GTA trilogy with modern upgrades is confirmed.
- Thread starter shankly1985
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For me Vice City was the best one I've played with the soundtrack being a bit part of the reason why. It was amazing so it's whether they can still use that soundtrack or not (I know it got changed in later versions of the game). Emotion FM was brilliant (if you liked 80s music).
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Soldato
3 and Vice City were my favourite. SA, 4 and V were okay. Never got the obsession with/popularity of GTA V if I'm honest.
Man of Honour
No details on what engine etc but imagine if they redid them using UE5.....
This. Vice city is ace but not sure how its going to stand up in 2021
The ballad of gay tony was the only good thing about number 4
Associate
Tbf even the same engine as GTA 5 (RAGE I think its called, could be wrong) would be more than enough for them. I mean the engine seems fairly optimised with GTA and seems to handle RDR2 fine also.
It's Rockstar Dundee who are doing it, but they aren't familier with RAGE, so that's why UE is being used. They have prior experience with porting games to UE.
Associate
Ahhh, I didnt know Dundee didn't have experience with RAGE. I mean if they're using EU5 theoretically they should be able to get pretty good graphics too.
Take2 bought Ruffian Games, Now R* Dundee last year after starting to work with them the year before. That is when the speculation started that something was going to be remastered.
I am not sure there will be much more than a straight port.
I'm 100% sure they'll be quietly removed from Steam a few weeks, maybe even a couple of months prior to the launch of this. Either that or they'll be bumped in price to £20 each or something making this better value. Take Two and Rockstar wouldn't miss that trick.
Part of the issue is "remaster" is quite a loose term, really there are three tiers:
1) Remake Remaster - a new game built around the original, likely to offer gameplay enhancements in addition to technical enhancements.
2) Good Remaster - optimised graphics, sound, controls, options, bug fixes, modern multiplayer support.
3) Lazy Remaster - basically a new skin, little attempt to optimise controls, multiplayer or gameplay quirks.
Something like GTA3 really needs to be a 1) I think because a lot of the mechanics don't stack up today. The missions are pretty primitive, lack of checkpoints, hard to aim (drive-bys are really hard you can't aim with the mouse), annoying arbitrary timelimits, can't swim etc. I went back to it a few years ago after like a 7 year break or something and whilst it was ok-ish it really wasn't as playable as something like San Andreas, it reminded me of why I gave up near the end of the second island when I originally played it, I did a few more missions and unlocked the 3rd island but then got stuck again.
I honestly don't think I will play a GTA3 remaster unless it addresses some of the flaws in the original and make it less clunky.
Vice City you could probably get away with a 2), whack up the draw distance a lot, improve all the visuals, remastered cutscenes and the core gameplay probably stacks up OK, it was my favourite of the series.
Associate
We can all hope, especially with VC cause that easily had the best radio of all of them.
Soldato
Ignore, old info posted.
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