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VISCERAL CALL OF DUTY EVER!” PLAYBACK OPTIONS: “THE MOST - Xbox 360 The Official Magazine WWW.CALLOFDUTY.COM WWW.CALLOFDUTY.COM Available November 2008 PCGZine NAVIGATE |05 Previews We’re sure the seal FIRST will be alright. Um… Overlord 2 LOOK

Publisher: The Minions are back… Developer: Triumph Studios What’s the story? Heritage: Overlord The sequel to last year’s hit-or-miss comedy, Overlord 2 is looking to be a Link: www.codemasters. more of the same sequel, with bigger environments, characters, and the com/overlord same sense of humour. ETA: 2009 What do we know? After setting your guy up as an all-powerful being in the first game, it’d be a PREVIEW bit rubbish to do it all again, so this time round there’s a new Overlord in FEEDBACK! town, in a new area. With a more powerful army of minions in tow, it’s up to Click here to you to clash with an entire Empire, as you attempt to establish yourself as tell us what the supreme evil honcho. you think of Overlord 2 When do we get more? Irritatingly, we can only get a release date of ‘2009’, but the wise money is on a launch in the second half of the year.

Minions see grapes. Anything else to declare? Minions eat grapes. One of the areas Triumph Studios has decided to take a look at for Overlord 2 is the Minion’s abilities. Retaining the same pack mentality as before, the little goblin-type creatures can still scavenge enemies armour and weapons, but now, they can also ride mounts too. Seeing a troop of minions atop a horse is going to be a sight to see – if they can nail the controls The graphics have seen using a keyboard and mouse a notable improvement then this could definitely be since the original. one to look forward to.

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |06 Previews Imperium Romanum 2 Publisher: Kalypso Media | ETA: March Dungeon Hero Publisher: Gamecock | ETA: Spring 2009 We’ve had our eye on this Roman city builder for some time now and with each month that passes Dungeon Hero’s name is somewhat it just looks better and better. With a stunning misleading, seeing as how the game neither More golden nuggets of graphical engine and some easily accessible – yet takes place in a dungeon, nor do you play as gaming glory to come incredibly deep – gameplay, this could do for a hero, but despite that, we’re happy to say UP Roman building games what did for that the game itself is shaping up into quite body dismemberment. a nice little RPG. It’s released this spring, so 7 we’ll have more info very shortly. EndWar Publisher: Ubisoft | ETA: 2009 Another somewhat unofficially announced title, Ubisoft’s EndWar Jumpgate Evolution has shown up in ESRB ratings Publisher: COG | ETA: TBC 2009 listings, suggesting a PC release With Jumpgate Evolution, that glittering could be imminent. Using voice ‘Elite but with more MMO’ game we’ve commands to control your troops, all been waiting for could finally have the console versions have received arrived. Over 150,000 beta testers have a muted reception, so it’ll be signed up to scour the universe for space interesting to see how this adapts bugs, and we should be getting some to the usual mouse-centric RTS hands-on in the new year. Until then, controls of the PC. keep watching the skies… Lord of the Rings: SPRING Conquest Supreme Publisher: EA | ETA: January Champions Online Originally set for release before Christmas, April Commander 2 FEB Publisher: Square-Enix | ETA: TBC we’re sorry to say this Lord of the Rings- 2009 Dungeon Hero Final Fantasy fellas Square- branded epic has been pushed back to Wheelman Spring Enix have announced January. Hopefully, the extra time should 16th February they’ll be publishing a give the developers time to apply the extra JAN Edge of sequel to THQ’s Supreme Street Fighter 4 layer of sheen this really needs to stand out. 2009 Publisher: Capcom | ETA: 2009 Red Faction: F.E.A.R. 2 Twilight Commander, though Guerrilla Project 2009 they’ve given no indication It may look great in the arcades, January 13th February of when. It’s a odd but soon you’ll be Hadouken-ing LOTR: Conquest coupling but apparently across your PC, thanks to the 16th January Still Life 2 Square-Enix are broadening news that Street Fighter 4 is 2009 Sims 3 their horizons to the coming to a computer near you CSi: New York 20th February Western market, and that soon. And with Capcom’s new ON January means games developed love for the PC, we can expect THE by and for Westerners. to see many more. RADAR CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS:

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or the last 15 minutes, the spikes known as a ‘Bereskarn’), and two Elves we’re watching these Elves dispatched them all DRAGON AGE: Fon the screen have been through careful use of skills, tactics engaging in some proper old- and items. But then something school dungeoneering. Since strange happens. Approaching entering the underground ruins an ancient statue triggers a they’ve been ambushed by the conversation within the party, and ORIGINS walking dead, various vicious traps, as the camera zooms in we get our Could this be the darkest RPG yet? Read on to find out… spiders the size of bears (not to first horrific look at the characters mention an actual bear covered in up close. They’re absolutely

