Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars heading to the PSP
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | June 24th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Take Two Interactive has announced a new version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which will be rebuilt to cater for the PlayStation Portable. It will be available for PlayStation Portables of all models and will be released through the UMD (Universal Media Disc) and downloadable format through the PlayStation Network.
Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Coming to the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system
New York, NY – June 22, 2009 – Rockstar Games, the world-renowned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is pleased to announce that one of the highest-rated handheld games of all time, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, will be making its way to the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) handheld entertainment system. Developed by the award-winning studio Rockstar Leeds, in conjunction with series creator Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be available at retail on UMD® and digitally from the PlayStation®Network in North America and Europe this fall.
“We’re proud to extend this truly unique handheld Grand Theft Auto experience to PSP and offer a downloadable version of Chinatown Wars for PSP®go,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “Rockstar Leeds has shown incredible talent in creating games that raise the bar in terms of depth and innovation on portables, and with Chinatown Wars we have a rich, fast-paced, and incredibly addictive entry into the series.”
“Rockstar’s work with the GTA series has been an enormous part of the success of PlayStation platforms,” said Jack Tretton, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America. “We’re excited to welcome the critically acclaimed Chinatown Wars to the outstanding line-up of great games headed to the PSP platform this fall.”
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars follows the story of Huang Lee, a young Triad who travels to Liberty City after the mysterious death of his father. Within the game, players will navigate their way through the streets as they uncover the truth behind an epic tale of crime and corruption within the Triad crime syndicate, delivering the unprecedented amount of depth that has become a true trademark of the franchise. Specifically built for the PSP platform with upscaled widescreen graphics, enhanced lighting and animation; and including all-new story missions; this version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will take full advantage of the power of the PSP system.
For more information please visit www.rockstargames.com/chinatownwars.
Click here for the Official Press Release.
Here is all the information that has been released publicly. Rockstar Games has just recently sent out a Rockstar Broadcast Newsletter to all subscribers that news for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the PSP and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony for the Xbox 360 will be on the horizon. So, be stay tuned!
“Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony” episodic downloadable content pack announced
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | May 27th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Rockstar has announced the second downloadable add-on for Grand Theft Auto IV. It will be titled “Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony”. Like the last episode, The Ballad of Gay Tony will be exclusive to Xbox 360 and will have a price of 1600 Microsoft points or $19.99.
“As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka “Gay Tony”), players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price.”
Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games offered this statement, “Liberty City is the most vibrant game world we’ve created yet. The episodic structure has allowed us to interweave stories, gameplay and atmosphere in a whole new way,” “The team at Rockstar North have yet again surpassed themselves, and made something that is both epic and very innovative. This episode’s focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new gameplay possibilities.”
Rockstar Games has also officially announced “Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City”, a disc-based release that will include both Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and the Damned and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony. This disc will hit retail this fall, exclusively for Xbox 360. It will have a price of $39.99 and can be run standalone without the original Grand Theft Auto IV disc.
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - Issue #5: Blood and a Four Leaf Clover?
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | May 17th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Introduction:
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - The Weekly Grand Theft Auto Newsletter that’s dynamic!
The Newsletter dedicated to slow news weeks, so that you can still catch up on the latest!
Community Spotlight:
Yes, we’ll accept user submissions for Grand Theft Auto Weekly! If you guys need to feature a fan-created fiction, machinima, stunt video, artwork, music or any other Grand Theft Auto related media, we will be glad to accept them! Just send off an e-mail with your submission to hotdvl@gtahq.net, and if it makes the mark, it will be featured in the next issue or wherever we can cramp it into! If it’s good enough, it may even be given it’s own article as well!
The Robbery - Episode One:
SGF Productions has just released the first episode of their new series of Grand Theft Auto IV machinimas, titled “The Robbery”. Top notch editing, plot, voice acting and execution make this video one of the the best Grand Theft Auto IV machinimas ever!
