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READ THIS!

A \ \ Cambridge did forward me a photo of the Editor
of Ofﬁc/a/ PlayStation 2 Magazine In Benelux who'd had the Primal symbol Indelibly etched onto his back. This may have been an attempt to persuade me to follow suit, but I thought It was a bit beyond the call of duty. Yes, Pnmats a good game, but good enough to leave Its mark on you forever? You'll have to read our review and play our demo to make up your own mind. Anyway, I'm not sure it would go with the tattoo of Ratchet & Cianl< on my ars.. Many people are talking about Primal as a potential

Lara lives! Core Design opens Its doors exclusively

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and Sophie Ellis Bextor. The Sims can do that to
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Who should be the ofﬁcial

, spoiler to Tomb Raider, and Jen's certainly going to beat Lara
to the stores. However, if you were almost ready to give up on ever being able to piay The Angei Of Darkness at all, we've got good news for you on page 34. Okay, so we didn't get much of a chance to see Lara taking on enemies In full ﬂow, but the action still looks spectacular, while Ms Croft herself Is sleeker than ever. As The Getaway proved. Just because a

PlayStation 2 mascot? Cast your vote In this hotly
contended election.

[ game is subject to delays doesn't mean we should expect
' to make the game even better Let's hope so.

..J^nd on

the worst, it's conceivable that Core Is taking the extra time

your DVD
We've done it again - another astounding line-up of playable demos clamour for your
attention this month. There's

Primal, of course, in which you can see for yourself if demonic rock chick Jen
Tate has what it takes to step to Lara

Croft. Then, if you wondered why we were getting so excited about camplydressed psychopaths with sharp swords last month, you can ﬁnd out by playing Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.
You also need to check out the

sumptuous cartoon visuals of Sly Raccoon and luxuriate in the leafy links of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 -

unarguably the best golf game ever. Plus
we've got another spectacular exclusive for you: Space Channel 5 Part 2 is now

not being released in Europe at all, but
for fans of the original cult kitsch dance'em-up, you can at least play one level of the even more psychedelic sequel right here. Enjoy.

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SHUT YOUR MOUTH Bombastic brawling In tights.
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Rock chick goes to hell and back
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Thieving mammal, ace platformer
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■ CAR WARS Rockstar's

Midnight Club II is going
online. Wliat does this mean for tile next GTA?

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010 NAMCO'S
BACK!

m o n i b a i 033 INTRO ANGEL OF DARKNESS 0 3 6 M E TA L G E A R SOUD 2: S U B S TA N C E 038 TRUE CRIME 040 FINAL FA N TA S Y X - 2

peabur-es
054 BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL

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003 EDnOR'S
LETTER

The most authoritative reviews

section in magazine history!
WORLD EXCLUSIVE!

Namco attempts
to seize 2003.

034 TOMB RAIDER:

013 THE X-f=ILES

0PS2 gets the skinny on illegal street racing
online in Rockstar's

052 NEXT MONTH
11 0 HARDCORE

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PRIMAL

Top secret Info
from Sierra.
026 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCERS Yo u r c o m m e n t s

Do The Getaway knowledge here.
120 SHORTLIST

The achlngly beautiful gothic
adventures of one rock chick and

Midnight Club 2
060 WE NEED A HERO

her gargoyle sidekick. ON THE COVER
PRIMAL (REVIEW, PG 0761 MIDNIGHT CLUB II (FEATURE, PG 054] N E W TO P S 2

Every PS2

game, listed
and tested.
128 BUYERS GUIDE

put Into play.
028 imiERVIEW Chris Sorrell's
Primal Instincts,

042 DIE HARD VENDETIA 044 046 THE MARK OFKRI SPUNTER CEU.

Who should be the face of PS2?

082 THE SIMS Now you can play God with the little people. Mwahahal 086 SOS: THE HNAL ESCAPE 0 8 8 S TA R W A R S :
THE CLONE WARS

Help us ﬁnd a mascot today.
064 THE SOUND OF SCIENCE

Sports games.
130 ON THE DVD 138 P O S TA L

029 EVERQUEST
ONUNE

Where we check
out Jester Interactive's

140 SURGERY Paracetamol for

(SPY , ST ARTS PG 010) SUPERSTAR DJS,
HERE WE GO! liTATURE, PG 0641 VOTE VERCETTI!

090 SILENT SCOPE 3
092 CONTRA:

ADVENTURES

Beta testing the
online waters.

048 PRIDE FC 0 5 0 U P D AT E

awesome sequel
to MTV Music Generator 2.

your gaming brain-aches.
142 BACK ISSUES

SHATTERED SOLDIER 094 WILD ARMS 3 095 4X4 EVO 2 095 HOT WHEELS VELOCriY X 096 LEGENDS OF WRESTUNG 2 097 GRAND PRDC CHALLENGE 098 DISNEY'S DONALD
DUCKPK 098 MASTER R A L LY E

The latest info

on the games ou're busting 1 play.

068 SOUND
AFFECTS

144 COMPOS

(FEATURE, PG 060)
WIRED FOR SOUND

Win with Tony
Hawk and 24

(FEATURE, PG 068)
LARA'S ALIVE!

We road test the best surround

sound systems for your PS2. Sounds good? Just you wat..

Hour Party People.
146 WHAT IF?

(MONITOR, PG 034)

100 THE SIMPSONS: S K AT E B O A R D I N G 101 GO GO GOLF 101 TOKYO ROAD RACE

d v d c e v i e u j s
104 NEW RELEASES Men In Black II, 24

Hour Party People
and much more.
106 1969 ON DVD

A great year for ﬁlms
107 HIDEO KOJIMA This month: how Planet Of The Apes

monkeyed with Kojima'smind...

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Falling digitally in love for the ﬁrst time j Westerburg and say , 'N ow there' © " P e o p !e school lw lo l io that ka self th te destructed, a s h e s not o fs a
deep." JD [Heathers, 1989) Just like your own school, or ofﬁce, The Sims is a perfect microcosm, a miniaturised version of society at large. And just like real life, at times The Sims can be repetitive to the point of banality. But just like real life, when something truly magical happens it makes all the boring
bits seem worthwhile. We could tell you that truth is, it wasn't. What makes The Sims so

because society didn't care, but because the school was society!' Now that's

picking out the standout moment was tough but, special is seeing polygonal people interact with
each other, form relationships and fall in love.

The Sims is a digital Rorschach Test. The more you play it, the more it reveals about your own personality. And of course you never forget your ﬁrst kiss. These things can't be rushed, though you need to woo the object of your digital affections with gifts, compliments and backrubs.
But when the big moment ﬁnally comes, they look deep into each other's eyes and the music

swells as they lean together... well, it's enough to
melt the coldest heart. So, even if it's only for a short while, forget about ﬁnding ancient

artefacts, trimming seconds off lap times and saving the universe. Tonight, we dance,
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■ GUNNING FOR THE TOP

Tough cop Jack Slate fronts
the Namco battle for PS2

gaming supremacy.

NAMCO^-GO-GO!
Namco's back with a vengeance in 2003! 0PS2 gets liands-on witin wiiat's in store.
® 9 a P M T I M
fn 0 hurry? Here's the cortdensed version...

TEKKEN, UIDGE RACER, Time Crisis, Moto GP... all PlayStation classics, some almost synonymous with most gamers' earliest PSone memories Few could forget the sheer excitement of playing the original Ridge Racer ("It's like having the arcade game In your own home!"! And who didnt gasp In awe at the 3D
camera pans In Tekken, or

Namco Is planning to take the PS2 by storm
in 2003. With tities lll<e

Dead To Rights, Soul
Calibur II and Xenosaga Episode 1,

What's the story here? Hart-ass cop Jack Slate (that's you) attends a routine call to a shootout at a building site In the crime-rldden Grant City, bit It's no ortlnaiy gun battle. After dispatching a set of
gang members he ﬁnds his father dead In a

Dead To Rights

ﬁght Action Is varied - you'll shoot enemies from a helicopter, blow up vehicles with gas canisters, break out of prison and. In one memorable sequence, escape from a burning hotel while ﬁre rises by the second. Any favourite moments? Tﬁe distressingly gory animation that
accompanies Shadow removing a man's larynx with a shower of lurid claret.

the company's going to make a kiiling

pool of blood having been brutally murdered. So begins a tale of revenge and macho gunsllnging on a scale rarely seen outside
Hong Kong action movies. Tell us about the action... Slate has a number of trademark moves. The

enjoy the novelty of playing Time Crisis with a llghtgun?
Namco Is now set to do the same

ﬁrst Is his special dive (a bit like Max Payne's 'bullet time'l which allows him to jump In slow motion and pick off hapless victims at double speed. Second is his array of 'disarms' where our cop hero removes an
enemy's gun from his person then executes

Anything eise we should know? It's not Just shooting There are contextspeciﬁc puzzles (lock picking, bomb defusing! some brilliant mini-games like weightlifting, arm wrestling and our favourite, the lap dancing Bemanl. You gotta beiie\e,, Ukeiy release date? It's out in the States already with a UK
publisher to be conﬁrmed, but we're

again with a set of
PS2 titles that breal<

him with a nasty squelch. Jack can call upon his dog Shadow to sniff out bombs, explore
tunnels and lend a pair of sharp teeth in a

new ground for the esteemed developer: Namco Hometek's cop thriller Dead To Rights, Monolith Soft's effervescent space opera
RPG Xenosaga Episode 1: Der Wilie Zur Macht and the PS2 debut of one of the most acclaimed 3D arcade

thinking Spring for this one.

