 did do this when introducing Trevor and that was really damn cool. But after that, the missions felt like randomly placed around the map, still focused in the city.
RDR2 tries to do this, but there are still huge parts of the map the story never takes you to, so you have to explore them yourself. Which doesn’t jibe well with the story or create that feeling of “this is where you are now” that SA did.
Just got home, have tommorow off. And then i find this lets go. Got myself a 12pack to enjoy with the video :) Keep the good shit coming man :) Edit 2. At the end now, thanks man :)
With those courier missions out of San Fierro, I was too busy to intercept the first one where he was using an ATV (I think). After that they switched to cars. I think that means I missed out on the ATV version of that mission completely :( Fuzzy- your voice was crisp and very audible throughout, so the new mic works a treat. You do realise that helicopters aren't planes though, right?
Ill never forget picking this up when it came out. I was the only person in my friend group eith a good job, n picked up a copy for us all to play n share. We was 12 deep gathered around a buddies 1980s crt in one of those wood enclosures, gettin our minds blown. Nearly 20 years on, and of that group of 12, I am the only one not dead or in prison. If only life was as simple as 12 young ppl anna ps2.
this video was great, keep it up. it helped the itch of "I want to play this," but don't have the extra time to play the game or start a re-play and never finish it.
Man, you really caught me off-guard with that Sekiro Big Smoke duel near the end, Was laughing my ass off good on that one haha! Here, have my like and sub for a nice retrospective and memeing two franchises in the same video. Cheers!
I love this game its my favorite, i grew up kinda poor for the first few years so, i had my dads old ps2 and i played this and bully all the time they were so much fun and i had to buy them on my ps4
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Can you upload the original Saints Row 1 from 2006
It just beat this game 3 weeks ago for the first time lol
Vielen Dank für all die Arbeit die du in das Video gesteckt hast. 🤝🏻
Great review man, inspired me to revisit it after all these years! Also, San Andreas was the first GTA game I forced myself to complete without using one cheat code, that was a big step for me at the time 😆
I beat the game on pc first, then on ps2
I own the trilogy remaster on switch and it just sucks compared to the original. It’s sad.
I remember being blown away by the lack of loading screens between islands and just the ability to fly miles above the clouds. For a PS2 game, it was insane
Was the same in GTA 3, vice city as well
For 32 MB RAM technical masterpiece.
@@purpledrank2922There was loading going from one part of the map to another in vice city. The scale of SA is way beyond that of 3 and VC
Yes, this game was *WAY* ahead of its time…
@@RatedRRaj Just Cause hit around the PS2 time with a way bigger map without loading screens if I remember correctly. Not like I wasn't blown away by SA by any means.
Another detail about Ryder not being meant to die, is that all his missions were genuinely ‘for the hood’. Everything you did for him would help out the grove. Whereas everything you did for smoke turned out to be some sort of trap or ambush.
Really man? How about the biggest detail ever? He's the logo of the game app on PC
When CJ finds about smoke betraying them, he didn't even mention Ryder cause the third balla model from introduction movie was replaced with Ryder and also when we kill him in pier 69 his dialouges were reused as the main reason of rockstar eliminating him was because his voice actor left.
@TheGlassesPro CJ isn't a vago remember
I think it would’ve been way more impactful if Ryder had been shot in the back by Big Smoke as his heel turn, rather than just “oH hE kNeW aBoUt ThE gReEn SaBrE”.
@@hellomate2405 That's OG Loc but sure
San Andreas is one of the most replayable games for me. It has its issues and some parts that drag, but I just love the world and setting. The massive scale of the map still impresses me despite understanding the tricks at play to make it feel larger. I think the map is one of the best laid out in the entire GTA series and I love the details to it
Literally the best experience ever. Story mode was on point now it's just about online bs and getting money to spend on nothing cool lol
While i dont think San Andreas is perfect, where exactly does it drag?
