The Wang Cars car dealership, which is located in San Fierro near Unity Station, is a reference to the garage of the same name in GTA 2. San Andreas it can be purchased, after which tasks for stealing cars will be available there. In the second part, Wang Cars needs to steal special GT-A1 cars, which can be identified by the characteristic numbers on the roof.
In San Fierro, on the Gant Bridge, you can find a funny joke from the developers. To find it, you need to climb onto the top crossbar of the southern arch of the bridge. After this, look east and you will see a sign that says " There are no Easter Eggs up here. Go away”, which translated sounds like “There are no Easter eggs here. Get out."
This joke may also be a reference to GTA 3, which had a similar inscription.
When replaying some story missions, the player has access to the Trip Skip option, which allows you to skip the long drive to the desired point. The icon for this option shows an arrow with a Deluxo car - a game prototype of the DeLorean DMC-12. This icon refers us to the movie "Back to the Future", where in the story, scientist Doc Brown creates a time machine from a DeLorean. Thus, the Deluxo image jokes about the purpose of this option: to take us “back to the future” to the point where we have already been.
If you run into the alley near the gym in Las Venturas and look at the roof of the house located to the northeast of you, you will see a strange picture: one or two pedestrians will appear there, reach the edge of the roof and fall down.
There may be several explanations for this behavior. Perhaps this is just a bug, the likes of which can be found in some places in the game. Or maybe this is a reference to the old game Lemmings, which was developed by DMA Design. The point of the game was to bring strange little people called lemmings to the finish line alive. During their journey through the level, they were absolutely not worried about their own safety and if they reached a cliff, they calmly walked into it.
P.S. These little people owe their name to real-life rodents called lemmings. There is a myth that once every few years, lemmings follow part of their flock to a cliff and throw themselves into it. In fact, this is a misconception, and lemmings themselves are not even herd animals.
If you look closely at the billboards scattered across the states, you will notice several billboards advertising an unknown radio station - Dopealicious FM. This was probably one of the planned music stations, but for some reason it was cut from the final version.
In some locations around the state, you can see a billboard advertising a garbage collection company called True Grime Street Cleaners. The company's slogan: “Get rid of old slop FAST!” The name is a parody of the True Crime series, which was released at the same time as GTA and had similar gameplay. Also, the game has a cheat code TRUEGRIME, which summoned a garbage collection machine.
In turn, the developers of True Crime made fun of Rockstar Games several times in their games. But at some stage, the series died out and new parts stopped coming out. After a while, Activision began developing a new part of True Crime: Hong Kong, but then froze the game. The game materials were purchased by Square Enix, which completed the game, changing the name (the old one remained owned by Activision) to Sleeping Dogs.
Next to a hair salon in the Playa Del Seville area in Los Santos, there is a building with an image of the Virgin Mary and the inscription: “Jesus Saves.” The same inscription could be seen on the church from GTA 2, where the player could save his progress.
In East Los Santos, not far from Cluckin' Bell, there is a small red building, on the sign of which there is a huge green Tiki figurine (images of deities common in Polynesia). Exactly the same figurines had to be collected in GTA Vice City, as "hidden packages".
This red building is some kind of theater for adults and is called Tiki, which explains the figurine on the sign.
Go to Vinewood Cemetery in Los Santos between 20:00 and 6:00. Go to the northern wall, which has an eerie green glow (where does that come from?) and there you will find the inscription Families 4 Life. It appears only at night during this period of time, and disappears during the day.
P.S. Examples of this green light can be found throughout the cemetery..
In a large crypt at Vinewood Cemetery, next to one of the coffins you can see a TV and an armchair, and next to it is a pizza box. This is a reference to the vampire Spike, one of the characters in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who lived in exactly this environment.
