+ FIRST REVIEW! SPLINTER CELL CHAOS THEORY 187 GAMES April 2005 INSIDE WWW.1UP.COM Electronic Gaming Monthly • Jade Empire WHAT’S NEXT? SPECIAL 2005 FORECAST From the makers of JADEKnights of the Old Republic EMPIRE MYTHICAL CHINA. MAGICAL CREATURES. KUNG FU. EXCLUSIVE HANDS-ON PREVIEW OF THE RPG THAT’S LIKE NO OTHER Number 190 ISSUE 190 Display Until April 4 Display Until $4.99 U.S. / $6.50 Canada April 2005 TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine! TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine! TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine! VICTORY DOESN’T CARE HOW YOU GET THERE. Over 500 cars from every automotive era will test you. Up to 100 of the world’s most elite tracks will challenge you. Hordes of interactive spectators will judge you. The rest of the pack will pick apart whatever’s left. Contenders and champions, prepare to be separated. ©2004 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. 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PUSHING THE EDGE IS NEVER FAR ENOUGH "Unprecedented stream of battlefield chaos" "Unabashed balls-to-the-wall action" "The Future of War" - Play - XBN - Game Informer "Sheer graphical beauty" "All those weapons mean the "Multiplayer shines in Snowblind" - OPM possibilities are up to your imagination" - PSM - Electronic Gaming Monthly BLOOD VIOLENCE ® TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine! www.projectsnowblind.com Project: Snowblind © 2004 Eidos Inc. Developed by Crystal Dynamics, Inc. Published by Eidos, Inc. Project: Snowblind, the Project: Snowblind logo, Eidos and the Eidos logo, Crystal Dynamics and the Crystal Dynamics logo are all trademarks of the Eidos Group of Companies. The ratings icon is a registered trademark of the Entertainment Software Association. "PlayStation" and the "PS" Family logo are regis- tered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. 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TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine! contents issue 190 • april 2005 LETTERS 21 We’re sick of the singing telegrams. Try e-mailing [email protected] PRESS START The latest news, previews, features, and gaming gossip 28 SYSTEM FORECAST 2K5 Our EGM Doppler 80,000 goes at it again 38 DYNASTY WARRIORS 5 Get back to playing out ancient Chinese battles 40 DEATH, JR. Who knew Death was so darn cute? 44 OBJECTIONS OVERRULED WE’RE GIVING AWAY Order in the court! A Nintendo DS GAMES! SEE PG. 136 courtroom game?! FOR DETAILS. 48 CHAMP CAMP Be a pro gamer and don’t listen to your high school guidance counselor 50 RESIDENT EVIL 4: AFTERTHOUGHTS The game’s producer sits with us but COVER STORY: leaves his chain saw at home 54 EVIL EMPIRE? 102 Is EA hurting gamers? JADE EMPIRE 56 CHANGING COURSE Find out what goodies you get for preordering the new Zelda game We sit with BioWare and discuss their much anticipated action-RPG. They didn’t just run with 58 CASTLEVANIA: CURSE OF DARKNESS the great game idea of becoming a martial-arts master; they ran up a damn wall and floated See who replaced the kinky whip- wielding Belmont over rooftops. Plus, go ahead and stare at these new Zhang Ziyi–gorgeous screenshots. 62 TOP THIS! We double-dog-dare you to beat this game collection REVIEW CREW 64 ONLINE The tasty cream-filling of the mag What is up with these Halo 2 cheats? 66 RAINBOW SIX: LOCKDOWN Multiplatform PlayStation 2 GameCube Can’t get enough of that terrorist- 112 MVP Baseball 2005 118 Gran Turismo 4 134 Donkey Kong Jungle Beat killing fun! 112 MLB 2K5 122 Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening 70 NEXT-GEN CONSOLE REPORT 114 Playboy: The Mansion 124 Kessen III Nintendo DS Get the details such as Xbox 2’s price 114 EA Sports Fight Night Round 2 125 Musashi: Samurai Legend 135 Yoshi Touch & Go tag or their new controller 115 TimeSplitters: Future Perfect 72 MIDNIGHT CLUB 3: DUB EDITION 116 FIFA Street Xbox Game Boy Advance Rockstar hooks up with DUB Magazine 116 MX vs. ATV Unleashed 125 American McGee Presents Scrapland 135 WarioWare: Twisted! for the latest trims and rims 117 Project: Snowblind 126 Splinter Cell Chaos Theory 132 Doom 3 76 PAC-MAN 25TH ANNIVERSARY Celebrate by looking at Pac-Man’s past and future editorial 80 COUNTDOWN TO 200 Take a look at the top 10 mistakes in A couple of industry are being handed to them and they don’t based on people walking in and seeing game history friends told me they understand why. the manager’s personal machine...for 82 RUMOR MILL love it when we tell 2) Metal Gear Solid 3: Plenty of my real). Hey Nintendo: Whatever you’re Find out which game Brad left Jen for it like it is, so this coworkers would shoot me in the face working on next, make sure the screen is 84 PSYCHONAUTS editorial’s for you, for saying this, but this game is way BIG, all right? It can be a deal breaker. We go to camp and make more psychic Blake and Doug.... overrated. Nice graphics, cool story, great 4) That said, while I own a DS, I won’t friends than Dionne Warwick 1) Developer characters...sure, but that viewpoint on be buying a PSP right away. Sure it’s Bungie’s policy on Halo 2 cheaters (see the action? Blah. I like to see the people sexy and all, but Sony doesn’t exactly GAME OVER pg. 64) is nice...and BS at the same time. who are trying to shoot me, please. And if have a good track record with first- Funny reviews and funny pages So glitches that were left in the game it takes three buttons to do it (like aiming generation gaming hardware. I can see it 140 REST OF THE CRAP engine (like being able to grab flags an assault rifle), it ain’t worth doing. now...skipping drives, iPod-like battery 142 FINAL WORD through walls) are allowed? Well, great. I 3) Mainstream-success-wise, the life, etc. I haven’t many complaints about 143 CROSSWORD hope any future Halo 2 players that Nintendo DS is in trouble. People are just the Japanese PSP (so far), so we’ll see if haven’t read up on this stuff somewhere too hyped on the PSP (a local EB Games my paranoia is justified...