@@PetrMajka Toward the end I feel some of the LS missions get a little too drawn out. I still enjoy the game as a whole though
Other than some annoying ass missions, it’s the best gta game
@@Asherstonier5927 I agree, the game has some clunky parts but overall it's just such a great world and characters
The fact that CJ didnt tell him about all of the dangerous shit he did just to free him is crazy considering the fact that sweet was shitting on him
its probably because he needs secrecy. Remember, Toreno told CJ to get Cesar to help him once but not to tell him anything about it. Its government business, its too dangerous for CJ to risk it considering he knew how powerful Toreno is.
@@wasabi5338 he could literally just saying he went through the deepest places of hell just to help him
He tried, but Sweet didn't wanna hear about it, when you release sweet from prison he tried to tell him about the casinos and stuff and sweet responded with " what have you done for the hood?" and when CJ tried to argue back that the hood dragged him down he told him "you sound just like Smoke now"
He probably knew Sweet wouldn't have been happy with it. I'd imagine he'd rather have a gruesome dead than living thanks to CJ covering up for Tenpenny
It's because the writers didn't think that far
Woozie really is a gem and he never fails to get a laugh out of me
Woozie ain't got nothing on truth😂tbh
Woozie and toreno are my favorite characters. I honestly felt the writing in sa wasnt as good as vice city but those guys make up for it.
I think one of the things that grew on me so much in this game is the friendship between CJ and Cesar. I love how confrontational they are at first but then later it’s revealed Cesar is one of the few people that actually cares about the Johnson family and a lot of the people CJ thought were his friends actually weren’t. I loved all the missions with him in San Fierro.
Fun fact about the gang territory is that if you're in a vehicle that has missions attached (emergency vehicles, taxi, broadway) u can activate the mission if your territory is being raided and it stops it. Cancel the vehicle mission and go back to your business. I just beat SA on ps4 this summer again and it still works.
I've been playing this game for 18 years and I never knew that. Thanks a lot, man!
@@DeadPixel1105 no prob
Wish i knew that back in the days. I could have saved alot of time
Whoa!! I wish I knew this all these years!!! Thanks
Hahaha~ i wish i did that, that very helpful but i prefer not cuz i wanted back then to increase the color density of my territory its like increasing your influence and more gang will spawn, but yeah its annoying and worthless because my gangs is useless in gunfights even their weapon is shtty lol....but atleast it will regenerate my money fast so stayed long before i go to the country side, ya know lol i didnt know that cheat code exist, i played and finish this game in ps2 with no cheats i cant count how many death i had...damn i remember the mission how to fly...its super hard its a nightmare! How many times i swear back then lol i love this game its nostalgic.
Woozie was by far the most endearing and likeable character.
I live how his bodyguard moves the goal for him when he’s playing putt putt.
the popularity of San Andreas all across eastern europe all the way up until 2010's was INSANE
San Andreas: Multiplayer was just fantastic though
@@jackgardner9341 good old Samp, I used to play the cops and robbers server
@@ezyyze7526 c5 lscnr :D
@@aldin8228 crazybobs cnr :)
I basically grew up on it. After 15 years I just actually finished the story last month xD
There’s just a special kind of atmosphere in San Andreas. If they were able to kinda replicate this, I would be so damn happy.
GTA Should all be set in the past. GTA 4 did current time perfectly. GTA 5 did current time as a meme which didn't age well. They should do gta 6 in the 80s but nope another current day meme. Sadly i dont think rockstar will ever be able to recreate a game like this.
@@abrahamwashington8579 why meme? Gta 5 portrayed the modern times very well, even tho it was a bit exaggerated
@@Catalanskrra bit?
@@Catalanskrrthe entire damn game was hyperbole satire on American culture as a whole. Every. Part. Vice city glorifies the Scarface fantasy, SA glorifies gangbanging, 5 glorifies American idiocy. Made by a European Company btw. The whole game was literally just Rockstar talking shit about American culture while having no idea about any of it, same for red dead 2. Big part of why I don't like the modern games, rather than glorify they ridicule.
@kronicOverseer that's kinda the point of gta... San Andreas and vice city are very exaggerated and ridiculous at times. They're all good for different reasons
For everyone getting annoyed by the Big Smoke train mission, you should know that Smoke literally has perfect aim, you're just driving too close to the train so he can't get a proper shot at any of the Vagos.
