Little Wars: Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars jumping to PSP
The morning's most high profile story of exclusives and rebirths: Rockstar sends word that their DS exclusive Grand Theft Auto entry, Chinatown Wars, will be making the jump to the PSP "this fall", with "upscaled widescreen graphics, enhanced lighting and animation, and... all-new story missions."
The game will be available in both UMD form and pure digital download for the by-then-released PSP Go, making it currently one of the highest profile third party games (alongside the next Metal Gear Solid entry) to buoy the handheld back into gamers' consciousnesses.
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#1 – 12:56 PM June 22, 2009
Underlying the whole experience in Chinatown Wars is the nature of the platform exclusive: Everything about it, from the engine to the art assets to the control methods and the gameplay were built around the unique environment of the Nintendo DS.
It's this consummate tailoring to its single destination platform that helped make it such a good game. The very idea of porting it must have been a plan hatched in a boardroom by people who had never played it.
This will be like building a copy of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in downtown Philly.
A New Challenger
#2 – 5:05 PM June 22, 2009
I'm glad that more people will get to play it, but honestly if it can't sell gangbusters (ha ha) on the DS then I don't really know how well it'll do on PSP. Comparable numbers to the "Stories" games I'd imagine, however well those did- the fact that they were ported to PS2 doesn't tell me much and I don't have the numbers at hand. On the other hand those weren't regarded as anything particularly special, and Chinatown Wars has had pretty high reviews.
GTA in general seems to be losing a bit of its luster as other developers build on the open-world action game idea (rather than quickly ripping off the basic theme as happened a console generation ago.) Hell, you couldn't even swim in the first two 3-D entries, and now there are competing games where you climb up and leap over buildings.