Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Condensing GTA gameplay onto a teeny handheld seemed like an outrageous task , but when Chinatown Wars took on the Nintendo DS earlier this year, everyone's jaws dropped onto hard-floors through sheer gobsmacked wonderment.

PSP Chinatown Wars pretty much carries an identical story, rejigs the controls a bit (no stylus waving), and still looks and plays bloody awesome. You star as the son of a Triad boss, who jets over to Liberty City when dear old pop is murdered.

Unfolding from an angled top-down perspective with comic-book-y cut-outs, your vengeful gangboy gets dragged through an epic plotline of murder, drugs, betrayal, Triad psychopaths, family heirlooms and all sorts of colourful action. Massive shoot-outs, exclusive missions, quirky 'mini-games' and a load of drug-running to make your buck, Chinatown Wars is simply a superb spin-off from the legend that is GTA.

We like it. Lots.

*WIN AN iPOD TOUCH!!!*

To celebrate the release of Chinatown Wars on PSP, we're giving away with this much-loved Apple gadgets to ONE LUCKY WINNER. Simply email your details to chaps@maxim.co.uk, quoting CHINATOWN WARS in the subject head. We'll pull one winner out at random.

Entrants must be over 18 and live in the UK