GTA San Andreas is set within an open world environment that players can explore and interact with at their leisure. It is set in the early 1990s, and tells the story of Carl "CJ" Johnson, a gangbanger who returns to his hometown of Los Santos and immediately gets sucked back into gang life. GTA San Andreas is also one of the most successful video games of all time with over 20 million units sold. It was released in October 2004 for PlayStation 2, and in June 2005 for both Microsoft Windows and Xbox. It is the seventh title in the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series, and the follow-up to the 2002 game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I have no idea what most of them even do.GTA San Andreas is a 2004 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. Disclosure: I'm pals with some folks who work at Rockstar. I've asked Rockstar PR what's going on, why the collection isn't sold any more, and if they plan to do anything about all of the everything. Rockstar's legacy will look very different this way. Rockstar pulled the original games from sale after announcing the Def Ed, so these will be the versions standing for posterity. I hope they make drastic changes and big fixes. Rockstar themselves didn't make the Def Ed, with Grove Street Games (formerly War Drum Studios) rebuilding the three games in Unreal Engine instead. Their games are never flawless (the state of cheating in GTA Online remains absurd) but this is just a mess. For a studio who obsess over details like tempartures tightening a horse's scrotum, all this is. If this is a coincidence, it's terrible timing from a PR perspective.īut also, man, surely they'd still be embarrassed. Maybe it will return to sale once that's fixed. Perhaps the Launcher is so busted that it seemed only sensible to stop selling the game, not wanting people to buy something they couldn't actually play.
The only update so far today says: "We thank you for your patience and understanding as we continue to work on restoring services for the Rockstar Games Launcher and supported titles."
Services will return as soon as maintenance is completed," they tweeted yesterday.
"Services for the Rockstar Games Launcher and supported titles are temporarily offline for maintenance.
They do seem to be having trouble with the Rockstar Launcher, which is required to play the PC version. You might assume Rockstar have pulled it because it's such a mess, but they haven't explained what's up. The only place to buy the game on PC is the Rockstar Store, which does not currently even list a PC version. My Eyes Hurt Pt.1 #GrandTheftAutoSanAndreasTheDefinitiveEdition #GTA #XboxShare /7GSRX24G7O- Janky NovemTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsīugs are wacky: To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsĪnd some outright ruin jokes: To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Some typos are obvious: To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsĪnd just yikes: To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsĪrm rickets are a major issue in Grove Street /J0kbdhA7on- potad NovemTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. What the FUCK /1tPeUAsdB7- potad NovemTo see this content please enable targeting cookies.
Manage cookie settingsĪ load of common gripes are gathered in a Twitter thread by (click on through for the full horror): To see this content please enable targeting cookies. The internet is awash with screenshots and clips pointing out ugly character art, obvious typos, wacky bugs, excessive effects, and animations which question our understanding of the human skeleton. I didn't dig the cartoonish visual style of the remasters in marketing screenshots and trailers, but I was not prepared for quite how ugly and inept it seems in reality.