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GTA Trilogy Remaster Confirmed For This Year As Existing Editions Get Delisted

Confirming the leaks and rumors, Rockstar officially announces GTA Trilogy: The Definitive Edition.

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Following weeks of rumor and speculation, Rockstar Games has officially announced a new Grand Theft Auto remaster package featuring GTA III, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas. Called Grand Theft Auto Trilogy: The Definitive Edition, it represents the first three 3D games in the series, when it exploded in popularity and was mired in controversy.

GTA Trilogy: The Definitive Edition comes with updated and improved versions of those three games. The bundle will be available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and on PC through the Rockstar Games Launcher later this year. A mobile edition for iOS and Android is coming in the first half of 2022. Pricing was not announced.

GTA The Trilogy: Definitive Edition is coming this year
GTA The Trilogy: Definitive Edition is coming this year

The games feature "across-the-board upgrades including graphical improvements and modern gameplay enhancements for all three titles, while still maintaining the classic look and feel of the originals," Rockstar said.

More details on the games in the package will be released in the coming weeks. As of yet, Rockstar has not released any images or videos for the trilogy, nor has it announced the specific release date.

Rockstar also announced that it is removing the existing versions of GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas from digital stores beginning next week.

Additionally, Rockstar revealed that it will celebrate GTA III's 20th anniversary with a "cavalcade of gear" to collect in GTA Online through events beginning this fall. This will include "commemorative clothing and liveries."

As mentioned, this announcement is no surprise, as the game was already leaked by way of a Korean ratings board announcement and various press reports. Should the new GTA remasters perform well, Rockstar might consider remastering Red Dead Redemption, a report said.

In addition to the new remaster package, Rockstar is developing Grand Theft Auto V for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, which will be the third generation of console platforms that the game will be released on, following Xbox 360/PS3 and Xbox One/PS4. GTA V for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S will launch in March 2022, following a delay.

For more, check out GameSpot's ranking of the best GTA games of all time.

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Got all 3 on OG Xbox discs, and if the OG Xbox doesn't boot up then I know one of the three 360s probably will. Apparently San Andreas is actually playable on BackCompat, so maybe I'll just boot each game and spend a day recording their radio stations to MP3 for safekeeping. Seems like a nice way to spend a day of holiday PTO!

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Ahh don't know how I feel about it, while they can do what ever they want doesn't mean I have to buy it

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@Crazy_sahara: yeah but they're actively against video game preservation. Why do I have to buy their new bundle just to play classic games?

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That's it Rockstar, keep exploiting the same content. Along with your crappy Shark Cards. From best to worst company ever.

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@poseidion: Yep ill stand with you on that.

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I'm so down for this.... but if its coming this year... umm... when will they officially announce it? Shadow Drop during the Game Awards in December? This is strange for Rockstar / Take 2.

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@Zandeus: Don't be down for this. For starters, music. How much of what was originally there will make it in? I mean how much they had removed from the stations already? Also it is pretty much confirmed that they will be removing content deemed problematic, and while they didn't specify what, one can only imagine.

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ok so time to buy the existing editions

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@PrpleTrtleBuBum: looooool. When I read 'delisted' I did just that on steam.

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@RogerioFM: yea conservationalists have a field day with this one. if the trilogy is missing even 1 radio song it might be the most important one to someone. even if they have some updated graphical filters without option for the original someone will still find that like tampering with mona lisa

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@PrpleTrtleBuBum: It will be missing more than just songs.

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I'm starting to wonder if they CAN release a new GTA game right now. When you look at all the past games, they are sexist, racist, all the other -ists you can think of - and we loved it because it was tongue-in-cheek and we all understood the joke. There was some blowback but it was all ignored because people didn't take it seriously.

NOW? Now with "cancel culture", militant SJWs, the "woke" movement...all of those things we accepted as satire become reasons to boycott, de-platform, protest, etc.

I'm curious if that is having an effect (or affect) on their decision to delay the release.

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@cj_topspin: they can just saloonify the series further. even with gta v you can tell that the gore, jokes and everything is toned down. in vice city you can run at people with hedgetrimmers and have blood splash everywhere and be almost invincible machine. also they had much more gross jokes and humor about death and whatnot. in comparison gtav makes most humor from jabs at social media and some believably caricaturistic foreigners. and the heroes are troubled misunderstood guys instead of just crazed psychopaths. even trevor has more humanity than the ps2 era heroes

but yeah i can believe rockstar knows they have more reigns around them now. but i dont believe it is stopping them from making a game at all. theyve been going lighter anyway

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I'd rather see a sequel to China Town Wars. By far my favorite GTA. Just imagine how awesome a game like that could look using state of the art graphics technology.

