Exploring the AMBITIOUS GTA:Alien City Mod! (Mod Review)

In this GTA mod review, we check out one of the most AMBITIOUS mods to date, sparkled with a bit of controversial stuff, to bring and entirely new GTA experience, on an ENTIRELY NEW PLANET, of Anderius.
The mod has a story filled with mystery, collusion, and left me in confusion with some of the decisions it made, yet still provides a memorable time, with engaging experiences to be found across the board, as well as a new map to explore with Anderius, fit with 3 whole cities to explore.
All made by the "Alien City" team led by Daniska
This is GTA: Alien City
Linked below if you want to check it out!
[Links]
-GTA: Alien City(Anderius) 1.0
archive.org/details/gta-ander...
-GTA: Alien City(w/ Modloader support) - BROKEN
libertycity.net/files/gta-san...
ZMenu(for First Person)
zolika1351.pages.dev/mods/samenu
(Please do not ask me for help with installing mods, as there are plenty of guides online, and even the mods I link come with installation instructions.)
(Just use a clean install of your game before installing any of these mods)
🎮Mod Team: Alien City Team - Daniska
Thanks for watching!
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Chapters:
0:00 - Where GTA Could Go Next
0:46 - GTA: Alien City
2:23 - Planet Anderius
6:35 - Ton's of Stuff to Do
7:06 - New Rides, New Rides Everywhere
9:16 - Ton's of Stuff to Do - 2
11:34 - Mission Design/Side Content
13:36 - Technical and Suggestive Problems
16:14 - SPOILER WARNING
16:43 - Act 1 - Reborn
19:51 - Act 2 - Revival
24:31 - Act 3 - Revengeance
29:21 - Final Thoughts/Conclusion
Conclusion
Tracks Used:
Backing Beat 2 - Michael Hunter
New New York - Futurama The Game
Hackers - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Cosmic Death Machine - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
The Bouncer - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Haxhigeaszy - Candelabra
GTA SA C.R.A.S.H Theme Extended
The Gap - Ashes Afterglow OST
The Traveler - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Unhuman - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Downtown - Cosmic Cycler
#gta
#gtamods
#gtasanandreas
#aliencity

[@ilyakusenco8151]

About the name, i have to agree, Alien City is a pretty boring name for such an ambitious project, it gives a very bad taste of "Oh, this is gonna be grove street on moon model made in 15 minute" vibe. That's why most of this mod's admiers (at least in Russian segment) call it by it's second name "Anderius", not Alien City

[@jabrony9742]

I don’t remember “Alien city” when it came out. It was always San Anderius ❤

[@phillyleotardo4343]

I think its quite a charming name lol, I like it

[@oceangalaxy704]

Mars. Home… At least it was before NASA f*cked everything up” 😂

[@OhNotThat]

*Musk BOOM, you have Bioshock in space.

[@OhNotThat]

the concept alone is just dripping in creativity. It's so sad that we'll never see an actual AAA studio put this much raw love and passion into such a project, because while it's lacking polish it could go somewhere

[@alanchavarria4772]

6:02 As a Mexican, I can confirm that's how we are all going to look like in 2077.

[@69Deez_Nutz69]

Hell yeah!

[@apexMX125]

This doesn't offend me too much. I even see it as a kind of aesthetic culture rather than an offensive stereotype.

[@Needwagon4Speedwagon]

Cactus gang Cactus gang

[@GreenEyedDazzler]

That’s crazy cause I’m Mexican and it’s not offensive just lame and corny af

[@JamesJames-li2wv]

Well I'm white and I'm very offended

[@BaronVonPurp]

It's like the Duke Nukem Forever we wanted divided by the Cyberpunk 2077 we wanted

[@substatikvideos]

I want to think that the whole Alien City story is a dream CJ has during a hospital stay.

[@awesomevigorette]

bro make more total conversion mods videos like this, this is hella fun to watch lol

[@GeorgeGabrielTemplarKnight]

23:43 Local Crime Boss "Mr. Salieri" 😂

[@andrewtatereal3168]

sad thing that they dont cloned joe barbaro too lmao

[@Captain23rdGaming]

24:17 can confirm it was palpatine that doxxed Truth

[@kevinbrodacki]

This video was so good it had to be seen twice

[@falafel2964]

I fuckin knew something was going on when I couldn't find this video on my YT history

[@mewxtwo]

Im only a few minutes in and this is insane. I love how dedicated people are to things like this. Thats passion, and the authors of this mod had an incredible vision. Passion + vision yields beautiful results. Im blown away.

[@familyvalle9572]

Those “history” mods are a whole new world for me and thanks to you im going to try some of them like zombie vc and this one.. keep it on this man great work!!

[@commandervile394]

If this didn't crash 50% of the time it would be pretty amazing.

