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GTA: Chinatown Wars headed for PSP

QuBic — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:47:00 +0000

The DS exclusive GTA game, Chinatown Wars, sold a pitiful amount on the DS at just 89,000. The game is no longer to be a DS exclusive and is making it’s way to Sony’s portable hand held, the PSP. Which is undoubtedly where it belongs. The game will be available on UMD for the PSP 1000, 2000, 3000 and as a downloadable title for the PSP GO! Not only that but, the game will also become available on the PSN store, which hopefully means it’ll become playable on the PS3, as it’s sure to be a huge hit for the PS3 as it will the PSP. The game is due for release in the fall.

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Survey questions Karma likeability in GTA

QuBic — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:22:45 +0000

A recent survey conducted by Play Insights asks survey participants what their thoughts are on a karma system being implemented into a GTA game. Karma systems have been used in other games such as Fable 2 and Fallout 3, but would it work for GTA? GTA is notoriously known for it’s crime missions and running old ladies and prostitutes over. The question asks participants to focus on whether it would benefit GTA not how it could be put into the game play. Considering the genre and plot of GTA, how it could be added into future games, could be difficult. Unless it was a “Really Bad” and “Bad” karma system. While in free roam the bad points could tally up, but the missions are sure to bring the really bad points up.

The full question is as follows:

Do you think Grand Theft Auto would benefit from having a “karma” system or “good” vs. “evil” actions mechanism that allowed you to choose your overall path by doing good or bad actions, where those actions have an accumulative impact on how the game unfolds? When answering, please consider the idea of being “good” or “evil” and NOT the particular execution / how this feature would be implemented.

With the answer choices being big improvement, minor improvement, neither better nor worse, slightly worse and a lot worse. How would you pick if you’d been sent this survey?

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Nintendo DS Lite GTA China Wars Edition

QuBic — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:18:27 +0000

To celebrate the release of the DS exclusive Grand Theft Auto game, China Wars, the Nintendo World Store at the launch gave away a limited edition DS. The limited edition DS features a GTA China Wars themed look as well as the two included styluses being chopstick shaped and also bearing the game’s name.

Unfortunately, the GTA China Wars DS was only available to those at the launch, however I’m sure some owners may well sell theirs on sites such as ebay or Craigs list.

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GTA Chinatown Wars Released!

QuBic — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:46:53 +0000

The day so many DS owners have waited patiently for has arrived - Grand Theft Auto “Chinatown Wars”, the Nintendo DS exclusive game, has been released!

Sales figures for the game are already looking good for Rockstar and Nintendo, who will be especially pleased with the upcoming release of the DSi on April 3rd that there is a top class and highly popular title to share the hype with.

From the official site:

LEFT FOR DEAD IN THE WORST PLACE IN AMERICA

Following his father’s murder, Huang Lee has a simple mission: deliver an ancient sword to his Uncle Kenny to ensure his family retains control of the Triad gangs of Liberty City. Huang is a spoiled rich kid who expects everything to run smoothly, but his trip does not go exactly as planned. After being robbed and left to die, he will search for honor, riches and revenge in the most dangerous and morally bankrupt city in the world.

- All new replay feature allows you to replay all of your favorite missions
- Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection means head-to-head and co-op multiplayer mayhem
- Stat tracking and leaderboards that track your criminal career
- Epic storyline with tons of side-missions, addictive mini-games and hidden collectibles

Developed by Rockstar Leeds, in conjunction with series creators Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is now available exclusively for the Nintendo DS™.

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The Lost and Damned is Released on Xbox Live

QuBic — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:08:38 +0000

The highly anticipated DLC for Grand Theft Auto IV - The Lost and Damned expansion has been released on Xbox Live and is available to download for 1600 MS points or US$19.99. The 1.78GB download can be purchased on the Xbox Live Marketplace or on the Xbox Live Marketplace website.

Rockstar have released a press submission introducing The Lost and Damned officially although, most GTA fans already know enough about the game expansion to write their own press release I’m sure!

Full press release is here.

The Lost and Damned introduces players to a new narrative and protagonist that sit seamlessly alongside the main story of Grand Theft Auto IV. Players will assume the role of Johnny Klebitz, Vice President of The Lost motorcycle club, as he deals with club President Billy Grey’s release from rehab and his unwavering commitment to escalating a bitter feud with rival gang, The Angels of Death. In addition to a new narrative, players will also find new weapons, music, multiplayer modes, mini-games, vehicles and a host of other features.

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Microsoft offers free online

QuBic — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:08:43 +0000

GTA IV’s upcoming downloadable content, The Lost and Damned, is to be released next week. To celebrate this, Microsoft is offering free online for Xbox 360 owners. The offer applies to both online for GTA IV and the DLC. You’ll be able to get online for free from February 17th until February 22nd. Rockstar hopes that this will revive interest in the game and the online side.

