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GTA DS Unveiled in the Latest NP: First Details
on 19.09.2008 at 20:10
Posted by Jorge Ba-oh (jb) 
Comments: 16 
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Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Chinatown Wars, Rockstar, Nintendo, DS
Posted by Jorge Ba-oh (jb) Comments: 16 Reads: 1867 Tags:
Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Chinatown Wars, Rockstar, Nintendo, DS Recent News
The latest edition of Nintendo Power has spilled the beans on Rockstar's GTA installment for Nintendo's DS.
Entitled Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the game ventures into familiar crime territory with players doing their business in a familiar town but with an all-new visual style.
- Follows recent GTA-styled gameplay – open world, crime narrative, sandbox.
- Visually uses an isometric camera angle, with cells-shaded polys, black borders.
- Touch screen use – "tasteful" minigames.
- Interfaced based on a PDA – uses a hub for email, contacts, map, GPS, stats etc.
- Stats can be transferred to the Rockstar Social Club using Wi-Fi.
- Missions developed for shorter play times, arcade-feel. If players fail, can jump back into the action sequences.
- Aiming using the control pad, auto-targetting using the R shoulder button.
- Good portion of Liberty City is modelled in the game, though has different routes.
- No load time or frame-rate issues – despite having a load of pedestrians and vehicles on screen.
- Wanted system: disable police cars any way possible.
- Real-time weather effects, 24-hour day/night cycle.
- Radio enabled background-tunes, more instrumental than vocals.
- No details yet on multiplayer/Wi-Fi features
Thanks to NeoGAF for the lowdown.
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Entitled Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the game ventures into familiar crime territory with players doing their business in a familiar town but with an all-new visual style.
Thanks to NeoGAF for the lowdown.
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Rockstar Leeds
Publisher
Take-2
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Action
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L68 King Boo
Isometric camera angle?
How's that going to workwith GTA?
How's that going to workwith GTA?
feeling Fragile.
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L65 Tails
I still think overhead 3D would have worked best.
DS comes off quite strong graphicaly when that style is used.
Not sure Isometrix is that good for car-navigation,
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DS comes off quite strong graphicaly when that style is used.
Not sure Isometrix is that good for car-navigation,
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Anyone know where we can see some screenies?
We're not allowed to post up English written scans unfortunately.
jb(at)cubed3.com
We're not allowed to post up English written scans unfortunately.
jb(at)cubed3.com
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L78 Slippy
I've been looking for a while, but it seems no-one has put up scans yet. Forumers that have the magazine say the screens look great though. 
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L23 Fire Leo
Visually uses an isometric camera angle, with cells-shaded polys, black borders.
This is more awesome news than people will know.
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L11 Koopa
Personally, I'm loving the sound of this. The isometric viewpoint should be good. After all, the pre-GTA3 games were good and they were top-down, so this could be pretty similar.
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2825L78 Slippy
If we were the last man and woman on Earth, I bet we could do it in public
1850L68 King Boo
They don't look bad at all, infact, it's more top down than the description leads me to believe.
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2825L78 Slippy
Another, even better bunch of screens;
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?p=3857
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L81 Chun-Li
I need to see screens. I don't understand this isometric angle. And what are the black borders about? Are they cutting parts off because the system can't handle it?
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L100 C3 Master
The black border thing just means there will be black outlines around charchters and stuff, lots of cel shaded games do it. 
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1696L65 Tails
Those screens arnt isometrix, the angle clearly changes.
Bloody good graphics though, like the style.Darkflames Favorate Games! - Darkflames Favorate Films! - Darkflames Favorate Foods?!
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Bloody good graphics though, like the style.
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L100 C3 Master
Isometric camera angle? Meh. It'll be as close to real GTA as the GBA versions of Tony Hawk were.
feeling Fragile.
1696L65 Tails
Look at the screens, links above.
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meh.
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