E308: GTA: Chinatown Wars shooting up the DS in winter!

by Phil Larsen { Jul 15th 2008 at 12:44PM }

And ... snap. Since the oft-panned Grand Theft Auto on the GBA, we have waited for another handheld installment. We have it now, with GTA: Chinatown Wars, coming this winter on DS.

The game will feature a brand new engine (hopefully ditching the top-down view) and will take place in Liberty City -- the flagship location of the GTA series. If you played GTAIII and IV, you will have trekked through Chinatown (the awesomest place ever), and more of the high-fighting action in Chinatown Wars will be fantastic. Coming this winter, like, a few months away!

Tags: action, chinatown-wars, e3, e3-2008, e308, grand-theft-auto, gta

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

moo @ Jul 15th 2008 12:57PM

liberty city's chinatown -- so that should be a recreation of NYC's chinatown -- i wonder if you can cross over to little italy, it's just around the corner .. turf wars !!
as for the 3d open world concept, Transformers has already demonstrated that it's very much doable, technically.

ultima_omega @ Jul 15th 2008 1:02PM

Wow wasn't expecting this. With all the kids game on DS this makes for an exciting new change.

Nadril @ Jul 15th 2008 1:05PM

Hell yeah, this'll be good. Hoping it won't be a bitch to control though.

ryan @ Jul 15th 2008 1:13PM

I can't help but worry that this will be a huge mistake. I hope they prove me wrong, though.

J_Digital @ Jul 15th 2008 1:27PM

Not bad at all.
I was hoping for a different setting than Liberty City, but this will suffice, provided they don't screw it up somehow.

miruki @ Jul 15th 2008 1:27PM

Was that like the only cool news for the DS!? And I'm not even into GTA... :/

moo @ Jul 15th 2008 1:32PM

incidentally, chinatown is a very compact area, i don't think there will actually be very much grand-auto-thieving?

Shuyin @ Jul 15th 2008 1:35PM

I don't really trust big spin-off games.

Remember another big name spin-off that was about to come to the DS? Yeah, that's right, Assassin's Creed DS.
Remember how it miserably failed? They'r all looking for a quick cash-in based on the franchise name.
Hopefully GTA DS will prove me wrong.

offday @ Jul 15th 2008 3:43PM

Yeah. But that was Ubisoft. And they're the ones putting out half of the crappy games on DS. Anyone ever heard of a little series called Petz?

Nitroactive @ Jul 18th 2008 1:32PM

Yea ummm anything that ends in a "z" or has a z ish ending is almost sure to suck.
But I think GTA for the DS could be good as long as they use the DS's screens (graphic wise) to their full extent. I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

KamenRiderTakoyaki @ Jul 15th 2008 1:39PM

It better play like that Transformers DS game, except better!
Chinatown? It's not very dangerous, unless you get mauled by the crowds or you piss off people. I'd prefer Little Italy Wars.

Flagg @ Jul 15th 2008 1:42PM

I hope this will be like Gta 1&2 and wi-fi co-op is included.

LocalToast @ Jul 15th 2008 2:18PM

Like others have stated, Transformers pulled off the free-roaming, open world aspect pretty well. The game itself was pretty boring, but if the makers of this game can base it off the Transformers game, we could be in for a treat.

I'm not getting my hopes up, though...