Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition arrives this November
Clear your schedule. Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas will be here (again) in a few weeks.
When Rockstar Games finally confirmed that Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition was happening, the questions immediately shifted to when. Well, we now have a release date that players can mark on the calendars, and it’s sooner than you are probably expecting.
Today, Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will arrive on digital storefronts on November 11, 2021. You can buy it on the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Nintendo eShop, and the Rockstar Games Launcher. Those online stores will cover players on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. If you’d rather have Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in physical form, its physical release is planned for each of the above consoles mentioned, minus PlayStation 5 at this time, on December 7, 2021.
Officially announced earlier this October 2021, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will include Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Each game will feature modern controls inspired by Grand Theft Auto V, plus visual enhancements, and resolution upgrades. PC players will be happy to know that NVIDIA DLSS support will be coming to the PC version.
You can read even more of the finer details about the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition over on the Rockstar Games website. You can also be certain that we’ll be diving in as soon as we can and providing our thoughts on three of the most iconic games from the Grand Theft Auto franchise. Mobile editions of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition are also expected sometime in 2022 on iOS and Android. Stay tuned as we await concrete dates for that launch further down the line.
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replyTJ Denzer posted a new article, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition arrives this November
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Nice improvements. Bit more than I thought they were going to do. Wonder what DLSS will do? Make running them at 8k possible?
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Oh,wow. These are in the unreal engine.
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Wasn't expecting a release soo soon on this. While I do have great memories of the early GTA games I wonder how well they hold up now.
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Imagine RDR2 and GTA V with worse gameplay and more unforgiving mission fail requirements
And more escort missions
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FYI San Andreas is going to be on gamepass and GTA III will be on PSN. Both on day one.
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PS Now is Sony's streaming service, like Stadia, OnLive, Geforce Now, etc. https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps-now/
I'm surprised it's still going, honestly.
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Perfect, San Andreas is best.
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Thats my big concern
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Ohh yah I kinda forgot about that!
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Yeah I'm worried Vicy City is going to be ruined :(
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Ah dang it that was one of the best parts of vice city.
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Vice CIty: https://www.cinemablend.com/games/GTA-Vice-City-Back-Steam-Nearly-10-Songs-Removed-50206.html
San Andreas: https://www.trueachievements.com/forum/viewthread.aspx?tid=573843
GTA4: https://www.destructoid.com/heres-a-list-of-songs-removed-in-gta-ivs-latest-update/
And these all happened years ago. Some music licensing has a specific end date, and it's possible that throwing more money at the rights holders wouldn't matter if they choose not to re-license certain artists and tracks for whatever reason.
So these new versions could have the same songs missing as before, with potentially even more missing at this point. I think bringing back all the original songs is the least likely of scenarios, but impossible to say.
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I think they look pretty good -- it looks like how I remember it, but obviously has been fixed up a lot. Things like cars have reflections, and characters aren't as blocky. I hope they managed to nail the lighting - especially in GTA:SA -- the lighting and haze in that game was magical at the time.
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Love the look of this, the remaster makes it look a little like the earlier telltale games. They kept the style but definitely added and made it more like how you remember it being, rather than how it actually was. I was actually worried they would do too little, just up resolution and framerate, glad to be wrong. Hopefully as everyone said the soundtracks are in tact as they were just huge in conveying the atmosphere of the trilogy.
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No mention of mission checkpoints :/
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Ah I guess it means you don’t have to drive back to the mission start
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Oh hey landing on that damn train or the low rider mission
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This is actually the only thing I really care about above all else. The amount of time it took having to restart a mission from my safe house made me leave two of those games incomplete.
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My favourite thing in GTA 3 was that they didn’t reset the mission area after starting a mission- so if you had a car chase mission you could block a street with a fire truck before starting the mission and totally fuck up the AI.
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You mean an actual remake in a new engine? These games are enhanced and now running in UE, but I'd assume more of a port or wrapper for the renderware originals with some upgrades, like the recent Doom releases running in Unity.
The most interesting thing that I'm seeing here are the control changes: Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition debuts new GTAV-inspired modern controls - I want to see just how far they went with that and if it benefits the gameplay much at all. The shooting in those old games is pretty terrible.
Also mention gyro aiming for the Switch.-
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Looks like just San Andreas coming to Game Pass:
Players will also be able to experience Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition with Xbox Game Pass starting November 11.
Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition will be available on PlayStation Now starting December 7. (PS Now is Sony's streaming service)
I thought this trilogy release would be a singular package of all three game, but it appears they're still separate. Boourns.
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After thinking it over, I may also consider grabbing them if each game had a lot more music than the originals added, even if some of the tracks from the initial releases were missing. If it's just the same amount or less, with some substitutions, then bleh.
I still have those original games with the original soundtracks on disc, and there's a lot of tunes that I grew tired of after playing those games on PS2 & PC. Probably not the only one who eventually dropped my own tracks into the mix with the MP3 station feature on PC in these three.
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Honestly... kinda excited for this... still looks pretty decent with that art style and updated post processing.
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Man, the updated graphics look really nice. I like the slightly cartoony look they went with. Can't wait to fly a jumpjet over San Andreas again!
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#1 - Glad they gave the characters a sort of comic book / cell shaded look. Going realistic would have looked really jarring when they are bound by low-poly models.
#2 - Got no real interest in this. I feel like the gameplay has not aged well, and you can get the experience in GTA V anyway.
But the music is killer!