■ DOG GONE Keep
an eye on your

ﬁghters of all time, Soul Calibur II. We give you OPS^s introduction to three of the most exciting titles to
watch In 2003. □ GW

canine partner.
■ TABLE FOR ONE it was

hard to get reservations at this restaurant, !

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CONTENTS
"Using the F-word

more than an angry
I m UGHTNING ROD

docker, dirtying white
vests and giving terrorists a bad day"
THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS, P22

■ ! & when this guy's about.

; ^ No need for a welder

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Xenosaga Episode 1: Der Wille Zur Macht and a special attack, triggered when a
what's the story here? ■ FLOWER POWER The rose

"We wanted to have a female

lead who was a strong character not just a sex kitten, bimbo stereotype"
PRIMAL BIAKE, P28

Hi
petal/rainbow
move seemed to be most effective.

"Before dwan/es,

gnomes and elves
had migrated"
EVERQUESr ONUNE, P29 "You'd be forgiven for thinking the
screens were Metal Gear Solid 3 mock-ups" ICE NINE, PI! Well, to be precise, there are about ten, Xencsaga is the ﬁrst In a six-part RPG epic conceived by Writer/Director Tetsuya character has enough Action Points. It might sound bafﬂing but some of the effects used In the battles are astounding, with particle effects and full-screen explosions galore.
Any favourite moments?

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colonisation Is rife and follows a myriad of Intenwoven story lines In a way that only Japanese RPGs can muster Space Is ruled by the Galactic Federation, but equally powerful is the Vector Corporation for whom the game's heroine, the delightful Shion UzukI, works She's developing a new kind of weapon known as KOS-MOS, to deal with the mysterious alien Gnosis who have the ability to shift through space and time.
Tell us about the action...

We particularly like the way the game artists have given the anime characters a 3D twist, Xenosogo's visuals, effects and animations are all highly polished. Anything else we should know? The game features giant robots or, as they're
called here, Antl-Gnosls Weapon Systems

'Two beﬂared police dudes, a red car and tlie badass Huggy Bear"
STARSKY AND HUTCH, P24

lAGWS), And they're all fully customisable For tbe ﬂrst few hours there's a barrage of cut-scenes in which players are Introduced
to characters and their motivations before

the turn-based action begins. Players have
) or three basic attacks, a magic attack ■ GOT A NEW VOLDO

Likely release date? Already out in Japan and partially localised for a US release on 25 February, It can't be too long before we see this leviathan RPG sci-ﬂ game in the UK, possibly through SCEE

What's the story here? You thought this was all about ﬁghting, eh? Think again. Soul Calibur II returns to the Far East where Nightmare, owner of the evil Soul Edge sword, has arisen. Elsewhere, heroes who have vanquished the wicked Soul Edge in past encounters are being drawn together Sounds like we've got a ﬁght on our hands...
Tell us about the action-

Soul Calibur II

Blind, and with a disturbing S&M fetish. But good at ﬁghting.

"Must not mention the breasts. Must not mention the breasts. Oh what the hell"
LARA VS INDIANA JONES, P16

"The biggest news for RPG fans since Aeris popped her clogs"
SQUARE AND ENIX MERGE, PU

Sou/ Calibur II relies on a good grasp of 3D movement and the ability to pull off fast combo attacks. It's predominantly weaponsbased, but also has deep variation In throws. Despite sticking closely to the original
formula, Namco promises new move sets,

costumes and larger ﬁghting arenas. Given
the PS2 sheen, this beat-'em-up classic looks set to reign supreme again.

"Ozzy Osborne, sat astride a dragon, raining liell down on
the fantasy land below"
SAVAGE SKIES, PZl

Any favourite moments? We're looking forward to testing out the new characters - Cassandra Alexandra Islster of Sophltial, Tarim, Hon Yun Tsun and Rafael, Anything else we should know? It's already out in the arcades Namco is currently porting it to PS2, undoubtedly improving it graphically In the process. It's handy that the game was built using System 246, an arcade chipset very similar to PS2's Likely release date? We thought It'd be out by now, but It's looking more like it will be out late Spring A UK publisher is still to be conﬁrmed.

'There's a masked behemoth swinging a mallet and a character covered in tattoos"

SPY IN JAPAN, PI)

Judging by the length of the majority of Namco's series, It seems entirely ikely that a new
Ridge Racer Isn't far off being announced - a brief, behind-closed-doors teaser trailer was
shown at last year's E3. Of the ﬁrst 30 online titles announced at Tokyo's Third PlayStation Meeting last February, ﬁve were promised form Namco including RPG Venus And Bnaves, an action adventure game (possibly K/onoa On/lne), a sports title and a 3D ﬂight shooting game that we're almost certain is Ace Combat Online. Then there's Moto GP3 (covered in last issue's Spy section) plus the Inevitable Tekken 5 and Time Crisis 3.

Looking further ahead...

Plus... A Sound Of Thunder from the makers of The

Thing (pl3) and early details of
Pro Evolution

Soccer 3 (p26).

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■ SnVRRY EYED The

future Is looking rosy
for RPG fans with the

Square/Enix merger

FROM ZERO

SQUARE DEAL
HNAL FMVmSY DEVELOPER

Joponese uber-developers merge to become 'biggest in the worid'.
no intention to combine the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series, although it doesn't take an RPG buff
to realise that this would be a

^ TO HERO

This month, The Getaway's
Charlie Jolson stars in: THE GREAT PIE 'N' MASH CAPER. When he's not a criminal mastermind and

Square has announced a merger with Enix, creator of the hugely popular Japanese RPG series Dragon Quest (see page 30|. The amalgamation of the two RPG gaming giants puts all the creativity

barrel-necked, psychotic bigot,
'uncle' Charlie Joison likes to

behind some of Japan's bestselling
titles under one roof with the

potential goldmine - Final Fantasy games are legendary throughout the gaming world in both the East and West, and Dragon Quest is even
more successful with over 30 million

relax by running
the local meals on wheels service

potential to co-develop original games for PlayStation 2. The companies will begin operating as a single entity fn3m 1 April renamed Square Enix and led by Square's current President, Yoichi Wada. Speaking about the deal, Wada-san said, "We are going on the offensive with this merger This will make our strengths complement
each other"

copies sold to date, mainly in Asia. The newly formed company has an impressive line-up for the ﬁrst part of the year: Enix recently
announced a brand new instalment

for retired pearly kings and queens. But strike a light!
Some tea leafs

only gone and Kenny Lynched
the transit with

of Dragon Quest (number eight in the series) for PS2 and its forthcoming RPG Star Ocean 3: Till The End Of Time has projected sales of over two million. Square will release FFX-2 in February and then FFX-3, while their top development team is working on FFXil. The Japanese developer is also in negotiation with Disney over a sequel to Kingdom Hearts. PRESIDEhTT YOICHI WADA, SQUARE

the old dears' pie
'n' mash inside!

The codgers will be in a right two and eight if you dont get their
nosh back

The deal Is worth a whopping ¥89 billion (£460 million) and although Square cites the increased cost of developing networked games and competition from overseas developers as motivating factors behind the deal, the losses incurred by the box ofﬁce failure of its animated ﬁlm Final Fantasy: The
Spirits Within also contributed.

Much speculation is still brewing as to what the ﬁrst ofﬁcial Square
Enix title will be. A recent rumour

sharpish. Hilarity
ensues as you

has suggested that Parasite Eve:
Rebirth, a remake of the PSone survival horror RPG could be

power a rag and
bone cart around London. Follow the trail of onion

gravy and get that van back naaah,
y o u

In their ofﬁcial statement, Square and Enix mentioned that they had

'"WE ARE ON THE OFFENSIVE WITH THIS MERGER. IT WILL COMPLEMENT OUR STRENGTHS"

released. Either way, it's safe to say that any title devised by such high calibre developers will undoubtedly be the biggest news for RPG fans since Aeris popped her clogs. This pairing truly is a match made In gaming heaven. □ GW/TC
■ JOim- ACCOUm- star Ocean 3 is one

of the ﬁrst post-merger titles.