@L I knew this as a kid (Like 7 years old), not because of game knowledge no it's basic physics
I always went up the ramps that appear a bit down the tracks on the left that go up to a small building, get off the bike, jump on top of the train, then kill them myself. You have to do it a bit quick though cause there's an overpass that will knock you off the train a bit further ahead.
It’s also because the Vagos has more health than usual, so even if Smoke was perfectly accurate, he’s still take forever to kill them
For real that mission is easy to complete for me
… people get so close that Smoke shoots the train? And then complain about it? Is that serious or are you making it up?
I never had problems with the mission. I liked chasing the train and tried different things. Like many (at least I assume I’m not one of the few) I just jumped on top with the bike and gunned them down myself. I really has to lose the train somehow to fail it.
I heard the line so many times and just now realized how funny it is when Ryder was stickkng up the pizza place:
"Ryder, not this again"
"It aint me fool"
"No one else is that small, I feel sorry for yer dad!"
You can't stop me!!! (slurred as all fuck)
I just realized how many times Cj commits treason in this game
-Stole from a military storage unit and kills weekend soldiers
-Broke into Area 51, killed soldiers and steals a 60-million-dollar jetpack because his hippie friend wants it
-Use aforementioned stolen jetpack to attack a freight train transporting top secret government hardware and steal mysterious green jar of goo of possible extra-terrestrial origin, because again, your hippie friend wants it
-Broke into a military ship and steals a goddamn fighter jet and uses it to destroy spy ships
-Broke into a military compound in Las Venturas to steal a military helicopter, to steal an armored van so you can use it to steal from a casino
I fucking love this game
Those missions are for Toreno, a CIA agent which is a US federal agency so it's not exactly a treason.
@@SHVRWK jesus you people are evil.
@@SHVRWK He would certainly frame it as that whenever it helps him though. Didnt he do something similar at the end?
Sorry he had a difficult childhood
All with the best soundtrack ever. Literally introduced me to country music. All those damn long ass drives lol.
San Andreas is a masterpiece. Unforgettable game.
I did not expect to see a clip of my CJ mod for Yakuza 0 in this one. I was already enjoying watching the video but that bit made it even better! Great work on making such awesome content, I love your videos!
Time stamp?
@@kreevisful 27:29
Whyyyyyyyy
Aamazing
lol best part of the video
This brought me so much nostalgia ! Still the greatest GTA of all time! Way ahead of its time
the best of all
The fan theory about Ryder is very obviously true lmao. Rockstar never even tried to hide it.
Why would they hide it? The industry back in the ps2 era didn't had this shitty obsession about secret projects and hiding stuff that happened during development.
Specially since dev cycle was lightning fast.
Ryder originally wasn't supposed to be a traitor
It’s very obviously false, as in the beta versions Ryder is still a traitor. Just chalk it up to classic Rockstar bad writing and mission design
@@kman9884 If it all came down to shitty writing then they also violate their own lore on Ryder. Makes no sense at all.
Heey my PS2 trailer video on the intro, I didn't expect that when i was watching the video, I was shock! Good video Fuzzy, that was fun.
I was obsessed with this game back in the day but its only now that i realize what an absolute star studded cast this had. Samuel L Jackson, Chris Penn, James Woods, Peter Fonda, Ice-T, Charlie Murphy, David Cross, William Fichtner, Axl Rose, Danny Dyer. I always knew that they had some big names in every title but as i went down the list proper i was blown away at some that i didnt even realize when i was 14-15 playing, like Axl Rose a radio host or Peter Fonda as The Truth.
Thanks for making this, it was an awesome trip down memory lane! Well done sir!
The game voiced B Dup as well, small role but cool anyway
This mf had ice t?
@@blase9624The rapper Madd Dogg was voiced by Ice -T
Just finished... Can't imagine the work that went into this. Thank you for walking me though these memories. 🙏🏻
Voiceover was great!
