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Late today, Rockstar gave many PlayStation 2 owners what they've been waiting for--their first glimpse of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

 

A trio of images on the official San Andreas Web site seemed to confirm what many who have been following the game suspected. It will be set in modern times (not the 1970s-set game some had said) and will have a heavy West-Coast gangsta flava.

 

The first image could be taken from any one of the many late 1980s/early 1990s gangsta films, such as Menace II Society or Colors. It depicts a quartet of corn-rowed, Uzi-toting O.G.s performing a drive-by shooting from a car from the same period.

 

Shot number two shows a young hood, also with an Uzi, squatting in front of a tricked out old-school convertible, often called a "hooptie" or a "hoo-ride." He is wearing what looks like a Carhartt jacket and Timberland boots--the de facto gangsta uniform circa 1994.

 

The last shot shows the same character riding a bicycle down neighborhood straight out of Compton, with single-level homes set against a smog-colored sky. No information was released on whether bicycles can be ridden in the game.

 

The Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas site also has a new splash page, which changes each time the site is loaded. One shows a blond woman bending over to show the tattoos on her décolletage, another features a baseball-cap wearing gangsta sporting what could be called "mad bling." A third shows, a scantily clad Latina in a bandana halter top, and a fourth shows a snarling thug with tattoo sleeves and a shaven head.

 

All the shots indicate that the controversial Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has not lost the rough-and-ready nature of its predecessors. GameSpot will have more on this highly anticipated title--which is due in Q4 2004--as they become available.

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And for those of you who don't know, GTA 1 is being offered free by Rockstar. I don't know how old this news is but I downloaded it last night. You can get it at Rockstar Games Classics

 

 

EDIT: Maybe we'll see El Burro is this game since he was in San Andreas in the first game.

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They better license some N.W.A. or else I'll be pissed.

Yeah they should. This game is supposed to take place in the early 90s and is loosely modelled around "Boyz in the Hood" (which is a great movie). That just begs for N.W.A. Ice Cube is the coolest. :P

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yay lowrider bikes in GTA, just what I always wanted!!!!11!1oneoneone[/sARCASM]

the rumored 60's vegas story woulda been better.

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