Game Overview:  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 and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers.

Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and 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 and to take control of the streets.

Liberty City. Vice City. Now San Andreas, a new chapter in the legendary series.

Plot Summary
Carl Johnson returns from Liberty City to his home in the ghetto of Los Santos following his brother Brian's accidental death. Known as CJ to his friends, Carl arrives for the funeral, which is overshadowed by his elder brother Sweet Johnson's blaming the death on him. Unity is demanded when shortly after, the pair's mother is murdered. Faced with the threat of opposition gangs, and lost respect on the streets, Sweet, Carl, and friends Smoke and Ryder join together to recreate their previous clique, The Orange Grove Families (OGF). A reluctant Carl is provoked back into street life by two corrupt police officers, Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Polaski, bent on causing chaos for OGF. Unfortunately for the 'Grove, events take many twists, and Carl is brought back into a life he'd probably rather he'd left behind.