Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – All Enhancements Revealed, but Some of the Original Music Will Be Missing
The Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy games are set to be launched today, and Rockstar has issued a list of all of the improvements they’re adding to them. GTA Trilogy will contain more than a hundred songs in total, but several licenced music tracks will be absent; thanks to NME, we have a list of those songs that will be missing.
Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and San Andreas remastered editions already included controls inspired by Grand Theft Auto V, an improved minimap, and a wide range of graphic updates. Rockstar has now published the complete list, which you can see below:
- An updated player experience, making it easier than ever to play these classic games, including
- A Grand Theft Auto V-style controller layout.
- Updated Weapon and Radio Station selection wheels for quick switching.
- Updated Mini-Maps with enhanced navigation allowing players to set waypoints to destinations.
- Improved gunplay and targeting controls, with upgraded drive-by controls in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- The ability to immediately restart failed missions.
- Updated Achievements and Trophies.
- New Rockstar Social Club Accomplishments for members.
- Plus newly supported languages; including Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Korean, in addition to English, Spanish (Spain + Mexico), Italian, Japanese, French, and German.
- Enhanced visuals, with improved graphics and fidelity across all three games, including:
- Higher resolution textures from characters to weapons, vehicles to roads, and more for greater detail.
- A completely rebuilt lighting system, with enhanced shadows, reflections, and more.
- Improved environmental effects such as water and weather effects including rain and fog, plus more distinct changes to highlight different times across the sky, sun, moon, and stars.
- Enhanced detail in trees and foliage, plus newly added three-dimensional detail to buildings and windows.
- Increased draw distances to provide a new level of depth and definition.
- Plus platform-specific features, including:
- 4K-resolution support with up to 60 frames per second performance for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X systems.
- NVIDIA DLSS Support for PC.
- Touch screen camera zooming, pans, and menu selections as well as Gyro aiming for the Nintendo Switch.
There will be almost 200 songs on 29 radio stations between the three games. The tracks that were not included in the original versions of these games will not be included in this list either, as it matches the “the most recent release of the original versions” However, there are 15 tracks missing from Vice City and 21 missing from San Andreas in Grand Theft Auto III’s soundtrack. Those who won’t be included are as follows:
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
- Ozzy Osbourne – ‘Bark At The Moon’
- Kate Bush – ‘Wow’
- Michael Jackson – ‘Billie Jean’
- Lionel Richie – ‘Running With The Night’
- Herbie Hancock – ‘Rockit’
- Afrika Bambaataa + The Soulsonic Force – ‘Looking For the Perfect Beat’
- Michael Jackson – ‘Wanna Be Starting Something’
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik – ‘Love Missile F1-11’
- Gary Numan – ‘Cars’
- ABC – ‘Poison Arrow’
- Aneka – ‘Japanese Boy’
- The Buggles – ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’
- Joe Jackson – ‘Steppin’ Out’
- The Fixx – ‘One Thing Leads To Another
- Quiet Riot – ‘Cum On Feel The Noize’
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
- Tom Petty – ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’
- Joe Cocker – ‘Woman to Woman’
- Fatback Band – Yum Yum (Gimme Some)’
- The Gap Band – ‘You Dropped A Bomb On Me’
- George Clinton – ‘Loopzilla’
- Roy Ayers – ‘Running Away’
- 2 Pac – ‘I Don’t Give a Fuck’
- NWA – ‘Express Yourself’
- Ozzy Osbourne – ‘Hellraiser’
- Rage Against The Machine – ‘Killing In The Name’
- Black Harmony – ‘Don’t let It Go To Your Head’
- Blood Sisters – ‘Ring My Bell’
- Augustus Pablo – ‘King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown’
- Charles Wright – ‘Express Yourself’
- The Blackbyrds – ‘Rock Creek Park’
- Bobby Byrd – ‘Hot Pants’
- Bobby Byrd – ‘I Know You Got Soul’
- James Brown – ‘Funky President’
- James Brown – ’The Payback’
- Lyn Collins – ‘Rock Me Again And Again’
- The J.B.’s – ‘Grunt’