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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PC
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Metascore
93 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 47 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 324 Ratings

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  • Summary: Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets. [Rockstar]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 47
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 47
  3. Negative: 0 out of 47
  1. GamesRadar
    100
    What does make it great is that it actually delivers on nearly everything it promises while still being fun to just pick up and play.
  2. Stuff
    100
    How do you improve on perfection? We'll tell you how: Take the same genius game that you played last fall on the PS2 and give everything a fresh coat of pixel paint... Then, remove the long load times, allow us to save 30-second replays to the hard drive for those you-won't-believe-this-booshiz moments and create personalized radio stations by ripping your CD collection to the hard drive.
  3. Gamezilla!
    74
    Just seems to be a poorly designed port of a rather good console game.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 79 out of 108
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 108
  3. Negative: 20 out of 108
  1. grandpajoe6191
    8
    "GTA: San Andreas" was a great free-world open sandbox game. You can try all sorts of weird gags and beat kick-ass missions with your black homies. However if you don't want to suffer glitches and tweaks that often happen, try "GTA: Vice City".… Expand
    • 5 of 5 users said yes
  2. AnonymousMC
    6
    Graphics are not the best but with such a large city you just have to cut down on certain things. The storyline is pretty cool and fun. It starts pretty easy and fun but some missions that comes later was horribly hard. So unless you are a hardcore gamer on GTA then you are gonna need a trainer in those upcoming missions. Otherwise it has gameplay variety which is great.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. CM
    1
    This game sucks. I have a top end machine, latest drivers, no probs with any other games, and this one reboots at random. Not to mention crap graphics, lame controls, and what is with the stupid bicycle mission????? Whoever gave this a high rating must be employed by rockstar and is kissing ass because for a pc this game is pure crap. Waste of $20 bucks, I'll be going back and buying a copy of Vice City for $10 at least it was fun enough to play a second time.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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