Chinatown Wars: Radar, PDA and street trading
Get comfortable with Huang’s overhead city and the handheld editions’ differences.
Edition / platforms: Nintendo DS · PSP · iOS · Android
All guides for Chinatown Wars ↗Read the overhead city
Chinatown Wars presents the road differently from GTA IV. While driving, watch both your vehicle and the next radar junction. The GPS line is useful guidance, but it is not automatically the quickest route for a timed assignment. Learn the braking response of an ordinary car first. On narrow streets, a collision often wastes more time than a slightly slower clear line. When an assignment introduces an interaction mini-game, read its prompt before committing to an input.
Use the PDA deliberately
Contacts and assignments are communicated through the PDA and map markers. Read a message before crossing the city: a trading opportunity is not the same thing as a new story mission. Return to a safehouse regularly outside assignments to preserve progress. Carrying a valuable stock of goods also increases what is at stake if you are arrested, so avoid treating every trip across town as an excuse to start a pursuit.
Trading and police pressure
Drug dealing is a game system with changing purchase and sale prices. Compare the displayed terms rather than buying simply because a dealer happens to be nearby. Keep a cash reserve and think about the transport route before committing everything to one risky journey. During pursuits, disabling police vehicles against obstacles can reduce the wanted level. This does not mean indiscriminately shooting officers: escalating violence can make a manageable escape more difficult.
Follow your edition’s prompts
DS, PSP and mobile editions use different controls for their small interaction sequences. A gesture drawn or tapped on DS may become a button action on PSP, while mobile editions provide their own touch areas. Follow the symbol actually shown by your game rather than a button list written for another device. Our mission guides describe the intended action and point out important control differences. They cover selected story assignments, not the entire campaign, and do not assume that every version shares an identical interface.
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