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FREE! NAVIGATE |01 Issue 22 | Oct 2008 WIN! HELL’S PCGZine HIGHWAY Free Magazine For PC Gamers. Read it, Print it, Send it to your mates… 10 games to win NEW SCREENS INSIDE! MORE REVIEWS… STALKER: CLEAR SKY COLONIZATION CALL OF DUTY SPACE SIEGE CRYSIS WARHEAD WORLD AT WAR SPORE Competitive co-op revealed! FOOTBALL MANAGER 2009 INTERVIEW Exclusive pre-match pep talk with PLUS ALL THESE GAMES & MORE Studio Director Miles Jacobson MASSIVE REVIEW Batman: BROTHERS IN ARMS FUEL GTA IV Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. Arkham Asylum HELL’S HIGHWAY CONTROL NAVIGATE |02 Don’t miss! This month’s highlights… +WIN! 10 COPIES OF THE GAME FOOTBALL MANAGER 2009 PCGZine EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The match engine goes 3D at last - find out What a month for first-person shooters! why that’s going to make it a winner! Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Brothers in Arms Clear Sky and Crysis Warhead are all packing our reviews section and all are massive sequels well Hell’s Highway worth your attention. Tactics, stealth and all-out Is the road to Hell paved with good intentions? action should tick every shooter box with this holy trinity of FPS stalwarts. But the FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky QUICK FINDER Radiation therapy excitement doesn’t end there. We’ve also got Every game’s just a click away! new details and screens for the upcoming Call Call of Duty of Duty: World at War, revealing the awesome GTA IV Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. competitive co-op mode and the sheer brutality FUEL Football Manager 2009 World at War of the close quarters combat this time. But if you Batman Arkham Asylum Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway New screens of the Pacific and Crysis Warhead Russian campaigns spill out! Yet another top shooter up for review! like a bit more distance between you and the Left 4 Dead Space Siege enemy, be sure to check out Need For Speed Undercover Crysis Warhead READER our exclusive preview of Tom PES 2009 Spore FEEDBACK! Clancy’s H.A.W.X as well! Saints Row 2 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky Click here to Far Cry 2 Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Steve Brown, Editor tell us what Dead Space Colonization you think of [email protected] Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X GTA IV FUEL the magazine! Call of Duty World at War Reviews Roundup Flight and fight in one package! PC extras revealed! Codies’ new racer MEET THE TEAM MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! Probably the best games writers on the planet To experience games at their best PCGZine uses the Area 51-ALX from Alienware. Packed with cutting-edge power and technology, if a game Ian Morris Steve Hill Neil Mohr can’t perform on this Had a last minute Crysis, but Went kickabout and ended up on Turned his robot brain up to 11 it has to be a dud. fought on through. the road to Hell. and solved your problems. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |03 Previews The PC version is certainly FIRST far sharper graphically. GTA IV LOOK Taking liberties with the PC version? Publisher: Rockstar Developer: Rockstar North Heritage: GTA series, Table What’s the story? Tennis, Manhunt series, You are Nico Bellic, Eastern European immigrant to Liberty City (closely Midnight Club series modelled on New York). Hoping to improve your impoverished situation Link: www.rockstargames. com and resolve a shady past that still pursues you, you’ll start as a taxi driver for ETA: November your cousin Roman and choose illicit missions for various police, gang and family factions all vying for a slice of the city’s underbelly. Steal all manner of cars, bikes, trucks, boats and helicopters to aid your travel around the islands of this massive city and customise your clothing and arsenal as you go. PREVIEW FEEDBACK! What do we know? Click here to Rockstar promise that the PC version will boast far higher resolutions and tell us what more detailed textures and have far greater draw distances than its console you think of forbears. There will also be a brilliant new replay camera built into the game, GTA IV “A brilliant new with a 30-second buffer that allows you to save a cool stunt for posterity replay camera will be and sharing at any point. You’ll even be able to edit camera angles for the built into the game” replays and combine multiple clips to make extended movies – it’s a very cool feature indeed. Carjacking remains the When do we get more? core aspect of missions. We’ll have a hands-on playtest of the PC version in our next issue. Anything else to declare? Rockstar also promise that we’ll get a revamped multiplayer side to GTA IV, with a far better filtering system to help find the custom game types that you want to play. Further multiplayer details are being kept hush hush for now, but we’re excited to hear that there will be exclusive multiplayer features for the PC version and hope to have more information on this in our next issue too. CONTROL ® ™ PLAYBACK OPTIONS: Sid Meier’sIt’s classic a strategyBrave game reinvented New in the worldWorld of Civilization IV. It’s no mere expansion pack—this is a whole new game experience power and prestige as you build a new civilization of your own. All new reimagined from Sid Meier’s legendary 1994 classic, Colonization. Set graphics, loads of new features, and Civ’s legendary “one more turn” out from one of four European nations to discover and colonize the addictive gameplay make this instant classic a must-have for Civ fans, New World. Conduct trade, negotiations, or declare war to acquire Colonization fans and new players alike. Build your own nation. www.civilization.com Civilization IV ©2005–2008 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., and its subsidiaries. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization, Civ, Civilization, Colonization, 2K Games, the 2K Games logo, Firaxis Games, the Firaxis Games logo and Take-Two Interactive Not Required Software are all trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software. All rights reserved. Windows and the Windows Vista Start button are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies, and “Games for Windows” For Play and the Windows Vista Start button logo are used under license from Microsoft. All other marks and trademarks are properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |05 Previews God knows how much the FIRST petrol will cost by then! FUEL LOOK Tidal waves, forest fires and off-road races! Publisher: Codemasters Developer: Asobo Studios Heritage: Colin McRae What’s the story? series, TOCA series Set in a future where the environment has suffered massive damage, there’s Link: www.codemasters. co.uk little left to do but inflict even more damage on the remaining greenery ETA: 2009 with some hardcore on- and off-road racing in petrol-guzzling 4x4s and scrambler bikes. You’ll be racing around 5,000 square miles of North American wilderness – including Utah badlands, Yellowstone Park, Death Valley and Mount Rushmore – choosing your own route to new races and PREVIEW driving anywhere that you can see (which should be considerable with a FEEDBACK! 40km draw distance). And it’s all modelled from satellite data, so should be Click here to tell very accurate and realistic to race. us what you think of FUEL What do we know? “Expect blizzards, It’s not just the unforgiving terrain (deep snow, river-beds, forests and mountains) that you’ll have to cope with though, as the damage to the lightning, brush fires world’s environment will throw all kinds of extreme weather at you while and tsunamis!” you race. Expect fierce rainstorms, blizzards, lightning storms, sandstorms, tornados, brush fires and even tsunamis! When do we get more? We’ll have a wilderness report of this freeform racer in our next issue. Anything else to declare? Naturally, there will be plenty of online multiplayer racing, and this should merge seamlessly with the solo game, we imagine in a similar way to Burnout Paradise or Test Drive Unlimited. Stunt ramps, short-cuts and crossover points should provide plenty of death-defying action both online and off. You’ll also be able to show off customised vehicles in the multiplayer game. Cars and bikes will have different advantages. 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