The rumors and reports were true. Rockstar has remastered GTA 3, Vi🌜﷽ce City, and San Andreas. Better yet, it will be releasing the games as a collection on multiple platforms before the end of 2021. The trailer for the collection and screenshots comparing it to the original games look pretty great too - although it does seem some people still aren't happy with how good Liberty City is going to look in 2021.

The remastered games won't just look better, they will feel and play better too... at least in theory. Game devs have learned a lot since the PS2 era. The trilogy's controls will be the same as GTA 5's, and you'll also be able to place waypoints as you can in newer GTA games. All of this is great, but how about less on what's new to the 15 to 20-year-old games we can't wait to play again, and more on what will remain unchanged?

RELATED: 168澳洲幸运5💝开奖网:GTA 2 Is The Weirdest Grand Theft AutoThe trilogy's stories, missions, and backdrops will presumably remain the same. Well, for the most part. Cassidy's confederate flag has understandably been removed from the Definitive Edition, and it's likely players will discover other little details like that once we actually get a chance to play the games. What I don't want to discover when I fire up a much smoother-looking version of San Andreas for the first time is the list of cheat codes I will have dusted off for the first time since 2005 has been rendered obsolete.

Yes, all three games had terrific characters and missions that have stuck with us for almost two decades. I still wake up in a cold sweat after having dreamt about Vice City's Demolition Man mission to this day. All of that aside, let's be honest. Our fondest memories of playing GTA games on PS2 are ones where we loaded the games up with cheat codes to the point that it felt like our consoles might well burst into flames.

If you didn't play the three GTA games on PS2 without a lined piece of A4 listing ways to get free money, more ammo, make cars fly, and spawn a fighter jet out of thin air, then you simply didn't experience the full games. If you think GTA Online is chaotic when a few bad eggs make it onto your server, then you have not experienced giving pedestrians weapons and making them riot. FYI, if The Trilogy has an autosave feature, then that last combination of cheats could prove problematic. Once you turn an entire island of NPCs into bloodthirsty, SMG-wielding residents with no regard for their life or anyone else's, well, hitting save will mean that terrifying new reality becomes your new normal.

There's one other thing that is going to take me right out of the moment while playing the remastered trilogy should it happen. Anything other than the games' original soundtracks playing while I go about my business. If the radio isn't automatically tuned to the station playing Billie Jean the first time I start a car in Vice City, then the entire game might well be ruined for me. An overreaction? Perhaps, but the music of Vice City, and San Andreas after it, was such a huge part of the game for me.

This collection of remastered GTA games is going to cost $60. They might look better than most expected, but that's a lot to ask for when it comes to a collection of old games. Especially when the original versions of those games were available through dꦏigital storefronts for a fraction of ไthat price right up until the remastered trilogy was officially announced. I'm sure it will cost a lot for Rockstar to make sure the original soundtracks can make the jump to the remasters, but the $60 price tag should significantly soften that financial blow. It's almost a foregone conclusion that this game is going to sell well. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:GTA 5 has sold 150 million copies after all. As for the cheats, what's the harm in including them? If you want to use them they're there, if not, then don't. Unless the trilogy will have online servers, others using cheats won't affect you in the slightest.

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