FREE! NAVIGATE Issue 21 | August 2008 SPECIAL REPORT E3Why the Xbox 360 is still the best console in town! 360Free Magazine For Xbox 360 Gamers.ZineRead it, Print it, Send it to your mates… EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! LEGO BATMAN Massive hands-on preview inside... PREVIEW! PREVIEW! REVIEW! RESIDENT MIRROR’S EDGE SOUL CALIBUR IV EVIL 5 CONTROL a NAVIGATE |02 QUICK FINDER Don’t miss! This month’s top highlights Every game’s just a click away! Mirror’s Edge Halo Wars Bayonetta Warhammer: I am Alive Battle March Borderlands Resident Evil 5 RACE Pro Lego Batman Quantum of Solace Soul Calibur IV The videogames show that is E3 always Scene It: Box Office Command & heralds the battle of the gaming brands and Smash Conquer: this year was no exception. And the good news E3 Show 50 Cent: Blood on Kane’s Wrath for Xbox 360 owners is that Microsoft more round-up the Sand XBLA than held its own in the new announcement Warhammer: stakes. With a flash new dashboard on its way MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! and a stack of new titles to look forward Battle March (especially news that Fable 2 is locked an into ug chasing stage already) to you can rest assured that the 360 will remain at the cutting edge of console gaming for some time to come. Don’t miss our full report kicking off on page 19. Back in the here and now we have full Resident Evil 5 reviews of C&C: Kane’s Wrath and the awesome Soul Calibur IV. If you only buy one game this DON’T MISS ISSUE 22 SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE! month then make sure that this is it... Enjoy the issue… WARNING! MULTIMEDIA DISABLED! 360Zine Dan Hutchinson, Editor If you are reading this, then you didn’t choose “Play” FEEDBACK! [email protected] LEGO Batman interview when Adobe Reader asked you about multimedia when Click here to you opened the magazine. tell us what you think of Without the multimedia playing, the magazine will look correct, but you will the new issue. be missing out on all of the extra content built into each issue, like videos, animated screenshots, annotations, quizzes, competitions and more. MEET THE We recommend you close and re-open the magazine and select “Play” when TEAM Chris Steve Hill Ian Morris asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. Probably the best Schilling Is our Resident Evil Is on the Mirror’s Edge games writers on Is back from E3 Soul Calibur IV the planet CONTROL 360Zine NAVIGATE |03 Previews Though the fighting FIRST LOOK doesn’t seem quite as fluid as the general Publisher: EA movement, the Developer: DICE appearance of your Heritage: Battlefield 2142, hands and legs on Mirror’s Edge Battlefield: Bad Company screen as you lash out Well above parkour Link: www.on- makes it feel much mirrors-edge.com more real and effective. ETA: Q4 2008 InWhat’s a futuristic dystopiathe wherestory? all communication is heavily restricted, a group of couriers, named runners, flout authority by delivering The E3 demo features a packages across the city. They do this by free running across prodigious leap onto the the rooftops, leaping between buildings and sliding under side of a helicopter, as lead barriers while fending off the attentions of the government character Faith escapes her officers who attempt to put a stop to their plans. enemies. Thrilling stuff. NotWhat only wasdo Mirror’s we Edge know? one of the most visually striking games shown off at this year’s E3 – with its crisp white surfaces and occasional flashes of solid colour – but it was one of the most original. The first-person genre has almost always focused on shooting, whereas here you’re mostly unarmed – making your way through the world in a fluid, fast-flowing manner entirely at odds with the limited The game has virtually no HUD movement commonly found when using this perspective. at all – simply a single dot which Question marks remain over the combat, but the simple joy helps to centre your vision. of getting around the city can’t be denied. Mirror’s Edge reeks of quality, and we’re looking forward to getting more hands-on time with the game within the next couple of months. “The first-person There’sWhen no concretedo we release get date asmore? yet, but it will be PREVIEW genre has arriving before the end of the year. FEEDBACK! usually focused Click here to tell us what on shooting, Anything else to declare? whereas here The coloured items that you’ll spot in the city aren’t just you think of there for show – they’re a way of instantly telling which Mirror’s Edge you’re mostly objects you can interact with – whether by climbing, unarmed” vaulting or wall-running. CONTROL 360Zine NAVIGATE |04 Previews Our gaming senses tell us