This Week’s News:
Grand Theft Auto IV’s Second Episode:
Last Thursday, Rockstar Games have tweeted on their official Twitter account to say, “Details on 2nd episode of GTAIV downloadable content coming soon.” You can follow them on Twitter here. Official information has not been released thus far, but rumours have begun spreading. With the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2009 coming up soon in June, we expect more information to be revealed soon.
On Twitter, another user known as Game Fork has spreading rumours of the title, which he reckons will be “Blood and a Four Leaf Clover” and the release date will be some time close to Christmas 2009.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Mr. Wong’s Laudromat:
Over at the Rockstar Games Social Club, Rockstar Games has just released the “Mr. Wong’s Laundromat” Flash minigame in the Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars section. The money earned in the minigame can be used in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars after you sync your Nintendo DS. The downloads section also has some new ringtones available for download!
Link Dump:
Rockstar Games Social Club - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Downloads section
Rockstar Games Social Club - Mr. Wong’s Laundromat
YouTube - The Robbery (Episode 1)
GameSpot - E3 2009 Rumours
Footnote:
Don’t forget that the Electronic Enternainment Expo 2009 will be coming up soon in June! Stay tuned for more updates from the show! If you need to, use the contact page to submit any fan creations! Rockstar Games may also announce the next downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV any time, so be stay tuned!
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - Issue #4: TIME honours Housers, Ragdoll carnage!
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | May 10th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Introduction:
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - The Weekly Grand Theft Auto Newsletter that’s dynamic!
The Newsletter dedicated to slow news weeks, so that you can still catch up on the latest!
Community Spotlight:
Yes, we’ll accept user submissions for Grand Theft Auto Weekly! If you guys need to feature a fan-created fiction, machinima, stunt video, artwork, music or any other Grand Theft Auto related media, we will be glad to accept them! Just send off an e-mail with your submission to hotdvl@gtahq.net, and if it makes the mark, it will be featured in the next issue or wherever we can cramp it into! If it’s good enough, it may even be given it’s own article as well!
StuntDolls - a ragdoll machinima :
It’s certainly an honour to put this video up on our community spotlight this week, as the creator of this video, Mizemu, has done a spectacular job on this video, which will never cease to put smiles on people’s faces when they see the carnage caused. This video may not contain any of the signature stunts from BenBuja’s videos, but nevertheless, it’s still an amazing watch.
This Week’s News:
TIME honours Houser brothers:
Recently, TIME has been honouring special people in certain industries, and the Houser brothers - Sam and Dan Houser - has received such an honour for their achievements in the video games industry, through their website here.
Oh, Grand Theft Auto, what carnage have you wrought upon society? We can’t measure it in the copycat rampages its critics predicted, since few players ended up running wild in the streets, flamethrower-ing policemen and Lord-knows-what-ing prostitutes. No, the real damage is measured in the careers bazooka-ed, marriages Molotov-cocktailed and grade-point averages sent to sleep with the fishes. Because unlike theories about video games and violence, there is a proven connection between regular lives obliterated and the immersive addictiveness of Sam and Dan Houser’s universe. You just don’t want to leave their world.
The passion that these reclusive British brothers, 37 and 35, have brought to creating — no, inhabiting — Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City has translated into games that offer quantum leaps in genre-defining fun. None of their video-game-industry imitators have even come close.
But what makes the Housers’ creation unparalleled is that their games have a take on American cultural history. A smart take. A take that solidifies the culture’s vision of its recent past. Was it a prominent film or book or record that defined how we look back on gang-era Los Angeles? No, it was a video game that uses movies, music and writing to a greater effect. Who better summarized and satirized the drug-dealing Miami of the ’80s? Or the New York City of now? The Housers are doing the work of Tom Wolfe, creating tapestries of modern times as detailed as those of Balzac or Dickens. At least, I assume that’s true. Instead of reading those guys, I’ve been in Liberty City stealing tanks.
For the record, only three Grand Theft Auto games with Liberty City as their primary setting had tanks in them - Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Niko’s inability to man a tank has got nothing to do wth the statement.