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |09 Previews Now would be a very good EXCLUSIVE time to turn around and run! Dragon Age continued Gate’ that the team says it is, they’re SCREEN clearly using the break from the slathered in blood. Their weapons, AD&D license to create a fantasy Publisher: EA hands, armour, even their pale faces world that’s not only theirs, but one Developer: BioWare have become total Jackson Pollock that’s more adult and morally gray. Heritage: Mass Effect, canvases. In short, they actually Don’t expect any bumbling villains KoTOR, Baldur’s Gate look like two people who’ve spent or Miniature Space Hamsters here. Link: http://dragonage. the last 15 minutes murdering Expect… well, let’s get back to .com everything in sight. It’s a revelation. those two Elves. ETA: March 2009 Executive Producer Dan Tudge Those ruins they’re exploring laughs awkwardly at the reveal. are actually old Elven ruins. More “Yeah,” he says. “We’re looking into screwed up still, when one of them toning the blood down.” But it’s a starts reading the Elvish writing off PREVIEW moment that shows exactly what the statue, a conversation option FEEDBACK! BioWare are trying to do with lets you express confusion as to Click here to Dragon Age. As much as it might how your friend can even read. tell us what be the ‘spiritual sequel to Baldur’s See, in Dragon Age the Elvish you think of ROLL OVER Dragon Age: This one looks pretty Origins THE BIGtough – not sure about PICTUREthe purple cape, though.

There’s so much detail in the backgrounds that sometimes you’ll just want to stop and take it all in.

You can give praying a go, but we don’t think that it’s going to help much.

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Far from following the more radical, action-oriented direction their recent games have taken, BioWare have chosen a more sedate pace for Dragon Age. It’ll be familiar to anyone who’s played Baldur’s Gate, Planescape or even WoW. Enemies are scattered around the map and get aggroed as you approach them, and then it’s a matter of either swapping between your characters and activating the skills on their hotbars or pressing Space to pause everything while you check on cooldown meters, plot the best course of action and assign everyone their orders. But it’s not all stats and experience points. Dragon Age ROLL OVER attempts to shine things up a bit with some truly awesome fatalities that do every bit as much to attach you to your THE BIG characters as the reams of inter-party banter. When everyone The thought of adventuring in a world as vivid but your warrior has been beaten unconscious by an ogre and well characterised as this makes us swoon. PICTURE and you watch that lone survivor wrestle the monster to the ground and slice him open from ear to ear… ah, it warms Dragon Age continued your Origin as your race, class the Origins starts you off as a noble your heart. Just how many monsters are being gifted with and gender. In a nutshell, it’s an who’s obsessively training against special fatality animations is unknown, but it’s definitely civilisation suffered a little setback. expanded version of the three their cosy upbringing to become something the developers can’t afford to be stingy with. It’s probably a little impolite to backstories you could pick from in a great warrior. Or if you choose Lackluster animations combined with traditional combat even call it a setback. Basically Mass Effect. For example, one of to be a Mage you have to pick a could leave Dragon Age’s action looking a little dated. the humans of the world, being big bastards fond of raising big dogs, managed to enslave the A scenic break from all entire Elven race and only recently that nasty dungeoneering. upgraded their place in society to scrawny servants. The few Elves who’ve fought back and lived to tell the tale (which is to say, have run for their lives) have taken refuge in an enormous forest and it’s playing as one of those rebels that makes up one of the game’s six Origins. Baldur’s fans will instantly Character creation in Dragon feel right at home in Origins. Age is as much about you choosing

