Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Published by Rockstar Games, Inc.
Developed by Rockstar North Ltd.
Released 2005
Genre Action,Racing,Role Playing (RPG)

Description :

In this installment, the game now takes place in the early 1990's. You are now playing as the character Carl Johnson who has just came from Liberty city to go to his old house in San Andreas because of his mother's homicide. In this game you must go all over a three city environment to find out what happen to your mother and why are your childhood friends (in the game) are going so wrong.

The G.T.A. series has improved with new abilities like swimming, eating, changing clothes, buying lots of houses, getting to take and save pictures, running a gang, and recruiting 7 people to watch your back as you walk down the street, and Pimping out cars into Hot fast and furious, lowrider cars. Grand Theft Auto now introduces 1-2 players, playing together in a free roam mission.

Requirements :

Min.CPU PIII
Min.OS Win 2000
Min.RAM 256MB
Min.DirectX 9.0C
DVD ROM Speed 8X
Keyboard
Mouse

Note :

• 64 MB Video Card required
• 3.6 GB of free Hard Disk space required

Trivia :

• There are some references to other games scattered around San Andreas. You might come across a billboard that advertises a cleaning company called "True Grime", which is a reference to True Crime series. If you choose to steal oil from a gas station as the first mission for Catalina, you'll see, for a brief moment, the words "Max Pane - Bulletproof Windows" on the window, which is a reference to Max Payne series.

• Ryder is influenced by the late rapper and former N.W.A member Eazy-E, who also founded Ruthless Records. The character design looks just like the rapper's signature look: Jheri Curls, black sunglasses, and the famous "Compton" cap replaced with San Andreas. But he is voiced by MC Ehit of Compton's Most Wanted, who provided the track "Hood took me under" for Radio Los Santos.

• San Andreas eclipsed the sales of every other game in the United Kingdom on its launch weekend and even beat the UK's biggest ever film box office opening weekend, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It also received extensive mainstream media coverage, unlike any other game.

• The gangs of San Andreas are based on real gangs in California and elsewhere. They are changed around by colors and names.
  
  Orange Grove Street Families: Color is Green, located in Ganton. Based on Crips. Their color is Blue and located in Compton.
  
  Temple Drive Ballas: Color is Purple and located in Greater Los Santos. Based on Bloods. Their color is Red and located in Compton.
  
  Varrios Los Aztecas: Color is Turquoise and located in East Los Santos. Based on Los Surrenos XIII. Their color is Blue and lcoated in Southern California.
  
  San Fierro Rifa: Color is Green and located in San Fierro. Based on Los Nortenos XIV. Color is Red and located in Northern California.

• The Watts Towers in East Los Santos should have been placed in Ganton because East Los Santos is based on East Los Angeles and Ganton more resembles the Watts district found in South Central Los Angeles, where the famous towers are located.

• The mission "Saint Mark's Bistro" has CJ travel to Liberty City to deal with the Forellis at the restaurant of the same name. The restaurant exterior is faithfully remodeled from Grand Theft Auto III.

• Wil Wheaton got his role as Richard Burns after being interviewed by Lazlow Jones, the primary script writer for the Grand Theft Auto video game series. Wheaton admitted his abundant admiration for Jones' work on the games, and Jones eventually worked out the Richard Burns character specifically for Wheaton. He recorded the voice work in a Rockstar Games studio in about two hours.

Cheats :

Enter one of the following codes during game play or at the pause menu to activate the corresponding cheat function. The message "Cheat Activated" will appear to confirm correct code entry.

