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Overall the streaming technology is the most efficient across the three entries – and the game definitely pushes the hardware of that generation to its absolute limit. Draw distance also seems to have received a boost, although the game uses fog to mask details in faraway areas of the map and give the illusion of a bigger map. The AI is also a bit more sophisticated, as enemy gang members will try to take you down if you step into their territory. NPCs are, of course, varied and appear more in number. Las Venturas and Los Santos look pretty impressive with their dense neighborhoods giving the illusion of a believable space. The game’s map isn’t just a city like Vice City or GTA 3, but is an entire state – you got Los Santos, San Fierro, Las Venturas as well as vast stretches of city outskirts. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas uses the same RenderWare engine used in previous entries in the series, although major updates to the engine allow the game to have both denser and larger environments without having to sacrifice any performance. Streaming, NPC Density, and Draw Distance The environment on the other hand looks great, although as previously mentioned – a great deal of the heavy lifting seems to have been done by the updated lighting. Even lead protagonist Carl Johnson doesn’t look quite up to the mark, and the same can be said for many other character models too. However, out of all three entries in the trilogy – San Andreas seems to have fared the worst in terms of updated character models.
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The Definitive Edition seems to be using some sort of AI upscaling for the textures and character models, with manual re-touching presumably being done to retain an authentic look. However, better facial animations do make the overall presentation a bit more palatable than previous entries – making it a net improvement. Polygon counts roughly look to be the same as Vice City, which already had double of those found in Grand Theft Auto 3. On top of that, the game also had to account for even more character models for NPCs as the state of San Andreas is home to a multicultural group of people that all need to look different from one another. Rockstar was already struggling to pack character models, texture assets, and a whole lot of stuff into the 32 MB of RAM on the PlayStation 2, and of course with San Andreas’ map size dwarfing those found in Vice City and GTA 3, it is rather understandable why character models don’t seem to have a massive improvement. With the new lighting systems in place, the world seems to be a lot brighter and sunny – giving it a rather distinct look when compared to the original. Surfaces of vehicles also reflect sunlight and other sources of lights such as traffic lights, street lights, and even the lights wrapped around the palm trees I mentioned earlier. As one could notice immediately upon booting the game, the world looks a lot richer than its original counterpart thanks to details such as accurate and high-resolution shadows. The game’s Definitive Edition is built on Unreal Engine 4 and uses a brand-new lighting system to great effect. It might be an aesthetic design choice from Rockstar but it definitely looks rather dull today. Vehicle surfaces are non-reflective which gives the game a rather dull look as if they are made with pastel colours, which is something that had been a point of minor criticism when the game was released. However, there are some problems as well. The same technique seems to have been put in place for most buildings and other environment objects as well. There’s heavy use of baked-in reflections, with one particular instance being how the lights cast themselves around the bottom of the palm trees. Shadows seem to have higher resolution and are cast with a fair bit of accuracy. The original Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas seems to be using the same lighting system found in the first two games, although there are some noticeable yet subtle improvements right away. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has now received a Definitive Edition as a part of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, and a fair bit has been changed under the hood.
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Set in the state of San Andreas which was heavily inspired by California and Nevada, the game managed to deliver the most heartfelt narrative of the series up until that point.
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After a two-year-long development cycle, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas would finally release to rave reviews and equally great commercial reception, the latter of which made the game the best selling PS2 game of all game. With Grand Theft Auto 3 and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City establishing Rockstar’s darling franchise as a household name in gaming, it is understandable that a lot of eyes were set upon whatever the developer was doing next with the franchise.
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