Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition Review I ServiceoCity

 

Has a game been released in the last 20 years that is more impressive than Grand Theft Auto III? From the founding of the fundamentals of the open-world sandbox to the important role of redesigning video games as a more engaging medium for mature viewers, the shadow of GTA III still permeates almost every aspect of the art form. If a game deserves a specific version that allows fans to relive that revolution without ignoring the old graphics, this is it. And yet the creators of the series, Rockstar Games, have decided to pay tribute to this modern monolith of games and its two equally acclaimed sequels from the PS2 era, Vice City and San Andreas, by creating a collection of cut-outs cut into more. angles than a Yakuza Stinger. A Liberty City street race. At best, this trilogy is unimaginable and semi-finished; Worst of all, it broke immediately. If this Half Definitive Edition is something to go through, I have to wonder if Rockstar respects its own games like the rest of us.

There are some positives, yes, but almost all the welcome additions are implemented at the expense of a rumor-killing compromise. It seems so old that with each of these three games, my original games were played with a revealed paper map on my lap, so it's very convenient that you can now pause to scan and drop a full map of the world of each. one. Scoreboards, as you would expect from modern players. However, you cannot override the web pages created automatically during the mission, for example, if you want to traverse the city with ammunition or a paid spray, and finding routes can often be confusing because you constantly recalculate the course of a trip. , sometimes the Shortest. Similar to the hastily written signature than on the possible route.

Similarly, the "modern GTAV-inspired controls" promised in the marketing of this collection have been applied somewhat unevenly to the three individual games. Weapon switching across the board has been improved with the ability to use a shoulder button to steer a gun, but auto-targeting in San Andreas looks a lot more glamorous than in GTA III and Vice City, and you can tie yourself up. Light weapons an enemy while locked. Heavy machine guns, equipped and the like still direct you to the scene and force you into a first person focus with a manual target regardless. Auto-targeting has proven to be particularly slow in GTA III and Vice City whenever I come up close and personal with a group of enemies, which has been quite frequent because the enemy is not designed to use AI cover and is chasing you. more frequently. Needless to say, in both games I found myself increasingly reliant on using sniper rifles to thin the pack from a distance, rather than rushing into another spasmodic firefight.

Grand Theft Auto The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition

A mid-mission checkpoint system is well implemented in San Andreas, allowing you to reboot with full health and weapons and skip the initial setup phase of a specific mission. This solves a big complaint about the first games in the 3D series. However, in GTA III and Vice City, choosing the option to restart at a checkpoint will take you back to the beginning of the mission, no matter how deep you were when you died. So if, like me, you die many times trying to overtake the police at the end of the 'SAM' mission that led to the climax of GTA III, you still have to go from the construction site to the jetty, take the boat. to the end of the airport runway, waiting for the plane to arrive. Do it, shoot the plane with the rocket launcher, collect all the packages, return to the mainland and then try again and again and try to escape from the police. It's weird that one game allows you to literally chase while the other two force you to repeatedly drive the car and warm up the engine first.