In the mission "Just Business", when Big Smoke and C.J. escape on a motorcycle from a pursuit in a concrete canal, you can see the following scene: a truck in slow motion will fall off the bridge and chase the heroes. This scene is a reference to a similar scene from the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Ryder was copied from rapper Easy-E. This is indicated not only by his appearance, but also by a similar biography. Ryder was also born and raised in the ghetto. In the mission Robbing Uncle Sam, he admits that he was kicked out of school. Since then he has been selling drugs on the street.
Easy-E's real name is Eric Wright. Coming from a poor area of Compton, he spent a long time selling drugs. Later, together with friends, he founded the group N.W.A.
The band's first album, Straight Outta Compton, brought them worldwide popularity, and their songs had a great influence on the entire genre. Over time, the group broke up and its members founded their own groups.
P.S. N.W.A songs can be heard in several parts of GTA. In San Andreas they are played on Los Santos Radio, and in GTA 5 they are played on West Coast Classics.
In Downtown Los Santos there is a cinema called Legal. To find it, head one block east from Pershing Square. The building will be located at the corner of the intersection of two streets.
Note the movie theater sign that advertises the movie Reservoir Dregs. This is a clear parody of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. It was released in 1992, when the events of the game take place.
In the Rodeo area, in front of the ProLaps clothing store, you can see a billboard advertising the Grotti car brand. It depicts a hare standing on its hind legs against a red background. The image of the brand refers to the Italian brand Ferrari, where a horse is depicted in a similar manner.
Nowadays it is difficult to surprise with the already fictional car brand Grotti. Grotti products can be found in both GTA 4 and GTA 5. But its first appearance occurred in San Andreas in the form of such an Easter egg.
SanAndreas has many secrets or jokes. Here I will try to tell you at least about a few of those secrets or jokes in such a huge state of SanAndreas.
1.
One of the sources claims that under one of the houses in Los Santos there is a basement, entering which you will find a wall with an image of a Satanic cross. If you look at the cross for about a minute, you will be able to see a strange scene.
2.
At one of the airports in the state of San Andreas you can find a “hatch”; by shooting at it, you will find a small passage. What's in this passage...
3.
You can find a Treasure Chest in the Ocean. The chest is located under the rock between SanFierro and Los Santos
4.
In LasVenturas, there is a small satellite dish; if you shoot at the “pimp” in the middle, you will see a “small” explosion.
5.
In LosSantos there is the house of Tommy Verseti (the same one from ViceCity). The house can be robbed.
6.
Not far from Tommy's house, you can find the treasured "packages" that we collected throughout all parts of GTA. After taking this package, your respect will be increased.
7.
In LosSantos, on one of the skyscrapers you can find a sign that says that there are no EasterEggs in the area. Rest assured, they are there.
8.
In the first city near the docks there is an advertisement with the inscription
"Get rid of old rubbish. fast! True Grime street cleaners."9.
In the mission where you and Ryder go to Big Bear, and then to the house to kill everyone there, then when you go look into the back room, there one of the prostitutes is fucking with one of the Ballas.
10.
In the second city, one of the city stores sells the games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Manhunt.
11.
In the bar in the first city, special forces from the game Manhunt are painted on the wall, because this game is also developed by Rockstar Games.
12.
In the mission where you are with Ken Rosenberg, at some factory and when they start shooting at you, Ken says:
"Oh, Tommy where are you?!" - "Oh, Tommy, where are you?!"
And CJ answers
"What is the fucking Tommy?!" - “Who the hell is Tommy?!”
13.
In a mission where you need to get a Mad Dog rap book for Og Lock - to do this you need to enter his mansion in Vinewood and sneak past the guards inside. So - there is one guard sitting there, chopping away on the console and yelling: “This sucks! I mean, how could Refractions mess up so bad? Tanner, you suck ass!"
14.
In San Fiero, in a cop's garage, you can see cops beating one guy in the corner. Then they will start beating you (you will have three stars).
15.
