Rockstar first teased us by releasing its top-down GTA on the Nintendo DS. Then they redeemed themselves by bringing it to the PSP, even though it is almost a year late. But Rockstar is doing a lot to ensure that PSP owners don't feel left out, and to offset claims that this release is simply a rushed port meant to cash in on the franchise.
First of all, some of the basic content of the game has been improved. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars PSP features enhanced graphics, with more polygons, proper lighting effects and a minimap that can display on the same screen as the action. There are also six new instrumental radio stations, taking advantage of the additional storage available on the PSP format. Finally, more supplementary minigame content like Rampgaes have been added to the game outside of the main storyline.
There will also be more story missions in the PSP version of Chinatown Wars. So far, Rockstar has revelaed details about one exclsuive mission called "Factory Fun". This extended mission is very similar to one in San Andreas called "Are You Going to San Fierro?" Factory Fun invlolves infiltrating a warehouse drug operation and destroying the crops, all while protecting a documentary filmmaker who comes along just to make your life more complicated.
This new character is named Melanie Mallard, an aspiring journalist and documentary filmmaker who becomes involved in the action while doing a story on the city's Triad gang. Melanie has made a deal with Chan Jaoming to get a behind-the-scenes look at his business, hoping to get the scoop on a major story. Hard-headed and sassy, with shades of April O'Neil, Melanie is sure to be a constant annoyance to Huang.
The Crash Bandicoot: WARPED series has once again returned to the system in which it began its lifespan. This series has always been one of my favorites ever since the original had come out and it had bestowed its head in the video game world. In time a sequel was made, but people constantly asked this question. Was is it any different then the previous one? Was it any different as to have full expectations of a great game right out of the get-go? Unfortunately, the answer was no. Both of these games were alike, and shared many of the things that one had just in a different way. But Naughty Dog (creators of this coveted series) thought of changing that with the sequel. You see, the first Crash suffered liabilities of ever being fun, and its replay value was really low. As for the second one, while it was fun it was however, too easy, too linear, and like the past one it had little to no replay value. So as for the third mark in the series one could’ve easily have easily told from the beginning that this game was going to be fun, challenging, enjoying, and with high replay value. So as one will eventually see the game follows in every mark mentioned, except for one, and that’s its challenge. But with great and zany puzzles Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped still feels and still acts like a winner.
Crash Bandicoot: WARPED begins right were the other one left off. After his plan backfired yet again, Neo Cortex was losing power. Unfortunately, a pile of debris had hit a mountaintop and out came a villain hell-bent on world destruction. His name was Uka Uka. Uka Uka is a mask portrayal of a powerful demon and this powerful demon is the brother to the other ancient mask: Aku Aku. Aku Aku is a great friend of Crash Bandicoot and his sister Coco (in fact he’s that little mask who gave you a chance to continue after you got hit in the past games). Uka Uka then learns that Cortex has failed him too many times. He is mad that he never brought Crash Bandicoot down, and that he never had a chance to become ruler of the world. So upon knowing this Uka Uka makes his own plan. He gets a machine that will plan to “somehow” destroy the world. For this machine to be powered up it needs 25 crystals, of which have been stirred and strewn through time. Then Cortex and Uka Uka get a time machine and then they go off to get the crystals. Back at Crash’s house, Aku Aku tells them of the power of his evil brother, and then all three of them go to the time machine and all three hope to get all of the crystals.
Sony's new handheld device – PSP Go released date is October 1, 2009 and this new PSP Go price is around US $249: maybe one of the most awaited portable console of all time!
For giving Playstation portable fans an overall understanding of this Sony's new product, after carefully analysing and shifting correlative collect data, I will share some Sony PSP Go features here.
As mentioned by Playstation.com, below is the best generalize of the new PSP Go's key-features:
Go Bigger 16GB flash memory
Go Smaller The most portable PSP® ever
Go Digital The most immersive portable games, anytime, anywhere
Go Versatile Games, music, movies, internet and more
Go Anywhere Your content, fitting your lifestyle
Go Bigger
The PSP Go will feature no UMD drive, instead relying on its 16 gig internal memory drive so that gamers may directly download games onto the Go.
