Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a PC shooter game developed by Rockstar Games. It centers on aiming and shooting, positioning and evasion, and weapon and firepower management, with controls and information arranged around keyboard movement and mouse aiming, with a controller where supported.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.2 / 10
About this game
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a PC shooter game centered on aiming and shooting, positioning and evasion, and weapon and firepower management. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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Windows PCAI review
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An exceptional open-world benchmark
侠盗猎车手:圣安地列斯 must be scored through its concrete design and platform release. three cities, rural travel, gunplay, driving, character skills, and gang conflict form a dense and interconnected open-world system; a long campaign spans many mission types, while side jobs, vehicles, collection, character growth, and exploration provide exceptional breadth, despite some drawn-out missions and training. city culture, voice work, radio, music, and regional variety sustain the atmosphere of a 1990s West Coast road-crime epic. Its main limitation is that legacy aiming, camera behavior, checkpoints, and PC compatibility require adaptation, with some modern systems needing extra setup, while input, saving, loading, and compatibility are judged for this platform release. Independent assessment of the four dimensions produces 9.2. This revision corrects an earlier generic-platform baseline and does not use sales, user ratings, awards, or franchise recognition as quality evidence.
Strengths
- three cities, rural travel, gunplay, driving, character skills, and gang conflict form a dense and interconnected open-world system.
- a long campaign spans many mission types, while side jobs, vehicles, collection, character growth, and exploration provide exceptional breadth, despite some drawn-out missions and training.
- city culture, voice work, radio, music, and regional variety sustain the atmosphere of a 1990s West Coast road-crime epic.
Weaknesses
- legacy aiming, camera behavior, checkpoints, and PC compatibility require adaptation, with some modern systems needing extra setup.
Who it is for: Players who value open-world agency, the combination of driving and gunplay, urban atmosphere, and mission-led storytelling.
Play notes: The score covers only this platform release; the originals' standing cannot erase practical port, remaster, compatibility, or service limitations.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension a long campaign spans many mission types, while side jobs, vehicles, collection, character growth, and exploration provide exceptional breadth, despite some drawn-out missions and training. Volume alone earns no credit; the judgment rests on whether variety and progression continue to support play. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 侠盗猎车手:圣安地列斯: three cities, rural travel, gunplay, driving, character skills, and gang conflict form a dense and interconnected open-world system. This score considers whether its actions produce sustained choice, feedback, and systemic interaction. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension city culture, voice work, radio, music, and regional variety sustain the atmosphere of a 1990s West Coast road-crime epic. Presentation is judged through style, sound, animation, city readability, and narrative consistency. | Reviewed | 9.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension legacy aiming, camera behavior, checkpoints, and PC compatibility require adaptation, with some modern systems needing extra setup; input, saving, loading, and compatibility are judged for this platform release. The technical score covers response, stability, loading, controls, and compatibility for this release only. | Reviewed | 7.4 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Rockstar Games
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games
- Release date
- 2005
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genre
- Tags
- Player versus EnvironmentDodgeThird PersonFast-pacedLinear LevelsReplayable3D GraphicsShootingMain Story Under 10 HoursSolo-friendly
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
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- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2005
- PlayStation 2Worldwide2004
- Xbox 360Worldwide2014
- Original XboxWorldwide2005
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