san andreas
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas takes place in 1992 within the state of San Andreas, which is based on sections of California and Nevada. It comprises three major fictional cities: Los Santos corresponds to Los Angeles, San Fierro corresponds to San Francisco, and Las Venturas corresponds to Las Vegas.[9] The environments around these cities are also based on settings within the Southwestern region of the United States. Players can drive up the half-mile (800 m) tall Mount Chiliad (based on Mount Diablo), parachutefrom various peaks and skyscrapers, and visit 12 rural towns and villages located in three counties: Red County, Flint County and Bone County. Other notable destinations include Sherman Dam (based on the Hoover Dam), a large secret military base called Area 69 (based on Area 51), a large satellite dish (based on a dish from the Very Large Array), Vinewood (based on Hollywood) and the Vinewood sign (based on the Hollywood sign) which is located in Mulholland, and many other geographical features. Interestingly the bridges in San Fierro are based on the Forth road and rail bridges which link Edinburgh, the home of Rockstar North, to Fife although the road bridge is highly similar to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. San Andreas is 13.9 square miles (36 square kilometres),[15] almost four times as large as Vice City and five times as large as the Grand Theft Auto III rendition of Liberty City. The three cities are linked by numerous highways, a train system, and air travel. While its predecessors' areas were limited to urban locations, San Andreas includes not only large cities and suburbs, but also the rural areas between them.
Characters[edit]
Main article: List of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas characters
The characters that appear in San Andreas are relatively diverse and relative to the respective cities and locales which each of them based himself in. This allows the game to include a significantly wider array of story lines and settings than in Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City. The player controls Carl "CJ" Johnson (Young Maylay), a young African-American gang member who serves as the game's protagonist.
The Los Santos stages of the game revolve around the theme of the Grove Street Families gang fighting with the Ballas and the Vagos for territory and respect. East Asian gangs (most notably the local Triads), an additional Vietnamese gang (the Da Nang Boys), and a force of Hispanic thugs working for the local "Loco Syndicate" (the San Fierro Rifa) are evident in the San Fierro leg of the game, while three Mafia families and the Triads who all own their respective casino are more prominently featured in the Las Venturas section of the game.
Like the previous two GTA games, the voice actors of San Andreas include notable celebrities, such as David Cross, Andy Dick, Ron Foster, Samuel L. Jackson, James Woods, Peter Fonda, Charlie Murphy, Frank Vincent, Chris Penn, Danny Dyer, Sara Tanaka, William Fichtner, Wil Wheaton, rappers Ice-T, Chuck D, Frost, MC Eiht and The Game and musicians George Clinton, Axl Rose, Sly and Robbie, and Shaun Ryder.[16] Young Maylay makes his debut as the protagonist, Carl.
The Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer's Edition lists it as the video game with the largest voice cast, with 861 credited voice actors, including 174 actors and 687 additional performers, many of those performers being fans of the series who wanted to appear on the game.[17]
Plot[edit]
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Grand Theft Auto series
fictional chronology |
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1984 – Vice City Stories
1986 – Vice City 1992 – San Andreas 1998 – Liberty City Stories 2000 – Advance 2001 – Grand Theft Auto III
2008 – Grand Theft Auto IV
– The Lost and Damned – The Ballad of Gay Tony 2009 – Chinatown Wars TBA – Grand Theft Auto V |
In 1987, Carl "CJ" Johnson witnesses his younger brother, Brian, being murdered by the rival gang members. Being blamed for the murder and under a lot of pressure, Carl leaves Los Santos and starts a new life, moving to Liberty City.
5 years later in 1992, Carl is an ambitious car thief and working with Joey Leone, a professional mechanic and a Leone Family member. He suddenly gets a call from his older brother, Sweet, who informs him that their mother, Beverly Johnson, has been murdered. Carl decides to go home for the funeral.
Upon returning and arriving in the hood, corrupt C.R.A.S.H. police officers Frank Tenpenny (Samuel L. Jackson) and Edward "Eddie" Pulaski (Chris Penn), whom Carl has had history with, apprehend him and threaten to frame him for a fellow officer's murder (which they had committed just minutes earlier) unless he assists them in their illegal operations.
Carl returns to his former home on Grove Street and reunites with his brother Sweet (Faizon Love) and fellow gangsters Ryder (MC Eiht), Big Smoke (Clifton Powell) and OG Loc to reestablishGrove Street Families as the predominant gang in Los Santos. Carl, Ryder and Big Smoke begin intercepting shipments of weapons, waging war with rival gangs "Ballas" and "Vagos" for turf, and reducing the influence of crack cocaine among Family members. Carl also begins helping OG Loc establish a music career by ruining the career of prominent rapper Madd Dogg (Ice-T). While working to re-establish the gang, Carl begins mending relationships and gradually earning back respect from his family and allies especially earning back respect from Sweet, for leaving Los Santos five years prior.