Go smaller
Well, there's no doubt the Go is a desirable bit of kit. The sliding control panel, sharp screen and build quality are all impressive. Also the thumb stick on the Go is smaller, more accurate and generally more satisfying to use than the one on the standard PSP 3000. Plus the Go is far lighter to lug around than the 3000. Of course, you'd expect this being download only but it does make you more inclined to carry the thing around. It's no iPhone/iPod Touch but it does at least fit more snugly in a pocket than the PSP 3000.
Go Digital
Those buying a PSP Go from October 1 will be able to download a free copy of Gran Turismo before the 10th.
Being a huge fan of Resistance: Fall of Man, I fired up Resistance Retribution, and gave the third person shooter an extended workout. Thanks to the Go's crisp and screen, gameplay was smooth (even outdoors).
With a decent set of headphones audio was utterly solid and the Go's sensible control layout and hand-friendly form-factor also meant that long bouts of gameplay caused little discomfort.
Go Versatile
Another killer PSP feature also present in the Go is PS3 integration. All existing interoperability between the PS3 and the PSP range is still supported which means that Remote Play can be used to access audio video and some game content from my PS3 wirelessly. Even better still I'm able to pair my wireless PS3 controller with the PSP for extra fine control.
Whilst some gadget blogs have criticised the PSP Go for being more of a PSP 1.5 rather than a PSP2, the PSP Go delivers a bunch of significant refinements to a portable platform that's already pretty solid having sold tens of millions of units worldwide and is backed by an incredibly rich games ecosystem.
Go Anywhere
The Go's more pocketable size and crispy bright TFT screen also makes it a smoking media machine. Boasting the same support for music, video, and photo files as with earlier PSPs, The formats supported by the Go read like a who's who of digital media formats (MPEG-4, H.264, AAC, AVI, Motion JPEG, ATRAC, MP3, .Wav, WMA, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF and last but by no means least PNG).
Sony has experienced a bit of a retailer backlash against the PSP Go. However, UK product manager Claire Backhouse told Gamesindustry.biz that they had expected worse. "We were very aware of concerns when we went into it and I actually expected a lot more negative responses than we actually got," she said. "They were really quite fine with it. They see it as a way of getting people into the ...
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Sony's PlayStation Portable is the most high-powered handheld video-game machine on the market, but it's usually my third choice when it comes to on-the-road action. It's all a matter of size. Apple's iPhone , which has become a solid casual-gaming platform, slides easily into a pants pocket. Nintendo 's DS fits a little more snugly. But even the slimmest version of the old PSP is still nearly 7 ...
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Edge reports that Sony and Nintendo are both expanding their anti-piracy operations in an effort to reduce piracy rates on the PSP and the DS respectively. Nintendo has hired Neil Boyd, who handled anti-piracy operations for Warner Brothers, to help them demonstrate their "willingness to take action against criminals who are making money out of the infringement of games developers' copyright ...
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The PSP-3000 was supposed to be "hack proof." But after only a few weeks on the market, it had been definitively hacked. Now Sony is trying again with the PSP Go, hoping to do with hardware what they couldn't with firmware. PlayStation Insider , Sony Computer Entertainment America president John Koller said, "You won't be able to rip your games and play them on the system, the firmware precludes ...
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Sony has been recruiting existing iPhone game developers to build versions of games for the PSP ahead of the launch of the download-only PSP Go, sources said on the Friday ahead of Germany's gamescom expo. While the specific titles haven't been named, Pocket Gamer explained they would all be titles that could port to the slightly smaller resolution display as well as without touch. The move ...
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New store to be shown this week. Sony's price points for the upcoming PSP app store are lower than those used on iTunes, according to a report. Pocket Gamer claims that games and applications will go on sale for 1, 2 or 5. The app store, confirmed and detailed last month, will have "no concept, approval, cheaper tools, shorter QA processes and lower available prices" according to Sony developer ...
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Our sister site T3.com has got the first review of the new PSP Go - the latest iteration of Sony's handheld. Check out the review and get ready to be surprised by the score.
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Get more of what you want with the all-new PSP®-3000 system. It has an advanced LCD screen, which offers the highest-level contrast ratio, best response time and the widest color gamut possible on an LCD screen.
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[UPDATE] Global recession batters electronics giant as quarterly PS3 sales drop from 1.6 million to 1.1 million, PSP sales go from 3.7 million to 1.3 million; software sees dramatic decline on all platforms.
