Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Official Strategy Guide (Signature)

Also most people will who wish to purchase this will do itsoley for the maps/locations of the different 'special' city challenges e.g.: The graffiti tags in Los Santos, the picture points in San Fierro etc. This book is unnaccurate in all of its placings of anything on a map but especially when reffering to the picture opportunity points in San Fierro, this is where the guide really excells its self in it nonsensical helpfulness, as the points indicated on the map in numbers are completely different to the descriptions provided on the opposite page.

Purchase this if you want to get within a shade of 100%, but you'll probably lose interest with the game before you get there as the guide doesn't provide exact locations of anything.

Infact the only things I manged to use it for was to find a knife and a heat seeking rocket launcher, I rest my case.


Not worth it   December 4, 2004
 6 out of 14 found this review helpful

There are a fair few errors in this book, that after playing San Andreas will really annoy you so remove all harmful objects! There isnt much point in buying a game to complete it from a book, if you get stuck just go to a forum I recommend http://www.gtaforums.com


Helpful but some major errors   December 1, 2004
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Great guide for locating all the different tags/oysters etc, but have found some major errors - the map giving the location of the San Fierro photo ops is labelled totally incorrectly for instance.

would also agree with the reviewer regarding the lack of tips - this is more of a walk-through than previous guides to GTA games


They must have used the beta version to write it   December 1, 2004
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I think this was worth the price - certainly beats going to all the FAQ websites to find what you need about San Andreas. The mission walkthroughs are just that and don't offer much in the way of hints for those frustrating *cough* supply lines *cough* missions. The book is really good for side missions and hidden stuff which is what I really wanted it for. I would have to agree with thecrimsonshortone about the San Fierro photo ops - the map and thumbnails don't match whatsoever, not even close. Plus some of them are wrong. One of them states take a pic of the save the whales mural. But in the game, the brick wall is blank, its the Hashbury festival sign you have to capture instead. It's nowhere near as bad for the Horseshoe locations in Las Venturas - but some of the screenshots include stuff like stairs and bushes that must have been removed from the final version of the game to stop the PS2 from having an emotion engine overload.
Overall, it's a worthy purchase, but you will still need the odd trip to gamefaqs.com


Helpful   November 28, 2004
 4 out of 8 found this review helpful

If You've bought it's a good idea to buy this game. it tells were everything is and it has a step by step guide to each mission very good for the money on amazon double the price enywhere else go buy it!!!!!