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NAVIGATE FREE! PLUS! Issue 21 | November 2008 RESISTANCE 2 Hands-on Preview PFree Magazine3 For PlayStationZine 3 Gamers. Read it, Print it, Send it to your mates… SHOUTING LARA LARA LARA REVIEWED! Bioshock Massive review inside REVIEWED! REVIEWED! REVIEWED! GUITAR HERO WWE SmackDown WORLD TOUR Far Cry 2 Fallout 3 vs. Raw 2009 Definitive review 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 50 Cent: The Chronicles of Riddick: toP3Zine Blood on the Sand Assault on Dark Athena Eat Lead: Wheelman Titles are coming thick and fast now that the The Return of Matt Hazard Sacred 2: Fallen Angel X-Blades Resistance 2 festive seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas Burn Zombie Burn Guitar Hero: World Tour fast approach and this issue we have full Mortal Kombat vs. Tomb Raider Underworld reviews of no less than five Triple-A titles. Fallout 3 DC Universe Far Cry 2 Super Street Fighter II Fallout 3 Ms Lara Croft kicks things off with her latest Full and frank review Turbo HD Remix Bioshock Underworld adventures but we also have full and frank reviews of Guitar Hero World Tour, Bioshock, Far Cry 2, Fallout 3 and SmackDown MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! vs RAW 2009. Resistance 2 is also shaping up nicely, so don’t miss our hands-on report of the current Tomb Raider multiplayer beta, and finally we have previews of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, Eat Lead: The Underworld Return of Matt Hazard and X-Blades. Exclusive review Enjoy the issue... MAGAZINE Dan Hutchinson, Editor FEEDBACK! DON’T MISS ISSUE 22 SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE! Click here to [email protected] 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 Resistance 2 Shaping up nicely 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 Richard Melville Steve Hill Chris Schilling Far Cry 2 asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. Wrestling with Ready and waiting Living it up with the SmackDown vs RAW for Resistance 2 latest from Lara Out of Africa 2009 CONTROL “B , P P ” - E - PLAYBACK OPTIONS: Coming December 5th © 2008 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Based on Prince of Persia® created by Jordan Mechner. Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. 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Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are Coming December 5th - E - ” , P P “B P3Zine NAVIGATE |04 Previews Eat Lead: The Return Publisher: D3Publisher Developer: Vicious Cycle of Matt Hazard Heritage: Dead Head FIRST Fred, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Self Awareness +1 LOOK Link: www.eatlead videogame.com What’s the story? ETA: Q1 2009 Matt Hazard is a fictional washed-up videogame character who appeared in loads of games in the Eighties, but hasn’t been around for some time. Think Duke Nukem with neuroses and you’ve just about got A zombie emerging from a Portal? the measure of the man. Anyway, he’s been given the chance to make PREVIEW Eat Lead is clearly going to pack in a new-gen return to battle all the enemies he once faced off against. FEEDBACK! a lot of gaming references. Click here to tell What do we know? us what you “Eat Lead’s mechanics are The comedy third-person-action genre isn’t exactly a crowded one, think of Eat Lead but elements of Eat Lead will feel very familiar, as its mechanics – quite essentially nabbed from other appropriately, if a little cheekily – are essentially nabbed from other games. Gears of War with games. Gears of War with funnies is the vibe we’re getting, with the game using a similar cover system and the now de facto standard funnies is the vibe we’re getting” stop-and-pop mechanics. Solid rather than spectacular seems to be the order of the day so far, but if Eat Lead’s humour can maintain the level of inventiveness shown by its first trailer, then this could be a very enjoyable actioner. And it has You’ll see splatters of code at least one inspired idea – the environments when you punch enemies. will radically change throughout owing to Matt’s enemy ‘changing the game’s code’. When do we get more? Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is due for release in the first quarter of next year. Anything else to declare? The game’s two main leads will be voiced by Will Arnett of 30 Rock and the resurgent From sci-fi through to westerns, Neil Patrick Harris, both of whom are talented it seems no-one is safe from Eat actors with great comic timing, which should Lead’s scabrous sense of humour. hopefully make the game even funnier. CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: �������� �������������������®� �������������������� © 2002-2008.Take-Two Interactive Software and its subsidiaries. Developed by 2K Boston, 2K Australia, 2K Marin and Digital Extremes. BioShock, 2K Games, 2K Boston, 2K Australia, 2K Marin, the 2K logo, the 2K Boston logo, 2K Australia logo, the 2K Marin logo and Take-Two Interactive Software are all trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software. Digital Extremes and its logo are trademarks of Digital Extremes. “Playstation,” “PLAYSTATION,” and “�” Family logo are trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Microsoft, Windows, the Windows Vista Start button, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. All other marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. CONTROL P3Zine NAVIGATE |06 Previews FIRST X-Blades LOOK Publisher: Southpeak Swords and sourcery Games Developer: Gaijin What’s the story? Entertainment X-Blades tells the tale of Ayumi, a clothes-hating Croft-alike who is Heritage: Adrenalin, hunting an ancient artifact which apparently holds the fate of the world Oni Blade in its grip, as these things tend to do. What’s perhaps unusual about Link: www.x-blades.com Ayumi – apart from her reluctance to put a warm cardie on in these ETA: 9th January 2009 cold, dank lairs – is that she’s after harnessing the power of said orb for her own gains, hoping to gain fame and fortune by nabbing it before anyone else does. PREVIEW The art style is pleasingly colourful, FEEDBACK! while anime heroine Ayumi moves Why should we be excited? Click here to with impressive fluidity. Our scantily-clad heroine is a bit handy with her two swords, using both tell us what to hack - and, indeed, slash – her opponents to ribbons, as well as the you think of hordes of creatures she encounters on her way to the mystical artifact. X-Blades The X-Blades of the title are pretty powerful weapons, and Ayumi also This is Ayumi’s dark form – you “You’ll be able to has magical powers to call upon when beasties require more than just definitely don’t want to mess with upgrade both weapons sword-based smackdowns. Gameplay-wise it’s not a million miles away her when she’s in this kind of mood. and spellcasting powers from something like Devil May Cry, though the fluid movement of the heroine brought Heavenly Sword to mind. You’ll be able to upgrade both as you progress” weapons and spellcasting powers as you progress, spending cash earned through killing enemies on new abilities. When do we get more? After an initially vague ‘Winter’ for the game’s release, it’s now going to appear on January 9th.