The decision to make a simple game, looking almost identical to the first GTA games is the best thing Rockstar could have done with GTA Chinatown wars. There was no way that the DS could do anything but that and the fact that some people are complaining is plain stupidity, what do they expect.
The use of the touch screen sets it apart from the other GTA games and it’s fun to play unlike GTA 4, which I found tedious with little or no humour. I especially like the way you can get rid of police cars by smashing them into buildings, much more fun than trying to out distance them yawn.
It’s a fun game and not a crime sim like the other GTA titles so for all the would be gangsters give it a miss but if you like a game that is fun then buy it.
GTA 4 for me was a huge disappointment, more attention had been paid to the cut scenes than anything else. If I wanted to watch a gangster film, I would have gone to the cinema, I want fun from a game and it was incredibly lacking in GTA 4.
Having heard good reviews about Saints Row 2 I bought it not expecting much but instead found a game that was fun more like the older GTA games. There was also the added interest of a fully customisable character, for the first time you could go on the rampage looking exactly like yourself or some imagined person, unlike the Hobson’s choice from Rockstar.
I just hope that if Rockstar do another GTA, they take a look at Saints Row 2 as clearly THQ have looked very carefully at GTA and concentrated on what made GTA a great game.