Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas

[Durham Red]

Just found a helicopter in San Fierro's airport (now that I can access it). Been busy parking it on top of the highest buildings and mountains I can find.

I'm going to have to find a monster truck. Sounds fantastic.

On, and even though the courier missions don't pay much, I've had some seriously epic cross-country chases on bike tracking down Smoke's drug runner.

You can also get a Monster Truck by dating Michelle, the mechanic in San Fierro. Hold down R1 to access the 4WD mode (although all it seems to do is make it skid around like buggery)

[Concept]

Monster Truck Location:
Head to Flint Intersection from Los Santos, after you cross the river take the first left. The monster truck is in the trailer park on the right at this junction.

Helicopter:
The helicopter I get is at Easter Bay Airport (the one in the sea north of Mt. Chiliad. From Los Santos head to flint intersection and cross the river. Follow the road all the way round and you will come to a long tunnel on your right which runs downhill northwest. At full speed fly down this tunnel and drive over the edge of the cliff to land in easter bay airport. There should be a helicopter here.
*Note you must drive straight out the end of the tunnel and not turn right as the map would suggest*

Biplane:
There is a dirt track that leads uphill to a point west of the bridge described above. There is a biplane here.

Have fun. If you get the helicopter/boat/plane head to the bridges west of san fierro and north of easter bay airport. Its these:

http://www.dundascastle.co.uk/tour/tour_20.jpg

Cheers for the info.

I found the helicopter today when I explored San Fierro's airport. Top stuff, and it goes much higher than in Vice City, as I hoped (and expected after flying a plane) that it would do.

I'll be picking up the monster truck for a bit of cross-country exploration later on tonight.

[Concept]

You can also get a Monster Truck by dating Michelle, the mechanic in San Fierro. Hold down R1 to access the 4WD mode (although all it seems to do is make it skid around like buggery)

Is Michelle the woman at the driving school? I say this because she seemed to be another stubborn one, only saying she'd go out with CJ once he built himself up like a seal. So that means I've got to become a slob, eh?

[Concept]

I'm not impressed. The game has crashed on me a third time. There appear to be serious issues when you use the camera.

[DjSatansfury]

I think some of the first batches are actually faulty. Luckily mine hasnt crashed yet

[Bojangle]

It's crashed on me once when I tried to go in the 'Pig Pen'. This was about 2 hours into the game. Not happened since, touch wood.

[Concept]

I'm on the verge of giving up, 50 hours in. I'm sick of losing progress, even if it is only by a couple of hours or three.

Plus, I just tried Katamari Damacy for the first time and I'm a bit dazzled.

[Ciaran]

Did the crashes only happen after a certain point or were they happening from the first city?

[HaHaUK]

no crashes after 7hrs of play *touch wood*

[Concept]

Two with the Camera, and once out in the open. All in San Fierro.

I know what it is. When the game is busy streaming a new area it messes up. But I don't like playing if the experience is going to under a knife edge of 'will it-or-won't it?' crash all the time.

[Concept]

I'm going to give the game another go... But even though I'm ranking it as probable game of the year so far, if it crashes again I'm not going back.

If the technology or the code can't support the vision, or it's inherently broken in certain ways, then it's just going to leave a bad taste if I have to keep echoing my own play.

San Andreas in my opinion should be about fluidity and continuity, not fractured repetitive pacing through no fault I have control over.

[Penguin_Lad]

I think some of the first batches are actually faulty. Luckily mine hasnt crashed yet

Where did you hear that?

[Shibusawa jr.]

Too bad Concept, hope it won't die on you again. I tend to save after every mission and after twenty- plus hours the game fortunately hasn't let me down yet. Not that I've used the camera for anything other then the misssion on *that* hill.

I arrived on the second part of the map a couple of hours ago and haven't even visited San Fiero yet. Keep looking for neat things but the area is just so big. I didn't think that after experiencing them lots in VC, the heli's would excite me as much as they did when jacking one last night. Rising into the green hills, beautiful sunset and Creedance playing on the radio (and like you pleasantly surprised when it kept going up).

[DjSatansfury]

Where did you hear that?

I've based that on the amount of returns at work

[mrsquare]

Andreas is brilliant.

Go try Vice City again. PS2, Xbox, whatever, its not half the game that San Andreas is - it just seems blocky, dull and small. Once the SA map opens up, its incredible. Its not revolutionary, but its absolutely fugging brilliant, and does absolutely *everything* it promised.