The game warns you not to save
Enter any code and Chinatown Wars puts a message on screen recommending you do not save afterwards. Rockstar meant it. Cheat-flagged saves have been reported to break later progress.
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HD Era 2009 Liberty City
Grand Theft Auto CTW
Liberty City from above. Huang Lee lost his father's sword and his dignity. Chinatown Wars is Rockstar Leeds' 2009 Nintendo DS game and the strangest thing in the series. It looks down on Liberty City the way the first two games did, but renders it in cel-shaded 3D, and it uses the DS touchscreen for hotwiring cars, assembling Molotovs and scratching lottery tickets. Huang Lee arrives to deliver a sword to his uncle, gets shot and dumped in the river in the first minutes, and spends the game working out who arranged it. It reached PSP later in 2009 and iOS and Android after that.
- Developer //
- Rockstar Leeds
- Engine //
- RenderWare
- Protagonist //
- Huang Lee
- Released //
- March 17, 2009 (Nintendo DS)
- Platforms //
- Nintendo DS · PlayStation Portable · iOS · Android · Fire OS
// 01
Sections
82 entries
#01 8
Characters
Named cast, who they answer to, and how their story ends.
#02 58
Missions
The story missions on DS and mobile. PSP adds five more, and published lists do not agree on which, so they are not listed here.
#03 16
Cheats
Every code, punched in on the pad. Saving after using one is a bad idea, and the game tells you so itself.
// 02
What it introduced
4 firsts for the series
- 01 A top-down camera in a 3D city, the only game in the series to try it
- 02 Touchscreen minigames for hotwiring, sniping, tattooing and making Molotovs
- 03 A drug trading economy with prices that move by district and by event
- 04 Cel-shaded art with a comic-panel presentation for cutscenes
// 03
Collectibles
- Security Cameras 100
Liberty City · Each one destroyed brings drug purchase prices down
- Drug Dealers 80
Liberty City · A trophy lands at 40 of them
- Unique Stunt Jumps 30
Liberty City
- Rampages 30
Liberty City · The PSP version has 35 of them, not 30
- Lions of Fo 2
Two of 20 possible spots, after Salt in the Wound
- Safehouses 21
Liberty City
- Complete all 58 story missions on DS and mobile, or all 63 on PSP
- Complete the random encounters for all 8 characters (Cherie, Giorgio, Guy, Marcy, Selma, Tommy, Alonso, Wilhelm)
- Reach at least bronze in every vehicle side mission, from Vigilante through the Noodle Runs
- Win all 8 street races
- Complete all 26 time trials at bronze or better, or all 30 on PSP
- Complete the Liberty City Gun Club challenge with all 5 weapons
- Complete all 30 rampages at bronze or better, or all 35 on PSP
- Land all 30 unique stunt jumps
- Destroy all 100 security cameras
- Meet all 80 drug dealers
- Earn the drug dealing trophies, including 30 packages each of weed and downers, acid and ecstasy, and coke and heroin
- Turn a $2,000 profit on a single drug deal, and take a $500 loss on another
- Acquire all 21 safehouses
- Find both Lions of Fo
// 05
Quick facts
- Released
- March 17, 2009
- Engine
- RenderWare
- Director
- Dan Houser and Rupert Humphries
- Collectibles
- 263
- 100% checklist
- 14
- Platforms
- 5
nintendo ds
render pipeline
writers
across the map
requirement groups
Nintendo DS · PlayStation Portable · iOS
// 06
Declassified
DS and PSP use the same shapes in different clothes
Every sequence is the same; only the face buttons are renamed. The DS A is the PSP circle, B is cross, X is triangle and Y is square.