GTA: San Andreas to be Xbox Original Comments by Ellie Gibson
Yours for 1200 Microsoft Points.
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andywilkie35
16/10/08 @ 07:54
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thats nice, but I tried replaying it a month before GTAIV came out to get back into the GTA mood and found that - while at the time it was great - its buggy and broken in so many places that I couldn't bare to play it anymore
think they should get knights of the old republic up on there |
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It's a bargain to pick up a physical copy and it works fine on the the 360 and won't eat up hard drive space so why bother.
MS seriously has to sort out it's pricing in a serious way. As an after thought, are there any sales sales figures for xbox originals as I'm interested to see how well this is doing. |
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ryohazuki1983
16/10/08 @ 08:11
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I couldn't get into San Andreas for some reason, for me it just seemed a bit samey, played all the GTA games and up untill that point that was the only one I didn't finish. Never bothered with IV but saw it for about 20 quid in GAME and was tempted....
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They won't decrease the price, if only a couple of hundred people buy it the it's well worth the effort of repackaging it with the update that allows the 360 to run it into a format that can be run off the HDD and dumping the file on the network, which considering 98% of the work has already been done re getting backwards compatibility working in the first place, should only take a day or two at the most.
Basically free money for Microsoft, I'm surprised they haven't dumped the entire catalogue of backwards compatible games up there TBH. |
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Mentalist(air)
16/10/08 @ 08:29
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An 720P mode
All Xbox Originals, and emulated original discsrender natively in 720p mode. Those boxy oldschool polygon edges are crisp now. |
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I've always thought San Andreas was the weakest of the previous generation GTA games... it felt too big and empty not to mention glitchy, the framerate was awful and I never liked the characters or the story particularly (mind you Saints Row was even worst in this regard). Vice City was my favourite GTA prior to IV, loved the story, characters, neon-lit visuals, setting and the 80s soundtrack was the icing on the cake. Very memorable, far more so than San Andreas IMO.
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@ Dhawkes
Considering it's a good game, that's not bad. Still cheaper if you buy it in the shops pre-owned though (in 4 for 20 last time I checked). How much money would Rockstar get from you buying it preowned then? £10 to have such a great game sat on your hard drive ready to go whenever you want and bought with money that the developer actually sees a part of is fine in my book. Plus it's less than £10 if you buy your points from Tesco Online. |
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My old Xbox that is sitting in the garage under a pile of crap is an american console and the machine outputted most games at 720p or 1080i (that's why I bought mine). Alot of the games were coded for this so they don't need to change anything for the download as they just need to put the US version online instead.
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RobertFoster
16/10/08 @ 09:46
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I've wanted to go back and play this since finishing IV, but it'd be cheaper/quicker to go to the attic and get my PS2 or PC version :)
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Triggerhappytel
16/10/08 @ 10:21
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@ Moggsy -
"How much money would Rockstar get from you buying it preowned then? £10 to have such a great game sat on your hard drive ready to go whenever you want and bought with money that the developer actually sees a part of is fine in my book. Plus it's less than £10 if you buy your points from Tesco Online." I've got nothing against re-buying these games through XBL, but considering I already bought it new four years ago (along with GTA3 and VC), you make it sound like we owe it to pay R* again for re-releasing such a great game. Obviously it's great to have the choice to buy it online, but I think the price is a little steep given you can buy it in the shops for less than half as much. |
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Well that's a turn-up. At least they are putting a game up that a lot of people might actually want. I won't be getting it since I have the disc version, but still.
But I'm still hoping they will put Silent Hill 2 up on originals - especially as the disc version doesn't seem to work in the UK (absolutely fucking gutted about that), even though it is on the backwards compatibility list.
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Hated SA (didn't really like any of the GTAs TBH, though VC had a great sound track that made me finish it).
It would be great if MS, Sony and Nintendo would allow you to rip your legally aquired last gen games (or even before) to the HDD instead of trying to sell them to you again IMO. I understand the piracy problems but IMO those should be their problem and not ours. It might work in the form of a free download if you insert your old disk or enter a serial number or something which is tied to your online profile. |
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Shakey_Jake33
16/10/08 @ 11:07
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Xbox1 games generally run upscaled to whatever resolution you set. Don't fall for the clever wording of Major Nelson.
This isn't a bad price as such, it's just that it doesn't really tie in with the market value of the game. That's where a lot of DLC goes wrong, it doesn't adapt alongside the going rate for the physical copies, and they try to pretend the preowned market doesn't exist. |
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