Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos San Andreas a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble drugs & corruption Where filmstars & millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers & gangbangers Now it’s the early 90’s Carl’s got to go home His mother has been murdered his family has fallen apart & his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster On his return to the neighborhood a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas to save his family & to take control of the streets