*** Welcome to piglix ***

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
GTASABOX.jpg
Developer(s) Rockstar North
Publisher(s) Rockstar Games
Distributor(s) Take-Two Interactive
Producer(s) Leslie Benzies
Programmer(s)
  • Obbe Vermeij
  • Adam Fowler
Artist(s) Aaron Garbut
Writer(s)
Composer(s) Michael Hunter
Series Grand Theft Auto
Engine RenderWare
Platform(s)
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Action-adventure
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Aggregate score
Publication Score
iOS PC PS2 Xbox Xbox 360
Metacritic 84 93 95 93 N/A
Awards
Publication Award
IGN's Best of 2004 PlayStation 2 Game of the Year,
Best PlayStation 2 Action Game,
Best Story for PlayStation 2
GameSpot's Best
and Worst of 2004
Best PlayStation 2 Game,
Best Action Adventure Game,
Readers' Choice — Best PlayStation 2
Action Adventure Game,
Readers' Choice — PlayStation 2
Game of the Year,
Best Voice Acting, Funniest Game
2004 Spike TV
Video Game Awards
Game of the Year,
Best Performance by a Human (Male),
Best Action Game,
Best Soundtrack

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 26 October 2004 for the PlayStation 2, and on 7 June 2005 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. It is the seventh title in the Grand Theft Auto series, and the first main entry since 2002's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It was released on the same day as the handheld game Grand Theft Auto Advance.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is played from a third-person perspective in an open world environment, allowing the player to interact with the game world at their leisure. The game is set within the fictional U.S. state of San Andreas, which is heavily based on California and Nevada. The state of San Andreas consists of three metropolitan cities: Los Santos, based on Los Angeles; San Fierro, based on San Francisco; and Las Venturas, based on Las Vegas. The single-player story follows Carl "CJ" Johnson, who returns home to Los Santos from Liberty City after his mother's murder. Carl finds his old friends and family in disarray, and over the course of the game he attempts to re-establish his old gang, clashes with corrupt cops, and gradually unravels the truth behind his mother's murder. The plot is based on multiple real-life events in Los Angeles, including the rivalry between the Bloods, Crips, and Hispanic street gangs, the 1980s crack epidemic, the LAPD Rampart scandal, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.


...
Wikipedia

...