Five years ago, Carl Johnson fled the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas ... a city tearing itself apart with gangsters, drugs and corruption. Where movie stars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now it's the early '90s. Carl needs to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart, and his childhood friends are headed for disaster. Upon his return to the neighborhood, some corrupt police officers charge him with murder. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him all over the state of San Andreas to save his family and control the streets.