MAKING PS2

GAMES EVEN BETTER New PS2 programming technology helps build higher quality games.
WHILE PS2'S COMPETITORS ARE already talking about the next

generation despite not really making an impression on tlie current one, Sony Computer Entertainment is instead committed to working with what it already has. Witness the recent distribution of the Performance Analyser, a high-tech programming tool that allows game makers to produce higher
quality games using the existing PS2 processor
Prod the old grey matter with a cotton bud me call 0PS2's trivia quiz.
QUiZQUESnONS
1. What's the name of

It works by highlighting inefﬁciency between three core components of the PS2's chip set - the Emotion Engine, Vector Units and Graphic Synthesizer Game software is run through the Analyser, a kind of soupedup 'development kit' of the kind used to produce PS2 games so the
programmer can identify problem areas in the code. When a similar

Donald Duck's girlfriend?
2. What is the name of the

6. What's the highest magnitude of earthquake on the Richter Scale? 7. Which company makes
Hot Wheels cars?

system was utilised in PSone development there was a noticeable positive shift in games that used the technology, the ﬁrst Gran Turismo being the most prominent example. First-party SCEE titles that have already beneﬁted from the PA2 include Primal and The Getaway. Expect to see it
used in a game near you very soon. □ GW

latest marque of LambonghinI? 3. What was the real name of the favourite Eighties wrestler Big Daddy? 4. In Attack Of The Clones,
which hand does Anakin

8. What make of car do Starsky and Hutch drive? 9. In Die Hard 1 and 3 what
is the surname of the

German brothers who cause
John McClane trouble?

Skywalker lose?
5. Sam Rsher Is the hero of

which forthcoming terrorist

bashing Ubi Soft game?

ID. Who played the role of Tony Wilson In the ﬁlm 24 Hour Parly People?

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it or not this place is The beasties are

.^pposed to be Chicago. heavily Alien-inspired,

AT FIRST, THIS MIGHT SEEM like a pretty stupid question. You're a gamer and you're not a i^id, right? But in November,

several major US retailers threatened not to stock BMX XXX
because it contained nudity. Yet the game has a 'mature' certiﬁcate, and in any case, these shops also stock PG-13

and R-rated DVDs. Unfortunately games are perceived by the
majority as being 'just for kids'. As Murray Perkins, an Examiner at the BBFC puts it, "People seem to accept that

violence in games is make believe, and therefore okay for
children, like playing cowboys and Indians. Sex, on the other hand, is the domain of adults so people feel It doesn't

STEP BACK IN TIME
Defying the laws of physics In Computer
Artworks' A Sound Of Thunder.
T I M E T K AV E L H A S I N S P I R E D

belong in products perceived to be for children." You can see why: the biggest videogame icons (i^ra excepted) are cartoon characters: Sonic, Mario, Crash
Bandicoot. But times are changing and a lot of that Is down

to Sony In fact, the original PlayStation was marketed to
over 18s. The intention was to make it cool - to ensure that

y
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it became an essential piece of kit, like the video recorder or
Walkman. Games such as Cool
BRENDAN MCNAMARA, THE (XWHAY
The lethal Oxi iodine Laser in full effect.

many a writer and ﬁlm director
Time Bandits, The Terminator, Back To The Future and Bill & Ted all

twist on 'bullet time' - the pleasingly named Time Freeze Disruptor - and a series of deadly weapons, from the
hack-and-slash Machete to the

Boarders and Tony Hawk's bought into youth trends, while
Resident Evil and

' T H E A D U LT A U D I E N C E HAS BEEN GROWING FOR YEARS. MANY GAMERS ARE NOW OVER 30''

toyed with the subject and showed the possible consequences of playing with time. In A Sound Of Thunder you're a soldier of fortune ﬁghting your way across Chicago to reach a time portal, travelling backwards and
forwards In time to curb the 'Global

high-tech 0x1 Iodine Laser You'll have to be selective In what you kill, preserving natural life forms while destroying mutant hybrids. With Computer Artworks' heritage assured in The Thing, this
could be one to look out for □ GW
< PORTAL RUNNER

Silent Hill began to explore dark adult themes. 'The adult audience has been growing for years, it just

hasn't been adequately addressed," conﬁrms Brendan
McNamara, Director of The Getaway. "If you consider

Entropy' and their ﬁendish plans. To ensure this isn't just a bog standard, third-person shooter, Computer Artworks has invented some unique gameplay devices. Players will have to engage In time-affected action puzzles and witness the Butterﬂy Effect where events that occur in the past change things In the future. There's a new

We're guessing this is a time portal.

PlayStation owners: the majority of them were between 18 and 25 when they purchased their machine - they are now at least ﬁve years older There is a substantial market of 30- and 40-something gamers." The huge success of GTA: Vice City (500,000 UK sales and counting) and the money ploughed into The Getaway prove that games now address a huge adult audience, not just children. As the people who make and buy games grow older and widen their inﬂuences, projects will resemble real-life
dramas, rather than puzzlers and platformers - prepare

yourself for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake's Messy DivorceThen we'll lose that 'kids' tag once and for all. □ KS

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a new X-Files game for PS2, Lo b;- . el Hritied in the Spring
devolopmotit and in f;

proper title, it will be a n i rigU;-pl.ayer survival horror
title the The an be a with voice Gillian ﬁrst a And^r.-ion appt-'.'ired movie shocker. has btion Thj David Duchovny form on providing Dana S c u l l y. in to PSone declared -overs For characters; Fc;? adveutiite picifcsd aiKi up Muldf^r and was by widely

X-Files bit ol

vidoogamtj time around

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development reputable Black

responsibility

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lucrative truth licence just and be bi'irig out: c(;uie of GW the TV .^how'.s trademark dark con.spir.ato;; ui I aiimosphere to the PS2. The might thor;;,

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ICE SPY
Original steaith action in Torus's Ice Nine.
WHEN A PRESS RELEASE for a You can make the lives of the

game comes dressed up as a 'conﬁdential' spy document with
some of the text blocked out for

terrorist organisation (the Chinese
Xu) very difﬁcult through the use o counter-sun/eillance (bugs and tap and heavy weaponry (remote mint rocket launchers and a taser gun|. Some of your time will be spent undercover to gain information an you also have the option to defect
from the CIA and work for the Xu

'security purposes', alarm bells start ringing. Clever bumph doesn't disguise a poor idea for a game.
However, Bam! Entertainment's

forthcoming stealth espionage action effort Ice Nine actually looks very Impressive, if a little derivative. You'd be forgiven for thinking the
screens were Metal Gear Solid 3

personal gain. It's all a question of your own personal morality.
ice Nine's screens are

mock-ups, but unlike its inspiration. Ice Nine takes place in the ﬁrst person. Starring as a CIA operative you're tasked with a mission to thwart the theft and deployment of the 'Ice Nine Virus' by a group of terrorists. A super-powerful computer virus, it has the ability to spread destruction via powerlines with the potential to cause devastation on targeted cities.

M A K E I T

U LT I M AT E CHALLENGE
PITCHED BY: RY AN HA YER (VIA EMAIL)
So, what is the 'ultimate challenge' then? To get a belt from a mountain top. Not exactly the ultimate prize then? A poxy belt? No. This is a pretty standard ﬁrstperson shooter Designer Ryan explains himseif. 'You form a team
of soldiers. There will be one map but it would be a huge environment

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particularly impressive but we're y to see the game up and running Furthermore, we'd be a little wary naming this as the new Splinter C or Metal Gear Solid especially as comes from a relatively unknown
Australian developer - Torus -

whose past games have been ma
for handheld consoles and PC.

It sounds like Ryan wants an online FPS but

However, we'll await a ﬁrst look of
Ice Nine with covert interest. □ G

has forgotten to
mention tlie online element.

also be a Race mode where you can
race around the map." Sounds familiar so far... There are a few new ideas. You can

i.Unk's an option, but it's unlikely you'd ever have
the resources to

create your own team and design a uniform. Ambitiously, every building in the game can be entered and you
can climb structures like mountains

set up ten PS2s
and TVs in one

XS ALL AREAS
videogame show later this year
UNUKE JAPAN the UK doesn't have it's own independe

place. As an ofﬂine singleplayer game, it
needs more
structure.

Gamers are to get their own

and trees. Although Ryan points out,
"You'll need to work as a team

consumer game show. While SCEE's successful PiayStati

that ranges from forests to snowy
mountains to ruined towns and a desert. The idea is to destroy a team

with one person covering while
the other climbs." Clever idea.