That entire homecoming sequence is iconic and probably the best part of the best game in the series. Smoke, in particular (I will always hate him for his selfish betrayal of The Grove and my mom) has an unforgettable intro.
This game was so ahead of it time it was crazy... To this day I played every console release of it and platinumed it twice. Vice city is also very dear to my heart.
Made me pull my ps2 back out and play this game. The good old dayz
When he was showing the scene where CJ and Big Smoke was sword fighting. I started wondering if I really smoked way too much weed back in the day.
I always thought Tenpenny leaving Pulaski to kill you was him letting you live and getting rid of Pulaski at the same time. I think he has a little respect for CJ at least more than for his lackey Pulaski.
I don't really think tenpenny ever intended to kill CJ before he dealt with Smoke. CJ kills smoke, tenpenny kills CJ, his fellow officers are also dead, no loose ends.
@@unsoundmusic8348 Nah, he wanted to keep doing business with smoke, they were making major money, the only reason tenpenny takes the the money and flees is because of the riots which were caused by him being acquitted for some of his crimes. He didn't plan on betraying smoke imo.
@@unsoundmusic8348 Exactly
No way, CJ has to die, he knows way too much, but CJ gets in so deep and gets so connected, he outplays Tenpenny.
I never took ryder insulting CJ as hostile, its like old friends insulting each other but because they like each other, sometimes sweet is bothered for it but its more like that ryder is high and propably doesn't know how to speak other than insulting as he is a gangster after all, the fact that he "turned" on CJ is just rockstar his character doesn't protray that nor this actions.
San Andreas had alot of messages and points to keeping your family and your neighborhood on the right morals and principles in life. It showed what happens when you get to much money and power, it will make you so crazy things. But my point is, i feel like the creators we’re trying to push a message
My favourite game ever.
Nothing will ever ever top this masterpiece.
The map, for me, is still perfect, not only in variety, but also in size.
It still feels huge when cruising from Los Santos to Back'o'Beyond.
Let's not forget all the mysteries surrounding this game; Yeti, UFO's, the ghost girl in the desert, Leatherface, the mysterious phone call near the aircraft graveyard, the ominous blue lights from the church where you steal the harvester...
This was more than a game, it was a world of its own.
I know the map better than my hometown lmao.
The radio stations, the absurd number of side activities...
The orange and purple sky that makes you feel like you're in California.
While GTAIV has grown a lot on me after initially hating it, it lacks the wackiness and variety of San Andreas.
Best game ever!!
I come from a rural area and it was so cool driving around in trucks and stuff in the countryside. My dad was a teenager at the time set in the game and thought it was cool watching me play around in a time he was familiar with. He loved the music too
Rural areas are the best
Great retrospect for an amazing game I love how you called out Torino being a government agent flooding the streets with drugs with taxpayers dollars then sarcastically say that would never happen in real life things like that make the game a masterpiece replayable it's a shame what they've done with the definitive Editions
OG Loc is the Jar Jar Binks of San Andreas
I never thought of that, but yeah: accurate.
Jar Jar could probably kick his ass though.
@52:20 nows ur time big bro gta6 trailer dropped
I appreciate the hard work for this quality content man! I hope you'll cover the spinoffs such as Vice City Stories, Libery Stories, and Chinatown Wars.
I hope he does too
0:04 Tony sounds so San Franciscan bless his heart
The balla that jumps in front of the car at 4:25 😂
i came to see who else noticed lmao
Lmao
The restaurant/food intake to heal mechanic was a cute touch. I wish GTAV and Online had that. Especially Online if only for the rp side of things.
its kinda weird you can heal up eating snacks in 5
I hear a song on the radio and start singing to it. My husband knows now instead of asking "You know this song?" He just says "You know this from GTA or Guitar Hero right?" And I say, "YEP." 😆
Honestly this game was the most complete GTA game/story ever made. Yeah, some of the subsequent games had great bells and whistles (fun gameplay features), but the vibe and spirit of this game was equal to Vice City. I'd argue the story was slightly better because it was more intricate and you really felt how hard CJ worked to truly take over and be both legit and a gangster. Even as a kid, I didn't feel the need to rush through the game and could take my time to enjoy it. And yes, WOOZIE was my favorite friend of CJ's.
the best gta indeed
Gotta admit, this deserves a like at least. So much work, hope you could earn a penny with it
Amazing video as per usual, it’s nice to just sit back, relax and remember all these missions all those years ago! Definitely recommend GTA VCS & GTA LCS if you’re a fan of the series like i think you are.
