Missions still had their issues, but there were far more varied and interesting. Meanwhile, missions were simple and clunky and the world lacked the life and depth of later sequels.Īrriving only a year later, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was far more involving, with better characters and something approaching an actual story (albeit one liberally lifted from Scarface and Carlito’s Way). While you have to admire the groundbreaking tech and vision of Grand Theft Auto III, the game’s writing and world-building was crude and downright childish at times (it’s hard to believe many of the same people who made GTA 3 would go onto make legitimately moving sagas like Red Dead Redemption).
Today, it feels like most AAA franchises take an entire generation to move forward in any significant way, but the three PS2 GTA games were all released within the span of four years, with each new entry being a quantum leap over its predecessor. It remains astonishing how quickly Rockstar advanced and matured over the course of making the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy.
Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Originals Return to PC Following Dire Definitive Edition Launch Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition drags the PS2 GTA titles into the 4K era on almost every available platform, but will these remasters bring Rockstar’s classics to a new generation? Or should they be sent to sleep with the fishes? Time to cruise through the pros and cons… The original versions of the GTA Trilogy have remained easily playable on PC and there have been some mobile re-releases, but these classics haven't received any sort of significant official update… until now.
They essentially created the modern open-world template that underpins most of today’s AAA gaming industry from whole cloth, and yet, not a lot has been done to celebrate these games. The PS2 Grand Theft Auto Trilogy (Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) were landscape changers. Most games are lucky if they can successfully put a small spin on an existing genre, but there’s an elite few that transcend categories, changing the gaming landscape as we know it. Developer Rockstar Dundee, Grove Street Games