GTA Trilogy Soundtrack Every Song Missing From GTA 3 Radio Stations

GTA Trilogy Soundtrack: Every Song Missing From GTA 3 Radio Stations

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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy didn’t include some iconic tracks from Vice City and San Andreas, but GTA 3’s soundtrack has remained intact.

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GTA Trilogy Soundtrack Every Song Missing From GTA 3 Radio Stations

The graphics and gameplay of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition have faced widespread criticism in the weeks since the collection’s release, but the soundtrack has also received a fair amount of backlash. The GTA Trilogy has faced a sizeable fan backlash at launch, with the remasters’ lack of polish being exacerbated by the lack of certain features that were present in the original games. Key songs from the franchise’s in-game radio stations are missing due to expired copyright licenses, and these omissions are hard to ignore in a collection billing itself as the “definitive” way to experience three of the finest GTA games.

GTA: The Trilogy collects GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas, all of which are considered to be milestones in not just the open world genre, but the gaming medium more generally. The diverse soundtracks of the GTA: Trilogy games are instrumental in creating immersive settings, and Vice City and San Andreas are particularly known for their time-period appropriate music that takes players into the mid-80s and early-90s respectively. Sadly, copyright issues have led to missing songs in Vice City’s 80s-inspired soundtrack and San Andreas’ gangsta rap-heavy radio stations. Some of the most iconic songs from both games, such as Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” from Vice City and N.W.A.’s “Express Yourself” from San Andreas, were first removed from the games on their respective ten-year anniversary mobile releases, and GTA: The Trilogy has not restored the soundtracks to their original glory.

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However, although both Vice City and San Andreas are missing some of their most iconic tracks, GTA 3’s soundtrack has emerged intact. This is a massive plus for fans wanting to revisit the oldest 3D GTA game, and the reason for its still familiar soundtrack may have to do with Rockstar’s modest approach to the game’s radio stations. Licensed music wasn’t deployed as heavily in the first 3D GTA game as it was in GTA: Vice City and San Andreas, meaning less has been lost in the transition to current gen consoles.

GTA 3 Didn’t Use As Many Licensed Songs As Vice City

While GTA 3 turned Rockstar into one of the biggest names in gaming, the studio was still a relative underdog when developing the game. Previous GTA titles had featured in-house music created by Rockstar, and a similar approach was used for GTA 3’s original soundtrack, which included a large amount of in-house and copyright-free music. While many licensed songs were used, the songs were not as notable as the ones featured in GTA: The Trilogy’s other two games. Flashback FM used 1980s pop songs that were featured in the 1983 Scarface film, which was one of (Vice City’s biggest inspirations next to Miami Vice), and Game Radio featured hip-hop songs by hardcore east coast MCs such as Sean Price, Royce Da 5’9, and Black Rob. These songs all give GTA 3 a distinct Y2K atmosphere while lacking the expansive soundtracks of later entries.

The full soundtrack may also partly be due to GTA 3’s contemporary setting. Unlike Vice City and San Andreas, GTA 3 is set in the year in which it was released – 2001. It’s difficult to pinpoint which songs in the present will stand the test of time, whereas records from previous decades will have had their legacy cemented. For example, GTA: San Andreas’ huge soundtrack is filled almost entirely with classic, immediately recognizable songs that defined the early-90s across multiple genres. On the other hand, GTA 4 returned to a contemporary setting and included fewer massive pop songs than Vice City and San Andreas. This helps explain why GTA 3 featured fewer songs with expensive copyrights than the other games included in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition.

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