If you feel the need to climb
a tree, that is.

of opposing soldiers. To win, you
have to be the ﬁrst team to capture

a belt on top of a huge mountain.
So it's a bit like that online PS2

game THbes: Aerial Assault, then?
But without the online element. There's a bit of Xbox's Halo in there, too. 'You can enter vehicles such as

So how many people can 1 have in my team? A maximum of ten. Apparently there will be up to 40 Ai bots

1

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Experience redressed the balance last September by allowing gamers to test the wares of leading PS2 titles, tl

regular shows like ECTS (London) and E3 (Los Angeles)
remain resolutely trade only

The XS Gameshow, scheduled to take place at the

Birmingham NEC this July (25-27) comes as the ﬁrst rea
attempt to organise a gamers only event. XS's organisers hope to, "Reﬂect the alternative reality of videogames... a

making up the enemy. Although Ryan doesn't actually mention how ten human players are able to play
at the same time, unless he's

cars with machine guns, motorbikes, boats or tanks," Ryan says. 'There'll

invented a special MuitlTap. □

WRITE TD... Designer Genes, Ofﬁcial PlayStation 2 Magazine, Future Publishing, 30 Monmouth

give visitors the chance to try the latest game offerings." It's a long way off yet and XS was unable to tell us whict publishers had signed up for the show but you can keep

K

Street, Bath BAl 2BW. Or email [email protected]< (remember to put 'Desl^er Genes' as the subject}. Send us a description of your idea and try to accompany It with a few sl<etches to bring your words to life.

track of developments at www.xsgameshow.com. □ GW

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DAY OF THE DEAD
Oapcom delivers another Resi-based shooter
\1UCH AS WE ENJOYED wasting velociraptors in Dino Stalker, it was oniy a matter of time before tiie Gun
Survivor series returned to its fetid roots, Lool< at tiie iviust not mention the breasts. iMust not mention the breasts.

Oh, what the hell, l^t's face it,
Lara was hewn from a block of

jfﬁciai Web site (www.capcom.co.jp/gunsurvivor4) that's dedicated to the fourth game in the series and you'ii see
hat reptiies are out, and rancid cadavers are in. Gun
Survivor 4 tai^es the series bacl< into Biohazard/Resident

pure geek boy fantasy. Impossibly proportioned, hard as nails. Ugly, she ain't

LOOKS it really depends on what ﬂoats your boat. Nelthei; it has to be said, has been

Although getting on a bit
the real worid,
Harrison Ford's

ﬁnest alter ego Is
still in the ru^ed prime
of his life In the worl d

beaten with the ugly
stick 1 - 1

of games...

Evil territory (Gun Survivor 2 was based arciund the

;vents in Code Veronica X| and invoives shooting wave
ifter stinking wave of undead scum. Due out in Japan in February, Gun Survivor 4 features

It was a stroke of genius casting Angelina Jolie as Lara but sadly the nest of the ﬁlm

BIG SCREEN ADVENTURES
No contest When it comes to classic

Are you kidding? For many,

Indiana Jones Is the original
action hero. Raiders is a

hree piayabie characters: Bruce McGivem, a US Army )fﬁcer; Fon Lin, a Chinese agent; and iviorphis Dyubam,
vhc we think is a renegade member of the Umbreiia

lagged behind Its leading lady. Still, Jan De Bent is shooting
the second Tomb Ro/derﬂick...

movie adventures,

Indy IbulDwhips
Lara's butt.

classic, The Last Crusade Is cracking fun and even the weaker Temple Of Doom
knocks the Tomb Raider movia Into a cocked fedora.

)rganisation. in a break from previous instaiments you'ii
)e abie to view the action fnsm both ﬁrst and third-

1 - 2

)erson perspectives, presumabiy using the D-pad on the )ack of the GunCon 2 to move around, as in Dino
>to/ker. With Resident Evii Network aiso due to out in

Where do we begin? Lara
Croft's brilliant adventures

lapan iater this year, it iooks iike Capcom has deciared
ipen season on zombies. Gotta kiii 'em aiii □ TC

pretty much made the PSone her own fusing a kick-ass

GAMING H E R I TA G E Lara gets her own
back with ﬁve excellent adventures on PSone alone.

There's been no shortage of
Indiana Jones games over the years (1996's Indiana Jones And His Desktop Adventures,

heroine, devious puzzles and superb level design again
and again.

anyone?) but even the good

Next up, Angel Of
Darkness on PS2...

ones haven't exactly notched up classic status.

2 - 2

Although enlivened by
the occasional abominable snowman and animated terracotta warrior, Lara's adventures do tend to fall back on faceless

ENEMIES

At the risk of

Time after time, Indy
keeps playing the Nazi trump card and It still works.

trivlalising WWII,
Nazis

Lara, take note. 2 - 3 dkSIDEKICKS Even taking the Irritating Short Round Into account, Indy gets a couple of great sidekicks
and therefore wins the round. t ^ 4

i the best, evil

just make

PLASTIC FANTASTIC

goon after faceless goon.
Well, there was that

\ baddies. No

contest really.

'oponese action ﬁgures, the Cy Giris, come to iife on PS2. HE CY GIRLS ARE action ﬁgures made by toy company Tal^ara,
annoying Bryce
character In the ﬁlm.

Let's face It, Marion from Raiders was great. Willie Scott
and Short: Round were a low

md KonamI TYO (PES2 and Silent H/7/) has signed a deal to mal<e
PS2 game using two of the main characters. Known as ﬁghting lerolnes' they're a darl^er, distinctly Japanese take on Charlie's \ngels with each voluptuous character featuring their own inique credentials. The game will follow a convoluted plot

And as for Angel Of Darkness, Lara gets
Kurt:is Trent who

point admittedly, but bringing
in Sean Connery as Dr Jones' father was Inspired. And now, with The Emperor's Tomb we

looks suspiciously
like a reject from
0 - To w n .

ivolving the aftermath of an Internet-related apocalypse. The Cy lirls come to the rescue, eradicating criminal activity, leaving no
'ace they were there. The few screens released look glossy, with n air of Metal Gear in the radar and colour schemes. A game to

have the feisty Mei YIng.

THE WINNER: INDIANA JONES
The daddy of action archaeologists takes the crown. Dr Jones is as
iconic as ever and Emperor's Tomb looks to be a cool old-fashioned

)ok forward to? Maybe, considering the tag line, "Nothing can
top girls with attitude." Rock on. □ GW

swashbuckler. Lara needs to strike back, and soon!

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designed by famed manga artist Masamune Shirow goes on sale today. Of course, I rush out to the shops and buy one. Asymmetrically sleek and sci-ﬂ looking, it looks like it could ﬂy off the desk it's ergonomlcaily perfect.

H S C O R E A N A D V A N C E C O P Y
of my J-pop favourite Puﬂy AmIYumi's forthcoming CD it rocks! Tokyo Nights Is a standout, super catchy foot tapper that amazingly manages to blend kitsch disco. Are you into J-pop? Get Puffy's current English releases An Illustrated History and Spike now!
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Video Killed The Radio Star and Seventies

MWM VlSrr GLOBAL MEDIA 2002,
a multimedia exhibition.

RokugakI in Colors requires participants to 'play' various musical Instruments, to interact with the grafﬂtl-style computer graphics projected onto a screen. A shaker rotates the environment, while the tambourine places elements inside it - cool. Short CG ﬁlms are also screened, including the abstract and arty works of Namco's Yasuo

QAME OF DEATH lattle Royale Director Kinji Fukasaku helms Clock Tower 3 movies.
RIOR TO THE PS2 horror game's ipanese release, Capcom Issued a DVD Studio for the production. Fukasaku had

Ohba and Nobuo Takahash. MINORTTV REPORT OPENS

ﬁnally in Japan, several months after coming and going
elsewhere. It soon slides into

Hollywood mode. Shame

Dcumentaty of Clock Tower 3 for hire
iroughout video rental chains. The title lade headlines in April 2001, when It as announced that veteran Director njl Fukasaku was involved In the -oductlon. With over 50 ﬁlms to his ledlt - Including the controversial hit attle Royale - Fukasaku-san stated

the actors wear costumes resembling their digital characters during rehearsal,
to help Immerse themselves in their

hours to get right, with more than 20 takes. Attention was paid to every
nuance of the performance, down to posture, eye movement and expression. In other Instances, wooden frame sets

HEY, HEY, HEY, get hold of an English PS2, so I can ﬁnally mall order all those text-heavy games 1 can't play In Japanese.
Just in time for Christmas.

roles More Importantly he Incorporated video shooting and sound staff; the entire team comprised of 300 people. As with his ﬁlmmaking reputation, Fukasaku was uncompromising
Capturing the opening scene (where the lead female character reads a letter) took four hours of rehearsal and seven WHO'S GONNA CLEAN THAT UP7

and props resembling the ﬁnal scene
were used extensively to the point that motion capture was Impossible. Game footage shows the heroine,

AlviOS WONG

lat he w/anted to challenge himself by
orking In the CG ﬁeld. However, from

itial demonstrations of the technology ;ed, the process of directing actors for
e CG movie's motion capture data

Aiyssa, in shock as a dead girl spurting blood falls In front of her, and ﬂeeing in terror from a variety of pursuers. There's a masked behemoth swinging a mallet
some spirits and a particularly swift and deadly character covered In tattoos wielding two axes Clock Tower 3 is described as 'hide and seek that

wed vastly different to ﬁlmmaking for e Director - with no cameras, lighting
Id a comparatively small environment r performances A soundstage at Toei Aim studios as converted Into a motion capture

' ' F O O TA G E S H O W S THE HEROINE IN SHOCK AS A DEAD GIRL SPURTING BLOOD FALLS IN FRONT OF HER''

children cannot pia/ and not one
weapon seems available for the player to ward off certain death. Now that's

survival horror for you. □ AW

JVIOS'S HAIKU

lEVIEWS

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CAR CELS MAN
Auto Modellista Bit Char-G model cars!

