New Grand Theft Auto Game.

[Revan 411]

There making a new GTA game:

 

http://www.gamespot.com/ds/action/grandtheftautochinatownwars/index.html

 

 

Grand Theft Auto publisher wows conference attendees with Gearbox's postapocalyptic shooter---first trailer inside! Exclusive DLC also coming for BioShock PS3.

 

 

 

At yesterday's Nintendo press event, one of the biggest surprises was the announcement of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the ultraviolent franchise's debut on the Nintendo DS. Though its unveiling drew audible gasps, little was revealed about the game other than its logo. Early speculation pegged it as being a city-centric title in the vein of Vice City Stories for the PlayStation Portable, either set in Liberty City or San Fierro, the two metropolises in the GTA universe to have Chinatown districts.

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While gamers want more details about the first GTA DS, the game industry would like larger answers about the company making it, Take-Two Interactive. The publisher has had a roller coaster year, enjoying both record-breaking sales of Grand Theft Auto IV and being the subject of a hostile takeover by EA. Those attending its press event at the Los Angeles Convention Center in LA this morning came for answers to those questions, and to learn about the company's plan for the future.

 

[10:49] Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick takes the stage right on time, immediately touting the fact that Grand Theft Auto IV was the "biggest entertainment launch in history."

 

[10:50] "We're investing in the future...with our creative team of 1,400 developers in 17 studios worldwide."

 

[10:52] "In an effort to produce the best in interactive entertainment, we encourage our developers to imagine," says Zelnick, who quickly hands over the podium to "the brains of the operation," Take-Two CEO and president Ben Feder.

 

[10:54] Feder cues a series of montages, beginning with 2K Sports. NBA 2K9, NHL 2K9, Top Spin 3, Don King's Prizefighter, Power Pros, and MLB 2K9 reel out. Then come two demos for the Xbox 360 NBA 2K9 and the Wii NHL 2K9, which aims "to bring the fun back to hockey."

 

[10:55] Now comes a demo of NHL 2K9, which is billed as a "complete reset" of the franchise. The Visual Concepts producer on hand says hockey games have become "too complicated."

 

[10:56] The game will have pick-up-and-play controls, "an all-new fighting engine," and will even let you drive the Zamboni between periods.

 

[10:57] It still is a hardcore hockey sim, he stresses, with a high level of detail. Apparently, if the crowd is very displeased with a team's performance, they will start throwing beer cups and other debris onto the ice.

 

[10:58] There's even an interactive Stanley Cup celebration mode which lets you party until dawn with your team.

 

[10:58] The hockey player demoing the game is showing how you push forward with the controllers to slam opponents against the boards.

 

[10:58] Now it's NBA 2K9 for the 360.

 

[10:59] NBA is the game "the pros are playing" and is the best-selling basketball game on the current generation of consoles.

 

[11:00] Once again, its a virtual rematch of the Lakers and the Celtics.

 

[11:01] The presenter says, "If you think you've seen online features, you ain't seen nothing yet." Do they have something to match NBA Live 09's Dynamic DNA?

 

[11:02] The Celtics start scoring, and some audience members groan. "I know we're in Los Angeles, but Kevin Garnett is our cover guy," jokes the VC producer.

 

[11:03] That's it for sports! Feder comes back to talk about the new casual game label 2K Play.

 

[11:04] Sarah Anderson, 2K's head of marketing, takes the stage.

 

[11:05] She talks about "building on our strategic partnership with Nickelodeon," and airs a TV ad for Carnival Games for Wii and DS.

 

[11:06] The games' developer is Cat Daddy, which is also working on a sequel, Carnival Games Mini-Golf for the Wii. Another TV ad talks about getting a "hole in fun!" Audible groans ensue.

 

[11:07] Anderson repeats the pun, getting some chuckles.

 

[11:08] Now she announces a new deal to bring Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer to the Wii and DS with Dora Saves the Snow Princess this fall.

