When comparing Gangstar Vegas vs GTA San Andreas, the Slant community recommends GTA San Andreas for most people. In the question“What are the best open world Android games?” GTA San Andreas is ranked 1st while Gangstar Vegas is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose GTA San Andreas is:
You could spend days going through just the main story itself, but there is a ton more content as well. Side missions add numerous more hours of gameplay, and one-off encounters can help keep you entertained as well. Depending on your mood, you might even just want to try abiding by all the laws and driving around. In-game, there's always something to do, and you have a choice of what you want to do during that particular gaming session.
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Pros
Pro Huge map with tons to do thanks to all the amount of events available in the title
There is a huge map with lots of fun things to do and plenty of side missions. Getting further in the main mission will unlock other events, including street racing, motocross tracks, and more. As your character is a MMA fighter, ring challenges and fighting tournaments are also present. If you need to top up your bank account, you can heist cars, hit up the casino, or compete in some of the other available challenges.
As far as the map itself goes, it is 9x bigger than the previous Gangstar game.
Pro Easily customize your character to look how you like
You can model your character just the way you want to with very few limitations. Weapons are broken down into different categories - hand-to-hand, pistols, shotguns, and rifles - each with their own skill points which can decrease reload times or increase the clip size.
Vehicles work in the same way - for each type (cars, boats, motorcycles, planes) you can upgrade their speed, acceleration, and handling.
Pro Graphics are handled very nicely and show a lot of polish, making for a pleasing looking game
Gangstar Vegas is an attractive looking game. From the colourful scenes to unique character models as well as light reflections and water ripples, it's clear this game had a talented design team behind it.
Pro Good story that should impress any mobile gamer
While the story mode is not amazing, it is still great for a mobile game and it gets the job done.
Pro Tons of content will keep you entertained for a long time
You could spend days going through just the main story itself, but there is a ton more content as well. Side missions add numerous more hours of gameplay, and one-off encounters can help keep you entertained as well. Depending on your mood, you might even just want to try abiding by all the laws and driving around. In-game, there's always something to do, and you have a choice of what you want to do during that particular gaming session.
Pro A classic that translates great to mobile thanks to attention paid to the port
This game was originally launched on PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Tweaks were made to make it more mobile friendly - multiple ways to control the UI (optimized for touch), as well as cloud-saves which let you pick up where you left off on different devices (for example a tablet or a new phone).
Pro Familiar multi-city world that is actually based off of real locations
There are 3 huge cities to explore: Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas - each loosely modeled after certain real-world cities. In addition to the static map, other aspects of the game make it feel even more immersive. There's a fairly wide selection of vehicles, minigames and weird one-off events to find and take part in.
Pro Tons of vehicles
Tons of cars, bikes, planes, jets, tanks, jetpack, KTM rc, etc.
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Cons
Con In-app-purchases are required past a certain point
It takes a lot of quick-play missions to level up, especially when you are at a higher level. The grind in this game is very long, most players will end up either quitting or putting up real money to help them along.
Con Annoying ads
There are annoying ads that pop up when you go to the home screen of the game (the screen that shows shop, profile, etc).
Con Large game file
This game is going to end up taking a good 2.5 gigabytes of space. Most phones only have 16GB of storage - of which only around 10-12GB is usable. This one game can take up to 20% of your total storage, or even more if your phone only has 8GB of storage.
Con The map is too small
Con Keeps asking to rate the game
The game also keeps asking you to rate it everytime.
Con It gets boring after a while
Con The control scheme doesn't translate well to touchscreens
For a game that was originally designed to be played with 14 physical buttons it can be difficult to translate that to a touch screen interface. Sadly, this shows when trying to play on a tablet or phone. To get the best experience, you're going to want to grab a compatible bluetooth gamepad/controller which adds cost, and you'll need to carry it around if you want to play on the go (likely at home you'll be playing on a console or computer).
Con Doesn't load on a Galaxy s20+
Hasn't worked for years. The game shows a black screen then immediately crashes.
Con Choppy performance at times
Sometimes framerates will drop, even on high end hardware. Typically framerates are good, but when there is a lot going on at once there will be dropped frames while the device tries to catch up with whatever is happening in-game.
Con Takes up a lot of space for an Android game
The game is 2 GB and does not fit most memory cards. but it's a very good game.
Con Expensive considering it's a port of an old game
The app costs $7, which is very expensive for a mobile game. In addition, this game is just a port of the original game (with a few mobile-focused optimizations) and there isn't any new content.
Con Bad graphics
The graphics aren't very good compared to newer games. Considering GTA SA is pretty old, it stands to reason that the graphics won't hold up as well as something newer.