Grand Theft Auto 3 Deserves A 20th Anniversary Edition Remaster

Grand Theft Auto 3 Deserves A 20th Anniversary Edition Remaster

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2021 marks the 20th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto 3, and Rockstar Games should celebrate by releasing a graphically-updated version on PS5.

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Grand Theft Auto 3 Deserves A 20th Anniversary Edition Remaster

The 2001 release of Grand Theft Auto 3 was an inarguable turning point in the history of video games, and now that it’s been a full two decades (and the impact of GTA’s open world design philosophy has seemingly seeped into every corner of gaming) there would be no better way to celebrate than by remastering GTA 3 once again for the current generation of video game consoles, specifically the PS5.

Although Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas would go on to add many of the features which are now considered staples of the GTA series, like property management and cellular telephones, it was during the development of Grand Theft Auto 3 that the mechanics of how these functions could truly world in a 3D space originated. Grand Theft Auto 2’s setting of Anywhere, USA was a blank slate players only looked at from above. In contrast, GTA 3’s Liberty City was one of the most lifelike depictions of an urban environment seen in gaming at the time.

Rockstar has rereleased different editions of Grand Theft Auto 3 over the years, often packaged with both Vice City and San Andreas and sold as a trilogy. There is even an argument that Grand Theft Auto 4 is a remastered/remade version of GTA 3 since, although it features a different story and different characters, the game once again takes place in Liberty City. Despite these similar settings, however, GTA 4 and GTA 3’s version of Liberty City is quite different, as are the ways players interact with their environments.

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What GTA 3 On PS5 Could Look Like

When remastering Grand Theft Auto 3 for a console like the PS5, Rockstar doesn’t need to do much – definitely not anything along the lines of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake. The beauty of Grand Theft Auto 3 lies in its simplicity, and although the game lacks any real building interior locations, outfits, or swimming mechanics, it’s still just as much fun to drive around Liberty City now as it was 20 years ago. The game’s lack of a cell phone means no one is constantly calling the player and asking them if they want to go bowling or chase down a cocaine smuggler, and the smaller open world (especially when compared to later games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas or Grand Theft Auto 5) means it’s much easier to memorize landmarks and roads, allowing players to rely less on their minimap and more on their intuition.

PC releases have improved GTA 3’s graphics from the original PS2 version, and the only quality-of-life improvement Rockstar should think about including in a theoretical GTA 3 remaster would be an updated aiming system. For all of Grand Theft Auto 3’s great qualities, the game’s shooting was fairly subpar, and implementing shooting mechanics more similar to the ones found in GTA Online and GTA 5 would go a long way towards making new players feel more comfortable with Grand Theft Auto 3’s somewhat dated gunplay. However, the wonky animations of Claude’s arm twisted around his body and shooting at an enemy he’s not even looking at can be a great laugh at times, and there is an argument for keeping the bad aiming system in not just for nostalgia’s sake, but to present the game as it was in its entirety.

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Other features of GTA 3, like the game’s massive amount of cheats (and the way players could combine them to create things like flying tanks) should stay as is no matter what. Grand Theft Auto 3 needs barely anything to be just as fun as any other game on the PS3, PS4, or PS5 – although better graphics than the PS2’s painfully small resolution wouldn’t hurt – and if Rockstar has any plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of their most important game releases ever, they should make sure that game is still available to anyone who wants to check it out for themselves.

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