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with a daft title.

CLEARED THE GAME and Itching for some real racing

S®'2-^Ls^
SILENT LINE ARMOURED CORE 3 TWLES OF DESTINY 2 What is this? Toddlers

action? Tomy Toys' popular remote controlled miniatures (no

Anime spin-off. Stylish kicking of asses

Battling robots. Like homicidal Lego
on a massive scale.

Amied with swords and magic spells? Help! Social worker!

bigger than Matchbox cars! now come In a fetching Auto Modellista set. For Just under ¥4,000 (£21) you get a chassis and RX-7 Supra, Skyline GT-R R34 and R32 bodies decked out in the same colours as their game counterparts

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' Not just an ordinary girl...
- Jennifer Tate is the 'Chosen One' caught in an epic conﬂict between the forces of Order and Chaos.

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Fancy being the ﬁrst to play networked games?
when you will be notiﬁed about your
application. Successful candidates

ONUNE GAMING IS GO! And you can be one of the ﬁrst people in the country to experience it If you're one of the thousands of gamers selected to take part in Sony's initial trial phase, which goes live in early spring How can you get involved? Well, as revealed in .login, OPS2#28, you need to head over to ultplaystation.com and hit the register button located In the top right-hand corner
Once you've submitted the

will be given the chance to buy a
broadband kit from the site's online

shop (shop.ukplaystation.com) a couple of weeks before the trial phase begins. See? The good things in life are free, but the truly great things aien't But although the exact price ha ;nt
been conﬁrmed, we understand the kit wont cost more than a norn'al

registration form, Just click on the 'My
PtDﬁle' tab and look for the "Network

game. Our spies have also infonied
us that it will contain a Network

Trial' section. Here you wlli be asked for some extra info (contact details, delivery address, inside leg measurements) and to conﬁrm that you have broadband access and a
PS2. You should then receive an

Adaptor and a Utility Disc (whicl" lets you conﬁgure your ISP and InclLdes

game demos). You'll also get a c jpy
of SOCOM: US Navy SEALS with i headset and be able to start pleylng online before anyone else.
[email protected]. ■ HARD WIRED SCE UK is aiming ft r user-friendly, plug 'n' play connecti\ rty.

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WANT? Online gaming as soon as humanly possible, please...

automated response with a date for
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IVhot's the score then? Find out how you've been voting online... REVIEWING GAMES, EH? Easiest job in tﬁe wortd. A new feature added to the site is a chance for readers to give their own scores in the Game Info section. Tlie number in brackets shows tiie number of votes so far.

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means you.

FOOTBALL FEVER

Pitch invasion! Readers rush to have a say...
WHEN WE ASKED THE SHE'S reader? how Konami

could improve its Pro Evo Soccer series, we were

deluged with emails. What did you want? Online play, ﬁve-a-side, and, urn, streakers. We've passed them all
on to Konami, so thanks for such an amazing effort.

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cant handle more sites!

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WIZARD WAT C H , Total ro/e-p/aying game heaven!

COMPOUNDING VIEWS Escape-

■ 7 being circulated / about the p possibility of a few major
7 Japanese RPGs

Whispers are

proof, or so the German's thought.
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ONUNE AT LAST WE'RE STARTING TO HEAR ABOUT ONUNE ELEMENTS IN GAMES.

i making the leap
^ In the not-to-

BREAKOUT
THE GREAT ESCAPE, that ﬁlm your Dad always insists on watching every Boxing Day, despite already owning It on video and DVD, Is to be given the

7 to Western PS2s

Summoning up some great British pluck in SCi's The Great Escape.
complemented by more frenetic combat and chase sequences. Each
character has a different skill to lend

CHNSTMAS P R E S E I ^ T H AT KEEP ON GIVING WE'RE STILL SUCKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE MALICE CHUPA CHUP LOLUES.

/ distant future...Of U course, after the
' recent Square/

while his compatriots can pick pockets or speak German. It's difﬁcult to envisage exactly how the gameplay will pan out given the scarcity of screenshots, but it
looks to have borrowed elements from Prisoner Of War and team2 7 SHINGO 'SEABASS' TAKATSUKA THE PES MAN DID A aiNKY UTTLE DANCE MOVE WHEN INTRODUCED TO 0PS2. WE UKED PT. THE SIMS HELPING TIM GET MORE LADY ACTION THAN HES HAD IN YEARS, NOW WALKS AROUND THE OFRCE WITH TOE 'SIMS SWAGGER', CHRIS FROM ROCKSmRNEW YORK FOR SHOWING SAM TOE BEST DWE BARS OF TOE LOWER EAST SIDE

y Enix merger this
/ seems more
y possible than

^ ever How's about 7 Star Ocean 3, L Dragon Quest VIII
f and Dragon

videogame makeover. Being such a
classic, well-known story It'll be difﬁcult for publisher SCI to get away with a sub-standard offering So far

to the success of the escape. Hilts, The Cooler King (Steve McQueen's character) Is an expert lock-picker
G A M E P I AY G O O D I E S

y Dragoon for / starters? Nothing's
> conﬁrmed, but
stay tuned to the man in the pointy hat for updates.

though, the title seems to be headed
In the right direction as it's sticking to the original plot. The game mirrors the ﬁlm's pacing, with stealthy sections

rrs BORROWED ELEMENTS FROM PRISONER OF WAR AND TEAM-BASED
PROJECT EDEN

based adventure Project Eden. Of course. It wouldn't be true to the movie without McQueen's motorbike
ﬁnale - and we're assured it's been

Included. Expect more screens In Monitor very soon. □ GW

MUSK 3 THAT VOICETO-MUSIC FUNCTION,

LIKE, TOTALLY ROCKS.
EIGHTIES MUSIC WEVE GONE FROM

HATING IT, TO LOVING IT TO HATING IT AGAIN
IN A SINGLE MONTO. DAME EDNA EVERAGE HOSTING TOE INDIN VIDEOGAMES TOP NOBS DINNER EVENT WHY? WHATS S/HE EVER HAD TO DO WITO VIDEOGAMES? OCCASIONAL OPS2 C O N T R I B U TO R PA U L ROSE LEAVING DIGfnSBl MR BIFFO WILL BE SORELY
MISSED.

SLACK SABBATH
Ozzy bites off more than he can chew.
WHEN SAVAGE SKIES, Big Ben's forthcoming mythical combat game developed by IRocK was unveiled in 2001, its main premise was to feature shambling rocker Ozzy Osboume sat astride a dragon, raining hell down on the fantasy land below. Fast forward 18 months and the game Is ﬁnally set for a UK release but sadly minus the Prince Of Darkness. In Savage Skies, players will command one of 24 different winged beasts as three factions go to war in a battle for sovereignty. Each creature has a

There are 30 campaigns Included I for each faction) all based around air-ti air and air-to-ground combat as your

dragon can swoop, barrel-roll and ever

unique ﬂight model comprised of over 50
variables and unique characteristics that determine how they handle, how much damage they sustain and their primary and secondary weapon make-ups.

■ FLYING HIGH Dragons cause mass ~

destruction, now minus •
the Prince Of Darkness.-

take cover behind clouds. Savage Skle will be hoping to eclipse the current deﬁnitive dragon caper Reign Of Fire ai become more then just a ﬁre-breathinj flight combat clone. □ RB

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INTRODUCING: Jack Slate and Shadow YOU'LL BE SEEING A LOT OF HIM IN;

INTRODUCING: Lucia YOU'LL BE SEEING A LOT OF HER IN:

INTRODUCING: Ivy
YOU'LL BE SEEING A LOT OF HER IN:

Dead To Rights (Namco)
MOSTLY HE'LL BE: Jack's forte is his

INTRODUCING: Heather YOU'LL BE SEEING A LOT OF HER IN:

slow-motion dive that allows him to pick
off enemies before they even know what hit them. He's accompanied by Shadow
who loves to chew on criminals.

