Unlike Grand Theft Auto IV, the player can loose wanted stars by destroying police cars to escape the police instead of leaving a 'wanted zone.' The more stars the player has, the more police they have to take out for each level. The title takes place in a scaled-down rendition of Grand Theft Auto IV 's Liberty City, with the exception of Alderney. Chinatown Wars also uses cel-shaded polygons with black outlines to produce a comic book-like aesthetic-a first for the series. Instead of a ground-level view behind the protagonist or a top-down perspective, Chinatown Wars uses a fully rotatable camera angled down at the action. It has a different presentation from previous games in the series, by partially resembling the first Grand Theft Auto titles. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is an action-adventure game set in an open world environment.

While in other Grand Theft Auto titles, the main technique to evade from the police was to leave a certain vicinity, away from them entirely, Chinatown Wars introduces a new mechanic which requires the player to destroy a specific number of police vehicles, thereby lowering the wanted level. Ī Cognoscenti being stolen, while the player holds a 3-star wanted level. Despite this, the game received critical acclaim from critics. The most notable element, the ability to buy drugs from suppliers and sell them to dealers to make money, proved controversial following the game's release. The game was fundamentally designed for players to have notable interactions with objects on the DS and smartphone systems via their touch-screen controls, while offering unique elements of gameplay not found in other entries within the Grand Theft Auto series. Set within modern-day Liberty City (a fictional satire of New York City), the single-player story follows young Triad member Huang Lee and his efforts to recover a sword gifted by his late father after it is stolen from him, while inadvertently becoming caught in a power struggle amongst Liberty City's Triads. It is the thirteenth game in the Grand Theft Auto series and a follow-up to Grand Theft Auto IV, and is the first to be released for handheld consoles since 2006's Vice City Stories. The game was released for the Nintendo DS in March 2009, PlayStation Portable in October 2009, iOS in January 2010, and Android and Fire OS devices in December 2014. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar Leeds in conjunction with Rockstar North, and published by Rockstar Games.

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