Sunday, November 16, 2008

GTA: Chinatown Wars- New Details Released


Rockstar Leeds' Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS) is actually starting to look really promising. Not content to make a gimped port of IV (thank god), the gameplay looks to be quite different from normal GTA games. Some of the details revealed include:

• Camera can swivel 360 degrees
• Trains will pass overhead in the city, cars will circle, pedestrians will be walking, etc.
• GPS seen on the touch screen while you move through the city
• PDA allows you to gain access to the map with more details as well as the goals of missions
• You can mark points that you want and the GPS will always tell you the shortest legal route to the destination with yellow or blue arrows
• New discoveries (such as gas stations) are added to the map
• Top screen brings you all the action, while the lower screen will let you control elements like the PDA, GPS, the radio, access to the people on the map, or using Motolov cocktails and grenades.
• Drugs have a big importance in the game
• Drug system can be compared to Drugwars
• You have to control the stock of drugs, buy them in one neighborhood and sell them in another • Good way to make money in the game
• You are given a map so that you know what people demand and at what prices
• Like other GTA games, in Chinatown Wars, you can catch a taxi - whistle into the microphone so the taxi will stop
Via Nintendo Everything

2 comments:

Darder said...

i'm surprised that Nintendo is actually allowing this game to be released on one of their systems.

Stump Sock said...

I'm not at all surprised. Not only because they have absolutely no content control anymore, but because they are currently the market leader in both console and handheld and they'd be stupid to not let one of the biggest series in the world get a game on their system.

More than anything, I'm just surprised that it looks good.