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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)

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A family tragedy prompts gangster Carl "CJ" Johnson to return home, only to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which he must regain control of the streets before it gets even worse.

Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pze6mdhnBLM

Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy
Rated: TV-MA
Approx: 56min.
Developed By: Rockstar North
Published By: Rockstar Games
Executive Producer: Sam Houser
Written By: Dan Houser, James Worrall, DJ Pooh
Music By: Michael Hunter
Starting: Chris "Young Maylay" Bellard

First Aired: 7.26.2021
Game Released: 10.26.2004
Metacritic Rating: 95/100
Recorded On: PS4

Available On: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Fire OS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Oculus Quest 2, PlayStation 4

Game: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Edited By: JT NickellBagg

Did you know?

-The word "fuck" and its derivatives are used three hundred sixty-five times, not counting the soundtrack or random NPC interactions.

-The mission "Saint Mark's Bistro" has CJ travel to Liberty City to deal with the Forellis at the restaurant of the same name. The restaurant exterior is faithfully remodelled from Grand Theft Auto III (2001).

-If you go north of the Military Base in the desert, you can find a body dump.

-In the graveyard in San Andreas, there is a crypt the player can enter. Inside, there's a chair, a television set, and some old pizza boxes. This is possibly a reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997).

-The character Lance "Ryder" Wilson is modelled after late rapper Eazy-E, the founding member of N.W.A. Music from N.W.A. and Eazy-E is included in the soundtrack.

-While DJ Pooh was meeting with the game's creators to discuss the music, he received a call from Young Maylay, an artist with whom he was working. Pooh put the call on speakerphone and the creators felt that Maylay had the right voice for the character. They hired Maylay even though he had no previous acting experience.

-In July 2005, a sex-minigame called "Hot Coffee" was discovered in the game's assets (the title is a reference to CJ's first girlfriend inviting him inside for "some coffee"). Because the developers merely deactivated the minigame, it could be accessed on both the PC and the console version by using a patch or a hacking tool. Because of that, the game's rating in the USA was changed from "Mature" to "Adults Only", and as a result, many stores couldn't sell this game anymore due to strict regulations in regards to ratings. In Australia, the game was revoked its MA15+ rating and consequently pulled from stores.

-Young Maylay, who voiced CJ in this game, is real-life cousins with Shawn Fonteno, who voiced the fat Grove Street Family Homie here and Franklin Clinton in Grand Theft Auto V (2013).

-Jeffrey "OG Loc" Cross was modeled to mock rapper Ja Rule. They even share the same first name of "Jeffrey".

-Thousands of gamers are looking for a "Bigfoot", and attempting to take pictures of it from the in-game camera. No one has yet confirmed its existence, but many photos that gamers have taken resemble a rather big creature in the woods. Trees uprooted, and weird noises can be heard in the section of the map called "Back O' Beyond". Also many alien and ghost sightings have been reported. Many gamers have since looked through the entire code and have found no reference to Bigfoot or aliens. However, there is some speculation on the internet that the ghost of Carl Johnson's mom can be seen at Carl's house at night although it has not been officially proven and what can be seen if anything is a glitch that somehow resembles Beverly or possibly just power of suggestion.

-Originally, the Grove Street Families were going to be called Grove Street Alliance (GSA) or the Orange Grove Families (OGF), and the originally gang color was going to be orange instead of green. Proof in the game pertaining to both of these assumptions are easily findable because Rockstar did not delete the references to the GSA or OGF at all. For example, you can get tattoos saying Orange Grove. Furthermore, some graffiti in the game will read Orange Grove Families, rather than Grove Street Families.

-Grand Theft Auto (1997) included three cities: Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. Since the first two cities were remade for the PS2 (Grand Theft Auto III (2001), Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)), it made sense that the third city, San Andreas, would be the third game in the PS2 series. This, of course, held a huge role in the on-going debate on whether the game would be titled "San Andreas" or "Sin City".

-Rockstar Games denied claims made by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson about him being asked to voice CJ, but turned it down because if he was ever to voice a character in a video game, it would be as himself.

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