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 Locations
San Andreas consists of three separate
cities (not boroughs like GTA III). Los Santos, San Fierro,
and Las Venturas all serve up a different experience and have their own
unique atmosphere.
- Los Santos, the fictional
city brethren to Los Angeles, is featured really as the core of the story’s
beginning and the events in Los Santos pick up where it once was left off
five years earlier in CJ’s life. I would be tempted to sum up Los Santos as
gritty, rough and tough -- the darker side of street life in San Andreas.
But I’d only be partially right.
While brutal mean streets do dominate much of the city, there are districts
for every taste -- rich and poor, young and old. Aside from the Ballas, the
Flats, and the Orange Grove Families all representing turf in Los Santos,
there is the other side. Vinewood, glitz and glamour, the rich and the
greedy. Vinewood is the equivalent of Hollywood and is no less brutal than
the urban sections of the city -- lowlifes inhabit all parts.
- If Los Santos is to Los Angeles, then San Fierro is definitely to San Francisco. The hills and
valleys of this ethnically and culturally diverse city sit well suited for
heavy-handed automotive missions and “Bullit”-style driving. While more
colorful on the exterior there is definitely an underlying danger not far
below the city’s surface. Expect heavy Chinese influence here, and possibly
even some from the Krishna or Russians.
- The third and possibly most dangerous
city is Las Venturas, Las Vegas’
protégé. Its seductive façade and sexy front will pull you under and suck
you in. It is said that you can not only interact with the casinos here,
but build and run one yourself. And the hookers here are not hookers… they
are “escorts”. Classy. Expect significant Italian influence in this city.
But beware.. The desert is close by, dark and desolate, and no one knows
how many holes are its among solid grounds, or what fills those holes.
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