It’s a very strange feeling, it seemed to me that this was the biggest GTA in terms of the gaming world, but now I looked at the comparison with the fifth part and.... no. The card in the five is bigger. What kind of conspiracy?
In any case, in terms of plot, this is certainly the biggest GTA. And the point is that not a single mission was boring, and undoubtedly there were missions that were annoying, and more than one. But I never had the feeling that they were giving you some kind of grind (well, perhaps with the seizure of territories). As always, Rockstar are great in this regard.
I went through it for the first time with a translation from the industry, and that same translation :) I was about 11 years old at the time. And I didn’t really care about what was happening there. Later I went through it again and again, but with a better translation.
I would also recommend everyone to watch the GTA SA introduction. It's off. video, background of San Andreas
The game is excellent. I give it a 9, for the slightly crooked port from PS2 (PS2 still had its cool Grafon stuff, which disappeared on PC) and the capture of territories =(