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P3zine Issue 12 FREE! NAVIGATE Issue 12 | March 2008 PLUS... ARMY OF TWO Rock Band 2008• Devil May CryTOP 4 • Persona 20 3 Come together PFree Magazine3 For PlayStationZ 3 Gamers. Readi it, Printn it, Send it to youre mates… MASSIVE PREVIEW! FAR CRY 2 GTA IV Jungle japes All the latest videos inside INTERVIEW! C&C TIBERIUM TNA iMPACT Squady style REVIEWED! REVIEWED! REVIEWED! Devil May Cry 4 Persona 3 Rock Band Bigger, badder and better 70 hours of RPG Take to the stage than ever before? loveliness with your mates 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 C&C: Tiberium GTA IV toP3Zine Shin Megami Far Cry 2 Army of Two Tensei: Persona 3 Disgaea 3 MX vs ATV Untamed Rockstar have done it again. No sooner as Mirror’s Edge TNA iMPACT the tumbleweed had threatened to roll Battlefield: BC Devil May Cry 4 through the streets of Liberty City and the Highlander Rock Band developers with marketing nous release not Final Fantasy XIII Persona 3 one, but five, video clips to whet the world’s MX vs ATV Team ICO The Club GTA appetite. Along with a website to boot. You can see all five cameo clips in our cover feature preview kicking off on page 8. MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! Other cool stuff this issue? Check out Army of Two, have a gander at TNA iMPACT, and strut your stuff with Rock Band ahead of its imminent arrival this side of the pond. Oh, and take a look at the new tweaks to your favourite GTA IV (and let’s not forget, free) PlayStation magazine. The last ever preview. Probably. Enjoy the issue... MAGAZINE Dan Hutchinson, Editor FEEDBACK! [email protected] DON’T MISS ISSUE 13 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 Devil May Cry 4 Rock Band 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 Chris Schilling Ian Morris Lee Hall asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. Has mostly been Looking forward to Can’t. Wait. For. playing Rock Band Army of Two GTA IV. Army of Two CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE | 03 Previews Calling in mechanised FIRST support, and watching LOOK them stomp your Tiberium enemies is going to be Publisher: EA very cool to watch. Squad based C&C action... Developer: In-house What is it? Heritage: Command A first person shooter, set in the Command and Conquer universe, and Conquer 3 Tiberium is the spiritual brother to C&C Renegade, an average FPS that Link: http://www. didn’t set the world alight in quite the way it was intended. ea.com/tiberium/ ETA: Autumn So, what’s new? The big difference here is that rather than being a straight out FPS with the oh-so-familiar setting of C&C, Tiberium is said to play more like PREVIEW Vegas than Resistance, and is actually a squad based shooter. Running FEEDBACK! on the Unreal 3 Engine, Tiberium will suck you into the Command and Click here to Conquer world like never before. With a variety of destructive weapons tell us what on tap, a vast tapestry of C&C mythology to draw from, and a storyline you think of that picks up where C&C 3 left off, we’ll be the first to admit we’re Tiberium actually quite looking forward to this. Visually, the Your team mates’ AI should ensure game seems a lot Anything else to declare? you don’t have to lead them by darker in style. One of the most impressive things the hand through each level. about Tiberium is the way it’s looking to capture the big-battle feel of its RTS brethren. Rather than simply controlling a group of three people, you’ll be controlling numerous squads of men in the battles, with the ability to call in heavy armour support, or air strikes, Send your friends in as you make your first if you want to way through the save your own skin. numerous missions. “Running on the Unreal Turning the RTS into 3 Engine, Tiberium will an FPS is going to be no easy task, but with suck you into the two and a half years of Command and Conquer development already world like never before” under their belt, this should be a polished, and enjoyable ride. CONTROL www.koei.co.uk PLAYBACK OPTIONS: DYNASTY WARRIORS IS REBORN UTILISING THE FULL POWER OF NEXT GEN CONSOLES TO CREATE A WARRIORS EXPERIENCE LIKE NONE BEFORE READY FOR BATTLE MARCH 7 DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 © 2007-2008 