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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" is an epic homage to the West Coast gang culture of the early 1990s. Yes, parents, there's way too much violence and profanity here for the kids. For those of us 18 and older, though, it's among the best video games this year.
The story about the never ending cycle of escalating violence borrows heavily from movies like "Boyz N the Hood."
It's 1992. Carl Johnson — "C.J." to friends and relatives — has returned home to the sun-baked urban sprawl of Los Santos, San Andreas, after five years on the East Coast. His mother has been murdered. Worse, authorities have framed him for a homicide he didn't commit.
It might seem gratuitous, but this gritty realism is part of how "San Andreas" transcends its video game roots. Playing along, it feels more like an interactive movie where you're the star and director.
There's so much more going on here than I could possibly describe in this review. The short of it: The innovative, freeform nature of the previous games has been greatly expanded, without diluting the experience in the process.
Massive hardly begins to describe the detailed virtual world Rockstar Games has managed to cram onto a single PlayStation 2 disc. "San Andreas" dwarfs the expansive environs found in "Liberty City" and "Vice City" from the previous Grand Theft Auto games. "San
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