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ISSUE 5 WELCOME meet the team So then, December it is. 2 • Red Faction Guerilla Christmas in the air, mad project director dashes to get presents sorted 3 • PolkaDotGals steve greenfield out and find that special (Rasher) something for the other half. 4 • Killzone 2 Meanwhile, we’ll sit here and chief editor dish out more of the great 6 • Wii Fit Conclusion steven dawson gaming reviews and news (djdawsonuk) that you’ve come to expect 8 • House Of The Dead Overkill from the GameOn Mag graphics editor over the last few months. 9 • Sonic Unleashed simon bonds (Si^) November passed switfly, what with it being GameOn’s 10 • Fallout 3 Review graphics artist tenth birthday and all that. robert whetton Good times. There’s a piece 12 • Sacred 2 Review (Bobster) in this issue taking a look at the ten years of GameOn, 14 • Monthly News Roundup journalists from start to present day. chris wakefield 16 • Call Of Duty World At War Review (evilgiraffeman) 18 • Football Manager 09 Review pete o’brien (POBMaestro) THE EDITOR 20 • Synergy Mod Interview neil hetherington 21 • GameOn Theme Nights in December (Wedgeh) 22 • 10 Years Later - GameOn History johan dahlberg (Jozii) 24 • The Column - Gamers, Fit & Social stuart gunn 25 • Top Trailers (Gunn (LA)) mohamed magdy (solidsnake) linda greenfield (Mrs. Rasher) Disclaimer: The content featured throughout this magazine may contain links to your forum where there may be unsuitable language for children or those of a sensitive nature. We highly suggest that you are at least of the age 13 to visit the forums or click the links within the magazine. PREVIEW RED FACTION GUERRILA Red Faction: Guerrilla is a slightly of fun. The game’s GeoMod technology unexpected sequel to the previous games returns and is really enjoyable. in the serious that was announced at Shooting various structures has them the start of the year. Despite generally explode and collapse in a convincingly favourable reviews, the Red Faction realistic way with clouds of dust and series never seemed to garner the debris flying into the air. Enemy vehicles support of the larger franchises. were blown into the air sending their This latest entry sets out to try and drivers flying and general chaos ensued. change that by implementing some changes to the traditional formula. The controls were easy to pick up and play and the graphics really impressed. Instead of the traditional first person Explosions were fiery and over the top, perspective, the game has undergone a creating a very cinematic experience. radical change and is now viewed from The weapon selection was also great a third person over-the-shoulder view. fun, with the traditional assault rifles The game is also a bit of a reinvention and pistols alongside a saw blade having only loose connections to the launcher and sledgehammer. original, like Red Faction 2, where it is set some time after previous events. Red Faction Guerrilla still manages to feel like the gaming equivalent of a B-Movie: It is nice to see some of the themes of the there is just something about it that series remain. The story focuses on Alec feels fun and different from most of the Mason, a minor working on the terraformed clinical mega-budget titles of today. surface of Mars. The Earth Defence Force, from the first title, have now changed and Before my time on the demo was up, I just in turn developed into a shadowy profit had time for a few minutes of free roaming. driven organisation. Ironically, this is the Setting out across the landscape in a moon exact type of company they fought against buggy (!) I was soon chased by a jeep in the original game. The Red Faction itself full of EDF troops, busy shooting at me. reforms amongst the minors and Alec finds Looking into the distance a concrete bridge himself fighting to overthrow the company. appeared allowing access over a chasm. Tearing ahead as fast as I could, I quickly In the demo I played you started out on got out, equipped my trusty sledgehammer the surface of the planet and was largely and heavily weakened the middle section. free to pick from a variety of missions that were delivered to you via a radio Sure enough, the trusty EDF jeep appeared, communication message. I decided to hot in pursuit. I stood calmly as it tore answer a request from a fellow miner to onto the bridge, preparing to run me meet with him and cause some havoc. over. Just at that point, with a satisfying After being careful not to get followed, crunch the bridge collapsed, sending them he appeared in one of the game’s plummeting to their doom. If Red Faction: many vehicles. After, climbing into Guerrilla can continue to deliver moments the turret, we then set about