FIRST LOOK that Bayonetta could be something rather special. Publisher: Sega Bayonetta Developer: Platinum Games Heritage: Viewtiful Joe, PREVIEW Anyone for ice cream? Oh, Bayonetta… Okami FEEDBACK! Link: www.sega.com/ Click here to platinumgames/bayonetta/ tell us what CloverWhat’s Studios themakes verystory? good videogames for Capcom. Clover Studios’ games EnglishUK/index2.html you think of ETA: Early 2009 don’t sell very well. Capcom drops Clover. Clover reforms as Platinum Games. Bayonetta Platinum Games signs a publishing deal with Sega. Sega announces the release of Bayonetta, from the creator of Devil May Cry. World rejoices. The combat is fast- paced, as is Kamiya’s It’sWhat a third-person do weaction know? game from Hideki Kamiya, trademark. Yet it the man behind gun-wielding, sword-swinging seems that it’ll be demon hero Dante. But not content with the more brutal than Devil outlandish foppery of his most famous creation, he’s May Cry, with much gone for an even more bizarre protagonist this time. more blood and some Bayonetta is a lithe, bespectacled witch with guns in truly violent deaths. her feet. As if that wasn’t enough, she also has magic hair, which can transform into a weapon itself – from a giant fist to a huge dragon. Oh, and she can summon torture devices from thin air, which is rather handy. Kamiya has suggested that the third-person As you can clearly see, action game hasn’t been revolutionised since the there’s been a lot of original DMC, and that with Bayonetta he’s finally going to bring the genre kicking thought put into the graphics in Bayonetta. and screaming into the current gen. Exciting stuff. WhenUnfortunately, do it’swe not dueget out untilmore? early 2009, but hopefully we’ll be seeing “Bayonetta more of this at the Leipzig game show in August. is a lithe, bespectacled Kamiya’sAnything certainly confidentelse that to Platinum declare? Games can pull this off. “Where we witch with guns once gave birth to true 3D action, we return to unleash a new truth on the world. in her feet” A truth only we can create.” Bold words. Here’s hoping Bayonetta lives up to them. CONTROL *texts and mobile browsing will be charged at your standard operators rate. Terms and conditions apply. Terms *texts and mobile browsing will be charged at your standard operators rate. PLAYBACK OPTIONS: ���������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������� Too Human is a trademark of Silicon Knights, Inc., with registrations pending around the world. All rights reserved. © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. with registrations pending around the world. Inc., Human is a trademark of Silicon Knights, Too Friedrich Nietzsche ����������� CONTROL 360Zine NAVIGATE |06 Previews The initial cause of the devastation isn’t known, which FIRST LOOK “I am Alive’s trailer suggests that the earthquake didn’t occur naturally. Could some is one of the most otherworldly evil be involved? successful we’ve Publisher: Ubisoft seen at whipping up Developer: Ubisoft I am Alive immediate interest” Heritage: Splinter Cell, A whole lot of shaking going on… Assassin’s Creed Link: www.iamalive game.com What’s the story? ETA: Q2 2009 A man called Adam is running through the remains of a destroyed building, his clothes tattered and torn. He falls down, and then the three men that are chasing him catch up, demanding something from him. Adam throws a water bottle to the ground, and as the men scrabble to pick it up, they fall through the pane of glass it was resting on. Cut to six days earlier, and we see the cause of the devastation – a huge earthquake in central Chicago. PREVIEW FEEDBACK! Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot AsWhat scene-setting do trailerswe know?go, I am Alive is one of the most successful we’ve seen in a Click here to explains that you’ll have while at whipping up immediate interest in a game we’ve never previously heard of. tell us what to ‘make life-changing Initially it was rumoured that this was the next project for Assassin’s Creed helmer decisions’. It’s all sounding Jade Raymond – though Ubisoft has since confirmed this isn’t actually the case. you think of very intriguing to us. I am Alive Described as an ‘edgy new survival adventure’, hopefully this will play something like a more polished version of the superb SOS: The Final Escape – only this looks a lot more polished than the rough-around-the- edges cult PlayStation 2 hit. It’sWhen out in thedo second we quarter get of nextmore? year, though Ubisoft will likely be showing off more of the game at upcoming press events. Anything else There’sto declare? a web address on a scrolling display in the background during the trailer – www.ruaumoko.