Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition Reviews

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is ranked in the 9th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
3 / 10.0
Nov 22, 2021

Succinctly and clearly, the Nintendo Switch version of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is not worth your money, at least not yet! It is a painful experience, with serious performance issues that make you completely forget the few improvements implemented in this classic trilogy, which for its legacy, deserved much more respect than it was due.

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3 / 10.0
Nov 21, 2021

We were expecting a lot of nostalgia, but instead we got spit in the face. Yes, the nostalgia is there, but it's all completely wrong. The old mistakes have remained, but new ones have come. The graphics and textures are unfinished. What's missing is the nostalgic feeling of driving through Los Santos at night years ago, running over prostitutes for money and bullets and trying all the different crazy cheats against hordes of cops. It strikes me that games are made in that month between announcement and release. Add to that the download of the original games from the store and the inability to turn on the game on PC upon release and the remaster of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy has taken over the award from Warcraft III: Reforged for the most disappointing return of a legendary game. If you don't want to spoil your view of the game, we don't recommend purchasing it given its condition to date.

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2 / 10.0
Nov 15, 2021

GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is a relic of its time. A relic that was better left unearthed.

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20 / 100
Nov 18, 2021

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is inferior to the original games and represents these phenomenal titles in the worse way possible.

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1 / 10.0
Nov 18, 2021

After a campaign of threat and terror against the mod makers who had kept these titles alive for the better part of two decades and de-listing the original versions, we are offered this magnificent piece of failure and while playing it, you just keep wondering about the inner workings of QA departments of the publishers and console manufacturers that time and again have let titles this functionally broken, slip past them.

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No Recommendation / Blank
Nov 30, 2021

The three classic GTAs are still fun, but deserved a better remasterization, with greater care from Rockstar Games and without musical cuts.

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Caution
Nov 13, 2021

Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are admittedly masterpieces. Unfortunately, the remasters offered by The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition suffer from too many problems and do not give these diamonds the treatment they deserve.

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Don't Buy
Nov 19, 2021

Bugs may vary in degree across titles in the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition release, but whether or not they are tolerable, it is puzzling to see how this got past Rockstar, especially with the output that you know they can bring out.

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Avoid
Jan 28, 2022

It is unknown whether Grove Street Games worked on quality assurance at all or whether the studio actually bothered to patch out some bugs, but that is most certainly not how it seems. All games in the collection have lazily been ported from their mobile counterparts by a company who has seemingly never worked on other platforms before. All games have furthermore been given a remaster treatment so shockingly bad, they have somehow recessed and now look and play worse than any kind of emulated version ever would; and the entire Grand Theft Auto franchise, as masterful and great as it is, will now forever be marred by incompetence — let alone three classics forever disrgraced in such a way. There is no argument that Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is an abhorrent mess, and an incredibly disappointing one at that.

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Unscored
Nov 22, 2021

More than anything else, playing this trilogy in 2021 forced me to consider what a "remaster" is on a fundamental level. Is is just juicing up the graphics and making the main characters a little more detailed? Or could there be something more to it? I've been living with these games since they were first released. They each fueled moral panics in their own way. GTA 3 and Vice City were at the center of a resurrected set of arguments about video game violence, and how it would turn kids into mass killers. The spectacular nature of these claims propelled lawyer Jack Thompson into the limelight, and turned him into a special kind of video game culture villain, the bogeyman who still gets invoked when people are afraid anyone is going to touch their video games. San Andreas' Hot Coffee fiasco, produced when developers accidentally left the scripts for a sex minigame in the game files on release, ended with a class-action lawsuit settlement that allowed offended players to collect $35.

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Nov 11, 2021
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