The first thing you have to do is regain the city of Los Santos. The gangs, from which you are part of, the families from Grove Street, have fallen in the past few years and their influence has decreased dramatically. So, you together with three ex leaders, Big Smoke, Ryder and Sweet, are going along the streets in order to regain the areas which were won by a rival gang, Ballas.Exactly when you are beginning to feel the taste of these fights between gangsters, the situation changes radically and you will end up in the situation in which you will have to leave Los Santos. You will go into a country area outside the city, where neighborhood fights will keep you busy for a while.

As in the previous versions, the game has a pretty linear structure. In the first phase you will be banned from Los Santos, but not for a very long time. As we are used from the previous versions, you will have to complete missions for a pretty big variety of characters. These missions are similar with the ones you had the chance to play in previous editions of the game, but as you advance, the missions get a lot crazier. You will end up heisting a great casino, to steal army equipment, to deal with a lot more mafia, and many others. And so, the missions from this version of the game are a lot more palpitating than on the previous versions.

Along the great range of new elements are numbered the possibilities to ride a bicycle, to accelerate walking, etc. Also the fighting has been improved. You can realize more movement combinations with which to beat your opponents. Your character can swim and if he is in a good shape, can make great jumps and climb on higher buildings.

There are many statistics present in the game. The first ones are about the character you are playing, who you will have to keep in shape. These are related to respect which you will have to earn by completing missions, energy, muscle mass, sex appeal, fat. There are also skills which if they are improven, will help you to complete the missions faster. Skills like riding the bike, driving, swimming, fighting, and different levels of handling and firing a weapon.

Graphic speaking, all that you can say is that the GTA Series has taken care of it all the time. For example, Vice City has managed very well to create a Miami atmosphere, associated with a 80s feeling. San Andreas had to maintain this habit so it came with unique landscapes, both for the cities and for their peripheries.