Is Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition Worth Buying Yet?
The year 2021 saw people heading into the second year of a pandemic that is still ongoing to this day, but many works of fiction celebrated an anniversary that gave people opportunities to remember and revisit them. When it comes to 20th anniversaries, games like Sonic Adventure 2, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and the GameCube as a whole were celebrated. Another game that turned 20 last year is Grand Theft Auto 3, which was important considering Rockstar included it in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition.
Grand Theft Auto 3 is arguably Rockstar’s most important game. It came out around the beginning of a new console generation and quickly established itself as one of the biggest phenomena for that era of gaming. Grand Theft Auto 3 put Rockstar on the map with a superstar franchise, and normalized the idea of open-world games. Rockstar “remastered” it alongside Vice City and San Andreas in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition. Unfortunately, what should have been an appreciative move turned out to be more polarizing.
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The entire history of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition is farfetched. Instead of being announced at a big event like E3, Rockstar randomly released a reveal trailer showing its aesthetics, leaving many people skeptical of the trilogy’s overall quality. People were especially skeptical after the reveal that Rockstar was planning to pull the original versions off Steam.
By the time the trilogy came out, skeptical fans proved to be correct, and Rockstar began to receive criticism. The visuals were barely an improvement, and at times felt inferior to the originals. Instead of rebuilding everything for
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