Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition

PC Gamer

Wes Fenlon·May 13, 2023

Critic93/100

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"Vice City runs smoothly and beautifully, although it's scarcely worth playing if you're not using a halfway decent machine."

Polygon

Cameron Kunzelman·Nov 22, 2021

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A broken window to the past

GameSpot

Justin Clark·Nov 19, 2021

Critic40/100

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Rockstar's remastered trilogy is, appropriately, an absolute car wreck of creative neglect.

Push Square

Sammy Barker·Nov 18, 2021

Critic50/100

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All three mainline GTA games from the PS2 era are seminal pieces, and they still hold up to modern scrutiny – the outstanding GTA San Andreas especially. But as remasters these are weak: they chug on modern hardware and are undone by questionable artistic decisions. Rockstar built its reputation on attention to detail, and while all three of these games still come highly recommended, this disappointing compilation will go down as a stain on the label's record.

IGN

Tristan Ogilvie·Nov 17, 2021

Critic50/100

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GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition is defective, disappointing, and surprisingly disrespectful to three classic games and their many legions of fans.

Nintendo Life

PJ O'Reilly·Nov 12, 2021

Critic40/100

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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition on Switch delivers three of gaming's true greats in a shockingly rough package that manages to suck pretty much all of the fun out of Rockstar's stellar crime epics. This is a poor port, a shoddy, stuttery, low resolution mess full of bugs, glitches, audio problems and more besides. If can grab this one on any other platform, we'd advise you do so or, at the very least, hold off until it's been patched and hopefully improved in the future. As things stand, this is a very, very long way from 'definitive' - this isn't the way we want to remember these games.