Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown WarGrand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is the highly anticipated first game in the GTA
franchise designed for play on the Nintendo DS. But although it comes
in a small package, this is a full-fledged game that stands on its own.
With an all-new, deep story that approaches the familiar sights and
sounds of the infamous Liberty City from a different perspective, an
innovative control system and multiplayer options, Chinatown Wars captures the tone and flavors of the long-running GTA series in unique ways that both longtime players and those coming to it for the first time will find hard to put down. The Story: Left for Dead in the Worst Place in America
Following his father’s murder, Huang Lee is given what seems a simple
mission: to deliver an ancient sword to his Uncle Kenny to ensure his
family retains control of the Triad gangs of Liberty City. Huang is a
spoiled rich kid who expects everything to run smoothly, but his trip
does not go exactly as planned. Only minutes after arriving at the
Liberty City airport at the far end of town, he is robbed and left to
die. Only through quickly thinking is he able to survive and make his
way back to his neighborhood, but the damage to he and his family has
been done. Now his destiny is to search for honor, riches and revenge
in the most dangerous and morally bankrupt city in the world.
Gameplay The largest DS game to date, Chinatown Wars is set in the Grand Theft Auto IV-imagined
version of Liberty City, and contains most of its boroughs and
neighborhoods. In exploring and exploiting this vast area, players use
the game's rotatable camera to take in a 3D, 360-degree view of their
environment, providing an elevated and somewhat skewed third-person
perspective, that switches to first-person with the appropriate player
action. Assuming the role of Huang Lee your goal is to rise up in the
ranks of the underworld to challenge the Triad of Chinatown gangs that
have usurped your family's position and recover the stolen heirloom and
your lost honor. In true GTA fashion this entails gameplay
that embraces the seedy underbelly that Liberty City is famous for.
Throughout the game's 70+ missions -- all of which can be replayed even
after completion -- and its myriad of side quests, players earn cash by
completing jobs ranging from petty street crime, all the way up to drug
dealing and assassination. As in other GTA releases, rising
competence at crime raises the amount of attention received by police,
but unlike previous games here players can not simply outrun alerted
authorities. With each additional star added to your 'wanted rating'
players must disable or destroy more of the pursuing police units to
keep them off your tail. In addition to mission play, the game also
contains many opportunities, such as the safe cracking and car
hot-wiring mini-games and the various items and weapons hidden
throughout the game that demand skill with the DS' touchscreen and
stylus for success. By whatever means, once players have attained a
certain level of cash and street cred they will also be able to recruit
members for their own gang who pledge their loyalty by allowing
themselves to be tattooed with the mark of the player's choosing. Cars and Controls Cars and control schemes play a prominent role in Chinatown Wars.
All cars feature GPS functionality based on available roadways.
Directions are shown on the lower of the DS' two screens as part of the
in-game PDA interface, but players may take vehicles off roads wherever
possible, with the GPS automatically resetting when back on the
pavement. While driving players also have access to five in-game radio
stations and use of their weapons. Your PDA provides efficient
management tools for your growing crime empire, including quick weapons
switching, a running total of available cash, in-game e-mail and
Internet access and nearly instant game saves any time. The control
scheme in Chinatown Wars utilizes an easy to use and
comfortable to play combination of steering via the D-pad, choice of
action through the face buttons and/or stylus taps and manual and
automatic weapon locks and unlocks via shoulder buttons. Key Game Features: - The Largest DS Game Ever
- Contemporary Liberty City is a massive world complete with
pedestrians, weather and traffic patterns, five different radio
stations and four different sprawling boroughs to explore.
- Endless Gameplay
- Mature storyline with over 70+ story missions; plus dozens of side
quests, collectibles, contextual mini-games and the all new mission
replay feature.
- Street Economics - Addictive
drug dealing side game with 6 different drug types, 80+ drug dealers
and a supply / demand driven narcotics economy.
- Play with Friends - Nintendo Wi-Fi mode for head-to-head and co-op multiplayer mayhem.
- Bragging Rights
- Chat, trade guns and commodities with your friends, and compete for
glory via online tournaments and leaderboards on the Rockstar Games
Social Club.
- PDA Interface - Use the touch
screen as a PDA device to set GPS waypoints, change radio stations,
communicate via e-mail with in-game characters and order weapons on the
Internet.
Online Bragging Rights and Multiplayer Care has been taken to ensure that players can share their Chinatown Wars experiences with friends and fellow players in different ways. First, players will have access to the Chinatown Wars as well as the greater Grand Theft Auto
communities through the Rockstar Games Social Club. Here they can chat,
trade commodities, purchase special in-game items with in-game
currency, check the leaderboards and compete in online tournaments. The
DS' Wi-Fi capabilities also gives players the opportunity to take their
game online as they battle for supremacy in their own little corner of
Liberty City in both head-to-head and co-op multiplayer battles.
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