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Pcgzine Issue 31 FREE! NAVIGATE Issue 31 | June 2009 Also INSIde! BIOSHOCK2 STALKER Call OF PRIPYat StroNghold Natural SeleCTION 2 SubVersION PCGZine OperatION FlashpoINT: Free Magazine For PC Gamers. Read it, Print it, Send it to your mates… DragoN RISING AND more! reVIEW! MASSIVE THE HOttEst NEWS AND EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS FROM E3 2009... MODERN WARFARE 2 ALAN WAKE BONUS! INK Free ARMA II BR Screensaver! SPLINTER CELL You think you know war? Think again. VIEWED! re PLUS ALL THESE GAMES & MORE reVIEWED! reVIEWED! reVIEWED! reVIEWED! S: HIRED GUN ED EDGE OFFICers WWII LEFT4Dead 2 DIRT2 THE SIMS 3 JAgg Is it an Officer’s Mess? Valve’s latest revealed! Cars and... /Battersea? Some Anti Aliasing required. Back? They never left... CONTROL NAVIGATE |02 Don’t miss! This month’s highlights… PCGZine Ah, it’s that time of year again: the sun is The Sims 3 shining; the birds are singing; and at E3 ears are Forget Big Brother, we’re watching our sims. ringing to the sound of a thousand throbbing bass amps. We were there and we’ve returned, ears bleeding, with a host of new screens and info on all the hottest games at the the show. We’ve a special extended preview section this month to bring you exclusive E3 interviews from ArmA II Spinter Cell Conviction exciting new titles like Brink and Splinter Cell Exclusive Interview! Conviction, plus new screens and info for Alan War on a scale you’ve never seen... Wake, Modern Warefare 2, Valve’s new Alan Wake Left4Dead sequel and loads more. It’s a great New screens and info! month for games news. But we’re not all about E3 this issue. Check out our READER epic ArmA2 review and see if FEEDBACK! you’ve got the guts for war! Click here to tell us what Dan Hutchinson, Editor Left 4 Dead 2 Brink Modern Warfare 2 you think of [email protected] Or you cadaver look at this preview first... Was this the best of E3? It’s all gone a bit Die Hard 2... the magazine! 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! Left 4 Dead 2 Modern Warfare 2 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Splinter Cell Conviction DiRT 2 ArmA II Operation Flashpoint 2 The Sims 3 Andy Griffiths Will Porter Brink Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge Welcome new staff writer Andy, Will’s braved LA and come back Alan Wake Officers: World War II you’ll be seeing a lot of him... alive with tall tales to tell... CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |03 Previews New characters will each FIRST have a distinct personality LOOK of their own. Left 4 Dead 2 Publisher: EA Developer: Valve Bigger, badder, and in the Deep South Heritage: CounterStrike, of America… Left 4 Dead returns Left 4 Dead Link: www.l4d.com What’s the story? ETA: November The outbreak is sweeping across the US, and this time it’s heading for New Orleans. This new version of the multiplayer shooter features the adventures of four entirely new characters who must fight to survive. PREVIEW FEEDBACK! What do we know? Click here to The game will not focus on melee combat, as baseball bats, frying pans tell us what and chainsaws have been shown off in the new trailer and the videos. you think of The maps will also be far more open, allowing you to take multiple routes Left 4 Dead 2 through any given level to the end area. Not only that but the Director will be able to rebuild the level ahead of you for dramatic effect, changing the very layout of the world. When do we get more? There’s not a lot of time before the game hit – it’s out in Q4 this year – but we can expect Valve to reveal a whole lot more detail on the various maps before then. New horde challenges will mean Massive new maps allow some constant flows of zombies. creativity for your journey. Anything else to declare? This rapidly produced sequel has lost nothing in momentum. It’s bigger than the original game – both in terms of having one more campaign and the maps being bigger within all five campaigns – but it’s also got bigger environments and a new zombie type – the charger. Expect an awesome challenge from this sequel. CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: ©2009 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Ubisoft, Ubi.Com and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the US and/or other countries. Anno, Anno 1404, Sunflowers and Sunflowers logo are trade- marks of Sunflowers GmbH in the U.S. and/or other countries. Sunflowers GmbH is a Ubisoft Entertainment company. Produced by Blue Byte GmbH, Developed by Related Designs GmbH, All rights reserved. Artwork by Tobias Mannewitz. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |05 Previews FIRST S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: LOOK Publisher: Deep Silver Developer: Call of Pripyat GSC Gameworld Heritage: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: New zone, new story – could this apocalyptic sequel Shadow of Chernobyl be the ultimate S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game? Link: http://cop.stalker- game.com What’s the story? ETA: Q4 2009 Ukrainian masters GSC have returned once again to the Chernobyl exclusion zone to tell a tale of nature gone haywire and technology gone bad. Call of Pripyat tells the tale of what happened after Shadow of Chernobyl. This time PREVIEW the player is an agent of the Ukrainian government, sent into the zone to FEEDBACK! figure out why it is still inaccessible after the blast from the original game. Click here to tell us what What do we know? you think of Call of Pripyat will constitute the largest addition of new material to the zone S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: so far, with three entirely new regions for players to investigate. The finest of Call of Pripyat Monsters will be lurking – there’s even a new psychic beastie. these will be an entire district of the abandoned city, Pripyat, and the rotting shipyards of the river basin. When do we get more? The game’s out at the end of 2009, and we’re expecting videos of new features and plenty of in-game info to appear on our radar in the coming months. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. site is regularly updated with info tidbits. Anything else to declare? The worst elements of the previous game (Clear Sky) have been dropped, with the A-life intelligence running the factional disputes, rather than the Players can now sleep faction system. Most players seem to favour this idea, making the world to find themselves at Huge new environments the right time of day. will dominate the return much more alive. to the zone. CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |07 Previews Operation Flashpoint 2 Publisher: Codemasters | ETA: Autumn Subversion Publisher: Introversion Software | ETA: TBA The wide-open shooter of great realism – that’s the heart of the game that we’re Introversion have been revealing more not expecting to come out in the winter about their city game, Subversion. They’ve More golden nuggets of of 2009. It’s Call of Duty 4 without walls – shown off security systems and bullet gaming glory to come you can use the landscape to travel as far physics, suggesting a huge-scale infiltration UP and as wide as you want, but there will game of some kind. It’s also getting funding always been a central mission urging you from a UK technology council, which allows 7 it to get even more experimental. DiRT 2 onwards. Don’t lose this war, soldier. Publisher: Codemasters | ETA: September Something very special is happening to Codemaster’s Stronghold Kingdoms racing series – they’ve Publisher: FireFly Studios | ETA: TBA discovered American culture. Firefly, the team behind Stronghold, have And you know what that decided to take the series online. Creating means: bright lights, rawk a web-based Medieval Europe, the team music, and living in a trailer are allowing us to become barons on our park. Okay, so the core game own time, collecting taxes, building remains a splendid off-road settlements and going to war with our racer, but the packaging is neighbours. It’s a genuine MMO-RTS, pure extreme sports. and we can’t wait to see it in action. Natural Selection 2 Publisher: Unknown Worlds | ETA: Q4 2009 WINTER Front Mission Evolved The return of the real-time strategy and first- person shooter hybrid mod brings with it Publisher: Square-Enix | ETA: TBA Max Payne 3 some genuine excitement among its die-hard Squeenix have been knocking out the Front Mission players. The team have taken years to turn this AUTUMN games for years on console, but this is a slightly different game around and now they’ve finally shown Splinter Cell angle – a third-person shooter angle to be precise. The some footage. And it’s impressive indeed. Mini Ninjas Conviction configurable robots will be shooting each other into JULY molten fragments as you make war in an urban setting. BioShock 2 Publisher: 2K Games | ETA: TBA Digital Extremes, have been tasked Street Resident Assassin’s Fighter IV Evil 5 with making the underwater Creed 2 shooter an interesting experience for the online gamer. Apparently, Bionic elements of the game are going to Commando fill in the single-player narrative, as ON you play the roll of a pre-collapse THE plasmid tester. RADAR CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: Dragonica™ and all associated Dragonica™ logos and designs, Gala Networks Europe/Barunson Interactive, the interlocking Barunson Interactive logo, and all associated Gala Networks Europe/Barunson Interactive logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gala Networks Europe/ WWW.GPOTATO.EU Barunson Interactive Co.,Ltd.
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