Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars
£5.99/$9.99 Tiny street mayhem
The franchise that made videogame history (and controversy) finally gets the iPhone treatment, and a bundle of - albeit violent - fun it is too.
Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, while featuring 3D visuals, uses the top-down view of the original PC game, rather than the complex ground-level view of the sequels, and features eel-shaded graphics to give it a more comic-book feel.
The action takes place in a re-rendered Liberty City (of CTAIV fame) and includes the requisite car-stealing, drug-peddling, cop-shooting shenanigans we've come to know and, urn, love. Gameplay-wise, there's little to distinguish this from the DS and PSP versions.
£5.99/$9.99 Tiny street mayhem
The franchise that made videogame history (and controversy) finally gets the iPhone treatment, and a bundle of - albeit violent - fun it is too.
Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, while featuring 3D visuals, uses the top-down view of the original PC game, rather than the complex ground-level view of the sequels, and features eel-shaded graphics to give it a more comic-book feel.
The action takes place in a re-rendered Liberty City (of CTAIV fame) and includes the requisite car-stealing, drug-peddling, cop-shooting shenanigans we've come to know and, urn, love. Gameplay-wise, there's little to distinguish this from the DS and PSP versions.
It's pretty much the same game, only with its controls tweaked to suit the touchscreen system.
The camera occasionally gets a little confused, and the driving controls can be a tad sensitive, but these are minor irritants in what is otherwise a substantial and superbly crafted game.
The camera occasionally gets a little confused, and the driving controls can be a tad sensitive, but these are minor irritants in what is otherwise a substantial and superbly crafted game.
The illustrative elements, cutscenes, environments and missions are every bit as involving as those that you've come to expect in the major, full-sized GTA releases. A spectacular game, and massive respect to Rockstar for bringing it out.
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