Link Dump:
YouTube: StuntDolls machinima
TIME - Sam and Dan Houser
Footnote:
If you need to, use the contact page to submit any fan creations! Of course, it’s Mother’s Day today, so, to all sons, daughters and mothers reading this, Happy Mother’s Day! Don’t forget about Max Payne 3 and Red Dead: Redemption as well. More Grand Theft Auto news will be posted, so be stay tuned!
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - Issue #3: United Liberty Papercrafts
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | May 3rd, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Introduction:
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - The Weekly Grand Theft Auto Newsletter that’s dynamic!
The Newsletter dedicated to slow news weeks, so that you can still catch up on the latest!
Back for the third coming! Sorry for the late post, everybody! Before I start, let’s not forget that this week is the week of Grand Theft Auto IV’s birthday, so you’ll still have some chance to pop some champagne, party poppers and GTA IV discs in your systems, if you haven’t!
Community Spotlight:
Yes, we’ll accept user submissions for Grand Theft Auto Weekly! If you guys need to feature a fan-created fiction, machinima, stunt video, artwork, music or any other Grand Theft Auto related media, we will be glad to accept them! Just send off an e-mail with your submission to hotdvl@gtahq.net, and if it makes the mark, it will be featured in the next issue or wherever we can cramp it into! If it’s good enough, it may even be given it’s own article as well!
Buducnost - Grand Theft Auto IV Machinima:
Buducnost is Serbian for the word, Futurity. Futurity means the quality of being future, or a future state.
My second effort at a video, took about 4 or so hours total (I think). The clips took quite a while to get because of the glitches in the video editor. Whatever. There were also lag problems with using FRAPS video capture program. Enjoy.
Music:
Scar - Bear McCreary (composed for Battlestar Galactica)
Parabola - Tool (for the final clip)
This week, we have Budu?nost by Ænemy, a forum member of GTAGaming, one of the better known Grand Theft Auto community sites on the internet. He has done a really good job in blending the music with the footage. The only quirk I have with the video is the framerate and the camera pauses. Disregarding these minor problems, this video is perfectly artistic. Give it a watch!
This Week’s News:
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Papercraft:

As a gift to Grand Theft Auto fans on Grand Theft Auto IV’s first year anniversary, Rockstar Games has released a series of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars-themed paperraft models on the Rockstar Games Social Club website. This is where anyone can download, print, and construct the various models available, from the Sabre GT and Hellenbach, accompanied by a display base, to a “pixel-perfect” representation of Huang Lee.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Bulletproof Hellenbach:

Besides a papercraft Hellenbach, owners of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be able to unlock an Exclusive Bulletproof Hellenbach through the Rockstar Games Social Club. To be able to do so, you must have a Rockstar Games Social Club account before May 8th, 2009, a copy of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, a Nitendo DS system, and then follow the instructions below.
1. Become a Social Club member before May 8, 2009 at 11:59 PM ET
2. Link your Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Friend Code to your Social
Club account before the same date.
3. Sync your stats anytime after May 1, 2009 at 12:00 AM ET.
4. After you sync your stats, head to the car merchant in BOABO and it should be the last car in the list.
5. If you don’t see it, you may need to retry syncing your stats.
Link Dump:
Rockstar Games Social Club
Rockstar Games Social Club: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Downloads Section
Footnote:
If you need to, use the contact page to submit any fan creations! Well, don’t forget to give Grand Theft Auto IV some time this week, whatever that’s left of it. Of course, there aren’t much Grand Theft Auto news these days, but regardless, be stay tuned!
Grand Theft Auto IV - First-Year Anniversary!
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | April 29th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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It’s April 29th, 2009 today, a year since Grand Theft Auto IV was officially released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3! Here, we shall all commemorate and celebrate Grand Theft Auto IV’s release anniversary! On this day, Grand Theft Auto IV broke sales records, as well as shocked and awed many fans worldwide.
Remember queueing up at midnight for your copy? Or, skipping school or work on the day to grab a copy? Or rather, sitting down with the copy of the game in your hands, excited to be playing it? How about the first time we all got to control Niko Bellic? Yes, it’s been a year, and it’s been a good time!
