NAVIGATE |01 PSP FREE! Issue 28 | May 2009 REVIEWED! PSP FIRST LOOK! DS Phantasy Star Portable The classic role- PS2 PlayZine player hits the PSP! Free Magazine for Handheld and Wii Gamers. Pass it on to your friends and family JAK & DAXTER: Wii THE LOST FRONTIER EXCLUSIVE! The dynamic duo are back! PSP Rabbids Go Home REVIEWED! Wii The manic aliens go it alone. Find out more inside! PES 2009 Now it’s on the Wii, too Wii FIRST LOOK! DS REVIEWED! MOTION-TASTIC! Wii MotionPlus Henry revealed Hatsworth What it does, and the KLONOA Puzzler meets Platform perfection? platformer games you’ll be playing CONTROL NAVIGATE |02 PlayZine Damien McFerran Damien now realises that QUICK FINDER Every game’s just a click away! NINTENDO DS rabbits are in fact mad aliens Henry Hatsworth in The called Rabbids. Bless. Puzzling Adventure CHECK PREVIEWS Sony PSP WelcomeTHIS! Jack & Daxter: Sony PSP There are exciting times NINTENDO WII The Lost Frontier Phantasy Star Portable Dead Space Extraction ahead. Firstly the new Klonoa REVIEWS Spore Hero MotionPlus adaptor could Grand Slam Tennis NINTENDO WII change the way we play Wii Tiger Woods Monsters vs. Aliens PGA Tour 10 PES 2009 games forever, and secondly, there are MOnsters Rabbids Go Home Tenchu some amazing games due out between vs. Aliens now and Christmas. Make sure you stay MORE FREE MAGAZINES! LATEST ISSUES! with us, and we promise to bring you all plus loads the info on the games that matter. more reviews! Dean Mortlock, Editor PES 2009 DON’T MISS [email protected] Phantasy Star Portable THIS! Tenchu Jak & Daxter: Rabbids The Lost Frontier DON’T MISS ISSUE 29 SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE! Go Home Another classic WARNING! MULTIMEDIA DISABLED! series is If you are reading this, then you didn’t choose “Play” heading to PSP! when Adobe Reader asked you about multimedia when you opened the magazine. PES 2009 Without the multimedia playing, the magazine will look correct, but you will Can it top FIFA? be missing out on all of the extra content built into each issue, like videos, animated screenshots, annotations, quizzes, competitions and more. We recommend you close and re-open the magazine and select “Play” when Could this be the weirdest Dan Curley asked about the multimedia to enjoy the magazine as intended. platformer yet? Find out in Young Curley suffered from our exclusive preview! Motion sickness this month. CONTROL NAVIGATE |03 PlayZine First Look Info Jak & Daxter: FROM: Sony Ah, Jak. It’s good to A BIT LIKE… Daxter, have you back, we Ratchet & Clank Latest have missed you. WEB: http://uk.playstation. The Lost com/psp News OUT: Autumn ALSO ON: PS2 Frontier Best Bit A game like this is all about the weapons, PSP The real dynamic duo are back! and with new additions like the Gunstaff, we’re expecting plenty of action. The Gunstaff, we’re told, has the ability to transform itself into other weapons. How WHAT’S THE STORY? good. And there’s also mutterings this will work is yet to be revealed, but There’s an environmental theme to this about a new weapon, too. Going by we’re sure that it’ll be fantastic! new game in the famous series, as our the name of the Gunstaff, it apparently favourite pair of weapon-wielding has the ability to transform into other social misfits team up with a third party weapons – could J&D be taking a leaf called Kiera to save the world from the out of the Ratchet & Clank book? threat of ‘Dark Eco’. WHEN DO WE GET MORE? WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR? The game’s down for a release in Oddly, despite them all being rather September/October, so we’ll do our good, we haven’t seen a new Jak & very best to bring you a hands-on Daxter game for years. While we wait playtest in the next couple of months. patiently for the series to arrive on PlayStation 3, this is big news and ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE definitely one to look out for in the SHOULD KNOW ABOUT? autumn. There hasn’t been a Jak & Daxter game Details are predictably scarce at the for nearly four years, and this is the first moment, but we do know that you time that the two have appeared on If you’ve yet to play a start the game on foot but will soon the PSP – not counting 2006’s excellent Jak & Daxter game then get the opportunity to taking to the Daxter. We have high hopes that this you’ll in for a real treat. skies in one of five aircraft. So far, so could be something rather special. CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: OUT 5th JUNE ©2009 Interactive Game Group, LLC. All rights reserved. Jillian Michaels name, likeness and related rights are the property of JM Atletics, Inc. and are licensed by JM Athletics, Inc. to Interactive Game Group, LLC. Published in the USA by Majesco Entertainment Company. Produced by Interactive Game Group, LLC. FITNESS ULTIMATUM is