 

[11:09] Feder pops back on stage and quickly talks about 2K Games. Apparently the initial run of Civilization Revolution has already sold out at US retailers, with 2K rushing to manufacture more.

 

[11:09] Cue a trailer for BioShock, which is coming to the PlayStation 3 this fall.

 

[11:10] Nice--a Borderlands trailer.

 

Gearbox's Borderlands is due out early next year.

 

[11:10] The postapocalyptic game shows a lot of indoor and outdoor action, with highly detailed graphics and action.

 

[11:11] Mafia II is also shown off, with extremely realistic depictions of 1950s-era mobsters.

 

[11:11] Anderson's back, talking about Champions Online, 2K's first MMORPG. It's due next spring.

 

[11:13] Cue a trailer for Champions. The graphics are semi-cel-shaded, making it look and feel very much like an interactive comic book.

 

[11:13] 2K Marin's Melissa Maya Miller takes the stage to show off BioShock for the PS3.

 

[11:15] Miller talks about the level of effort it took to make BioShock, which drew on resources from all of 2K Games. She says the same effort is being taken with BioShock PS3, which has four studios working on it: 2K Marin, 2K Boston, 2K Australia, and Digital Extremes.

 

[11:17] New announcement: PS3 BioShock will have exclusive DLC, including new "challenge rooms" in Rapture.

 

[11:18] Now, Feder is back to talk about Borderlands, the postapocalyptic road-actioner and shooter. Randy Pitchford takes the stage and gives BioShock expressive praise.

 

Explosives are just one way to take care of baddies in Borderlands.

 

[11:22] Now onto Borderlands, which takes place on the planet Pandora. The demo begins, with a driver class and a soldier class jumping into a vehicle and driving around the landscape. In a scrub desert area called the "barrens," two vehicles looking like Halo warthogs engage in a road battle before the two players--engaged in co-op mode--jump out and go into a dungeon-like iridium mine. The perspective switches from first to third person. The game will have an experience system similar to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where the more you use a particular weapon, the easier it is to use.

 

Players' skills with weapons such as the sniper rifle will improve with use, leading to bloodier and more spectacular deaths.

 

[11:24] After fighting off some hungry alien wildlife, the two players go deep into the mine, finding the bones of bandits eaten by monsters--and then excreted. They find guns in a locker, and emphasizes that no two guns in Borderlands are the same. They have an entire program which will randomly generate weapons with a variety of power-ups and extra features.

 

[11:26] A bloody battle with an underground bandit camp ensues, with the players' opponents meeting bloody ends. The visual style and gameplay looks like a cross of Halo 3 and Fallout 3, though the yellow-tinted guns look straight out of Haze.

 

[11:28] The guns are color-coded according to their abilities. Like Mass Effect, there will be wide array of ammo types, including guns that shoot acid. More bandits meet their ends, being either fried with electrical rounds or blown to pieces with shotguns. The game is looking just slightly less bloody that Gears of War.

 

In addition to vehicular combat on the planet Pandora's surface, players can go underground to uncover hidden bases.

 

[11:29] After an ambush cutscene, the demo ends. Huge applause. This game is gonna be massive.

 

[11:31] Now, it's on to Rockstar Games, and Feder name-checks Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, but only says "stay tuned for more information." Cue a montage of GTAIV, Bully, and L.A. Noire, which is apparently still in development.

 

[11:33] Now it's on to a Midnight Club: Los Angeles trailer. Shots of detailed street racing are accompanied by pumping techno from French DJ duo Justice.

 

[11:33] Zelnick's back and that's it, apparently.

 

[11:34] "We're dedicated to creating value for shareholders," says Zelnick. The words "Electronic Arts" were never mentioned.

 

[11:35] A final sizzle trailer flashes a title card for what looked like the new Red Dead Revolver and Sid Meier's Pirates! games. However, 2K Games has since clarified the footage was for prior games "in the 2K Games portfolio." A rep would neither confirm nor deny new games in both series are in the works.