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Summary - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

QuBic — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:06:50 +0000

If the beginning of the series were difficult with the first 2 components, Rockstar has simply created a genre that control throughout the final to win this time a success level with GTA 3 and Vice City,. GTA 3, which laid the foundations in Vice City who added the importance of the atmosphere. Today, forget the replica of Miami to run straight towards the sun of California, hidden under the name of a vast region: San Andreas. Not one but 3 cities filled with freeways, avenues, alleys steep but separated by areas of countryside off their roads and their brush. The first of these cities will be Los Santos, a Los Angeles copy. San Fierro is none other than San Francisco, with its hilly streets and blue houses. Finally you will find Las Venturas, aka Las Vegas, the city dotted with gambling casinos and surrounded by a desert used to deposit heavy corpses. It does not take long to understand in terms of environment, San Andreas exploded since the counters alone, the city of Los Santos is already as large as Vice City.
So after 80s gangsters, Rockstar is moving towards a world adapted to the new geography of the Californian gangster’s ghetto. Returning from Liberty City, the young black Carl Johnson, aka CJ, is in the dark trouble. But even worse, finding his band, CJ learns his mother’s death, murdered by a rival gang, began the reconquest the territory and the quest for revenge. Get ready to hear “Yo Bro” and “Wassup Nigga”, in turn, also including the classic “I want to ice those fools.” By not dwell on the history and the many characters in the game, but for simplicity, quality is always there with strong personalities and a doubling of undoubted excellence.

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Summary - Grand Theft Auto IV

QuBic — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:01:40 +0000

Size and weight average, two-day beard, look banal and overlooked, natural refreshments, not beneficial… Niko Bellic has nothing of the hero who drives the mechanical and dropped the girls by the dozens. The antithesis of what the emerging Tommy Vercetti, Carl Johnson and company, the character that the player will incarnate for several tens of hours set aside the clichés of another time. Rockstar has matured with its series, more worrying than ever. Come straight from Eastern Europe, Niko joined his cousin Roman, based in Liberty City, which promises a life of quiet and luxurious, like a well-deserved retirement. An American dream, of course, quickly faced by a grim reality more than he had described this old Roman. A private taxi to the thriving little business, a guest room that includes just the minimum… No rhinestones or sequins, no beautiful bodywork or strippers, not even a shadow of a decent housing. The fall is tough. Roman actually need the rare talents that Niko has to bring some order into a life in danger every day…

GTA IV has also a comprehensive multiplayer mode that extends the adventure through the streets of Liberty City. It represents the opening of the series to play online. In addition, a total of fifteen different modes available to owners of an online account. For example, it may be asked players to access a specific point on the map above all others. We then can choose the place of action, its duration, the weapons allowed, the type of sight (automatic or manual), the presence or absence of police, traffic density, and a pile of other parameters. The player can also choose the look of his character, from gender to the face through the clothing and accessories, although the choice of base remain restricted to this level.

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Summary - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

QuBic — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:09:57 +0000

Finish Liberty City and its gray buildings, up to Vice City, with its sandy beaches, palm trees, golf, Cuban’s district, Little Haiti, its bars, its airport, hotels, clubs strip, its film studio, with its many cafes, its jewelry stores, its pizzeria, its police headquarter… Rockstar is strong and performs the feat of creating a city even greater than the previous one. Vice City is twice larger than Liberty City. This means two things. First, missions promise to be more varied than GTA 3 and they are. Secondly, there are twice as many small streets and major boulevards to survey, which extended the duration of life already substantial. It is absolutely not disappointed to leave Liberty City and moved to Vice City. The city is huge and is composed of two main islands which have been added a few others much smaller. There is the bridge work that we are blocking access to certain areas but will open after a few successful missions.

If the city is not the same as in GTA 3, it does the crook that we manage. The newcomer is called Tommy Vercetti. Freshly landed in town, he works on behalf of Sonny Forelli, a big shot in a neighboring town that looks to extend its influence to Vice City. On arrival, you are responsible for overseeing the purchase of a big bag of coke. The transaction goes wrong and you lose both the money and goods. You’ll have to make contacts, meet people more or less clean which will allow you to trace the channels by performing for them a whole bunch of small missions never legal, and even more often totally immoral. Beat judges, destroying cars, intimidate rival gangs, kill bad payers, as many distractions that should fill your afternoons.

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Preview - Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned

QuBic — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:07:49 +0000

After Liberty City traveled extensively in the shadow of Niko Bellic, you start going round in circles? We are all arrived here a few months ago to say that GTA IV is a beautiful game but it will take leave reluctantly because we know it by heart. History revives our commitment and the developers of the game will offer, on February 17th, an episode in the form of downloadable content. It is clear that the extension of this scenario will take place in parallel to the adventures that lived Niko.

This time we focus on the “exploits” of a certain Johnny Klebicz, vice-president of a motorcycle gang that, probably because they could not mount a GPS on their steeds, have created “The Lost”. When the story begins, Johnny is a few months since the interim head of the band as the leader title, Billy, is serving a prison sentence for trafficking and drug use. When it is released on parole, he comes very logically take the role as the head of the Lost. Johnny found that its functions and his title are not safe, it appears very quickly that he and Billy did not have the same vision of the future. For Johnny, it is the business itself. For Billy, the only goal which counts is crush-preferably violently-all those who dare stand in his way. It shows in his first night of freedom by breaking down in the back a member of the opponent biker club, the Angels of Death. We don’t know more about the following scenario. But it is already clear that moving towards a “GTA pure juice” plot with high-frenetic violence and betrayal of any kind. Finish with a word about the price of the downloadable content that should be offered for 1600 points, or about 20 dollars.

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