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1!! Spoilers for all 3D Universe entries of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series preceding this one, including ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' may have been unmarked. Also, due to the game taking place nine years before ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', expect {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s for to that game. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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3[[caption-width-right:300:That's gonna be a hell of a story to tell when we passin' the blunt...]]
4->''"After five years on the east coast, it was time to go home."''
5-->-- '''Carl "C.J." Johnson'''
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7''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' is the sixth game in Creator/RockstarGames‘ ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, released in 2004.
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9After the previous two main GTA games took two of the three cities from [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic the original game]] — [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII Liberty City]] and [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]] respectively — and expanded them into [[WideOpenSandbox wide-open sandboxes]], Rockstar took it to the next level by turning the remaining city, San Andreas, into an '''entire state''', itself having three major cities: [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles Los Santos]], [[UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco San Fierro]] and [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas Las Venturas]]. It also has nearly a dozen small towns, and loads of land in between them.
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11The game puts the player in the shoes of Carl "C.J." Johnson (Young Maylay), a good guy, [[AntiHero relatively speaking]] -- [[VillainProtagonist a first for the series.]] C.J. is a gangster from the Grove Street Families who left the city of Los Santos, San Andreas after his brother Brian was killed, but is returning home after a five-year stint in Liberty City to bury his murdered mother, Beverly.
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13Shortly after arriving, [[DirtyCop C.R.A.S.H.]] officers Frank Tenpenny (Creator/SamuelLJackson) and Eddie Pulaski (Creator/ChrisPenn) pick him up and frame him for the murder of Ralph Pendelbury, an internal affairs officer that they killed to cover up their corrupt dealings. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's also the mystery of the [[MacGuffin green roadster]] which performed the drive-by on Beverly Johnson, as well as corrupt elements within the GSF that want a slice of the burgeoning crack trade. Saving Grove Street, and ultimately Los Santos, from the machinations of C.R.A.S.H. will take C.J. all over the state of San Andreas, where he'll have to rub elbows with Chinese casino owners, rap moguls, Mexican gangbangers - as well quite a few [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo familiar faces]].
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15Rockstar returned to San Andreas in 2013 with ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''; however, this reimagined version only depicts Los Santos and surrounding countryside (hewing closer to real-life Los Angeles and its surrounding towns than to the previous fictional depiction of Los Santos), though ''GTA: San Andreas'''s use of small rural towns is retained. Some elements of the original Los Santos remain, such as the Vinewood analog for Hollywood, and some shoutouts to the original game. Technically speaking, the sandbox play area for the game is actually much larger than ''GTA: San Andreas'', though players have also noted that, conversely, it also feels smaller at the same time (perhaps due to there being only one distinct city in the new game). ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', meanwhile, gave Las Venturas a cameo in one of its in-game TV commercials, suggesting it still exists and could someday be featured in another game, along with San Fierro.
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17Despite its age, it has been reported to still be one of the most-played games on [=PS2=] to this day, largely due to being so big and having so much to do. As such, a remastered version was made for the IOS and Android systems, and later ported to the Platform/Xbox360 (on October 26th, 2014, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the game), and then the Platform/PlayStation3 on December 1st, 2015. On October 8th, 2021, it was announced that ''San Andreas'' would see a CompilationRerelease alongside ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' for Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/PlayStation4, Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS, Platform/XboxOne, and Platform/NintendoSwitch as part of the 20th anniversary of ''Grand Theft Auto III'', with a version for mobile devices planned for the first half of 2022.
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19If you're looking for the 2015 disaster film of the same name, go [[Film/SanAndreas here]].
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22!!You picked the wrong tropes, fool!
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29-->''[[MemeticMutation Ah shit]], {{here we go again}}.'' Worst place in Website/ThisVeryWiki, ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', Troper Country. I ain't represented [[{{Website/Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] in five years, but the Tropers won't give a shit.

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