The first eight screenshots for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars have been released publicly. The game, slated to arrive in 2009, will feature a number of controversial mini-games.
These images come from a massive, four page preview from Edge Online.
If you're a fan of GTA, you won't want to pass up the rest of this preview. Trust me.
These images come from a massive, four page preview from Edge Online.
The result, when running at full lick, with vehicles ripped apart by explosions, gunfire streaking across the streets and bodies keeling over in bloody pools, is mesmerising. Even at its most pedestrian, though, the world of Chinatown Wars is one you want to observe like a scientist peering into a Petri dish. The residents of this concrete playground leave their houses, get into their cars or wander the streets, stopping to have conversations or buy snacks from fast-food carts. All the while, the roads are being navigated by a catalogue of automobiles, from clapped-out saloons to zippy hatchbacks and chugging trucks, with police prowlers and emergency vehicles also figuring in the mix. You can steal any one of them, of course (and, yes, choose to earn extra cash performing paramedic runs when driving an ambulance).
This world has physical properties, too: fences, street lamps and newsstands are smashed aside, for example, as you make the offroad diversions that inevitably punctuate your escapes from the law. A full day/night cycle also exists, along with realtime shadowing and a dynamic weather system (the game’s citizens even pull out umbrellas and hold them aloft when it rains). And it all dynamically rotates through 360 degrees to deliver an optimum view. Evidently, this really is Grand Theft Auto, even if it doesn’t look quite like any Grand Theft Auto you’ve ever seen.
This world has physical properties, too: fences, street lamps and newsstands are smashed aside, for example, as you make the offroad diversions that inevitably punctuate your escapes from the law. A full day/night cycle also exists, along with realtime shadowing and a dynamic weather system (the game’s citizens even pull out umbrellas and hold them aloft when it rains). And it all dynamically rotates through 360 degrees to deliver an optimum view. Evidently, this really is Grand Theft Auto, even if it doesn’t look quite like any Grand Theft Auto you’ve ever seen.
If you're a fan of GTA, you won't want to pass up the rest of this preview. Trust me.