Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition launched this month with a wide range of issues. These range from low-quality or poorly implemented textures, character models, and effects to annoying glitches and stretching cars.
There’s no arguing that Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition was not a disappointment to many fans. On the other hand, there is also no denying that many of the issues are pretty funny. For example, take the discovery of time traveling wine in the remastered Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Rockstar Games originally released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in October 2004. However, the game took place more than a decade earlier, in 1992. Either way, one would not expect the bars in San Andreas to stock wine from 2010. However, that’s exactly what Reddit user Sir-Laurie found in the badly remastered game.
The graphic was almost definitely reused from Grand Theft Auto 5, as the Reddit thread quickly figured out. However, it wasn’t the only time-traveling asset either. One commenter mentioned finding some of the GTA 5 character’s clothes in the remastered San Andreas stores. Another Reddit user complained about seeing posters for buildings that only exist in the later Grand Theft Auto game.
Many commenters in the Grand Theft Auto subreddits were more amused than annoyed by the anachronistic wine, and it is an undeniably funny mistake. At least one person asked if the original poster had seen any DeLoreans on the street. However, quite a few expressed frustrations with Rockstar Games, Grove Street Games, and the Definitive Edition itself.
Not to mention that mislabeled wine is far from the only case of sloppy graphics in the Definitive Editon of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy. There are the above-mentioned stretching cars and The Trilogy’s bafflingly bad character models, along with hovering tattoos and de-aged characters.
Some have even pointed out that the Definitive Edition is in many ways a graphical and performance downgrade compared to the existing PS Vita port of GTA: The Trilogy. Altogether, it’s easy to see why so many fans were disappointed by the remaster. The time-traveling wine is just a single drop in the vast ocean of The Definitive Edition’s many issues.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is available now for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.