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P3zine Issue 18 NAVIGATE FREE! PLUS! Issue 18 | August 2008 E3 SPECIAL REPORT Every new PS3 title unveiled PFree Magazine3 For PlayStationZine 3 Gamers. Read it, Print it, Send it to your mates… REVIEWED! The definitive review inside! PREVIEWED! PREVIEWED! PREVIEWED! SIREN: WWE Legends BLOOD CURSE of WrestleMania The best horror game on PS3 Resistance 2 Motorstorm 2 CONTROL NAVIGATE |02 The latest & QUICK FINDER Welcome DON’T MISS! greatest titles Every game’s just a click away This month’s highlights… on PS3 to Ratchet and Clank Resident Evil 5 P3Zine Future: Quest for MAG Booty Rock Band 2 Following last month’s E3 there’s a slew of Legends of Resistance 2 news and previews in this month’s issue. Don’t Wrestlemania Motorstorm: miss the latest on Resistance 2 and be sure to God of War 3 Pacific Rift check out the Top 10 announcements from Gran Turismo 5 Rise of the Argonauts Resistance 2 LittleBigPlanet Soul Calibur IV Sony as we saw it. Looking scarily stunning DC Universe Online Siren: Blood Curse We also have two fantastic new titles up for review this issue. First up comes Soul Calibur IV - without doubt a must-buy beat-’em-up if MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! you’re a fan of the genre. And more immediately there’s the release of Siren: Blood Curse. At less than twenty quid and available for download as you read this it’s a no-brainer for horror junkies. Soul Calibur IV Enjoy the issue... Awesome new beat-’em-up reviewed! MAGAZINE Dan Hutchinson, Editor FEEDBACK! [email protected] DON’T MISS ISSUE 19 SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE! Click here to tell us what you think of WARNING! MULTIMEDIA DISABLED! 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 Motorstorm: Pacific Rift Sony’s new buggie-fest previewed 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 Ian Morris Steve Hill Chris Schilling Siren: Blood Curse asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. In the ring with Recovering from Getting his breath Wrestlemania Resistance 2 back from Soul Horror of horrors! Download it today... Calibur IV CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE |03 Previews FIRST More Ratchet and Clank action for a budget price LOOK can’t be a bad thing. Ratchet and Publisher: SCEE Developer: Insomniac Clank Future: Heritage: Resistance, Ratchet and Clank Link: www. Quest for Booty insomniacgames.com ETA: Winter The Dynamic Duo are back again What is it? This one really caught us off guard. It’s not a fully fledged sequel to PREVIEW Ratchet and Clank, but rather, it’s a downloadable expansion pack FEEDBACK! that’s set to contain four levels, offering 3-4 hours of gameplay, for the Click here to bargain price of $14.99 (£7.50). tell us what you think of “This is a Will three hours of gameplay be worth it? Ratchet and downloadable There’s no denying that squeezing a Ratchet and Clank game into three Clank Future expansion pack that’s hours will be a massive challenge, but from what we’ve seen, Quest for Booty isn’t making many sacrifices. The same quality of level design, set to contain four graphics, story, and most importantly, humour are all still present here levels, offering 3-4 – if you were to compare it to a shop-bought game, you’d be hard hours of gameplay” pushed to tell the difference. When can we expect more? Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty is set for a release sometime towards December, but there’s still no firm release date. It’s also been confirmed that a version will be following on Blu-ray, for those of you who enjoy their games in a Ratchet and Clank more material form. still looks luscious. New gameplay mechanics seek to stretch the Ratchet experience even further. 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Stay calm wrestling fans, and don’t try to adjust your screens, as what PREVIEW you’re seeing is true – years after combining the Day of Reckoning, Raw, FEEDBACK! and SmackDown series into one game, THQ have lifted the veil on a Click here to You can feel the new game, called Legends of Wrestlemania. Letting you play as any tell us what Hulkmania running wild. number of wrestling legends, this is a real blast from the past. you think of Legends of What are we going to be doing? Wrestlemania “Letting you play Apparently, the main mode of the game is the Wrestlemania Tour as any number of mode, which sounds like it’s going to be a series of historical matches from Wrestlemanias past, set up with archive footage from the events wrestling legends, themselves. With a roster of over 40 superstars and managers, plus the this is a real blast ability to create your own Legend, and online play, Legends is shaping from the past” up to be a fully fledged grappling experience. When do we get to see more? Cunningly, the game’s currently scheduled for a March 2009 release – the same time that Wrestlemania 25’s going to be taking place, but we wouldn’t be surprised if there were at least Immortal wrestling some sort of footage moments, preserved It looks a lot better than those Legends of Wrestling games, we can say that much. on the SmackDown in videogame form. disc, too. CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE |06 Previews Resident Evil 5 Publisher: Capcom | ETA: March 2009 ow that the whole N‘shooting black zombies in Africa’ argument has died down, Capcom have gone to INCOMING work publicising the actual Another magnificent seven riding in... game, and it’s looking very tasty indeed. With an online co-op mode, and release date Gran Turismo 5 confirmed, you’d best start counting down now. Publisher: SCEE | ETA: 2010 ep, you read that ETA right, as Little Big Planet Yaccording to an interview with Publisher: SCEE | ETA: October 2008 Polyphony head honcho, Kazunori rilliantly, Sony chose to use Little Big Planet to Yamauchi, the man himself has Bpresent their boring sales figures to the world. MAG revealed that GT5 may not be Also, it was announced that the general public will be Publisher: SCEE | ETA: 2009 released until 2010. In the meantime, able to charge real money for content in the game, assive Action Game ( or MAG to its many friends) we’ll have to make do with a hefty with the possibility of becoming a LBP millionaire. is exactly what it says on the tin – a huge, online update to Prologue, that’s meant to M game with massive be hitting the PSN soon. potential. Letting God of War 3 DC Universe Online up to a staggering Publisher: SCE | ETA: Late 2009 Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment | ETA: TBA 256 players wage nveiled in FMV form, elmed by comic book legend Jim Lee, who’s war across an Ucomplete with an incredibly Hworked as an artist on several of the biggest online battlefield, cheesy voiceover, Sony confirmed comic books, DC Universe Online is a new game for this could be a big at the E3 show that God of War PS3 from SOE. hit for Sony. 3 will be making it’s way to a PS3 Letting you make – no real surprises there, then. The a superhero, this downside? We’ve got to wait until is a bit like City of Rock Band 2 ‘Late 2009’ to get our hands on Heroes, but with Publisher: EA | ETA: 2008 it, and we’ve seen nothing of the a license. We’re h yeah, this is just what we needed. Even actual game as yet. expecting it to Othough we’ve yet to see the PS3 version on be great, then. these fair shores, Harmonix have announced a sequel’s coming this year, with great songs, SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER SPRING including Spoonman IN THE – Soundgarden, Ace of BROTHERS IN ARMS LEGO BATMAN SMACKDOWN 2009 ALPHA PROTOCOL ETA: March Spades – Motorhead, PIPELINE PAIN AMUSEMENT PARK SAINTS ROW 2 SACRED 2 LEGENDS OF WRESTLEMANIA ETA: March and Alive – Pearl Jam. CONTROL SBK08 Superbike World Championship © 2008 Lago S.r.l. Published by Lago S.r.l. &©; 2008 Lago S.r.l. Black Bean is a trademark of Lago S.r.l. Developed by Milestone S.r.l. All rights reserved. All manufacturers, motorcycles,names, brands and associate imagery featured in this game are trademarks and/or copyrighted materials of their respective owners. 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