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Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without 21 Starship Troopers PC Continues to Set the Standard for Both Technology and Advancements in Gameplay Issue 07 THE WAY It’s Meant To Be Played Peter Jackson’s King Kong Age Of Empires III Serious Sam 2 Blockbusters Enjoy the season’s hottest games on the hottest gaming platform Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch City Of Villains F.E.A.R And The Wardrobe NNVM07.p01usVM07.p01us 1 119/9/059/9/05 33:57:57:57:57 ppmm The way it’s meant to be played 3 6 7 8 Welcome Welcome to Issue 7 of The Way It’s Meant 12 13 to be Played, the magazine that showcases the very best of the latest PC games. All the 30 titles featured in this issue are participants in NVIDIA’s The Way It’s Meant To Be Played program, a campaign designed to deliver the best interactive entertainment experience. Development teams taking part in 14 19 the program are given access to NVIDIA’s hardware, with NVIDIA’s developer technology engineers on hand to help them get the very best graphics and effects into their new games. The games are then rigorously tested by NVIDIA for compatibility, stability and reliability to ensure that customers can buy any game with the TWIMTBP logo on the box and feel confident that the game will deliver the ultimate install- and-play experience when played with an Contents NVIDIA GeForce-based graphics card. Game developers today like to use 3 NVIDIA news 14 Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, Shader Model 3.0 technology for stunning, The Witch And The Wardrobe complex cinematic effects – a technology TWIMTBP games 15 Peter Jackson’s King Kong fully supported by all the latest NVIDIA 4 Vietcong 2 16 F.E.A.R. GeForce graphics processors (GPUs), as Gothic 3 Sniper Elite is High Dynamic Range (HDR), which 5 The Matrix: Path Of Neo 17 Joint Task Force creates lighting effects to truly bring games to life. Combine these with NVIDIA’s hugely Indigo Prophecy The Witcher successful SLI technology, which enables 6 Age Of Empires III Myst 5: End Of Ages two graphics cards to to run in parallel when 7 City Of Villains 18 Fable: The Lost Chapters installed in a SLI enabled PC with two PCI Mage Knight Apocalypse Rome: Total War – Barbarian Invasion Express slots, and you can see why NVIDIA 8 Cold War 19 Battlefield 2: Special Forces graphics continue to set the standard. 9 Quake IV 20 Bet On Soldier The line up of PC games for this 10 Crime Life: Gang Wars Moto GP: Ultimate Racing Technology 3 winter is one of the strongest ever. The Stubbs The Zombie: Rebel Without 21 Starship Troopers PC continues to set the standard for both technology and advancements in gameplay. A Pulse Since our last issue earlier this year, we’ve 11 Spellforce 2 TWIMTBP features seen the graphics performance bar raised Dark & Light 22 GeForce 7800 and SLI – the ultimate again with the introduction of NVIDIA’s brand 12 Serious Sam 2 gaming experience new GeForce 7 Series graphics processors – 13 Hitman: Blood Money the most advanced GPU ever built, running over twice as fast as dual-slot GeForce 6800 Ultras. We have more on GeForce 7 Series and its staggering performance on page 22. Serious Sam 2, the Serious Sam 2 logo, Serious Engine 2, the Serious Engine 2 logo, Croteam and the Croteam logo are trademarks and/or I hope you enjoy this edition of The Way It’s registered trademarks of Croteam Ltd. © 2005 Croteam Ltd. 2K Games and the 2K Games logo, A Take2 Company logo, and Take-Two FuturePlus Interactive Software are all trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software. Developed by Croteam. Published by Meant To Be Played – let us know if there’s 2K Games. All rights reserved. Age Of Empires III ©2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, the Microsoft Games Studios logo, Windows, Ensemble Studios, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, and the Age of Kings are either trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in anything you think should be included in Produced by the United States and/or other countries. FEAR © 2005 Sierra Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. F.E.A.R., Vivendi Universal Games and the Vivendi Universal Games logo are trademarks of Vivendi Universal Games, Inc. Sierra and the Sierra logo are registered trademarks or trade- our pages. Future Plus marks of Sierra Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. The Monolith logo is a trademark of Monolith Productions, Inc. All trade- 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, BA1 2BW, UK marks are property of their respective owners. City of Villains® is a subscription game requiring an active Internet connection. © 2005 Cryptic Studios, Inc. and NC Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. City of Villains® is a trademark of Cryptic Studios, Inc. and NCsoft Corporation. NCsoft® Printed by Brown Printing, Woodstock, IL is a trademark of NCsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Peter Jackson’s King Kong: Bill Rehbock © 2005 Ubisoft Entertainment. All rights reserved. Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or Director of Developer Relations The Future Network plc is a public company. other countries. Universal Studios’ King Kong movie © Universal Studios. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA © Future 2005 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, NARNIA, and all book titles, characters and locales original thereto are trademarks of C.S. Lewis Pte Ltd. and [email protected] All images and materials are property of their respective owners. All Rights Reserved. are used with permission. © DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. and WALDEN MEDIA, LLC. All rights reserved. 2 NNVM07.p02_p03usVM07.p02_p03us 2 119/9/059/9/05 33:59:05:59:05 ppmm NVIDIA news NVIDIA Hits Full Throttle NVIDIA launches the With GeForce 7800 GTX International ■ The Quadro FX4500 avvy gamers have been eagerly Mobile Gaming packs a huge punch. S awaiting the next generation Awards INTRODUCING THE of graphics processing units (GPUs) QUADRO FX 4500 GPU from NVIDIA for some time now. At eyond the world of the It’s not only gamers that benefit from NVIDIA’s commitment last we can reveal the technology that’s B desktop and notebook, to delivering ever-greater set to push gaming to the next level. NVIDIA is also working to deliver the graphics processing power. Representing a significant leap forward in dynamic-range (HDR) lighting best possible graphical experience Designed for pro-level users, 3D graphics design, the new NVIDIA® support, and support for NVIDIA® on a whole range of mobile the NVIDIA Quadro® FX 4500 GeForce™ 7800 GTX GPUs deliver up SLI™ technology (for up to twice the solutions. The International Mobile delivers an incredible 50 percent more horsepower, to twice the shading power of previous gaming performance of a single GPU Gaming awards, initiated by NVIDIA support for NVIDIA SLI multi- generation cards and fill rates of some configuration) comprise just a handful of and supported by leading companies GPU technology that enables 10.32 billion texels per second. the product’s industry-leading features. including Orange, Nokia, and Alias, even greater performance, The GeForce 7800 GTX also You can read more about the have been designed to promote and the implementation of brings a number of movie-level image amazing new GeForce 7800 GTX’s this by recognizing the world’s most several breakthrough features. These include 32x full-scene processing functions to the realms incredible performance, its innovative talented mobile developers. antialiasing, support for up to of truly affordable, real-time 3D feature set, and the significance of The contest was officially four dual-link high resolution processing. Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 NVIDIA SLI support over on page 22. launched at the E3 event in May, displays from a single PC, and Shader Model 3.0 compatibility, a new http://www.nvidia.com/page/ 2005, and entrants (including the ability to match multiple NVIDIA® CineFX™ 4.0 engine, high geforce_7800.html bedroom enthusiasts, students, units with the NVIDIA Quadro G- Sync board to drive displays such and industry professionals) have as large-scale powerwall screens. until October 17th, 2005 to submit www.nvidia.co.uk/page/ their proposals via the official IMG quadrofx_family.html. Awards Web site. Twenty projects will then be chosen, with support LOWER COST SLI provided for the qualifying entrants DELIVERS GREATER POWER to build a demonstrable version By enabling users to double of their concept. New companies up their graphics processing and students will even be provided potential by placing two video with office space and technical cards into one PC, NVIDIA SLI technology revolutionizes assistance. Four winners will then ■ The NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs deliver unprecedented power to your PC. graphics performance for be announced at the 2006 3GSM professional and high-end World Congress in Barcelona. enthusiasts. Now NVIDIA WINNERS NAMED IN ELECTRONIC WORLD CUP www.imgawards.com is bringing this remarkable technology to the mainstream, T he fifth Electronic Sports World Cup came to a spectacular climax on with SLI support on the highly Sunday, July 10th. Held at the Paris Louvre, the NVIDIA-sponsored popular GeForce 6600 GPUs. event was broadcast both online and on television. The French ultimately When used in conjunction came out on top, winning the Unreal Tournament 2004, Warcraft III and with new, lower priced, SLI- Gran Turismo 4 categories, while the USA ruled with Counterstrike, winning based motherboards, the both the main and female-only categories. A result is a powerful entry-level Russian clan walked away with the Quake III graphics solution that any Arena trophy, while Saudi team Arabian Joker gamer would wish for.
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