GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS
NEED TO KNOW
RELEASED 2005
PUBLISHER Rockstar Games
DEVELOPER Rockstar North
LINK www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas
You can fit San Andreas into Grand Theft Auto V several times over, yet the former still feels bigger. That’s the most surprising takeaway from my time revisiting Rockstar’s ’90s crime epic, which has sold a staggering 21 million copies in its lifetime. Released on PC in 2005, a year after the PlayStation 2 version, it’s a massive step up from the previous game, Vice City, in pretty much every respect.
In the early-to-mid 2000s you couldn’t move for clones: , , World is Yours, Saints Row. But while these games were largely, or entirely, set in a single city, Rockstar used its unmatched financial might (and, some might say hubris) to take things to the next level, presenting an entire state to cause mayhem
