Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
San Andreas actually fixes many of the series' problems, inproving targeting and melee fighting, the ability to climb, implemnetin a stealth mode, fixing the airplane controls, giving the gameplay ridiculous variety.

SA is a monumental improvment over Vice City.

You forgot that pedestrians don't tend to perpetually run into walls anymore and that you can finally swim. It's an amazing game on all levels, except that I get the feeling it'll take me forever to unlock the entire map, which is so far the only negative. I'm ready to run into the desert and grab a katana, but when I made landfall with a boat, I got that stupid four-star wanted level and was lucky to survive to make it back to my save point.