Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition

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  1. Jess901
    Nov 17, 2021
    2
    Disrespectful. A cheap lazy remaster made to steal your money. They don't even respect their own game. Shameful
  2. AkitoAK
    Nov 14, 2021
    2
    What went wrong?
    New Engine?
    Models looking like ****
    Rain looking like Frozen Water bullets?
    Basically not worth the price they charging it for..
  3. Sweeb
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    Absolute rubbish, the rain blocks the view, the characters design is rubbish and the whole thing is a lazy remaster. Very rushed rubbish. Don't buy games until you know they are complete people. These game companies are taking us for mugs now.
  4. Reshad
    Nov 14, 2021
    2
    I would not expect such a game from such a big company. Mods on the Internet are better.
  5. NotSure
    Nov 12, 2021
    2
    My scams detector detected it was scam and here is its short report:

    Designed by experts, wreckmastered by incompetent fools. So, being R*/T2, ones of the biggest and the richest names in gaming industry, how do you manage remastering one of the best and most influential trilogies that defined 6th generation of consoles and put you in position you're currently enjoy? Their answer to    My scams detector detected it was scam and here is its short report:

    Designed by experts, wreckmastered by incompetent fools.
    So, being R*/T2, ones of the biggest and the richest names in gaming industry, how do you manage remastering one of the best and most influential trilogies that defined 6th generation of consoles and put you in position you're currently enjoy? Their answer to that is outsourcing it to some small third-rate studio (Groove Street Games) whose portfolio contains infamously horrible GTA:SA X360/PS3 remasters, among other not so great ports of different games. Doesn't sound like a bright idea to me. It shows how much R*/T2 care about quality and legacy of their old games though.

    Graphics/Performance/Gameplay
    GSG basically ported inferior mobile versions to UE4 (isn't really hard thing to do (unlike reverse engineering GTA3/VC;), just takes some time). AI upscaled textures (probably didn't even looked at results), made them work with UE4 lighting. Added a little bit new objects here and there. So for most improvements you should thank UE4 accessibility. Also "DE" has very long draw distance, which is great by itself, but because they removed smog for some reason (maybe Epsilonism doesn't allow this) you can now clearly see how really small the map is. Just sad. Cinematic camera is removed like in mobile. Technically new lighting is better, but it changes the atmosphere too much. More often than not it looks worse imho, in some scenes it can look great, so it's hit and miss. Rain as well rarely looks great. Money models are huge, I see they like it a lot. For some reason GSG added gross outlines on enemies (forgot to do it on some fonts though). Things that are really improved are vegetation, vehicles (not by much, but it's enough in this case tbh), overall polycount and texture quality. Also it works fine at 60+ fps unlike original. All in all, it combines some technical improvements with lack of visual integrity, style and soul. Performance on the other hand is unforgivably bad for this level of graphics, you can have drops even on high end PCs and next gen consoles. Turns out there's a "real" reason for adding DLSS. Gameplay-wise it's mostly the same with some minor changes to make games easier: you no longer lose your weapons if you die during missions; health restores after missions; more armor pick-ups etc. It's worth to say there's no more NPC health indicators in SA and ability to crouch in VC.

    Grand Toon Auto
    The worst thing about so called "DE" is character models, by far. This is total visual disaster! I can't recall any game with characters so disgustingly atrocious and so out of place like in this one. Some of them don't even look like human beings. Appearance of many main characters was changed considerably. Tommy, poor guy, now it's easier to jump over him than get around him. Not all that bad though, he got awesome sun tun (he denies it btw). Lance looks like Eddie Murphy made out of Plasticine (kinda charming). Rosenberg now looks like a kid with chest full of hair and with women's sunglasses. Sweet probably tried to stop GTA train by his face and CJ saw it in that moment. Woozie should be glad he's blind. Claude apparently tired of all this sh*t and who could blame him. The less be said about female characters the better. They all are meme-worthy.

