CJ Johnson
| Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | |
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| Developer(s) | Rockstar North |
| Publisher(s) | Rockstar Games |
| Producer(s) | Leslie Benzies |
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| Artist(s) | Aaron Garbut |
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| Composer(s) | Michael Hunter |
| Series | Grand Theft Auto |
| Engine | RenderWare |
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| Release |
26 October 2004
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Publication | Score | ||||
| iOS | PC | PS2 | Xbox | Xbox 360 | |
| Metacritic | 84 | 93 | 95 | 93 | N/A |
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| Publication | Award |
| IGN's Best of 2004 | PlayStation 2 Game of the Year, Best PlayStation 2 Action Game, Best Story for PlayStation 2 |
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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 action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 26 October 2004, for PlayStation 2, and on 7 June 2005, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. A high definition remastered version received a physical release for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on 30 June 2015, and 1 December 2015, respectively. 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 for Game Boy 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.
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