Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the best game ever published by Rockstar Games or by any publisher.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a third-person action adventure game, which has free-roaming, like all Grand Theft Auto games and some cloned it, for example The Simpsons, Total Overdose, Driv3r, and many more.
The game starts with an African-American person named Carl Johnson, mostly known as CJ, who left his home town Los Santos, San Andreas in 1987, when his brother Brian died. In 1992, when he lived in Liberty City, he had a call by his other brother Sweet saying that their mom, Beverly died. CJ decided to go back to his town to bury her. He gets trouble with some police officers, Frank Tenpenny (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson), Eddie Pulaski and Hernandez. CJ's job is to put his gang, Grove Street Families (sometimes called GSF, or simply Families) on the map, and his rival gang, the Ballas and Vagos. During his goal, he'll explore the whole San Andreas.
Unlike Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City, you'll explore a state, instead of a simple big city. You can explore three big cities: Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas. There are many features, you don't see on previous games, like ride a bicycle, go to the gym, dance, and show statistics about CJ. Speaking of stats, they appear San Andreas would be a mixture of free-roaming action adventure game and RPG.
* Respect means that the higher the respect, the more members you can be in the gang battling with the Ballas and Vagos. However, this is kinda useless.
* Weapon Skill is important to make your weapons stronger, and at some of them you can use dual-wielded. Muscle is about getting less damage from your enemies.
* Fat is about keeping your energy, and it's important to able to run, get into some missions, and girlfriends.
* Stamina is useful when running away or after your enemy, sprint for a longer time.
When having a gun battle, it's easy to use your mouse and keyboard to get headshots and quickly attack the another one, but it's easier when you use a gamepad. The shooting effects like most first-person shooter games, like Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, when not aiming. At driving it's interesting to look around with your mouse.
The mini-games have the Paramedic, Firefighter, Vigilante, Taxi Driver, but there are more like lowrider meets, dancing, drive the cargo to one place from another, and even do quarry missions. The missions come from easy to hard, some missions make you surprise when you can do it on your first try.
The graphics are not close to next-gen, but the PC version is the best and the fastest one. You can make your draw distance and resolution higher. The sound effects are also great and the dialogues are great and very funny. Some missions' dialogues can really make you laugh. The funniest ones are CJ's one-liners, when aiming at random people, carjacking, getting carjacked and fighting. In radio stations, there are very great songs in almost every station, and radio DJs are creative at comments. However, there's a problem with the sound, when it rains in the game, you can only hear lightning and falling raindrops.
Despite some glitches, graphical problems and the very controversial Hot Coffee Mod discovered, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas remains to be the greatest computer and video game ever published by Rockstar Games or any publisher. It's an unforgettable and fun game you will play even ten years after its release, it will remain in video gaming history. Let's hope that the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV will be just as or even more awesome than San Andreas we play even in almost three and a half years after its release on the Sony's most successful hardware, PlayStation 2 and twenty months after the xBox and Windows PC release.