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SOUTH AFRICA’S LEADING GAMING, COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE APRIL 2014 WIN A PC / PLAYSTATIPLAYSTATIONONON / XBOXXBBOX / NINTENDONININTN ENNDODO / LLIFESTYLEIIFFEESSTYTYLELE PS4 EIGHT REVIEWS INCLUDING Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Thief IT’S CLASSIC! IT’S MODERN! COULD THIS BE EVERYTHING WE WANT IN AN FPS? PUBLISHER Michael “RedTide“ James [email protected] CONTENTS EDITOR Geoff “GeometriX“ Burrows geoff @nag.co.za ART DIRECTOR Chris “SAVAGE“ Savides STAFF WRITERS Dane “Barkskin “ Remendes Tarryn “Azimuth “ van der Byl REGULARS CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Lauren “Guardi3n “ Das Neves 8 Ed's Note 10 Inbox TECHNICAL WRITER Neo “ShockG“ Sibeko 14 Bytes 26 home_coded INTERNATIONAL 74 Mosh Pit CORRESPONDENT Miktar “Miktar” Dracon CONTRIBUTORS OPINION Rodain “Nandrew” Joubert Miklós “Mikit0707 “ Szecsei 14 Miktar’s Meanderingserings Pippa “UnexpectedGirl” Tshabalala 16 I, Gamer Delano “Delano” Cuzzucoli Matt “Sand_Storm” Fick 18 The Game Stalkerer 56 Hardwired FEATURES PHOTOGRAPHY 82 Game Over Chris “SAVAGE“ Savides 36 WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW Dreamstime.com Fotolia.com ORDER. MEIN LEBEN! PREVIEWS “There ain’t no school like the old SALES EXECUTIVE school.” That’s how it goes, right? Cheryl “Cleona“ Harris 32 The Elder Scrolls Online Or did we just fail hard at being [email protected] 34 WildStar youthful and hippity-hopping? +27 72 322 9875 Does it even matter? Either way, MARKETING AND Wolfenstein: The New Order PROMOTIONS MANAGER REVIEWS eagerly partakes of the old school Jacqui “Jax” Jacobs of fi rst-person shooter-ising. [email protected] 44 Reviews: Introduction And boy, does it look positively +27 82 778 8439 44 Mini review: Fable: scrumptious. Gather ‘round OFFICE ASSISTANT Anniversary Edition children, and let’s have a look at Paul Ndebele 45 Mini review: Dragon Ball Z: it together. Just don’t step in that Battle of Z puddle of Nazi juice. That stuff will CONTACT DETAILS 46 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 eat right through your gumboots. P .O. 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No article or picture in this magazine 64 AMD A10 7700K None this issue may be reproduced, copied or transmitted in any form whatsoever without the express written consent of the 66 SteelSeries H Wireless Headset publisher. Opinions expressed in the magazine are 68 MSI A88X-G45 GAMING not necessarily those of the publisher or the editors. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the sole 69 ASUS N750J EXTRAS property of their respective owners. 70 ADATA DashDrive Elite SE720 Don’t pirate NAG! external SSD / GAMDIAS Cheatbook Database + updates Hephaestus / Sony Action Cam Free games: Gridrunner++ / Heroine's Quest HDR-AS30V Utilities: Stencyl 72 Lazy Gamer’s Guide: 46 wallpapers Gunnar Optiks 92 game trailers / 2 Pop Facts / 1 Pop Fiction 6 April 2014 www.nag.co.za ed's note Happy birthday to us! elcome to the new look Pit, which now includes our lifestyle-focused NAG! Gosh, it’s a pretty section Everything Else. This means more thing, isn’t it? Every year cool gadgets, comics, action fi gures, we celebrate our birthday doohickeys and whatsits that go hand-in- by changing the design hand with what gamers love. Wa bit – sometimes more than a bit – and Otherwise, I’ll leave you to explore fi gured it’s been a while since we’ve had a these pages. Feel free to send us an email major shake-up. So we shook things up. ([email protected]) with any feedback you Some of the content has only had a might have. visual tweak – like reviews and previews – but in other places we’ve nipped and SPARKLE PARTY tucked and reorganised things to get more I’ve been told that not everyone really content into the same number of pages. knows what Wolfestein is all about. That’s It’s important to do this; as putting ink on an odd thing to me, as I was like, there slices of tree becomes more costly (which man, when Wolf 3D fi rst came along, but will continue to happen until forever), we if you’re not fully clued up then be