GTA: Chinatown Wars gets 18 rating

By Ellie Gibson Published 12 January, 2009

It'll feature nearly three hours of video.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the first DS instalment in the series, has been given an 18 rating by the British Board of Film Classification.

That's according to the BBFC website, which confirms no cuts had to be made to the game. However, the BBFC does warn it "contains very strong language and drug references".

The website also reveals there are nearly three hours of video in Chinatown Wars. Or to be specific, two hours of "supplementary cut-scenes" and 48 minutes of "supplementary gameplay footage".

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is out here on 20th March. Visit the gamepage for all the latest news and screenshots.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • DFawkes #1 3 years ago

    Oh no. Someone hide this from the Daily Mail, they'll try to ban DSs!
    I still reckon this'll be an alright game, since I liked GTA:Advance, and it's nice to see a dev still doing a game not targeting the new fangled core audience. Unless it has Brain Training challenges too.

  • aldo_14 #2 3 years ago

    I just wish they were releasing this before my 20 hour holiday flight...

  • Max_Powers #3 3 years ago

    Yeah, hurry up already. Looking forward to this game.

  • Rash' #4 3 years ago

    yeah well the sun ran articles in the 80s suggesting the ethnic minorities were "stealing" the jobs of the white british, so who gives a fuck what they say.

    looking forward to this. time to pull out that edge feature.

  • Farzlepot #5 3 years ago

    BREAKING NEWS - Latest GTA instalment gets 18 certificate! B&Q has already sold out of MDF boards after a horde of angry and irresponsible mothers descended upon them to make placards!

  • Eraysor #6 3 years ago

    This should be delicious. It'll be nice to play GTA on the move.

  • Eraser #7 3 years ago

    Nice. At least it means Rock Star hasn't held back in fear of alienating their game from DS owners.

  • neonemesis #8 3 years ago

    "Hopefully, this will rekindle the fun of the series lost in GTA IV. There's already an article in The Sun "slamming" Nintendo and Rockstar for granting GTA a certificate for the "family friendly" DS."

    Not surprising really; the newspapers these days seem insistent on telling us what we should/shouldn't buy or what kind of games should be released for a certain console. None of their business anyway; I decide what I want to play on my consoles thankyou very much.

    Anyway, looking forward to this - I haven't really watched any trailers so I'm interested to see how it plays.
    Edited by 1 at 12/01/09 @ 12:01

  • Foxclose #9 3 years ago

    Newspapers: Old and dying business!

  • Burkey123 #10 3 years ago

    Really really looking forward to this. Its out on my birthday as well, so good times!

  • kungfool #11 3 years ago

    These game ratings are just bloody ludicrous. How can the Iron Man and Dark Knight movies get (far too low) 12A ratings yet some pixellated DS game gets whacked with an 18? I mean, how violent/ graphic can it possibly be???
    Edited by 1 at 13/01/09 @ 08:13

  • ph101 #12 3 years ago

    From the screenies this seems to have a quasi 3d feel which may been you can actually see where you are going to a certain degree and therefore make it playable. If so, that 's pretty good news i;ve always wanted a good gta on the go and I don't have a psp so.. lets hope it works. Will be interesting what rockstar does on the platform! Whats that screenie with the screwdriver have they added a minigame to steal cars ...?