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. Now, it's the early 1990s and Carl's got to go home: his mother has been killed and his family has been torn apart. And so begins the third PlayStation 2 chapter of the multi-million unit selling franchise, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas . Boasting a world that five times larger than Vice City , San Andreas introduces a host of new features that including eating food to survive, the freedom to completely customize your character with tattoos, clothing, and haircuts, a brand new vehicle physics engine, the long-wanted ability to swim, and overhauled graphical presentation.