Three cities, one state. CJ, Grove Street, and the most ambitious 3D GTA ever shipped.
90 entries · Story and side missions
CJ's introduction to his Grove Street friend Ryder. The two of them rob the Well Stacked Pizza in Idlewood — CJ keeps lookout while Ryder takes the till.
Sweet hands CJ a spray can and a list of rival tags across Los Santos. CJ paints over every Ballas, Vagos, and Front Yard tag he can find before time runs out.
Sweet wants Ballas crack dealers run out of Grove Street. CJ and Sweet pile into a car, sweep through the neighborhood, and put down every last dealer they find.
After lunch at Cluckin' Bell, Sweet, Smoke, and Ryder spot a Ballas car and tell CJ to chase. CJ closes the gap and the Grove crew shoots up the rivals on the run.
Sweet drills the Grove Street boys on shooting fundamentals at the LS docks before sending CJ off to handle a real threat against the family.
Sweet, Smoke, and Ryder pile into CJ's car for a Ballas drive-by. CJ drives while the others lean out and shoot — then they outrun the LSPD response back to Grove Street.
Sweet is pinned down at his girlfriend's place in Seville Boulevard. CJ races through Ballas territory to extract Sweet and fight their way back to Grove Street.
Sweet sends CJ to a lowrider competition at Unity Station to spy on Kendl's new boyfriend, Cesar Vialpando. CJ wins the dance-off and earns Cesar's respect.
Big Smoke's nephew Jeffrey wants help with his rap career. CJ picks up the freshly paroled OG Loc and chases down the rapper Freddy across Los Santos to settle the score.
Big Smoke wants a Vagos dealer dead and his cash collected. CJ and Smoke chase the dealer on foot through the back streets of East Los Santos and corner him in an alley.
Yes — the meme mission. Big Smoke wanted that train followed.
Big Smoke's deal at the Idlewood market goes wrong. Russian gangsters open fire and CJ rides shotgun on Smoke's escape, blasting pursuers across Los Santos to the safe house.
Ryder takes CJ on a stealth burglary tour of a sleeping homeowner's mansion. Move quietly, lift every valuable, and slip out before the marker maxes the noise meter.
CJ and Ryder hijack a National Guard ammunition train rolling out of Ocean Docks. They knock out the guards, unload the boxcars, and outrun the response unit back to Ganton.
Ryder's last job: hit the National Guard depot at Ocean Docks. CJ keeps lookout from a forklift while Ryder loads crates of military hardware onto a Mule truck.
Cesar enters CJ in a serious lowrider street race for cash and rep. CJ tunes a lowrider, beats four Mexican rivals through Los Santos backstreets, and pockets the prize.
OG Loc wants a beach-party DJ van and its mixtapes. CJ infiltrates the party at Verdant Bluffs, distracts the DJ, and drives the van back to OG Loc's Burger Shot.
OG Loc demands Madd Dogg's rhyme book. CJ scales the Madd Dogg Mansion in the hills, sneaks past bodyguards through the upstairs corridor, and lifts the notebook.
OG Loc wants Madd Dogg's manager dead. CJ rigs the manager's car with a sticky bomb during a funeral procession, follows him out, and detonates at the right moment.
Sweet throws a comeback party at his Ganton house. The Ballas crash it. CJ defends the porch and the perimeter through wave after wave of attackers until the smoke clears.
C.R.A.S.H. orders CJ to firebomb a Vagos house. Inside, Denise Robinson is trapped. CJ extinguishes a path through the flames and carries her out before the building collapses.
C.R.A.S.H. sends CJ to a Russian/Ballas weapons exchange at the Ocean Docks warehouse to seize a crate of guns and torch the rest of the contraband.
Sweet teaches CJ how gang wars work and points him at his first three Ballas turfs. CJ provokes a takeover, holds the territory through three escalating waves, and flips it Grove.
Sweet, CJ, and Cesar plan a hit on Kane and Little Weasel at a Ballas funeral in the cemetery. CJ snipes from a hilltop while Sweet finishes any survivors below.
Sweet calls a Families peace summit at the Jefferson Motel. The LSPD storm the place. CJ and Sweet shoot their way out floor by floor, then escape across the rooftops.
The pivotal mission. CJ and Sweet drive into a Ballas ambush at Glen Park, fight off waves of attackers, and the truth about the Green Sabre that killed CJ's mom comes out.
Tenpenny exiles CJ to Whetstone's Angel Pine and orders him to kill an internal-affairs witness hiding in the woods. CJ ambushes the lookouts and silences the snitch.
Pot-growing hippie The Truth wants a Combine Harvester for his farm. CJ infiltrates a military base in the desert, hijacks the rig, and outruns the National Guard back to Whetstone.
CJ tracks down Cesar Vialpando at an Angel Pine trailer park. The two reconnect after the Glen Park ambush and start planning their counter-strike against the conspirators.
