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GTA: SA makes Fiddy look as tough as the rind of mature cheddar cheese
Rockstar games, 2005
All the Grand Theft Auto games have a heart of tough, cold ice and certainly have claims on the list, but as the most expansive GTA, San Andreas has a fair claim to containing some of the toughest nuggets of gameplay in the series.
San Andreas provides a character with more aptitudes than his predecessors, for instance the ability to swim, as well as a far wider range of areas and vehicles to use in them. What makes the most recent GTA games so great a challenge is the sheer size of the game, and the subtle yet persistent increase in the difficulty. When you start out, simply surviving a running gun battle with the Ballas is tough, but before you know it you’re landing a jetpack on the back of a moving train and gunning down a platoon of soldiers into the bargain.
San Andreas also provides is about the toughest arcade driving tests of any game. Forget the Need For Speed series, if you can complete the Vigilante and Ambulance driver sub games in San Andreas you’re about as
good as it gets.
Then there’s also the horror of the remote control helicopter missions. Not only are these very tough, they make you realise that helicopters are, contrary to the impressions given by movies such as the Matrix and Apocalypse Now, completely rubbish.