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Rockstar trails The Introduction

Find out what happened to CJ and co. prior to the events of San Andreas. Er, on Monday. This is a trailer for that.

Next Monday, just when it looks like we're running out of surprises for 2004, Rockstar is planning to unleash "The Introduction" - a 22-minute in-engine DVD story that dramatises the unspoken events prior to the start of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - as part of a two-disc soundtrack set for the UK's current No.1-selling game.

You knew that already, but Rockstar's still keen to get you in the mood, furnishing us with a number of screenshots (those be here) and releasing a 5MB trailer introducing the, er, Introduction, which we've mirrored on Eurofiles.

Given how vast it is and how many other things will have been scrapping for your attention recently, we can easily imagine that a number of you are still wrapped up in San Andreas fever - so it's arguably a good time for Rockstar to cash-in - however we'd be quick to remind everybody that if you can forego the lure of The Introduction, the eight-disc soundtrack set featuring virtually every song and jingle in the game is due out a week later on December 6th.