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FREE! NAVIGATE Issue 18 | May 2008 360Free Magazine For Xbox 360 Gamers.ZineRead it, Print it, Send it to your mates… PLUS! EXCLUSIVE BOURNE CONSPIRACY SUPPLEMENT MASSIVE PREVIEW INSIDE... NINJA GAIDEN II Tecmo’s latest looks bloody brilliant... FIRST LOOKS! BAJA Could Baja be a MotorStorm beater? STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED MASSIVE REVIEW! Preview inside there is... REVIEW! PREVIEW & INTERVIEW OPERATION GTA IV DARKNESS EURO 2008 Here at last! FALLOUT 3 Werewolves & Nazis. Nice! Gearing up for summer CONTROL a NAVIGATE |02 QUICK FINDER Don’t miss! This month’s top highlights Every game’s just a click away! Star Wars: Unreal The Force Unleashed Tournament III Baja Battlefield: Bad Operation Darkness Company Braid Ninja Gaiden II The Wheelman Fallout 3 After months of speculation the wait is finally Mortal Kombat vs. Grand Theft over and the world’s biggest videogame has DC Universe Auto IV now been released on both next-gen consoles. GTA IV Silent Hill: Euro 2008 In short GTA IV is nothing short of a tour de The definitive review Homecoming XBLA force and if you’re old enough to play you simply have to get stuck in today - assuming Ninja Gaiden II MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! you haven’t already that is. Read the review and MASSIVE PREVIEW send us your comments - we’d love to hear your points of view... Not surprisingly there’s not a huge release schedule to trawl through while GTA IV laps up the retail limelight, but there’s plenty-a-coming in the next few weeks and months. Ninja Fallout 3 Gaiden II is imminent and looking stupendous, Preview & Interview while Fallout 3 is a little further down the line, but with equally lofty ambitions. Don’t miss the DON’T MISS ISSUE 19 SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE! latest news on both starting on page 10. Enjoy the issue... WARNING! MULTIMEDIA DISABLED! 360Zine Dan Hutchinson, Editor Euro 2008 If you are reading this, then you didn’t choose “Play” FEEDBACK! [email protected] Enger-land, Enger-land. Er, no. when Adobe Reader asked you about multimedia when Click here to you opened the magazine. tell us what you think of Without the multimedia playing, the magazine will look correct, but you will the new issue. be missing out on all of the extra content built into each issue, like videos, animated screenshots, annotations, quizzes, competitions and more. MEET THE We recommend you close and re-open the magazine and select “Play” when TEAM Chris Steve Hill Lee Hall asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. Probably the best Schilling Looking forward Unlike England, Baja games writers on Larging it up in to Fallout 3 playing Euro 2008 Take to the dunes the planet Liberty City CONTROL 360Zine NAVIGATE |03 Previews As you advance through the game, you’ll learn additional powers to enable you to deal with the toughest situations. FIRST LOOK Break out the Force lightning if you’ve a room full of enemies. Star Wars: The Publisher: Lucasarts Developer: Lucasarts Heritage: Wars: Battlefront, Jedi Knight Force Unleashed series Link: http://www. An advanced physics engine you have, hmm? lucasarts.com/games/ theforceunleashed/ ETA: September 19th SetWhat’s between Episodesthe IIIstory? and IV, you control a new apprentice of Darth Vader, tasked with helping the Dark Lord of the Sith rid the galaxy of the last remaining Jedi. Yet with screens and videos showing players attacking Stormtroopers and the like, we PREVIEW wouldn’t bet against the possibility of wandering from the path of the Dark Side The game’s bosses are huge, FEEDBACK! and turning good, if the player so chooses. and take a combination of Click here to tell Force powers and lightsaber us what you slashes to defeat. Good to see think of Star TheWhat first level do offers we a jaw-dropping know? experience right off the bat - the chance to play the return of the Rancor. Wars: The Force as Darth Vader himself! It’s a remarkable turn of events for a Lucasarts Star Wars title, Unleashed The realistic way the the company thus far resisting temptation to really use the Sith Lord’s Jedi powers. character models Set on the Wookie planet of Kashyyyk, you’re able to unleash a devastating force animate combined with the amazing physics blast which will send the walking furballs flying - with the game’s Euphoria physics makes hurling your engine seeing them topple from bridges and platforms and even making distant thirtieth Stormtrooper Wookies stumble and sway. Once you take control over the game’s main as much fun as the first. protagonist (about whom Lucasarts remain very secretive) you’ll have