sure to need to make sure that you lovely readers read RedTide’s very informative piece in our are getting as much quality content for cover feature. Wolfenstein is close to all of your purchase. We get it – times are tough our hearts, and I’m sure many of yours, and – so know that we’re here for you through I’m positive by time you’ve read all about thick and thin! the upcoming The New Order, you’ll be as But enough of that mushy stuff . I won’t excited about it as we are! go into detail about everything that’s changed in your favourite magazine, but NEW BLOOD I do want to point out a couple of things. This month we welcome another new writer First, you’ll notice that the Bytes section on-board in the form of Matt “Sand_Storm” has been given quite an overhaul. We Fick. Matt joins us from IGN Africa to write a shoved things around to make room for a few reviews this month, and I’m sure you’ll featured column every month – this’ll rotate be seeing more of him going forward. It’s between our columnists. We’ve also greatly always exciting to have new people writing expanded the home_coded section to tell for the magazine – they bring their own you, in greater detail, about some of the top personalities, ideas and eccentricities to our local game development projects. Rodain already rather insane pool of talent, which Joubert – part of the team behind Desktop can only be a good thing, right? Dungeons – is the perfect chap for the job so we’ve given him plenty of room. Take it easy, people! We’ve also mixed up the hardware -GeometriX section. Neo now also has a full page for his column, and we’ve trimmed off some excess stuff to make space for an expanded Mosh 8 April 2014 www.nag.co.za inbox *DISCLAIMER / Most of the letters sent to this fi ne publication are printed more or less verbatim (that means we don’t edit or fi x them for you slow kids at the back), so ignore any spelling or grammatical errors. It’s not us… it’s you. Inbox [email protected] Letter of the Month April 2014 THIS MONTH'S PRIZE FROM: Jürgen van Zyl at me, I’m not implying that all gamers are The “Letter of the month” prize is SUBJECT: Outgrowing gaming unactive couch potatoes. I am an active sponsored by the good folks at gamer myself, but as already stated above, I Megarom. The winner receives two I’ll start with the formalities, great mag, I think I am outgrowing gaming. games for coming up with the most love you guys and keep up the good work! I have tried every sort of game there is, inspired bit of wisdom of cleverness. Now I recently turned 15, I am about 1,85 many FPS shooter franchises e.g. Call of NOTE / You can’t change the games or the platform they come on. meters tall and to everybody at school I’m Duty, Crysis, Battlefi eld, but still I do not known as the friendly giant. Okay, I’ll stop receive the initial pleasure of playing these boring you now with the biography and cut games as I did a year or so back. I despise to the chase. RPG games, Indie is absolutely out of the I’ve loved games since I was very, very question, and Need for Speed just became young although I was never allowed my more and more boring every year. own gaming console (only PlayStation This brings me to the conclusion and 1’s was released at that time.) so I always fi nal question: why are there 25 and 30 year loved going to go to my cousin’s as we olds married to they’re gaming consoles could play Need for Speed, and Tekken and rigs, while I’m half they’re age and I (yes, believe it) 3! One December, my am becoming bored of the whole gaming cousin came over to my house with a thing? Am I playing the wrong games, is plastic Checkers bag and inside, lay the my console starting to become out-dated? beauty of a second hand PlayStation (my Or am I just, simply, outgrowing gaming? early Christmas Present.) The happiest This is very sad for me as I used to spend day of my life, needless to say. At that entire weekends dedicated to one game and time, Spyro was still my favourite game. now I am struggling to keep on playing for outdoorsy sort as well, and he manages to At a later stadium of my life I discovered a few minutes at a time.