Rockstar Revamps GTA Trilogy Remasters with Major Update
Rockstar has finally addressed fan concerns about the GTA Trilogy remasters, making amends with a substantial update.
The PS2-era Grand Theft Auto games will always hold a special place video game history. It's impossible to overstate just how revolutionary Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas were. Though the games were controversial, the three open-world titles were equally influential. So it's understandable why Rockstar Games received a lot of flack for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition - and why fixing it is such a priority.
The dismal attempt at bringing some of the greatest titles ever made back left a bitter taste in the mouths of many fans who grew up playing these games, and it might have even led to the cancelation of a Grand Theft Auto 4 remaster, as per earlier rumors.
After Grove Street Games' failure, Rockstar and Netflix have been working together to improve the bundle. Now, Rockstar has released a new patch that brings the same improvements from the mobile ports — you can play all three games on your mobile phone as part of your subscription to the streaming giant — bringing the remasters closer to the original versions but with a much-needed modern coat of paint.
According to the official announcement, the improvements include a new toggle, named Classic Lighting. Aside from this, Rockstar has improved the character models and brought back the original game's fog effects. Judging from the consensus, the remasters are finally worth playing.
Here's a short list of all the notable changes to the GTA remaster trilogy:
- Classic Lighting
- Water visuals
- Fog and draw distance
- Nighttime lighting
- Player and NPC model fixes
- Animation fixes
- Adjusted speed of CJ's swimming
- Collision fixes
- Moving objects in map
- Road textures
It also appears that Rockstar has fixed the bugs that the remasters introduced and some of the classic glitches. For more information about the changes, you can follow @BeskInfinity on X. They've spent the past couple of hours testing each game to list all the changes and improvements.
Kudos to Rockstar for finally issuing a fix to the GTA remaster trilogy, even if it took them three years. It certainly seems like the developers have been devoting more of their resources outside of Grand Theft Auto 6 lately. It's possible that it can finally spread itself out across multiple projects now that GTA 6 is in its final leg of development ahead of its release sometime next year.
With most mainline GTA titles now finally available to play on modern platforms — Grand Theft Auto 5: Expanded and Enhanced is coming to the PC next year — the only thing missing now is a much-needed remaster of Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X.
