Look, we’re all excited aboutGTA 6. We’d been waiting for areveal trailerfor what felt like forever. The chance to revisit Vice City in the next installment of Rockstar’s Goliath franchise is something many of us are looking forward to. But there is another project that’s worth keeping an eye on.
As spotted byDSO Gaming, a studio called Revolution Team is currently remaking the originalVice City, hoping to succeed where the official remaster failed. The trailer below teases what’s to be expected in what’s being called theNextgen Edition.
Going off the description on YouTube, the developer is taking the 2002Grand Theft Autogame and importing it into Rockstar’s RAGE engine. More specifically, it looks as though this remake will use theGTA IVversion.
No AI upscaling here, it would seem
Revolution Team acknowledges theDefinitive Edition, saying that this version ofVice Citywill be different, i.e. better.
The official remaster uses the Unreal Engine only for rendering, but the game’s physics engine is still RenderWare, released more than 20 years ago, with outdated mechanics and animations.
The project is expected to release sometime in 2025. Here’s what else you’re able to expect in theNextgen Edition:
• Improved version of the city fromDefinitive Edition• Improved weapons fromDefinitive Edition• All cars from the Xbox version of the game• Models of all characters and peds from the Xbox version of the game (with improved textures)• All original radio stations• Cut scenes from the original game• Design in the style of the original game• Neon on buildings fromVice City Stories• Additional fixes and improvements from the Revolution Team
