I think San Andreas is the best Grand Theft Auto in the series. It captures that rugged, real, Tarantino slash Mobster slash Ghetto look that they've kinda been shooting at. The characters are well developed, you hate the cops (you're a criminal, go figure) because they are friggin' annoying like they are in real life to gang members. The visuals are spectacular, and you can use a camera to capture them.
San Andreas all the way. Sure, the ghetto hood style thing is surely to appeal to the hordes of gangster 13 year old wannabes, but I just can't deny the greatness.
No loading times, massive expansive city, and the best soundtrack so far (Radio X, K-DST, WCTR and Master Sounds make up for the durge stations like Radio Los Santos, man that's bad music - and the songs on a whole are way better than even Vice Citys Soundtrack).
The fact of no loading times when goin from place to place is what I'm stoked on in SA...don't have to wait for areas to load like you used to have to wait for when going over bridges. Also, that you can swim...I always hated the fact that you would die when landing in water 😐
I liked the soundtrack from Vice City though...I'll prolly end up liking this one more and more as I play