#Grand theft auto games for the orginal xbox series#
Where the original games had a certain grittiness that fit in with the vibe the series was going for, here that’s been stripped away. In fact, one of them is even intentional: the three games that make up Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition are ugly and cartoonish. Assuming you’re okay with the game’s other issues - which I’ll get to in a moment - you’re almost certainly not going to feel that way in GTA III’s Liberty City, and you’ll probably find the somewhat larger Vice City and San Andreas to be manageable.īut there are plenty of other issues. Personally, in most open-world games I usually reach a point where I just don’t feel like exploring any further. Mind you, the flip side of that coin is that none of these games feel overwhelmingly huge. You certainly can ignore your missions and simply screw around, but compared to the open-world games that have followed over the past two decades, it’s a lot less memorable. Again, while this game may have set the early standard for what an open-world game was, much of the time it’s simply fetch quests or transporting something or someone from Point A to Point B. Moreover, the gameplay itself is kind of forgettable. While I know the games were meant to be satirical, a lot of the time you have to squint really hard to see what exactly the satire is - and, needless to say, the line between winking satire and uncomfortably sexist/homophobic/racist caricature has shifted a lot in the last few decades. But I wouldn’t say that they’ve aged incredibly well. I know that GTA III - as well as San Andreas and Vice City - were gaming landmarks for a lot of people. Mind you, that kind of raises the question of why you’d want to. So if you want to revel in the nostalgia of the early 2000s, for better or for worse, you can do that here. It’s an interesting piece of gaming history, for starters, and even if the scope of open-world games has grown substantially, in a lot of ways they haven’t moved that far beyond what GTA III was doing twenty years ago. There are some good points to it, even if not many people are in the mood to hear them at the moment.
I mean, it’s definitely not the worst game ever, by any stretch of the imagination. So…Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is kind of a mess. Also on: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PCĭeveloper: Grove Street Games/Rockstar Games
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