 

I for one think this is a waste of time. If there going to make a new GTA game, they should make a sequel to GTA 4, instead of making this.

 

Really bad move Rock Star...

 

(Oh well, at least I'll be able to have fun with the PC version of GTA 4)

[DrPhil2501]

Too many GTA games. Then again, there are too many "everythings" nowadays (like Final Fantasy, but they're more appealing)

 

I only stopped at Vice City. After that, a group of people I refer to as "fluros" started playing them and there obsession was what put me off the franchise permanantly.

[Corinthian]

Okay, seriously, this is getting out of hand. How many GTAs have we had now?

 

Let's see..

 

GTA

GTA 2

GTA 3

GTA: Vice City

GTA: San Andreas

GTA: Liberty City Stories

GTA: Vice City Stories

GTA IV

 

And now we're on "GTA: Chinatown?" Does it strike anyone else as strange that there have been eight games, now nine, and yet we haven't even had GTA V yet?

[igyman]

You forgot GTA: London 1969.

 

As fir this, well, like Liberty City stories and Vice City stories, it's a Nintendo game. I am looking forward to GTA4 PC and Mafia II when they come out eventually.

[Achilles]

Really bad move Rock Star...

Yes, because Vice City and San Andreas were such obvious failures and sold no units at all

[Mav]

I think the DS GTA was announced earlier this year maybe at E3, I don't quite remember, but anyway. I wouldn't exactly call it a bad move considering the sheer amount of DS units out there, the userbase is insane, granted a lot of those users are under the MA age, but in general it's hard to make a game for the DS and not make a profit.

[GeneralPloKoon]

GTA:Chinatown Wars is an DS gmae so who really cares about it.

[DeadYorick]

Lets just wait for GTA IV downloadable content and forget about ChinaTown wars

[Cygnus Q'ol]

They can make as many as they want.

I'll play them all.

 

 

"I'm goin' back to Staunton, Staunton, Staunton.

I'm goin' back to Staunton,

...I don't think so."

[Xarwarz]

Okay, seriously, this is getting out of hand. How many GTAs have we had now?

 

Let's see..

 

GTA

GTA 2

GTA 3

GTA: Vice City

GTA: San Andreas

GTA: Liberty City Stories

GTA: Vice City Stories

GTA IV

 

And now we're on "GTA: Chinatown?" Does it strike anyone else as strange that there have been eight games, now nine, and yet we haven't even had GTA V yet?

 

Well believe it or not vice city and san andreas were expansion packs turned into games and more expansions with vice stories liberty stories, san andreas stories, but they spit them out and people buy them. I m just wondering when they going to to upgrade the graphics, i' mean midnight club los angeles wow awesome graphics there they should have used that engine.

[Lynk Former]

Wow, what an interesting thread with a lot of people who seemed to have missed the entire point of "another GTA"

 

GTA China Town is taking the game back to it's original form which the two original GTA games had. Also, that list that was posted is missing the GBA game of GTA that was released

 

This game isn't simply a next step up like GTA4 was from past GTA games, it's a game where people who liked the old top-down style of GTA can play and enjoy the game.

 

Personally, I think it's good that Rock Star is trying to expand what a GTA game is because the main series is pretty much the same thing over and over. Some people may want that, but not everyone.

[Rabish Bini]

GTA IV was the best GTA ever made, so no doubt they'll continue to make more, I agree with Lynk.

[Achilles]

Meh. I still prefer San Andreas.

 

GTA IV was a great game though.

[Lynk Former]

Ugh, actually I think that the main series is getting stale....

[Achilles]

It could be. I played the first island of GTA 3. I played Vice City a little. San Andreas was my first full-on exposure to the GTA franchise and the only one that sucked me in for more than a playthrough or two. I enjoyed IV a great deal, but felt that it was almost a complete separate universe from SA and VC. So really, it's all pretty fresh for me.