GTA Chinatown Wars

You play as Huang Lee who arrives in Liberty City with the family heirloom for his Uncle (a sword called Yu Jian which was won by his farther in a poker game). When landing Huang Lee is shot in the head by assassins who steal Yu Jian and kidnap Huang Lee. Expecting he is dead Huang Lee is dumped in the water.

Huang Lee finds his Uncle Wu "Kenny" Lee and tells him what has happened. His uncle tells Huang Lee that Yu Jian was meant to be a gift to Hsin Jaoming, the ageing Triad boss in Liberty City as a way to secure his position as the new Triad boss.

Huang Lee is contacted by a few other Triad leaders who also which to take over from Hsin Jaoming after his death. Huang Lee agrees to help them out while searching for the sword.

When approached by LCPD Detective Wade Heston Huang agrees to help him with his dirty work while Wade helps find the sword and Huang's fathers killer. Huang Lee is then trapped in-between all Triad leaders and finds himself completing tasks to help each Triad gain more power while still looking for Yu Jian and his fathers killer Huang.

Gameplay on Chinatown Wars is quite like the older versions in the series. The game is played from an aerial view and as always the surrounding city is bursting with life. As you play you'll go through days, nights and even rain.

As you explore the map you'll see police chances, helicopters flying overhead and more.

Police AI is brilliant and they will not stop at nothing to get you busted. As you go up the stars you'll see police cars, the FBI, helicopters and even tanks all coming to hunt you down. Chinatown Wars has a new way to get your wanted level down and is unique to the DS only. Instead of having to hide or find a star to get your wanted level down you can now also smash up the police cars. Quite similar to the Need for Speed games players can now hit a police car into a tree making it break down.

The more stars you have the more police cars you must take down before you wanted level goes down. The idea is really good and works well in the game. I'm sure the GTA series may carry on this in later games.

As well as completing missions for the main Triad leaders there are also side missions which you will randomly find on the streets. There are also street races you can take part in and of course rampage missions that are dotted around the map.

Drug dealing is also like a game in itself. Buying and selling drugs can make you a lot of money very quickly if you know where to go. You can open up your PDA and find who wants what and trade drugs at a higher price. You'll also receive emails from drug dealers giving you great deals or asking for drugs.

The PDA not only helps you become a drug dealing king put its also great to plot routes on the map using the GPS and ordering weapons off the online Ammu-Nation.

As the game progresses more and more weapons will be available to order and new games will be available such as street racing.

Not only does Chinatown Wars pack a brilliant single player campaign but there is also the chance to connect your DS online and go multiplayer!!!

Multi-Card Play includes:

Trading Drugs: Trade your drugs to friends to earn extra cash

Exchanging map bookmarks: Found a cool place to find a rocket launcher? Share it here

Single / Season Race: Challenge your friend to a race around a Liberty City track

Stash Dash: Steal the van, deliver it and stash the cash. Sounds easy but your opponent is after the same van

Defend The Base: Team up with a friend to defend your base from waves of computer AI

LC Survivor: Meet up with friends for a huge deathmatch

Gang Bang: Attack the objectives or defend them against attacks

Nintendo Wifi:

Send messages: You can send messages to friends as you play

Trading: Trade weapons, exchange bookmarked locations and drugs to people online

Upload gamer stats: Upload your gamer stats online to the leaderboards

Unlocking bonus missions: New missions can be downloaded and played