There are plenty of things to do both in and out of the cities, which makes all this real estate matter. While one-to-one measurements against previous games in the series are difficult in practice, San Andreas definitely feels like a much, much larger place than Vice City ever did, but at the same time, the growth is handled intelligently. The game's third city is Las Venturas, which is a great take on early-'90s Las Vegas, complete with a strip full of casinos and the surrounding desert.
San Fierro is based on San Francisco, reproducing the real city's hilly terrain and ever-present fog. You'll begin the game in the city of Los Santos, which is based roughly on Los Angeles and consists of a mixture of ritzy downtown areas and the gangland ghettos of South Central. San Andreas is an island containing three cities. This latest installment takes place in 1992 in the West Coast-themed state of San Andreas.
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