The end of the line

This is the name of the last story mission in the game GTA San Andreas. GTA (grand theft auto) is the name given to the crime of stealing automobiles. In this game you are a criminal who tries to help out your brother. Interestingly enough I felt the missions with your brother are not that good. Once he gets arrested after about 10 missions, you start to work for some triad gangsters, and this is where I thought the game got really excited.

It also involves a lot of racing. Usually away from the cops though. I loved two things about the chases, when you were at top speed the screen got a little blurry representing real life at high speeds and this just added to the realism of the chase. The second as frustrating as it was, when you took your car over the cliff, it really gave me an anxious feeling of falling off the cliff, my stomach at times felt like it had left my body.

So throughout the game you move up in the criminal world and you feel like you have achieved something. Starting in Los Santos you are a common street thug, in San Fierro you move more into car theft, in the desert you meet a government agent who asks you to do some missions for him, and by the time you leave Las Venturas you have a stake in a casino. After returning to Los Santos you give it all up to be a street thug all again. It was disappointing after achieving virtually so much.

So the game is mostly based on movies like Colours, Boyz in the Hood, New Jack City and Menace to Society. Yet certain missions where direct copies of other movies like The Usual Suspects, the Fast and the Furious, Goodfellas, and Ocean’s eleven. The music is what drew me in the most. It just added, what I felt, an incredible feel to the game, like a soundtrack in a movie just adds the oompf. They selected well known tracks from 1992 (the year the game was set in) and added the nostalgic feel to the game.

So after 45 hours recorded on the games statistics, more in actuality, I finally completed all the missions for the story game. This means there is still 40% of the game to complete.

I have started the next game in the series Liberty City Stories I feel it lacks the appeal of San Andreas, due to the soundtrack not being as good. The cars in the game don’t seem to handle as well, and the targeting of enemies is not as good. I have completed a few missions yet can not see myself playing this as much as the GTA San Andres (Pics from wiki and gtasanandreas.net).