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Nintendo Everything have translated a GTA: Chinatown Wars article that was published in a Spanish Magazine.

1. Camera can swivel 360 degrees
2. Trains will pass overhead in the city, cars will circle, pedestrians will be walking, etc.
3. GPS seen on the touch screen while you move through the city
4. PDA allows you to gain access to the map with more details as well as the goals of missions
5. You can mark points that you want and the GPS will always tell you the shortest legal route to the destination with yellow or blue arrows
6. New discoveries (such as gas stations) are added to the map
7. Top screen brings you all the action, while the lower screen will let you control elements like the PDA, GPS, the radio, access to the people on the map, or using Motolov cocktails and grenades.
8. Drugs have a big importance in the game
9. Drug system can be compared to Drugwars
10. You have to control the stock of drugs, buy them in one neighborhood and sell them in another
11. You are given a map so that you know what people demand and at what price
12. You can whistle into the microphone to get a taxi to stop
13. It will be set in Liberty City, but Alderney will not be included

This is becoming a habit, first the GTA IV PC version was delayed by a few weeks then the GTA IV 360 downloadable content was delayed by months and now the Nintendo DS game “GTA: Chinatown Wars” has also had its release date extended.

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At a press conference today, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick confirmed GTA IV DLC’s delay rumors stating that it may arrive as late as Spring 2009. Zelnick also stated that Chinatown Wars isn’t scheduled to be released in the first quarter of the 2009 fiscal year (January 2009) as initially expected, but will arrive within Q2 2009, which ends in April.

Source: MTV

More GTA: Chinatown Wars scans taken from Nintendo Power magazine by nintendoeverything.com

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Nintendo Power magazine has some new details about the upcoming Grand Theft Auto : Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS. The magazine reveals that the game will have a cel-shaded look and action will be viewed from an isometric perspective.

- 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

Source: gamekyo.com
Via: GTAGaming.com

During the Nintendo Press Conference at E3 2008, Nintendo announced that GTA is coming to DS this holiday season. It will be called “GTA: Chinatown Wars”. GTA DS will use a custom engine and will be set in a modern Liberty City.

Thanks to gta4mods.com for the image.

Full press release below:
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