In a tweet posted by Rockstar (opens in new tab), the developer announced: “The release dates for the physical versions of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition have changed.” Rather than releasing on December 7, 2021, like originally planned, the physical version of the collection will now be released on December 17, 2021. 

If you were hoping to pick up the Nintendo Switch version of the remastered GTA Trilogy, however, we have some bad news. The Nintendo Switch version of the collection has been pushed back even further to an unspecified date sometime in 2022. 

The release dates for the physical versions of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition have changed.Xbox Series X / Xbox One and PS4 will now release on December 17. The Nintendo Switch version is coming in early 2022.Check your local retailer for availability. pic.twitter.com/6avP8yp6laNovember 30, 2021

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It’s possible that this delay could be due to the hefty update Rockstar released for the GTA Trilogy yesterday, which featured well over 100 fixes in the game from issues with misspellings on signs, UI errors, and several problems related to the rain in the game. Perhaps most notably though, the update reintroduced San Andreas’ foggy skyline, something fans have been petitioning for since the remastered collection was released. 

Unfortunately, it’s been a rocky start for the GTA Trilogy which seems to consistently come up against issue after issue even before its release last month. Not only was the game full of bugs – prior to the latest update – it also missed out a tonne of classic elements which left a lot of long-time fans disappointed. This includes some of the game’s soundtrack and some of the classic cheats in the original titles. 

Find out what the Grand Theft Auto community thinks of the GTA Trilogy’s turbulent launch.

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In a post on Reddit, user YEED5A5 shared a clip of them flawlessly completing the famous ‘Wrong Side of the Tracks’ mission from GTA: San Andreas, saying that they couldn’t understand why some people find it so hard. The mission, which involves chasing after a train on a bike while your accomplice shoots enemies riding on top of it, is the source of the oft-quoted line, “All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!”, made famous by the number of people who struggled to complete it.

Players are pointing out, however, that it’s not always that simple. As one of the post’s commenters explains, “a lot of people don’t realize that [your accomplice and marksman] Big Smoke can’t shoot the enemies if you’re too close to the train,” so driving up right next to it won’t let you complete the mission. For a better success rate, you’re better off speeding along on the far side of the other set of rails, offering Big Smoke better line of sight, and making it easier to dodge any oncoming trains.

Some have suggested that the blame might partially lie with Big Smoke, whose accuracy leaves something to be desired. Another commenter suggests it takes “minimum 20 seconds” for him to dispatch each of the enemies atop the train, although given he’s trying to hit moving targets while riding on the back of a dirt bike, perhaps he deserves a little extra credit. Either way, with GTA Trilogy bringing San Andreas back to life and a VR version of the game coming to Oculus soon, this could be a helpful tip.

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Last week, Rockstar finally unveiled Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, which repackages GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas into a remastered bundle. Consequently, Rockstar will remove the original versions of all three games from all storefronts, which users on Steam in particular aren’t happy about, as Eurogamer (opens in new tab) first reported. 

In short, the users on Steam see this as a severe blow to game preservation. Users with hundreds, and even thousands of hours on record on all three GTA games on Steam are understandably saddened by Rockstar completely wiping the versions of the games they’re so attached to from the face of the planet, and so they’re urging others to share in the games they adore before they’re gone.

As Eurogamer notes however, the three GTA games might actually not be replaced on Steam. When the remastered trilogy was announced last week, Rockstar stated that the original three GTA games would be taken off Steam on PC, but that the remastered collection would only be available through the Rockstar Launcher on the platform. This could mean that the three GTA games are about to vanish from Steam in all forms forever.

Whatever happens, we won’t have to wait long to find out. Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition launches at some point later this year, and it’ll be available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Nintendo Switch. 

For more on Rockstar’s famed series, head over to our guide on the best GTA games, ranked from worst to best.

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OK, results may vary on this one. The year is 2004, and I’m late to the PlayStation 2 party (blame: EverQuest). My roommates and I are poor, finishing up our last year at Ohio State, and poor. We live in a cinderblock mansion. Three floors of verticality; the living room and kitchen on ground level, two rooms and a bathroom on the second floor, the same on the third. It’s November, and I have just purchased the hot new hot, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, alongside the PS2. My roommate, Buzz, has the TV; I’m with games; Dirty owns the backpack; and Try Hard, well, she’s the one with the car. Most of these details are important, I swear.

San Andreas is good. I don’t need to tell you that, and even if I did need to, I couldn’t possibly convey its genius right here and now in this article. What I’ll say is that for that bright, beautiful week, Columbus’ clouds and dreariness and coldness and dullness ceased to exist. Mostly because we never left the living room, thus rendering the outside world moot. There was only CJ and his bicycle, Los Santos and its stars.

But, as you tend to learn in college, life can become terrible at a moment’s notice. I’ve named Dirty as I have here not because he’s a crook, but because he’s the single most filthy, slovenly, irresponsible human being I’ve ever met. I lived with the guy for four years (blame: EverQuest), and in that time, I don’t recall him ever throwing anything away. We moved three times, and still he never threw anything away. Walking into his room was to wade into a knee-high midden heap. He never washed his socks; he simply bought new ones when the old became so sodden with sweat and grime that they maintained their shape when he removed them from his feet. I literally found a sock on the floor that was still in the shape of his foot! Just a stiff tube! (Come to think of it, the shape may have been due to a different reason… oh God, I touched it!)

But I digress. Dirty had a way of leaving the front door unlocked whenever he came home, despite being reminded on a near-daily basis not to do so, because, you know, crime-infused college town. But Dirty being Dirty came home late one night after we’d had the game for a week, left the door unlocked, and when Try Hard awoke at around 7 a.m., heard someone rummaging about on the ground floor. She thought it was me–I have no idea why–and went to class, oblivious. Try Hard comes home a few hours later, notices the missing TV, screams–I have no idea why. The rest of us wake up, head downstairs, and scream–at Dirty, for being such a lousy asshole and leaving the door unlocked yet again.

We take stock. My beautiful, new PS2 is gone, of course, as is the Xbox and myriad games. Buzz’s TV has been pinched. The thief rifled through Dirty’s backpack, dumped its contents on the floor, and then, presumably, loaded it up with my stuff. Try Hard, though. Try Hard is smug. “Haha,” she says. “What have I told you boys about playing with your toys in the living room?”

And then, two hours later, “Hey, has anyone seen my car keys?”

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