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |11 Previews citizens they have to display control Dragon Age continued over their abilities, with those who PCGZine can’t (and, horribly, those who are EXCLUSIVE special Origin that has you battling just too gifted) undergoing a kind VIDEO through the tyrannical schooling of magical sterilisation that leaves that all magic users in the world are them slow, emotionless and unable forced to undergo. Before Mages to do anything but enchant things. can wander the world like free The general idea is that as well as providing a unique opening WORLD to everyone’s game, your chosen EXCLUSIVE! Origin keeps popping up, even after Watch the first the six plots have converged. Your in-game footage IT’S ALL BLIGHT NOW race, upbringing, class, history… of the Elven Origin. Because Orcs are so last century… all of it changes how people react to you in this prejudiced world. The plot of Dragon Age has your hero joining up with Although it’s true that in the Use the Play and Stop controls to the left, the Gray Wardens, an order of similarly heroic badasses examples we saw, it was often or click here to see the enhanced version! dedicated to defeating an enemy known as the Blight. We’d possible to win a hatin’ NPC over to imagine this’d ordinarily be a fairly sweet gig, since the your side with a few well-chosen words, there will be some bullets Blight only makes an appearance once every few hundred that just can’t be dodged. years, but no such luck for you. The Blight show up at about You see, Dragon Age is kind of a the same time you do. Your character’s reason for joining the “BioWare has six RPGs milestone. BioWare have six smash- Wardens varies wildly depending on your origin, but it’s once behind them, but this is hit RPGs behind them, but this is you’re part of the order that the six Origins finally converge. the first one without any the first one without some kind of From what we’ve seen so far, the Blight seem a fairly morality categorisation. Maybe it’s two-dimensional lot. Supposedly they used to be Mages who morality categorisation” a sign of either BioWare or its fans once sought to take Heaven as their own, but ever since that Well, it wouldn’t be an went pear-shaped they’ve become an undead army armed to EXCLUSIVE RPG without a pub, right? the teeth with surprisingly well-maintained weapons, sharp SCREEN teeth, rippling muscles, pointy skin and poisonous blood ROLL OVER – which if it doesn’t transform you into a part of the Blight THE BIG will render you mad over the following years. Evil given PICTURE humanoid form, basically, which is a shame for a world made of moral grays, but never mind. It’s in the info about the Blight that we’ve caught our first reference to the titular dragons. From the game’s official website: “They plague the underground caverns and tunnels once inhabited by the Dwarven kingdoms. When they discover one of the Old Gods, ancient dragons slumbering in the depths of the earth, it rises as an Arch-Demon to lead Bioware have really nailed the the Darkspawn as they spread like locusts across the surface sense of place in DA, just look at it! We. Hate. Spiders. lands, destroying all in their path.”

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ROLL OVER THE BIG We bet whoever lives up there is PICTURE really friendly, not at all evil, no. ROLL OVER THE BIG Time for a rare moment PICTURE Dragon Age continued calm and safe day, you and your old of quiet contemplation. friend pounce on three humans growing up, but nothing in Dragon trespassing through ‘your’ patch of Age is good or evil, nothing is right forest. The humans claim they’ve or wrong, nothing is even labelled lost their way, but now they’ve “Until further notice, as the choice of a paragon of virtue found where you live, if they return we’re referring to this or a renegade. This time around, the home the secret could spread. So only consequences of your choices your options are to let them go, game as Baldur’s Gate’s are the physical and emotional kill one to scare them or slaughter Older, Cooler Brother” consequences in the world and in them all. I ended up killing one of your chosen party. Fans of numbers them right there in cold blood, and I notice, we’re referring to this game shouldn’t despair, though. Every always play lovely men in RPGs. But as Baldur’s Gate’s Older, Cooler party member gets a percentile bar letting them go just felt too foolish. Brother. We’ll find out if that’s any Trust us when we say that in their stats that shows their current Like I’d be betraying my race over fairer when Dragon Age hits the this is going to be something opinion of you – a bar you can give squeamishness. So up came the shelves this March. very special indeed. a boost by giving away special ‘gift’ arrow and down went the man, his items to them. friends screaming in terror. Returning to the Elf origin one It definitely feels slightly off calling PCGZine HOW COMPLETE? FIRST IMPRESSIONS? more time, it’s one of these choices Dragon Age the spiritual sequel to 80% 90% that kicks everything off once you Baldur’s Gate. It’s just too brooding, first pick the origin. On an otherwise too subtle, too mean. Until further A sure-fire hit from a trusted developer

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* European servers only CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |14 Interview “We knew we wanted to make a Publisher: EA Developer: BioWare mature game so Players: Many we’d be able to tell ETA: March 2009 A New Age all the stories we We interview a room bursting with BioWare’s best and brightest to talk about Dragon Age: Origins wanted to tell”

reating your own IP for a you have a few core concepts or Dan Tudge, Project Director: That’s You can change the game like this seems like colours. Like we knew we wanted to where the political thing comes in, angle to get the perfect Csuch a huge task… make a mature game so we’d be able too. There are people that are view of the action… Ross Gardner, Lead Programmer: Yeah, to tell all the stories we wanted to tell. politically motivated who are they’d been writing and designing for And we wanted to make a fantasy years before we showed any demos or game because one of our goals was to anything like that. We have this small go back and please our old PC fans. army of writers now and they were off writing different stories, these different Since Knights of the Old Republic legends, histories and political groups. you guys do seem to be drifting towards more adult stuff. But where do you begin? Benoit Houle, Project Director: Well, the Dean Anderson, Art Director: First of all gamers who enjoyed Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights are growing up! Not sure who’s going to win We’re talking around 25-35 now, so this battle, but it’s definitely they’ll enjoy a more mature game. going to be messy. We were thinking the world seemed quite Middle Earth-ian… Mike Laidlaw, Lead Designer: But Lord of the Rings is very good and evil, and you occasionally have a guy who flips sides like Saruman but it’s still a rarity. Whereas Dragon Age is about dealing with the reality of the situation. Often there is no easy choice or even a ‘good’ choice. You just have to choose A or B and they both kinda suck. And this is a …and then zoom in to society that’s had these kind of choices see it all happen up close. placed before them.

