Set in the year 1992, chronologically, San Andreas is sandwiched between Vice City, which is set in 1986, and GTA 3, which takes place in 2001. GTA: San Andreas has an impressive roster of more than 200 vehicles, and the design for a lot of these was tied in a very interesting way to narrative elements of the game. You’ll spot a TV and a couch and some old pizza boxes- all of which is a pretty neat nod to Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Spike. The Los Santos graveyard in Vinewood, for instance, has a crypt that you can enter that has pretty intriguing stuff going on inside. Speaking of spooky stuff, there’s quite a bit more of that to look for in San Andreas if you go looking for it. From Bigfoot to aliens to the ghost of protagonist Carl Johnson’s (or CJ’s) dead mother, players spent countless hours running around in that open world to chase down all kinds of virtual urban legends. A lot of these boil down to stuff that’s a little out-there, and appropriately enough, GTA: San Andreas, which shares GTA 5’s setting, also had a lot of that going on. GTA 5 is sort of the pinnacle of how much Rockstar’s open worlds encourage players to dive deep into their worlds and obsess over the tiniest and most out-of-the-way details. They originally planned on having multiple protagonists in GTA: San Andreas, though as you’d expect, due to the technical limitations of the time, they ended up having to drop the idea. Interestingly enough, Rockstar flirted with that idea long before that.
Grand Theft Auto 5 was a big step forward for the series in many, many ways (to say the least), but one of the biggest leaps it made was with its protagonists, becoming the first game in the series to have multiple (three, to be specific) playable protagonists that you could switch between at any time. Of course, those who haven’t played the game (or those who have and want to jump back in) will soon have the chance to do so when the remastered GTA trilogy launches, and so, as we get closer to its release, here, we’re going to go over a few interesting tidbits about GTA: San Andreas. There’s a large contingent of people out there who’ll still staunchly hold up Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as the best GTA game, and it’s not hard to see why.
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