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Tuesday 22 September, 2009
While I love the San Andreas storyline, I suddenly remember what really pissed me off about this game. The ridiculously and unnecessarily drawn out mission times and objectives. It is not unique to GTA, but I have found in San Andreas that these missions are many. For example, Sweet is trapped at his girlfriend's apartment because enemy gang members from the Seville Boulevard gangsters are shooting at them. Your objective is to get him out and take him back to the hood. If only it were that simple, as I had to deal with exploding cars, firefighters, and dumb AI enemies that would run into the walls. The mission that should have taken 5 min ending up being 15 min long and annoying as all hell.
Even though that was quite annoying, the things I love best about GTA:SA were plentiful. The mission where you steal weapons with Ryder from an old man is a very fun and rewarding mission (from a GTA standpoint, not real life). Not only do you perform the robbery in the mission, but from that point forward can perform robberies at many houses in SA while not on a mission. I love the little things that you can do in this game that the other games don't have. I have found that in replaying GTA:SA, I tend to play all the missions closest to the save point (CJ's house) rather than driving to Big Smoke's house to finish those missions.
At this point in the story, CJ is still faced with animosity from his old friends and ends up getting back into old habits he originally stated he didn't want to do. He has pretty much broken some of the biggest laws in the books such as, murdering gang members and stealing guns & cars. CJ is fighting to find his mother's murder but is he doing more harm than good by doing all these acts? I don't think so because he just seems to be doing the dirty work of the Grove Street Families while getting no rewards so far. I look forward to continue playing this game and remember all what happens. All in all I enjoyed playing GTA:SA again and have found that it is still my favorite GTA game by far.
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