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We've known since E3 in June that Sony would open up the PlayStation Network for direct video downloads over WiFi to the PSP -- no PC or PS3 required. Now it's live, in Japan anyway. At the moment, there are about 90 PSN video titles to choose from at the moment including anime episodes at ¥200 (about $2) per or animated movies for ¥500 ($5.30) in standard definition or ¥600 ($6.40) for HD. PSP ...
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Those gamers among you who are cursing Sony for not taking the opportunity to add a second analog stick with the PSPgo update may be interested to hear it was considered. The PSPgo was, after all, created with the aid of feedback from both developers and gamers, so surely it came up in design meetings? Shuhei [...]
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Sony is launching the new Sony PSP Go on October 1st, but is still pushing out new Sony PSP bundles featuring the current PSP-3000 console. Yesterday Sony detailed the new limited edition Assassins Creed: Bloodlines PSP Entertainment Pack. The new ...
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Sony's European head of developer relations, Zeno Colaà§o, has explained the company's strategy for courting companies to make products for its digital distribution-focused PSP line (more specifically, the new, expensive PSP Go).
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There's a strong rumor this morning that Sony's busy prepping a discrete part of the PlayStation Store for new games and apps that'll be directed at the PSP and PSP Go . Sounds like Sony's also jumping on the App Store bandwagon. The rumor started over at Develop , which claims to have the inside track on Sony's plans. The company is "aggressively courting" developers for the scheme, and the ...
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The Nintendo DSi and Sony PSP once again led Japanese hardware charts for the week ended July 5, Media Create said Friday, as Wii led home console sales for another week. Sales of the DSi reached 46,855, up from 39,885 the week prior. PSP captured the second spot, selling 32,849, up from 26,789 a week ago. Likewise, the Nintendo Wii saw a bump in sales, moving 24,971 units during the week, up ...
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Here's an abbreviated look at some multimedia titles for the family. • Pangya: Fantasy Golf (from Tomy Corp., for the PlayStation Portable, $29.99) — Anyone who wants to know what it's like to challenge a genius magician in love on the back nine gets his chance in this role-playing golf game. In action where customizing a Japanese anime-style avatar is as important as sinking a birdie putt, the ...
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Although Sony's said the popularity of versatile download-ready platforms like iPhone support the market positioning for its "premium" PSP Go, the company's hesitated to position the handheld directly against mobile smartphones. But according to the Nikkei business daily (as reported by Reuters) the company is planning to assemble a technology team to start exploring a new product that will ...
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Sony is just now developing a gaming-themed phone that would be targeted explicitly at the iPhone, Japan's Nikkei BP said this weekend. The company is supposedly creating a device team as soon as July that would merge the gaming qualities of the PSP with its Sony Ericsson handsets. It's implied that the device would have a touchscreen to better position the device against Apple's hardware....
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As recently as May Sony has itself stated that a PSP phone "could happen," and now a report from Nikkei business daily states that Sony is planning on putting together a team as early as next month to build product that would act as a combination of a PSP and a Sony Ericsson handset. It makes plenty of sense, both as a differentiation from Nintendo and as a confrontation of the looming iPhone ...
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Although Sony's said the popularity of versatile download-ready platforms like iPhone support the market positioning for its "premium" PSP Go, the company's hesitated to position the handheld directly against mobile smartphones. But according to the Nikkei business daily (as reported by Reuters) the company is planning to assemble a technology team to start exploring a new product that will ...
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Sony, not content with merely bumping up the specs of the PSP into the new Go version, is considering transforming the PSP into a phone too. Is this a smart move by the consumer electronics giant, or a very dumb one? PSP Phone rumors have come and gone in the past, fueled by fantasy and interesting tidbits like the Sony patent pictured above. But the latest one seems to carry a little more ...
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Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which has only been available on the Nintendo DS, is coming to Sony's PlayStation Portable.
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Sony today announced that it would release a PSP Rookie Hunters Pack on July 23, 2009, as a limited offer, in Japan. The new PSP bundle pack comprises PSP-3000 and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite game. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite continues saw sales sin...
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First of all, some of the basic content of the game has been improved. 
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released date is October 1, 2009 and this new PSP Go price is around US $249: maybe one of the most awaited portable console of all time!
