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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a 2004 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.It is the fifth main game in the Grand Theft Auto series, following 2002's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and the seventh entry overall.
Grand Theft Auto III, San Andreas and Vice City currently lie at the 2nd, 5th and 6th highest rated PlayStation 2 games on Metacritic, respectively, [201] while Chinatown Wars is rated the best game on the Nintendo DS [202] and the second best on the PlayStation Portable, [203] and Grand Theft Auto IV is currently rated the second best game ...
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an open-world, action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.First released on 26 October 2004 for the PlayStation 2, San Andreas has an in-game radio that can tune in to eleven stations playing more than 150 tracks of licensed music, as well as a talk radio station.
Under its former name War Drum Studios, Grove Street Games previously developed mobile versions of the trilogy, as well as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of San Andreas. [17] [23] The Definitive Edition was in development for two years, [24] and used Unreal Engine 4 for rendering; [25] [26] the original games used RenderWare. [27]
The second-best-selling game on the console is Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (2001), which sold 14.89 million units. The top five is rounded out by Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) selling 14.2 million units, Gran Turismo 4 (2004) with 11.76 million units sold, and Grand Theft Auto III (2001) with 11.6 million units sold.
Grand Theft Auto is made up of six levels split between three main cities; each locale is based on a real-life city in the United States, with an alternative name: Liberty City (New York City), San Andreas (San Francisco), and Vice City . The progression is linear, as each level completed automatically unlocks the next one in the chain.
The Grand Theft Auto IV rendition of Liberty City is more detailed and larger in size than most earlier entries in the series; although smaller than San Andreas, the setting of the previous main game, the developers considered it comparable in scope due to city's verticality, number of buildings, and level of detail. [45]
The game's setting is the fictional US state of San Andreas and city of Los Santos, based on Southern California and Los Angeles respectively. [16] San Andreas was first used as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas ' setting, which featured three cities separated by open countryside.