Or manually remade versions that did not look like they were cut out from The Sims 2.Īpart from this, it is the bugs and all the technical mistakes included here that bother me the most. I would definitely have preferred the original characters with maybe a little sharpened textures. For the most part, Grove Street's automatic filter seems to have made Rockstar's hardcore gang members, street thugs, mobsters, and gangsters into something that seems to originate more from The Sims, and this of course results in some involuntary comedy. The automated system that has certainly fixed a handful of characters from all three games has at the same time sabotaged a number of characters that are instrumental in the stories of the three different games and there are parts here that made me laugh, hysterically. Another aspect that has largely gotten worse is the characters' visual appearance. Here, of course, I had expected something more, something much better and it feels very much like all three games had deserved something way better. All three protagonists in all three games move like clunky blocks and especially in GTA III, both driving and gunplay feel most troublesome. The old and clunky game mechanics which, according to Rockstar's skillful marketing team, would be "improved to feel more like a modern GTA" is largely unchanged here. The rest is about things that I only have negative things to say about. However, this is the only improvement made in these three games that I am prepared to praise. Volumetric lighting effects make the games look more modern and there is a graphical atmosphere here that was missing in the originals, thanks to the cars headlights, street lamps, neon signs, moonlight, and much more shedding light on the gaming cities in a way these old classics have not seen before. A clear improvement, especially in Vice City and San Andreas. The lighting in these versions is clearly better. This has been done via a couple of automated systems that have scaled up textures and changed character faces automatically, as well as improved about 100,000 textures and built-in improved light effects. It is thus ten-year-old mobile games that have now been transferred from the game engine Renderware to Unreal Engine 4. Among other things, Grove Street developed the iPhone versions of all three games that were released a little over ten years ago under the name "10th Anniversary Edition" and it is clear that it is these versions that have been converted here. Because even though there are definitely merits here that I should neither ignore nor just mention in passing (I will get there, soon) this is about a trio of PlayStation 2 games that in this state are so crammed with bugs and technical shortcomings that it becomes difficult for me to be anything other than almost solely negative.īehind this collection stands Florida-based Grove Street Games, which has been converting Rockstar's games into various formats and platforms for ten years now. A couple of stubborn suspicions popped into my head when it became clear that Rockstar had no plans to send us a review version of GTA: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition, and now of course I understand why. On Thursday morning, this long-awaited collection was released and my hours with the game have unfortunately not been as enjoyable as I had been looking forward to. In the way that the Houser brothers framed the era, the tone wrote their characters and matched everything with just the right kind of music choices, all of these three games became cultural icons, some of the most beloved action games of all time and when they unveiled a few months ago that they were working on improved new versions, I was one of those who prepared my wallet. San Andreas brought the concept to "Compton", where Rockstar exchanged purple jackets and disco music for 90s gang life from movies like Boyz N The Hood, Juiced, and Menace 2 Society. GTA: Vice City offered a number of gameplay improvements and further expanded Rockstar's fantastic foundation to levels no other game developer could compete with at the time. When Rockstar a couple of years later continued but shifted era and city of play, drowned us in Scarface vibes and Miami Vice-aesthetics, it was time for me to surrender again - completely. I do not exaggerate when I call GTA III one of the three most important titles in gaming history. The dynamic game structure, the open and above all tonally dark and violent game world, the pop-culture references, the music, the adult and film-like story.
Grand Theft Auto III rewrote the rulebook not just for the action genre but for the entire gaming world and Rockstar went from a small Scottish micro-team to one of the world's most respected developers.
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