Things GTA III and San Andreas had in common, but not GTA Vice City

[god speed]

Hi everyone, I thought it would be interesting to do a list about this. Here's what I could think of:

 

-Dodo
-similar Banshees
-black and white police cars
-AK-47
-Claude and Catalina
-Salvatore and Maria
-the Leone family
-K-Jah radio station
-Lazlow and Fernando Martinez on the chat station
-hostile gangs from the beginning of the game

-Triads as a street gang
-explorable Liberty City
-casinos
-dams

-trains!

 

What else? (Don't list things only Vice City has, like "neither has Tommy Vercetti")

Edited October 24, 2015 by perennial

[Zisch4Bumm]

Hmm thats hard u listet allot of things.

But i keep that topic in mind. When i have something i type it in ^^

[DragonpokeZ]

I can come up with more similarities between VC and SA. For now, besides what you listed, the Forellis

[El Tigre chino]

a "mute asshole" a snake without a tongue"

[DragonpokeZ]

a "mute asshole" a snake without a tongue"

Claude was already listed

[god speed]

The Forellis have an important role in VC's storyline too though, especially Sonny Forelli.

 

Similarities between SA and VC would be too obvious, since GTA 3 lacks many features like helicopters and bikes. Maybe this wasn't such a good topic either, I couldn't really think of anything new other than tunnels and abandoned railway tracks.

[Algonquin Assassin]

Both are inferior to VC. That's something they have in common.

[Osho]

 

Cranes?

Talking about interactive ones in both since VC didn't feature an interactive crane, if I am correct.

[Son of Zeus]

Both are better than IV and V.

[Xing of Virtue]

Both were played by me. Never played VC.

[PhillBellic]

Both are inferior to VC. That's something they have in common.

I knew you'd say that.

 

Both have a Black and White Enforcer.

[Szironator]

Just some random things:

-Mountains

-Soldiers using M4 during 6-star wanted level

-Corrupt cop with Polish surname

-Chasing the main antagonist during the final mission

-Collapsed wooden bridge

-A gang wearing purple clothes

-A mission, in which the player must drive a Manana through the city while chased by a gang

[PhillBellic]

Both III and SA have some extensive Road Tunnels.

[god speed]

-taking place in fictive states (VC was set in Florida)

-ZIP clothing stores, GASH takes its place in Vice City

-the protagonist sits in a police car in the first cutscenes

-the first storyline safehouse has a garage

-delivering vehicles on a freight ship

-street gang members with AK's

-churches

[Luna 51]

Could be wrong about the 3rd one

-The Protagonist works for a pimp in the storyline (And also kills a rival pimp).

-Final mission requires the player to go to a different location after the mission is started.

-The main antagonist doesn't get shot to death by the protagonist when they die.

-Claude and CJ formerly worked for the Leone's while Tommy worked for the Forelli's.

Edited October 27, 2015 by Lunas1172

[god speed]

You don't need to shoot the antagonist to death in VC, you can also use explosives . But you can't kill the main antagonist directly and face to face in III and SA.

[Nah nah nah Gta 6]

-Crap auto aim

-Casinos

-Countryside

-Weapon icons have 2 colours and look basic.

-Both games lack Machetes, Hammers, Meat Cleavers, MP5's, Rugers, M60's, and Remote Grenades (Satchet Charges are different).

Edited October 28, 2015 by Stoney0503

[Luna 51]

You don't need to shoot the antagonist to death in VC, you can also use explosives .

That's what I pretty much meant but vice versa, I meant that you don't have the option to shoot the 3 and SA main antagonist to death.

 

Unless you count shooting the helicopter Catalina was in being shot with a rocket launcher

 

 

I'm too lazy to edit that post.

[god speed]

Yep. You don't have to option to drive over the main antagonist in 3 and SA either.

[BlackSnow176]

-Crap auto aim

-Casinos

-Countryside

-Weapon icons have 2 colours and look basic.

-Both games lack Machetes, Hammers, Meat Cleavers, MP5's, Rugers, M60's, and Remote Grenades (Satchet Charges are different).

