Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Published 28 August, 2009

First shots of the game. Due out 23rd Oct.

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  • Crembo #1 3 years ago

    Why not make GTA IV just with worse graphics? The two first GTA's on the PSP were just perfect, why not make another one in the same style?

  • Hantheman #2 3 years ago

    Won't be as good as the DS version.

  • Evolution #3 3 years ago

    Doesn't really look much better than the DS version frankly.

  • Hobo #4 3 years ago

    Must just be me that's happy with the look of this one. Looks great, somewhere between GTA2 and GTA3 in terms of graphics.

    I liked the DS version but the fiddling with the stick was a bit too much at times, will be much happier with this for sure.

  • dsmx #5 3 years ago

    If you think it doesn't look much better than the ds version then you need your eyes testing.

  • Widge #6 3 years ago

    I'm looking forward to having a go on this. I liked LCS but I felt VCS was stretching the PSP just a bit too far. The engine felt broken and buggy, the world sparse and lifeless. This could be more enjoyable and more suited to a portable format.

    Part of me does wish for something on the scale of San Andreas, if only for the huge world to bomb around in, but unlikely on the PSP!

  • des #7 3 years ago

    It doesn't look much better than DS version,looks like improved DS version,more polys,better texture res/filtering,lighting..
    No surprise there,its just a quick port,but good for people that don't own DS.

  • Murbal #8 3 years ago

    Great, never finished the DS version before selling the console so will be interested whatever shape it takes and whether it looks better than the DS version or not. What interests me more is how they'll implement the touch screen stuff such as lobbing grenades and molotovs. Rest of stuff - hotwiring, opening bins etc I'd expect to be removed or heavily simplified - maybe it'll be QTE or something?

  • swissorc #9 3 years ago

    Really must finish the ds version really. Now they've ported this over to work without touch screen controls im sure they could do a definitive version on wii. But we'll see, for all you psp guys this should be a no brainer day one purchase.

  • Evolution #10 3 years ago

    What I meant is, the visual style the game has doesn't really lend itself to the updated graphics. Obviously it has better graphics as the hardware is much more powerful, but it's not like they went all out here.

  • speedjack #11 3 years ago

    Sorry, but I also don't think it looks much better than the DS version either.

    In fact the only differences I can see is in the lighting (car headlights, streetlights), and the ad billboards.

    Still its a great game, but the touch screen controls added so much I can't help wonder how it will play without them. Just seems a little pointless when the PSP already has 2 perfectly good GTAs already.

  • DaDon123456 #12 3 years ago

    Guys it never really was meant to look much better than the DS version. After all, it is a port.

  • raion #13 3 years ago

    "it's like the ds version" "doesn't look better than the ds version"... ... what the hell did you expect from a PORT?
    "upgraded" means widescreen camera and maybe higher resolution. done.

    what I really wished for was upgraded radio stations, to a more recent standard. don't know about you guys, but hearing the music from the era the game is set in, the talk shows, the news broadcasts that talk about your latest rampages... all that stuff really helped to immerse into a more believable, living, breathing world.
    I've got no complaints about the old 2D gta's or text driven games... just... that's what "gta" began to mean lately.
    that being said, all in favor of san andreas stories of couse.

  • Filofun #14 3 years ago

    @MrED209
    They care ONLY about graphics. That's our generation.
    I really like this, its like a fresh breeze in GTA series, because since GTA III all looked practiculary the same.
    I think also it won't be as fun as DS version, because of lack of the stylus features. But still worthy buying.

  • ph101 #15 3 years ago

    Playing on the DS at the moment. Really good fun, more engaging because of the free dealing thing too. Peronally I prefer the 3rd person look of GTA but this over head view is fine, but it took a bit of geting used to. Still best DS game by a reasonable way for me..

  • Marshall2008 #16 3 years ago

    This looks mince

  • lavalant #17 3 years ago

    @hobo it's far superior looking than GTA1 & 2, go play those games now they don't look anywhere near as good as the DS game.

    The only benefit I think the PSP will really have is the radio station, real music (hopefully custom trakcs) and i'd hope for a better zoom out function when driving fast, like GTA1 & 2 seemed to zoom wayyy out which was good as you coudl see quite far a head.

  • comissars_handgun #18 3 years ago

    Yeah it looks nice, a decent leap above the ds version. Though it's a bit silly that they made a psp version since everyone pirated the ds version. I'm pretty sure piracy on the psp is almost as bad as ds piracy. Still it's an excellent game that deserves to be played by more people, so hopefully it will sell well on psp.

  • rogueJT #19 3 years ago

    Couldn't get into the DS version at all.

  • zedzee #20 3 years ago

    What a load of cack! Might as well release GTA 1 all over again in an emu mode.

    This was developed with the DS in mind and it should've stayed there.

  • ManicDrunkMonk #21 3 years ago

    Not to go too far off-topic, but surely a PSP version of San Andreas wouldn't be entirely out of the question? I'd like to know what the limiting factor is?

  • dsmx #22 3 years ago

    The fact that the UMD is limited to 1.8 gig of data. SA constantly streamed data from the disk to get a game world that big. Streaming data is a big no no for battery life. So to make SA on the PSP they'd either have to make it smaller or load it in sections which increases load times. Either way SA isn't really going to happen on the psp.

  • ManicDrunkMonk #23 3 years ago

    ^If that's the case surely a PSPgo version would be possible? Unlikely to ever occur, but possible?

  • zedzee #24 2 years ago

    @ ManicDrunkMonk:

    San Andreas would be possible on all PSP models, as a download game. That way, you get over any alleged UMD limitations, loading delays and draining the battery, since it will all be on storage that has no moving parts and no media drives will be involved.

    I don't know how big the size of SA is on the BluRay disc - has anyone checked it out? If not that big, then with compression, it may well be possible to fit it on a UMD.

    This looks really awful - a bad port or just giving some new programmers something to cut their teeth on at RockStar?

  • smelly #25 2 years ago

    At least on the psp it might actually sell (less piracy).

  • smelly #26 2 years ago

    Oh, and for those that will rebuke that comment about piracy not being a lost sale. On the opening weekend the DS version sold 80k copies (it was reported).

    For an experiment, i did a torrent search at the same time and found 750,000 seeds (that's SEEDS not people downloading it and playing it). So when you have a game where 10 times more people are seeding it than have bought it - you're having issues.

    Good luck to the developers to get people to actually BUY this version...

  • smelly #27 2 years ago

    Triple post combo! Why on earth would they want to port san andreas to the psp? It's do-able (remove speech, make textures much smaller for smaller screen - thus less space, etc)... But surely everyone who wanted to play it - have done already on the consoles?

    That'd be a nonsense idea.

    Also with regards to it looking better - who the feck cares? Personally i play games for fun, not to go "oooh look at that pretty pixel".

  • Zachm #28 2 years ago

    Why on earth would they want to port san andreas to the psp? It's do-able (remove speech, make textures much smaller for smaller screen - thus less space, etc)... But surely everyone who wanted to play it - have done already on the consoles?

    I don't think people want a direct port of San Andreas, we want a spin off in the same setting like the first two GTA Stories games.