Dvader said:

gamingeek said:

Oh yeah forgot to mention the drug dealing. You buy and sell various drugs from various dealers. There is a turf map and you can make huge profits.

It's so addictive you can ignore the main missions and just endlessly do that.

There isn't actually much to do with the money you make though. You can buy safehouses but the game has a save at any time feature so there isn't much point.

There is an auto merchant somewhere and a gun club but I haven't spotted them yet.

Does the Merchant say "What are you buyin'?"

I am hoping he got a new job somewhere.

No, but sometimes you hear the dealers say ... "Ahhhhh ... I'll buy that at a high price!"

Dvader said:

Does the Merchant say "What are you buyin'?"

I am hoping he got a new job somewhere.

"This shit will fuck you up." Voice sampled.

Otherwise in text when you dont buy you get "Stop wasting my time prick."

Yarcofin said:

asdhkjhkjhksd how the fuck do you complete "Dragon Haul Z" without arousing suspicion. Am I just walking into people or what? It seems if I make one wrong turn, I'm done.

Remind me of what mission that is? Is it where you follow the umbrella guy?

WOW

Above: Also, this is pretty cool

You can always find a high-end Turismo sitting around for the taking in a driveway near Mikhail Faustin’s house in GTA IV. What’s weird is that there’s an identical car that’s always in the same spot in Chinatown Wars.

Or, in case you can’t quite see it…

bugsonglass said:

loved those picture comparisons.  especially firefly island which is my favourite place on the map.

i have enjoyed chinatown wars so much that it's made me wonder if i should have tried harder with the 3D games but i don't know if it works that way.  i know they've practically only just released it but i really hope rockstar do more gtas for ds.  they can't do them soon enough as far as i'm concerned.

a good friend of mine has been playing this game to death even more so than i have.  he's over 80% completion now.  showed me some great missions which you open later once you find the 2 lions etc.  awesome awesome game.  don't have enough superlatives.

anyone with a DS, please get this game you owe it to yourself ... just make sure you're over 18

looking forward to seeing impressions from dvader too.

Lions?

One thing I like about this game is that its relatively hassle free. In game design when you eliminate the fiddly or unneccesary things the game becomes more pleasurable to play. With GTA for instance, in GTA IV you had this process where you painstakingly stop your car, walk into your safehouse, walk up the stairs labouriously, just to go into an empty apartment to find and icon and save. Then repeat to get out of the building.

GTA DS has a quick save feature, hit the icon on the bottom screen as a favourite, in 2 seconds you are saved. There is another building in GTA IV where you go up an elevator just to save in your apartment.

And the DS game has a PDA so there is none of this nonsense about going to a net cafe to fiddle about.  

Also the police chases are better here, more satisfying and not as unfair. You can smash a certain number of cars to lower your rating.

gamingeek said:

Lions?

Without going into spoilers after you finish the story missions you get a message on your PDA about locating two lions, and you actually have to register to the social club (ie go online with your ds so you're screwed) to get the hints for where to look for the lions.  and once you find them you get some new missions from the final character (the frame i was asking about in some of my previous posts).

I completed this last night in an epic fight on the toilet. The window was open, there were bathroom sealent fumes all over the palce, it was cold, it was dark, I was straining. And I did an epic chase and then busted those two a-holes at the end. (not my own a-hole)

So satisfying.

So where are these Lionheads?

And apart from drug dealing is there anything left?

What am I suppossed to do with cameras?

Let's see what is there to do outside of the regular missions:

1. rampage
2. cabs
3. ambulance
4. police car
5. fire engine
6. races
7. drugs
8. tatooes
9. scrath cars
10. gun club

What else? I feel like I could play this game for ages, but I need ideas. I really like smashing cops up.

bugsonglass said:

i am pretty sure the golden lions are randomly generated each time just so you go online for the hints.

there are other things to do like jumping through billboards, burning people up whilst skidding, shooting helicopters off the sky to get chased by 5 or 6 police cars etc

I like feeling more empowered in this game vs Police. Using the rocket launcher to take down helicopters is superb fun and the rampages too.

Yarcofin said:

- Go cart racing
- Noodle run
- Mail delivery (2)

Oh man, please tell me where these are?