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Unfortunately, the mobile ports are well known for numerous bugs and gameplay issues not to mention missing features - the original's hazy look using an accumulation-style blur effect is gone. Watch on YouTube We tested Grand Theft Auto 3's 'Definitive Edition' on all current and last-gen consoles, and stacked up the best version against the PS2 original.īut RenderWare is obsolete and porting to today's hardware would not be the right choice, while Unreal Engine 4 is a good choice as a base platform to work from. Many of these concepts had existed in the original GTA games but this was the first time it could be experienced in full 3D and the resulting sense of freedom is precisely what made it unique and special in 2001. However, it was ambitious, with a full time of day system, weather simulation and of course, 'open world'-style free-form exploration of Liberty City. Compared to contemporaries such as Metal Gear Solid 2 and Gran Turismo 3, it fares badly. Let's be clear here: GTA3 wasn't a visual masterpiece. In its original form, GTA3 on PlayStation 2 was built using RenderWare - a popular middleware solution from Criterion that was used in a huge range of games during that era, including all three GTA titles. Let's start by talking about how the remaster compares to the original PlayStation 2 release - which we would imagine is the way that most console players coming to the Definitive Edition would have first experienced the game. Taking a step back from the controversy, it's fair to say that Grove Street Games' work is not without merit, but there are a lot of problems here - issues that are so blatant and jarring and ridiculous, it's hard to understand how the game made its way through quality control. It's the oldest title in the line-up and we imagined that it would be the one with most to gain in the remastering process. We'll be looking at all three games in the pack, but we wanted to start with Grand Theft Auto 3. We had concerns about Rockstar's remastering of the PS2-era Grand Theft Auto Trilogy - worries that didn't abate when it was discovered that all three games would be drawing upon the flawed mobile ports, remasters shoehorned into Unreal Engine 4.

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