Personally, in the past year, I have clocked at least a few hundred hours on Grand Theft Auto IV, having completed 100% twice, the story thrice, and 98% of the achievements on the Xbox 360 and PC versions. I have created and published nine Grand Theft Auto IV videos in total on both the Rockstar Games Social Club and YouTube. Also, I have completed Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned 100%.
Right now, let all of us, as fans of the Grand Theft Auto series, celebrate this very fateful day Grand Theft Auto IV was released a year ago! Have a great time celebrating, pop in a disc and start playing! For all of you here, I would like to dedicate a song from “The Beat 102.7″ for this occasion, titled “We Celebrate” by Ghostface Killah.
Ghostface Killah - “We Celebrate”:
Well, anyway, there isn’t anything more to say, so I’ll end my post here! Have fun celebrating Grand Theft Auto IV’s first year anniversary! Don’t forget to be stay tuned to us for more Grand Theft Auto news! You can also check out the latest issue of Grand Theft Auto Weekly, if you haven’t. Cheers!
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - Issue #2: Three more days!
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | April 26th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Introduction:
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - The Weekly Grand Theft Auto Newsletter that’s dynamic!
The Newsletter dedicated to slow news weeks, so that you can still catch up on the latest!
This week, we’re back for the second issue of Grand Theft Auto Weekly! It was supposed to be put up by yesterday, but due to a certain time-wasting entry in my schedule, I could only make sure this issue gets out by the end of this week. This week, a new video has been released on the Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars site. We also have some Grand Theft Auto IV machinimas featured in the community spotlight this week.
Community Spotlight:
Yes, we’ll accept user submissions for Grand Theft Auto Weekly! If you guys need to feature a fan-created fiction, machinima, stunt video, artwork, music or any other Grand Theft Auto related media, we will be glad to accept them! Just send off an e-mail with your submission to hotdvl@gtahq.net, and if it makes the mark, it will be featured in the next issue or wherever we can cramp it into! If it’s good enough, it may even be given it’s own article as well!
SGF Productions - Grand Theft Auto IV Machinimas:
These are two good videos I found on the channel called “SGFVideos”. If you would like to see more, you can of course click through the link in the link dump below, as always. Enjoy!
This Week’s News:
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Gameplay Video #5: WiFi Mayhem:
Rockstar Games have just released their latest entry in a series of gameplay videos for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the last entry being released before the game’s release last month. I must say it’s intersting, haven’t being able to play the Multiplayer modes at all due to the lack of online multiplayer.
Link Dump:
Footnote:
Also, don’t forget, in three days time will be Grand Theft Auto IV’s first-year release anniversary - April 29th! Time flies when we’re having fun [with Niko Bellic], doesn’t it? Stay tuned for our tribute post on the 29th of April, 2009, right here! If you need to, use the contact page to submit any fan creations! Be stay tuned!
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - Issue #1: Still Alive!
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | April 18th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Introduction:
Grand Theft Auto Weekly - The Weekly Grand Theft Auto Newsletter that’s dynamic!
The Newsletter dedicated to slow news weeks, so that you can still catch up on the latest!
News in the Grand Theft Auto community has been flowing really slowly lately, but don’t worry, the blog’s still alive! We’re not dead and sitting at home staring at Kotaku 24/7. Well, that’s not the point. The point is, this is the first issue of “Grand Theft Auto Weekly”, a newsletter of Grand Theft Auto news that will be posted, well, on a weekly basis (check back during weekends!) during periods where there are little news to post and most things don’t deserve a full post.
To start things off with a bang, this week we have Patrick Brown’s artwork - which we will showcase here. His two recently released artwork pieces are illustrations of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Also, we are going to introduce a “Link Dump” with interesting links to things from the Grand Theft Auto community!
