Six years before Carl Johnson fugitive from the forces of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself separately with gang trouble, drugs and bribery. Where filmstars and millionaires do their finest to shun the traders and gangbangers. Now, it's the untimely 90s. Carl's got to go home. His mother has been killed, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all headline towards tragedy. On his return to the neighborhood, a pair of corrupt cops frames him for murder. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the complete state of San Andreas, to save his family and to obtain manage of the streets.