Effect	Code
Adrenaline effects	anoseonglass
Aggressive traffic	ylteicz
All cars have nitrous	speedfreak
Always 00:00 or 12:00	nightprowler
Always 21:00	ofviac
Armor, health, and money	hesoyam
Beach party theme	lifesabeach
Beater traffic	everyoneispoor
Black traffic	iowdlac
Bounty on your head	bagowpg
Carnival theme	crazytown
Cars fly away	bubblecars
City in chaos	iojufzn
CJ jumps higher	kangaroo
Cloudy weather	alnsfmzo
Commit suicide	goodbyecruelworld
Destroy all cars	cpktnwt
Fast motion	speeditup
Flying boats	flyingfish
Flying cars	chittychittybangbang
Foggy weather	cfvfgmj
Gangs and workers	mroemzh
Gangs only	onlyhomiesallowed
Hitman level in all weapons	professionalkiller
Invisible cars	wheelsonlyplease
Kinky theme	bekknqv
Lower wanted level	turndowntheheat
Manual weapon control in cars	ouiqdmw
Massive BMX bunny hops	cjphonehome
Maximum fat	btcdbcb
Maximum lung capacity	cvwkxam
Maximum muscle	buffmeup
Maximum respect	worshipme
Maximum stamina	vkypqcf
Maximum sex appeal	helloladies
Maximum vehicle skills	naturaltalent
No fat or muscle	kvgyzqk
No hunger	aeduwnv
Pedestrians are Elvis	bluesuedeshoes
Pedestrians attack with guns	bgluawml
Pedestrians have weapons	foooxft
Pedestrians riot	stateofemergency
Perfect handling	sticklikeglue
Pink traffic	llqpfbn
Raise wanted level	turnuptheheat
Recruit anyone into gang with guns	sjmahpe
Recruit anyone into gang with rocket launcher	zsoxfsq
Reduced traffic	ghosttown
Rural theme	bmtpwhr
Rural traffic	fvtmnbz
Sandstorm weather	cwjxuoc
Six star wanted level	bringiton
Slow motion	slowitdown
Spawn Bloodring Banger	oldspeeddemon
Spawn Caddy	rzhsuew
Spawn Dozer	itsallbull
Spawn Hunter	ohdude
Spawn Hydra	jumpjet
Spawn Jetpack	rocketman
Spawn Monster	monstermash
Spawn Parachute	aiypwzqp
Spawn Quad	fourwheelfun
Spawn Racecar	vrockpokey
Spawn Racecar	vpjtqwv
Spawn Rancher	jqntdmh
Spawn Rhino	aiwprton
Spawn Romero	wheresthefuneral
Spawn Stretch	celebritystatus
Spawn Stunt Plane	flyingtostunt
Spawn Tanker	amomhrer
Spawn Trashmaster	truegrime
Spawn Vortex	kgggdkp
Speed up time	ysohnul
Sports car traffic	everyoneisrich
Rainy weather	auifrvqs
Stormy weather	scottishsummer
Sunny weather	pleasantlywarm
Super punches	iavenjq
Taxi missions completed	vkypqcf
Traffic lights remain green	zeiivg
Unlimited ammunition	fullclip
Unlimited health	baguvix
Vehicle of death	jcnruad
Very sunny weather	toodamnhot
Wanted level never increases	aezakmi
Weapons (tier 1)	lxgiwyl
Weapons (tier 2)	professionalskit
Weapons (tier 3)	uzumymw
Yakuza theme	ninjatown

Glitch: Secret interiors:
Go to the Ganton gym in Los Santos and kill all four people. Enable the rocketman code to spawn a Jetpack. Go to the entrance and fly up until you exit out the top. Then, fly to the east two blocks. You will see a yellow marker. Land around the marker and take off the Jetpack. Walk into the marker and you will be in a secret room. It resembles a hotel or strip club). Then enable the rocketman code again and use the Jetpack to fly up and look around. Next to that room, you will see another. Fly to it and look for the entrance. Fly to it and you can fly around the level.

Glitch: Flying car:
Enable the bubblecars code. Get a PCR 600 and drive directly into another car. You should fly off your bike directly on top of the other car and it will fly away with C.J. still on it.

Grand Theft Auto III

Published by Rockstar Games, Inc.
Developed by Rockstar North Ltd.
Released 2002
Genre Action, Racing/Driving

Description :

After leaving San Andreas and going on a crime spree throughout the country, Claude Speed and Catalina head to Liberty City for a life of crime. During a bank heist, Claude is betrayed by Catalina and her Colombian friend Miguel, and he is shot by her just as they are leaving the scene of the crime. Claude fully recovers....in a prison cell. However, while being transported to a prison, Colombians ambush the prison van for an inmate riding with Claude. Claude and his friend, 8-Ball, escape in the process. Now it is time for revenge. Claude slowly rises through the ranks of the local gangs, gaining trust from local mob bosses and turning on others. Claude gains influence, trust, and most importantly, money along the way. It is time for Claude to rise from the dead and get revenge for what Catalina has done.

