Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 17+

I’ve played San Andreas for many years now and I always considered the game as my favorite GTA of all the other GTA games. I play on an iPhone 11 and the gameplay for my experience is almost perfect. I have experienced the game crashing a few times but it happens rarely. I have had a couple bugs occur here and there but they nothing major. There is one bug after the latest patch where cars now travel maybe 100 times faster than normal. They seem to freeze in place but you can still hear the engine making the sound it should make when traveling. It then travels very fast and disappears. Or sometimes you can find them slamming onto another car and it can happen to you too. The cars can sometimes go through your car as well and disappear. I carjacked a couple of the bugged cars and you can see how travel very fast from the default routes the NPCs take. I forgot to mention that in some roads the cars just vanish into the sky. It’s kind of frustrating sometimes during missions where you have to keep the car in perfect condition which means leaving them undamaged. Most of these bugged cars occur in specific areas like freeways, countryside or some parts of cities. The car type doesn’t matter either since it can happen to any car

I love this game, very fun, but there are a few glitches. The first one is on the robbery mission, sometimes when you get close to something CJ gets stuck on something and you can’t move which wakes up the person inside and then you get a 3 star wanted level. Another one is that the wrecking ball does not exist it is just a floating metal ball. Whenever I try to put a car in a garage it says you cannot store anymore vehicles in this garage even though my garage is completely empty and if I try to push my car in it will delete it. Another glitch I have experienced is that when I die during a gang war it gives the territory to me or it just removes it which I’m pretty sure is not supposed to happen. The last glitch happens on a date sometimes when you finish doing what she tells you to do instead of telling you to take her home, it doesn’t do that and when you do take her home you can’t drop her off, so you end up stuck with her and I have to restart the game. Also please put an option to disable tilt controls because I have to try to keep my iPad perfectly flat because if I don’t the car will pull to the other direction and it’s annoying.

Let me get this out of the way: I have never played Grand theft auto San Andreas, nor have I completed any other grand theft auto game. For years as I’ve grown older I’ve eyeballed this app again and again, waiting for the day I would finally be able to purchase it. It’s the cheapest version of the game you can find nowadays, and even relatively cheap for a console game, and has a decent rating on the App Store. What could possibly go wrong?

I open the app, and am greeted by a login page. While I was afraid I would have to connect a Rockstar account in order to play there was an option to skip it. I was finally ready to play. Then the most glaring issue hits me: the game is ridiculously choppy. While yes, the game is playable, it stutters incredibly often, and it’s really irritable when you’re trying to do anything. Playing in an iPhone 15 pro, I was really expecting this app to preform well, but I guess that’s on me.

The controls are fine, gameplay looks solid, and audio quality is understandable, the lack of a smooth frame rate really numbs me out. Seeing as how this game gets bug fixes every now and then, I would love to see it improved. It probably won’t be, and to that, I’d rather not purchase another game from this publisher until they can maintain polished products.