Ahead next month Grand Theft Auto VI trailerthree classic GTA games from the PlayStation 2 era will appear in the Netflix mobile library in December. These may not be the versions that fans actually want ported to more platforms, even if some visual improvements seem to have been made.
We first reported on Rockstar’s plans to remaster GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas for new consoles and mobile devices in 2021. These remastered ports were finally released as Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in November of the same year on Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. While parts of them looked fine, the games were a mess, with new bugs, messed up graphics, and other glitches. The problems were so bad that Rockstar Games did some very unbecoming things for Rockstar apologized to the fans offering them free copies of the original versions of the PC games. Until then, remastering GTA trilogy did get some updates to fix the more glaring flaws, the games are still not fan favorites. If that’s the case, I’m not sure many people will be excited about these remasters making the jump to phones.
On November 29, Netflix announced this Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas— all originally released on the PS2 between 2001 and 2004 — will be be available on mobile phones starting on December 14th. As with other games hosted on Netflix, you need to be a Netflix subscriber to play these GTA ports on your iPhone or Android device.
This time things look a little different…
Interestingly, comparing the screenshots of the new Netflix ports to the current console and PC versions GTA trilogy indicates that some changes have been made. I often noticed this at the first moment GTA: Vice City. It looks like the colors have been toned down a bit and the overall image looks darker and more like the original PS2 version.
If you look closely, you can still see the remastering Vice City Definitive Edition models and textures, so it’s still (supposedly) that version of the game.
But it looks like someone went in and changed some visual settings…including fogfoundation on other screenshots— to possibly improve these new Netflix ports.
I’m intrigued by the changes, even if they’re minor, as they seem to help the remastered versions of these beloved games look more like Rockstar’s original open-world classics. So I might check them out once they hit mobile next month. I just have to remember how the hell do you play netflix games on your phone.
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