[@theonlyplain]

or not start at all cuz of some quick opcode

[@turtleofpride4572]

"Whether the 3D or HD" ~cries in birds eye view-

[@zacharyharris2177]

Some of the areas have a really strong gta 2 vibe. This mod is almost like a glimpse at what gta 2 could have been like if it was 3D. Based on the renders and concept art anyway. Also those pedestrians are fantastic and so goofy

[@novelezra]

Wait... An object in the world that throws you up into the air and then let's you glide to another location? I mean, I honestly thought TOTK did this first but I guess not! Unless this mod pulled it from somewhere as well? Super weird coincidence either way.

[@deagzzzshorts]

This channel is goldmine, I really like how you cover these old games. ❤❤

[@ThunderWolfUE]

I used to play this mod with the Spider-Man mod as a kid and imagine I was playing a Spider-Man Unlimited game lol

[@enricopaolocoronado2511]

So, basically, the visuals of Alien City are pretty good but the story just kinda fell flat especially at the end. Man, I need to download San Andreas again, if only to actually play this TC.

[@BlazePunisherTR]

Mod seems amazing, but I think the links on description is broken, mind checking it? Great video as always, btw

[@BladeOpotato]

Got em fixed!

[@commandervile394]

@ 5:41 Vinesauce Dontee? Is that you?

[@ingvarmelgaard2739]

You have brought good old memories to me! I remember back in around 2010 when I bough a copy of this game on a CD together with Gta 3 Snow City. I got it from a local store in Western Ukraine. As I was a kid back then I didn't really delve into the storyline, I was just enjoing playing it on my Windows XP. Now being grown up I recalled those vibes from childhood and found your video. Gotta download this priceless mod and try it again after 14+ years :)))

[@videoplayback_]

It's just too good, feels like cyberpunk but made in the early 2000s, gives me good vibes with Synthwave/retrowave style with a bit of vaporwave. This mod is a must play.

[@zacharyharris2177]

GTA 2 if it was 3D

[@Professor_Genki7]

It feels nothing like Pokémon bro

[@ZachlikesMetal]

Great video! I played this quite a few times back then. It's definitely one of the best mods ever made.

[@ramasaputra6205]

OMG the nostalgia, i remember playing this back in 2014, thats like 10 years ago..

[@theonlyplain]

im so old

[@iiiii5256]

The fact that you can panhandle with the guitar shows the level of detail and sense of humor the developers have. This deserves to be it's own official spin off release.

[@crazybunny1134]

I PLAYED THIS YEARS AGO, i remenber trying to play it and being a bit dumbstruck since i didnt knew english and getting stuck, i have some months trying to remenber the name thinking it was now lost media or i just fever dreamed it

[@JacksGamingWorld]

Great video yet again! I was wondering if you have heard of the mod for GTA vice city called VHS edition? I’ve been playing it and while you have made a video on vice city already it could be cool to look at none the less

[@BladeOpotato]

I've been debating on covering it! I'll keep it on my list

[@slayer5240]

Didin't expect an Ashes 2063 soundtrack here. Good summary of the mod too!

[@johnpot]

Recently published? Gonna watch it right now. In-progress watching this, so far it's a really good analysis of GTA:AC. Dude If you really want to, can you do GTA San Vice next one?

[@garbled85]

Good job man. You should also try Zombie Andreas

[@BladeOpotato]

Finally decided to check it out cause of this and many other comments suggesting it and I smell another video cookin' down the way. Keep an eye out!

[@ATP2555ify]

0:54 LMAO Skaarj from Unreal

[@Air_OK]

Glad to hear Binyot speak when Daaahntee walked by

[@user-mc3ke1yd2x]

I wanna see that train falling but honestly tho out of all this i enjoyed his dance most

[@ItsSamStone]

Cyberpunk 0001? Honestly, it looks super dope and I can't believe I've never heard of this mod before hahaha. Looks like a good time forsure!

[@mohammadabdallah8571]

Really great video. I have a recommendation you should check out GTA criminal Russia. It’s a San Andreas conversion mod.

[@jenlifh2871]

Your are underrated. Btw will you review left 4 dead mod for gta san andreas or some other russian zombie mod for it?

[@jenlifh2871]

Left 4 Theft and Zombie Andreas

[@utuberz123456789]

I think the ending could be really good, the idea that your fight was for nothing and the guy you were helping just wanted to be in charge of the corporation he said you'd destroy totally fits the tone of a lot of dark sci-fi, but execution is everything.

[@v.nd.tt.s8943]

I remember playing this mod with russian voice acting and The Forbidden Drummers - "They Killed The Black Man" playing on death.

[@davorath9696]

this reminds me of that mod that is basically just a drug trip from of loc

[@Soda_Kat]

Would love to see rockstar try at a sci-fi game like this , this is brilliant

[@videoplayback_]

We back into Retrowave in GTA6 baby,.

