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FREE! NAVIGATE Issue 29 | April 2009 PCGZine WIN! Free Magazine For PC Gamers. Read it, Print it, Send it to your mates… JUMPGATE PREVIEWED! EVOLUTION EXCLUSIVE SCREENS & VIDEO BETA KEYS! CALL OF JUAREZ: DEMIGOD Exclusive Chris BOUND IN BLOOD Taylor Interview Exclusive Video and Hands-on Preview! VIN DIESEL PREVIEWED! OVERLOAD! 2 PLUS ALL THESE GAMES & MORE MUSCLE-BOUND REVIEWS REVIEWED! REVIEWED! INSIDE: RED FACTION: CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: WHEELMAN GUERILLA ASSAULT ON DARK ATHENA CODENAME PANZERS ELVEN LEGACY Exclusive screens! CONTROL NAVIGATE Don’t miss! This month’s highlights… PCGZine God I love a good western. Maybe it’s a youth Demigod of woodland adventures with homemade bows Enchaning RTS from a legendary dev. and arrows (I still have one in the garage, no really) or my staple diet of beef jerky but no other setting gets my blood up quite so much. Not even space. Perhaps I’m predisposed to love Call of Juarez then, but even so Techland’s latest Call of Juarez: is looking mighty tasty. Check out our exclusive Bound in Blood Wheelman gameplay vid and judge for yourself. After that GTA wannabe or viable alternative? why not saunter over to our brace of Vin Diesel Wild West wonders to be had with our themed reviews or sample the delights of exclusive hands on preview inside. Dark Prophecy our exclusive new Red Faction screens? You The OTHER space MMO... wont see ‘em anywhere else. Nor will you find elsewhere our exclusive chat READER with RTS-giant Chris Taylor. He FEEDBACK! really is a giant you know... Click here to Chronicles of Riddick: tell us what James Carey, Editor Red Faction: Guerrilla Godfather II Assault on Dark Athena you think of [email protected] New screens, new info. Get it now! Can you refuse this offer? the magazine! Is it a return to form for RIddick? MEET THE TEAM MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! Probably the best games writers on the planet QUICK FINDER Every game’s just a click away! Dark Prophecy Chronicles of Riddick: Red Faction: Guerrilla Assault on Dark Athena Call of Juarez: Wheelman Bound in Blood Elven Legacy Adam Oxford Steve Boxer Demigod Codename: Panzers – Optimistic Demi-Dandy Oxford While down-to-earth Boxer Godfather II Cold War views through rose tinted specs. prefers to hide those cryin’ eyes. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE Previews That looks like a FIRST rag-tag fleet to us. Black Prophecy LOOK Space predicted to remain dark Publisher: TBD Developer: Reakktor Media Heritage: Neocron What’s the story? Link: www.blackprophecy- What with EVE Online’s continued success and Jumpgate about to launch, game.com spaceships are clearly taking off with persistent world gamers. Hoping to ride ETA: TBD a coat-tail slingshot around the gravity well of these two binary stars of sci-fi gaming is Black Prophecy, a space combat MMO that looks to combine the dark PvP core of EVE with the fast-paced direct combat of Netdevil’s PREVIEW imminent game. We think it’s an interesting idea. FEEDBACK! Click here to What do we know? tell us what We do know that Neocron, Reakktor’s previous game, was also an intriguing you think of prospect, but one that sadly didn’t quite live up to expectations – but then Black Prophecy few games ever do. That said, lessons must surely have been learnt in the interim. The ship designs are certainly looking very EVE-like, and the graphics will certainly be leading a charge for dominance among what will be the ‘big three’ of spaceship MMOGs. With modular ships and stations looking to cement a foundation of customisation that could put the game above its peers, it remains to be seen how elements such as trade, resourcing and crafting will play out. Anything else to declare? Nothing is being said regarding beta testing, and Reakktor have been very clever in keeping quiet in only releasing enough to remind people that Black Prophecy is waiting in the shadows should Jumpgate get waylaid in the asteroid field of indifference. Our guess is that Reakktor will remain in stealth Space is so cluttered mode for a few months yet. these days. CONTROL Experience a world like no other! Prepare yourself for the largest Lineage® II expansion to date, Gracia Final. Transform the way you play and enjoy the freedom of flight as you explore the brand new continent of Gracia! Start your adventure today AVAILABLE NOW! Includes 30 DAYS www.Lineage2.com GAME TIME Over 19 million gamers worldwide © 2004 - 2008 NCsoft Europe Ltd. All rights reserved. NCsoft, the interlocking NC logo, Lineage, The Chaotic Chronicle, The Chaotic Throne, Gracia and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCsoft Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE