NAVIGATE |01 FREE! EXCLUSIVE #2 Issue 30 | May 2009 WOLFENSTEIN PCGZine Massive in depth interview inside. Free Magazine For PC Gamers. The Massive Preview Issue EXCLUSIVE #1 PROTOTYPE PREVIEWED! Hands On preview! BORDERLANDS Too good to be true? REVIEWED! PREVIEWED! PLUS ALL THESE GAMES & MORE PREVIEWED! EXCLUSIVE #3 REVIEWED! PLANTS VS ZOMBIES THE SIMS 3 CITIES XL BIOSHOCK 2 ZENO CLASH Hands On Preview’ Exclusive Video Big Daddy’s back! Fantasy Fisticuffs! CONTROL NAVIGATE |02 Don’t miss! This month’s highlights… PCGZine For gamers of a certain age Wolfenstein is a Trine name that’s hard to match. Whether it stirs Yay! Physics are fun! memories of your first forray into, FPS, 3D, or years of teamwork sunk into Enemy Territory, Wolf gets your blood up. And over the walls. We’ve got a massive in depth interview on the latest incarnation this issue so check it out now. Also previewed this month is that peerless popular classic The Sims. We’ve had hands on Zeno Clash Prototype Oddball First Person Punching! for this third outing and it doesn’t disappoint. Hands-on preview We’ve also had a play with Prototype, MMO/ Wolfenstein Tycoon mashup Cities XL, side scrolling physics- Massive interview! ’em’up Trine and taken a look at the latest on Bioshocks and Borderlands. I’m READER especially excited by the latter, FEEDBACK! you should be too. Go lookit! Click here to tell us what James Carey, Editor Cities XL Plants vs Zombies The Sims 3 you think of [email protected] Town planning the MMO way. The ancient enemies... Spore who? The Sims is BACK. 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! Bioshock 2 Cities XL Borderlands Wolfenstein Lost Planet 2 The Sims 3 Street Fighter IV Trine Jim Rossignol Steve Hill Dead Rising 2 Zeno Clash Now sports a beard labelled As mean as he looks, Hill steals Prototype Plants vs Zombies ‘hoary’ by experts. (not pictured) sweets from pensioners. Fact. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |03 Previews FIRST Bioshock 2 LOOK Publisher: 2K Games The underwater epic returns from its watery grave Developer: 2K Marin Heritage: Bioshock, System Shock What’s the story? Link: www.something Bringing out a sequel for the boldest game of 2007 was always going to be a inthesea.com challenge, but it’s one that 2K Marin have taken on with gusto. We’re pleased ETA: Christmas 2009 to report that there’s no shortage of ideas spewing out of this return to the underwater city of Rapture. PREVIEW What do we know? FEEDBACK! You’re going to be a Big Daddy, one of the colossal diving-helmeted boss Click here to beasts from the original game, which should make for some interesting tell us what gameplay. You can also work with the Little Sisters too, and your enemies will you think of once again feature the gene-spliced horrors of the utopia-gone-lunatic. Bioshock 2 Anything else to declare? The water effects are even more prevalent This second game is set five years on from the events of the first, so the this time – with an underwater sequence. splicing has had even more horrible effects on the creatures that live down there, and something has produced a Big Sister – an agile, ninja version of the Daddy. All this ties into a Little Sisters can be harvested, The incredible combat abilities new, mysterious plot; one or they can be adopted and from the first game return, and that’s been overseen by a taken with you in your quest. this time you have a drill too. rising star of game design, Jordan Thomas, who designed the best parts of the original game as well as a big chunk of the excellent Thief 3. There’s every reason to believe that this will be an increasingly rare thing in the movie and game world… a sequel that stands up to the original game, and possibly even surpasses it. We’ll bring you much more very soon. CONTROL PLAYBACK OPTIONS: © 2009 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision is a registered trademark and Prototype is a trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. ‘2’ and ‘PLAYSTATION’ are registered trademarks of Sony Computer activision.com Entertainment Inc. Microsoft, Windows, the Windows Vista Start button, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies, and ‘Games for Windows’ and the Windows Vista Start button logo are used under license from Microsoft. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |05 Previews FIRST “Developers like to promise LOOK the world, and that’s exactly what Gearbox are promising Borderlands Publisher: 2K Games Developer: Gearbox with Borderlands” Heritage: Diablo, Mad Max A whole new world Link: www.borderlands thegame.com What’s the story? ETA: Christmas 2009 Every few years someone promises the world. A game that is an open- ended living world; has vehicles, weapon combat, exploration, randomly generated content, a story, and perhaps some other desirable features like PREVIEW drop-in/drop-out co-op or characters that can jump from one person’s FEEDBACK! saved games to another. Yep, developers like to promise us the world, and Click here to that’s exactly what Gearbox are promising with Borderlands. tell us what you think of What do we know? Borderlands If it lands anywhere near the dream-game that we’re being told about then this could be a very special creation indeed, but even without all that, it’s looking like being one of the most spectacularly beautiful games of 2009. The new art style, which you can see here, brings the game The new visuals have a closer to the ideal of hand-drawn concept art that the team initially potent concept-art style. envisioned the game with. The inky outline certainly make the game characters look unusual, and will hopefully carry over into the overall style of the world as a whole. Anything else to declare? Of course, the problem with games promising as much as Gearbox are promising is that they often fall short of the hype, or mess up in some other, undetermined way. Let’s just hope it doesn’t happen with this one, but with a pedigree like Gearbox’s, we’re more optimistic about Borderlands than we ordinarily might be. Taking on alien monsters will be Hordes of Spiderants just one part of the problem. will make life difficult. CONTROL PCGZine NAVIGATE |06 Previews Singularity Publisher: Activision | ETA: Q3 Precursors Publisher: GFI | ETA: Q2 Raven’s new shooter has time-travel on its side. The most interesting feature of the Eastern European developers quite often chronologically clever combat game is aim for lofty ambition with their games, and More golden nuggets of that you are able to age, or de-age things this bounty-hunting space Shooter is no gaming glory to come in your environment, turning baddies into exception. The Kiev-based team are UP OAPs, or revamping ancient, crumbling creating multiple worlds, and a lavish cast of scenery to act as solid cover from snipers. aliens, robots and vicious space mercenaries 7 for you to meet, befriend, or slay. Tropic 3 Publisher: Kalypso | ETA: Q2 The island management series has never really Dead Rising 2 captured the general Publisher: Capcom | ETA: Late 2009 imagination, but it’s always What’s better than being able to been solid and entertaining – decapitate a zombie with a guitar? Well, being given chance to be the nothing. But it’s even more awesome if benevolent dictator of a you have a friend there to see it happen. Banana Republic is Fortunately, Dead Rising 2 on PC will surprisingly satisfying, and enable that to happen, as there’s a fully this time it will look even free drop-in co-op mode implemented more realistic. for instant team-up slaying. Lost Planet 2 Publisher: Capcom| ETA: TBC WINTER Streetfighter IV Not yet officially confirmed for PC, but a surefire certainty for later in the year. This epic Publisher: Capcom | ETA: July Dragon Age boss-battling sci-fi shooter might include the The PC version of this latest iteration of the classic best use of a grappling hook anywhere in a 3D AUTUMN fighting game has a bunch of tricks up its sleeve, game. The luscious new jungle environments Alpha Protocol including a set of distinct processing modes, which look good enough to rival Crysis, too. Resident Evil 5 allow you to take full advantage of the graphical JUNE cleverness of your 3D card. Should be stunning. Dark Void Publisher: Capcom | ETA: TBC This sci-fi shooter has a couple Prototype Alan Wake Need for Speed: of things going for it. Firstly, the Shift game is set in a violent dimension on the far side of the Bermuda The Sims 3 Triangle, where Nikola Tesla lives. And the action part of the game ON is delivered via hoverpacks and THE jetpacks for aerial combat. RADAR CONTROL Experience a world like no other! Prepare yourself for the largest Lineage® II expansion to date, Gracia Final. Transform the way you play and enjoy the freedom of flight as you explore the brand new continent of Gracia! Start your adventure today AVAILABLE NOW! Includes 30 DAYS www.Lineage2.com GAME TIME Over 19 million gamers worldwide © 2004 - 2008 NCsoft Europe Ltd. All rights reserved. NCsoft, the interlocking NC logo, Lineage, The Chaotic Chronicle, The Chaotic Throne, Gracia and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCsoft Corporation.