similar powers, as well as the ability to wield a mean lightsaber, and conjure Force lightning to zap multiple assailants. “The first level When do we get more? offers a jaw- It’s due for release on the 19th September, just three days after the US version. dropping experience right There’sAnything an additional else engine workingto alongsidedeclare? Euphoria named DMM, which off the bat” allows matter to react in an ultra-realistic manner - so metal will bend and break as you use your powers to rip apart doors and wooden bridges will wobble and shake, adding further to the immersion provided by the awesome physics. CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: TM idSoftware.com splashdamage.com © 2008 Id Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Published and distributed by Activision Publishing, Inc. under license. Activision makes no guarantees regarding the availability of online play and may withdraw online service in its discretion without notice. Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars and ID are trademarks of Id Software, Inc. Activision is a registered trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. “2”, “PLAYSTATION” are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. CONTROL ETQW_DPS_360Zine.indd 1 25/4/08 17:12:17 360Zine NAVIGATE |05 Previews PREVIEW FEEDBACK! Some of the tracks FIRST LOOK Click here to are fearsomely tell us what difficult to navigate Publisher: THQ you think of - sharp curves and Baja! Developer: 2XL Games steep inclines at the Heritage: N/A same time? How on Baja Link: http://www. earth will you keep bajagame.com/ those sponsor logos Getting your wheels dirty with THQ’s dusty off-roader ETA: Q3 2008 clean? TheWhat’s world isn’t the exactly under-subscribedstory? for off-road racing games, but Baja looks to offer something different from the MotorStorms and DiRTs As you progress through of the current console generation. It’s certainly not shy of the single-player mode, content, offering almost a hundred courses which are split you’ll go from small into a number of different challenges, set in places like buggies to giant four- Nevada, Arizona and Mexico. So rather than splashing wheel drive trucks. There through gloopy wet mud like Sega Rally, you’ll be whipping are well over a hundred up dust storms as you travel through winding desert tracks. vehicles in the game, so there’s plenty of choice. ThereWhat are twodo particularly we know? neat touches which elevate Baja above its rivals. One is the way you earn money - while the best way to make the most cash is to finish in first, the amount of sponsorship money you earn is based on how visible the sponsors’ logos are at the end of the race. So a The Baja 1000 race is the clean, careful race seeing you finish outside the top three big one - three hundred could yet net you a tidy sum, while bashing your way to the miles of track, with the shadows lengthening as finish line will see those sponsors tear up their cheques. The the day goes on. Four hours other feature will only be used by a small minority, but it’s is a long time to race - have cool nonetheless - link up three Xbox 360 consoles and three TVs and you can play you got the stamina? in Panoramic mode, which allows you to get a real widescreen view of your surroundings. It’sWhen been pencilleddo we in for geta US release more? in August, so expect it to reach European shores shortly afterwards. There’sAnything a 300-mile raceelse which apparentlyto declare? takes four real-time hours to complete - though you can set the AI to temporarily race for you if you need a loo break... CONTROL 360Zine NAVIGATE |06 Previews It’s bizarre to see items like bazookas and rocket FIRST LOOK ammo in a role-playing PREVIEW game - where’s the FEEDBACK! strange potions and Click here to Publisher: Atlus monster parts? tell us what Developer: Success Operation you think of Heritage: Zoo Keeper, Operation Mystery Detective Darkness! Link: http://www.atlus. com/operationdarkness/ Darkness home.html ETA: TBC 2008 Werewolves and Nazis make for strange bedfellows... You’reWhat’s probably the not going story? to believe us if we tell you, but here goes. You take control of the first platoon of K Company in the SAS (codenamed The Wolf Pack) in an alternate universe take on World War II. You’re fighting against Hitler and the German army, of course, but using more than just weapons. The platoon isn’t called the Wolf pack for nothing, you know - particularly once you realise its leader, James “Hitler has Gallant, can transform into the creature his pack is named after. recruited skeletal armies, zombies Yes,What that’s rightdo - andwe things know? get weirder still.