Playing the game, and you played a cutscene from the game at the same time I was going through it. Audio match up and everything. 😳😮
Hey. Found your channel by happenstance. Your mix quality was great, the review was palatable even with its length, and I enjoyed your personal and objective opinions about the game. It gave me an appreciation for GTA SA I never had. You deserve a break in January.
How did I not know about Tony Hawk announcing GTA: San Andreas?! Those were two of my absolute favorite things on the PS2!
tony hawk underground 2 and gta sa goty 2004
This went in my best long form playlist immediately
Great video! This is the game I have more hours on, I completed this game main history more than 25 times, and to 100% completion more than 5 times, as I played in multiplatform, including mobile eheheh. Just to say that the second asset mission on Zero, where you complain about running out on fuel, you don't need to throttle everytime, you can simply accelarate a bit and then let go so the plane can glide, which does not uses fuel. I hope you continue the good work! Cheers!
My favorite game ever! I even have a Los Santos tattoo in my arm written with the same font used in the game.
you cant do the black project mission if cj is too fat, and the dialogue for it is pretty funny. basically the truth tells him to lose some weight
in many ways this game has yet to be topped. its atmosphere, characters, customizable protagonist, licensed soundtrack (all genres represented perfently), story and most importantly atmosphere/vibe come together to form an unmatched experience
I think that people know how good GTA SA is, that's why they don't analyze it or somebody analyze it saying it's bad for easy views. As for the story, as far as I've seen on the Internet, everything that was cut due to lack of memory on one CD is nothing but a tragedy, and yet again whenever I play GTA SA everything gets better and I remember why I live and that life is cool sometimes.
The things that went over my head as a kid; like looking for water I now know he was looking for some REAL drugs. 😂
This game is so good I watched the whole video before realizing it's 2 hours long!
Dude just casually creates the best longform content on the platform
JUST NOTICED SMOKEY WAS REPEATING THEIR MEALS AND ONLY ORDER TWO 45S FOR HIMSELF... WILD, AND ALSO RYDER COPIED CJ WHICH SHOWS CJ IS HIS CLOSE AND FRIEND AND THAT HE MISSED HIM
Yup never grasped that as a youngster.
Great video, GTA San Andreas is my favourite all time 👍
FUN FACT: the pc version of this game was modded and released unofficially in iran. cars were changed to the local cars found in the present day iran. the dialogues were persianized so heavily that some of the lines are still used in day 2 day convos. also we refer to it as gta 5. back in the day it was the 5th gta game so we called it gta 5, after the release of gta v there was a huge discussion about the title of the game. one more fun fact. look up gta 5 in tehran
This is great content, thanks for your hard work!!
Great video! This will always be my favorite gta. I just finished a 100% playthrough of SA last month after years of not being able to run the game on modern hardware. (Thanks to TGIM for making that possible) It was like being high on drugs, good times! 😂
I absolutely love the writing of GTA4 and yes GTA 5 sold a crap ton and earned millions but San Andreas is legendary in the entire gaming history and the future of gaming as well, that game is an emotion
I wish i lived in the timeline where GTA online never happened and GTA 6, 7, and 8 were already released because of it.