Catalina drags CJ to a Liquor Store hold-up at Blueberry. CJ covers the door while she empties the registers — then they dodge the LSPD on the run home.
Catalina robs a Top Hat liquor store in Blueberry with CJ along for the ride. He covers the entrance, holds off arriving cops, and gets her clear with the cash.
Catalina sends CJ to rob the Tax Office in Dillimore. CJ clears the staff, grabs the cash, and races a getaway vehicle through Red County's winding roads.
Catalina demands CJ rob the Inside Track betting shop in Montgomery to prove his worth. CJ shoots it up, empties the till, and outruns the cops back to her hideout.
Catalina celebrates the robbery streak with a flight in a stolen Maverick. CJ pilots her home over the countryside as she dumps her affection on him from the back seat.
Catalina, CJ, and Claude rob the Palomino Creek Bank. CJ holds hostages downstairs while Catalina cracks the vault, then drives the loot truck through the highway chase.
Cesar introduces CJ to Triad boss Wu Zi 'Woozie' Mu at a country airfield. After a tense first meeting, the two race off-road through Red County for honor.
Catalina dumps CJ for Claude. The breakup is settled with a street race for ownership of the El Corona house — CJ has to win or lose his Liberty City contact for good.
The Truth burns his marijuana fields before the DEA raid arrives. CJ defends the perimeter from agents in helicopters, then hauls The Truth's Mothership van north.
Tenpenny sends CJ to plant evidence on a corrupt judge at the Hotel Embassy in San Fierro. CJ infiltrates the gala in a tuxedo, slips the package, and slips back out.
Zero needs RC drones taken out of his rooftop. CJ mans an anti-aircraft gun on top of the electronics shop and shoots down every drone Berkley sends in waves.
Zero hands CJ an RC Baron with a fuel limit and a list of three Berkley couriers. CJ flies the RC plane around San Fierro and shoots each one down before fuel runs out.
Zero's RC battle showdown with Berkley. CJ pilots Zero's RC tank through the model battlefield while Zero coordinates from the rooftop in the noisy final encounter.
Cesar and CJ stake out a Loco Syndicate meeting beneath the Garver Bridge. CJ uses a camera to photograph each member while Cesar narrates the conspiracy.
Woozie gives CJ a way into the Loco Syndicate via a strip-club owner named Jizzy B. CJ runs three errands for Jizzy across San Fierro to earn the man's trust.
An optional Pimping side-job started by climbing into a Broadway. CJ ferries working girls to clients, fights off rough customers, and pockets a cut from each pickup.
Jizzy and T-Bone send CJ to a deal that goes wrong at the docks. CJ rides shotgun in a chase across San Fierro, defending the Loco Syndicate's drugs through ambushes.
Jizzy sends CJ to extract Loco Syndicate man Mike Toreno from a Yardies ambush near Battery Point. CJ shoots his way through the firefight to drag Toreno clear in his Stretch.
CJ helps Woozie's Mountain Cloud Boys reclaim a Triad shipment from the Vietnamese Da Nang Boys in a brutal Chinatown firefight that establishes Woozie's debt.
CJ drives Triad veteran Ran Fa Li to a meeting from Woozie's Chinatown apartment, fending off Vietnamese ambushes through the streets of San Fierro.
Woozie's plan: lure the Da Nang Boys away from their compound. CJ pilots a stunt plane low and loud to draw the gang into Triad territory for an ambush.
Woozie sends CJ on a stealth swim out to a Da Nang freighter at night to plant a tracking bug on the Vietnamese gangsters' boat — without alerting the deck patrols.
The final hit on the Da Nang Boys. CJ raids their freighter from a helicopter, shoots through every deck, frees the captives, and bails as the ship goes under.
Jizzy sends CJ to escort a Loco Syndicate convoy of dealer cars across San Fierro. CJ rides a sport bike and shoots down rivals harassing the convoy en route.
Tenpenny sends CJ to tail a journalist on a moving train without being spotted. CJ has to keep his distance, then make the move when the journalist meets a contact.
Cesar's chop shop needs a particular Sentinel. CJ chases a stolen one through San Fierro on the freeway, runs the driver off the road, and tows it back.
Cesar shows CJ the chop shop business: steal two specific high-end cars from a heavily guarded car dealership and deliver them back to the garage in Doherty.
Cesar's chop shop crew needs the docks cleared for a stolen-car shipment. CJ races a tanker across San Fierro to wreck the customs cargo before inspectors arrive.
Cesar wants the chop shop's Loco Syndicate competitors taken down a notch. CJ chases their tow truck and trashes their fleet of getaway vehicles around San Fierro.
Mike Toreno's first job: defend his cargo helicopter from DEA gunships. CJ rides a Maverick over the desert and shoots down each pursuer before Toreno's chopper lands.