Community Spotlight:
Yes, we’ll accept user submissions for Grand Theft Auto Weekly! If you guys need to feature a fan-created fiction, machinima, stunt video, artwork, music or any other Grand Theft Auto related media, we will be glad to accept them! Just send off an e-mail with your submission to hotdvl@gtahq.net, and if it makes the mark, it will be featured in the next issue or wherever we can cramp it into! If it’s good enough, it may even be given it’s own article as well!
“The Feeling of Liberty” (Machinima):
From GTAGaming:
“YouTube member weses2 posted a brilliant video back in January 2009 titled “The Feeling of Liberty” and after receiving much praise for it he then brought it to our attention on the forums and personally I think it deserves a spot on the front page so here it is for those of you who haven’t seen it.”
I think so too! Enjoy the video!
Patrick Brown’s Artwork (Fan Art):
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Here you go! A picture speaks a thousand words, or more - so we’ll let it do the speaking. Enjoy!
This Week’s News:
The stuff we post here for this very first issue will be more than just this week’s news, though the headline says “this week’s news”. It’s because we have missed out on a couple of things from the past few weeks and I’m sure you guys don’t want to miss out on them too. Sorry! All happenings in the Grand Theft Auto community next week will absolutely be in the next issue!
Chinatown Wars sells a meagre 90,000 units in March:
I’m sure we all hate to read this. 90,000 units sold in less than a month may be a record breaker for a game that’s not Grand Theft Auto, but Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, one of the most impressive titles on the Nintendo DS, and the most critically-acclaimed, only sold this much.
Although Grand Theft Auto IV sold a whopping 6 Million units in the first week of sales, we’re sure Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars’ sales will continue to rise at a growing pace, as the Nintendo DS platform somewhat differs from the big brother consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Link Dump:
DeviantArt: Patrick Brown’s page
YouTube: “The Feeling of Liberty” video
GameSpot: Chinatown Wars sells 90,000 units in March
Footnote:
Most people don’t read this, but if you’re reading this, congratulations! Anyway, this marks the end of the first issue of “Grand Theft Auto Weekly”. More to report next week, hopefully, when there are news! If you need to, use the contact page to submit any fan creations! Be stay tuned!
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Post-Release Update 2: Mr Wong’s Laundromat makes you some Liberty City dollars
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | April 11th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Some of you here may have seen the “Mr Wong’s Laundromat” section in the Rockstar Games Social Club that was “coming soon”. Today, we found out that “Mr Wong’s Laundromat” will apparently be a web-based Flash mini-game. Powered by certain GameSpy technology, it was being mentioned on GameSpy’s site briefly.
“Once at the Rockstar Social Club, registered users can also play Flash games like Mr. Wong’s Laundromat to unlock additional cash that can be spent back in the game. GameSpy’s custom work links money earned out of game straight back into your in-game funds to spend on bigger guns and more ammo (and you can never have enough of that).”
A teaser on the Rockstar Games Social Club also mentioned about this upcoming feature, that will be interesting to see how it works. A release date for this feature is currently not announced, and as this is an unintentional leak on GameSpy’s part, we will see how this develops, and update you guys.
“These features are just the beginning for the Chinatown Wars section. We will be adding activities here that allow you to earn extra in-game cash as well as other special unlockables. Check back soon for more announcements.”
All this, thanks to the MTV Multiplayer blog. Link here to their original article. Also, the new Friends and Message Wall features on the Rockstar Games Social Club will be launched this month!
“Announcing Rockstar Games Social Club’s unique verbal and visual means of mouthing off to your Friends – including a direct message system and customizable personal graffiti wall. Communicate, talk trash with your Friends, and decorate and/or desecrate each other’s Walls at will.
The Message Wall is expected to be rolled out in tandem with the new Friends Service in April 2009. Stay tuned for launch announcement – make sure you’re signed up for the Rockstar mailing list.”
Have a Good Friday, if you happen to celebrate it! If not, have a great weekend of cheerful Xbox LIVE sessions with Halo 3, or, if it rocks your boat - some good old Grand Theft Auto. Whatever it is, enjoy your weekend, and be stay tuned!
