What was the best GTA of all?

I bring you 5 reasons why the GTA San Andreas is the best of all! (from my point of view)

1- By Air, Land or Sea: Jetpacks!

From the first delivery, Grand Theft Auto became that, in a game in which to steal and drive any, any vehicle we saw. In Vice City the diversity included RC radio control cars, but in San Andreas the thing grew epically to 250 vehicles that included 11 types of aircraft, 9 helicopters, etc. What do you want to take a walk in the field? Take a 4x4 and climb. Better to go through the city and increase the Stamina? Nothing better than a bike. Cross with style from Los Santos to San Fierro? Hey, a private jet and learn to take off and land with care. Or a ship, or a damn harvester. But the madness was unleashed with something simpler than an airplane although more fun: Jetpacks. Exactly, which Rocketeer nigga we could cross San Andreas and even throw ourselves from the air. A pity that we had to wait long, until the Black Project mission to catch him. But then the sky was the limit, gentlemen. We did not finish without first mentioning a detail that the game had, and that is that each car was perfectly customizable in tunning stuff. Okay, not at EA's Need for Speed ​​Underground level, but we had aesthetic, nitro and even suspension control with the car's hydraulics, enough to call it the biggest 'customization' we've seen.

2- Characters with charisma / Actors with hook

We have been talking about three main cities. And in each one we have the bands that divided the terrain, from mafia versions, the Latin Kings, the Sureño Mexicans, the Asian Boyz and even the Russian Mafia are accommodated in a game that tells a story in the personal background , that of a Carl Johnson who returns home after the death of his mother and sees his neighborhood, his people and his family broken. It is not the story of someone who wants to be the king, to run the country, but to take revenge, to re-establish what was his own and that's it. Rockstar makes us descend to the hells of those years in Los Angeles in a plot built to reality, with the fights of bands from 1992 that turned that city into a war zone in the 90s, the crack epidemic that plagued the USA in the 80s, the scandal of the anti-gang unit of the LAPD in which several corrupt policemen were prosecuted -Tenpenny, son of the great **** and remembered from the saga-, all leading to a well-remembered finalazo. But we do not forget the actors behind the characters, real Hollywood stars like James Woods, Peter Fonda, singers like Axl Rose - whose song Welcome to the Jungle was on the BSO - or Ice-T. And highlighting the huge Samuel L. Jackson as the corrupt Tenpenny, in an interpretation with as much energy as his Jules de Pulp Fiction but unpleasant and creepy plan. Although the smokes and the tremendous positivist attitude of the friend Big Smoke keeps smiling, especially if we remember the Drive-Thru mission, right? "I'm shooting when I'll eat eating, nigga!"

3- Secrets to the Beast

Trying to summarize in a paragraph all the secrets that a GTA usually carries is more difficult than getting a smile from Trevor. And San Andreas was no exception. On the Yeti or the UFOs we will not talk, but on the gruesome finding of body bags of a serial killer in the desert (look for it in Bone County), the statue in the Atrium that is giving itself manual self-pleasure, the brutal wink the infamous Rodney King in the police station, the direct and scathing parodies of rivals of the time like True Crime: Streets of LA o Driver 3. But we reflect two in particular: The mission of Saint Mark's Bistro, which is not exactly a brutal set-piece, nor delirious or beast. But it is in the place where the key is set, as it takes us back to the Liberty City of GTA III, confined to the parameters of the mission, but still the city of always and also in full snowfall . The other is possibly the most epic Easter Egg of all those seen in a game, because once we got the jetpack and climbed to the top of the Gant Bridge, the Rockstar rewarded us with a sign that said: " Up there are no easter eggs. Long". If that is not five stars, turn off whatever we have on and let's go back to the neighborhood.

4- A soundtrack as the State of San Andreas

The excuse of the Miami 80s of neons gave Rockstar the perfect background for a BSO that had such insane themes as that "La vida es una lenteja" by Radio Espantoso, but in San Andreas we have a more intense, dramatic story and with a sense of progress.

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