I wasnt sold on the GTA Trilogy remaster, but now I am thanks to the perfect new art style

Date:
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:27:20 +0000

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The new-look Grand Theft Auto trilogy is looking like a smart visual update.

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If, like me, you werent initially excited about the upcoming Grand Theft Auto Trilogy remasters, well nows the time to jump on the hype train.

With the release of its first proper trailer , Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
The Definitive Edition, to give it its full and rather clunky title, looks fantastic. And that, I think, is in most part due to its smart new art style.

I had in my head an idea of what the GTA remasters would look like. Essentially, as with the previous mobile editions, I thought itd be simply
the old games more or less upscaled, with the sharp benefits of higher resolutions, cleaner HDMI input signals and 60fps framerates. GTA Trilogy remaster release date, news trailer and improvements GTA Trilogy remaster vs GTA 3, GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas: see the differences GTA 6 news and rumors: when will Grand Theft Auto 6 be announced?

My own assumption here killed my enthusiasm. Ive become so used to half-arsed approaches to remasters, where minimal effort is made to cash in on
nostalgia, that Id been bracing myself for a few quality of life features, a graphical touch up and nothing else. (Image credit: Rockstar Games)

But whats actually been delivered is something quite a lot more considered. Each game indeed has the requisite current-gen visual polish, from 4K resolutions to 60fps framerates on the more powerful systems, as well as taking advantage of upscaling tricks like NVIDIA DLSS .

However, the unexpected element that pushes it into truly worthy territory is the newly revised art style. The Grand Theft Auto series has always leaned towards a sort of caricatured realism, leaning increasingly towards reality with GTA IV and GTA V. But these trilogy remasters really take the caricature style to a new level rather than going for the photorealism that the newer hardware could quite easily achieve, instead we have more detailed and polished versions of the exaggerated originals. CJ doesnt look like an animated peanut!

Its a great decision by GTA devs Rockstar and remaster studio Grove Street Games, fulfilling what a remaster should making an older game look in front of your eyes as your nostalgia-and-rose-tinted brain has sympathetically seen it in the many years since its original release. (Image credit: Rockstar Games)

CJ still has exaggerated muscles and scowl, but now doesnt look quite so much like an animated peanut. Tommy Vercettis constant incredulity is now more obviously painted across his well manicured eyebrows, while GTA 3s Claude
(now 20 years old, remember) actually has a defined face rather than a creamy smudge of anger. And everyone has fingers too!

Its the perfect use of technology when revisiting an old classic, looking to renew the original without losing the spirit of the originals. GTA games are larger than life, cartoonish in their criminality and bombast. The Definitive Trilogy captures that feeling perfectly if anything, the visual style here seems to evoke the illustrated character panes that accompanied the old games loading screens. (Image credit: Rockstar Games)

The rest of the remaster seems to have been given the same amount of care. Youll now have aiming and camera control in line with modern standards,
better maps and waypoint systems, achievements, the ability to instantly restart a problematic mission, improved draw distances and modernised textures, lighting and reflection systems on top of the striking refreshed look. (Image credit: Rockstar Games)

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition also finally has a release date. Itll be available digitally on November 11 through the PlayStation Store, the Microsoft Store on Xbox, Nintendo eShop, and the Rockstar Games Launcher, with a physical boxed release for Xbox Series X | S and Xbox One , Nintendo Switch , and PlayStation 4 on December 7.

20 years may have passed since GTA III first came out, but Im now just as excited for the wait as I was two decades ago. Best GTA games: the Grand
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