"You're talking hundreds of hours - it's absolutely huge. "The hardest thing is cramming it all onto that!" With all this extra content, however long is San Andreas going to take to finish? "Difficult to say," admits Dean Evans, joypad joyously in hand. How on earth can they physically cram all of that onto a single DVD? "We're using Dual Layer DVD 9," Brown says.
And the whole of Los Santos itself is only about 20 to 25 per cent of the play area of the whole game." Jeepers. The rest of the game is based on bits of California and some of Nevada." Showing us the in-game map, it looks like a small chunk of the whole thing how much of the finished game does this demo represent? "Eight square blocks of Los Santos. "Los Santos is where you start the game as Carl Johnson, CJ," explains Brown, "and it's Rockstar's take on Los Angeles. now!īut, what, we ask, is Los Santos? Sounds Californian to us. Very early on in the game, a couple of crooked cops pick him up and just dump him off in rival gang territory- which is where you come in." Let's go to California. So he immediately hops back on a plane to go home to Los Santos to be with his family. "But the real reason was to avoid dealing with the death of his ten year old brother Brian, and he's managing to get by until yesterday when his older brother calls him up to tell him that his mother has been killed. He's been living in Liberty City for the past five years or so, supposedly to escape Los Santos where he grew up," he notes.
Running late you say? Not a problem.Īn hour behind schedule we sat down with Rockstar PR manager Hamish Brown and Dean Evans, who, despite having demoed the game all day are relaxed and chirpy - as befitting of men more than happy to talk about what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest single grossing entertainment properties this Christmas.īut where do you start when talking about something this huge? Where do you stop for that matter? So much to say, so little time, Brown started from the basics and worked down from there, briefing us on the back story: "Carl Johnson, CJ is the game's main character. 5 O' Clock Thursday you say? Right, we're there.
When the name of that game is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, suddenly your busy schedule opens up like Moses parting the Red Sea. Sometimes the last thing you want to do is have a sneak preview of a game - mostly you're just spoiling things for yourself, ruining the surprise, but, when you're talking about gaming royalty, things are a little different.
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