Best game of all time. Beautiful video man, outstanding job
one of the most nostalgic games .
still the best gta game ever made
i replayed it multiple time over different console and many years and still find it engaging and funny
the chrchters are the best ever written
cj, big smoke tenpenny the truth
i still remember every single one of them
compare to the last gta where i can remeber only trevor and only becasue he is an insane psyco
I remember the emotions this game gave me as a child, played it for years
This was a great video wow. Thank you. Your view counts on your videos are really awesome for the amount of subs you have. Your channel is a perfect example of good quality videos. I could definitely learn a thing or two from you.
my dad got me GTA 3 at 6 years old lol... went from playing Mario to this. Ever since then I've played in San Andreas, Vice City and Liberty City. Now im 28, I still love to visit all these places.. so many memories, nostalgia, im hoping gta 6 brings me similar feelings of when gta 4 dropped at 14
My youngest nephew is 2 years old. I’ll tell you this. The second he’s able to hold a controller and play video games. Im buying him a ps5 and Gta definitive edition. Yes our mom will want to kill me along with my sister in law. But it’s ok I have a loop hole that anytime I use it on my sister in law she knows I won. I just tell her “it’s a gift you can’t say no”
Plus it’s just me and my brother. So I get to be the uncle who buys him all the things that I shouldn’t buy him
@@Mohawk_Productions that's funny and yes your nephew will have great memories
@@NormalCleanCars
Video games and basically anything Harley Davidson as his grandpa was big into it when he was still alive
@@Mohawk_Productions
oof. He deserves better than the definitive edition
Fun fact. The Madd Dogg mission will be impossible to complete if you cheat the game using mods up to that point. Madd Dogg will always fall to his death. Its some sort of save corruption or something from what I'm aware but its a funny soft lock non the less and pretty fun fact. I had it happen to me when I was modding mobile with cleo. It also happened on PC one time.
I didnt know how much I needed Tony Hawk talking about GTA games thank you
still my fav game of all time... just got my kid onto it by bootlegging it on his psvita (not sure if that's a good or bad thing)... great video!
Just finished the video a year after its release, and a few weeks from the release of the first GTA 6 trailer. I wonder where will we be 20 years from now! I hope youre preparing that video! hahah
One thing that I always remember from that game are the awesome radio stations. Really good track selection, and also famous hosts, like Axl Rose. It all felt really alive, because as you progressed in the story, the radio hosts would mention it somehow, I remember that being such a nice feeling!
San andreas was the background noise of half my childhood sleepovers.
You did well my brother. I watched til the very end and I thoroughly enjoyed it too. I was playing GTA San Andreas on my Galaxy S20ULTRA 5G phone as I watched thinking man, this game for all its immensity is now on a mobile phone! And it is an exact port! The graphics have been fine-tuned a bit and the Radio stations are lacking some songs I think maybe cos of licensing issues. But otherwise its all there, bugs and all LOL What a world we live in when your mobile phone has more processing power to play a game than the console that it was released on. Thanks again for the video and I will definately be giving you a like and a sub. Well done.
I was 13 when this game came out. It's now over 18 years since it came out. Puts things in perspective. Time flies the older we get.
you're still a spring chicken darlin', enjoy life before you get too old! Listen to Grandma!
@@themudpit621 yes ma'am 😊
I've played the game and completed the storymode only once. I still have memory card with the completed missions!! Watching this bought out the nostalgia in me and I just might replay those missions again. Greatest GTA game of all time. UK fan.👌
the best by far
My favorite part of the original release is the gangs everywhere glitch. Don't know why they patched it out but it sucks every release after that didn't have it. It allowed the gang turf mechanic to spread across the world and even unlocked "cut content" in the form of different gangs in San Fierro and Las Venturas.
Grove street VS the Saints who would win? LOL🤣🤣🤣
GTA San Andreas is an awesome game truly ahead of it's time.
Other than that a great video/retrospective keep up the great work👍
And greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
Yo, Tony freaking Hawk hyped up GTA?! Where have I been…
Still the best GTA game ever!!! I loved GTA 5 but San Andreas holds a place in heart!!!!
Great content 👌 as always 👍
i was really invested as a kid into GTA san andreas big foot and other until i realised years later that those were mods on PC
The amount of weed I smoke while playing San Andres is insane. Goddamn I loved it. Great game, great times, great vibes. Just started the video and I know it will be great.
