Sony has released some details on forthcoming PSP title, Gangs of London, a self-explanatory action strategy romp set in and around the capital and produced by the team behind The Getaway. Here's a press release - I find it helpful to imagine Phil Daniels reading it out:
"Set in the mean and moody streets of London, this title isn't for the faint-hearted. Action meets strategy as you take on London's fiercest gangs in a bid for domination of the capital. With the opportunity to play as one of five gangs, you have to use brains and brawn to overcome the rival criminal factions and gain control of the city's underworld. Become the guv'nor of the Cockney, Triad, Yardie, Russian or Pakistani gangs and take on the capital over a number of unique and challenging game modes"
And sure enough, as far as gaming options are concerned, Gangs of London is more engorged than Ray Winstone at an all-you-can-eat chop house.
There's the main action mode where you lead a crack squad of cockney crimelords as they carry out 60 missions, which may or may not include hobbling rival gangsters while being respectful to old people and giving a bit of money to Charity. You can shout out orders or hot swap between differently armed hoodlums on your quest to become the city's Mr Big.
There's also a multiplayer turn-based strategy mode, a freeroaming mode (explore london as an American tourist or a cabbie! No really!), a game sharing mode (with missions based around different tube stations, which you download from other people's machines - a neat little idea) and finally a British pub games mode where you play darts, skittles and pool. Cor blimey, all they're missing is a SingStar Chaz n' Dave sing-along and a design your own Pearly King section.
Anyway, it's out later this year, guv - if Eastenders hasn't already killed off any desire you had to fetishistically celebrate London's criminal underworld.
