Ars Technica - We suggest you don't buy the $60 Grand Theft Auto Definitive Trilogy [View all]

The PlayStation 2-era Grand Theft Auto trilogy is now available on modern gaming devices and comes with across-the-board aesthetic touch-ups. That should be good news. The series' shift from top-down 2D to open-world 3D was a seismic event in the gaming industry, and despite showing their age, each of these games provides a fine amount of macabre criminal adventuring.

But while some parts of the trilogy's re-release are easy to praise, others are less exciting. Shortly after the $60 GTA Definitive Trilogy went live on Thursday, I logged some time with the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X versions. I also spent a few hours staring at the game's locked-up installation on my Windows 10 testing rig. I can now see why Rockstar wasn't eager to make this collection available to the press ahead of launch—and also why the game maker didn't want to break up this set into three $20 purchases. As Ryder might say in GTA San Andreas: This re-release is a buster. (And that's not a good thing.)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/11/grand-theft-auto-trilogy-remasters-are-definitive-all-right-definitively-uneven/

Ouch... I expect at some point they will get the games up and running for the people that bought them but... Not cool at all to release a non-functioning game(s).