    Censorship/Removed songs/Unavailability of old games/Price
    Big part of these games appeal is undoubtedly iconic soundtrack and "definitive editions" have probably more cut songs than any other versions. 'Nuff said. As for censorship, I get it, in a game where you can cause mayhem with all sorts of weapons and battle vehicles killing half of American population, in a game where you can use chainsaw on people, fry 'em with flamethrower or Molotov's, all in a city that has more criminals than in prison, the Confederate flag would be an overkill. Makes perfect f*cking sense! They ask for all that rotten sh*t 60 American Dollars! What, ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR MINDS? I guess it's some kind of 1$ per 1fps policy. Good for us performance in "DE" is so bad. Don't forget you can't buy old versions digitally anymore. Thank you R* and *U. Worse than that, a lot of cool mods was banned for this s*.

    You lift weights? I lift joints.
    Games just scream how lazy, cheap, low effort they are. GSG couldn't even remade intro videos, they still show old graphics (I've had some mod for VC back in the day in which intro was remade and it was done fairly well actually). All menus have San Andreas sounds now FFS! In terms of bugs and lags it can give C2077 a run for its money. And list could go on, but it's supposed to be a short review. Overall, there's as much definitive about these versions as sweet about Sweet Johnson or G in OG Loc. I's more like a Cluckin' Bell hamburger made out of processed chicken ass, with "just" 10% guano in it. Well, at least hamburger can be tasty, GTA Definitive Edition is definitely tasteless.    … Expand
  6. kruci
    Nov 12, 2021
    2
    Tragiczna optymalizacja, tragiczne modele, więcej bugów niż oryginał. Wszystko co było można zepsuć zepsuli a poprzeczka była jakiś metr nad ziemią. Gratuluje talentu.
  7. RKGAMES953
    Nov 15, 2021
    2
    it must get a remake not remastered now graphics are great in now days, characters models are in 2010,gameplay mechanics are from 2000 ..................
    2021....2010.....2000...!!!
  8. veljkomcx
    Apr 2, 2022
    2
    Not worth the 60$ it costs. Buggy money grab. Absolutely **** on the legacy these three amazing games have.
  9. dansstus20
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ужас. Хотел бы вернуть свои деньги, просто говно.… Expand
  10. Zovaal
    Nov 12, 2021
    2
    2 is just for gameplay but anything of this remastered is very low level . i don't no why Rockstar did this.
  11. realgtafan1
    Nov 12, 2021
    2
    Let's see, where do we start: the game is a port from the Android version, which is a port of the 2005 PC version, which is a port from the Xbox port, from the PS2 release. ALL of those ports added bugs, oh and there are bugs, a LOT of bugs, you wanna check them? Go to the r/GTA subreddit or scroll through Twitter. The character models are awful to look at, not cartoony or not realistic,Let's see, where do we start: the game is a port from the Android version, which is a port of the 2005 PC version, which is a port from the Xbox port, from the PS2 release. ALL of those ports added bugs, oh and there are bugs, a LOT of bugs, you wanna check them? Go to the r/GTA subreddit or scroll through Twitter. The character models are awful to look at, not cartoony or not realistic, they're plain bad. They went with AI upscaling for the textures for all the games, and it shows a lot in some parts. The attention to detail that the originals had was trashed by putting anachronical things, for example, a printer with a touch screen and USB ports, in 1992.

    The forests in GTA SA do look kinda good though.

    There are some parts where graphics do look good, however, no version has ever captured the atmosphere from the PS2 releases, and this is more noticeable due to the removal of the fog and increasing the draw distance, making the maps of all the games feel very small and very... unfinished.

    The PC versions are a hot mess right now, you don't even wanna touch with a 10 foot bar pole. It released with the cut music they were supossed to remove because they don't have the license, and they also released with A LOT of SOURCE CODE (scripts, mission scripts, translations, models, and much much more). Right now, you can't play the game because the Rockstar Games Launcher went on mainteance for the release day... for 24 hours. So what did they do when the launcher is back online? Remove the access to the games until they solve the files thing, which obviously for boomers like them is enough, but if you are on the internet, always on the internet.

    re3 and many singleplayer mods from the last 20 years have died for this, sued by Rockstar Games and Take Two Interactive, hold them accountable.    … Expand
  12. Ariana_g
    Nov 12, 2021
    2
    The graphic is good .
    Gameplay is good .
    But have a lots bug . We have short npcs .
    Maby should to use phone , swiming , new weapon and vehicles , and ... but we cant
    I think is shouldnt go in android , maby the graphics better and bugs fixed .
  13. Hottab06
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    How much noise was..

