Not sure if they are fake or not - but some peeps across the net are claiming it's footage from the game.  Make of that what you will.

Looks real enough to me and i like the idea of tearing down them little country roads.
(as long as theres no traffic either way)

They should make a top down version again - Chinatown Wars HD.

I really enjoyed that on the portables. It had good driving (ds version in particular), good shooting and on foot movement (psp versions).

And no friends, eating, stodgy annoying filler stuff.

Could someone have modded GTA san Andreas to look like that? The font is from san Andreas at least.

mistercrayon wrote:

Could someone have modded GTA san Andreas to look like that? The font is from san Andreas at least.

Yeah, wasn't Big Smoke a fella from SA? Tasty anyway.

I wonder if a GTA MMO would work?  It would sell like hot cakes, surely?

Billy_Hologram wrote:

They look wonderful, is that really a SA PC mod?  If so, a LOT of people must have done a LOT of awesome work there.

GTA San Andreas HD mod.

This mod features:

-HDR-textures
-Hi-poly car models
-Enhanced reflections
-Improved smoke, explosions, fire effects
-Pixel shader 3.0 supported
-Compatibility with previous save games

-New hi-poly pedestrians
-New wheels
-New accessories for vehicles
-New clothes for CJ

-Motion blur
-New vegetation
-New handling.dat
-More cars and pedestrians on the streets






It absolutely baffles me how anybody can write off GTA or declare it shit? There are plenty of genres I don't like but you can appreciate their quality regardless of whether it is a game you'd play...

Moto70 wrote:

It absolutely baffles me how anybody can write off GTA or declare it shit? There are plenty of genres I don't like but you can appreciate their quality regardless of whether it is a game you'd play...

It's those opinion things again. "I can't be bothered with GTA, I think it is shit" = / = "I think GTA is shit, the game is terribly programed, their is absolutely no skill or creativity involved in the enormous scale and scope that the developers have imbued there game with" it simply means "I don't like it".

Quite easy to appreciate something technically but not at all like it, or even vice versa.

While I liked GTA4, Rockstar managed to move in the wrong direction for me. The beauty of Vice City was how you could tackle many of the missions in completely different ways. Depending on where you parked your car you could alter the getaway of a robbery. Instead of taking down the bad guys in a drawn out gunfight you could show up in a helecopter gun ship or drive a motor bike up. Maybe thats not what the developers intended you to do but I loved that you could play around with the game.

By the time we got to GTA4 all those elements were completely removed. You couldnt even decide where you parked your car on missions. Even if you faced it in a way that'd give you the best get away, after the cutscenes it would usually be facing the opposite direction on the other side of the road. They basically shoehorned in a single player funneled experience into an open world game. The divide between on mission and off mission became even wider now that you couldn't choose how to tackle each situation. It was the developers way or mission fail. 

I think they're going to carry on that route to the detriment of the game. Freedom is a rare thing.

monkey wrote:

Apart from graphics, there really doesn't feel like there's been much in the way of development since GTA3. There's a limit to how impressed you can be by the same thing repeated for a decade.

To be fair VC added helicopters and planes proper, adding a whole new mechanic.
San Andreas was huge and added multiplayer, fat/thin, jetpacks.
GTA4 was an overhaul providing a new engine including different gunplay and driving mechanics.

Some of these things sound obvious now but were quite new a the time.

I would say GTA adds the same or more each iteration than most IPs.

They are nice games to own due to the internet being full of shut ins who will play them to death, finding all the glitches. Like with the swing sets in 4, you can drive into them and launch your car miles through the sky. Due to the physics and ragdol effect, this can provide an hour or so of entertainment. Never finished a main story in one though, stupid bullet sponge enemies always do my head in.

And that checkpointing. Are they really still that dense?

Agree with Roujin. Just hoping cover gunplay isn't the main thrust and you can, as Scots said, tackle things more creatively.

I'll be be all over day one, even though I'm not a huge fan of IV - too drab compared to the silliness which defines the series in earlier entries.

I think my biggest annoyance with 4 was that you couldnt be 100% sure that strategically parking your vehicle, for a quick getaway, would still be there when you needed it. That set the precedent for how you were meant to approach these missions: without any thought.

Yep TLAD story was great.

three1ne wrote:

I think my biggest annoyance with 4 was that you couldnt be 100% sure that strategically parking your vehicle, for a quick getaway, would still be there when you needed it. That set the precedent for how you were meant to approach these missions: without any thought.

99% of the time the carefully selected perfect getaway car was ditched as soon as you started the mission and replaced with some piece of shit they decided to give you. The other 1 % the car was parked the other side of the street facing the wrong way.