causing like that then it looks like it could be a real enough damage to mining equipment contender. With an online multiplayer mode to cause some financial trouble. too, THQ could well be onto a winner. The level was a conventional on rails shooter section, but it was a great deal Chris Wakefield ARTICLE POLKADOTGALS RAISING AWARENESS OF FIBROMYALGIA GameOn would like to help promote a 100m hurdler Sara McGreavey and Coventry to carry on with his life as best he can, semi nude calendar, produced by the City footballers Michael Doyle and Elliott both for his family and for the GameOn organisation Polkadotgals, in order to Ward together with some Fibromyalgia community. He has often said that it is raise funds to help with their ongoing suffers. The calendar can be purchased the satisfaction he gets from running the campaign to increase awareness of a little by clicking on the following link: community that helps to keep him going understood illness called Fibromyalgia. when he really feels like just giving up. So to find out the connection CLICK HERE FOR THE CALENDAR between page 3 and Zoo model So, you can see why this cause is so close Danni Wells, championship 100m And why is all this relevant to GameOn? to our hearts. If, by buying the calendar, hurdler Sara McGreavy, a couple of Because this is the illness that struck our you can each make one more person Coventry City football players and beloved leader Rasher over 5 years ago. aware of this illness, then we have made our one and only Rasher, read on... Some of the older members will remember a big step forward to helping Bianca Rasher before he was taken ill. He was a with her campaign, and provide the When air-hostess and model Bianca very active workaholic, who was always much needed support and recognition Embley had an accident 10 years ago rushing around either looking after the for suffers of this terrible condition. where a piece of breathing equipment children or running GameOn. He would fell on her, little did she know that her life often keep going for days on end on just Linda would be changed forever. The accident adrenalin and a few hours sleep here and brought on a debilitating illness called there. For Rasher, it was a mystery virus Fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a chronic that caused the onset of Fibromyalgia. It condition characterised by, amongst came as a bit of a shock to all of us when other things, chronic widespread pain, we asked the doctor when he would get chronic fatigue, hypersensitivity to pain better, and we were told that he wouldn’t. and sleep disturbances. Also referred to as ‘the invisible Illness’ suffers of Fibromyalgia Although he very rarely shows it, Rasher is can often show no outward signs of in constant pain, mainly in the muscles in the constant pain that they are in. his arms and legs. Although he is able to walk, trying to walk any distance results in This constant pain, with no let up, often muscle shakes and severe muscle cramping. gives sufferers suicidal tendencies, It would also completely wear him out, and purely just to escape from the pain. Up leave the sort of aching and pain that most to 2 million people in the UK suffer from people would only experience after running Fibromyalgia, although due to general a marathon. It is because of this that he lack of knowledge about the condition, took the decision to use a wheelchair to at and problems getting a clear diagnosis, least allow him to get about. I know a lot this figure could be much higher. There is of you have experienced him disappearing no cure for Fibromyalgia, it is just a case half way through a conversation on MSN, of managing the different symptoms as or even while on the phone. This is because effectively as possible and trying to create of the fatigue side of the illness. When the the best quality of life for the sufferer. fatigue hits, all he can do is sleep. During particularly bad periods this can be for After 10 years of struggling with the illness up to 18 hours a day. There are also some herself, Bianca created the Polkadotgals other unpleasant symptoms of the illness, campaign to support the suffers of this including irritable bowel syndrome, upset chronic condition, and to raise general stomach, sickness, short term memory loss awareness of the condition. She realised and general disorientation, and problems that in order for Fibromyalgia to be regulating temperature (hot flushes, night recognised as a real condition, there needed sweats etc.). Most of the symptoms of this to be a strong campaign within the media illness would be difficult to cope with on to draw attention to the plight of sufferers their own.

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