Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a 2004 open worldaction-adventurevideo game developed by Rockstar North in the United Kingdom and published by Rockstar Games. A sequel to the successful title Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002), San Andreas is the third 3D game in the Grand Theft Auto series, the fifth original console release and eighth game overall. Originally released for the PlayStation 2 in October 2004, the game has since been released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows in June 2005, the Xbox Live Marketplace for the Xbox 360 in October 2008, and the PlayStation Store via PSN for the PlayStation 3 in December 2012. It was made available on Steam on 4 January 2008, and on Intel-based Macs running a minimum of Mac OS X 10.6.6 in September 2011. The game was followed by Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories in 2005.
San Andreas is structured similarly to the previous two games
in the series. The core gameplay consists of elements of a third-person
shooter and a driving game, affording the player a large, open world
environment in which to move around. On foot, the player's character is
capable of walking, eating, running, sprinting, swimming, climbing (the
first GTA game in which swimming and climbing are possible) and
jumping as well as using weapons and various forms of hand to hand
combat. Players can drive a variety of vehicles, including automobiles,
buses, semis, boats, fixed wing aircraft, helicopters, trains, tanks,
motorcycles and bikes. Players may also import vehicles rather than
steal them.
The open, non-linear environment allows players to explore and choose
how they wish to play the game. Although storyline missions are
necessary to progress through the game and unlock certain cities and
content, they are not required as players can complete them at their own
leisure. When not taking on a storyline mission, players can free-roam
and look around the cities, eat from the restaurant, or cause havoc by
attacking people and causing destruction. Creating havoc can attract
unwanted and potentially fatal attention from the authorities. The more
chaos caused, the stronger the response: police will handle "minor"
infractions (attacking pedestrians, pointing guns at people, stealing
vehicles, manslaughter, etc.), whereas SWAT teams, the FBI, and the military respond to higher wanted levels.
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. 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), parachute from various peaks and skyscrapers, and visit 12 rural towns and villages located in three counties: Red, Flint, and Bone counties. 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), 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.
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The player starts out in a garage in the early 1980s during the Golden age of arcade video games
with no employees, limited money, and limited choices for the first
game. New games are created, new options are created, the first game
engine is built, the player's game development skills improve. New
consoles will also be released, so the player will be able to buy
licenses for certain consoles, such as the GS, PlaySystem, mBox, and
grPad which represent real life consoles and devices with different
names due to trademark regulations. As the player progresses through the
game further they have the opportunity to move to new offices and hire
staff. An important milestone in the campaign sees the player moving
into an office after making $1,000,000. After that further expansion is
available, with players given the opportunity to open an R&D lab
when reaching certain requirements that host major projects, allowing
the player to create consoles, MMO's and Online Game Shops similar to
Steam, uPlay, AppStore etc.
