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The Official GTA: Chinatown Wars thread
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andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
I can hear the song in my head.Crunched said:
MikeE21286
Member
loving this game, it actually got me back into GTA 4
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
so i finally got to playing this game. i wasn't in a hurry to get to it as i'm just the occasional sandboxing/gta-style player; i always end up sidetracked with the driving in these games. as i was looking for something new to showcase my sparkling new dsi, i decided to try gta, without expecting anything extraordinary out of it.
wow, how fast did that change!
the first thing that hit me in the face was the technical execution of the game. one word - impeccable. there are plenty of polished games in my ds library, but none of them does what rockstar has achieved with chinatown wars - not at this scale or complexity. the game uses the platform's strong sides to the max, while managing to circumvent the weaknesses, to an astounding effect. i had to keep reminding myself it's not a dsi-only game, fully using the new dsi hw, but was a game i could play play on my old phat. frankly, if somebody had told me what a living and breathing city environment rockstar were to put on the ds a couple of years ago when the first rumors of it appeared, i'd have laughed. now, that i've seen the final product, i can say only one thing: my respect, R*.
play-style wise, chinatown wars is a refreshing reminder of what gta was back in the day when it was a darn good game. only that this time it does it at the scale of modern-day gta installments. and it does that while actually managing to fit in my pocket (no, my psp has never managed to do that).
and the driving is delicious. the traffic, the pedestrians, the roads and driving/stunt locations. i could write a treatise about the driving in this game but i won't : ) i'll just say that the first time i did a USJ i smiled ear to ear (even though i fully expected it).
so, hello my new time sink. i'm glad we've finally met.
wow, how fast did that change!
the first thing that hit me in the face was the technical execution of the game. one word - impeccable. there are plenty of polished games in my ds library, but none of them does what rockstar has achieved with chinatown wars - not at this scale or complexity. the game uses the platform's strong sides to the max, while managing to circumvent the weaknesses, to an astounding effect. i had to keep reminding myself it's not a dsi-only game, fully using the new dsi hw, but was a game i could play play on my old phat. frankly, if somebody had told me what a living and breathing city environment rockstar were to put on the ds a couple of years ago when the first rumors of it appeared, i'd have laughed. now, that i've seen the final product, i can say only one thing: my respect, R*.
play-style wise, chinatown wars is a refreshing reminder of what gta was back in the day when it was a darn good game. only that this time it does it at the scale of modern-day gta installments. and it does that while actually managing to fit in my pocket (no, my psp has never managed to do that).
and the driving is delicious. the traffic, the pedestrians, the roads and driving/stunt locations. i could write a treatise about the driving in this game but i won't : ) i'll just say that the first time i did a USJ i smiled ear to ear (even though i fully expected it).
so, hello my new time sink. i'm glad we've finally met.
This is probably old (it's even possible that I posted it myself, but I'm drunk, so I'll just hope I didn't), but there was a really interesting piece about Rockstar Leeds a while ago in the Times. It was mentioned that the team developing Chinatown Wars consisted of no more than 16 developers at any given time, but there are 80 people working at Rockstar Leeds these days. The writer of the article mentioned that he has seen the other project Rockstar Leeds was working on, but he wouldn't even drop a hint, stating that Take-Two would deny the very existence of the project anyway. I'm really interested in whatever that other project is. R* Leeds did a great job with Chinatown Wars, and it seems the other project is quite a bit bigger...
lol @ the random nerd dude who
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The more I play this game the more I like it, goty contender for sure. Agreed with Flunkie above and everyone else who says this is a great time waster, so good.
Here's a neat fanart (and my current wallpaper). Rest of his gallery is nice too:
http://patrickbrown.deviantart.com/art/Chinatown-War-119426787
attacks a bus thinking it's a dragon
The more I play this game the more I like it, goty contender for sure. Agreed with Flunkie above and everyone else who says this is a great time waster, so good.
Here's a neat fanart (and my current wallpaper). Rest of his gallery is nice too:
http://patrickbrown.deviantart.com/art/Chinatown-War-119426787
This game looks so good I kinda want to buy a DS. I really don't do portables ( i have a PSP that I haven't played for ages) but this game looks like it does a great job of recreating the original GTA games and adding a shit load of cool stuff. Kinda sad to see it hasn't done well. I wish they would do a live/ps3 download for $20 or something. I would totally but it.
