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GTA: The Trilogy remasters get official comparison trailers and change list
GTA: The Trilogy – why didn’t they just release these before? (pic: Rockstar)
Just hours before it officially launches, Rockstar has finally released official gameplay trailers for the GTA remasters and a list of features.
With the pandemic still causing chaos with release dates, and making it impossible to do normal previews, it’s become hard to tell whether some publishers are being secretive on purpose or out of necessity. Especially when it’s the always inscrutable Rockstar Games.
They’ve barely shown anything of GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition since it was announced, but now, suddenly, they’ve released comparison videos for all three games and a proper list of new and changed features.
The initial screenshots were worryingly underwhelming but the new videos are looking a lot more encouraging, since they make it clearer just how much effort has gone into improving the old games.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition new features
An updated player experience, making it easier than ever to play these classic games, including:
• A GTAV-style controller layout
• Updated Weapon and Radio Station selection wheels for quick switching
• Updated Mini-Maps with enhanced navigation allowing players to set waypoints to destinations
• Improved gunplay and targeting controls, with upgraded drive-by controls in GTA: San Andreas
• The ability to immediately restart failed missions
• Updated Achievements and Trophies
• New Rockstar Social Club Accomplishments for members
• Plus newly supported languages; including Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Korean, in addition to English, Spanish (Spain + Mexico), Italian, Japanese, French, and German
The list of features comes straight from Rockstar and you can see many of the improvements in the videos, including a vastly better lighting system and a near infinite draw distance.
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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition graphic improvements
• Higher resolution textures from characters to weapons, vehicles to roads, and more for greater detail
• A completely rebuilt lighting system, with enhanced shadows, reflections, and more
• Improved environmental effects such as water and weather effects including rain and fog, plus more distinct changes to highlight
different times across the sky, sun, moon and stars
• Enhanced detail in trees and foliage, plus newly added three-dimensional detail to buildings and windows
• Increased draw distances to provide a new level of depth and definition
Of course, the one thing you can’t tell from the footage is how much the controls have changed, but Rockstar has already said they’ve been altered to be more like GTA 5.
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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition graphic platform-specific features
• 4K-resolution support with up to 60 FPS performance for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X systems
• NVIDIA DLSS Support for PC
• Touch screen camera zooming, pans and menu selections as well as Gyro aiming for the Nintendo Switch
GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will release on Thursday, November 11 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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