In about a month’s time, the newest addition to the GTA franchise hits Nintendo DSes all over the world, but not until now has a trailer for the game surfaced. And we’ve got it!

There’s some gameplay, albeit very little, but tons of artwork and the feeling that this is a true GTA title.

The game casts you as Huang Lee, a man out to avenge the murder of his father. The DS touchscreen will be used in various gameplay scenarioes like dealing drugs, defusing bombs, assembling weaponry and hotwiring cars.

Enjoy!

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Rockstar confirms that their recent addition to the GTA series will feature co-op multiplayer gameplay.

So far Rockstar have kept mum about the game’s multiplayer modes, but fliers passed around at New York Comic Con confirms “head-to-head and co-op multiplayer mayhem”

Said flyer also mentions a replay feature that allows players to replay any completed mission.

GTA: Chinatown Wars is released March 17 in the US and March 20 in PAL territories.

According to Gamespot, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick said at the BMO Capital Market 2008 Interactive Entertainment Conference (ain’t that a mouthful?) to that the release date of GTA: Chinatown Wars has been pushed back into the “second fiscal quarter”, meaning somewhere between February to April of next year.

No reason was given for the delay.

But that’s not all. From the story:

Zelnick said the publisher was aiming to have [GTA IV's 360 DLC] available at the end of the fiscal first quarter (which runs November through January), although he noted it might move into the second quarter alongside Chinatown Wars. Regardless, the downloadable content is “close to completed.”

According to CVG, the newest addition to the GTA franchise will contain a mini-game in which you sell known narcotics such as heroine, cocaine, weed, ecstasy, acid and downers.

“We wanted to have a drug-dealing minigame in lots of the GTA games,” said Rockstar Vice-President Dan Houser. “We played with it a little in Vice City Stories, because it worked really well juxtaposed with the main story.”

“It works well with what GTA is, with driving around the map, and it gives you another thing to think about – another layer or piece of the puzzle to keep you motivated.”

According to Houser, dealing drugs is related to the main story of the game: “It does intersect with the main story,” he explained, “and things you learn from it work with the story, but it mostly runs on its own.”

Controversy anyone?