HERO OR VILUIN? He's a good cop.

Devil May Cry 2 (Capcom) MOSTLY SHPLL BE: Occupying the second disc of the DMC2 package with her own interweaving story line. She has nimble speedy attacks and a set of eviliooking curved knives. Sexy and hard? HERO OR VILLAIN? Whatever you want...

Soul Calibur II (Namco) MOSTLY SHE-a BE: Carving up all comers with her whip-meets-sword weapon and revealing acres of ﬂesh in an outﬁt so saucy it would make Christina Aguilera blush.
HERO OR VILLAIN? A bit of both,

S/tent Hill 3 (Konami) MOSTLY SHE'LL BE: Running around absolutely petriﬁed, crying like a newborn baby and steadily losing her fragile grasp on sanity. All to the sounds
of melodramatic soft rock ballads.

HERO OR VILLAIN? A veritable goody

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INTRODUCING: Kurtis Trent YOU'a BE SEEING A UOT OF HIM IN:

I N T R O D U C I N G : Yu n a

YOU'a BE SEEING A LOT OF HER IN;

INTRODUCING: John McClane YOU'U. BE SEEING A UK OF HIM IN:

INTRODUCING: Nico Collard YOU'LL BE SEEING A LOT OF HER IN:

Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness (Eidos)
MOSTLY HFU. BE: Assisting our buoyant
lieroine with his own special weapon -

Final Fantasy X-2 (Square)
MOSTLY SHE'LL BE: Packing a new set

of guns ﬁrst, then changing into something more 'comfortable' before slipping off to investigate the reappearance of Tidus, HERO OR VILLAIN? Almost angelic.

the glaive, a razor-sharp frisbee that can be controlled by telekinesis. Will also be cultivating facial hair
HERO OR VILIAIN? Lara needs a hero.

Die Hard Vendetta (Universal Interactive) MOSTLY HE'U BE; Using the 'F word more than an angry docker, dirtying his white vests and generally giving terrorists a bad day. Oh, and did we mention the the plentiful wisecracks?
HERO OR VIUAIN? All-round bad-ass.

Broken Swont/ 3 [Revolution) MOSTLY SHE'LL BE: Solving the mysteries of the extinction of the Eart
that occurred some 10,000 years ago,

alongside her awfully dashing young manfriend George Stobbart.
HERO OR VILLAIN? Wait and see ,.

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This month: Our angry charcutier slices open the swollen belly of retro gamimi.

DO YOU FIND YOURSELF reminiscing about the good old days? Vknow, tiie time before cel-shading, lens ﬂare and
topographically-modelled terrain? When Sabrewulf set

CHCit

IjONG and winding road Rage Is squeezing some incredibly long draw distances out of tiie PS2 cliipset.

ITAUIAN STALLIONS
DPS2 gets ﬁrst Countach with Rage's Lamborghinl.
IWE ONLY WAY these cars could ook more beautiful would be If

new rules for graphical excellence? You do? Then kindly jump off a building into a spiky pit of your own misguiced pomposity and take any like-minded idiots with you. Truth is, 99.99% of old games were dreadful. Would you really rather play Sensible Soccer on the Amiga thc'in PES2? Do you still dig out your Amiga for a quick blast an Speedball 2? Attention hippy, wake up and smell the 128-bit coffee. Nowadays, people grizzle when The
Getaway won't let you see around corners. Back in the

Monica BelluccI was sitting In the )assenger seat. Naked. With so many Jrlving games on the market, we ion't want to play anything that's ess than lip-smackingly gorgeous, .ucky for Rage then, that Its ^mborghlni-based racer Is already ;howing model looks. The In-game graphics look every )lt as impressive as the screens ;u^est. The game features ten ocations. Including Sydney Harbour ind the Black Forest, and although his is a multi-format development, iage Is tailoring each version to Its ;onsole's strengths - hence the
'S2's panoramic vistas. Weather

nicely, with those Instantly recognisable Lamborghinl lines in place and bodywork looking suitably buffed. All the classics are present: Murcielago, Mlura, Countach
and, of course, Diablo. Also included - and exclusive to PS2 - is next

SIU/ER MACHINE To o

cramped? Stick
the kids in the

glovebox. Sorted.

year's model, which Is being released specially to commemorate the company's 40th anniversary, costs around £140 grand and currently answers to the name 'Baby Lambo'. Every car features a complete damage model. Let's hope someone at Polyphony is taking notes. At present. Rage Is keeping quiet on whether or not It will Implement any
online features, but If It Isn't network

iffects are also noteworthy. Switch in the rain, ﬂick to First-person node and droplets streak up the vindscreen as you speed up. Set for a September/October i003 release, Lamborghim's car nodels are also coming together

compatible, be warned that only the inclusion of Miss BelluccI will keep us quiet. □ TC

day, Ghosts'N' Goblins used to collapse platforms underneath you, just for a laugh, sending you back to the start of the level with no weapons. Just a pair of pants. In the days of the Sinclair Spectrum, games were all either hideously repetitive, fundamentally ﬂawed or just broken. R-Type was released In the shops with the last level missing! Nowadays, people are thrown into apople<y when Vice City has the temerity to crash once every ter hours. In the days of the C64, you had to load games into the memory using a tape recorder Think about it. Nostalgia is all about remembering the way you felt... when the world seemed so much simpler, when nobody played videogames except you, then a bunch of pesky kids came along and ruined everything. Cherish the memories, but burn the rhetoric; today's games are ﬁve hundred times better Would you rather unpack your Atari ST, wrestle with old leads and play Dungeon Master, or pop down HMV, rip the seal on the plastic and ﬁre up GTA: Vice City. If the answer is the former, think long and hard about your life - it seems to have ended some time ago.

DO IT WITH HUGGY
?etfD TV show Starsky & Hutch makes a comeback for PS2. 'OU CANT HELP BUT FEEL Seventies cop drama Stors/g^ & Hutch suffers
-om 'classic theme tune syndrome'; great music, shame about the TV show. A juick straw poll of our ofﬁce proved that no-one could remember much about he series other than it featured two beﬂared police dudes, a red car (Fond Gran

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aurinol and the bad-ass Huggy Bear This hasn't stopped Empire snapping up the licence, presumably to tie-ln /ith the ﬁlm remake out later this year starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and, resll Snoop Dogg. In Its videogame form, playing either as Starsky or lutch you drive around a city, chasing criminals and hanging out of ie window ﬁring at targets with your gun. Interestingly, you can ilay a multiplayer version where one person shoots a llghtgun /hlle the other drives. As this Is supposed to replicate the TV show, ou'll be awarded speed boosts for driving through cardboard boxes, over amps and Into ﬁre hydrants. This increases your audience rating - the
;ss stunts you pull, the more people switch over to watch the other

N(^OUS NOSIAIjGIA

AITENTION HIPPY,
WA K E U P A N D S M E I i .

THE 128-BIT COFFEE

Ide. It has some novel ideas but our guess is that Starsky & Hutch /111 go the same way as the TV show and be remembered purely for
s theme tune rather than its gameplay □ GW

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CHARACTER, NOT

EVOLUTION ASSURED
Talking football with the men behind Pro Evolution Soccer.
THE SNOWY PEAKS of Switzerland's Grindelwald

ski resort seem an uniil^ely piace to meet the
minds behind the 'Best Footbaii Game in The Worid Ever,.But for some reason it's where 0PS2 found

itseif, tucked up in a snug bar taiking to Pro Evolution Soccer's Producer, the enigmatic Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka and his immediate superior, Shinji inamoto. They were there to witness the European Pro Evolution Soccer Media Cup but what we reaily wanted to taik about was PES3 IKONAMPS A K AT S U K A

something In the future, but there's still much research to be done." It's worth noting here that Seabass had previously mentioned to 0PS2 that Konami's ultimate goal is for 22-player online football matches. Seriously So no onilne - what can we expect for PES3 then? "1 want to deepen the one-on-one battle
between defender and attacker as much as

to help the team. In terms of licensing, we need to obtain one other than Just FIFPro, and I've raised awareness in Konaml that we should aggressively pursue one. If we don't improve in these areas, I'm aware our sales will drop." With a proper commentary, fully licensed players, a new game engine, further evolved gameplay and all new animations can we expect '3' to be the magic number - the perfect football game? "When the game gets closer to the goal we have In our minds, the goal stretches out so we never get close," muses Seabass. "From the next game, we're visualising the whole concept of football rather than Just individual moves, which will takes us back to page one again. So I'll probably never be satisfied!" □ GW

possible," Seabass explains. "I also want to redo all the motion capture and implement new moves, especially individual skills like Beckham's free kick" It's good to hear the team are fully aware of the criticism aimed at the poor commentary and lack of proper licensing "We have a disadvantage being a Japanese developer," Seabass admits. "But in next year's version we'll use native English speakers

eabass, how 'm can you go?

speciﬁcaliy wiii it support onilne piay? inamoto replies, "i'm sorty to say we can't guarantee the oniine option for PES3. It's to do with the infrastructure of Eunjpe, which Is a iittie complicated when compared with Japan and the US. if the network Is there, we'll deﬁnitely do

Lara Croft has debuted on Sky's Gamestar channel. The platform
hort but sweet

Take 2 have announced that GTA

$2 snippets

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^ame will come in three

instalments and costs 75p a game.

developer Rockstar North is currently working on a new title for PS2 codenamed Project Manhunt

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PRimRL BLOKE!

