Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in IOS

★★★★★

★★★★★ Pretty good, just one issue with latest patch

I’ve played San Andreas for many years now and I always considered the game as my favorite GTA of all the other GTA games. I play on an iPhone 11 and the gameplay for my experience is almost perfect. I have experienced the game crashing a few times but it happens rarely. I have had a couple bugs occur here and there but they nothing major. There is one bug after the latest patch where cars now travel maybe 100 times faster than normal. They seem to freeze in place but you can still hear the engine making the sound it should make when traveling. It then travels very fast and disappears. Or sometimes you can find them slamming onto another car and it can happen to you too. The cars can sometimes go through your car as well and disappear. I carjacked a couple of the bugged cars and you can see how travel very fast from the default routes the NPCs take. I forgot to mention that in some roads the cars just vanish into the sky. It’s kind of frustrating sometimes during missions where you have to keep the car in perfect condition which means leaving them undamaged. Most of these bugged cars occur in specific areas like freeways, countryside or some parts of cities. The car type doesn’t matter either since it can happen to any car

★★★★★ Abysmal mobile performance (iPhone 15 pro)

Let me get this out of the way: I have never played Grand theft auto San Andreas, nor have I completed any other grand theft auto game. For years as I’ve grown older I’ve eyeballed this app again and again, waiting for the day I would finally be able to purchase it. It’s the cheapest version of the game you can find nowadays, and even relatively cheap for a console game, and has a decent rating on the App Store. What could possibly go wrong? I open the app, and am greeted by a login page. While I was afraid I would have to connect a Rockstar account in order to play there was an option to skip it. I was finally ready to play. Then the most glaring issue hits me: the game is ridiculously choppy. While yes, the game is playable, it stutters incredibly often, and it’s really irritable when you’re trying to do anything. Playing in an iPhone 15 pro, I was really expecting this app to preform well, but I guess that’s on me. The controls are fine, gameplay looks solid, and audio quality is understandable, the lack of a smooth frame rate really numbs me out. Seeing as how this game gets bug fixes every now and then, I would love to see it improved. It probably won’t be, and to that, I’d rather not purchase another game from this publisher until they can maintain polished products.

★★★★★ Great game but some glitches

I love this game, very fun, but there are a few glitches. The first one is on the robbery mission, sometimes when you get close to something CJ gets stuck on something and you can’t move which wakes up the person inside and then you get a 3 star wanted level. Another one is that the wrecking ball does not exist it is just a floating metal ball. Whenever I try to put a car in a garage it says you cannot store anymore vehicles in this garage even though my garage is completely empty and if I try to push my car in it will delete it. Another glitch I have experienced is that when I die during a gang war it gives the territory to me or it just removes it which I’m pretty sure is not supposed to happen. The last glitch happens on a date sometimes when you finish doing what she tells you to do instead of telling you to take her home, it doesn’t do that and when you do take her home you can’t drop her off, so you end up stuck with her and I have to restart the game. Also please put an option to disable tilt controls because I have to try to keep my iPad perfectly flat because if I don’t the car will pull to the other direction and it’s annoying.

★★★★★ Crashes so I can’t play anymore

I’ve tried to play this game twice now. The first time I was dumb enough to not save in the cloud(because I didn’t want to make an account) and I got very far along in it then the app started completely crashing when I opened it. Every time I’d open the app, it would crash. Rockstar themselves recommended to re download the app so I did and lost my whole progress 🤡 so I started again because I wanted to finish it and got pretty far but then it started crashing again! (This time I saved it under the cloud so I hope my progress is there)There are also bugs that get you stuck walking into walls/other things. I LOVE the game.. but the bugs have been SO FRUSTRATING Update: the cloud saved my progress this time so if you play this game make sure to sign into their social club and save under the cloud slots. Update again(the next day) app has started crashing again just from opening it. I am extremely disappointed as I wanted to finish the game and don’t think I’ll be able to if this keeps up Final update: I’m now not even able to sign into their social club to get my progress so I finally just have to give up on this game sadly.(ik I wrote like a novel in my review I’m just very disappointed as this game is amazing when it works)

★★★★★ Bug/and glitches

I don’t know if anyone else experiences this, but ever since this game has gotten new updates, the npc while driving their car randomly goes like ghost mode or not sure how to call it; it either goes through other npc cars without damaging them or gets stuck underneath and takes a few seconds before it explodes, which also happened to me when I’m driving the npc gets stuck underneath and I lose my car, not sure if this happens only to me or anyone. Also, random npc cars can spawn infront of you making you crash, this made driving less fun because your car can get randomly stuck with an npc and make both cars explode. I also noticed that the gang members when you make them join you, they don’t follow you anymore and get sidetracked, which makes taking over other gangs a little harder because you can’t control them anymore, hopefully this gets fixed to make the game better and run more smoothly

★★★★★ Overall good but needs a little closer look…

Its a little glitchy but it runs good enough that I can get through the game. I really wish they added gps like the definitive edition and maybe a tab in the pause menu for entering cheats. Ive played this for well over a decade it was easy for me to map my controls in a way that I could play in this touch screen style. Controls for the most part make sense. I will say I was stuck on the mission when you have to dance with the DJ. Idk how the scoring system works on that but I only messed up once on the dancing part and didnt have enough points. Seems a bit too challenging I can only imagine the mission when you have to control the RC plane 🤦🏽. It could be because im still not as used to using touch screen as opposed to a controller but im sure the same could be said for many. I feel like that dancing mission specifically needs to be made less challenging. Last thing I would add is an option to save photos you take with the camera in-game to your phone so you can share crazy stuff that you catch.

★★★★★ Horrible Controls

I’ve been playing this on my iPad. It’s a fun game but the controls are cumbersome and too sensitive, even with sensitivity turned all the way down. There is no rhyme or reason to the camera angles when turning while walking or running. The camera pans all over the place and I sometimes end up staring at my own face. During gun fights, I’m getting shot while I try to reorient myself. It would be nice if the view would stay first person so I can see where I am going. When driving some vehicles, especially at high speeds, the slightest touch of a direction control sends me into a spin or into obstacles. It would also be nice if the route to a target was highlighted on the heads-up map instead of having to guess which way to go. This would be especially helpful in the countryside portions of the map. On long routes, I need to pause the game multiple times to check my position on the overall map so I can continue on. The further I progressed in the game, the less I actually wanted to play it and I ended up deleting the game. Dealing with the game interface and controls took the enjoyment out of it.