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Interview If it makes it out of the flames in one piece, then you can shoot it!

Don’t know what that is, but it looks dangerous.

Character detail is outstanding.

Interview continued But, specifically, it mostly seems to ML: It opens up a world where the men doing things that are bad for the centre around the medieval era. were men, the women were women, country for their own motivations. Why do you think that is? and there were no cubicles or RG: I think it’s that our lives have paperwork, or a lot of the things we ML: Yeah. You go ‘Oh I get why he did changed so much over the last 100 associate with drudgery and tedium. that. He’s still a dick, but I get why he years with all this technology, and in These things are simply not there, so it’s did that.’ some ways that situation’s very fragile. that much easier to escape them. I think there’s something inside of So after all this time, what do everyone that longs for the simple days So, finally, how long is it that you you guys think the appeal of where you could do whatever you guys have been working on fantasy is? Why is it something wanted, bash someone on the head Dragon Age now? that fiction returns to time and with a sword or something! DT: We announced the game way back time again? in 2004, but then we went dark for a ML: Well, it’s a license to be fantastic, DA: I think the imagination aspect of it long time so it really does feel like a right? After all, that’s where the word is important. This is something that did long time. But we’ve resurfaced very comes from. exist, so we wonder how it was. close to the end.

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CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |17 Previews “The Old Republic is going to FIRST LOOK have more narrative than every game BioWare has Publisher: LucasArts/EA ever made put together” Developer: BioWare Heritage: Practically all of the best RPGs from the past 10 years Link: www.swtor.com ETA: TBA

PREVIEW The world’s finest roleplay designers. The world’s greatest franchise. We’ve got a good feeling about this… FEEDBACK! Click here to hen Obi Wan spoke of a more BioWare has ever made put together. civilized age, where the Jedi What they’re aiming for is the full The eternal battle of red and blue tell us what reignites. While purple looks forlornly on. you think of WKnights were the guardians of single-player KOTOR experience – with Star Wars: peace and justice, we now know that companions, NPCs, multiple planets, The Old Republic he wasn’t discussing the days of his side quests, the intricate balance youth. If that were the case he’d between light and dark et al – placed presumably be banging on about in a universe where other players are trading alliance ship blockades, and the on the very same, or very different, fact that wherever he went there’d be adventures as you. What’s more, the humorous CG characters with odd- choices you make will still effect the looking wobbly flesh dropping spanners. No, he was talking about the Behold! Korriban! You may times of the old Old Republic – the well remember this from multi-Jedied and multi-Sithed network earlier times. of primary colours, meatbag-obsessed companion droids, remarkable plot twists and, now, crafting and mob- killing. Because, yes, BioWare are taking the KOTOR license and letting you play it with friends and strangers as an MMO. Hooked on the story Sort of. Because the hook to any BioWare game is the storyline – and on release, The Old Republic is going to have more narrative than every game

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |18 Previews The Tython base of the Jedi is a replacement from the one that got blown up in the original KOTOR.

Mining droids on Tython, only one letter away from being Minging droids on Tython.

Star Wars continued and each class will have their own multi-stranded quest through the story and the world you find yourself galaxy. As such, the Sith class will start in – if this game were Warcraft then from the already familiar Sith academy you’d finally find out what would on Korriban, while Jedi players will start happen if you actually took issue with a parallel (perhaps criss-crossing?) the concept of going off to kill 10 adventure starting on Tython – the Worgs for a hunter that wants to planet where the Sith and Jedi first collect their legs. went their separate ways. No other classes have been announced, but Time frame BioWare are promising that the ‘heroic’ It’s due to take place 300 years after the roles from the first and second trilogies (slightly duff) close of Obsidian’s KOTOR will be covered. So if there aren’t 2 – and as such you’ll learn what handsome smugglers going on the happened to Bastila, Revan and all the Kessel Run out of Corellia or masked other characters, as well as probably Bounty Hunters setting out from bump into cast members to whom the locations unknown, then I’m an Ewok’s Unfailingly Star Wars. And totally ravages of time do not apply. The way uncle. What’s more, within character KOTOR. Truly, artwork to die for. it’ll work is that you’ll choose a class, creation you’ll undoubtedly be

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |19 Previews Another scrap in the Sith Academy playground. Back of the head with a paper cup for both of ’em.

A Sith, finding someone’s lack of faith disturbing.

