Grand Theft Auto Wii not likely, GTA: Chinatown Wars includes drug-dealing mini-game
New details on a Grand Theft Auto Wii and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for DS have been revealed and they are very interesting indeed.
It has been confirmed by Rockstar in an interview with Edge that GTA: Chinatown Wars will indeed be getting an M for Mature rating. Here’s what he had to say on that issue:
“No one disagreed with [Rockstar president] Sam Houser’s very clear edict that GTA has to be an M rating,” Dan Houser (Sam Houser’s brother) told the British magazine. “It can’t be softened to make it family-friendly–that’s not the game we’re making…[Nintendo] didn’t want us to make a GTA for kids, and we weren’t interested in making a game we wouldn’t normally make.”
And just so you don’t have any doubt that it’s M-rated and thus geared towards Mature players, GTA: Chinatown Wars will include a drug-dealing mini-game. In this game the player needs to sell six different types of drugs according to the demands of various neighborhoods (Jack Thompson and politicians will sure love this!). A screenshot of the game was also leaked to T3.com and detailed what type of drugs you’d be selling. They include: cocaine, heroin, ecstasy (MDMA), acid (LSD), Weed (marijuana), and downers (barbiturates). Other mini-games include digging through trash and (naturally) hot-wiring cars. In addition, the new Wanted system will favor actually taking out police cars instead of simply escaping from them.
This to me is pretty outlandish and I’m sure it will cause lots of controversy, especially given that GTA: Chinatown Wars is on the Nintendo DS, which is arguably the most kid-popular gaming system. In Rockstar’s defense, Sam Houser had this to say, “We wanted to have a drug-dealing minigame in lots of the GTA games,” Rockstar VP Dan Houser told Edge magazine. “We played with it a little in Vice City Stories, because it worked really well juxtaposed with the main story.” And the mini-game will also be part of the plot in GTA: Chinatown Wars. “It does intersect with the main story, and things you learn from it work with the story, but it mostly runs on its own.”
Chinatown Wars will also will have an online component as the official Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars web-site has the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo, although what this will entail is anyone’s guess.
In addition to all this, in another interview (this time with Nintendo Power), Sam Houser went into details on Grand Theft Auto Wii.
Namely, he reportedly told them that a GTA just wouldn’t make a good fit on the Wii. “It didn’t feel natural to us, I guess,” he said, according to an advanced copy obtained by fan site Nintendo Everything. “It really was that the DS felt like it had a lot of interesting challenges that would be totally different from what we’d done in the past. The stylus and the chance to use minigames in that way was really interesting and exciting to us, and we thought we could integrate seamlessly between those two modes. And it would be the chance to make something really good on a handheld with our handheld-focused team.”
But he didn’t completely rule out the possibility of a GTA Wii, “We haven’t really done any concrete, major thinking about the Wii, one way or another.”
Via GameSpot
