{"id":409627,"date":"2025-11-02T06:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2176125"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:41:52","slug":"classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is here, a mouthful of a title for a fittingly gigantic collection, a bundle of GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas remasters, three of the most culturally resonating games of the modern era.<\/p>\n

These are the games that inspired the modern open world, pushed (and were promptly pushed back from) the boundaries of what was acceptable, and changed video game ratings systems forever. Naturally, we’re feeling a little nostalgic today, and so to mark the occasion we’ve gathered together a handful of our favourite features on the trilogy, from GTA 3 and a sweeping history of the open world phenomenon to the incredible story of the San Andreas “Hot Coffee” scandle.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is here, a mouthful of a title for a fittingly gigantic collection, a bundle of GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas remasters, three of the most culturally resonating games of the modern era. These are the games that inspired the modern open world, pushed (and were promptly pushed back from) the boundaries of what was acceptable, and changed video game ratings systems forever. Naturally, we’re feeling a little nostalgic today, and so to mark the occasion we’ve gathered together a handful of our favourite features on the trilogy, from GTA 3 and a sweeping history of the open world phenomenon to the incredible story of the San Andreas “Hot Coffee” scandle. Read more…<\/p>\n

Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"\nClassic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is here, a mouthful of a title for a fittingly gigantic collection, a bundle of GTA 3, GTA: Vice\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is here, a mouthful of a title for a fittingly gigantic collection, a bundle of GTA 3, GTA: Vice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-02T06:41:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"headline\":\"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-02T06:41:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":134,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/11\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Eurogamer\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/\",\"name\":\"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited | Arcader News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/11\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-02T06:41:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"description\":\"Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is here, a mouthful of a title for a fittingly gigantic collection, a bundle of GTA 3, GTA: Vice\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/11\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/11\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":270,\"caption\":\"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"description\":\"Free Arcade News from the Best Online Sources\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\",\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Arcade News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cricketgames.tv\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/author\\\/arcade-news\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited | Arcader News","description":"Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is here, a mouthful of a title for a fittingly gigantic collection, a bundle of GTA 3, GTA: Vice","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited | Arcader News","og_description":"Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is here, a mouthful of a title for a fittingly gigantic collection, a bundle of GTA 3, GTA: Vice","og_url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/","og_site_name":"Arcade News","article_published_time":"2025-11-02T06:41:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":480,"height":270,"url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Arcade News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Arcade News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/"},"author":{"name":"Arcade News","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839"},"headline":"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited","datePublished":"2025-11-02T06:41:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/"},"wordCount":134,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg","articleSection":["Eurogamer"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/","name":"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited | Arcader News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg","datePublished":"2025-11-02T06:41:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839"},"description":"Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is here, a mouthful of a title for a fittingly gigantic collection, a bundle of GTA 3, GTA: Vice","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited.jpg","width":480,"height":270,"caption":"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/classic-gta-on-eurogamer-our-favourite-pieces-revisited\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Classic GTA on Eurogamer: our favourite pieces revisited"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/","name":"Arcade News","description":"Free Arcade News from the Best Online Sources","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839","name":"Arcade News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Arcade News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/cricketgames.tv"],"url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/author\/arcade-news\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378196,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409627\/revisions\/1378196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}