Star Wars continued they’ll operate in much the same way nature of traditional KOTOR fights not achievements in accessible system as they always have in previous single being readily transferrable to MMOs demands, and its reliance on art allowed to play as different races within player offerings – and not as some sort and their PvP demands. It’s promised design rather than demanding each class – even if sexy Twi’lek lady of glorified World of Warcraft pet. Quite that lightsabers will connect and have graphical effects to ensure long-term Jedis will probably outnumber grumpy, how, when every player will be running weight to them, even if when viewed good looks. slimy male ones about 20 to one. about with a couple of NPCs tailing in screenshots their handles appear to Because, let’s face it, the scalp that What’s more, as you progress through after them, BioWare are planning on be about five times too big. Another the triple-pronged assault being made the game and progress along the making sure that everyone doesn’t noticeable change made for the MMO by EA, LucasArts and BioWare will very sliding scale of light and dark (or, more have the self-same characters alongside are the visuals, which are suddenly far much be on Azeroth. Even after the likely, the cumulative pillars of good them is still a mystery, but one they more stylised than previous BioWare abject failure of Star Wars: Galaxies, what and bad seen in Mass Effect) your claim to have overcome. and Star Wars games – in all other franchise could truly challenge avatar will change to reflect your probability it’s an attempt to mimic the iron grip of Warcraft? The rebel standing – brightness and smiles for Actual content World of Warcraft’s fearsome forces are beginning to amass… the good, hunched backs and talons As for actual MMO content, well again for the wicked. they’re not going into specifics – they Quite how BioWare’s increasingly promise only that MMO fans won’t be PCGZine HOW COMPLETE? FIRST IMPRESSIONS? clever companion system will work disappointed. Combat is one thing 35% 95% within SWTOR hasn’t been firmly that will be changing however, what underlined, but it’s promised that with the stop-start action-queuing Begun, these MMO wars have

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |20 Previews We hope for that guy’s sake that Ammistratore means FIRST LOOK ‘Bulletproof Man’s Office’.

Publisher: Sega Developer: Obsidian Heritage: Knights of the Old Republic 2, NeverWinter Nights 2 Link: www.alphaprotocol.com ETA: 2009

Spying it up in Obsidian’s new RPG PREVIEW FEEDBACK! he spy genre really should be Government. In a bit of a pickle, Click here to doing big business in the gaming Michael sees fit to initiate the Alpha tell us what Tworld. After all, who doesn’t see Protocol, and goes undercover in an you think of the appeal of travelling to exotic attempt to single out his betrayers. Alpha Protocol locales, using the latest gadgets, Of course, one of the main elements driving the hottest cars and flirting with of being a spy is the ability to talk beautiful women? The very principles yourself out of danger, and dialogue is of being a spy lend themselves handled in a way that brings back perfectly to games, yet for some reason memories of Mass Effect. Taking place in this has remained untapped. Yes, we’ve real-time, you’ll have to quickly choose had Splinter Cells and rubbish James the direction you want to take the Bond cash-ins, but nothing’s managed conversation in, and will be able to reply to get the spy experience just right. suavely, aggressively or professionally. And this is where Obsidian come in. With a limited amount of time this puts Remembered best for the slightly pressure on you to respond correctly, and rushed Knights of the Old Republic 2 helps create an atmosphere of tension. and NeverWinter Nights 2, Obsidian have a great heritage developing RPG Choose your path games, so it should come as no surprise This emphasis on choice also extends that that’s what Alpha Protocol is. into how you approach the missions. Played from a first-person view, the Do you shoot your way in, sneak game puts you into the squeaky clean around the back or try and talk your shoes of Michael Thornton, an agent way past the security? In an interesting with the CIA who begins the game twist, Obsidian have also announced Dodgy evil eye. Beard… Best having been betrayed by his superiors that each of the missions you play shoot him now to save time. and placed on a hit list by the US through will directly affect the story,

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |21 Previews Unarmed combat will be important to master.

Either her foot’s nailed to the floor or she’s got a spine like Atlas – that gun’s got to be heavy.

Alpha Protocol continued from a third-person perspective, fully upgradable, with silencers, handled in real time, with a variety of different sights, and ammunition. As and even tiny things, like the way you gadgets and weapons at your disposal. you level up, you’ll also be able to speak to a certain character, could Although little’s been announced specialise in certain weapons or effect you later in the story arc. about the gadgets yet, we do know abilities, again in a manner that’s not Alpha Protocol’s combat is played that the weapons you’ll acquire are too dissimilar to Mass Effect. Letting you take in exotic locations around the world, schmooze with the beautiful people, use all the latest gadgets, all wrapped up in a great storyline, Alpha Protocol should be one to watch next year. Spy games have needed a champion for some time – hopefully in Alpha Protocol, they may If you’re trying to be like Bond, have found it. that’s the wrong sort of DJ. PCGZine HOW COMPLETE? FIRST IMPRESSIONS? 60% 70% Your character and weapons Perhaps finally a quantum of solace for spy fans? are fully customisable.