When we pass about 12.5%, then OuGiLok instructs us (indicated by the letters OJ on the radar) to steal a car from a security guard and disguise himself as him, put some gangsta in his place and drown him along with the car... so when we approach to the guards, then the phone rings (this OJ Lok is ringing) And there is a conversation about a guy named Tanner... then at the end of the conversation, CJ says something like this: “Fuck him, this Tanner!!!” .. Well, I hope everyone understands who Tanner is (Driv3r)
16.
In SanAndreas there is: A film studio from Weiss, A house from GTA3 only with different textures (was in Portland), And a landfill in the suburbs, also from Weiss.
17.
In SanFierro, the Zero store has Tommy figures from Vice City and Manhunt
18.
In San Andreas, as in Vice city, you can change the size of the moon by shooting at it from sniper rifle.
19.
Using a camera, you can take pictures not only of buildings, but also of yourself (CJ)! To do this, point the camera at some guy from your gang and click on action. After that, the guy will take the camera and take a photo of you. These photos are saved as usual .
20.
In Los Santose, there is a shower inside every police station. These souls contain very interesting things.
21.
If you don’t touch the mouse and keyboard for about two hours (for gaming, of course), then all the information (health, time, minimap, etc.) will disappear from the screen, and the camera will begin to “live its own life”: sway slightly, aim at passers-by and keep an eye on them (special attention, by the way, is paid to girls, or rather to some parts of their body)
22.
In a mission where you need to catch up with a guy on a motorcycle together with OJ Loc, try, after driving through the first block, stop and look at the sidewalk on the left - there will be someone’s corpse lying there, and a person will be sitting next to him (a new one each time), obviously mourning the loss of a friend
23.
Take a closer look at the signs located next to any Burger Shot (OJ Loc was required to work in one of them after liberation). At the top it says: “Everything is 69c” (“Everything is 69 cents”), which in itself is surprising. What seems even stranger is the fact that there is a price of 29 cents below against each point. So how do we understand this? By the way, in Burger Shots the same places are always occupied, albeit by different people. For example, three people sitting at neighboring tables in a row do not eat anything, they just look around. It’s funny that they all start to have animations at the same time - all three shake their heads absolutely synchronously.
The game GTA San Andreas has a large number of Easter eggs and secret levels with weapons, including from perverted to sarcasm. So let's take them apart and find where they are.
Camera
If you do not control Karl for 2-3 minutes and do not move the mouse, the camera will “come to life”. She will begin to move throughout the city in a random order, while zooming out and then zooming in. You can observe various conversations of people, showdowns and persecutions.
Cameo
Carrying out a task WuZiMu , when the cutscene starts at the very beginning, you can see the main character in the car in the background GTA 3.
Moon size
Few people know, but if you shoot at the moon with a sniper rifle, it will become smaller. You can continue until it returns to its previous shape.
Photos
C.J.
It turns out that you can take selfies in the game, i.e. take pictures of Karl. You need to take the camera, approach any gang partner, point the camera, and press action. After that, he will take the camera and start taking pictures in different poses. The resulting photos can be viewed in the gallery menu.
Reference to
Half
Life
Gordon Freeman's crowbar can be found at the military base.
Bridge parameters
Near one of the bridges in the game you can find a stand with all its characteristics. In addition to height, length, width and other parameters, it indicates how many polygons and textures were used and how much space the bridge occupies on the hard drive.
No Easter eggs
Climbing onto the supports of the red bridge, you can see a cool inscription that says that you will not find Easter eggs here, so you can leave. Yes, the game developers are clearly not without a sense of humor.
Discarded city maps
Go to the village Angel Pine and find a diner Clucken Bell . Opposite her are 3 trash cans. Looking inside or turning them over, you can see discarded cards Vice City.
Strange graffiti
At the cemetery in San Andreas you can observe strange things. When you arrive at the cemetery between 20:00 and 6:00, you will see various strange graffiti on the wall, of which there are 7 pieces in total.