CHRIS SORRELL
Df his Primol instincts.
How did you come to be Creative
Director on Primal?

studio Cambridge's Creative Director reveals some
How much time was spent on making her breasts wobble perfectiy? Longer than you might expect And they still need tweaking We were going for
realism rather than the titillation factor It
PRIMAL DREAM

After ﬁnishing MedlEvil for PSone I was tasked with developing new game concepts. Primal wasn't originaiiy going to
be our ﬁrst next-gen titie. Our initial idea

Chris spent a lot of time ﬁddling around with Jen's breasts. It's his job!

was a game along the lines of Starship Troopers, but it didnt seem to be breal<ing

doesn't help that in one of the game trailers we had her running past the
camera in slow motion. It was all a bit

any new ground, which is when we came^
up with Primal. Primal is loolcing to be one of the most technically adept PS2 titles yet. What do you consider to be its standout
achievements?

Baywatch. Oh well. Is it possible to become emotionally attached to game characters? Will you miss worldng with Jen and Scree?
Yes, I think we will. After all this time I'm

I think it's the game as a whole really the sum of the parts. In particular I think the dynamic loading lends the game continuity and consistency. It adds to the scope of the game.

still not sick of them. And even though we've read the script hundreds of times it still raises a smile among the team every now and then. They're characters that we've enjoyed working with. Hopefully if
Primofs a success, we haven't seen the last of them.

' " W E WA N T E D A STRONG FEMALE

How's the beard coming along? There aren't many beards here at Studio Cambridge. But the one we do have is
formidable. He's famed for his beard as

LEAD, NOT JUST
A SEX KITTEN''
VbuVe blended typical adventure elements with traditional beat-'em-up
elements. How difﬁcult was it to

much as his programming talent. □ GW

integrate the two styles? It wasn't something we consciously thought about - It Just seemed like an interesting mix. We were making an adventure game but wanted to give Jen :ombat abilities in more than Just a hammer a single attack button' style. How many stages of development did /ou go through before you decided ^ou'd got Jen and Scree's characters ust right? scree's ﬁrst design has remained to this day but Jen was more complex. We
A/anted to have a female lead who was a

Srong character, not Just a sex kitten,
Dimbo stereotype. Her character also leeded to work when she turned into her CURRICULUM VnAE
Name: Chris Sorrell

temon form. In the end, we did this by
making her slightly alternative-looking and 3y giving her leather trousers. Her looks are loosely based on Eliza Dushku from 3uffy The Vampire Slayer

Job title; Creative Director. Studio Cambridge
Nationality: English ■ Date of birth: 21/04/72

Gameogtaphy:

1994 James Pond 3

Hobbies: More work Favourite ditector: Ti m B u t t o n Favourite authors:

(PC/Amiga) 1998 MediEvil (PSone) 2000 MediEvil 2 (PSone) 2003 Primal (PS2)
■ Drop by the VM site to reed a timeextended version of this chk-chat.

Glenn David Gold, JK Rowling
Favourite band: Nine Inch Nails

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before the PC version

The latest on

Sony's underwmps wunderkit. Although we don't want to start any
premature rumours, Toshiba

has just
announced it's

going into
commerciai

production of the CELl processor,
the fruit of a coilaboration with

Sony and iBM to produce smaller, faster, and more
efﬁcient microprocessors.

B E TA T H A N E V E R ?
Everquest Online Adventures hits PS2 In the US. 0PS2 tests the ﬁeld
ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIHCANT

our hands-on play of the title, here's
what we know:

■ EQOA is all about 'questing'. You begin with delivery type missions which involve you taking x to y in
return for z.

The thinking is,
this CELL

online titles slated for UK release is

technology will eventually be incorporated into Sony's nextgeneration
entertainment

system, "CELL would obviously be the central chip
for our next

Everquest Online Adventures. Tiie massive multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) has caused sleep deprivation among PC gamers since its iauncli in 1999 as tﬁey traverse tiie terrain of Norratli, forming guilds
to battle trolls and barbarians. Now,

■ EQOA is set 500 years before EQ
PC on the same varied terrains. But

before dwarves, gnomes and elves had made mass migrations. ■ EQOA is designed for the Dual Shock 2, not mouse and keyboard.
■ Combat is turn-based, but the

■ You need to group with other players to be collectively powerful.
That's where the element of

community comes into play. ■ PS2 Everquest will have a far
smoother launch than the PC version, after lessons learned on PC

■ GIANT LEAP Beta

generation products,"
conﬁrms SCEI

spokesman Kenichi Fukunaga, "We're developing
CELL in

Sony Online Is to bring tiie experience to PS2 - but not before extensive consumer 'beta testing'. This allows developers to ﬁnd potential problems with the code before the game is released. Japanese gamers went through a similar beta test for Final Fantasy XI. Currently, SCEA is undergoing the third stage of beta testing for the US version of Everquest Online and we've been getting involved. From

testing will ensure a
smooth launch of

Everquest on PS2.

turns are sped up by repeatedly hitting attack, while in the PC version you click once and watch. ■ The first run-fetch-carry missions involve people not far from your starting location and this generates

(many gamers couldn't connect to the servers at launch). ■ Some good game mechanic improvements have been added that make it less painful to die, and
combat is more user-active and action-focused. □ GW

preparation for the time when every computer is linked
to the Internet."

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l_OfLA, the setting for 12 across. (7) 2 The PlayStation 2's superb 'Fusion' racer (7)
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Soccer 2 strike, perhaps. (6)
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already. George: Come on
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Missing: Presumed Unﬁnished We unearth Lxira Croft's latest.
BEEN A U>NG TIME COMING HASNT IT? Yes, but it

will be worth the wait. At our recent sojourn to Core Design's HQ we witnessed a game with practically all the environments complete and a fully functioning Lara running. Jumping and climbing around in them. And picking up a pad and playing the game is like being reunited with a long tost relative,
THAT NEW BLOKE. WHATS HIS CAPER? Kurtis is the

Raider world was pretty much built from one-metre square cubes. This has meant a real rethink about the way the game works. It's now impossible to clearly see scalable rockslldes, or to know if Lara can make a jump or not. Most sections aren't so much 'corridors of scenery as a section of Paris with all the streets, houses, rooftops and alleyways you'd expect. There are now countless ways of getting from one end to another - it really opens up the game. □ DG

product of a plot as tortuous and complex as the M5-M6 intersection. Sufﬁce to say that he's the descendant of the Knights Templar who imprisoned the evil Eckhardt (voiced by Joss Ackland) hundreds of years earlier Now Eckhardt is free and trying to re-energise the ancient Nephilim and ultimately take
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what's coming up) and his Chirugai, a kind of sharp
frisbee which he can lock onto multiple targets and
then release.

SO WHArS IT REALLY UKE THEN? imagine a really detailed, pin sharp, super high-resolution Tomb Raider and you've 80% nailed it. The major plus is
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M Did Lara really munjer her . m e n t o r a t t h e s t a r t ? Yo u ' l l h a v e t

; . waltandsee... ■ There ate going to be tliree Tomb Raiders. The Angel Of
Darkness Is the ﬁrst part of a

huge, three-game story. ■ TheyVe started wor1< on the second game already and it ^fes, Iwo Tomb Raiders In one yei

should be out in November 200;

■ There's a high degree of sexue
fnsson between Lara and new

boy Kurtls.

■ The Angel Of Darkness Is not
as big as the old Tomb Raider ■ There were to be four locations

games but this Is deliberate. The to 35 hours of gameplay, though

In the game but the sheer size of the story has meant cutting this down to two for this ﬁrst game.

policy here is quality over sheer quantity. That said iﬁl still offer 2

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enemy operatives.

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As well as action taking place on city

Not an exact recreation (because use of ail

The place where ultra-villain Eckhardt was

This chamber beneath Kriegler Castle is

HQ provides Lara with plenty of laserbased traps and alarm systems to dodge.

streets there are huge subterranean areas
to negotiate.

the paintings Is a legal nightmare] but it
feaUires much of the intemal architecture.

