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FREE! NAVIGATE Issue 14 | May 2008 PLUS! PREVIEWED! METAL GEAR SOLID 4 QUAKE WARS Fragging good fun PFree Magazine3 For PlayStationZine 3 Gamers. Read it, Print it, Send it to your mates… ALONE IN THE DARK Only on Spooky in Central Park PlayStation 3! Top 10 PS3 only games revealed inside... HAZE Preview & Interview REVIEWED! FREE BOURNE MINI-MAG! REVIEWED! Gran Turismo 5 Prologue EXCLUSIVE! Time Crisis 4 Engines at the ready... Unravel the conspiracy Get ready for more arcade-style gun toting CONTROL NAVIGATE |2 Welcome The latest & QUICK FINDER DON’T MISS!greatest titles Every game’s just a click away This month’s highlights... on PS3 Quake Wars to In-depth preview inside... 1942 Joint Strike Race Driver: GRID P3Zine Section 8 Just Cause Faith and a .45 Quake Wars PlayStation 3 is getting stronger and stronger Kung Fu Panda Alone In The Dark by the day, and to celebrate its growing Street Fighter 2 HD Haze prowess we’ve pulled together the hottest ten Wolf of the GT 5 Prologue titles that are exclusive to your console of Only on Alone in the Dark Battlefield: Time Crisis 4 choice. Each and every one of these titles Conspiracy in Central Park Commando 3 Condemned 2 won’t be available to 360 fanboys anytime soon... PlayStation 3! Talking of soon and exclusive to PS3 we Top 10 PS3 only games revealed inside... MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! have a quick peek at the latest news on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots; along with an in-depth hands-on preview and developer Time Crisis 4 interview for the much anticipated Haze. Lock and load! As ever, keep your feedback coming - we really do read every e-mail... The arcade classic Enjoy the issue. is back... MAGAZINE Dan Hutchinson, Editor FEEDBACK! [email protected] DON’T MISS ISSUE 15 SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE! Click here to Gran Turismo 5 tell us what Prologue WARNING! MULTIMEDIA DISABLED! you think of Pretty. Very, very pretty the magazine. If you are reading this, then you didn’t choose “Play” when Adobe Reader asked you about multimedia when MEET THE TEAM you opened the magazine. There’s nowt they don’t know about PlayStation INTERVIEW Without the multimedia playing, the magazine will look correct, but you will be missing out on all of the extra content built into each issue, like videos, animated screenshots, annotations, quizzes, competitions and more. We recommend you close and re-open the magazine and select “Play” when Steve Hill Ian Morris Chris Schilling asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. Hot on the heels of Condemned to a life of Looking forward to Bourne again Haze Haze. sequels. GTA IV... Inside the Conspiracy Plus! Hands-on preview CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE |3 Previews As you can no doubt tell from this screen, Home’s looking FIRST gorgeous. We wouldn’t mind living here in real life. Home LOOK Why don’t you come on over? What is it? Publisher: SCEE If you’ve ever played Second Life, you’ll feel instantly at... erm... home, Developer: SCEE in Home. A virtual world that lets you meet up with friends, own Heritage: Wipeout, 24: your own house, play mini-games to pass the time, or even go to the The Game cinema, Home is one of the most intriguing prospects on the PSN, and Link: http:// its release date’s drawing ever nearer. uk.playstation.com/ games-media/games/ So, what’s new? detail/item73986/Home/ Since the last time we reported on Home, a whole bunch of new ETA: July screens have been released in conjunction with the launch of the official Japanese site, and they show just how well Home has been progressing. But whilst visuals are impressive, it’s the functionality With plenty of advertising going on in the game world, Sony “Home is one of the that matters, and it’s this that’s got us most excited. With each game should be able to afford to keep Home free for its users. rumoured to have its own “hub” in the world, you’ll be able to travel Hopefully, that also means free updates, and free extra clothes. most intriguing from section to section, and take part in all sorts of uniquely themed prospects on the activities in each game’s world - currently rumoured by Kotaku are a 2D Uncharted platformer, and a 3D Warhawk War Room, complete with PSN” a holographic battle map, where you and your friends can plan The bowling alley lets you chill out with every move before entering the your friends and enjoy a quick game. We fight. just hope they don’t charge you per play. When do we get to see more? Currently rumoured to enter open beta in May, with a full launch this