Constellation
Rockstar
Looking up at the night sky San Andreas you can see the constellation in the form of the symbol of the developer’s company Rockstar.
Dead Scott
At Palomino Creek There is Scott Wilson's grave in the cemetery. He is the designer of all rural areas in Game. His name is also mentioned in the credits and introductory video.
Max-window sill
In the city of Dillimoor there is a gas station, near which it was necessary to steal a fuel truck for the mission. When you drive up to this place and look at the window, you can see the inscription Max Pane , and above are bullet holes from a machine gun burst. You can do the same in the game Max Payne . This is a kind of mockery of the game, because Pane translated as "window sill".
Message to cheaters
Some gun stores in the game write the following inscription on their windows: “ GUNS, GUNS, GUNS " Fans of the third part of GTA will probably remember that this is a code for a weapon.
Statue
One of the statues of the cultural institution Atrium holds in right hand your genitals. The rest of the figures, who stand in a circle, cover their eyes with their hands in shame.
Super vibrator
In the Las Ventures sex shop you can find one hell of a thing - a hybrid of a chainsaw motor with a huge vibrator.
Hanging passers-by
There's a diner a few blocks north of the Dnonson house. Cluckin Bell . Next to it you can see a small parking lot, and at the exit there is a wooden power pole. Moving to the metal fence of the parking lot and looking at the post, in the middle of it you will see a passerby. He will hang for a while, then fall onto the sidewalk and go about his business as if nothing had happened. A similar scene can be seen in Las Venturas.
Brutal police
In the Commerce area There is a police station a couple of blocks west of the Atrium. For unimpeded access to the garage, you will need a police car. Inside you can see a police officer beating an ordinary person, while at the same time a second police officer just stands and watches what is happening..
Dildo
In the Los Santos police station, in the shower, you can find a purple double-ended dildo. In "Armament" you can learn about the method of its use. Here you can also pick up a police baton and body armor.
The basic Instinct
Wandering the streets, you can come across a blonde in a white short dress, who very much resembles Sharon Stone from the film Basic Instinct.
Grotti - a parody of Ferrari
In Rodeo north of the clothing store ProLaps you can see a parody of the Ferrari logo. The style is conveyed very accurately, but instead of a horse, the logo depicts a hare.
Instead of a traditional review, I offer a short tour of "Easter eggs" San Andreas with a little guidance on finding them. The set includes a map with the location of the described secrets. The Easter eggs listed below are far from half, or even a quarter, of all those available in the game. But we suggest studying the game almost independently in terms of finding such secrets.
1) In East Los Santos there is a building with a three-dimensional image of a figurine from VC. Exactly the kind that was used to store drugs.
2) In the cemetery in Los Santos, there is ghostly graffiti on the inside of a brick fence that appears from 20:00 to 06:00 and then disappears later. By the way, many of the graffiti for the game were prepared by the famous tattoo artist Mr. Cartoon.
3) In the town of Montgomery across the street, in the alley behind the bookmaker's office, the Sprunk plant there is a well, fenced with mesh and marked as "biohazardous". Let me remind you that this drink is a parody of Coca-Cola and Sprite, which, apparently, are also mixed with dangerous substances.
4) At the checkpoint at the entrance to San Fierro airport in the security guard's building, the 3ds max program is running on the computer. By the way, if you go to the window, the peace officer will say, “The pilots are looking younger and younger today.”
5) In San Fierro there is a Solarin Industries plant, but in the PS2 version of the game the business is called Shady Industries - a reference to Eminem, in one of whose videos there is a similar plant.
6) The "Zero RC" store has figures of Tommy Vercetti and Lance Vance from Vice City, as well as James Cash - the protagonist of Manhunt and models of Hydra, Rhino, NRG 500 and other vehicles from the game.