[@salsalee4322]

Love this ❤

[@duckthememer]

3:28 this is the car in mafia 1 also used by morello when we are chasing him

[@lexmaun69]

for those people experiencing crash in AC, copy your audio file from original GTA SA then paste it inside AC folder, then delete lots of cleo mods that arent necessary , for the scm please use Prog's Update USCM, then just follow instruction.

[@apexMX125]

As fan of Sci-Fi and Space theme, It's literally my most favorite and this mod for me makes it look like a Halo with urban crimes in Third-Person than First-Person. SF-UR Station definitely has Space/Sci-Fi like songs for the mission adventures in this Sci-Fi mega-mod. There are so many McDonalds in that mega-mod and this should have capacity to buy and eat faster hamburgers from there than having to inject yourself and drinking soda cans from vending machines. The Russians are enormous experts in modding. I had even met a fantasy mod for GTA San Andreas made by russells too called Mushroomia. I wish this was a bigger mega-mod like Alien City including a large map with fantasy theme structures, save-houses, missions, vehicles and NPCs.

[@v.nd.tt.s8943]

Maybe you should try Criminal Russia one day, lol. It had multiplayer, CRMP, the map is big and has a lot lf easter eggs. The mod isn't super high quality though and features only like 2 missions.

[@Moewowre]

Link isnt working (archive link) could you please update it? Also.amazing video, i tried the broken version, and wasnt aware of a more stable version, thanks.

[@BladeOpotato]

Got you covered! Link's are fixed!

[@user-mc3ke1yd2x]

How they made him climb ladders duuude

[@aamiriqbal2247]

4:05 g man come for you lol

[@cLab2022]

What speed glitch for motorcycles? You mean leaning forward to reduce the drag like the game is designed to do?

[@ThunderShot66]

ok i finally figured out how to get this thing installed and running. i'm running into a huge problem tho, so the speedometer when you use widescreen fix is completely broken taking up most the screen. is there any way to remove the speedometer? i can't find anything online about it.

[@BladeOpotato]

It could be the widescreen fix itself. I'm not sure. I got my version of the fix from the essentials fixes pack from Mixmods and just drag and dropped it from there, and that worked for me.

[@ThunderShot66]

@@BladeOpotato i ended up deleting the widescreen fix and just using silent patch and its fine now. yeah the HUD's a little stretched but i can deal

[@regularbloke2117]

Man it would be really cool to have this mod remade with better assets

[@BladeOpotato]

Agreed!

[@stain1550]

George Clanton intro lmao

[@dopey473]

1:42 holy shit it's Dante from the Devil May Cry™ series

[@EarthboundX]

GTA and subtle aren't words I would tend to use together to be honest, lol. GTA's satire has never been subtle imo.

[@Simmodamoscott]

is this a reupload? I swear i watched this last night?

[@baxter22071990]

Had the Same thought 😂

[@AndalusianLuis]

Yes he had to reupload because he got a copyright notice for music

[@Simmodamoscott]

@@AndalusianLuis ah sweet, I thought I was having premonitions of GTA content again

[@sneeu27]

​@@Simmodamoscott😂

[@MaxChaser]

5:41 Dante NO !

[@epickendall1]

I guess the ending was trying have that Cyberpunk ending

[@deathcold_longplaysua4846]

Is this a reupload? Cause I remembered that I pressed that like button after watching it previous time and leaving my huge comment about this mod. Anyway, if you probably want more mods for GTA to check out and review, then I can name a whole list of them. Like, I literally have many of them preserved for myself. Just in case if I wanted to revisit them.

[@BladeOpotato]

Def a reupload. Had to due to copyright issues. But i appreciate you stopping by to leave another comment! Would love any recommendations to check out in the future!

[@deathcold_longplaysua4846]

@@BladeOpotato Well I'm happy to support anyone who deserves it. By the way, I also subscribed cause I like your mods reviews for GTA games. As for the mods for GTA, you might want to check out these from the list: GTA Vice City Deluxe. Ultimate GTA Vice City. GTA Berlin (mod for GTA San Andreas). GTA SA Tokyo Drift (based on known movie). GTA SA Vice Island (it's a russian mod that also known as Остров Порока. So, if you fail to find it, type in russian name of it). GTA San Andreas United. GTA San Vice. GTA Underground. GTA Lviv Region of Psychos. GTA SA Casino Royale (based on James Bond movie). GTA San Andreas Deluxo Colibri. GTA 3 Snow City. GTA 3 RE Liberty City Stories PC (that's right, this is a port of a whole game for PC by fans). GTA Vice City Stories PC Edition. GTA SA Jurassic Park Operation Andreas.

[@user-mc3ke1yd2x]

Knew that a mod like this was coming

[@user-mc3ke1yd2x]

Oh boy.that barber machine🤣rly?