Shortly before a large gang battle with the Ballas, Carl receives a call from his sister Kendl’s boyfriendCesar Vialpando (Clifton Collins, Jr.), a leader of the smaller Hispanic street gang "Varrios Los Aztecas", who shows Carl a green "Sabre" (the vehicle long-rumored to have been involved in his mother’s shooting) being escorted by Big Smoke, Ryder, a group of Ballas, and Tenpenny. Carl then realizes that they were the one's responsible for the slaying. Carl then attempts to rush back to the battle, but is too late to save his brother from being ambushed and nearly killed. Carl defeats the rest of the Ballas there, but is arrested by Pulaski and Tenpenny who arrive on the scene, and dumped in the San Andreas countryside to assassinate a witness threatening Tenpenny and Pulaski. They also instruct him to keep his distance from them and Big Smoke. Meanwhile, Big Smoke and Ryder, now openly in league with the Ballas, take over the remaining Grove Street territories in Los Santos, flooding it with crack cocaine.
While hiding in the countryside from the now Ballas and Vagos-controlled Los Santos,Carl is enlisted by Tenpenny to work with an aged marijuana farmer and hippie "The Truth" (Peter Fonda) in preparation to discredit a district attorney who has evidence of his and Pulaski's corruption. In the meantime, the similarly exiled Cesar sets Carl up to assist in a robbery spree with his cousin Catalinaand joining in underground street races for some much needed money. Through these races, Carl meets the blind Triad leader Wu Zi “Woozie” Mu and wins the deed to a garage in San Fierro from Catalina. With help from The Truth, Carl works to convert the garage to a chop shop by hiring mechanics Dwaine and Jethro, and electronics expert Zero (David Cross).
Besides sending the D.A. to prison for planted marijuana for Tenpenny, Carl insinuates himself in San Fierro's Loco Syndicate, Smoke and Ryder's cocaine connection, consisting of pimp Jizzy B, San Fierro "Rifa" gang leader T-Bone Mendez, and undercover government agent Mike Toreno. Carl eventually assassinates the Syndicate leaders, Ryder, and destroys their crack factory. He also helps Woozie fend off a rival San Fierro Vietnamese gang, the Da Nang Boys. Zero also phones Carl to tell him that his landlord is selling his shop. Carl can choose to buy Zero's shop to save his business, and help him wage an RC war against his rival, Berkley.
Carl is contacted by the presumed-dead Loco Syndicate leader Mike Toreno (James Woods), who reveals he's a secret government agent and agrees to secure Sweet's release from jail in return for Carl's help in several shady operations.
Later, Carl is invited by Woozie to become a partner in the Four Dragons Casino in Las Venturas, where they are facing harassment from the Mafia-run Caligula's Palace casino. To displace the Mafia, they begin planning to rob Caligula's. Through The Truth, Carl meets music producer Kent Paul (Danny Dyer) and his client Maccer. Carl meets Caligula's manager Ken Rosenberg (Bill Fichtner), under pressure for support from the three Liberty City families. When Salvatore Leone (Frank Vincent) comes to Las Venturas to take over all of Caligula's for himself he takes Rosenberg, Kent Paul, and Maccer hostage, but Carl helps them escape under the guise of helping Salvatore. Whilst working for Salvatore, Carl is sent back to Liberty City in order to take out a Mafia family operating at Saint Mark's Bistro. After final planning Carl and Woozie carry out their heist, taking millions of dollars from Salvatore's Casino. After the heist Carl receives a phone call from an enraged Salvatore who repeatedly tells Carl he's "Dead!" along with threats of murdering his friends and family. Carl mocks Salvatore and hangs up. Salvatore isn't heard from again for the rest of the game.
Meanwhile, Tenpenny and Pulaski, now under indictment, try to kill Carl, but Carl manages to kill Pulaski. Carl also saves the fallen Madd Dogg from suicide, becoming his manager, and reestablishing him in Los Santos. Shortly after Carl does one last odd job for Toreno, Sweet is finally released and has Carl once again help him restore Grove Street.