7) In Ashberry, San Fierro, in a military cemetery there are 72 tombstones with the Rockstar Games logo and the date 1997-2004. The first number is the year of release of the first part, the second is San Andreas. Not far from the Gant Bridge, behind Katya's house, near the diner, there is a sign with information about the Gant Bridge. "Length - 150.7 m, height - 60.3 m above sea level, 16,000 polygons, 600 m of visible distance, 11 textures, and, incredibly, it takes up 1.27 MB of hard drive space.
8) In the center of San Fierro there is a building with open doors. Inside you can find a Zombotech sign (a parody of Resident Evil) with the diagram of human DNA. The same DNA is in the middle of the hall - in the form of a huge sculpture of twisted spirals.
9) In Michelle's garage there is a table with tools on which toys for carnal pleasures lie. There is exactly the same table in GTA 3 in Joey's garage and in VC in the Sunshine Autos garage.
10) The name of the USS Numnutz submarine, moored at one of the city's many piers, is a play on words, because in reality there is a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
11) Near the Gant Bridge you can find a sign with information about the design: “length - 159.7 m, height - 60.3 m above sea level, 16,000 polygons, 600 m of visible distance, 11 textures, takes up only 1.27 MB on hard drive."
12) Nearby, going down, you can see a large red cable with a sign without any significant description.
13) In Las Barrancas, Tierra Robada, you can find the remains of a Hopi Indian settlement. Although, perhaps this is just the scenery for an advertisement for a nearby hotel on the theme of the indigenous people of America.
14) Area 69 - the most dangerous area in San Andreas - is a parody of the Nevada military base Area 51, which is known for possible research into extraterrestrial life forms. The number in the name of the SA database is due to the developers’ love for the number, which has the broadest meaning in the Kama Sutra. By the way, anti-aircraft guns can be destroyed by shooting them, for example, with two sawn-off shotguns.
15) In the sex shop from the mission “The Key to Her Heart” you can find products dedicated to Candy Sachs, a porn star from Vice City. Also on the counter you can see an interesting “tool” that resembles a chainsaw.
16) Hotel V-Rock - a parody of Hard Rock Caf?, a chain of cafe bars. In addition, V-Rock is also a radio station in GTA: Vice City, where the DJ was the legendary Lazlow, who became the host of WCTR in GTA: San Andreas.
From the stars located above the state at night, you can form the Rockstar emblem - the letter R with a large star.
The GTA San Andreas map at one time amazed even the most experienced gamers with its scale and number of different features.
At the time of its release it was one of the largest projects. This is evidenced by the fact that even now some users are going through it again and trying to achieve the coveted 100 percent.
Other players have gone to the online version called SA:MP. For such people it will be useful to read the information in the article.
Total information
In this part of the GTA series, the map is truly huge, because the developers presented their version of an entire fictional state. It includes three cities that were created on the basis of Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco.
Between the megacities there is uninhabited territory with a variety of biomes. In the north, almost the entire region is covered with sand, while in the south nature blooms with green plains, hills and even forests.
Huge map of the game GTA San Andreas
In the southwest, developers have created a small area of mountainous terrain. To imagine the size, you should know that it will only take a hundred hours to fully explore every nook and cranny of the map. However, new areas become available only after advancing through storyline.
Two interesting cards
If the designations on English language in GTA San Andreas it already hurts the user's eyes after several hours, then you should use a map from Russian 1C localizers. This company has created an official translation of all the terrain that is available to players in this part of the game.
The user can always keep it in front of their eyes for additional orientation. This document also contains all the necessary information about interesting places. The guys from 1C did not reveal all the secrets, but restaurants, bars, clubs and other establishments in cities and rural areas are shown here.
History of the map
It is useful to use a map when traveling to explore the world. In order not to do the same work twice, you should take with you a document that shows the location of all the secrets. Most of them are present on the first map, but the secret 1C clothing store might have been missed.
Each player is recommended to travel to designated places to discover something new for themselves. Mostly the secrets are located in three cities. There are quite a few of them along the left bank of the river in the west. A trip to such places will definitely bring pleasure to the player.