[@stoqndukov8310]

You need to do GTA SA Mushroomia!

[@swaggyghosty9222]

kudos to your for going through all of this just to get to that disappointing ending

[@epicjoeman8685]

if i cant ask how to mod can i ask for an up to date guide

[@Carloscjj]

i loved the video

[@strikeforce1500]

I am ngl, I do like the ending, without counting the unfinished plot threads. That's the point of Cyberpunk distopyas, a single person/group wouldn't be able to defeat the system alone without heavy inside help or a lot,and I mean A LOT, of civilian help,just like real life. With that said,I cannot blame you,or anyone,for not liking it. It always suck balls when they just tell you 'Lmao,everything was for nothing'

[@BladeOpotato]

Honestly, looking at it from that context, it actually makes way more since tbh.

[@SmolTerribleTornado]

This is what if cyberpunk and warframe had a baby then Kyle Reese'd that baby into the past.

[@shafkatctg760]

The 3rd vehicle is ratchets space ship from the ratchet and clank franchise

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

I remember this. Cool mod, but some of the stuff (i.e. gang wars) was terribly implemented.

[@sarminder4357]

For other massive total conversion moda you can check Zombie Andreas ot Left 4 Theft.

[@nutbuttersammich]

Yoooo why have I never heard of this 😭😭😭

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

It reminds me of jetset radio.

[@extremeking425]

I wish someone would do something like this with GTA 4.

[@yevanasvetya5486]

Is this Daniska fellow still around?

[@razorblade7486]

15:28 based russian developer

[@raphaelt.8998]

Any chance this ending is rushed/bad because you didn't finish any submission or requisit?

[@BrPerera]

i used the mixmods repacked version . never faced a issue tho.

[@Ratanak45Channel]

The link you provided to the internet archive is already taken down

[@BladeOpotato]

Should be corrected now

[@ThunderShot66]

i tried that interiors mod and its completely broken i wouldn't recommend installing it. most interiors you can't even exit once you enter and the ones you can exit you just fall randomly in the water somewhere lol

[@BladeOpotato]

Damn that's a bummer! Kinda glad I didn't go thru the steps to do it myself lol

[@pwnedbyusagi]

This feels like Fifth Element the game

[@azdma7092]

The developer of this mod apparently made another SA mod called Mushroomia. From what I've seen, that mod looks quite wacky.

[@Atives99]

you should check out Gta unsettling night, its a mod based on Vc. English Ben played, and its so bad. It could be titled “The Worst Total Conversion Mod ever”.

[@AIFT_Staff]

fun fact for non-russians: when you die, song plays, and this song is "banned drummers - negr was killed"(запрещённые барабанщики - убили негра). This song from 1999 is one huge joke about black stereotypes. I hope there is eng dubs for kayf-life, because it's basically russian crack-life but for hl2. There is currently 3 known versions: only voice(2007), reloaded v1.5(2011), and remake(2017). I prefer version from 2011, but remake is technically cooler.

[@harrypaliouras7063]

Can I play this with a controller?

[@UltimateSpiderMan]

did you ever experience "armageddon" sequences? these were painful.

[@pendantblade6361]

Left a comment on the deleted vid, here's another.

[@T-Jex]

Why was this reuploaded?

[@BladeOpotato]

Had an issue with a song used in the original release. Took it out. But now someone posted a complaint on this video as soon as it was uploaded, so that was kinda sus.

[@imgonnagethacked751]

Bread 👍

[@Panzergruppe22]

Maybe it's buggy because we play now in Windows 10/11 Or maybe it's another version? But I remember played this during Windows XP and 7 era. Zero bugs, everything worked flawlessly. Yeah maybe it's OS compatibility issue.

[@umloucoaleatorio7713]

I play and finish this mod anderius is a big adventure 😂😂😂

[@alcidesprieto1967]

The real cyberpunk 2077

[@ThunderShot66]

the 'crazy go postal' guys on the streets crash my game about 50 percent of the time.

[@Alchostoic]

This later on became red faction guerrila

[@peacefusion]

How is a cactus wearing a sombrero controversial. they are native to north and south america, its fitting.

[@deadbodybaby1]

WHAAAAAT A FUTURAMA STREET

[@rroyoy]

Sorry you had to re-upload

[@BladeOpotato]

It's all good! Honestly was my mess up to begin with. Gotta be more careful of my music choices

[@deadbodybaby1]

This looks tooooo fucking cool. There a tutorial on installing it ? I’ll look 😊

[@BladeOpotato]

Install instructions should be included but it's pretty simple. Just need a fresh, clean install of GTA SA and run the mod's installer, and direct it to the games folder.

[@achififi]

i wanna play this

[@davidvangerner7241]

Imagine what whould have happened if they cloned trevor Philips from gta san andreas