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Review: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS)

By Brian Howe on 7:26 AM on June 19, 2009

Publisher: Rockstar GamesDeveloper: Rockstar LeedsPlatform: Nintendo DSSeminal carjacking series makes its Nintendo DS debut You know how it goes: You’re out stealing cars and wantonly running down hapless pedestrians, and you think, “Man, this is fun! I should go home and play some Grand Theft Auto.” The devilishly addictive crime franchise has been wowing players with its sardonic humor, cartoonish violence, and huge environments for over a decade. Chinatown Wars is GTA’s debut on the Nintendo DS, and Rockstar Games has managed to stuff a fully-featured installment into the tiny hardware. The top-down view from the series’ early days replaces...  read more

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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS)

By Brian Howe on 7:26 AM on June 19, 2009

Publisher: Rockstar GamesDeveloper: Rockstar LeedsPlatform: Nintendo DSSeminal carjacking series makes its Nintendo DS debut You know how it goes: You’re out stealing cars and wantonly running down hapless pedestrians, and you think, “Man, this is fun! I should go home and play some Grand Theft Auto.” The devilishly addictive crime franchise has been wowing players with its sardonic humor, cartoonish violence, and huge environments for over a decade. Chinatown Wars is GTA’s debut on the Nintendo DS, and Rockstar Games has managed to stuff a fully-featured installment into the tiny hardware. The top-down view from the series’ early days replaces...  read more

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First screens of Grand Theft Auto DS hit

By Jeremy Medina on 12:25 PM on September 30, 2008

When Nintendo announced Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS back at the E3 conference in July, many wondered whether publishing giant Rockstar was merely testing the waters to see if a Wii version of the franchise would be financially viable. While that may still be the case, details are slowly emerging about the pint-size GTA cousin, and it looks promising....  read more

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Myst

By Brian Howe on 4:36 PM on September 2, 2008

Platform: Nintendo DSDefinitive point-and-click, first-person adventure jumps from CD-ROM to DS—newly tiny, still impossibleAlthough Myst is an undisputed classic I’d never played, I approached this DS port cautiously. For every gamer who raves about its immersive mystery and austere storytelling, another laments its withering difficulty and austere storytelling. The player must discover the secrets (why are these two brothers trapped in, like, magic books?) of an eerily unpopulated island. It turns out Myst’s boosters and detractors are both kinda right. Wandering the island alone—trying to make sense of various bizarre objects and arcane clues—is a one-of-a-kind experience. But I found...  read more

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