July, Home should be hitting our hard-drives in the not too distant future. How much of a success it is PREVIEW depends almost entirely on how FEEDBACK! well each game supports it, but Click here to we’re certainly looking forward to tell us what finally earning some trophies, with you think of the launch of the long-awaited Home Accomplishments system. CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: GET MORE INTEL NOW! CHECK OUT THESE FEATURED DEVELOPER VIDEO INTERVIEWS FOR IN DEPTH INFO ON RAINBOW SIX VEGAS 2: www.rainbowsixgame.com Rainbow Six: “Best selling squad shooter” © 2008 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Persistent Elite Creation, Ubisoft, the Ubisoft logo, Ubi.com and the Soldier Icon are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Rainbow Six, Red Storm and Red Storm logo are trademarks of Red Storm Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. is a Ubisoft Entertainment Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2008 company. “3” and “PLAYSTATION” are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, and the Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox Live logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. “Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition” logo © 2008 Guinness World Records Limited. CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE |5 Previews Metal Gear Online - frantic, but with plenty of visual guides to help you see what’s going on. FIRST Metal Gear LOOK Publisher: Konami Developer: Kojima Productions Solid 4 Heritage: Metal Gear Link: www.konami.jp/ A limited edition for the final instalment kojima_pro ETA: June 12th We know what it is, so, what’s new? As the final instalment of the Metal Gear Solid series, you wouldn’t expect it to go out with anything less than a bang, and to that extent, PREVIEW no less than three bundles are planned for the Japanese launch. A FEEDBACK! normal edition, with Metal Gear Online starter disc will sit side by side Click here to with a collector’s edition, and even a limited edition PS3, that comes tell us what complete with a collector’s copy of the game, and a limited edition you think of Dual Shock 3. MGS4 Hold on, Metal Gear Online? “With sixteen players The online component of MGS4, Metal Gear Online is everything you duking it out online, could hope it would be. Letting up to sixteen players duke it out online, Ooh, shiny. We like there’ll be a heavy there’ll be a heavy emphasis on team-based stealth play, requiring the gunmetal effect, emphasis on team- you to sneak up on other players rather than run in all guns blazing. It though we can’t help based stealth play” should provide something fresh and original compared to most other but think it could be a multiplayer titles out there, and with downloadable content set to bit more... fancy? be released shortly after the launch, you can be sure of a fully fleshed online experience. When do we see more? Metal Gear Solid 4 launches worldwide on the 12th of June, and although we’re not certain whether the UK will see the With an emphasis on limited edition PS3, we’d kill to team based stealth get our hands-on one. Happily play, Metal Gear Online though, a European beta is set to be something test for Metal Gear Online is special, and could rumoured to be starting shortly, be supported by possibly tied in with a pre-order downloadable updates campaign. Keep your eyes for up to ten years! peeled. CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE |6 Previews INCOMING Kung Fu Panda Another magnificent seven riding into town... Publisher : Activision | ETA: May 2008 k, we know movie-to-game conversions are Ousually about as fun as a root cavity, but there’s Faith and a .45 something that attracts us to Kung Fu Panda. Whether Section 8 Publisher: TBA | ETA: ‘09 Publisher: Gamecock | ETA: ‘09 it’s the fact we’ve been watching the hilarious trailer ne word – wow. From the makers of Total over and over for the past few days that’s clouding our rom the makers of Fear: OOverdose and Chili Con Carnage comes Faith judgment remains to be seen... FExtraction Point comes and a .45, a co-op adventure set in 1930’s mid- Section 8, a futuristic Sci-Fi FPS. depression America. With some beautiful visuals, and Focusing on the eighth armoured promising early footage, we’re keeping our fingers Wolf of the Battlefield: infantry, a unit nicknamed Section crossed that this one finds a publisher soon. 8, the US army code for a soldier Commando 3 who’s been discharged due to Publisher: Capcom | ETA: Summer being mentally unfit, this shooter is Street Fighter 2 HD nother remake of a sounding interesting to say the least.