We’re going to have to think about stopping putting out its main argument during the Game Awards period or making serious arrangements, friends big video game publishers. 2020: Cyberpunk 2077 is picked up in style when it was the most anticipated game of the year and even beyond, due to strawberry optimization on the consoles of the dying generation. A year later, here is the publisher that we do not touch in the middle, without risking a shower of excrement on the head, Rockstar, who released a modernized compilation of three episodes of his cult series, Grand Theft Auto… and that got its feet in the carpet with in particular a PC version considered unplayable during the first days.
And since then, it has been expensive, this updating of the three GTA released between 2001 and 2004. In a good place among the biggest disappointments of the players in a survey of this beginning of the year, GTA the Trilogy the definitive Edition is the target of jokes featuring screenshots or videos. Most of the time, like in most open world games, this involves big visual bugs like houses, levitating cars, etc.
“Vice City”, the most successful
The material was nevertheless rich for this compilation, of which we will quote the guests. GTA III, first of all, the very first in 3D of a series which until then handled the view from above and the easy controversy (already). We direct Claude, a lookalike of James Dean, endearing barely out of jail after being overtaken by his girlfriend during a robbery. Endearing in his desire to find a place for himself in Liberty City, and yet silent, an aspect that is stain today when the series has created real wordmills as the main characters. As stain, in this episode, the erratic behavior, and sometimes close to psychiatry, of certain artificial intelligences, like that of the cops who can chase you with a knife between their teeth and then walk away nonchalantly …
Vice City, next comes, bathing in 80’s disco-funk and pop, cocktail-colored skies and 80s clothes. We will consider him the most successful, also the best topspin of this compilation. His cardboard Miami has aged rather well, and the zany references to a whole section of cinema by Scorcese, De Palma and others still hit the mark. And we end with San Andreas, the “west coast” rapper of the band, his precursor screenplay of “Black Lives Matter”, when he does not go happily lollipop in the modern United States with a power that has only grown over the years.
Character writing
Was Rockstar wrong to outsource the facelift of its cult games, having elevated playing bad boys to art, to studio Grovestreet? Although interviews show those responsible supporting and overseeing the work, the rendered copy is indeed sometimes more than average. Visual bugs, which we have already discussed, and oddly reshaped characters don’t always do this software justice., with in this regard characters who are more like zombies from Resident Evil than something else in the first episode, or the funeral of the mother of the main character of San Andreas which turn grotesque with the faces of the characters and their approach …
At the same time, the gameplay of these episodes has aged quite a bit and has seen some discreet improvements. But she was already about the level of one Watchdogs released many years later when it comes to handling vehicles and characters. Moreover, in these games, what a journey through the soundtrack. Driving through the streets involves tasting the in-game radios, better than most current radios and, arguably, your Deezer playlist. And then, what writing of the characters, at the same time solid and outrageous, in games which certainly consist in doing very disreputable actions but which install you a delectable universe for each lover of narrative game. Here is the delta of this compilation: the qualities of these games are still there, their update is not however of the height of the remasters of such or such, which sell today like hot cakes.
A hole in your culture?
Therefore, the aficionados will cherish their memories rather than touching things that can almost throw them off, and we understand them. Corn if one of these episodes is missing from your video game culture, do not hesitate, even if it means playing only this one at the start.
WE LOVE :
Compile ‘consistent in its proposed titles
Very solid lifespan
The soundtracks, the soundtracks
WE LIKE LESS:
Big mistakes of taste or attention in the facelift for the modeling of the characters
Cosmic visual bugs that deserve to be fixed
A GTA 3 whose mutic hero has aged more
RATING: 14/20
A Rockstar Games game, on Playstation, XBox, Switch and PC. 18 years old and over. approx. 50 €.