Return of the police impound lot

[HOW'S ANNIE?]

I've got to say, out of all the features from San Andreas that need to make a return- the police impound lot is almost a must. To think, in IV it was so easy to lose your parked cars (Police grabbing them, stupid cab drivers pushing them out of their spots, etc). This could have been majorly fixed had you been able to retrieve them later on after losing them.

 

So do you think/want the impound lots to return? And how can they be improved?

[CrisFormageKIFFLOM]

This would be good...

 

maybe, if your cars impounded, you get an email or text to say that its been impounded and why, just to add bit of realism.

 

It would also be good if you could get clamped/booted and had to ring a number for someone to come and take it off, something like phoning the cops in IV.

[vivalavendredi]

This would be good...

 

maybe, if your cars impounded, you get an email or text to say that its been impounded and why, just to add bit of realism.

 

It would also be good if you could get clamped/booted and had to ring a number for someone to come and take it off, something like phoning the cops in IV.

I would really like that! Good idea!

[trevors685]

SA had that? I've been playing it for almost 9 years, and I never knew this. I'm sure you're about to tell me that we could actually have sex with our gfs in the game too..

[Denikk]

 

SA had that? I've been playing it for almost 9 years, and I never knew this. I'm sure you're about to tell me that we could actually have sex with our gfs in the game too..

Hot Coffee.

This.

[Bonfy]

I really never noticed that feature in SA O.O

[Jordan_Philip]

Wheres the impound lot in SA

[Enchilada]

That's fuken interesting, man, that's fuken interesting

[significantother]

I've been playing GTA San Andreas on all sorts of different consoles since 2004, and I've never even heard of this feature in SA. Where is it? How do I activate it?

[gsbadreligion]

I can definitely see this being involved in the story really easily, i hope it returns. one of the characters is driving around with drugs or money or jewels and franklin and trevor have to steal it from the impound lot. plus im sure it would hae a bunch of sports cars too(a lot of street racing in california, i went there around 5 years ago and a road got closed off for street racing).

[Bonfy]

For those wondering where the hell was that impuond, here's what i found on GtaWiki: http://gta.wikia.com/Impounded

 

The most interesting part is this one:

 

 

Reward

 

The is no money reward for this mission. The Impound icon now is at every police station and your car gets Nitro.

 

So probably impounds were a feature that R* didn't enhance due to the deleting of the related mission.

[TheQuestfor100Percent]

If you got busted in San Andreas, the car you were driving would sometimes spawn in the underground parking lot of police stations.

 

Sometimes if the cop pulled you out of a helicopter before you took off, the helicopter would spawn in the underground parking lots, glitching around and taking damage because it couldn't fit.

 

 

That is what he is talking about. It was an actual feature.

[MrcTOtheJ]

It was sporadic at best.

 

Most of the time, my car wouldn’t spawn, sometimes it was a different color (always chalked it up to the spawning system) and then you have aircraft spawning in there sometimes.

 

That said I never heard of that mission, shame they took it out.

[Kifflom112]

O.o What dafuq?

I never knew that. Sounds cool. Amd it should in fact return. Sick of losing a rare grey Magia Schafter do to idiot cops.

[Jordan_Philip]

Just checked it out. I've been in those garages a ton of times and I never noticed my cars were in there lol this would be great in V.

[Realistic Stank]

I had no idea San Andreas had this feature either. Would be reeeaally useful. I don't know about the wheel clamp idea though. I'd like the option to either pay a small fee or just steal your car back and spark another cop chase.

[Mister Pink]

That's what I loved about SA. There was soooo much stuff in that game that people didn't even notice.

[Fail_At_GTA]

Like almost everyone else here, I never noticed the feature in San Andreas, so not having it in IV didnt seem like a big deal, although Ive never been busted before. It would still be a very interesting feature and I would like to see it return.

[AdvanceTrak RSC]

Wheres the impound lot in SA

At each of the major police stations in the 3 cities

[Jordan_Philip]

That's what I loved about SA. There was soooo much stuff in that game that people didn't even notice.

It was really ahead of its time with the amount of stuff you could do. No other game came close.

 

Even though I didnt know about this until 5 minutes ago, Im gonna be super pissed if its not in V!

 

Jk!!! I always respect Rockstars decisions for including or not including certain features. Theyre the creative geniouses, not me.

[NeXt Vice City]

I remember stumbling upon this feature in SA by chance. I somehow got busted while flying a Hydra (lol), then a few hours later I randomly found my Hydra parked up in the police impound.

[Zee]

If you got busted in San Andreas, the car you were driving would sometimes spawn in the underground parking lot of police stations.

 

Sometimes if the cop pulled you out of a helicopter before you took off, the helicopter would spawn in the underground parking lots, glitching around and taking damage because it couldn't fit.

 

 

That is what he is talking about. It was an actual feature.

Wow, I never realized that. Pretty cool.

 

Isnt it amazing that we're still finding out about things from San Andreas? Makes you realize how pathetic IV truly was.

[Jordan_Philip]

 

If you got busted in San Andreas, the car you were driving would sometimes spawn in the underground parking lot of police stations.

 

Sometimes if the cop pulled you out of a helicopter before you took off, the helicopter would spawn in the underground parking lots, glitching around and taking damage because it couldn't fit.

 

 

That is what he is talking about. It was an actual feature.

Wow, I never realized that. Pretty cool.

 

Isnt it amazing that we're still finding out about things from San Andreas? Makes you realize how pathetic IV truly was.

Not to open old wounds, but IV was an intro into HD. Most of the production time was spent perfecting the game engine. Giving us more than san andreas plus the new graphics and engine would have taken a lot more than 4 years.

 

A lot of people complain about IV but everybody is still playing it almost 5 years later

[el_roy1985]

LoL @ Zee. You got me on that one. I almost thought you were going to have a post that didn't bash on IV or R*, but you slipped it in there.

 

This would be a cool feature for V. You should have the option to retrieve it by paying fines on it if you don't feel like breaking in and getting it. Then depending on why it is in there, it could be non-retrievable because they still have to withhold it as evidence for an on-going investigation. In which case, you would have to break in and get it if you want it right away.

[T-N-Z]

 

 

Here is the removed mission from GTA SA.

[YoungChrist]

this feature definitely needs to return.

[theotherMittens]

i knew about the lots, but not that my cars respawn there because i always reloaded after getting busted

[JB94]

I would definitely love to see this, hopefully it would have a range of seized muscle cars, tuners and SUVs that were used for hauling drugs. All just waiting for someone to steal them...

[jogy]

Like the idea. I'm sure on of Franklins missions is about retrieving a car from the impound lot.

[SwaggedOut]

I like the idea too, as mentioned earlier it would be a good if they had a line-up of seized cars in there all the time though, as well as a players vehicle if they're busted.