20 LAZIEST Video Game Re-Releases They Thought You'd Buy

4. GTA Trilogy The Definitive Edition

Grand Theft Autos III, Vice City and San Andreas are the zeitgeist for early-noughties gaming, dominating the first half of the 2000s, and giving a whole generation of youngsters an unhealthy obsession with killing hookers. With each game, the graphics got tighter, the maps got larger and the crazy characters and plot just kept getting better and better, with San Andreas managing to sign names like Samuel L Jackson, Axl Rose, James Woods and Ice-T onto its voice cast.

And this era set a release rate for Rockstar – with just three years separating three games – that it would never be able to live up to again. So, in the great, yawning gap between GTA V and VI, what else was there to do but release Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition.

The title made big promises, and while it was certainly good to get the opportunity to hop into the old games again, was it really worth it? Farmed out to Grove Street Games, the end product was super lazy, barely even taking the time to do more than round the edges on the graphics and touch up the lighting, when they had the opportunity to do a full, proper remaster that would have brought the game up to date. There's no point in a 4k or 1080p image on a next-gen console if it's still the visuals and gameplay of yesteryear. Not our definition of "definitive".