Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
- August 03, 2009 16:08 PM PST
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One of the newest and biggest additions found in Chinatown Wars is the drug trading simulation, which is pretty much a game all in itself. Throughout Liberty City's mean streets you'll find a variety of Dealers, all offering different prices for different drugs depending on your whereabouts. Meeting up with these Dealers, Huang can purchase up to six specific narcotics and carefully sell them to the highest bidder, all depending on gang location and Liberty City's geography. Huang's drug trafficking escapades may seem menial at first, but as you progress you'll find yourself single-handedly affecting the drug flow throughout the entirety of Liberty City - constantly receiving e-mails and hot tips about exclusive buyers and sellers.
Another of Chinatown Wars' big changes is the way you lose pursuing police. And believe me when I say that these aren't the passive police from Grand Theft Auto IV; we're talking an LCPD that'll just as soon mow down a parade of pedestrians if you accidentally scratch their paint job. Instead of simply hiding from the police, Chinatown Wars insists on a more "hands-on" approach to dealing with the fuzz. For each Wanted Level star you get, a small police car icon will appear on your HUD. In order to lose the cops, you're forced to take your pursuers down Burnout-style, forcing them off the road or crashing their vehicles into the side of buildings. For each car you disable, a red "X" will appear over the icon. Take out all of the cops, you clear your Wanted Level. But don't think you can just pull up to a cop car and start spraying lead - you have to be creative in the way you immobilize the law, often times leading to incredibly entertaining high-speed pursuits
Hit the Streets
While Chinatown Wars certainly suffers from a slightly clunky interface and a relatively silly script, I can't help but recommend it to both hardened criminals and fresh meat alike. This is Grand Theft Auto the way you love it: all of the innovation, charm and thrills from its past installations neatly tied together in a creative package worthy of any DS owner.
PROS: Trademark GTA gameplay and humor; solid controls; huge city to explore
CONS: Sub-par script; difficulty spikes; changing between the two DS screens on the fly can be disorienting
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- Mar 16 2009 at 12:20:45:PM PST
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Glad to see this game not just a poor attempt to attract a more mature crowd to DS. I haven't played the DS much lately... but I really wanna try this game... and I should really work on Fire Emblem DS too... what a great game.
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love it love it love it!!!!!!!!!!
finally a gta game for nintendo!!!!!
AND IT DOESN"T SUCK!!!!!
THANK YOU ROCKSTAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Awesome! cant wait to buy this. Now, lets see some GTA love for the Wii...
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Some Wii GTA would be awesome. Who knows if it'll happen, but if it did, I'd finally buy a Wii.
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