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Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' is a 2004 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the fifth main game in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, following 2002's '' Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'', and the seventh entry overall. Set within the fictional U.S. state of San Andreas, the game follows Carl "CJ" Johnson, who returns home in 1992 after his mother's murder and finds his old street gang has lost much of their territory. Over the course of the game, he attempts to rebuild the gang, clashes with corrupt authorities and powerful criminals, and gradually unravels the truth behind his mother's murder. The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. The open world design lets the player freely roam San Andreas, consisting of three major metropolitan cities: Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas, based on Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, respectively. Rockstar conduct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockstar North
Rockstar North (Rockstar Games UK Limited; formerly DMA Design Limited) is a British video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh. The studio is best known for creating the ''Lemmings'' and ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, including ''Grand Theft Auto V'', the second-best-selling game and most profitable entertainment product of all time. David Jones founded the company as DMA Design in 1988 in his hometown of Dundee. During his studies, he had developed the game '' Menace'' and struck a six-game publishing deal with Psygnosis, which released Jones's project in October 1988. While making its sequel, '' Blood Money'', Jones dropped out, hired several of his friends, including Mike Dailly, Steve Hammond, and Russell Kay, with whom he had attended the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. They opened the company's first offices above a former fish and chip shop in 1989. Following the successful 1991 release of ''Lemmings'', the studio rapidly expanded and moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action-adventure
An action-adventure game is a video game genre, video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres. Definition An action adventure game can be defined as a game with a mix of elements from an action game and an adventure game, especially crucial elements like puzzles inspired by older adventure games. Action-adventures require many of the same physical skills as action games, but may also offer a storyline, numerous characters, an inventory system, dialogue, and other features of adventure games. They are typically faster-paced than pure adventure games, because they include both physical and conceptual challenges. Action-adventure games normally include a combination of complex story elements, which are often displayed for players using audio and video. The story is heavily reliant upon the player character, player character's movement, which triggers story events and thus affects the flow of the game. Popular examples o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mister Cartoon
Mark Machado, better known as Mister Cartoon or more commonly just Cartoon or Toon, is an American tattoo artist and graffiti artist based in Los Angeles, California. He has been described by the ''New York Times'' as an "instrumental figure in the Los Angeles hip-hop scene" and by the ''BBC'' as "one of the greatest living tattoo artists in the US". Growing up in the Harbor area of Los Angeles County, young Cartoon began doing illustrations and graffiti then going on to airbrushing clothing and lowrider A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among Mexican American youth in the 1940s. ''Lowrider'' also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs, which remain a part of Chi ... custom cars. Machado then moved on to working in the music industry doing album covers, tour merchandise and later tattooing recording artists and other celebrities. Machado's style of art is part of the Chicano art movement and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estevan Oriol
Estevan Oriol is an American photographer and director from Los Angeles, California. He has photographed chicano, cholo culture, and Los Angeles gang culture at large, as well as film and hip-hop celebrities. Oriol directed the documentary film '' LA Originals'' (2020). Early life Oriol was born in Santa Monica to a father (Eriberto Oriol) who was a photographer. Oriol moved to Hollywood at the age of 19 and was inspired by his father. He worked as a bouncer at hip-hop clubs before moving on to tour manage Cypress Hill and House of Pain. During that time he began documenting his life on the road. Career Oriol has made gritty 35mm black and white work, documenting chicano, cholo culture (and Los Angeles gang culture at large). He has photographed film and hip-hop celebrities. He has photographed both gang members and celebrities alike, capturing photos of "LA Fingers". His LA Fingers photo in 1995 was featured in several magazines and copied or bootlegged for tattoos and t-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