I hate that rc plane mission so much. I’m glad you mentioned how frustrating it is. I ended up giving up on it. Idk how they thought putting that mission in with the terrible controls was a good idea 😂
the video title is good cuz its not some random clickbait like "was gta san andreas good?" etc
Lol that's not clickbait, it's the literal theme to the series the UA-camr is putting on
It was confirmed that with the wrong side of the tracks mission that the issue wasn't big smoke's aim
But the vargos are tanky af. Hackers would managed to get cj on the top of the train and it took a lot of bullets for them to go down
Are you sure the Vagos are tanky or the Devs just programmed incoming damage from CJ to be very little?
Big smoke’s bullets seem to kill them easy enough
@@maalikserebryakov ya I think it's the former
I'm 28 and my little brother is 21, but some of the phrases we use to talk to each other, to this day, are from this game we played together more than 15 years ago.
One thing that I sorely miss other open worlds not doing is how the player progresses through the world map during the story.
San Andreas is amazing at this, at first sectioning you quite a while in east side of Los Santos and slowly spreading out to the west. But then it throws a curveball and teleports you in the middle of bumfuck nowhere adn has you run around the woods. You feel so out of place, lost and kinda worried, like you're never gonna get back to the city you already got comfortable in. It almost feels like you're playing another game, or at least, like you start the game from the start again, but in a different place.
And every single "mission center" feels so different and you get around them slightly differently. Sure you drive around, but it how you drive around that makes San Fierro's hills feel different to get around from Las Ventura's desert. All with you doing a loop through the entire map and ending back to Los Santos at the end.
GTA 5 did do this when introducing Trevor and that was really damn cool. But after that, the missions felt like randomly placed around the map, still focused in the city.
RDR2 tries to do this, but there are still huge parts of the map the story never takes you to, so you have to explore them yourself. Which doesn’t jibe well with the story or create that feeling of “this is where you are now” that SA did.
Yes this, exactly this
I’m so glad you are using the original versions of the games for your videos and no the definitive editions
yo i only had to retool cjs weight on my own, like 5 times. whole playthrough. the weight mechanic is not that bad.
Exactly, so easy to manage.
@@fuzzyslippersyt yeees. im like 50 min in and loving this. good stuff.
Awesome Video!!🤙🏻🔥
Just got home, have tommorow off. And then i find this lets go.
Got myself a 12pack to enjoy with the video :)
Keep the good shit coming man :)
Edit 2. At the end now, thanks man :)
To this day (I’m 28 now) I still remember the cars drive on water cheat, lower wanted level, and all 3 weapons cheats 😂
With those courier missions out of San Fierro, I was too busy to intercept the first one where he was using an ATV (I think). After that they switched to cars. I think that means I missed out on the ATV version of that mission completely :( Fuzzy- your voice was crisp and very audible throughout, so the new mic works a treat. You do realise that helicopters aren't planes though, right?
Ill never forget picking this up when it came out. I was the only person in my friend group eith a good job, n picked up a copy for us all to play n share. We was 12 deep gathered around a buddies 1980s crt in one of those wood enclosures, gettin our minds blown.
Nearly 20 years on, and of that group of 12, I am the only one not dead or in prison. If only life was as simple as 12 young ppl anna ps2.
We had no idea what we were playing back then . This game was and still is GOLD
Having beat 3, vice city, Vice City stories, 4 and the DLCs, and 5. I’m know the story line for each of these but I love your videos!
this video was great, keep it up. it helped the itch of "I want to play this," but don't have the extra time to play the game or start a re-play and never finish it.
That’s one of the perks of working graveyard shifts. You have nothing to do on your nights off so you Just game all night long
4:23
Now that's a real GTA Moment
Man, you really caught me off-guard with that Sekiro Big Smoke duel near the end, Was laughing my ass off good on that one haha!
Here, have my like and sub for a nice retrospective and memeing two franchises in the same video. Cheers!
I love this game its my favorite, i grew up kinda poor for the first few years so, i had my dads old ps2 and i played this and bully all the time they were so much fun and i had to buy them on my ps4
This game is perfection. GOAT