Comments on: GTA: San Andreas confirmed for Xbox Originals

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:54:47 +0000

I wanna get this next week but with Far Cry 2 next week, I dont think it’s gonna happen.

By: reask

reask — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:35:05 +0000

I am going to have buy a bigger drive 20 gig is no use any more.

By: morriss

morriss — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:41:49 +0000

There’ll be generic crack for every 360 game to DL onto a DVD drive within 6 months, I reckon. MS entering a world of piracy pain.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:33:01 +0000

Well, same thing as the 360 games, I guess – you need the disc in the drive to actually start the game up.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:30:58 +0000

I can see how easy it would be to do it, I mean you’re effectively dling Xbox originals from the store and sticking ‘em on the HD. Just wondered how they’d got around you borrowing other people’s disks to do so…

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:16:44 +0000

Actually, now that I’ve said it I can’t find any proof. But I’m sure I’ve read that somewhere.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:16:04 +0000

@Blerk

Oh aye? So you can install Xbox 1 stuff as well as 360 stuff? Didn’t realise that…that’s a very nice feature.

Guess I’m going to have to bite the bullet and buy a bigger 360 drive at some stage. Gulp!

By: Shatner

Shatner — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:41:30 +0000

Awesome game. It was the game that made my love GTA. And far less dripping in ‘gangsta’ than most people’s memories would have you believe. The dozens of me-too car games that popped up afterwards did that damage.

Rockstar certainly get their mileage from their re-releases though. Their best set was their entire PC catalogue in one $60 bundle on Steam at the start of the year. Good times.

By: Axle

Axle — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:34:45 +0000

So this is the GTA IV DLC then . . . .

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:02:57 +0000

Tut tut grasshopper. You should thank me for letting my wisdom shine upon thee.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:01:43 +0000

But you’ll be able to install it yourself from November 19th, remember.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:00:46 +0000

Quite like this, and it still looks reasonably good for an Xbox game. Worth 1200 points most definitely, but bear in mind you can pick up copies in GAME preowned for mere pence now…and they’ll run just as nicely unless you’ve got a real stonk-on to run stuff straight off your HD (which would definitely improve the game’s response times a bit for those parts where it’s constantly thrashing your 360′s DVD drive to bits)

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:44:18 +0000

Poor form Tonka. Pedantry has a new home!

By: Smartypants

Smartypants — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:42:27 +0000

The xbox360 is backwards compatible with the xbox version of GTA:SA, the xbox version of GTA:SA itself isn’t backwards compatible with anything. That’s what Tonka means, and yes, it’s not funny at all.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:42:16 +0000

Surely it’s the hardware that’s backwards compatible. Not the games.
(And yes, semantics are the foundation of understanding)

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:20:09 +0000

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:15:25 +0000

With what? GTAII?

PPPWWWWOOOOOOAAARRRRRRHHH!!!

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:25:13 +0000

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is on the list of Microsoft xbox games that will run on the Microsoft Xbox 360.

There you go Tonka, I edited. Happy now?

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:20:59 +0000

Is this why they gave up on the BC?

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:13:55 +0000

It’s a really good game. It was just my least favourite of the three.

By: pleasant_cabbage

pleasant_cabbage — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:12:04 +0000

I think SA is pretty great.

Sure it was a little too sprawly/rpglite-y/gansta-y (although the hood vibe did tone down after a while) but it also had loads of nice wee toys to play with.

If you liked the first two I can’t see why you wouldn’t get some good mileage from somewhere in this too.

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:55:19 +0000

I’ve never played this. It never appealed, for some reason. Played the first two a lot, though. I’m betting this hasn’t aged especially well.

By: cachucha

cachucha — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:47:56 +0000

what he said ^

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:16:02 +0000

I’d have preferred the original GTA3. Why this one first and not that or Vice City?