Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Gameplay

As the third and final Grand Theft Auto game of the PS2/Xbox generation, GTA: San Andreas took things to extremes. It started out fairly low-key, with protagonist Carl "C.J." Johnson heading back home to Los Santos--the game's take on Los Angeles--for his mother's funeral. While back in his hometown, C.J. quickly gets re-involved with his brother and the gang they helped build, the Grove Street Families. From there, gangster business ensues, with the boys of Grove St. getting into turf wars with rivals like The Ballas or the Los Santos Vagos.

While San Andreas starts out with the same essential scope and feel as past GTA games, San Andreas is the name of the state you're in, not just the city. So you'll start out in Los Santos, based upon Los Angeles, make your way out of town and hide out in the sticks, then make your way to San Fierro, the game's take on San Francisco. Rounding out the westside feel is a lot of desert and Las Venturas, the game's version of Las Vegas.

Plot

Differences

The size and scope of San Andreas seems to be a bit of a dividing point with series fans, as some can't get behind the way the game starts out so small and ends up with, for example, C.J. hijacking a plane in mid-air, or stealing a top-secret jet pack and flying around with submachine guns in each hand. When you compare it to the relatively simple mafia hitman adventures of Grand Theft Auto III or the cocaine-fueled 80s nightmare of Vice City, San Andreas simply operates on a level entirely its own.

Aside from the gameplay differences to Vice City and GTA3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was released to three platforms: Xbox 1, PS2 and PC the PS2 was first out of the block with a time exclusive and sold over 20 million units on the platform half a year later the other to platforms released suffering from minor bugs but otherwise identical versions of the game. The Xbox version did not sell well however the pc version shipped a few thousand units and the modding crowd went to work. It was not long before the SA-MP (San Andreas Multiplayer) community was alive and thriving with Team Deathmatch, Stunt and RPG game modes although two of these were reasonably by the numbers and did not provide enough longevity to keep a player interested the third (RPG) has spawned some interesting worlds through a half hour session I was arrested for parking to close to a bank and saw a man playing as a streetsweeper  also in my times in the GTA universe I became a taxi driver who would lock the doors as soon as they had a passenger before escorting them to an empty alleyway and doing away with them. These unique experiences only available in this world have kept a community alive well after the release of its sequel GTA IV

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