20 Remakes and Remasters That Are Worse Than The Original

If you have even a passing interest in video games, chances are you’ve played one of the classic trilogy of Grand Theft Auto titles: Sand Andreas, Vice City and III. And while they’re not what they used to be, at the time of release these were game changers for open world gaming, giving us the opportunity to mete out street justice, go joyriding across cities, and spawn jetpacks and tanks to take on a never-ending army of US authorities.

So, then, who wouldn’t want to return to Liberty City, Vice City and Los Santos, in HD, with the gameplay, mechanics, physics, textures and other features we are used to on modern consoles? Nobody, that’s who. Enter Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, rounding up the games under one title, and putting us to work on the mean streets again.

But what could have been a triumphant return has instead been an international embarrassment for original developer Rockstar Games. The Windows version crashed on launch, and since then it has all been downhill. The games are buggy and glitchy; the graphics are nothing like what we were expecting; the overall lighting is a noticeable downgrade from the originals, removing the games’ distinctive feel; and the changes to character models look silly at best. And this is thanks in no small part to Rockstar farming this out to Grove Street Games, a twenty-five-person studio responsible for developing nothing you've ever heard of.