Forum:Did Rockstar intend a San Andreas prequel?

In my travels around San Andreas, I've noticed that there's a lot of stuff both unused and unneeded. Granted, this adds to the realism, but there are some things which just seem...odd. What I'm saying is, perhaps these would have been explained in a San Andreas prequel (which for some reason has become vogue recently as a discussion point). I highly doubt Rockstar intend to go back to an inferior engine and console from the current generation, even to the PSP. Anyway, here's a few bits of incongruous evidence I've found. Remember though that these are by no means definitive, and many can be explained by the absence of missions in the final version (The text for some is still present in the files, but it is unused).
 * The strange building in the desert at Verdant Meadows. Image here. It's just a large building which in the game's files is referred to as a lab (View it with MEd to see). It makes me wonder if it has any connection with Area 69, it seems to go back into the cliff it's built up against. It has a parking lot too, but it's always empty
 * The strange prison building by the freeway in Los Santos (Here). It's quite large, and clearly intended to be robust. What makes me think it's a prison is both its closed nature and the barbed wire around the edge. There is also an evident courtyard at the back. But the structure isn't used at all in-game, which is strange.
 * This garage in Doherty. It's boarded up and abandoned - Why? It's strange in that it actually has an area behind the wooden slats. Perhaps it was once fully-functioning.
 * The freeway ruins. Conspicuous in their absence of mention throughout the game. Why is this seemingly striking feature of San Fierro not even mentioned, let alone used (except for one possible path in Toreno's Last Flight). If we consider a prequel to be set at least three years earlier (assuming the Loma Prieta earthquake affected San Fierro in 1989 too), perhaps it would be joined to the Garver Bridge. Although the bridge in itself poses a problem - It is lined up with the current freeway layout. In the reconstruction, the entire bridge would have had to have been moved.
 * Doherty. Why are there ruins there, why is the gas station abandoned, and why does Catalina/Claude have its deed?
 * The desert towns. Did anyone else feel that these were hugely underused? There's absolutely nothing in any of them aside Barbara. Would they have been more utilised in a prequel - There weren't actually that many desert missions in San Andreas, it jumped pretty quickly from San Fierro to Toreno to Las Venturas, and most of Toreno's had flying as their main goal.

They're all the ones that I've found. Feel free to add your own. Again, this is pure speculation with some evidence... C-d-rom 19:29, 9 June 2009 (UTC)