While fans continue to wait for news on GTA 6, only a remaster trilogy of GTA 3, san andreas and vice city is released. We have all the info. UPDATE: original trilogy for PC for free.
There is hardly a game series that polarizes as much as grand theft auto. While some authorities in the U.S. still try to associate complicated issues and violent crimes with the game series, for others it is the epitome of fantastic game design.
So among the triple-A games, GTA has a special place without a doubt. So fans should be happy that some selected parts of the game series will be released as remasters. under the name "grand theft auto: the trilogy – the definitive edition".
This includes remastered versions of GTA 3, GTA san andreas and GTA vice city. And that’s no coincidence, because besides GTA V, these three parts are the undisputed favorites of GTA fans to this day.
So there will be plenty of fodder for fans of the series in the near future. besides the remaster trilogy, the GTA V enhanced edition is supposed to be released next year, in march 2022 to be exact. This, along with 4K resolution and 60 FPS, certainly brings back some memories of the last adventure in the GTA series and may even inspire new players.
And while the world continues to hold its breath waiting for news about GTA 6, remasters and. Enhanced editions like this are a good way to sweeten the wait until the next big release.
In the following section we clarify some burning questions about the remaster trilogy. This is now also released, although with a somewhat problematic launch – more about this in the release section of the article.
How much content does the remaster trilogy have??
The GTA remaster trilogy contains three classic GTA games that have been visually improved. with GTA 3, GTA vice city and GTA san andreas the trilogy offers a lot of content and three exciting stories around the mafia and the american lifestyle in different cities.
The original games were all released between 2001 and 2004, so it’s been at least 17 years since they were released. No major changes are expected to be made to the story and gameplay, as these are officially remasters and not remakes.
Only minor changes to the controls and usability are planned to bring the gameplay a bit more in the direction of GTA V. improvements to the graphics and performance are clearly in focus.
Which engine will the remaster trilogy run on??
the remaster of "grand theft auto 3, "grand theft auto san andreas" and "grand theft auto vice city" are all supposed to be based on the unreal engine. In the meantime, rockstar is actually developing on an in-house, much improved engine. But due to the age of the three games, there might be some limitations regarding the choice of engine.
The unreal engine allows at least a few significant improvements compared to the original. This includes shadow and light effects, more realistic explosions, better character models, vegetation, weather and water effects and of course better textures in general. Especially with GTA 3, the technical progress is very obvious.
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Who develops the GTA remaster games?
grove street games" development studio will probably take over the majority of the development of all three remaster parts. This was already responsible for some ports of GTA titles to other platforms like ios, android, xbox 360 and playstation 3. So the developers should already have some experience with grand theft auto.
When is the release date of the GTA trilogy??
The GTA trilogy was released on 11. November 2021 and thus takes the originally planned release date of the GTA V next-gen version. So far, the trilogy is only available as a digital version, but a physical version is planned on 17. December follow.
However, the launch of the GTA definitve edition went anything but smoothly. Many players are reporting performance problems, incorrect character models and animations, graphics errors, crashes and questionable content that has not been removed from the game. Over the launch weekend, the PC version of the GTA trilogy was also not available for purchase and not playable – the reason could be expired licenses for music titles, which were still included in the PC remasters.
Rockstar promises to take care of the aforementioned problems and apologizes to the community for the disastrous launch of the trilogy. Further updates should ensure that current problems are fixed. rockstar games also gave away the original trilogy to pc players, who can now play it via rockstar launcher. For everyone else, the original versions of the games remain inaccessible, because they were taken offline in the course of the remaster launch.