Missions are very simple and there’s no real challenge.

While they both feature the same missions as the original games, both GTA 3 and Vice City haven’t aged well. I’d say Vice City remains the truest to the original, but GTA 3’s grunginess has been muted and San Andreas has lost its warm West Coast charm. I had an open mind and had taken my rose-tinted glasses off, but the change in presentation causes a real shift in tone for all three games. Aging like a fine milkĮven with the relative stability of the PS5 version, the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition left me disappointed. It’s clear from the clips that I’ve seen going viral on social media that I’m one of the lucky ones, but the PS5 version of this game with all updates installed was, at the very least, playable for me. Thankfully, while the journey was plagued with inconsistent frame rates, I didn’t experience any other issues on PS5. There are regular dips that are very perceivable during gameplay. I went with the option that got me closest to 60 FPS, which is unfortunately not stable on PS5. Performance targets 60 FPS at the cost of some graphical flair while Quality cuts the frame rate in half for the sake of some extra eye candy. While the GTA Trilogy has been spruced up, it doesn’t look that high-fidelity, and so I was surprised to see a choice between Performance or Quality. The first issue I faced stemmed from the two performance options.

However, the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition on the current-gen is far from hiccup-free. It’s much more stable than the Switch version, as one would expect given the significantly superior hardware. At the very least, the PS5 version allowed me to play through all three games.

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