Previews FIRST Red Faction: LOOK Publisher: THQ Developer: Volition Heritage: Red Faction Guerrilla series, Saints Row series Link: http://community. Super, smashing, great redfaction.com ETA: August What’s the story? Alec Mason, owner of the world’s strongest sledgehammer, arrives on Mars to join his brother Daniel in hitting things for fun and profit. Before long, Dan is PREVIEW shot down by the Earth Defence Force, a regime which rules the red planet FEEDBACK! with an iron fist. So Alec joins the Red Faction, a rebel group aiming to reclaim Click here to six key EDF strongholds and to make Mars a peaceful place to break stuff. tell us what you think of What do we know? Red Faction: Volition is quite rightly proud of Geomod 2.0, its destruction engine which Guerrilla allows players to destroy pretty much any man-made structure in sight. So much so that it’s built an entire game around it – some missions require you to destroy EDF bases with guns, remote charges and your trusty hammer, ROLL OVER EXCLUSIVE while others lob in scores of explosive barrels for you to topple structures THE BIG onto enemy vehicles or to funnel troops into ambushes. Completed missions SCREENS! ROLL OVER raise rebel morale, affording you PICTURE better-stocked ammo crates and THE BIG assistance from miners, who’ll PICTURE down tools and take up arms to take the fight to the EDF. Anything else to declare? The online modes are total chaos, while local multiplayer diversion Wrecking Crew is a destructive delight. And, in an inspired touch, there’s an unlockable ‘ostrich hammer’, referencing an Internet gag which emerged when the first – rather unflattering – screens were released. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE Previews Mount & Blade: Warband Publisher: Taleworlds | ETA: Q3 Virtua Tennis 09 Publisher: Sega | ETA: May Mount & Blade is something of a cult classic. Offering a blend of Sid Meier’s Pirates!, strategic It’s easy to dismiss yearly sports releases as play and innovative, incredibly tactile first-person cash-ins but in the past Sega have always More golden nuggets of battles, this indie gem was snapped up by Paradox delivered the goods and we expect 2009’s gaming glory to come last year. The first expansion, Warband, is due next offering to be no exception. The mini- UP month and will add a multiplayer mode to the games (crocodiles on court?) are starting game – allowing players to fight against (and with) to sounds a little strained but as long as 7 they’ve nailed Murray’s form we’re buying. Damnation up to 31 friends on the battlefield. Publisher: Codemasters | ETA: Q2 This steampunk shooter aims to turn the FPS on its head. Well, Max Payne 3 maybe its side anyway. Blue Publisher: Rockstar | ETA: Late 2009 Omega are emphasising verticality Details are scarce, save some generi- in this intriguing offering with quotes from Rockstar founder Sam maps that are apparently Houser on the official site. Apparently thousands of feet high, as well as this time ‘Max is trapped in a city full of miles wide. How you explore this violence and bloodshed using his landscape will be up to you, and weapons and instincts in a desperate what’s more, you can play the search for the truth and way out’. Could campaign in co-op with a buddy. be a late contender for game of the year. The Sims 3 Publisher: EA | ETA: June AUTUMN Sherlock Holmes vs We’re only a month or so away now after The Sims 3 was recently moved to a June 2nd Cloudy with a Chance release. This new iteration is bound to be a of Meatballs Jack the Ripper SUMMER Publisher: Frogwares | ETA: May massive success, with a bewilderingly anal Wolfenstein We were hoping for some kind of ‘street’ dance-off or collection of new traits and skills for your little Bionic Commando possibly a Violin/Rip-Rap based mash-up but it seems people. For example, the ability to go fishing Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper will be neither. Nor and then mount their catches on the living SPRING Trine room wall or stick them in a bowl for all to see. Mafia 2 will it be a Victorian pugilist’s gas-lit beat-’em-up. Heroes over Denied! Ah well, Publisher: Frozenbyte | ETA: Q2 Europe Anno 1404 we’ll have to make Golden Axe meets Crayon Physics do with a pleasing with three playable fantasy SBK09 blend of first- and characters doing the whole left- America’s third-person puzzle to-right thing in a changable Army 3 Prototype solving and fantasy world, but there are hints Metal Drift adventure come of Left 4 Dead here too as the ON next month. other players can revive the fallen THE at certain points along each level.
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