Those first screenshots posted by Noobie, make this rumor seem all the more plausible.
Isometric camera angle - Check. Cel shade w/ black borders - Check. Chain Gun - Check. http://www.gamekyo.com/images0_4_29038.html Flame Thrower - Check. Lots of action on screen at once - Check.
- 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
The new issue of Nintendo Power contains first official details on Rockstar Games' youth corrupting Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, reported to be a cel-shaded, M-rated 3D journey through Liberty City with an isometric view. Tons more details at the link.
Our nation's youth will be corrupted on the go, Grand Theft Auto-style, as early as November of this year and as late as January of 2009, according to today's Take-Two Interactive investor call. CEO Ben Feder pegged Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS as a fiscal Q1 '09 release, putting it in the same quarter as GTA IV's Japanese launch date.
@Joe80, Just an FYI for people watching this title, actual information regarding the title will be coming very soon as a magazine or two already have highlighted information as forthcoming in their October issue(s).
"A report from UGO, sourced from a reader submitted survey, hints at unreleased details on Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS. It's worth mentioning that virtually no details have been released on the game so far, so anything we hear will be considered "unreleased." We should also consider it rumor for now. The survey also allegedly spills details on what that Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection support will be."
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Isometric camera angle - Check.
Cel shade w/ black borders - Check.
Chain Gun - Check.
http://www.gamekyo.com/images0_4_29038.html
Flame Thrower - Check.
Lots of action on screen at once - Check.