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CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |23 Reviews Grand Theft

PCGZine Publisher: Rockstar Games Auto 4 Stunt jumps are dotted Developer: around the city. Rockstar Toronto There’s not much PC in Liberty City Heritage: GTA series Link: www.rockstar nless you’ve been hiding under has come home, replete with a suite games.com a big pile of writing cliches for of format-specific features. The city “Hitting F2 at any time OUT NOW Uthe best part of a year, you may itself is superbly realised, with the PC during the game records be aware that this came out on the playing host to the definitive version – consoles back in April. It’s been a long graphically at least – with a significant 30 seconds of footage, wait for PC loyalists, but finally GTA IV hike in resolution. which can then be edited”

Think once, think twice, Functionally, probably the biggest think bike! improvement has been to the multiplayer, which at 32 players now boasts double the number of its console brethren, as well as new tracks Become a fully for the lively race modes. There’s also a fledged cop killer. brand new feature in the shape of a movie editor. Hitting F2 at any time during the game records 30 seconds of Cousins in crime dispose of the evidence. footage, which can then be edited, with music and text added. Furthermore, the controls have been optimised for mouse and keyboard, making the shooting sections a far more skill-based affair. As for the driving, unless you’re a seasoned keyboard dabber, it might be worth investing in a 360 pad. This can be used in conjunction with mouse and keyboard, as you simply switch whenever you get in and out of a car.

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |24 Reviews Say Hello to Playboy X. Real name Brian.

He loves the smell of gunfire in the morning. Smells like Liberty. That’s why they introduced the smoking ban. GTA IV continued LAND, SEA & AIR Rack up the miles… This is of course something you’ll be doing thousands of times during the Bellic, fresh off the boat to Liberty City, cousin Roman, Niko soon discovers that course of the game. If you really don’t which is of course a thinly veiled the American dream is a nightmare and know what’s going on, you play replication of New York. Promised gets sucked into the underworld, eking embittered Russian ex-soldier Niko unimaginable riches by his cabbie out a living as a freelance criminal, and progressing through the city’s gangster hierarchy through a brutal combination of robbing and killing. So far, so GTA, but the modern-day setting gives the game a number of crucial elements, namely a mobile phone, satellite navigation technology and the Internet. Your phone is essentially your office, holding contacts, messages, appointments and offers of work. As for the GPS, it works seamlessly, with or without voice, and as in the real world you’ll wonder how Hit the road The high Take to you managed without either of them. seas the skies The Internet – accessed via web cafes – is something of a gimmick, but can be used to get work, as well as arrange TakeHitThe the high to road the seas skies meetings on dating sites – one example YouGetLiberty yourselfreally City haven’t is a surroundedset of seen decent the by bestwheels water. view by Why of stealing Liberty not make one City theof until Liberty most you’ve of City’s this seen numerousand it fromtake of the game’s wilful approach to time thecars.to the air. Or, sea Go if youinto a a havefancy heli-pad a speedboat? strange and commandeer desire We did.to take a thechopper. moral highground, then you Negotiations are easier can simply take a cab. with a weapon. wasting. There’s no real need to take a girl to a show (and then back to hers)

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |25 One of the Irish mob Reviews causing trouble. It’s all going down in Chinatown.

soothing rhythms of Jean Michel Jarre’s seminal electro-cheese classic, Oxygène, Pt 4. There really is something for everyone, or alternately you can sling some MP3s in a folder and set up your own Independence FM. On the downside, having to replay missions is irksome, and constantly buying body armour becomes a drag. GTA IV continued And if you want to be really cynical, you “Grand Theft Auto IV are simply running predetermined or go bowling with your cousin, or errands in what is a very awkward way enjoy a strip show, and if you want to is not so much a game of watching a very long gangster film. simply plough through the core you play, as a place While there will always be a touch of Improbably, scoffing missions you can, but that would be that you live” the Emperor’s New Clothes about GTA, junk food boosts missing much of GTA IV’s charm. Those number IV provides an astonishing your health. who dismiss the game’s recreational such mainstays as politics, religion, outfit. This is not so much a game that elements as pointless are surely poker, obesity, celebutards, spiritualists, you play, as a place that you live. completely missing the point of gaming. the Fox Network, CNN and even CSI. As Steve Hill While the main missions are often a satire of Americana, it’s arguably breathtaking set pieces, it’s the bits unsurpassed in any medium. in-between that define the experience. Those radio stations also blast out PCGZine A morally bankrupt adult There aren’t many games where you an improbable array of tunes, and are playground. And all the can sit in your apartment and watch an often responsible for some of the advert for Ricky Gervais, and then go game’s more reflective moments. better for it and see his live show, replete with With blood on your hands having Revamped multiplayer % industrial language. As you’d expect, committed a triple murder, driving Movie editor the black humour of the game is as through the rain-glistened streets at acutely observed as ever, with the 3am and too wired to sleep, your Console port sublime radio stations taking a pop at conscience can briefly be eased by the 92

