Launching in October 2001, Grand Theft Auto III first pioneered Rockstar Games’ approach to building highly immersive and detailed, fully 3D open worlds, delivering unprecedented freedom and nonlinear gameplay combined with rich, cinematic storytelling, and earning the series critical and commercial success.
Originally developed by Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has been adapted to modern platforms by Grove Street Games using the Unreal Engine to make these classics more vibrant and more immersive than ever, honoring the experience of the original titles, while enhancing them for a whole new generation of players.
All three games included in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition also feature platform-specific enhancement, including Gyro aiming and touch screen camera zooming, pans and menu selections on the Nintendo Switch, 4K-resolution support with up to 60 FPS performance for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X systems, and NVIDIA DLSS support for PC. "We are so grateful to all the players, and we cannot wait for everyone to play these new versions."Ĭelebrating this year’s 20 th Anniversary of the launch of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition comprises of the genre-defining titles Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, bringing the iconic locations of Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas to the latest platforms with across-the-board enhancements such as GTAV-inspired modern controls graphical and environmental upgrades, including higher resolution textures enhanced lighting and weather and more. But it’s understandable that, after almost eight years of service on outdated, hard-to-buy consoles, now’s the time to pull the plug."The response and impact we felt from the original Grand Theft Auto Trilogy was – and still is – truly humbling for us all," said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. There’s no end in sight for GTA Online on modern hardware.
Since then, it has rereleased on the PS4 and Xbox One in 2014, on PC in 2015, and on November 11th, 2021, it’ll come to the PS5 and Xbox Series X / S consoles. All in all, the service has spanned entire console generations. These consoles saw the initial release of Grand Theft Auto V almost eight years ago, and its highly anticipated online open-world multiplayer mode debuted a month after launch.
It speaks to the popularity of GTA Online and the massive install base of both PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles that Rockstar Games kept the lights on, so to speak, for so long. Noire, will be shut down earlier on September 16th, 2021. Web stat tracking for some of the studio’s other PS3 and Xbox 360 games that have Social Club integration, including Max Payne 3 and L.A. The company said in a press release that shutting down GTA Online for these consoles will “have no impact on access to, or progress within, the Grand Theft Auto V story mode.” You simply won’t be able to go online with the game.Īdditionally, website stat tracking for GTA Online will cease operation on December 16th, 2021. Shark Cash Cards, which unlock the in-game currency for GTA Online, will no longer be purchasable on these consoles after September 15th, 2021. Rockstar Games announced that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of GTA Online, the online multiplayer component of Grand Theft Auto V, will no longer be accessible starting December 16th, 2021.