Funny. Lately, breaking game news have avoided big name sites and are brought to light via forum dwellers. A prime example is NeoGaf, a glorified community post site, that has attracted the likes of Denis Dyack — as well as other developers — in defending their titles against the vocal minority.
Earlier today they brought us a few details about the next GTA game that is, surprisingly, coming out on the DS. Poster “botticus” lets us know of a few bullet points found in the upcoming issue of Nintendo Power:
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
- True GTA game - sandbox gameplay, open-world environment, gritty crime narrative.
- M-rating
- Isometric camera angle
- Cel-shaded polygons w/ black borders
- good touch-screen implementation - “tasteful” minigames, streamlining interface
- UI based on a PDA - hub for email, contacts, map, music player, GPS, stat-tracking
- stats uploaded to Rockstar Social Club website via Wi-Fi
- finger-sized icons
- missions designed for shorter periods of play, arcade quality
- aiming with control pad, auto targeting with R button
- subtle autosteer
- if you fail a mission, you can jump back to the action sequence
- chain gun, flamethrower
- good portion of Liberty City is modeled in the game (different routes than console games)
- no probems with load times, draw-in or frame rate
- lots of pedestrians, cars, etc on screen
- Wanted system - objective is to disable police cars any way possible
- real-time weather effects, 24-hour day/night cycle
- lots of radio stations to listen to (more instrumentals than vocals)
- 800,000 lines of hand-optimized source code (hey, the people like the info, right?)
- no details yet on multiplayer/Wi-Fi features
Take-Two has confirmed that the game will be out this winter, which would place it somewhere between November and January 31 next year.
Via NeoGaf Forums
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1. Josh Says:
September 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pmI love how in the picture she looks like she’s being stabbed in the head with the stylus.
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