Toreno tells CJ to buy the abandoned Verdant Meadows Airfield in Bone County. CJ buys the property, kicking off the flight school and the Catalina-era setpieces to come.
Toreno enrolls CJ in a full Pilot School curriculum at Verdant Meadows. CJ runs every lesson — takeoffs, loops, helicopter landings — to earn his wings for what's next.
The full pilot training strand at Verdant Meadows: ten increasingly demanding flight tests in fixed-wing planes and helicopters that unlock pilot rank for Toreno's missions.
Toreno's nap-of-earth mission. CJ takes a Rustler under the radar across the desert, dodges Hydras, and delivers the package without ever climbing past tree height.
A government cargo plane is taking off with stolen weapons. CJ jumps into a Hydra, intercepts the plane mid-air, lands on its hull, and disables it before takeoff.
The Truth wants the government's secret jetpack. CJ stealth-infiltrates Area 69, fights through every floor of the underground base, and steals the jetpack to fly out.
The Truth flies CJ over a freight train carrying military samples. CJ jetpacks down to the train, lifts a green-goo container, and flies it back to the Mothership van.
A made man owes Triad money. CJ ties him to the front of a car and drives across Las Venturas while Woozie threatens, scaring the address out of him for the next hit.
Woozie wants demolition charges for his Caligula's heist. CJ raids a Sindacco quarry, fights through workers and gangsters, and loads dynamite into the back of a Cement Truck.
Woozie sends CJ to wreck a Sindacco chip-counterfeiting operation. CJ infiltrates a forgery factory, plants charges across each floor, and detonates the place from across the street.
The Truth and CJ's drug-fueled run-in with two reckless friends in the desert outside Las Venturas. CJ chases their truck through hallucinations and brings them home alive.
Woozie sends CJ undercover at City Planning with a microcamera to photograph the architectural blueprints of Caligula's Casino — the foundation for the upcoming heist.
Woozie's heist needs an inside man's keycard. CJ tails a Caligula's croupier, beds her on a date, and lifts the keycard from her bedside while she sleeps.
Woozie's heist team needs power cut to Caligula's at the right moment. CJ infiltrates the Sherman Dam, fights through workers, plants the charges, and parachutes out.
Woozie's heist team needs LVPD HPV1000 motorbikes. CJ raids a dirt-track event, takes four cop bikes from inside the loop, and delivers each one back to the Four Dragons.
The penultimate heist setup. CJ shoots down a Caligula's surveillance blimp over Las Venturas with a heat-seeking missile so the heist crew can move unseen.
Woozie's pre-heist warmup. CJ joins a Triad team in clearing a Sindacco ambush at the Four Dragons valet — a nasty firefight at point-blank range in the parking lot.
Madd Dogg, washed-up and on a Royal Casino ledge, threatens to jump. CJ commandeers a pizza delivery truck full of pies and catches the rapper as he leaps.
Salvatore Leone wants old enemies on a flight to Liberty City dead. CJ skydives onto the moving plane mid-flight, fights his way to the cockpit, and finishes the job.
Tenpenny wants a stash of dirt-files retrieved from a corrupt official's house in Prickle Pine. CJ breaks in quietly, finds the case, and slips out before backup arrives.
Tenpenny lures CJ out to the Las Brujas ghost town to silence the last witnesses. CJ has to outdraw Pulaski in a final desert showdown after being forced to dig his own grave.
Salvatore sends CJ all the way to Liberty City for one job: kill the Forelli capos at Saint Mark's Bistro. CJ fights room to room and disappears before LCPD arrives.
The big Caligula's heist. CJ leads the Triad crew through the casino vault, blows the floor, fights up through the surface, and escapes Las Venturas in a fire engine getaway.
Woozie sends CJ to retake Madd Dogg's mansion in Mulholland from the Vagos who squatted in. CJ assaults the property in waves, clearing each floor of the rapper's house.
Toreno needs a Hydra jet stolen from a Navy ship. CJ swims out, infiltrates the carrier, hijacks the Hydra, and shoots down the pursuit fighters across the bay.
Toreno phones CJ from Madd Dogg's mansion: get back to Los Santos, retake Grove Street from the Ballas. CJ leads the Grove crew on a turf reclamation push.
Madd Dogg's comeback gig is sabotaged by OG Loc's crew. CJ chases the rival rapper across LS, runs his Stretch limo off the road, and ends OG Loc's career permanently.
Sweet wants the Grove cleaned up. CJ goes after B-Dup, the dealer who turned to crack, and beats him until he hands over leverage to bring the Families back.
Sweet leads CJ on a Ballas-cleansing tour of the old neighborhood — three Ballas turfs taken back, gang by gang, until the Grove flag flies again over Ganton.
Cesar and CJ help Varrios Los Aztecas push the Vagos out of El Corona. CJ wades through Vagos defenders street by street to reclaim the territory for Cesar's gang.
San Andreas's series-defining finale — Grove Street, on fire, against the world.
