Alastor

They keep making better missions with every game, but sometimes they miss, I can't imagine how annoying some of these are without a save state. One thing I did like was I was doing a mission where I had to chase two separate vehicles and trash them, after a few tries I just thought (I'll try this rocket launcher' and blew them both up at the start, I don'tthink you're allowed to do that shit from 4 onwards.

Yeah, don't get too excited but it was pretty cool. Sadly I was a handheld game for FC and SC and then PC for 3rd which is the only way to play it (If I had a steam machine I could play it on my VB )

It does, I think it has an upper cap on level but I remember SC carrying from FC and 3rd carrying from SC

Not going to lie, just reached San Fierro in San Andreas and I'm starting to get a bit restless now, checked how far into the game I was online and nearly had a heart attack, this game is huge and probably not made for playing it how I'm currently playing it. I think up until you leave Los Santos (the mission where Smoke drives away from the Police as you shoot was hilarious) I was having fun but the Countryside has felt like a bit of a drag, the exception being the Catalina missions who is the most entertaining character in the game for me so far.

Not sure what triggered this but a mission where I kill a Valet dude to plant drugs in some guy's car probably had me scratching my head over what the point was, I already know Tenpenny is corrupt, so far San Fierro is kind of boring. (The mission where you bury the dude alive in concrete though )

My thoughts overall are that this is probably still the best PS2 GTA, but Vice City mogs it so hard in other aspects, like story and characters, at least up until you kill Diaz.

That ending usually has people running the PSN store to buy the second game, definitely did to me. Also, the second game is still my favourite game in the entire series, so I look forward to you experiencing it eventually. :)