Love twists and turns
The ability to have a girlfriend in this part of the series was new, since before this players were forced to go through their criminal path alone. This project has changed everything, but to capture the heart of his beloved, the user must prepare. Having a map of shells that are hidden on the coasts and depths of the sea will help him with this.
If you find a large number of them, your sexuality level will increase, and as a bonus, your lung capacity will increase. A map for GTA San Andreas with all the places marked will help you cope with this difficult task. Most items from this category are present in the water near the eastern and northern coasts of San Fierro.
One of Carl Johnson's girls
You should also hunt in the west of Los Santos. Such activities are required to achieve 100 percent completion, and therefore the availability of maps is of paramount importance. This also applies to the houses of the girls with whom main character may have a romantic relationship. Two of them live in the south of San Fierro, the third lives in the west in El Quebrados.
The fourth potential lover for the main character can be found right in the center of the map in Blueberry, and the fifth in the east of Los Santos. The choice is small, but each user will be able to decide after a trip to all of the above places. For better orientation, you should use a map.
Developer Tricks
All developers, without exception, try to keep the public in their project for a long time, because this is a guarantee of success for continuation. Rockstar Games is no different in this regard. With the release of GTA San Andreas, they used one simple thing - grinding.
This term refers to the monotonous activities that are required to complete the project. Only this concerns specifically achieving 100 percent; it has nothing to do with the main storyline. Players usually don’t like to do this kind of thing, but they have to do it to get the desired achievement.
Graffiti scattered throughout San Andreas
In this case, maps, images and paintings in GTA San Andreas to indicate places with some objects. This applies especially to photographs and graffiti. They are scattered across the corners of two huge cities. In the case of the photo, the player will have to explore the entire streets of San Fierro and find fifty of these objects.
The graffiti developers made twice as much and scattered them throughout Los Santos. It should be noted that searching for these objects without a special map indicating all the places is almost impossible. This can take hundreds of hours, and one or two objects will remain without cleaning. It is better to systematically carry out searches area by area, and the graffiti map for GTA San Andreas will help in this difficult task.
Other activities
The developers also paid attention to the third city of Las Venturas in terms of collective activities. The developers scattered fifty horseshoes along the streets of this metropolis. They are present in all regions of the city. If we highlight separately, then the largest number is in the northeast and southeast.
In other parts there are fewer objects. As in the first case, players are strongly recommended to use the map when searching. Saving time when hunting for 100 percent in a playthrough is incredibly important.
Prize horseshoe
Fans of extreme sports and vehicles will find it useful to know about places where you can make unique jumps. These are seven dozen special springboards that allow you to use vehicles to perform tricks. Fast cars and motorcycles are best suited.
To use such objects, acceleration is required, and therefore bicycles, as well as slow equipment, can be immediately folded back. Most of the places with unique jumps are in Los Santos, in the center and west of Las Venturas, as well as San Fierro. They are also located around Blueberry, but for a more accurate search it is better to use an accurate map showing places with jumps.
A lot of information
In the state of San Andres, hidden in various nooks and crannies of megacities and in rural areas, there are places where there are a wide variety of types of equipment. For any fan of the project, driving all models of transport is almost a law. That is why a special map was created, on which all the places where the equipment was present were marked.
This number even includes golf carts, forklifts, speedboats, boats and bicycles. There is no need to even talk about motorcycles, air vehicles and cars. The developers have really allocated a lot of places for transport, and therefore you can’t do without a map.
Map with secret cars
Even with knowledge of all the locations, visiting them takes a lot of time. The same situation applies to weapons, armor and police badges. The player hunts for these items throughout the game, even during story missions. Of course, any user can enter special codes and get guns with immortality, but playing like this becomes boring.
If you assemble a collection of weapons yourself, the feeling of victory will be truly palpable. Our map will help with this, on which the necessary places are marked. The information in the article will help all players achieve maximum progress when completing the legendary game GTA San Andreas.