Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

GTA: San Andreas remains one of the best games of the original Grand Theft Auto trilogy. You will find everything you need: an exciting protagonist, a fascinating story, gangs, shootouts, car chases, and bike rides. This game has become a living legend and it has a mobile version.

Storyline

The story of Carl Johnson (CJ), the protagonist of San Andreas, is epic, as in all games from Rockstar North. CJ escaped from Los Santos, his hometown, five years ago to Liberty City. Now he has to go back because of his mother's death. After landing at the airport, our hero immediately gets into a whirlpool of unpleasant events: corrupt cops accuse him of killing his colleague and are trying to force him to "cooperate," there is discord and scandal in the family, the former CJ's gang has lost all respect in the streets, and even his brother is not very happy to meet him.

What should an ordinary guy do in such a situation, with nothing behind him but a family barn wreck on the edge of the feral ghetto? Whine and get drunk to a beastly state? Of course not! Carl is the character you have never dreamt you would be. He swears obscenely but grits his teeth, struggle with circumstances and defeats them successfully. At the same time, he does not look like the silly average game hero who is used to meeting any threat with a kick of his boot. Carl is afraid of corrupt cops Tenpenny and Pulaski (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson and Chris Penn), is worried about his brother, and is always ready to help his friends. The part of CJ's life shown in San Andreas has so many events that they would be enough not even for a movie but for an entire TV series.

Versatility and various possibilities

The stuffy ghetto where CJ's family lives, the cold and impregnable skyscrapers of San Fierro, and the alluring lights of San Venturas — the developers show the most unsightly aspects of life in the United States. The drug trade, corrupt police officers, the injustice of the government, street prostitution, thieves who rob old ladies, and dirty shantytowns — that's all San Andreas is about.

A vast open world

The scale first catches your eye when you start Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game world has not just become wider but has grown and gotten many small details. Instead of one city, there is an entire state with three megacities: Los Santos (Los Angeles was the actual prototype), San Fierro (San Francisco), and Las Venturas (Las Vegas). Each city is unique and nearly identical to its real-life counterpart in architecture, style, and atmosphere. The San Andreas metropolitan areas are as vast as Vice City.

Do whatever you want

The plot of San Andreas is not limited to gangster showdowns and scandals with the police. In Carl's lifepath, he has to solve many significant problems. You can tie an Italian gangster to the hood of your car and ride him in the oncoming traffic lane until he screams in fear. You can burn down a cannabis field with a flamethrower and evade the police. You can steal the newest fighter jet off an aircraft carrier. In other words, you can do whatever you want. Nostalgic old-school gamers can go to the slot machines to drop a faint tear seeing two-dimensional shooters of the 80s. Those who prefer to relax behind the wheel can get a job as a police officer, taxi driver, delivery man, or even a pimp. Fans of mindless time-killing entertainment can climb on a tower crane and try to use a magnet to lift the cars passing far below into the air.

You can also dance in clubs, search for places where something isn't nailed down (CJ, who is sneaking around someone else's house with a stolen TV in his hands, is a scene that is worth to be seen), race through rough terrain, hunt for power-ups scattered everywhere, and so on.