KOEI Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Dynasty Warriors and the KOEI logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of KOEI Co., Ltd. “PlayStation” and the “PS” Family logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE | 05 Previews Physics were a major part of the first Far Cry, FIRST and are sure to be as Far Cry 2 LOOK Publisher: Ubisoft impressive as ever here. There’s a rumble in the jungle Developer: Ubisoft Montreal What is it? Heritage: Rainbow Six Before you get too excited, this isn’t the official announcement of Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Crysis, rather, it’s exactly what it says on the tin - the official sequel to Far Link: http://www. Cry, rather than the spiritual cousin. farcrygame.com ETA: Winter What’s the story? Rather than being set on a tropical island, as has become vogue as of late, Far Cry 2 instead takes place in the vast African Savannah, with over PREVIEW 50 km2 of ground for you to explore at your free will. Built on an entirely FEEDBACK! new engine, Far Cry 2 promises some explosive physics, Click here to destructible environments, and a real time day-night cycle tell us what “Far Cry 2 promises some to boot! The game sees you sent to Africa in pursuit of a you think of explosive physics, mysterious terrorist type bloke called “The Jackal” who has Far Cry 2 destructible environments, somehow managed to draw the country into a state of war. Using the environment to your advantage, it’s up to and a real time day-night you to pursue him through the outback, before eventually Driving vehicles was brilliant fun cycle to boot! ” bringing him to in the first one - here’s hoping justice. it’ll be just as good here. Graphically, at least, the game’s looking the “biz”. Just look at the exploding When can we warehouse in the background. expect more? Having been in development for quite some time, we’re hoping to be able to start driving across the open desert, looking out for any zebras or lions along the way, sometime this winter. Hopefully, we’ll have more on this for you before then. CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE | 06 Previews INCOMING More top tiltes coming to PlayStation 3... Mirror’s Edge Battlefield: Bad Company Final Fantasy XIII Publisher: EA | ETA: Autumn Publisher: EA | ETA: Summer Publisher : Square-Enix | ETA : Winter hile a parkour game from long with the mega destructible environments ore shots are continuing to leak out of Square- Wthe makers of Battlefield may Athat we’ve been salivating over for the past few MEnix’s opus, Final Fantasy XIII, including this nice seem as likely as Mr.Blobby making months, Battlefield: Bad Company is also bringing one of everyone’s favourite fire-beast, Ifrit. While rumours a comeback and being elected with it something else that’s new to the series - a swirling round the internet of a 2008 release and President of the USA, that’s actually full single player campaign. With some humorous summer demo have not been confirmed as true, the what Mirror’s Edge is all about. dialogue intertwined with blowing everything up, this very prospect has excited already. Putting the focus on the person, should be a sure-fire hit. rather than on the gun, Mirror’s Edge Disgaea 3 will be played from a first person Publisher: TBA | ETA: TBA perspective, and is one of the most Highlander intriguing games on the horizon. ans of turn-based 2D strategy Publisher: Eidos | ETA: 2008 Fgames rejoice, as Disgaea rom French 3 has been confirmed for a PS3 Fdevelopers release, though we don’t yet Widescreen Games know whether or not it’ll see the comes the Unreal light of day over here. Having said 3 Engine powered Team ICO’s New Game that, thanks to the PS3’s region- conversion of the film Publisher: Stainless Games | ETA: ‘09 free nature, we don’t see that and TV series of the ust one, tiny screenshot of this one, but even that’s being much of a problem for the same name. Sounding, most hardcore of gamers. The Jenough to get us dribbling with anticipation. Team and looking like a typical hack-and-slasher, you step into ICO, the legendary developers behind PS2 classics ICO campaign for a UK release starts the shoes of an Immortal, and experience the brutal here.
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