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Trio Of Grand Theft Auto Titles To Hit The Mac This Year

The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy pack makes its grand return just for Mac users.

Almost a decade after it originally hit store shelves, Grand Theft Auto III will finally see its debut on the Mac, according to a surprise reveal by Rockstar. But in even more exciting news, Rockstar says GTA III won't ship as a standalone product. It will instead be bundled in the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy pack, which includes Mac versions of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

This news comes via a FAQ column on Rockstar's Facebook page, and as a result of the unusual means of this announcement, no substantial details, including price, were dished out. The studio mentioned that more information will be provided via a "proper" reveal at a later date and that plans are in place to get the game out "later this year."      
 

  Nice textures, bro.
Nice textures, bro.
 
I know this is a vibrant world filled with adults who want to wear diapers or dance on video with teddy bears, but I find it hard to believe that there's a single Mac user who's been refusing to purchase the GTA classics until they appeared natively on that platform. But then, so many Mac users are running on laptops that these older games might be just the ticket to run on lesser hardware.

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Ah, I miss Vice City. Well, that's cool for Mac users. Better late than never, I guess, but the games don't hold up as well as I would have hoped.

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@Kyodra said:
" GTA IV coming out on Mac in 2015, you heard it here first. "
too soon
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I played the bujeezus outta Vice City back in the Xbox days. I tried giving San Andreas a shot on the PC but I ended up getting distracted with something else.

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I would probably get this...if I had a Mac. (Woo for Steam/Rockstar Collection?)

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Does anyone really want this...? I mean, come on. Sure, they were good for their time...... sort of.... But even then, they weren't really much better than Crackdown. They were even less super than that. And now? Yeahhhh.... GTA IV was a poor example of evolving gameplay as it was, now this? The games really REALLY don't stand up very well across the years.

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WOW, seems like a colossal waste of resources.  Why not focus on something else other than games that came out such a long time ago? 

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....They're working on this? And not RDR for PC? 
 
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They should repack all the GTA3 era games onto one blu-ray disc and release it on PS3 with 720p (or 1080p) resolution and modern controls.
 
@WEGGLES said:

" ....They're working on this? And not RDR for PC?  :[ "
No announcement doesn't mean no port. They denied and denied and denied possible PC ports of GTA4 and EFLC up until the time to start printing discs. RDR PC is coming, mark my words.
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Mac users always get the best games 1st :( I am envious.

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Truly, I could not care less about this news.

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Meh, guess i'l buy it again lol

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@Rokin said:
" a still no gta on steam for europe "
Well thats wrong, available on steam in my native scandinavia.
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The only caring I have about this is that the games will now be PC/Mac play on Steam.

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Fuckin sweet!! Maybe next year Mac can get Daikatana!

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I think it's kind of cool.  Not the most necessary thing though.  I wonder if all the mods will work though.  I liked seeing the car skins people came up with.

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Why? Oh god why?

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@shinluis said:
" @PJ said:
" Wow, now the 0.0000001% of the world that haven't played the GTA III games can play them. "
lol are you totally talking about me? 'Cause I do have a Mac and interestingly enough, I did not play any of the GTA games for some strange reason.  (no, I was not refusing to purchase it until they appear natively on macs)   =D   "
You should play them on the PS2(I hear they are cheap nowadays). I personally didn't care too much for the PC version of the GTA games since the shooting is frankly horrible so the lock-on on the PS2 works much better.
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I love GTA games but going back to Vice City recently on PC was a little hard.  Maybe they'll do some tweaking on this release.

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i'm pretty much done with gta

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wouldn't i still be better off playing them on windows 7 via bootcamp? unless those games require such little power that even a geforce 320m with its simple OSX video card drivers can power those games at 1680x1050. i would hope that this comes out on SteamPlay since i already own the windows versions of those games so i can just play them right away on OSX.

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That's cool, but still, I kinda don't see the point. If it's steamplay, I'd consider it for sure though. I'd like to tackle vice city again.

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Hopefully they will support SteamPlay. I already own the trilogy on PS2 and Steam.

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Screw the Mac! I want a PC version!

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Hopefully these Steam versions get an update for Macplay!

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If this is available through Steam its another tick in a box about possibly purchasing a Mac for my Birthday.
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@dbz1995 said:
" Screw the Mac! I want a PC version! "
... Go buy it? I have it.  all three games are on Steam. 
 
I'm really hoping this includes Steam so I don't have to buy San Andreas for the fourth time.
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Great to see more games going to the MAC!

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@MysteriousBob said:
" Great! Mac users get to play completely out of date games. The typical Mac user will probably think these are the most modern games out. "
JERK!! :)
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When pressed, Rockstar said that it just took forEVER to translate these games into Hot Cocoa.

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Cool! the start of hopefully a slew of better quality titles to mac!

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Great to see Mac becoming a viable operating system for gaming

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don't care.  I only look at this article to read the stupid, stupid, ignorant comments from 90% of you in regards to Mac and games. MysteriousBob, you win thus far.

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Cool.  These are pretty great games, they hold up well on mouse/keyboard platforms, even more so if they do a little tweaking or updating.  The controls on consoles are just garbage compared to anything released in the last five years; I can hardly even play San Andreas anymore. 
 
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I wonder if they will be as poorly optimised on Mac as they was on PC. Although, I guess these games are pretty old by now.

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Meh I'd rather get some simple games to play on my Macbook. Real games are meant for PCs and consoles.

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finally i guess

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@mosespippy said:
" I knew they were doing something with these games because Lazlow posted an archive of all the radio ads from these games and the PSP games. Clearly R* had no reason to make that archive unless they were going to do something with the games. I expected a HD rerelease on PS3 like we've seen with God of War and Sly Cooper. Perhaps they are and just haven't revealed it yet. Seems like a waste of resources to make a mac version and only a mac version. "
actually this might be the plan, seeing as both OS X and PS3 use openGL, so this is definitely a possibility.
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@dbz1995 said:
" Screw the Mac! I want a PC version! "
It is on PC... has been for what almost 9 years now? :P
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Just what I needed on my overly-expensive Macbook.

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I little late, but still great news.

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I'm most likely wrong, but I can't imagine that there's really a market for this...

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mac....

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There's no other game that makes my heart sing as much as GTA 3 does.
 
The music, atmosphere, dialogue for the pedestrians...
 
*faints*

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That would be kind of a kick in the nuts if the Mac version of these games get Mac Achievements.

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Lucky me and being a PC User.

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Spent hundreds of hours with these babies, speeding around with cops on my tail, committing acts of wanton violence, exploring the cities and collecting all sorts of crap. Good times all around. Man, GTAs are the best!

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Finally Brad Nicholson! I can wear diapers and play GTA 3 on my macbook! A glorious day!

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This just seems too little and too late for me.

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@pyromaster222 said:

" Cool! the start of hopefully a slew of better quality titles to mac! "

Wait, these titles are good? I already have Torchlight and TF2 on my Mac, were you refering to those?
 
I guess those GTA games have nice soundtracks? :/
 
And Mac hardware is powerful and reliable, thank you Mr Brad :)
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I would totally buy these games if they were released with achievements and I would replay them...