GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Release Date Announced, Plus Switch Details and a New Trailer

Earlier this month, GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition was announced by Rockstar with a loose release window of November 2021. We now know that Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will launch digitally on Nintendo Switch November 11th, 2021, and a physical version will follow later on December 7th, 2021.

On top of the release date news, Rockstar also dropped a new trailer. Check it out:

The GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition package contains enhanced versions of Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. They’ll come with GTAV-inspired modern controls, visual improvements such as resolution upgrades and improved visual fidelity across the worlds, and so much more.

When it comes to the gameplay, players can look forward to modern control upgrades, including improvements to targeting and lock-on aiming, updated weapon and radio station wheels, and updated mini-maps with enhanced navigation allowing players to set waypoints to their destinations. For the Switch version of GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, gyro aiming has been confirmed, as well as touch screen camera zooming, pans, and menu selections in handheld mode.

Graphically, the games have a rebuilt lighting system with improved shadows, weather, and reflections, upgraded character and vehicle models, and new higher resolution textures across buildings, weapons, roads, interiors, etc. Environmental upgrades are in place with new foliage, smoother surfaces, and increased draw distances.

It has also been confirmed that Grove Street Games has developed all of the remasters, and as speculated, they have been made in Unreal Engine.

About GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition

Three iconic cities, three epic stories. Play the genre-defining classics of the original Grand Theft Auto Trilogy: Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas updated for a new generation, now with across-the-board enhancements including brilliant new lighting and environmental upgrades, with high-resolution textures, increased draw distances, Grand Theft Auto V-style controls and targeting, and much more, bringing these beloved worlds to life with all new levels of detail.

Grand Theft Auto III
It all starts in Liberty City. With the freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, the ruthless world of crime is at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair and pastel suits comes the story of one man’s rise to the top of the criminal pile. Grand Theft Auto returns with Tommy Vercetti’s tale of betrayal and revenge in a neon-soaked tropical town full of excess and brimming with possibilities.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
It’s the early ’90s. After a couple of cops frame him for homicide, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.

GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition goes on sale on the eShop November 11th, and you can even buy a physical copy on December 7th, both options for $59.99 USD.

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