And so I finished off San Andreas tonight, and the final mission didn’t take nearly as long as I expected since I managed to complete it on the first try. It was split into two parts: you first had to work your way up and down a drug lab building to take out the first target, and then it was a fairly easy chase through the city streets with an on-rails shooting segment that was again helped by mouse aiming. I did almost fail the first part though, since the building is on fire on the way back down and I got shot up quite a bit while trying to figure out where enemies were through the smoke, the right spots to hit with the fire extinguisher, the tight time limit, etc.

In the end I put just short of 48 hours into the game and hit 77.5% completion according to the stats screen, both of which are much higher than the previous GTA games. There’s just so much more to do in San Andreas. This is the one of them that I’d be tempted to try for 100% completion in…but not right away. I’m kind of sick of GTA-ish games now after doing these three in a row, so I’ll probably just chip away at it in small bursts over time.

Since my Fable 2 LCE code still hasn’t arrived after the promised 10 business days, it’s losing its turn in the queue, and Fallout 3 will be up next. But first: demos!