The concept that makes GTA what it is, is now in 3D in this release. The game puts you in the shoes of a vicious, albeit novice, criminal. Traditionally, your missions center on the gangs inhabiting the city - each one always has jobs for you to perform, and your prosperity as a criminal depends on your ability to manipulate each gang. Ice a few members of one gang, and you'll gain its rival's favor. Jobs range anywhere from running dope and taking out rivals to sabotage and kidnapping.Only for the matured.

Requirements :

Min.CPU PIII
Min.OS Win98
Min.RAM 128MB
Min.DirectX 8.0
Keyboard
Mouse

Notes :
16MB Direct3D Video Card
500MB free hard disk space

Trivia :

• Grand Theft Auto III was ranked # 12 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.
• GTA 3 was named "Game of the Year" for 2002 by Computer Gaming World.
• Grand Theft Auto III claimed top honors at the 2nd Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, winning both 'Game of the Year' and 'Excellence in Game Design' awards.
• Grand Theft Auto III was named #6 overall in the "10 Best Games of 2002" by Computer Games Magazine.
• 'Grand Theft Auto III' was voted Game of the Year by the readers of Electronic Gaming Monthly in the April 2002 issue.

Cheats :

Enter one of the following codes during game play to activate the corresponding cheat function. The message "Cheat Activated" will appear to confirm correct code entry.

Effect	Code
All weapons	gunsgunsguns
Extra money	ifiwerearichman
Full health	gesundheit
Higher wanted level	morepoliceplease
Lower wanted level	nopoliceplease
Tank (Rhino)	giveusatank
Destroy all cars	bangbangbang
Change costume	ilikedressingup
Crazy pedestrians	itsallgoingmaaad
All pedestrians attack you	nobodylikesme
Pedestrians fighting each other	weaponsforall
Disable pedestrians fighting each other	noweaponsforall
Time advances quicker	timeflieswhenyou
Toggle very fast game clock	madweather
Faster game play	boooooring
100% armor (unpatched version)	turtoise
100% armor (patched version)	tortoise
Clear weather	skincancerforme
Cloudy weather	ilikescotland
Rainy weather	ilovescotland
Foggy weather	peasoup
Invisible cars; wheels only	anicesetofwheels
Disable invisible cars	notanicesetofwheels
Flying car	chittychittybb
Improved car handling; press [Shift] to jump	cornerslikemad
Gore mode	nastylimbscheat

Hint: Listen to radio stations at any time:
If you have sufficient hard drive space, you can listen to the radio stations at any desired time. Insert the "Play" disc then click on "My Computer" and click on your CD drive. Enter the "Audio" folder to access a group of .WAV and .MP3 files. You can listen to any mission, radio station, or event. Copy them to your hard drive for smoother playback. You can hear everything (pedestrians, crashes, horns, etc) with a file on your hard drive in the "audio" folder in the game directory. There is a file called "sfx.raw" that can be opened in a .WAV file editor. Change the sampling rate to a lower setting and there will be a very long audio clip of everything there is to be heard in the game.

Hint: Custom music:
Copy some of your favorite MP3 files into the "mp3" folder in the game folder. Start the game and you will have a new radio station titled "mp3 player". Choose it to hear your own selections.

Hint: Police bribe in hideout:
Get into any police vehicle and enter vigilante mode. After killing enough criminals (about ten to fifteen), your beeper will tell you that you have a police bribe in your hideout. Note: This works best if you use the police truck behind the police station on Staunton Island.

Hint: Unlimited ammunition:
Hold the pistol and enable the gunsgunsguns repeatedly. You will eventually have unlimited ammunition for any gun that you have to reload. If you are wasted or busted, the code must be repeated.

Hint: Easy Hidden Packages:
Drive into the water and keep enabling the gesundheit code to stay alive. Keep repeating this until your beeper stops displaying information. You will now have 100 Hidden Packages.