I purchased Chinatown Wars on Monday after a week of re-immersion in GTA4 driving up my interest in the franchise again and after reading all the positive news here and elsewhere. Based on the gametime I've had the hype is reality. I played a limited amount of GTA1 and GTA2 (and GTA London, if anyone remembers that). Chinatown is a successful amalgamation of the run-and-gun cartoon gangsta world of the overhead GTAs with the finesse and quality of content- writing, art, and interface- of GTA4.
I'm thrilling to the experience of a convincing rendition of Liberty City (circa GTA4) on the technopuny DS. The scope- given platform limitations- is astounding. Whatever wizardry they're using to get so many polygons with such a variety of textures WITH a high framerate and no loading AND all the FX and sound mixing running simultaneously... that wizardry stands eye-to-eye with the best tech Nintendo has deployed on the DS. It's as impressive as Metroid DS and Zelda Phantom Hourglass for squeezing this machine.
This is much more than I had assumed when the game was in production. I've read the commentary proclaimed in a few places that "this is the best GTA", I won't go there, but I do believe it's the most representative GTA. Playing this game gives you a taste of the roots of Grand Theft Auto, a glimpse of the state of the art, and a scattering of fun new ideas that are worthy of filtering into the "bigger" console releases.
Hella fun.
I'm thrilling to the experience of a convincing rendition of Liberty City (circa GTA4) on the technopuny DS. The scope- given platform limitations- is astounding. Whatever wizardry they're using to get so many polygons with such a variety of textures WITH a high framerate and no loading AND all the FX and sound mixing running simultaneously... that wizardry stands eye-to-eye with the best tech Nintendo has deployed on the DS. It's as impressive as Metroid DS and Zelda Phantom Hourglass for squeezing this machine.
This is much more than I had assumed when the game was in production. I've read the commentary proclaimed in a few places that "this is the best GTA", I won't go there, but I do believe it's the most representative GTA. Playing this game gives you a taste of the roots of Grand Theft Auto, a glimpse of the state of the art, and a scattering of fun new ideas that are worthy of filtering into the "bigger" console releases.
Hella fun.
Ok, let's do a main mission... Hmm, nice deal in this e-mail, I'll go to a safehouse get the stuff and... Wait, that's a jump spot there, woo! Ok, let's keep going, hmm... Hi, random person. Funny mission, haha. About that deal, oh, another mail. Let me just take this awesome car to a garage. And destroy that camera. And...
It's so fucking hard to put this game down. :lol <3
It's so fucking hard to put this game down. :lol <3
Caesar III
Member
I like this a lot. I'm not sooo far in the missions because of this. On the other hand I have destroyed nearly all camerasFuu said:
speculawyer
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needlesmcgirk
Member
what are those weird spiraling tornado things in this game? They look like they're a portal or something but nothing happens when you touch them. Anyone figure this out?
shrinkingviolet
Neo Member
needlesmcgirk said:
That had been bothering me as well. Luckily, there's hope:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/search.php?search=swirl&board=950922
Basically it's a possible location where one of the two Lion statues will show up after game completion. Locating both of them will unlock additional missions.
BakedPigeon
Banned
I just picked up a DSi and chinatown wars and im enjoying the game so far. The controls feel a little clunky but im getting use to them, perhaps that has to do with the fact im a DS rookie.
Are the security cameras on the side of buildings in plain sight? Im a little confused on how to find them.
Are the security cameras on the side of buildings in plain sight? Im a little confused on how to find them.
Little Green Yoda
Member
Just finished the main storyline - a tad predictable of an ending but entertaining nonetheless. Tis' a shame we probably won't be seeing any similar efforts from R* on the DS since this game sold like shit. As least there won't be a rehashed sequel for people to bitch over.
Little Green Yoda said:
If the DS sold so poorly...
What about an iPhone version? It sounds like it's doing well, what if it DOES do extremely well and R* make a version for the iPhone specifically - could get a port to DS... that would be interesting.
Anyway, I never got around to getting this for the DS, and I'm tempted to get it for the iPhone. I still have Monkey Island to get through, however.