Bug: When attacking people in a restaurant, some of them that are sitting will slump over and 'die' with their heads on the table. Yet they are still alive in the game. But you can't lock on to them. You can't kill or hurt them ether. Blood splats, but nothing else. Punching, using melee weapons, shooting, using the chain saw, and even throwing grenades of other uses of explosives doesn't do a thing to them but splatter a little blood. Yet this supposedly 'dead' person will still talk to you if you bump them. Sometimes they'll still do the random compliment or insult and you can still have CJ respond to them.

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Bug: On some bridges, the shadows and head lights of the cars on it will be cast on the ground below it.

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Bug: One of the cheats for this game is called invisibility or infinite health, depending on where you read it, but it's the same code. However, after using this code, you are still hurt by explosions or fire (if not fire proof), and from falling. Also, if you happen to get hit by two bullets at the same time, it wounds you also, over loading the invincibility cheat.

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Bug: When CJ opens the door of the massive AT-400 jet airliner, the door goes right through him.

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Bug: Using the continual spawning glitch of civilians in restaurants, if you get to 3 stars, cops start spawning there too. Only they appear with their hands up or crouched in a surrendering position and they never fight you. When they appear, they speak threatening remarks to CJ, but never act.

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Bug: If CJ stands right behind a chair in Pizza Stack, where he is touching the back of the chair as a person tries to sit in it, the person is partly blocked and can't sit down fully. They still get in the seated position, but are half hanging off the chair and levitating above it. If you move towards the person, it pushes them off the chair and then they stop, just levitating in a seated position beside it.

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Bug: Get in a jet and fly towards a corner of the map and keep going. Make sure the jet has autopilot leveling, and leave the control alone. Works better if the cheat for no hunger is activated. Fly off the map and keep going for hours (in game time), approx 12 or so. Then jump out and kill yourself to respawn back on land. This causes the whole map to be covered with Gang Territories.

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Bug: If you order food at a fast food restaurant, and then change weapons while CJ is going to the eating animation, it is quite comical. He uses his right hand to eat, which he holds his weapon with. So as he's eating, he also holds his weapon and food together, waving the weapon around and wiping his face. The funniest one is doing that with a chainsaw.

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Bug: A very annoying glitch that happens quite often is after bailing out of a plane with your parachute, you deploy it... Only the chute never comes out. CJ still goes through the motions as if it came out, and straightens out, raising his arms to hold the ropes. Only there are no ropes, and no chute. So you just fall to your death.

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Bug: On certain roads and highways, traffic can get a super speed glitch. Most notably on the highway that circles Las Venturas. Cars will start jumping around a little in their movements and be doing apparently 100+ MPH. Some will still go slow and often get rear ended causing them to stick together or even explode instantly. Very hazardous for players with slow cars.

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Bug: If you go to the light house area of the beach in Los Santos and start a gang war, sometimes the enemy gang members will spawn under water and be standing on the ocean floor shooting up at you. This is comical to see, and makes it difficult to kill them.

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Bug: Go into any pizza restaurant in the game and look at the people sitting down eating. Most of them that raise pizza to their face miss their mouth. Some even are stabbing themselves in the eye with pizza.

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Bug: Some cheat codes are incompatible with each other and cause the game to go screwy if used at the same time. If too many cheats are used at once, the game has a tendency to go nuts and even freeze.

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Bug: To start a Taxi mission, you must have an empty taxi, i.e. nobody else in with you. If you have one or more gang members in it, it tells you that. But you can trick the game. If you get in the taxi and press R3 (or whatever the XBox equivalent is) before the gang members get in, the taxi mission starts. And then the gang members get in and you can have them with you, shooting out at cops and enemy gangs as you do taxi missions. Watch out though, the passenger you pick up as Taxi fare will always get in a back seat. So have no more than 2 gang members with you, and be sure one is in the front passenger seat to leave one back seat open. Park with that open seat closest to the passenger you are picking up, other wise they'll force a gang member out and the other will get out also, and you've lost them for the taxi mission.

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Bug: Sometimes, after the glitch happens where no chute comes out of your parachute, when CJ hits the ground, he dies, obviously. But then when the screen fades to black and comes back, CJ is dead yet again outside of the hospital with the Wasted screen happening and fading again to respawn. Meaning sometimes the glitch causes this glitch, that kills you twice. This is an especial pain in the ass if you don't have the girlfriend benefit to prevent weapons and money taken after a hospital visit, and if you have low money, getting charged twice.

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Bug: If in 2 player mode, you throw a grenade then the two players kiss, the grenade's explosion never happens.

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Bug: When using a 2 player icon, often when both players get in the vehicle, one of them does not automatically switch to a fireable weapon in the vehicle. Sometimes both players. The game's programing switches your weapon to the submachine guns for drivebys, but sometimes won't. And you can't change weapons once in the vehicle, so you can be stuck holding a useless gun or melee weapon and have to get out, then back in to use the right one, making it very inconvenient during a police chase. Sometimes player two can still use the incorrect weapon, like shooting out with the M4. This can also happen in 1 player, but is very very rare.

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Bug: Every now and then, if you crash your bike into a car, they will murge together and stick. Sparks fly and after a few seconds of vibrating, both explode.

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Bug: There is a slanted bridge in Los Flores. The guard rail like barriors are not solid and a bike can be driven right through them.

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Bug: This glitch can happen in other areas, but it is most common at the game's airports. Due to the area proximity vehicle spawning, where vehicles off an area are programmed to spawn if you are in or near that area, vehicles that don't belong can spawn in wrong spots. Like if you drive or walk past an air port, forklifts and luggage cars can spawn on the highway near by, as well as regular vehicles randomly driving around in the airport. It is funny when the speed glitch combines with this and you see a fork lift blasting down the Las Venturas highway at 90 MPH.

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Other mistake: All the registers in each fast food restaurant say Burger Shot on the screen, even The Clucken Bells and the Pizza Stack.

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More mistakes in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Civilian Driver: You're like my asshole, always holding up shit!

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Trivia: The 3 cities in this game actually represent and are supposed to loosely mirror 3 real cities. Los Santos is Los Angeles, California. San Fierro is San Francisco, California. And Los Venturas is Las Vegas, Nevada.

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