GTA Trilogy and movie packs

By Tom Bramwell Published 26 September, 2005

Xbox/PS2 owners encouraged to hop on the pimpmo-bandwagon.

Rockstar plans to release a Grand Theft Auto Trilogy pack for Xbox and a Special Edition of San Andreas for PS2 featuring a video DVD in the run-up to Christmas. So that's the GTA Threesome and the GTA Big Disc Edition for those living in a parallel universe where Jack Thompson hasn't been invented.

Both packages will be released in the US on October 18th (European dates TBC – but we'd expect them to show up pretty sharpish). The Xbox Trilogy pack obviously consists of GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas, while the PS2's bonus DVD includes a copy of San Andreas-based mini-movie The Introduction as well as a DVD version of Rockstar's debut documentary Sunday Driver.

The Introduction, you may recall, fleshes out some of the back-story to the game and was previously released as part of the 2-CD version of the game's soundtrack way-back-when. We still have some screenshots up elsewhere on the site.

Sunday Driver, meanwhile, was announced as a PlayStation Portable UMD movie last week - it's due out on that format "this autumn". It catalogues the adventures (and presumably misadventures) of the Compton/Watts chapter of Californian low-rider car club The Majestics, promising interviews and keen insights into the club's origins (a secret love of Tigger and Superglue, presumably).

A slightly lower-key aspect of the Trilogy/Special Edition announcements is that both versions will have been shorn of the "Hot Coffee" content that so horrified Bill "I did not etc." Clinton's increasingly peculiar wife a couple of months ago.

We're not quite sure who the Trilogy and Special Ed packs are meant for exactly (particularly given that Rockstar's already pulled this trick once before with Double Packs of GTA III and Vice City for PS2/Xbox), but it's bound to be good news for somebody. Shareholders, perhaps.

Meanwhile, Grand Theft Auto's PSP debut, Liberty City Stories, is due out in the US on October 25th and a few days later in Europe on October 28th.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • OnlyMe #1 6 years ago

    I think this is distasteful. No matter how much of a fan I am of the GTA series, making a so called "special-editon" of a game on the PS2 and sell it for full price, when it reality it's the exact same game, only with an extra disc and maybe some better packaging - it's quite sickening really. This must be the greediest move Rockstar has done yet.

    Especially considering the Xbox is getting a trilogy pack at the price of one, while the PS2 owners has to settle for a overpriced copy of the last GTA game - a second time.

  • PES_Fanboy #2 6 years ago

    Don't buy it then? Maybe the special edition is for the two people that own PS2s that have just come out of a two year coma, and didn't buy it first time round.

    I'm looking forward to the triple pack on XBox showing everyone how the best game by miles was Vice City :o)

    I'd buy it just to annoy Hillary Clinton to be honest. Jack wossname means nothing to me, but HRC needs shooting.

  • Ninjamagic #3 6 years ago

    but HRC needs shooting.
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    If you add George Bush to that PES_Fanboy im right with ya Sonny Jim!

  • MoFo #4 6 years ago

    News flash for OnlyME: Shock horror, company cashes in on trilogy!

    Wow, never saw that coming!

  • sickpuppysoftware #5 6 years ago

    Does anyone who doesn't hate GTA actually not own a copy yet?

  • Genji #6 6 years ago

    I don't own a copy!

    I don't hate GTA, either. It's more of a medium to strong dislike.

  • OnlyMe #7 6 years ago

    MoFo: well, considering the Xbox version of San Andreas only came out a couple of months ago, and there's already a double pack consisting of GTA3 and Vice City... no, I didn't see this coming. Did you really expect a trilogy pack this soon?

    And I would like to have a PS2 version of a trilogy pack. Instead they just made the same game available for a higher price for PS2 owners. I would buy the Xbox version, but seriously, the whole backwards compatibility issue is really so weak - and I'd really not want to keep the old Xbox.