Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Review - Throw Some Chedda' at This Incredible Port

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Review - Throw Some Chedda' at This Incredible Port

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an popular Action game.Like most Grand Theft Auto games, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas free launched with loads of fanfare and like many GTA's before it, its release in 2004 marked a significant evolution in the depth, complexity, and overall size of the game. In fact, if the original had any drawbacks, it would've been just how far GTA:SA was pushing the PlayStation 2. The game seemed to use 101% of what the PS2 could do, which meant maximizing all the drawbacks of a console system pushed to its limit. As someone who was pretty into PC gaming at the time, its low frame rate was hard to deal with. 

As the title hints, GTA:SA is set in San Andreas which is a weird mixture of vaguely familiar elements of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. There's also other familiar geography from the American southwest like an Area 51, Hollywood, the Hoover Dam, and more. You'll play as CJ and the game opens with him returning to his old stomping grounds following the death of his mother. Of course, since he's been gone everything has gone south, and a large part of the game orbits around restoring his gang on Grove Street and then eventually taking over territory from rival gangs. Of course it wouldn't be a GTA game if there weren't also lots of twists, turns, and all sorts of unsavory characters in between.