    Let's start with the pros: Nice menu and nice graphics. That's all, actually. Let's move on to the cons. Let's immediately discard the topic of price and innovations, the game has enough problems without it. Old bugs have not been removed in the game, but many new ones have appeared. Holes in the map, poor optimization. Artificial intelligence has become more    How much noise was..

    Let's start with the pros:
    Nice menu and nice graphics. That's all, actually.

    Let's move on to the cons.
    Let's immediately discard the topic of price and innovations, the game has enough problems without it.
    Old bugs have not been removed in the game, but many new ones have appeared. Holes in the map, poor optimization. Artificial intelligence has become more stupid - sometimes drivers just bang against the wall. Many car textures have been improved with a special program, but without manual processing, which makes them look very bad. I think it makes no sense to talk about the faces of the characters.. Most of all I am disappointed in San Andreas. The underwater world was taken away from us, because Karl now does not know how to dive deeply, and if we get to the bottom with the help of a bug, we will see that everything under the water is scenery, they no longer have a collision. The mimicry of the characters is also now absent. The character sometimes falls under the map and cannot get to the top. The transition between sky and water is poorly done, as if it were someone's crude custom mod. Bottles no longer fly away from shots, but fall under objects. A couple of missions were made easier.
    This is just what I found, but I think the game has a lot more problems than it seems.

    Taking into account all of the above, I would give 4 to this re-release, but when I found out that they just wanted to make more money on the feelings of the fans, I give this project 2. Very bad.    … Expand
  14. Pinkrum
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    Biggest disappointment of the year so far. I could live with the bad models and the rest of the graphics problems of the remasters, but besides bad graphics, the games has just a bunch of technical problems. Optimization is awfull and they're just full of bugs. And knowing who was involved in these remasters, I don't even have any hope for patches.
  15. Linnasvayer
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    Added 2 points for music. A terrible game, when you want to feel the atmosphere of the game, you are greeted by bugs, many bugs due to which you lose missions. Due to one bug, I cannot complete the mission "Arms Dealer". I didn't feel any emotions when I passed. I am silent about the price and faces of the characters.
  16. Qwertikson
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    Rockstar was counting on easy money, but players have just verified their "remaster". This situation is a joke from longtime fans and from players who trusted the creators of GTA. Be ashamed
  17. pivohleb
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    обзор исключительно затрагивает то, на чем остался коричневый след рокстар.
    Графон: мерзотно-мультяшное мылопромышленное месиво. Персонажей испоганили невероятно... в 2004 году на модельках были хоть какие-то намеки на текстуры, и то тогда это было простительно, а сейчас все педы, даже ключевые выглядят как фигурное декоративное мыло. Без фактур, без текстур, все монотонно. Дождь ужасен,    обзор исключительно затрагивает то, на чем остался коричневый след рокстар.
    Графон: мерзотно-мультяшное мылопромышленное месиво. Персонажей испоганили невероятно... в 2004 году на модельках были хоть какие-то намеки на текстуры, и то тогда это было простительно, а сейчас все педы, даже ключевые выглядят как фигурное декоративное мыло. Без фактур, без текстур, все монотонно. Дождь ужасен, просто глаза вытекают, то же касается невероятно цветасто-насыщенных неба и облаков, что просто ну никак не гармонирует с мрачным и похотливым миром игры. Порадовало лишь появление освещения и теней.
    Геймплей: управление, стрельба, анимации, все из 2004 года (в комментариях не нуждается)
    вердикт: ужасный инди мод в стилистике фортнайта с ужасной оптимизацией за фулл прайс.
    браво рокстар, браво.    … Expand
  18. MrLo63
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    I dont normally do this but when you take my money and dont even let me play your what looks to be unfinished mess i get pissed of you are a failure of a company and should be ashamed
  19. graybuddah
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    Just a shameful port. Spelling and texture errors, cars blow up almost instantly, the character models look horrifically bad - there really seems to have been no quality control on this game at all. At some points the characters’ hands will be half as long as their torsos.

