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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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.

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9.2 / 10
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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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Open-world exploration

Choose a route, follow a discovery and find your own reasons to explore worlds that invite curiosity and self-directed journeys.

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9.2 / 10Windows PC

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.

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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.

Reviewed9.5 / 10Not 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.

Reviewed9.5 / 10Not 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.

Reviewed9.4 / 10Not 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.

Reviewed7.4 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Release date
2005
Platforms
Windows PC
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Tags
Player versus EnvironmentDodgeThird PersonFast-pacedLinear LevelsReplayable3D GraphicsShootingMain Story Under 10 HoursSolo-friendly
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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