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Official Playstation Magazine! Get Your Copy of the Game We Called A, “Return to Form for the Legendary Spookster,” in OPM #108 When You Subscribe ISSUE 114 OCTOBER 2015 £5.99 gamesradar.com/opm LARA COMES HOME TOMB RAIDER It’s official! First look as Rise Of The Tomb Raider heads to PS4 ASSASSIN’SBETTER ON PS4! CREED SYNDICATE Back to its best? Victorian London explored and PS4-exclusive missions uncovered in our huge playtest EXPERT PLAYTEST STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT Fly the Millennium Falcon in the mode of your dreams COMPLETED! RECORD-BREAKING TEN-PAGE METAL GEAR SOLID REVIEW DESTINY: MAFIA III COMES BACK FROM THE TAKEN KING THE DEAD TO MAKE OUR DAY We’ve finished it! All-access CALL OF DUTY SIDES WITH PS4: pass to the best DLC ever WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR YOU? ISSUE 114 / OCT 2015 Future Publishing Ltd, Quay House, The Ambury, Welcome Bath BA1 1UA, United Kingdom Tel +44 (0) 1225 442244 Fax: +44 (0) 1225 732275 here’s just no stopping the PS4 train. Email [email protected] Twitter @OPM_UK Web www.gamesradar.com/opm With Sony’s super-machine on track to EDITORIAL Editor Matthew Pellett @Pelloki eventually overtake PS2 as the best- Managing Art Editor Milford Coppock @milfcoppock T Production Editor Dom Reseigh-Lincoln @furianreseigh selling console ever, developers keep News Editor Dave Meikleham flocking to Team PlayStation. This month we CONTRIBUTORS Words Alice Bell, Jenny Baker, Ben Borthwick, Matthew Clapham, Ian Dransfield, Matthew Elliott, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, go behind the scenes of five of the best Matthew Gilman, Ben Griffin, Dave Houghton, Phil Iwaniuk, Jordan Farley, Louis Pattison, Paul Randall, Jem Roberts, Sam games due out this year to show you why Roberts, Tom Sykes, Justin Towell, Ben Wilson, Iain Wilson Design Andrew Leung, Rob Speed the biggest blockbusters of the gaming ADVERTISING world are set to be better on PS4. 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He’s While Dave finished MGS V, adores Everybody’s Gone slipped past the crowds only using magazine paper which is derived based on our very own Dom had the time of his life To The Rapture’s solitude. using years of Assassin’s from well managed, I can’t find the Big Daddy, though, DFSUJmFEGPSFTUSZBOE nuclear-tempered outburst reviewing Godzilla this “ ” he Creed blending skills. We chlorine-free machine. Feel the hate. month. Er… the worst time. shouted, almost silently. call her the LoutriBullet. manufacture. Future Publishing and its paper suppliers have been independently GAME OF THE MONTH GAME OF THE MONTH GAME OF THE MONTH GAME OF THE MONTH DFSUJmFEJOBDDPSEBODF Metal Gear Solid V Everybody’s Gone… Everybody’s Gone… Journey with the rules of the FSC (Forest FAVE LONDON LANDMARK FAVE LONDON LANDMARK FAVE LONDON LANDMARK FAVE LONDON LANDMARK Stewardship Council). Emirates Stadium Westminster Abbey Tower Bridge Tower Of London HIGHLIGHTS The big 10 010 RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER After giving us the cold shoulder for the last year, Lara’s new outing is headed PS4-wards. feature 048 ASSASSIN’S CREED SYNDICATE Thismonth’scoverstarkicksoffourgiant ‘BetterOnPlayStation’featureinepicstyle. feature 054 STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT We go hands-on with a brand new mode and bag an exclusive chat with DICE head Patrick Bach. featurE 058 DESTINY: THE TAKEN KING We’ve finished it! OPM travels to Bungie and sinks two days into the ace new expansion. feature 064 COD: BLACK OPS III Find out why Black Ops III is set to be the best Call Of Duty in years. feature 068 HITMAN Agent 47’s going back to his Blood Money days – we bag exclusive access to IO. review 076 MGS V: THE PHANTOM PAIN The biggest review in OPM history for PS4’s biggest game. ‘Nuff said. ISSUE 114 OCTOBER 2015 £5.99 SUBSCRIBE NOW gamesradar.com/opm Limited Edition Yet to subscribe to OPM? 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Oh, and a free game! 037 088 068 THE Games index 019 ANCESTORS: THE HUMANKIND ODYSSEY 048 ASSASSIN’S CREED SYNDICATE 105 BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT 064 CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS III 006 DARK SOULS III 090 DECEPTION IV: 054 THE NIGHTMARE PRINCESS 058 DESTINY: THE TAKEN KING 043 DISHONORED 2 030 DOOM 016 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 016 DRAGON QUEST HEROES 016 DRAGON QUEST XI 043 DRAGON’S DOGMA ONLINE 030 058 092 EVERYBODY’S GONE TO THE RAPTURE 034 FIFA 16 006 FINAL FANTASY XV 089 GALAK-Z: THE DIMENSIONAL 090 GAME OF THRONES S1E5 094 GOAT SIMULATOR 005 089 GODZILLA 098 040 GRAND AGES: MEDIEVAL 090 HATOFUL BOYFRIEND 068 HITMAN 018 HOMEFRONT: THE REVOLUTION 088 JOURNEY 091 KING’S QUEST CHAPTER 1 094 LIFE IS STRANGE S1E4 011 076 064 036 MAFIA III 076 METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN 041 NEED FOR SPEED 106 ONIMUSHA 3 038 PES 2016 094 QUBE: DIRECTOR’S CUT 036 RAINBOW SIX SIEGE 114 RESIDENT EVIL 4 038 014 RIGS: MECHANISED COMBAT LEAGUE 010 RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER 098 ROCKET LEAGUE 043 SHADOW WARRIOR 2 042 SNIPER GHOST WARRIOR 3 054 STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT 012 STREET FIGHTER V SECTIONS AT A GLANCE 089 SUBMERGED 037 SWORD COAST LEGENDS THE PREVIEWS FEATURES REVIEWS NETWORK RETRO 095 THE VANISHING OF BIG 10 Latest info, screens To-the-point, In-depth verdicts on Max out your PS4, STATION ETHAN CARTER and playtests detailed analysis every big new game online and off All the hottest news Classics revisited 020 UNCHARTED: THE NATHAN 006 029 046 075 097 106 DRAKE COLLECTION 086 UNTIL DAWN 006 DARK SOULS III’S LAND IS EASIER ON THE EYE THAN BLOODBORNE’S HARSH COBBLES.
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