    I cannot recommend anyone pay full-price for these games. Even if it were $15 I would tell people to wait for a sale.
  20. Smookinhow
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    Gráficos do cenário até que está interessante, porém os gráficos dos personagens estão horrendos e com esse valor exorbitante de 320 reais é complicado pra 3 jogos de mais de 15 anos, com esse remaster tosco e cheio de bugs que as vezes atrapalham muito a gameplay
  21. Friend2162
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    So I'm not going ALL-HATE with this product but I'm going to be fair a honest. With as much money ROCK* harvested on Shark-Cards, they could afford to do more with this. Their reason for not doing enough is "we wanted to keep the old look, the old models... the old feel". That's just an excuse, they literally took the old game, worked for like 14 days (with resources they have it is aboutSo I'm not going ALL-HATE with this product but I'm going to be fair a honest. With as much money ROCK* harvested on Shark-Cards, they could afford to do more with this. Their reason for not doing enough is "we wanted to keep the old look, the old models... the old feel". That's just an excuse, they literally took the old game, worked for like 14 days (with resources they have it is about right) and started selling the product before christmas. And what is best about that - you need to be connected to rockstar games social club and can't use mods because they packed all data into one PAK file. YES! All game data are in single file. So, to play this from nostalgy, it's nice and good. But seriously, they should give us this game for free. Don't pay for it, it's not worth it. They knew why they don't show us anything until release day. I give 2/10

    Edit: I forgot to mention so many funny bugs the original one didn't have. Missing textures, missing bridges, people have their hands to back like some mutated zombies often. Well, they didn't even have time to check for bugs.    … Expand
  22. ghostlyy
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    When i could play it, i enjoyed it. However, it is very clear this was a cashgrab and a poor one at that cause their product was in such a poor shape that it didn't even work, tons of people asking for refunds and soon am about to be one of them. Its not worth 60$ so therefore i will refund it and buy it at a discounted price.
    i bought these games only for the nostalgic, just seeing the    When i could play it, i enjoyed it. However, it is very clear this was a cashgrab and a poor one at that cause their product was in such a poor shape that it didn't even work, tons of people asking for refunds and soon am about to be one of them. Its not worth 60$ so therefore i will refund it and buy it at a discounted price.
    i bought these games only for the nostalgic, just seeing the texture updates and lightning updates on GTA VC made me smile. So this clearly breaks my heart.
    Release time for me was 2 PM, and i couldn't download it until about 5 PM. So after all that wait i played a few hours with joy then it was immediately taken down, thanks a lot Rockstar. Last time i preorder any of your products that's for sure.    … Expand
  23. XMAY_MAX
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    Цена 4300, поэтому извиняйте. Роки настолько обленились, что смерть просто. Текстуры заменены, конечно, но не все. Те половина в нормальном разрешении, а другие сшакаленные до смерти. Об углы локации можно порезаться, старые баги остались, кринжовые позы типа приседания тоже такие же убогие. ПРоходить я буду дальше, тк на старые версии без слез не взглянешь, НО Это не уровень 4к)Цена 4300, поэтому извиняйте. Роки настолько обленились, что смерть просто. Текстуры заменены, конечно, но не все. Те половина в нормальном разрешении, а другие сшакаленные до смерти. Об углы локации можно порезаться, старые баги остались, кринжовые позы типа приседания тоже такие же убогие. ПРоходить я буду дальше, тк на старые версии без слез не взглянешь, НО Это не уровень 4к)
  24. Xuecation
    Nov 13, 2021
    2
    Checkpoint system very good but nothing else. Mechanics old. The saddest thing is that rockstar did this. How funny would gta 6 be?
  25. FowKenBr
    Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Apenas o grafico ficou bonito,ta mt bugado e as texturas parecem massinha parece q foi feito as pressas
  26. andreid24
    Nov 14, 2021
    2
    This is no longer the game we loved ...
    A lot is broken in this game:
    -the lighting looks disgusting, the original palette is lost - global shading exacerbates everything -effects are poor and poorly chosen - reflections in the style of bad Cleo scripts -optimization. The graphics are mediocre, and the requirements are higher than those of GTA 5! - common bugs of the world, behavior    This is no longer the game we loved ...
    A lot is broken in this game:
    -the lighting looks disgusting, the original palette is lost
    - global shading exacerbates everything
    -effects are poor and poorly chosen
    - reflections in the style of bad Cleo scripts
    -optimization. The graphics are mediocre, and the requirements are higher than those of GTA 5!
    - common bugs of the world, behavior of objects and scripts
    -Models of people ... It's just a nightmare

    -Well, and lastly, the behavior of T2, they removed the original from the store, at the time of writing this review, this re-release cannot be launched and the money cannot be returned!

