GTA San Andreas is the fifth part of the legendary third-person action series in the open world. The developers at Rockstar Games have surpassed themselves, and also stepped back from the themes of previous games in favor of the Los Angeles ghetto story. The game boasts three huge cities that have analogues in real life, large rural areas, a variety of secondary tasks. All this translates into a huge number of story missions. Some may say that the game is too long, while others, on the contrary, will like the long adventure of Carl Johnson. In this article, we will figure out how many missions are in GTA San Andreas and talk about the most basic of them.
Game stats
First, let's talk about the numerical values of statistics that you will encounter as you progress. You can see them in the pause menu by selecting the appropriate item.
If you collect the entire list of story missions in San Andreas, you get as many as 102 full-fledged missions, each of which may take from 5 to 30 minutes to complete. The game is famous for its diversity: first you are an ordinary gangster who returns to his area and does gang affairs, then you are betrayed, and you meet new people in another city and so on.
However, the full passage of the game does not consist in completing only story missions. To get 100% in statistics, you also need to complete all additional quests, activities, collect hidden objects and so on. Simply put, the player must make sure that in cities and the suburbs there are no unexplored places and activities that he did not pass.
If you count how many missions are in GTA San Andreas, along with additional tasks, you can get about 135 quests. This number does not include various shooting galleries, missions of taxis, police, firefighters, doctors and similar content.
Consider the main storyline and briefly get acquainted with the main tasks that you will encounter during the passage. We will divide the story into different cities, since in the game itself the life of the protagonist is divided into similar periods.
Quests in Los Santos
So, before us is the very beginning of the game GTA San Andreas. Carl Johnson returns to his homeland, where he immediately gets into trouble. He is caught by old acquaintances of the police who take the money and promise to follow him. After that, the character goes to his mother’s home Groove Street to begin the first quest In The Beginning.
Karl returned home due to the death of his mother, so at home memories surged over him. However, there is no time to indulge in sadness, because together with friends and gang members, CJ is going to regain lost authority on the streets.
All great things start small, so you have to tidy yourself up first, paint over a few enemy graffiti, kill drug dealers in your area, and get acquainted with a weapon supplier. In parallel with this, you are helping your old friends - Ryder and Big Smoke. Everyone has their own plans on how to get rich, and you participate in every planned business.
Missions after home development
After Karl begins to master himself at home and in the city, a series of not entirely pleasant events sets in. Firstly, in the task Sweet's Girl you have to save the brother and his girlfriend from the attack of an enemy gang.
Secondly, a serious conflict is brewing with the Vagos gang over several things. First, the hero, along with Big Smoke, kill the Vagos and rob the freight train, and then Karl rescues the girl from the burning Vagos house, which he himself set on fire.
Against the background of these events, you will definitely pass one of the most legendary missions in GTA San Andreas - the lowrider mission. Acquainted with the boyfriend of the sister who invites Karl to the races, you involuntarily become a participant in the lowrider competition - showing the possibilities of hydraulic suspension of the car.
The mission became legendary due to a pirated copy, as it lacked keytips during the "dance". Because of this, the quest seemed impossible, but even in this situation there were masters of passage. In the normal version of GTA San Andreas, this mission does not cause any difficulty.
Another parallel storyline in Los Santos is related to aspiring rapper O'Ji Lock. He does not stick with creativity, so a friend asks Karl to help steal the poems of the famous artist Madd Dog in Madd Dogg's Rhymes mission. This quest is one of the few stealth models in this game. You need to secretly get into the recording studio and steal a book of lyrics.
Also connected with Lok is another interesting quest in "GTA San Andreas" - a mission on the beach of the first city. O'Gee asks you to go to the beach party, where you need to steal a van with recording equipment. To get access to the car, you need to meet a girl DJ and dance better than her. After that, Carl simply gets into the van and drives him into the garage, and the party is left without musical accompaniment. This quest is called Life's A Beach.
The ending of the first city
Completes the first part of the plot mission, exposing part of your friends. CJ learns that Big Smoke and Ryder were traitors, and his brother Sweet is in trouble. In an attempt to save his brother from an ambush of police and gang traitors, Karl realizes that he will not be able to avoid trouble. The suite is shot down, and CJ himself does not abandon his partner. They are taken by the police, but the protagonist is released for some services. In return, the Johnsons receive the immunity of the Suite in prison.
Tasks in the village
The countryside is a transitional stage between the first city and San Fierro, an analogue of which is San Francisco.
Police send the main character to the village and give him several tasks. In the course of work on the cops you have to get rid of witnesses. As a result, Karl meets Katalina, with whom he conducts a number of high-profile robberies in the missions of Tanker Commander, First Base, Gone Courting, Made in Heaven.
Since the girl is emotionally unstable, she easily leaves from Carl to her previous boyfriend. Interestingly, the former young man of Catalina is Claude - the main character of GTA 3. The player defeats them in the race and goes to the next city.
