Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Frequent strong profanity throughout dialogue, including racial slurs tied to the gang setting.
Realistic gun, melee, and vehicular violence against human enemies with blood spatter; drive-by shootings and gang warfare are core to the story.
The story centers on drug-dealing gangs; the player can drink at bars, get visibly drunk, and take on missions handling narcotics.
The player robs, steals cars, deals drugs, and kills as the core rewarded gameplay, including violence against unarmed civilians.
The player can pay street prostitutes, which restores health and implies a sexual transaction.
Dating mini-games with girlfriends lead to off-screen implied sex, and strip clubs feature dancers and sexual dialogue.
Strip clubs feature dancers in minimal, revealing attire with partial nudity.
Story deals with gang warfare, drug addiction, police corruption, murder, and betrayal.
Las Venturas casinos let the player bet in-game money on slots, blackjack, roulette, and poker.
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What it is
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an open-world action game set in an early-1990s fictionalized California, where the player controls Carl Johnson as he returns home and rises through gang and criminal life. Gameplay revolves around driving, shooting, and completing missions across a huge city-and-countryside map, with freedom to roam and cause mayhem. Content includes frequent realistic violence with blood, pervasive strong profanity and racial slurs, a drug-epidemic storyline with drug-dealing missions and player intoxication, implied sexual content through dating and paid prostitutes, strip clubs with suggestive dancers, and casino gambling with in-game money. Committing crimes against people and property is the central, rewarded activity.
How it's framed
The game frames crime, gang life, and violence as the tools of the protagonist's survival and ascent, treating them as gritty, often satirical realism rather than condemning or endorsing them; law enforcement responds with escalating force, but criminal acts are consistently rewarded with money, status, and progression.
Details
- Developer
- Rockstar Games
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games
- Released
- Jan 4, 2008
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