Summary
- GTA Trilogy update allows running & shooting with shotguns & assault rifles, improving player experience.
- November 2024 patch brought visual improvements, bug fixes, and unique features not in previous versions.
- Despite rocky start, continuous support from developers.
Grand Theft Auto Trilogy's latest update now allows players to run and shoot while using shotguns, assault rifles, and flamethrowers. While the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Definitive Edition had a very rocky start when it was first released, the developers' continuous support for the title has salvaged the remake.
Grand Theft Auto Trilogy's November 2024 patch introduced a list of changes that brought the game in-line with the better-received mobile ports. These updates include a classic lighting option that restores the look and feel of the sky from the original titles, as well as fixing several bugs which are said to improve the player experience as a whole. However, a huge new feature not mentioned in the patch is one that hasn't been introduced in any of the other versions.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Almost Had a Very Different Map
A developer who worked on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas reveals that the game's map was almost very different in a significant way.
Twitter user Besk posted a list of changes that were not mentioned in the latest Grand Theft Auto Trilogy update, which includes the ability to run around with several weapons from Grand Theft Auto. The mobile ports and the classic versions did not have these features, which makes the Trilogy versions unique. It was not mentioned why this feature was introduced specifically in this version, but it's a change that fans agree with. However, one user asked why this feature wasn't included in the new San Andreas. Another user replied that San Andreas utilizes different shooting mechanics than the other two titles.
What Other Changes Were Introduced in the Latest Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Update?
While many would say that the ability to run and shoot could be the biggest update that the developers could introduce, Besk actually discovered more changes that were left unlisted. Apart from fixing GTA Trilogy's game-breaking bugs, the visuals and animations were improved. Some of these items include an adjustment to CJ's soda drinking animation, the addition of various details to the map graphics, and the ability to pause during cutscenes in all three games, among others. A glitch that allowed players to skip to other islands early on has also been patched out, ensuring that these areas are only available once certain progress is achieved.
Besk also shared that Rockstar might have a new team dealing with the bugs and glitches. It's interesting to note that one visual change found by various members of the community is that some of Grove Street Games logos are missing on a few screens. Grove Street Games has been in charge of the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition since its announcement, so some players were surprised to hear this news. However, Besk clarifies that Grove Street Games were the ones who introduced the hundreds of fixes included in the latest patch, and that the team was never removed from the actual credits. Still, all the updates shared by Besk make it look like the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition may be closer to the modern experience that players had hoped for when the game was first released.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 54 /100 Critics Rec: 12%
- Released
- November 11, 2021
- ESRB
- m
- Developer(s)
- Grove Street Games
- Publisher(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Engine
- unreal engine 4, unreal engine
- Franchise
- Grand Theft Auto
WHERE TO PLAY
Three iconic cities, three epic stories. Play the genre-defining classics of the original Grand Theft Auto Trilogy: Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas updated for a new generation, now with across-the-board enhancements including brilliant new lighting and environmental upgrades, high-resolution textures, increased draw distances, Grand Theft Auto V-style controls and targeting, and much more, bringing these beloved worlds to life with all new levels of detail.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition includes:
Grand Theft Auto III: It all starts in Liberty City. With the revolutionary freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto III puts the center of the criminal underworld at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair and pastel suits comes the story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile. Grand Theft Auto returns with Tommy Vercetti’s tale of betrayal and revenge in a neon-soaked tropical town full of excess and brimming with possibilities.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Five years ago, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson escaped the haze of Los Santos, San Andreas...a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs, and corruption. Now, it's the early 90s. CJ’s got to go home - his mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart, and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of cops frame him for homicide, forcing CJ on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets in the next iteration of the series that changed everything.
