Its been almost 20 years since Rockstar Games first released the titles that set their name for the entire open world gaming industry. Those titles were the 3D Trilogy of Grand Theft Auto. With Grand Theft Auto III’s 20Th Anniversary coming soon, Rockstar managed to surprise us with an announcement of a remaster of these three games: Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto Vice City and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, the most loved instalments of the entire GTA franchise till now. Just a few hours ago, Rockstar released a small teaser for their new Remasters. The teaser didn’t reveal any gameplay or footage of the game (Just a short video to get fans excited) but their blog post in the newswire managed to reveal more. (Image is fan made and not actual footage or gameplay of the new remasters) What's going to be new? The Trilogy Remaster is going to come out later this year. This Remaster is going to be ported to PS4, PS5, Xbox Series S/X, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and on the Rockstar Games Launcher on PC (The titles will most probably appear on Steam and Epic Games in mid or late 2022). The remasters will make their way to IOS and Android devices later in 2022. According to Rockstar, the new titles will feature modern graphical and a few gameplay enhancements while retaining its classic feel and look. This could mean better lighting, up-scaled textures, more high resolution and detailed character models, better foliage and atmosphere etc. In gameplay, we can’t expect huge overhauls example Vice City having Grand Theft Auto V gameplay but we can expect much better physics and even movement and handling. This means driving and running around these nostalgic cities will have a much smoother experience. But Rockstar will most likely not redo combat and gunplay. Rockstar has specifically said that they want to remaster their titles while remaining the classic look and feel of their new remasters. This could mean that they will not change much of the gameplay or the world itself, even leaving out some places which need graphical enhancement. Nevertheless, I’m sure Rockstar will not disappoint us with this one, but there are things to take consider. For starters, the first remaster they ever did was the remaster of GTA San Andreas over to Xbox 360, the game had bad reviews, not only were there minor graphical and close to no gameplay enhancements, it introduced game breaking bugs and glitches which made it quite unplayable (that reminds me of something very similar). But this time, Rockstar seems to be taking this remastering business a bit seriously. Take Two Interactive, Rockstar’s parent company, recently acquired a company called Ruffian Games Limited and renamed It Rockstar Dundee, the company specializes in video game remasters and even worked on Halo The Master Chief Collection. This is good news for the Trilogy Remasters because the developers behind it actually have skill in the game they’re going to make. According to leaks, these remasters will use Unreal Engine, this will be the first time Rockstar has made a game on another engine other than their own legendary RAGE. It will be interesting to see these games on Unreal Engine, considering the amazing games that have been made with it (Bioshock, Mass Effect 2, Batman Arkham City, Borderlands 2, Days Gone etc.) Besides graphical and gameplay improvements, new and modern UI, higher framerates and resolution, multi and wide monitor support, even ray tracing thanks to the new next generation consoles’ hardware all is possible to make its way into the remaster. Rockstar will reveal more information in the coming weeks and if this turns out to be good, I myself am personally excited to get my hands on these new Remasters and play my first ever video game in a new and more modern and enhanced world. After all the mods that were taken down by Take Two, this should better surpass our expectations, especially since the original versions of the games will start to be taken down from digital retailers next week. After twenty long years, our childhoods are going to be revived once again. If these remasters are a success, than we can get to see a Red Dead Redemption Remaster as well, along with Grand Theft Auto VI in the coming years which according to leaks and rumours is in the works.
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10/8/2021 11:29:38 am
This is nice honey, tho i'll need you to com now
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