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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas box art: panels of CJ in a white vest, a bandana-masked gang member, a Grove Street sign and a drive-by, under the San Andreas gothic script.

3D Era

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

26 October 2004Rockstar NorthState of San Andreas, 1992

By far the largest map of its era: three cities — Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas — plus the countryside between them, with CJ's physique, skills and gang territory all tracked as the story runs.

The record

Released
26 October 2004
Developer
Rockstar North
Publisher
Rockstar Games
Setting
State of San Andreas, 1992
Era
3D Era (2001–2006)
Type
Main title

Platforms

  • PlayStation 2
  • Windows
  • Xbox

Every platform the title has been released on. We record which, not when — a port’s own release date is a separate fact and we have not established one for each.

The story

Missions

105missions

The complete GTA: San Andreas story catalogue — 105 missions. 14 are optional.

17 mission givers

In the order the campaign first meets them. Missions the catalogue records no giver for are not counted here.

Open the full campaign

Every mission in order, and 105 mission pages behind them.

On the dial

Radio

11stations

Every station you can pick up in GTA: San Andreas — 10 music stations and 1 talk station.

  • Bounce FM

    Funk

    Presented by

    • The Funktipusplayed by George Clinton

    Funk, presented by The Funktipus — George Clinton, playing a character who is not standing especially far from George Clinton.

  • CSR 103.9

    R&B and new jack swing

    Presented by

    • Philip "PM" Michaels

    Contemporary R&B and new jack swing, presented by Philip "PM" Michaels with a smoothness he does not once break character on.

  • K-DST

    Classic rock

    Presented by

    • Tommy "The Nightmare" Smithplayed by Axl Rose

    Classic rock presented by Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith — voiced by Axl Rose, who spends a good deal of the airtime explaining what is wrong with the record industry.

  • K-Jah West

    Dub and reggae

    Presented by

    • Marshall Peters

    Dub and reggae presented by Marshall Peters, and the only reggae station in the state.

  • K-Rose

    Country

    Presented by

    • Mary-Beth Maybell

    Country, presented by Mary-Beth Maybell, and the sound of every mile of San Andreas that is not one of its three cities.

  • Master Sounds 98.3

    Rare groove and soul

    Presented by

    • Johnny Lawton

    Rare groove, funk and soul presented by Johnny Lawton — the crate-digging end of the dial, and the decade most of the sampling started in.

  • Playback FM

    East Coast hip hop

    Presented by

    • Forth Right MC

    East Coast hip hop of the late eighties, presented by Forth Right MC — three thousand miles and several years away from what Radio Los Santos is playing.

  • Radio Los Santos

    West Coast hip hop

    Presented by

    • Julio Gas themselves

    West Coast hip hop of the years either side of 1992, presented by Julio G — who was playing much of it on Los Angeles radio at the time and appears here under his own name.

  • Radio X

    Alternative rock

    Presented by

    • Sage

    Alternative rock and grunge presented by Sage, playing 1992 as it sounded on the radio everywhere else in America.

  • SF-UR

    House

    Presented by

    • Hans Oberlander

    House, broadcast out of San Fierro by Hans Oberlander to an audience he assumes has not yet gone home.

  • WCTR

    Talk radio

    West Coast Talk Radio

    Presented by

    • Lazlowplayed by Lazlow Jones
    • Lianne Forget
    • Marvin Trill

    West Coast Talk Radio: no music at all, and a full schedule of shows with their own hosts, their own callers and their own grievances. Lazlow is here too, nine in-world years before Liberty City.

Every dial in the series

Enter the world

State of San Andreas, 1992

The places, the people, the vehicles and the weapons of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Follow any of them in.

Locations

The places

All 42 places
The Las Venturas strip at night, casino frontages lit end to end along the boulevard.

GTA: San Andreas

San Andreas' Las Vegas, out in the desert on the far side of the state: casinos along the Strip, and the last third of the 1992 story.

Characters

The cast

All 28 characters
Carl Johnson, as they appear in GTA: San Andreas.

Protagonist

Carl Johnson

Home in Los Santos after five years in Liberty City for his mother's funeral, and stopped by the same two police officers who drove him out. Rebuilding the family's standing turns into rebuilding most of the state's.

Vehicles

The garage

All 149 vehicles

Weapons

The armoury

All 41 weapons

In the series

Related Releases

How GTA: San Andreas sits beside the rest of the franchise.

Provenance

Verified against research.