Main Mini-Games
Recruit
Recruit is a mini-game that requires of the player to find people on the streets and tattoo them to make them an automatic member of the Triads (The Lee's, The Joamings, and Mings families).
Dumpster Hunter
Dumpster Hunter is a mini-game where the player can search dumpsters for special items, weapons, etc. On the touch screen, the player sees the trash bags as you use the stylus to hold and throw them while on the top screen you see Huang throwing bags and searching them. One of the easiest to find things in the garbage bags are AK-47's.
Drug Dealer
Drug Dealer is a mini-game in which the player can purchase drugs from one city and must sell them in another. The first time you purchase a drug, you see a red stash box. You must drug deal with Danny in some of the earlier times playing the game.
- Warning: According to an interview with Rockstar Games and Kikizorefhttp://games.kikizo.com/features/gta-chinatown-wars-handson-p4.asp/ref, there are more and more cops dotted around locations where you purchase drugs.
Car Jacking
In Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, we have adapted from smashing windows in GTA 4 and now must jack cars by using a screwdriver and a special device that disables the car alarm (which is good for not getting stars). But if you like, you can just steal a car without having to disable the alarm. You'll get more cops on your tail but that's Grand Theft Auto for you. Even if you do disable the car alarm, you still have to be aware of cops in the surrounding area.
Mission Mini-Games
Sniper Rifle Repair Kit
Sniper Rifle Repair Kit is a mini-game where you must either repair or create a sniper rifle. In one of the earlier missions, you must have a sniper rifle to kill a man but you must create the sniper rifle out of parts using Touch Screen Interactivity. At other times when using a sniper rifle you may need to repair your rifle.
Other Mini-Games
Save Yourself
Save Yourself is a mini-game that is only playable at the beginning of the game. The player must save themselves by swimming out of a truck in an ocean (Huang probably bangs open the door by kicking it) before sinking.