Hint: Free car repair:
Park your car in a garage and watch the doors go up and down. You can save the game if desired, but is not necessary for the free repair. Note: This only works when you are not in a mission.

Hint: Stop car from exploding from damage:
When in a vehicle that has been hit many times, the car will smoke, eventually catches fire, and explodes. If you enable the gesundheit code while in the car, it will repair the engine damage. The body work will still look damaged. You can even repair the car once it is on fire as long as you are quick enough. To do this quicker, pause the game before inputting the code. This trick is especially useful on the Bait mission, as the police will never be able to destroy you.

Hint: Fly the Dodo:
While on the runway of the airport in Shoreside Vale, you can get a dodo in one of the hangars. The easiest one is near the helicopter pad in the back of the airport. Bring it on the runway. Once there, back it up all the way to the end so that it is facing Staunton Island. Hold [Down] + X. Note: Look toward the side view of the plane to get a better view before it scratches the ground and crashes. While accelerating, immediately before the plane's nose sparks the ground is going its full speed, release every thing and the plane it will take off on its own. Once in the air, you are now able to use the cursor keys to steer the plane. Tap the keys and do not hold them for a safer flight. Keep the plane closer to the ground as it keeps trying to go up. However, every once in a while let it climb then do a nose dive to get more speed.

Hint: S.A.M. mission: Easy completion:
Once the plane is down, the Columbian Cartel arrives and starts shooting you. Leave the boat and kill the first man. No others can see you. Then, move over to the ramp. Move up slowly until you see the first man's head. Shoot him with the sniper rifle, and continue up the ramp slowly. Soon, only your head will peek over the side. Do not go any further. You can snipe out everybody without them attacking. Note: There may be someone behind the car. Get the packages then get into the speeder and go back to the place where you got the first boat. Do not get out. Somewhere ahead of you is a grass hill leading to a wall. Most of this hill is not solid and you can drive through it. You will fall into blue hell and land in the middle of an intersection. By doing this, you do not have to risk drowning.

Hint: Turismo mission: Easy completion:
As soon as the race starts, get out of your car, and enable the "Destroy all cars" code. This should destroy every car, including the opposing racers. Run around and wait for a car, steal it, then run through the checkpoints to win.

Hint: Fast taxi customer:
After car jacking any taxi, press [Caps Lock] to become a cab driver. At this point the person driving the cab that was just jacked will become a pedestrian looking to catch a cab. This will make your first passenger the old taxi driver.

Police suicides:
At any island, get a car and drive as close as you can to a cliff. Get out and get behind the car. Run it into the water. Jump on top of the car after it explodes and get your wanted level up to any desired level. The cops will jump into the water in an attempt to get to you. Cars will also fly off the cliff and kill themselves.

Grand Theft Auto : Vice City

Published by Rockstar Games, Inc.
Developed by Rockstar North Ltd.
Released 2003
Genre Action, Racing/Driving

Description :

You play as Tommy Vercetti,a gangster who just got off a fifteen year prison sentence for not squealing on your friends. Because you didn't rat out your "family", you're sent to work with Sonny Forelli, your previous boss. Sonny gives you an easy drug job, but everything goes wrong, and Tommy loses everything. Upon returning to Sonny, he gets mad and wants his money back. Unfortunately, everybody in ViceCity, from gangsters and Cubans to bikers and politicians are in his way, and it's up to Tommy to clear a path.

GTA:VC takes everything from GTAIII and builds upon it. There are new cars in the game, reminiscent of cars from the 80s. Some cars are earlier versions of the vehicles you drove in GTAIII. New to VC is the ability to drive motorcycles. You can drive a variety of two-wheeled vehicles, from huge Harley-esque bikes to dirt bikes to your standard motorcycle.

Flying is also a bigger part of VC. You can now fly helicopters, traveling from area to area, landing on helipads on top of towering skyscrapers.

Weapons are, more or less, the same as in GTAIII, but the addition of melee weapons spices it up a little. You can use riot batons, crowbars, and a few others.