Rise in San Fierro
Seamlessly move on to the middle of the game. In GTA San Andreas, San-Fierro begins with the mission Wear Flowers in Your Hair, in which the protagonist becomes a co-owner of a car service along with Caesar - a sister's boyfriend. Karl needs to hire workers in the garage and help his friend in every way.
After this, events begin to develop very quickly. The player is introduced to various characters - Zero, Jizzie Bi, mafioso Wu Zi Mu, with whom tasks will be associated until the end of the game.
The main character helps Wu Zi Mu in the war with the Vietnamese gangs, which are patronized by the criminal group "Loco". Your former friend Ryder joined her, so CJ has even more motivation.
The destruction of the group and the murder of Ryder
Almost all the tasks in San Fierro are related to the introduction of the Loko gang. Gradually, Carl Johnson rubbed his confidence in Jizzie Bee, and with his help goes to other Ryder partners. The key tasks in the plot are Ice Cold Killa, Pier 69, Yay Ka-Boom-Boom, during which you kill Jizzie with Caesar, then get to Ryder. The storyline ends with the explosion of the Big Smoke factory. However, this did not help to destroy the traitor himself, so the main reprisal is yet to come.
Also, in San Fierro, the player gets acquainted with the driving school "GTA San Andreas" - this is what the latest plot tasks in this city are dedicated to. Caesar offers to engage in illegal business related to car theft and sale. But first you need to increase your driving skill. Karl enters extreme courses, where he has to pass exams on a number of tricks. To get the mark of passing 100%, you need to pass each of the exams to platinum.
Desert
The next stage of the story is missions in the desert. They are intermediate between San Fierro and Las Venturas. Here the player works for Mike Toreno. During the Verdant Meadows quest, you have to buy an abandoned runway for the further foundation of the base. Since subsequent tasks will be related to flights, Mike Toreno orders to obtain a pilot license first.
From this moment, another legendary stage begins in GTA San Andreas - missions with an airplane. During the training, you have to perform complex tricks both on an air vehicle and with a parachute. Only the complete completion of the course contributes to further progress in the story. Since before the modern parts of GTA, flights were not a strong point of the gameplay, many players had difficulty completing the pilot's school.
We pass Las Venturas
The hero goes to Las Venturas, which is an analogue of real Las Vegas. Here you immediately start working for an old friend Wu Zi Mu. On his behalf, it is necessary to complete as many as 10 tasks scattered throughout the plot of the city.
In addition to participating in the affairs of the aforementioned mafiosi, you meet an old acquaintance of Madd Dogg. Yes, the one from whom Karl stole a book of poetry from the mansion. This character is associated with several funny tasks - Madd Dogg and A Home In the Hills. The funny thing is that the rapper begins to be friends with CJ and does not know that it was he who robbed his mansion. By the way, because of this, Mad Dogg’s career went downhill, and he began to drink. In the first mission you have to catch him while jumping from the roof in a drunken state. And in the second task, you must conquer the mansion.
In the final outcome of the Las Venturas storyline in GTA San Andreas, you have to confront the familiar cops. They can’t get rid of Karl, but the protagonist eliminates one of the corrupt cops. At this point, CJ decides that it is time to return to Los Santos and pull his brother free.
Final part
Karl demands the release of Sweet, but before that he must complete another task for Mike Toreno - Vertical Bird. During the mission you need to get on a warship and kidnap a fighter. After that, the Home Coming task opens, in which you and your brother return home to Grove Street.
While Sweet was in prison, and Karl was working for the mafia and making money, his native area fell into decay. The brother of the main character is going to return the former greatness of their gang, but CJ does not share his interest, because of which they quarrel.
Against the backdrop of a family showdown, it becomes necessary to meet with an old friend O'Gi Lock and select the songs that you previously stole for him. In Cut Throat Business, the protagonist returns the book to its rightful owner, Madd Dogg.
The hero returns home and puts up with the Suite. Together, the brothers decide to conquer the territory from Ballas, Vagos and other groups. Now there are only two important things left - to return the area to Caesar’s gang and to crack down on Big Smoke. In the last two tasks, you help an old friend, and then in a long shootout you kill a traitor. Along with him, the corrupt Tenpenny cop comes to hand, because of which Karl got half the problems. End of the Line ends the storyline of the game.
How many tasks?
Below you can see how many total missions in "GTA San Andreas" are offered by developers of the game platform. Each part has its own level of missions.
- Los Santos - 29.
- Village - 11.
- San Fierro - 26.
- Desert - 9.
- Las Venturas - 19.
- Final - 8.
This list is without taking into account all additional tasks. During the passage, you will have to familiarize yourself with all the story assignments, since the missed mission to GTA San Andreas is not provided. This feature appeared only in the last part - GTA 5.
All secondary quests are divided into training schools, transport, special missions, races and hidden challenges. If you add up all the activities, you can find out how many missions are in GTA San Andreas. Adding about 25 secondary tasks to 102 main tasks, we get almost 130 missions. It takes players 50-60 hours to master all the content in this action.