Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
| Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars | |
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| Developer(s) | |
| Publisher(s) | Rockstar Games |
| Distributor(s) | Take-Two Interactive |
| Producer(s) |
Leslie Benzies Gordon Hall |
| Programmer(s) | Al Dukes |
| Artist(s) | Ian Bowden |
| Writer(s) |
Dan Houser David Bland |
| Series | Grand Theft Auto |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS PlayStation Portable iOS Android Fire OS |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | iOS: 95.62% DS: 92.71% PSP: 90.39% |
| Metacritic | DS: 93/100 iOS: 91/100 PSP: 90/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | A– |
| CVG | 9.2/10 |
| Edge | 9/10 |
| Eurogamer | 10/10 |
| Game Informer | 9.25/10 |
| GamePro |  |
| GameSpot | 9.5/10 |
| GameSpy |  |
| GamesRadar | |
| Giant Bomb | |
| IGN | DS: 9.3/10 PSP: 9.3/10 iOS: 9.0/10 |
| Nintendo World Report | 9.0/10 |
| ONM | 94% |
| X-Play | |
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar Leeds in conjunction with Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 17 March 2009 for Nintendo DS, 20 October 2009 for the PlayStation Portable, 17 January 2010 (iPhone and iPod Touch) and 9 September 2010 (iPad) on iOS, and 18 December 2014 for Android and Fire OS devices.
It is the thirteenth game in the Grand Theft Auto series, and the first for Nintendo DS and iOS. Chinatown Wars is currently the best reviewed Nintendo DS game and the second best reviewed PSP game on Metacritic.
Chinatown Wars has a different presentation from previous games in the series, by partially resembling the first Grand Theft Auto titles. Instead of a ground-level view behind the protagonist or a top-down perspective, Chinatown Wars uses a fully rotatable camera angled down at the action.Chinatown Wars also uses cel-shaded polygons with black outlines to produce a comic book-like aesthetic — a first for the series. The title takes place in the Grand Theft Auto IV rendition of Liberty City, with the exception of Alderney.
Unlike Grand Theft Auto IV, the player can disable as many police cars as possible to escape the police instead of leaving a "wanted zone." The more stars the player has, the more police they have to take out for each level. For example, for a six star level, they have to take out six police cars to get down to a five star wanted level, and so on. There is also a drug dealing sub plot which allows players to peddle heroin, acid, ecstasy, marijuana, cocaine and depressants around the city. Players can make a profit by recognising market conditions and demands based on geography and plying their wares accordingly. CCTV cameras work as this game's secret packages, destroyed by throwing a Molotov cocktail bottle or a grenade. This also decreases the chances of being caught while making a drug deal and provides discounts for buying drugs. Chinatown Wars applies many Grand Theft Auto IV features such as the next-gen HUD. Ammu-Nation returns in the form of an in-game website where the player can order various weapons through their PDA to be delivered to their safehouse.
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