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |26 Reviews Tomb Raider

Underworld The fire sure is Publisher: Eidos fancy lookin’. Developer: Crystal Lara Croft goes to hell and back Dynamics Heritage: Tomb Raider nderworld might just be the tested formula. Baddies are gunned swing and fight her way through Legend, Tomb Raider best Tomb Raider so far. The down and ancient ruins are bested. It’s hostile environments, and the ease GOTTA KEEP MOVIN’ Anniversary Useries has, over many years, sumptuous stuff and it’s full of the stuff with which Lara scrambles up a climb Taking control of the world’s favourite Link: www.tombraider.com suffered terribly from inconsistent that made the original Tomb Raider surface, or grabs hold of a ledge, or OUT NOW design decisions, and from its such a thrilling game to play. shimmies up a pole, or works grapple tomb raider achievements being diminished as Why so satisfying? Well partly it’s magic for that Tarzan moment, well, it’s every other action adventure in the down to the sheer solidity of the rewardingly predictable. You never feel past decade ripped off the things that design. As ever, Lara’s challenge is to like the game is tricking you or messing made Lara interesting in the first place. negotiate large physical challenges – around with your expectations. You None of that matters now, because she has to climb, leap, scramble, crawl, learn how Lara works within the first Crystal Dynamics have now made the half an hour of gameplay, and then it finest Tomb Raider title since that first rapidly comes down to a pure test of memorable outing. This is a game that “Underworld is full of your skill as to whether you can get is faithful to its roots, and nevertheless the stuff that made the through the things that lie ahead. It ambitious and entertaining. It seems original Tomb Raider suchnever seems to lie to you. If you think classical (rather than dated) and Lara can pull something off then the satisfying, rather than repetitious of a a thrilling game to play” chances are that she can.

FREEZE Smoothly In at the The big FRAME does it deep end grapple Guiding you through the game, one step at a time… PROLOGUE LEVEL 1 – 30 MINS LEVEL 1 – 1 HOUR LEVEL 2 –2 HOURS LEVEL 3 – 3 HOURS InTheSmoothly at big the grapple deep does end it Lara’s mansion is destroyed Time then rewinds to The first big challenge Lara’s enemies arrive A clue leads Lara into MuchTheLara’s grapple ofabilities the gameis anmeld essential is seamlesslyspent intool the atinto water, all each stages which other, of theis so handy game,you can for not goyou just from because in sprinting getting Lara’s in a huge explosion, and back before the explosion, is a kraken, which is on the scene and you Thailand and the game swimmingLarato diving about and isbut intuitive then in interacting to climbing and easy with in to a master. somefew fluid of the seconds. puzzles. you have to escape from with you out on a boat in basically an octopus have to fight your way starts proper. Just watch the burning wreckage. the Mediterranean. the size of a house! aboard their ship. out for the fauna…

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Reviews handy – such as killing off sharks in the underwater sections, or getting aboard the enemy ship – but the core of the game remains faithful to the puzzles which have always made it interesting. Large, surprising, multi-stage environmental puzzles dominate the problems you’ll face in the game world, and finding the solution for each one delivers on the most minor annoyances or trial-and-error frustrations. The autosave is so systematic that if you do crack Croft’s headcase open on some rocks, you won’t have to repeat a great Big cogs abound in puzzle deal of the game to get back to where section goodness. you where before. This is good design. Better still, Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider continued have listened to the criticism of their previous work on the series. There are, Natla, the evil angel thing Again, the combat is a little thankfully, no extended boss battles in from previous games, returns with some advice. uninspired, and it’s almost always this game, and instead you’re faced better to kick someone than shoot with intricate puzzle situations that them with twin nine-millimetre pistols, always have some spectacular but then the game never really was denouement. You kill a vast, glistening Roll over screen for annotations about the shooting action. It’s about an kraken in the first couple of hours of acrobatic lady raiding tombs, and using the game, and things just get more gymnastic verve to escape a grisly fate. interesting from there on in. Occasionally fighting does come in For those folks who have been following the story in the previous Thor is involved, as games – which currently hangs on the well as his magic search for Lara’s mother, who may or hammer, Mjolnir. may not be in a mythical underworld – this latest instalment continues with pacey surprises and some interesting developments within the now regular cast. For anyone just dropping in to see how the old girl is doing, this is another high-quality action adventure, and it would be remiss to ignore just how competently constructed this particular instance of Tomb Raider is. Case in point: look at how few PC games

CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE z |28 Reviews PULSOMETER Signs of life Big boss battles Supernatural now smoother action!