    From the pros:
    -control tried to make it similar to the original
    -In rare cutscenes, the lighting still looks not so bad, even beautiful
    _____
    Это больше не та игра, которую мы любили ...
    В этой игре много сломано:
    -освещение выглядит отвратительно, теряется первоначальная палитра
    - глобальное затенение все усугубляет
    -эффекты плохие и плохо подобранные
    - размышления в стиле плохих скриптов Cleo
    -оптимизация. Графика посредственная, а требования выше, чем в GTA 5!
    - общие баги мира, поведение объектов и скриптов
    -Модели людей ... Это просто кошмар

    -Ну и на последок поведение Т2, удалили оригинал из магазина, на момент написания этого обзора этот переиздание не запускается и деньги не возвращаются!

    Из плюсов:
    -control попытался сделать его похожим на оригинал
    -В редких катсценах освещение все же выглядит не так плохо, даже красиво    … Expand
  27. George_Floyd02
    Nov 15, 2021
    2
    nothing is good in the definitive edition. The game world looks like a plastic mockup. Why also Take 2 hired grove street games? I have no idea. The most upsetting thing is that there was nothing rockstar games could do about it.. In childhood, this trilogy game was beautiful, and now? no words :(
  28. Jazzy1
    Nov 15, 2021
    2
    This game clearly does not deserve a score of more than 2 on metacritic, for sure. I can say with confidence that the marketers who told us a big redesign of the interface brazenly lied to our face, showing a piece of feces in a beautiful graphics wrapper.
  29. AlbinoSquirrel
    Nov 16, 2021
    2
    PS5 user. I'll be honest I haven't religiously played these games since their original release so I've enjoyed playing them again but you can see how many corners have been cut. You can't polish a turd but you can put glitter on it. To be fare the originals weren't turds but that's how it feels. We all publicly know how much Rockstar Games is raking it in with their constant re-releases ofPS5 user. I'll be honest I haven't religiously played these games since their original release so I've enjoyed playing them again but you can see how many corners have been cut. You can't polish a turd but you can put glitter on it. To be fare the originals weren't turds but that's how it feels. We all publicly know how much Rockstar Games is raking it in with their constant re-releases of GTA V and GTA online so they could have put more money into this especially re-licensing the full soundtrack or added new tracks. I'm not angry just dissapointed.… Expand
  30. loshpedus
    Nov 18, 2021
    2
    игра как бы не говно но как бы и да но оно не стоит своих денег не тратьте на эту игру свои деньги и время
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Dec 7, 2021
    30
    Rockstar dropped the ball on this remaster. The cars and other moving models look like plastic toys and the cities look like polished excrement. The contrast between the environment and the models is horrible and the list of bugs is long and obnoxious. Quality of life changes are the only redeeming part of this remaster that does no favours for fans or newcomers. Skip it until they either fix it or let the moders do their job.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Dec 7, 2021
    50
    I cannot currently recommend Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition on the PC, and a lot has to happen until I do. The truth is that I've had a decent amount of fun with this remaster; part of it is based on nostalgia, and part of it is based on some ridiculous, unavoidable bugs that weren't as frequent as I'd feared. Given all of these issues and the abysmal performance of the three games on the PC, I'd stay away from the trilogy until several major updates have been released. Even then, this remaster may not be for everyone.
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  3. GameSpace
    Nov 29, 2021
    50
    Overall, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition was set up to be one of the best things for GTA fans and it failed to hit that mark. It will now be remembered as a failure to launch title but I am sure Rockstar will step in and continue to fix some items within their game world.
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