Ever since the announcement in November that Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5 was going to be launching in the Spring, the fervently anticipated title has been everything anyone’s been talking about in the gaming community.
It has already been tipped to sell over £18 million copies within its first six months, and has been opined to be the biggest selling game of 2013, beating Modern Warfare 4.
With its huge, expansive terrain reported to be larger than Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: IV combined, there is little wonder why everyone is getting so excited about it.
By the time of its release, games from the series gone by like IV, San Andreas and Vice City will merely be lingering footnotes within our minds, the discs possibly put to use as coasters in our lounge.
But since the game has been delayed until September now, let’s step back a little bit and examine the other titles from the game’s long running series. Namely, let’s look at the Easter Eggs. Easter isn’t very long off now (guess what inspired this article) so it seems fairly apt.
No doubt GTA V will have its fair share of Easter Eggs and cleverly (or not so cleverly) disguised or hidden puns, but for now, let’s take a look at 10 of the best from games gone by.
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I’m quite surprised you didn’t include the literal Easter Egg from Vice City when you have to take a blind jump off the helipad into a wall.
I’d have included that one just because it was so well hidden, even though everyone knew about it.
I’d have included the Zombie sign in San Andreas too.
I should really play San Andreas again such a massive game and better than GTA IV in everyway.
SA isn’t “better than IV in every way”. I also preferred SA to IV, but to ignore the dozens of things IV did better is stupid fanboyism.
Driving, story, physics, shooting, atmosphere, the actual world (SA was just 90% empty countryside) are all better in IV.
There was more mystery and atmosphere to San Andreas. Back ‘o Beyond, the Big Foot rumours, the aliens, the random plane crashes into Mt. Chilliad, the occasional mystery suicide of a photographer (who after photographing a lake killed himself) and of course the mass grave in Bone County… GTA IV (and Liberty City) was just far, far too ordinary for me.
Nope. Played both games and GTA IV was a big let down. It took itself too seriously and in the end it was not as fun as the other GTA’s.
Out of your list the one thing IV did do better is physics, which is much more due to better technology rather than the actual game. Driving was awful on GTA IV until you got to the later stages and the handling model loosened up. Shooting was pretty shoddy in both games due to the camera. I personally didn’t like GTA IV’s atmosphere it was too dark and dingey which made the city feel much smaller than it actually was whereas I loved the sense of adventure you could have on San Andreas.
I did enjoy the story on GTA IV but it was a bit of a let down compared with both Vice City and San Andreas. It just seemed to be lacking something.
i think SA is better than 4 in every way besides graphics but thats because its on a whole different console. gta4 was a major let down compared to the awsomeness that san andreas and vice city were
In Gta IV i have seen every spot there is to see in GTA SA i’m still finding things and places i never knew were even in the game SA will always be better than IV
I enjoyed san andreas rather than IV, but in IV there was an easter egg that showed newspaper clipping that said CJ had been shot.
I hold all the GTA games close to my heart because they’ve been there since I was 10. I was going through a hard time with constant gang fights outside of my apartment, not having enough money to eat and my parents fighting; GTA Vice City was the only ‘friend’ I could have. The only thing I could vent out to. Then San Andreas came out when I was 12 which is still my favourite era of GTA. Finally GTA IV came out in 2008 but I didn’t get the chance to play until 2010. That was a wierd time in life for me and the ‘noir’ setting of IV perfectly matched my attitude back then. I’m 19 now and GTA V is on the horizon, I just can’t wait to play this game because it feels like a revival of my 12 year old days. It matches my mood now, it’s a lot more ‘happier’ with matching colours.
“The pursuit of the almighty dollar,” that’s what my life is about now. Sometimes I feel like there’s a spy jotting down events in my life and making games based upon it haha!
great article. going back and remebering all the funny eater eggs from past gta’s. i remember in school a lot of people were talking about the bigfoot in san andreas. many hours i have searched for him and still havent found him. soon i will. sooon…. lol