"Grand Theft Auto" Remastered Trilogy Reportedly Coming This Year

[Jill 26,669]

The GTA Remastered Trilogy Appears To Be Real, And Coming To Switch, PS5 and Xbox consoles.

After months of rumors and speculation, Kotaku has learned from sources that Rockstar Games may be remastering three classic Grand Theft Auto games. Currently, it appears these games will be released later this fall for a multitude of platforms, including the portable Nintendo Switch.

For the past year, rumors have swirled on Twitter, Reddit, and various message boards that Rockstar is working on remakes or remasters of classic, PS2-era Grand Theft Auto titles. These rumors only grew in popularity as Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, used DMCA takedowns to remove classic GTA mods from the internet while announcing that the publisher had three remastered games in development. While Kotaku can’t confirm what all of those teased remastered titles specifically are, we can confirm via corroborating details from three sources that GTA remasters are currently in the final stages of development.

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According to these sources, Rockstar is actively developing remastered versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. All three of these games are being remastered using Unreal Engine and will be a mix of “new and old graphics.” One source who claims to have seen a snippet of the games in action said that the visuals reminded them of a heavily-modded version of a classic GTA title. The UI for the games are being updated too, but will retain the same classic style. No details were shared about gameplay, but Kotaku has been told these remastered titles are trying to stay true to the PS2-era GTA games as much as possible.

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Plans around these remastered GTA titles have shifted quite a bit over the last year as a result of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, and they might continue to do so until things are officially announced. Originally, it seemed that these re-releases were going to be packaged together and given to players who purchased the upcoming next-gen ports of GTA V and GTA Online as a sort of bonus or “thank you gift” from Rockstar. Then plans changed, and the remastered trilogy was scheduled to be released earlier this year. However, plans have changed again, and now the remastered titles are planned to launch around late October or early November for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC, Stadia, and mobile phones.

It appears the PC and mobile ports might slip to next year as Rockstar focuses on developing the console ports first. While some might have expected Rockstar to space these releases out, if not releasing them on each games’ respective 20 year anniversary, sources told me that this isn’t the current plan. Instead, it seems all three games are to be released in one collected package that may only be sold digitally.

For fans who are more interested in other classic Rockstar Games getting remastered and rereleased, sources tell me that Rockstar has plans to develop new ports of games like Red Dead Redemption. But the future of these remastered games depends on how well these initial re-releases sell.

(...) According to one source, everyone shifting to support these titles is one major reason why Red Dead Online has seen fewer and smaller updates. But if all of this pans out it might be a very exciting year for fans of classic GTA games.

Source: https://kotaku.com/the-gta-remastered-trilogy-appears-to-be-real-and-comi-1847474620

[rvfzme 5,282]

Recently, I was playing GTA 3. For the hundredth time, I completed each mission. I also love Vice City. 

[CautiousLurker 17,344]

Can't wait to play remastered versions of these games... Imagine remastered jacked Carl in 4k 

[SEANGT 4,905]

so much time spent on remastering old games... just work on new ones jesus 

[Adammmm 964]

Hopefully they are better than the remastered Saints Row games. You are gambling every mission your start whether or not the **** will crash 

Excited for San Andres, it was the first one I ever played and I would love to play it again!

[rvfzme 5,282]

Imagine it

[ProfessionalClown 10,640]

IMAGINE HOW ICONIC VICE CITY IS GONNA LOOK 

ALSO ALL THE NEW PLAYTHROUGHS 

MY YOUNGER SELF IS QUAKING 

[Argentum 1,593]

I feel like the Vice City aesthetics really informed what styles I like now.

Retrowave music, neon color lights, etc...

[RAMROD 104,066]

So exciting! Looking forward!

[KORG 4,756]

GTA2 will always be the one. 

[FATCAT 58,905]

48 minutes ago, RAHGAGA said:

Recently, I was playing GTA 3. For the hundredth time, I completed each mission. I also love Vice City. 

GTA 3 is my favorite game to play on my phone. I can't WAIT for it to be on my switch.

[COOOK 76,406]

San Andreas will remain iconic with its graphics, regardless.

[Jill 26,669]

1 minute ago, FATCAT said:

GTA 3 is my favorite game to play on my phone. I can't WAIT for it to be on my switch.

Yeah, go ahead. Flex that you have a Switch AND a phone. Flex that you have access to clean water too, while you're at it. Stupid self-centered cats nowadays.

[FATCAT 58,905]

45 minutes ago, SEANGT said:

so much time spent on remastering old games... just work on new ones jesus 

"remastering" old games really isn't that intensive. The whole thing is already written and coded, dialog complete, songs/sounds recorded, story written and done. They never start from scratch either, they have the original code base & don't even have to re-write it, they can just push it through an emulator. These older games can run on toasters at this point.

[FATCAT 58,905]

Just now, Jill said:

Yeah, go ahead. Flex that you have a Switch AND a phone. Flex that you have access to clean water too, while you're at it. Stupid self-centered cats nowadays.

I also have fresh tuna