Dramatic double- Brilliant crossing plot environmental puzzles “If you’ve ever had even the slightest fondness for Lara’s antics, then now is Climbing inside a sinking ship is one of a great time to return” the more exciting bits. come to expect from other rival games, but we nevertheless believe that no one is even attempting to make action adventures work in quite this way in 2008. If you’ve ever had even the slightest fondness for Lara’s antics, then now is a great time to return. If you’ve Tomb Raider continued sections, and that it really doesn’t never played a Tomb Raider game, then deviate far from a game we’ve become you owe it to yourself to find out what actually bother to support not just overly familiar with. It doesn’t give quite all the fuss is about. an Xbox controller, but automatic as much direction and focus as we’ve Jim Rossignol installation of just about any USB gamepad out there. Of course, Underworld is perfectly playable and comprehensible on mouse and keyboard, but the fact that Crystal Dynamics have bothered to make a PC game so solid and approachable that PCGZine Perfectly formed raiding, it automatically configures whatever with a hint of drama, too controller you might decide to plug into your computer is a testament to their commitment to the game. This Brilliant control system % level of quality is seen throughout. Beautiful environments So it’s tough to criticise Underworld. Some dude gets shot in Some fiddly arena puzzles If there was a major gripe it would be the face. What a shame. that it is a little slow and meandering in 85

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Brand new concept It’s still Peggle Really challenging Classics like Meatboy Brilliantly funny Heart warming One new power, but only one Pleasingly distracted Comprehensive collection Appropriately rude Hilarious Seen it all before Poorly presented Doesn’t contain full-priced games Free Goo(d) enough % % % % % Why no new stuff? Simple yet smart Freaky but fun Point-and-slick to eat 94 60 74 83 85 CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |30 Letters WHAT’S THE SCORE? Another age-old argument raises its ugly head How can you give 85% to Far Cry 2 when, in effect, you describe it as a broken game? Given you couldn’t even give 80% to a £10 Indie game while praising it, I have no idea how you can give 85% to a game where you condemn it in all the important areas of gameplay, replayability and immersion! Then we have Dead Space: 92% for a 10-hour game. >Inbox Is it really acceptable to see shorter and shorter games Let your opinion be heard. Mail the zine for the same retail price? If Dead Space had 30 hours of at [email protected] Apparently, a lot of people are getting gameplay but cost £100 you would’ve marked it down rather excited about Diablo III. as ‘overpriced’, so why not when games are released with so little content and replayability? We asked for all of your opinions You marked Project Aftermath down for only having READER on two threequels: Red Alert and I’m not holding my breath as far as a skill system similar to DII’s – they made 10 levels, while admitting it had some replayability, FEEDBACK! Diablo. On reflection, perhaps we release date goes, but in the meantime your character extremely powerful, and even when it had been priced accordingly! Why Click here to shouldn’t have… I’ll be sure to be checking in with you. it should be that way in Diablo III. penalise an Indie game for being short, and then not tell us what > David Janzen, Canada 3) Re-speccing should be an option. penalise a commercial game for the same thing when you think of SOMEWHERE IN CANADA… Unless levelling will be comparable in its price has been lowered not one jot? PC games or I discovered you while I was searching A NOD TO UCL speed with Diablo II, the player should > John Ingram, London PCGZine! for updates on Blizzard’s Diablo III, so Looking forward to seeing what this be able to re-spec. thanks for the new shots! It’s nearly a has to offer as I liked Red Alert 2 a lot > Mares Mihai, via email > PCGZ says… And so John went on at some full-time job sifting through all the and it has been a seriously long time length. Some interesting points there, but speculation regarding anything since a Red Alert title has graced us I’M VERY EXCITED!!!!!!! remember all reviews are based on the subjective connected with Blizzard, and Diablo III. with its presence. DIABLO 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your magazine is the opinions of a writer’s experience. Scores tend to > Julian Beckles, UCL, London best. Wonderful to see videos of Diablo reflect an overall level of approval for a game, III in the magazine. Good job! rather than a mathematical breakdown of its value PRACTICALLY PERFECT > Mike McDonald, N Potomac, MD in hours-per-pound. What do the rest of you think? Don’t I like everything that’s going on in Diablo III, except for three things: Well that’s nice, but some are 1) The drop system should be similar to clearly fishing for a freebie… miss Issue 26 the cutthroat free-for-all loot system from Diablo II LoD. That made the KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK Out Jan 29th game unique, infinitely more random Your magazines are awesome, I don’t and appealing than what the currently buy game magazines any more Sign up now! planned loot system is. I just really because you guys always have the don’t want to see WoW’s bland “Hey most up-to-date information. Not to Yes, it really is that old everybody gets easy, great items!” mention all the prizes, freebies and ‘you gave xxxx the wrong type of loot system. exclusive content. Just thought I’d drop score’ argument. Again. 2) Skills and Talents. Again, please don’t a line to say ‘keep up the good work’. use WoW as an example for skills. Use a > Jon, via email

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