Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

PLOT

After living in Liberty City for five years, Carl "CJ" Johnson returns to Los Santos in 1992 for his mother's funeral. Upon returning, his cab is pulled over by police officers Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski, who had several run-ins with Carl before he left. The officers put Carl in the squad car, frame him for a fellow officer's murder, and drop him off in a rival gang's area of town. Once Carl rides a bike back to his house, he finds his family and friends in disarray.

Carl's brother, Sean "Sweet" Johnson accuses him of their brother Brian's—and their mother's—deaths and berates him for abandoning the gang, the Grove Street Families. In an effort to win back his brother's favor, Carl then does jobs for Sweet, and fellow gang members Ryder, Big Smoke, and OG Loc. He also becomes protective of his sister Kendl after Sweet discovers that she is dating a member of another gang.

Thanks largely to Carl, the Grove Street Families return to prominence, and Sweet forgives him. While Sweet is preparing for a gang war against their rivals, the Ballas, CJ gets a call from Cesar, Kendl's boyfriend. The man shows him the Green Sabre being escorted by Big Smoke, Ryder and Tenpenny. This proves the three were involved in CJ's mother's death and that Sweet's plan is doomed. Carl tries to warn Sweet but can't reach him by phone; in desperation, he tries to rescue him. He withstands the Ballas long enough for SWAT and C.R.A.S.H. to arrive on the scene. Sweet is arrested and Tenpenny takes Carl away with him to 'the middle of nowhere' - a small village, Angel Pine, isolated between Los Santos and San Fierro. Meanwhile, aided by Ryder and Big Smoke, the Ballas take over Los Santos, flooding it with "yay," a form of crack cocaine.

Carl, realizing Tenpenny is his only hope of staying out of jail or getting Sweet released, continues to run the crooked cop's errands, and begins killing or discrediting people involved in building a criminal case against Tenpenny. During this time, Tenpenny introduces CJ to an old hippie named The Truth, and CJ helps the hippie with his marijuana farm. Meanwhile, Cesar gets CJ involved in a street-racing club run by the blind Chinese Triad leader and businessman Wu Zi Mu (who is referred to as Woozie). Eventually Carl wins the deed to a San Fierro garage, which he and his friends operate while they wait for an opportunity to return to Los Santos.

In San Fierro, Carl infiltrates the Loco Syndicate, who are supplying the Ballas with their drugs, doing jobs with the main members: **** the head of the gang, T-Bone, the gang's muscle, and shady government agent Mike Toreno, the gang's administrator. Eventually Carl kills them all, along with Ryder. Carl also does jobs for Woozie helping out his Triad in getting rid of a problematic Vietnamese gang, the Da Nang Boys.

It is then revealed that Toreno is, in fact, still alive and an agent for an unnamed branch of the U.S. Government. Carl becomes immersed in the affairs of Toreno, who survived his encounter with CJ, and implies that he will release Sweet if Carl helps him with his covert operations. After training to become a pilot, CJ then carries out operations for Toreno. Later, Carl is invited by Woozie to become a partner in the Triad's casino in Las Venturas, where they are facing harassment from the Mafia-run Caligula's Palace casino. Eventually, Carl gets a chance to scope out Caligula's Casino after The Truth asks him to save Kent Paul and Maccer, whom The Truth lost during a trip into the desert. Kent Paul introduces Carl to the Manager of the Casino—an ex-lawyer Ken Rosenberg, a former drug addict who has fallen in a depression because of the Mafia feud. He claims that if one family destroys the other, that family will surely kill him. Carl helps him by rescuing Johnny Sindacco from the hands of the Forellis. However, during Carl's and Ken's visit to the Sindaccos, they erase the whole family because Johnny recognises Carl and suffers a fatal heart attack. Ken later phones CJ to tell him that Leones have moved into the casino. Carl does jobs for Salvatore Leone, the Mafia don, to gain his trust whilst planning a heist on Caligula's with Woozie. During this time, Carl outlives his usefulness to Tenpenny, who tries, and fails, to have him killed. Eventually, Carl and the Triads successfully rob Caligula's.

Toreno makes good on his earlier promise to release Sweet, but much to Carl's surprise, his brother wants no part of Carl's new life**** Sweet insists on returning to Grove Street and working to re-establish the Families rather than rest on the laurels of Carl's success. Tenpenny goes to trial for several felonies, but the charges are dropped for lack of evidence, as - thanks to Carl - all the prosecution's witnesses are either missing or dead. Tenpenny's release sends anger and shock throughout Los Santos. The citizens of Los Santos launch a citywide riot, similar to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Fueled by Sweet's resolve to topple Big Smoke, who has become the city's biggest drug kingpin, Carl reacquires lost gang territory and hunts down the traitors responsible for pushing drugs that destroyed the Families. He assassinates Big Smoke in a shootout, escapes from the burning crack palace and pursues Tenpenny, who has fled with Smoke's drug fortune.

Sweet and Carl chase Tenpenny through the streets of Los Santos until Tenpenny loses control of his firetruck and drives it off a bridge with Tenpenny mortally injured. Carl is about to shoot him, but Sweet stops him, as it would look less suspicious if Tenpenny simply died from his injuries. Tenpenny then dies, and the Johnson family are reunited. As his friends and allies celebrate their success, Carl turns to leave. When asked where he's going, he replies, "Fittin' to hit the block, see what's happening."

OVERVIEW

Possibly the best GTA game of all time, the game is a revolutionary, ground breaking product that will live in the halls of video game history forever. After putting over 6 years worth of I think its safe to say that this game has one of the highest replay value of all the other GTA games. The open-ended gameplay of this GTA is what made "Sandbox" sty1e game foundation rock solid.

The RPG type features is what made San Andreas the game it is today