Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

The HD port of San Andreas is just terrible. It's a port of the iOS port of the game. This means that several changes that had to be made for it to work as a portable game are still here. The touchscreen-friendly interface is still there, but it doesn't bother me any.

Let's start with the positives of this port over the original:
- Mid-mission checkpoints that you can restart from right away
- Autosave after missions
- Achievements if you're into those
- The game actually allows you to see what clothes you're changing into, rather than placing you in complete darkness
- The controls for the forklift are better in this version

Now for the negatives:
- Several songs have been removed from the soundtrack (Funky President, Runnin' Down a Dream, Express Yourself, Killing in the Name, to name a few)
- The vehicle schools somehow swapped "clockwise" and "counter-clockwise"
- Damaged car parts sometimes turn a completely different colour (always the same colour, depending on the type of vehicle)
- Sound balancing is fucked; sirens and engine noises are far too loud over everything else
- During cutscenes, sometimes sound cuts out completely
- Music skipping in the radio stations (song starts, cuts out into a different song)
- The little intro with the theme song isn't present in this version
- In the mission Life's a Beach, the HUD can just disappear, making it impossible to complete the required dancing minigame
- The mission Homecoming makes the game freeze if you don't approach an objective from the east (you start the mission to the west of the objective)
- The mission Los Desperados has a lot of AI pathfinding issues not present in the original
- Pedalling a bike might as well be impossible
- They added the ability to target people who are in vehicles, so you naturally target those people over the ones shooting at you
- Manual aiming isn't possible when there's something nearby that can be auto-targeted (so basically it's not ever possible)
- The jetpack controls like complete ass
- The tractor can no longer tow vehicles, which means some bulletproof/fireproof/damageproof vehicles can't be obtained any more
- Game automatically makes CJ climb up walls and fences if possible
- The "go back" button in menus is the Y button for some weird reason
- Fire can sometimes be completely invisible for no reason


I highly recommend the PS2, PC (not Steam), and original Xbox versions of this game over the HD ports. However, if they are somehow your only option, San Andreas is still an amazing game even with this huge list of new and exciting flaws.