a trademark or registered trademark of Interactive Game Group, LLC in the U.S. and other territories. Used under license. *Not required for play. Wii Balance Board sold seperately. Trademarks are property of their respective owners. Wii is a trademark of Nintendo. CONTROL NAVIGATE |05 PlayZine First Look Latest News Info dead space Dead Space is on the scary side, but adult gamers will FROM: EA Extraction e it. absolutely lov A BIT LIKE… House of the Dead: Overkill WEB: http://deadspace. In space, no one can hear that you’re dead scared… ea.com Best Bit OUT: Autumn WHAT’S THE STORY? dismemberment (you have to chop their You can take an enemy’s head off and it’ll It’s a prequel to the critically acclaimed arms, legs and ‘weird bits’ off) has been still keep coming like some monstrous (but sales flop) Dead Space. Set three carried over to this game. alien chicken. The Necromorphs are all weeks before, you play heroine Lexine It’s also got a co-op mode, so a mate about dismemberment – you need to hack Wii their limbs off before they die. Thankfully who’s part of an investigation team can dip in and out seamlessly. We asked you can use ‘Stasis’ to slow enemies down, sent to a deep space mining colony one of the dev team how the game which is like Max Payne’s bullet time. that’s being ravaged by a parasitical would change with two players, and he alien infection called The Necromorph. said: “We’re working on that, it’s not As the colonists fall foul to dementia gonna be just the same game as we’ll and eventual horrendous mutation, have to make it harder.” you and a small band of survivors hope to find sanctuary on orbiting ship the WHEN DO WE GET MORE? USG Ishimura. And as some of us It’s been penned in for a vague autumn already know, there is no red carpet release, and we’ll have a full hands-on welcome on the Ishimura… preview sometime during the summer. WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR? ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE It’s a completely different game to Dead SHOULD KNOW ABOUT? Space. It’s a first-person, on-the-rails The original game features levitation blaster, so it’s more like a light-gun which allows you to fling objects around game, and you’ll get to play on both the like some crazed Jedi. This worked fine alien planet and the doomed spaceship. on a 360 and PS3 joypad, but using the A Necromorph takes All the enemies and weapons from the Wii remote it’ll be magnificent fun. It’s offence to your original game are present and correct also going to be an 18 certificate, so will lightning gun attack. and the ethos of enemy strictly be for adult gamers only. CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: �������������������������������� ������������������������������ Rock out to Guitar Hero®: On Tour using the innovative Guitar Grip™ Includes 25 monster tracks from bands including blink-182, No Doubt, Jet, Nirvana, Bloc Party and many more Play in single player or multiplayer modes using Nintendo DS™ Lite local wireless Nintendo DS sold separately WWW.GUITARHERO.COM Guitar Hero: On Tour © 2008 Activision Publishing, Inc. Guitar Hero, Activision and RedOctane are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. Covered by one or more of the following patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 5,739,457, 6,018,121, 6,369,313 and 6,835,887; patents pending. All Gibson marks, logos, trade dress, guitar models and related rights provided pursuant to exclusive license from Gibson Guitar Corp. NINTENDO DS IS A TRADEMARK OF NINTENDO. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. CONTROL logos, trade dress, guitar models and related rights provided pursuant to exclusive license from Gibson Guitar Corp. NINTENDO DS IS A TRADEMARK OF NINTENDO. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Guitar Hero: On Tour © 2008 Activision Publishing, Inc. Guitar Hero, Activision and RedOctane are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. Covered by one or more of the following patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 5,739,457, 6,018,121, 6,369,313 and 6,835,887; patents pending. All Gibson marks, WWW.GUITARHERO.COM WWW.GUITARHERO.COM Nintendo DS sold separately local wireless Play in single player or multiplayer modes using Nintendo DS™ Lite many more blink-182, No Doubt, Jet, Nirvana, Bloc Party and Includes 25 monster tracks from bands including innovative Guitar Grip™ Rock out to Guitar Hero : On Tour using the ® ������������������������������ �������������������������������� NAVIGATE |07 PlayZine First Look Latest Info Klonoa News FROM: Atari A real blast from the past A BIT LIKE… Super See if you can guess the Mario Galaxy song title just by reading WEB: N/A the lyrics running across OUT: October WHAT’S THE STORY? make sure that the gameplay is as sharp the top of the shot.