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As long as these games don’t control like the originals, I’m down.

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I'm glad I have the OG versions on Steam.

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Hoping it plays like GTA V with graphics like Halo Remake

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Censored editions? naw, I'm ok thanks.

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@Lord_Badmagic: Who said they were censored? You mean that stupid rumor from a completely unknown website that a few people have been passing around? Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

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And the only one game worth looking at is gta vi, not mentioned here. Stop wasting time and money Rockstar.

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@ganondorf77: pffff it ended up beeing crap

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@ganondorf77: Vice City had awesome music.

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Never remove original versions from sale..

Newer is not always better.

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@DAOWAce: *Cough* Warcraft 3 *Cough*

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Looking forward to making cj one of the fat boys again

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Wow, it only took 20 years for Nintendo to get GTA3.

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Ah teaching the snowflakes why we are the way we are and why it was just better in our day.

Play this son and you’ll understand.

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What are the odds we see Franklin as a kid in remastered San Andreas?

Hang on...does the math work out? ...GTA: SA early 90's...Franklin born June 11, 1988....carry the 1...

Yep that works out...

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So the milking of the cow continues and still we're not any closer to GTA 6. Probably if i live to 100 years i might be one of the lucky ones to be around for GTA 6

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@doomsdayhell01: I totally agree with the milking of 5 but I’m excited for this, to play them with updated controls is going to be awesome

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@rodoxthedark: I agree completely. Really want to replay GTA III and Andreas, but it needs tighter controls and a graphical upgrade. I really hope Rockstar delivers. This could be huge.

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@pmanden: I think if I'm not mistaken, they already said that there are not going to be any major graphics improvements for the games. So don't expect 4K graphics, they'll only look better without any major graphics upgrade. Nothing like GTA 5, but these games have been on enough platforms as well and if they don't plan on doing a major update for these old games, why would they bother to do so? Just give us GTA 6 and that's enough with the milking.

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@doomsdayhell01: I don't expect 4k. 1080p and a stable 60 fps would be enough.

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I'm so glad I never gave money to rockstar in my life... now that I see the remasters I could pay... but they might get another remaster in 2050.... I'll wait 30 more years.... unless this remasters are free, as they should, then I'll give rockstar forever all my money.

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@ganondorf77: 🤣🤣🤣🤣 free

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@rodoxthedark: The world is fucked up

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@ganondorf77: So stay in your moms basement then.

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I remember using Rockstar Launcher when playing GTA Episodes From Liberty City.

It was horrible. It used to pop up everytime I launched the game and often got in the way of me playing the game as did that Games for Windows crap that was embedded into it aswell. I had to log into both of them to get the game to run like how stupid is that.

I had the box copy of GTA Episodes from Liberty City and GTA 4 on discs and I haven't played them in years. I don't know if they even work anymore.

GTA Episodes From Liberty City now that had proper story based DLC. GTA online ruined GTA 5 for me. GTA online is a piece of shit.

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@quinnd6: GTA Online is still unplayable thanks to all the cheaters. I can't go inside a public lobby without 50 topless women wielding pistols spawn around me. Then everything explodes, tons of helicopters spawn, etc.

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@chronogos: Strange. That's a dream I had...

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@quinnd6: They both work last I checked and had that BS Games for Windows removed from them thanks to MS ditching it years back.

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I'll be shocked if it's more than an attempt at a quick cash grab.

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Me purchasing these games yet again rides on just how much they have improved them past the versions I already own.

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@nightowl358: Judging by how little they seem to have done to the 'next gen' versions of GTA V, I wouldn't expect much more than res and framerate boost at this point. Maybe some control tweaks, but that's probably about it. Unless they've taken the time to find a way to pop MTX stores into the old titles...

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@nightowl358: Same here, and it depends how much it will cost as well.

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@nightowl358: I assume they mean they're going to fix the button mapping issues from the PS4 ports? It's not fun to play GTA without pressure-sensistive buttons for the gas/brakes, so they really need to be remapped to the shoulder buttons, the only pressure-sensitive buttons on the Dualshock 4 and 5.

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