 

There is actually a MP5 in San Andreas, only it isn't called that for legal reasons. It's actually a MP5A3 and it's my favorite weapon of SA besides the pistol

 

[Nah nah nah Gta 6]

 

-Crap auto aim

-Casinos

-Countryside

-Weapon icons have 2 colours and look basic.

-Both games lack Machetes, Hammers, Meat Cleavers, MP5's, Rugers, M60's, and Remote Grenades (Satchet Charges are different).

 

There is actually a MP5 in San Andreas, only it isn't called that for legal reasons. It's actually a MP5A3 and it's my favorite weapon of SA besides the pistol

 

 

Ah, forgot about that, mainly because I always refer to the SA one as an SMG and the VC one as a MP5, dunno why I do it

[iiCriminnaaL]

• Three major islands. The difference is that, while GTA III's islands belong to the same city, in San Andreas they're three cities on their own. There's the countryside and desert, I know, but even though they do take a fair space of the story, they still aren't exactly as relevant as Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas are.
• Asian gangsters as allies. The Yakuza in GTA III and the Triads in San Andreas.
• Forellis having a quite minor role compared to the Leones.

[Evil empire]

-You have allies in a Black gang until the end of the game

-You wipe out or can wipe out another Black gang

-You make direct confrontations against a Latino gang (whereas Tommy uses remote-controlled vehicles or acts as a sniper)

-You perform missions for a cop

-You visit Marco's bistro to kill a Forelli brother

-You do a lot of work for a criminal organization then lose any support from this organization after a treason

-You work for a mafia leader who's honest with you but you betray him for a selfish reason without suffering any retaliation

[Algonquin Assassin]

Claude and CJ both end up being Catalina's bitches whereas as Tommy wouldn't take a bar of her sh*t. 

[iiCriminnaaL]

40 minutes ago, SonOfLiberty said:

Claude and CJ both end up being Catalina's bitches whereas as Tommy wouldn't take a bar of her sh*t. 

But looking at the bright side, at least Claude was the one who got to put a bullet into her head out of the first two. That's a point for him .

[KingAJ032304]

On 10/25/2015 at 8:42 AM, SonOfLiberty said:

Both are inferior to VC. That's something they have in common.

Both are superior to VC

On 10/28/2015 at 10:52 AM, Stoney0503 said:

-Crap auto aim

-Casinos

-Countryside

-Weapon icons have 2 colours and look basic.

-Both games lack Machetes, Hammers, Meat Cleavers, MP5's, Rugers, M60's, and Remote Grenades (Satchet Charges are different).

You really tryna say gta vc had a better auto aim than gta sa? Anyways they both got starting garages.

[Evil empire]

-You can use the train to travel

-You have at least one plane-related mission that requires you to go to the airport

-You help an asian mafia prevent a black and a hispanic gang from expanding their drug traffic and you actively take part to the elimination of the latino gang's leader(s)

-You have 2 missions featuring the destruction of an enemy gang's asset in the eastern part of the map and one of these assets belongs to a hispanic gang

-A Black man gives you a missions set then betrays you and the game leaves a lot of clues about the upcoming treason

-You play your first mission with at least one Black man among your allies who remains alive at the end of the game

-The final mission features a high-speed chase.

-One of your missions givers provides you a safehouse for free during the storyline

-You gain access to the second part of the map right after a treason

[Algonquin Assassin]

7 hours ago, KingAJ032304 said:

Both are superior to VC.

 

GTA III is atleast on the same level as Vice City (So I take that part back), but San Andreas is still inferior either way.

[god speed]

Here's one: Neither GTA III or SA ever felt like an expansion pack that turned to a full game.

All three games are just as good to me, there are separate threads for discussing your favorite and least favorite games.

[Sunglasses]

14 hours ago, SonOfLiberty said:

Claude and CJ both end up being Catalina's bitches whereas as Tommy wouldn't take a bar of her sh*t. 

i dont know mang

claude manipulates all the gangs and gets the whole city to hate him just to cap this broad's ass, i think he didn't take a bar of sh*t either.