Cruising down to the gym to Depeche Mode’s ‘Personal Jesus’ in San Andreas. Vibing with Tears For Fears’ Pale Shelter while you ride a scooter across Vice City’s Starfish Island bridge. Discovering you actually love all the dub on GTA III’s K-JAH radio station. It’s all present and correct in Rockstar’s upcoming Definitive Edition of those three classic open worlds.
“GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is out Nov. 11 and retains all 200 songs across the 29 radio stations featured in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.”
That means they’re unchanged from the most recent 2014 release of each title, at least in terms of content. They’ll hit that bit harder on your Banshee’s sound system in 16-bit, 44Hz audio quality this time though.
Anyone with a 5.1 surround system will be able to listen in surround sound, too.
This being Rockstar Games, there’s a lot more going on to earn that ‘definitive’ moniker besides a playlist of certified bangers. Graphics improvements across the board, updated GTA V-style controls and platform-specific additions like gyro controls for Switch, 4K60fps support for PC, Xbox Series X and PS5, and Nvidia DLSS support for PC.
Further UI tweaks include updated weapon and radio station wheels that make switching options easier and revamped mini-maps which let the player set their own destination.
We’re hoping that suite of modernizations will make following the damn train a whole lot easier now and get Big Smoke off our backs.
Written by Phil Iwaniuk on behalf of GLHF.