Tenpenny goes to trial for several felonies, but the charges are dropped for lack of evidence since all the prosecution's witnesses are either disgraced, missing, or dead. Tenpenny's release sends anger and shock throughout Los Santos, triggering the in-game rendition of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
Meanwhile, Cesar has also returned to Los Santos and requests that Carl help him reestablish the Varrios Los Aztecas, as the Vagos have taken over the area. After Cesar returns to his gang, Sweet manages to track down Big Smoke who is living in a fortified crack fortress. Carl breaks through all of the fortifications and kills Big Smoke in a shootout, only to be confronted by Tenpenny, who steals all of Big Smoke's drug money and escapes in a firetruck. Carl and Sweet pursue Tenpenny through the streets of Los Santos until Tenpenny loses control and crashes off a bridge, landing at the entrance of the Grove Street cul-de-sac. Tenpenny manages to crawl free of the wreckage before collapsing. As Tenpenny is dying Carl considers shooting him, but Sweet stops him, saying that they shouldn't leave evidence that Tenpenny was killed instead of it just being an accident.
In the aftermath Carl's family and friends arrive at the Johnson house for a meeting. Madd Dogg announces that he's received a gold record for his new album. Cesar proposes to Kendl. As his friends and allies celebrate their success, Carl turns to leave. When Kendl asked where he's going, he replies, "Fittin' to hit the block, see what's happening."
Soundtrack[edit]
Main articles: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Official Soundtrack, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Official Soundtrack Box Set
As with the previous two entries in the Grand Theft Auto series, San Andreas has an exhaustive number of tracks taken from the time period in which the game is based.
San Andreas is serviced by eleven radio stations; WCTR (talk radio), Master Sounds 98.3 (rare groove, playing many of the old funk and soul tracks sampled by 1990s hip-hop artists), K-Jah West (dub and reggae; modeled after K-Jah from GTA III), CSR (New Jack Swing, Modern Soul), Radio X (alternative rock, metal and grunge), Radio Los Santos (gangsta rap), SF-UR (old school Chicagohouse music), Bounce FM (funk), K-DST (classic rock), K-Rose (country) and Playback FM (classic hip hop).
The music system in San Andreas is enhanced from previous titles. In earlier in the series, each radio station was essentially a single looped sound file, playing the same songs, announcements and advertisements in the same order each time. In San Andreas, each section is held separately, and "mixed" randomly, allowing songs to be played in different orders, announcements to songs to be different each time, and plot events to be mentioned on the stations. This system would be used inGrand Theft Auto IV. WCTR, rather than featuring licensed music and DJs, features spoken word performances by actors such as Andy Dick performing as talk show hosts and listener callers in a parody of talk radio programming.
Lazlow again plays as himself on the show "Entertaining America" on WCTR in the same persona as in III and Vice City. He takes over after the former presenter, Billy Dexter, is shot on air by in-game film star Jack Howitzer. Lazlow interviews guests such as O.G. Loc, who is one of the three characters Carl encounters during the game that is on the radio, along with Big Smoke and The Truth.
The Xbox and Windows versions of the game include an additional radio station that supports custom soundtracks by playing user imported MP3s, allowing players to listen to their own music while playing the game. This feature is not available on the PlayStation 2 version of the game or when played on the Xbox 360. [18]
Reception
Upon its release, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was met with universal critical acclaim, with many calling it one of the PlayStation 2's best games. It received an average review score of 95%, according to Metacritic,[28] tying for the fifth highest ranked game in PlayStation 2 history. IGN rated the game a 9.9/10 (the highest score it has ever awarded to a PlayStation 2 game), calling it "the defining piece of software" for the PlayStation 2.[14] GameSpot rated the game 9.6/10, giving it an Editor's Choice award. GameSpot said "San Andreas definitely lives up to the Grand Theft Auto name. In fact, it's arguably the best game in the series".[9] San Andreas also received an A rating from the 1UP.com network[29] and a 10/10 score fromOfficial U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Common praises were made about the game's open-endedness, the size of the state of San Andreas, and the engaging storyline and voice acting. Most criticisms of the game stemmed from graphical mishaps, poor character models, and low-resolution textures, as well as various control issues, particularly with auto-aiming at enemies. Some critics commented that while a lot of new content had been added to San Andreas, little of it had been refined or implemented well.[30] Nevertheless, since its release, San Andreas has been regarded to be one of the greatest games of all time, placing at number 28 in Edge's Top 100 Games to Play Today. Edge declared that the game remains "the ultimate expression of freedom, before next-gen reined it all back in."[31]
Sales and commercial success[edit]
By March 3, 2005, the game had sold over 12 million units for the PlayStation 2 alone, making it thehighest selling game for PlayStation 2.[32] As of September 26, 2007, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreashas sold 20 million units according to Take-Two Interactive.[33] As of March 26, 2008, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has sold 21.5 million units according to Take-Two Interactive.[34] The Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer's Edition list it as the most successful game in the PlayStation 2, with 17.33 million copies sold for that console alone, from a total of 21.5 million in all formats. In 2010, GTA: San Andreas is the 3rd Best Selling game of all time.[17] In 2011, Kotaku reported that according to Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has sold 27.5 million copies worldwide.[35]
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