Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
It's from 2004, before you were born.
- Developer
- Rockstar North
- Genre
- Action / open world
- Debut platform
- PlayStation 2 (2004)
- Setting
- the state of San Andreas
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As of 2026, it's 22 years old.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas handed you an entire fictional state in 2004 and the freedom to ignore every mission for hours in favor of pure chaos. It was vast, controversial, and so packed with stuff to do that the actual story felt almost optional.
It famously gave its protagonist a fluctuating fitness level, meaning your crime lord could get visibly out of shape if you fed him too many burgers — a level of detail no one asked for and everyone enjoyed.
Sprawling, anarchic, and a lightning rod for moral panic, San Andreas is the game that perfected the open-world sandbox and the art of doing absolutely anything except the mission.
