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The game, which has undergone several re-releases, caused scandals and won recognition from players all over the world, was developed in two years — that’s how much has passed since the release of the previous part, GTA Vice City.

Over these two years (not ten years, as another studio might have done), the developers created one of the largest computer games — a gigantic location containing an entire state called San Andreas (the prototype in real life is California). The state, in turn, is divided into three large cities — Los Santos (prototype — Los Angeles), San Fierro (prototype — San Francisco) and Las Venturas (in which Las Vegas is guessed).

In addition, the state has many small towns, not to mention the impressive size of the countryside and desert. The authors have never particularly boasted about the accuracy of the reproduction of cities, but many places from the game can be easily guessed when looking at real photographs.

The hero of the game, African-American Carl “CJ” Johnson arrives in Los Santos from Liberty City (this city, by the way, appears more often than others in the GTA series), where he went in search of a better life, but in reality was only involved in thefts and thefts. Now he gets a call from his brother, Sean “Sweet.” He reports that their mother has died. Immediately upon his arrival in the city, Karl makes a “pleasant acquaintance” with two corrupt police officers who have long had a grudge against him and his brother, and after his mother’s funeral it turns out that the situation in Los Santos has not become any better, and in the Grove Street Families gang ", the unspoken leader of which is Sweet, complete discord reigns. Now all this needs to be fixed.

It would seem that the plot of GTA San Andreas should be quite gloomy, because the life of criminal elements cannot be fun, but there is also enough humor in the game. At times, the amount of irony is even too high — in addition to jokes about gangsters, the American way of life, politicians and corrupt police officers, the developers do not deny themselves the pleasure of laughing at priests, or even ridiculing the games of their competitors.

The game features about a hundred main story missions and many secondary ones, such as the opportunity to work as a fireman, policeman, ambulance driver, taxi driver, thief, pimp, train driver. There are also many smaller tasks, such as collecting oysters hidden under water in different parts of the state, photographing certain places and buildings, and painting over graffiti. These "collection" tasks always come with small rewards. If you slowly complete all the tasks, playing GTA San Andreas can take, perhaps, more than one month.

But even after completing a large number of missions prepared by the authors, there will be something to do in the game (which, in general, is traditional for a series of games). Among other things, Karl can date girls: by developing relationships with them, you can get small surprises, for example, one of the girls, who works as a nurse, will make it possible to ensure that Karl’s weapons are not taken away when he gets to the hospital. The game also has a number of mini-games, including billiards, discos, and casinos.

CJ can drive about two hundred types of vehicles, including cars, vans, trucks, motorcycles, boats, helicopters and airplanes. Every vehicle seen in San Andreas has a real-life prototype, although the actual names are not used in the game.

A separate role in GTA San Andreas is given to radio stations that you can listen to while in the car — there are exactly 11 of them. On the radio, mixed with advertising (which is often a parody), songs of such artists and groups as: Faith No More, Depeche Mode, James Brown are played. , Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Cream, Alice in Chains, Guns N' Roses, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A., 2Pac, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Stone Temple Pilots, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Ozzy Osbourne.

In the game, you can flexibly change the appearance of the main character by buying new clothes in stores (there are several large clothing chains in the state: Binco, Victim, Zip, ProLaps, Didier Sachs). Carl can also change his haircut, he can visit the gym (which affects his figure) and eateries (in the game you need to eat at least sometimes, but if you eat too often and too much, this will also affect CJ’s appearance).

A large arsenal, which will be useful in battles with enemy gangs, includes pistols, machine guns, rifles and several types of throwing weapons.

Meanwhile, GTA San Andreas is also the first (and last, at the moment) game in the series in which there are RPG elements: the character has a number of skills (shooting skills, driving, level of attractiveness) that can be developed. Technically, San Andreas is based on a version of the RenderWare game engine created by Criterion Games. This engine, known for its ability to handle large open environments, has been used in many Rockstar games, including other GTA games GTA 3 and GTA Vice City. Compared to the version used in GTA Vice City, the technology has been significantly improved for San Andreas. The PC version received the greatest number of pleasant graphical improvements; These include dynamic shadows, which are affected by the location of the sun.

Most likely, it is the abundance of opportunities and open gameplay (between missions the player can move freely around a huge staff, and most of the missions can be completed in a convenient order) that make the GTA series games so popular, and given the scale of GTA San Andreas and the high quality of execution , it’s clear why she doesn’t lose the love of the players. More modifications were made for this game than for all other games in the series (including the more technologically advanced GTA 4). A huge community of fans is constantly working on mods that improve the game's graphics, replace vehicles, add new features, and some mods completely change the location.

Players can see Los Santos, well known from GTA San Andreas, again in the new GTA 5. In addition, GTA San Andreas was released on mobile platforms and therefore will be relevant for a very long time.

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