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Review: From a Fanboy’s Perspective
- By -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- | March 26th, 2009 | Grand Theft Auto
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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has already been out for more than a week, but some of you reading this might not have played it. Whatever is the case, I decided to do up a review for your reading pleasure - it was such a fun experience for me I took quite some time to finish the story and several side-missions and then finally writing this review, so please excuse me for publishing this late.
You may expect that as a Grand Theft Auto fanatic and a Chinese, I would be biased in my review of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. But, I’m going to choose the less ventured route. I’m going to be honest here. I’m not going to go ahead and give it a numerical score, but allow you to formulate your own opinion instead - I won’t even classify things as good or bad, save for some. If you have read Kotaku reviews, you will probably have an vague idea of how this is going to go about. Without further ado, let’s get into some reviewing frenzy, minus the political and capitalist agendas.
In a nutshell, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars summarises the great times we had with the Grand Theft Auto series thus far. Not only does it brings back the Grand Theft Auto series into its pseudo-three-dimensional top-down view and arcade experience, it also takes the best bits out of every Grand Theft Auto title released and weaved it into an experience unique only to Chinatown Wars.
If you liked the arcade driving and shooting experience from the original Grand Theft Auto, the pseudo-three-dimensional view from Grand Theft Auto 2, the sound effects, mechanics and music from the Grand Theft Auto III era of games; and the writing, setting, in-game technology (such as the improved map and E-Mail message system) and depth of Grand Theft Auto IV, then you will be pleased with Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has also utilized the Nintendo DS-specific features very well. Although well executed and fun, it may be intrusive in some occasions, where you will stumble for your stylus and earn a maligned police wanted level instead. The new optional way of lowering your wanted level by disabling police cars, however, is fun. Well, you cannot turn this feature off, though. Whether you may like it or not, it birngs in a whole new added layer of detail into Liberty City and the game itself.
This is not all that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has delivered. A simple drug trading minigame not only brings a whole new realm of fun into the game, but also into the child-favourite platform that is the Nintendo DS, proving that the Nintendo DS is as capable as the PSP or the Xbox 360 in delivering quality video game content to a mature audience.
Also, the game has proved to be intricately detailed in every aspect - from pedestrian actions and reactions to the player, pedestrian chatter, sound bits and effects, weather effects, spam mail and even the litter on the sidewalk, to “swoosh” sounds that play when new icons appear on the minimap, which tell the player that you are near a certain landmark on your map.
Invariably, Grand Theft Auto games since the mark of the legend, Grand Theft Auto III, have always had deep plots, memorable characters, humorous dialogue and interesting plot twists. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has managed to keep this tradition with a believable, Hollywood-style action-packed story about the Chinese Triads which has some very interesting plot twists in the end, as well as fun-filled and action-packed missions that make you want to replay those missions over again, which is possible with the new mission-replay feature - a nice addition to the game, I might add.
The music could easily be Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars’ achilles’ heel if not done properly. Rockstar Leeds, however, have done a decent job of adding five radio stations to the in-game radio with Electro, Funk, Rock, Rap and Reggae hitting the high notes of your Nitendo DS speakers - generally genres that sound great just with instrumentals.
The real achilles’ heel of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, however, comes in the combat and on-foot navigation. Without an analog stick, moving around on-foot with the D-Pad may be a hassle sometimes, and the ability jumping over obstacles is extremely limited to only cars, motorcycles, small props or short walls. The combat is also plagued by some auto-aim issues which still exist in Grand Theft Auto games today. Luckily, these small hipcups do not get into the way of gameplay very often.
While Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is not Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Stories, Grand Theft Auto IV Portable or Grand Theft Auto: Saints Row, it retains enough substance from the journey to the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 to the tiny dual screens that make it a game worth trying out, if not game-of-the-year substance.
So, here’s all I’ve got to review about Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Verdict? Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is impressively fun and very addicting for a Nintendo DS game. I am not going to say anything more, as an internet reader like yourself should be able to formulate up your own opinions about this game if you haven’t bought it. In any case, be stay tuned for more Grand Theft Auto news, right here!