Requirements :

Minimum CPU Pentium III
Minimum OS Windows 98
Minimum RAM 128 MB
CD-ROM with 8X Speed
DirectX Version 9.0
Keyboard,Mouse
Only 1 player supported (Offline)

Notes :

915 MB of free hard disk space. + 635 MB if video card does NOT support DirectX Texture Compression.

Trivia :

• GTA:VC was a massive success for Rockstar. Electronics Boutique sold more than 500,000 copies on the game's first day of release, and more 250,000 in the UK.

• After the game has been banned in Germany, publisher Take 2 released a new, censored version. Rated 16, you can recognize the edited game by its white edges on the cover.

• Windows version of this game was accidentally put on shelves 5 days before right release date.After that many gameshops put out this game 1 or 2 days before right release date.

• The second Rockstar Logo sequence that appears before each game pays homage to the Commodore 64. The blue on blue screen, the quality of the music, and even the load command accurately model the most popular home computer (especially for gaming) in the late eighties.
  

Cheats :

Enter one of the following codes during game play or at the pause menu to activate the corresponding cheat function. The message "Cheat Activated" will appear to confirm correct code entry.

Effect	Code
Weapons (tier 1)	thugstools
Weapons (tier 2)	professionaltools
Weapons (tier 3)	nuttertools
Armor	preciousprotection
Health1	aspirine
Raise wanted level	youwonttakemealive
Lower wanted level	leavemealone
View media level when over two stars	chasestat
Good weather	apleasantday
Great weather	alovelyday
Sunny weather	abitdrieg
Stormy weather	catsanddogs
Foggy weather	cantseeathing
Rhino tank	panzer
Faster game clock	lifeispassingmeby
Faster game play	onspeed
Slower game play	booooooring
Destroy all cars	bigbang
Pedestrians riot	fightfightfight
Pedestrians attack you	nobodylikesme
Pedestrians have weapons	ourgodgivenrighttobeararms
Pedestrians enter your car	hopingirl
Change wheel size6	loadsoflittlethings
Only wheels visible on cars	wheelsareallineed
Dodo cars (flying)2	comeflywithme
Better driving skills7	gripiseverything
Bikini women with guns4	chickswithguns
Suicide	icanttakeitanymore
Heavy traffic	miamitraffic
Pink traffic	ahairdresserscar
Black traffic	iwantitpaintedblack
All traffic lights green	greenlight
Romero's Hearse	thelastride
Love Fist Limousine	rockandrollcar
Trashmaster	rubbishcar
Bloodring Banger (style 1)	travelinstyle
Bloodring Banger (style 2)	gettherequickly
Hotring Racer (style 1)	getthereamazinglyfast
Hotring Racer (style 2)	getthereveryfastindeed
Sabre Turbo	gettherefast
Caddy	betterthanwalking
Pedestrian costumes3	stilllikedressingup
Lance Vance costume	looklikelance
Ken Rosenberg costume	mysonisalawyer
Hilary King costume	ilooklikehilary
Jezz Torent (Love Fist) costume	rockandrollman
Dick (Love Fist) costume	weloveourdick
Phil Cassaday costume	onearmedbandit
Sonny Forelli costume	idonthavethemoneysonny
Mercedes costume	foxylittlething
Cars float on water	seaways
Tommy groupies5	fannymagnet or phanymagnet
Ricardo Diaz costume	cheatshavebeencracked
Tommy smokes cigarette	certaindeath
Tommy is fatter	deepfriedmarsbars
Tommy has thin arms and legs	programmer
Reguard target	airship

1. If this code is enabled when there is damage on your car, the meter will be reset to zero without changing the visible effects of the damage.
2. You will not be able to fly a helicopter correctly when this code is activated.
3. Also, if you change your appearance, you cannot pick up any "shirt icons" (at Rafael's, Laundromat, Collars and Cuffs, etc.) or the game will freeze. You cannot change into a pedestrian costume while in a vehicle or in a special outfit (you must get "street" clothes).
4. The women will drop guns when they are killed.
5. Aim your gun at someone and they will attack your target.
6. To increase the effect of this code, enable it, go to the pause menu, select "Load Game", choose any game, then enable the code again and repeat as desired.
7. Press [Shift] when this code is enabled to jump.