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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Arrives on iPad

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Rockstar Games’ flagship open-world adventure franchise has been updated and enhanced for today’s release of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD ($9.99) for the iPad.

According to Rockstar, the new iPad version of Chinatown Wars boasts “intuitive touch screen interface with multiple custom control settings,” along with “enhanced graphics, higher polygon count vehicle and building models, and enhanced lighting and explosion effects,” that take advantage of the iPad’s larger screen size.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD otherwise features all of the content found in the original iPhone version of Chinatown Wars, putting players on a quest for revenge on the streets of Liberty City. Chinatown Wars features a lengthy quest that spans dozens of missions, and includes multiple sidequests and minigames throughout.


Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Gets HD iPad Version

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The multiplatform journey of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars continues with the announcement of an HD version for Apple’s iPad. It promises new and “updated” graphics, 50 missions, sidequests and the ability to play one’s own music for the soundtrack.

Chinatown Wars was GTA‘s first outing on Nintendo DS, and by all critics’ accounts, was remarkably successful even alongside the work of experienced DS developers. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews — but sold only 90,000 units in its debut month, shining a spotlight on whether Mature-rated content is viable on Nintendo’s handheld.

Although neither Rockstar nor publisher Take-Two has disclosed life-to-date sales for Chinatown Wars on DS, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder has said the company’s “very proud” of the game, and cited an achievement: it’s accounted for half of M-rated sales on the DS platform.

The company has been bringing Chinatown Wars to other platforms since; it launched a PSP edition that was widely-acclaimed (consumer site GameSpot called it ‘even better than the DS original‘) — but it failed to chart in the U.S. monthly NPD nor the UK top 40 charts within its release period.

When it released on iPhone in January of this year, it consistently made the App Store’s top 10 for numerous weeks following its release, and a free “Lite” version of the game regularly appeared among the top-downloaded free apps. The iPad version of the game arrives September 9, and will be priced at $9.99/£5.99.


Weekend App Sales: Chinatown Wars, Flower Garden, and More

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Snappy Touch’s Flower Garden gets cheaper just in time for Valentine’s Day — the perfect opportunity to send your iPhone-owning sweetheart a reminder of your undying love.

Alternately, you can pick up a discounted copy of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and spend your Valentine’s weekend painting the streets red with the blood of murdered policemen.

Your choice, really. No one’s going to judge you. Well, maybe a little.

(Also worth noting: Namco’s Bandai’s entire App catalog is on sale this weekend. Have a look around and see if there’s anything you like — there’s some good stuff in there, including Mr. Driller, Pac-Man Championship Edition, and Ridge Racer Accelerated.)

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Top-Grossing Game Apps: Rock Band Overtakes Chinatown Wars

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In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:

  1. Rock Band ($6.99)
  2. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars ($9.99)
  3. Call of Duty: World at War Zombies ($9.99)
  4. Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
  5. Doodle Jump ($0.99)
  6. The Sims 3 ($6.99)
  7. Spore Creatures ($6.99)
  8. X Games Snowcross ($4.99)
  9. Tetris ($2.99)
  10. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? 2010 ($1.99)

EA’s iPhone edition of Rock Band surpasses Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars to become today’s biggest-grossing game title in the iTunes App Store.

Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War Zombies and PopCap’s Bejeweled 2 hold steady at third and fourth place, while Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump moves up past The Sims 3 to take fifth.

EA’s Spore Creatures and ESPN’s X Games Snowcross make their chart debuts this week, landing at seventh and eighth place. Tetris falls to ninth, as Capcom’s Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? joins the top ten after a recent price drop.


Top-Grossing Game Apps: GTA Chinatown Wars Takes Over in Debut Week

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In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:

  1. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars ($9.99)
  2. Call of Duty: World at War Zombies ($9.99)
  3. The Sims 3 ($6.99)
  4. Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
  5. Doodle Jump ($0.99)
  6. Madden NFL 10 ($6.99)
  7. The Game of Life: Classic Edition ($2.99)
  8. Tetris ($2.99)
  9. Trenches ($1.99)
  10. Skee-Ball ($0.99)

Rockstar Games’ recently released iPhone port of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars takes the top chart spot in today’s App Store sales results by revenue, pushing Activision’s longtime sales leader Call of Duty: World at War Zombies to second place.

EA’s The Sims 3 continues to outperform PopCap’s Bejeweled 2 as anticipation builds for The Sims 3 World Adventures. Lima Sky’s 99-cent Doodle Jump manages to take fifth place, meanwhile, thanks to a week-long reign at the top of the paid app charts by volume.

EA’s Madden NFL 10 and The Game of Life both move up several spots in today’s rankings, as the company’s iPhone version of Tetris falls to eighth place after finishing fourth last week. Thunder Game Works’ Trenches also sees a drop in popularity after previously debuting at fifth place, as Freeverse’s Skee-Ball finishes up the week’s results at tenth.


Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Debuts for iPhone

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With little fanfare, Rockstar Games brought one of gaming’s biggest franchises to the App Store over the weekend. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars ($9.99) is an iPhone port of Rockstar’s most recent handheld entry in the GTA series, previously released for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable.

Chinatown Wars is a free-roaming crime drama set in the streets of Liberty City. Players take on the role of Huang Lee, a man robbed of a valuable family heirloom and left to die. Seeking revenge, Lee must gather information and build a reputation by doing odd jobs for the criminal underworld.

Of course, in GTA tradition, this involves creating all sorts of fun antisocial mayhem. Stealing cars, murdering pedestrians, and dealing drugs are all part of a normal day’s work in Liberty City.

The iPhone version of Chinatown Wars retains the overhead-view action of previous ports, and includes all of the touch screen sequences from the Nintendo DS edition. Players must complete touch-based challenges to hotwire cars and pay tolls at toll bridges, among other things.

App Store customer response indicates that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is every bit as big of a game as it was on the DS and PSP — an impressive technical feat, considering the wide variety of its featured content. Could Chinatown Wars soon find itself among the App Store’s top sellers?