Rockstar Details Numerous Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Enhancements

Grand Theft Auto The Trilogy

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is almost here, bringing with it plenty of updated features and graphics that’ll help it shine on modern consoles. To celebrate its upcoming release, Rockstar recently released a press release detailing all of the improvements fans can expect across all three games.

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Those updates include everything from GTA V-styled controls to newly supported languages. You can check out the full list of updates below.

  • A GTAV-style controller layout
  • Updated Weapon and Radio Station selection wheels for quick switching • Updated Mini-Maps with enhanced navigation allowing players to set waypoints to destinations
  • Improved gunplay and targeting controls, with upgraded drive-by controls in GTA: San Andreas
  • The ability to immediately restart failed missions
  • Updated Achievements and Trophies
  • New Rockstar Social Club Accomplishments for members
  • Plus newly supported languages; including Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Korean, in addition to English, Spanish (Spain + Mexico), Italian, Japanese, French, and German

Enhanced visuals, with improved graphics and fidelity across all three games, including:

  • Higher resolution textures from characters to weapons, vehicles to roads, and more for greater detail
  • A completely rebuilt lighting system, with enhanced shadows, reflections, and more
  • Improved environmental effects such as water and weather effects including rain and fog, plus more distinct changes to highlight different times across the sky, sun, moon and stars
  • Enhanced detail in trees and foliage, plus newly added three-dimensional detail to buildings and windows
  • Increased draw distances to provide a new level of depth and definition

Plus platform-specific features, including:

  • 4K-resolution support with up to 60 FPS performance for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X systems
  • NVIDIA DLSS Support for PC
  • Touch screen camera zooming, pans and menu selections as well as Gyro aiming for the Nintendo Switch

Alongside all of these enhancements, the press release also revealed the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will feature more than 200 songs across 29 pioneering radio stations the series has become known for. Those tracks will also feature higher quality audio at 16bit 44hrz and the ability to experience the game in 5.1 Surround Sound.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition releases for Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android, iOS, and PC Nov. 11, 2021. You can check out a trailer for it right here.


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