They have to contend with me speeding around the town, driving on the wrong side of the road (or the sidewalk), not to mention all those times I dropped a helicopter on them.
I can’t imagine it’s very fun to be a driver in Vice City. Unlike the graphics though, I still hate them. However, much like (some of) the graphics, the cars are bad on purpose. It could definitely stand to look better, and having previously written about the anti-consumer nature of Cyberpunk 2077, I don’t feel like going to bat for Rockstar over the state of this game rushed out for the Christmas season despite clearly needing longer to smooth everything over. I’ve already defended some of the trilogy’s jank, reminding everyone that GTA broke boundaries for map size and depth of world, not visuals. My complaint isn’t with my driving though - it’s with everyone else’s. The driving in the trilogy is nothing like this - it’s skiddy, lightweight, and everything explodes upon the slightest ding.
Related: Getting GTA 4 Running Smoothly On A Modern Gaming PC Is A Pain, But It Can Be DoneIn any case, the gist of the defence is that GTA 4’s heavy cars and realistic physics makes driving the right kind of challenging, while also making it incredibly immersive.
Sure, file size comes into it too, but the rules go out the window when you take three largely unconnected games, one of which is part of the main numbered series and two of which are unrelated spin-offs, and call them a trilogy. One of our features editors, Andy Kelly, recently wrote a defence of the cars in GTA 4 - a game arbitrarily not included in this trilogy, probably because Rockstar feels it could make the same amount of money from remaking it individually.
Today though, I want to talk about something that’s working - kind of.
They’re worse than the fan made mods Take-Two recently Took-Down, which makes that decision seem even more dastardly in retrospect. It collates GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas, which… sure, I guess let’s call that a trilogy, and was supposed to offer the titles a 2021 glow-up, but in reality left all three games a buggy mess. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition has been getting a lot of flak recently, and not just because of its terrible name. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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