Imprisoned Even to this day It Is patrolled by the ancient Templar Knights.

used by the bad guys for summoning up
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surrounds with the sole aim being to get to the exit In the shortest time, but the key is In how you do It sneaking, via vents, lure tactics and rail hanging, or

all-out blasting with SOL's full arsenal Including, If
you're Ralden, the HF Blade. Things are slightly different for 'First-Person' mode as you must learn

new controls and get to grips with riiianoeuvring your
character In this previously stationary-only perspective - which at ﬁrst feels completely wrong.
'Snake Tales' consists of ﬁve new scenarios for

Snake set in the locales of SOL WItti private-eye-style text intros setting the scene, snippets of Info and mini-quests are divulged as you go along - so you never know how things are going to pan out when you undertake the initial missions. Very intriguing. AND THE SKATEBOARDING? This separate section is a daft but entertaining bonus. Borrowing the game engine and the specially-modiﬁed Big Shell level from Evolution Skoteboord/ng, Snake and Ralden have a series of goals to complete within the time which involve racking up high scores and collecting

objects. To be honest, the skating engine Is no Tony
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rock rendition of the MGS theme tune that

accompanies the kick-ﬂipping action.^ RB

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Roll through the skater-friendly modiﬁed Plant to search for ﬁve missing dog tags and a secret Item. The tags are spread out and tricky to spot, but we
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There are three security drolds that need neutralising and once you have triggered four concealed
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an out-of-reach ramp.

mighty complex plunging Into the Icy waters.

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both. If technical shootouts and accurately mapped

we can see , it looks as though a lock-on facility will

driving action sounds good to you (and you're getting boned of driving around London in The Getawayl then listen up. As the screens on this page show, your time
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Hong Kong cinema feel. Remember John Woo's classic movie Hard Boiled? All of that cathartic action

year. But coming after several similar games, its Hong Kong inﬂuence should
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changed than Just Yuna's taste in threads. SO WHATS THE STORY? Having defeated Sin, the demonic whale and uber baddie in FFX, spirit summoner Yuna is revered by the people of Spira. But all is not well. For one thing with the fall of the Yevon
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emerge, each hoping for reluctant Yuna's patronage. For another; blue buddy Kimahri has discovered a sphere containing a vision of Tldus, the lost hero of FFX, trapped and desperate to escape. And so, with the help of Rikku who gives her that hotpants 'disguise' and a pair of guns (after FFXs climax YLina can no longer summon spirits to ﬁght for herl she heads out on an adventure to ﬁnd and rescue Tldus, discovering a new and brooding menace along the way...
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familiar faces and locations.
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sequei. Wiii we see sequels to other games
in the series after this?

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MORE CRICKLEWOOD THAN CENTURY CITY? An

McClane's back, and tiiis time he's mixing shooting witii sneaking.
anonymous ofﬁce in North London is the innocuous ground-zero for the latest game featuring America's unluckiest cop, John McClane. Nothing like The Fox Plaza, the towering location for the original ﬁlm. It is, however, the headquarters of Bits Studios, the veteran UK coders bringing the million-selling Die Hard franchise onto PlayStation 2. Of course, McClane Is up to his usual tricks, thisJime saving LA and his rookie cop daughter from the evil schemes of the sons of
Hans Gruber the terrorist he killed in the ﬁrst ﬁlm.

includes the grab comnnanci, allowing enemy soldiers to be taken hostage. If you get hold of a squad leader for example, the rest of his tnaops will disarm and surrender Alternatively, you could Just sneak around, dragging the guards into the shadows and taking them out with your silenced pistol. Another neat touch Is 'hero time', although this take on Max Payne's 'bullet time' is only instigated when you've done something truly heroic. □ JJ

HAVEN'T I SEEN THIS GAME ALREADY? Possibly Die Hard Vendetta was released on GameCube but, as you'd expect, the PS2 version packs a much bigger
punch. While enemies are better balanced and frame

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DIE HARD VENDETIA has a highly Structured plot but, in a similar way to ; Deus Ex, gives players the freedom to make their own way through levels so you get to think as well as shoot.
W H AT W E W A N T A viiell-balanced W H AT Y O U W A N T W H AT T J t f Y WA m -

levels], team deathmatch, capture the badge, tag-team
and king of the hill options, as well as a boxingtastic
royal rumble free-for-all.

I ■ Genocide will be
pleased that the PS2 • version of DHV has

|«Tlie shooting

Single-player game witli great cutscenes, and frantic

action of GoldenEye,
the cinematics of Half-Life and better

Multiplayer mode.

; "a completely new
auto-aim system."

. sales than both. ■ Keep an eye out for an interview with tﬁe development team.

SO WHAT IS THERE FOR THE LONE GAMER? The key
gameplay mode is the Stealth mode. As well as

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■ UKE IN -THE MOVIES

Taking out the ﬁnal enemy in a section triggeis a
sio-mo cinematic.

■ Dua( And cover iviissions

provide plenty of shadows which

help you to avoid aierting guards.

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Bhw your mates away with Die Hard's MuHipktyer mode.

THREE'S NO CROWD

COHTROL OPTIONS

COMPLETISr DIE HARD All the character models in the single-

EASY SHOT

P E R F E C T LY F O R M E D

Instead of splitting the screen into quarters winen three are playing, player one gete half the space so nothing is
wasted - except the opposition!

Bits has provided plenty of ﬂexibiiity in terms of player controls - both speed of response and turn rate can be tweaked.

player game are available In multlpiayer TTiey can be unlocked by completing the game on the hardest setting

It's not just frags that matter Taking someone out witii your bare hands in
Stealth mode will award more points than a gun kill.

Some of the smaller levels are designed

to be played with two players.

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THE MARK OF KRI Meet the ancient forces of evil. Then skewer them with a large sword.
00:30 Cut-scene starts in darkness with voiceover. The

powers are now stirring again. Rau, a headstrong young ﬁghter, must track down the symbols to revive the legend.

narrator sounds like Mr Miyagi from The Karate Kid,
which is very cool. He talks of incantations that will
unleash "denizens of darkness."

46:15 Our Rau is now a big hero and is attracting more
missions. A guy called Amku's home has been infested by graverobbers. He'll give us a bow for the Job. Sounds good.

01:02 Not sure if they've sent a Disney ﬁlm by mistake. The restless young hero, Rau, is a Polynesian-looking
swordsman.

54:05 Sneaking up unarmed and performing grisly
stealth kills with ®. Nailing a bandit to wall with the
sword is an instant favourite. Cute looks and

03:46 Finally Into the action, with beautifully-rendered characters and scenery. Master the unique ﬁghting system of highlighting enemies and attacking with
deceptively simple button taps.
06:30 Meet Kuzo, a Raven that travels with Rau. He

charmingly brutal ﬁnishes. 60:00 Getting into the style and depth with enemies

increasing In number and ferocity. Stealth, swordplay,
scenery and birds. What more do you want? □ MW

scouts ahead to marked perches and helpfully
distracts enemies.

10:23 Learn about bandits who are destined to meet the nasty end of our sword. Another lovely cut-scene neatly takes us to them.

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23:20 In sumptuous ruins we enjoy the gloriously gofy beat-'em-up action. Rau shouts strange words when
he employs impressive combos and stabs some

by its unique balance of story, gameplay and style. It's gentle yet brutal. We hope the rest of the game is as engrossing.
W H AT W E W A N T

32:00 Kuzo's Just landed on a lever and opened a
■ PICTURE PERFECT Believe it or not tliis picture dissolves directly into gameplay. Pretty, isnt it? massive door for us. He's also unleashed a bunch of fat blokes with massive swords. Nice one Kuzo! 42:34 Battling away in more leafy glades and ruins,

weedy-looking bandits.

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.WHAT THEY WANT

An engrossing

adventure ttiat keeps
you hooked with innovative touches all

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says DigltalFusion on the forums.

expectations in the same w/ay Ico did.

the way through.

■ A STAB IN THE

perfecting blocking and parrying four enemies with the swond. All bandits are efﬁciently and bloodily
dispatched in no time.
M YOU BIG SNEAK The little fella won't know what hit him.

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all of which are

beautifully animated. Access Feironq's data in the basement Sam ﬁsher's

that bloke's head explode

SPLINTER CELL Just like a splinter, Sam is hard to spot and causes unnecessary pain.
IS THIS REALLY AN MGS-BEATER? Tough to call Splinter Cell's emphasis on sticking to the shadows and staying completely silent really is stealth in

in Scanners, s

called The Powerplant. We're also chuffed to learn

excelsis. The plot is classic Clancy, with the Georgian
president unleashing a wave of cyber terrorism against the US - which certainly sparks our interest more than Kojima's techno-fear nonsense. Sam Fisher's gruff attitude and salt 'n' pepper hair mean he deﬁnitely looks the part. But is gaming's own Clint
Eastwood cooler than Solid Snake?

that Ubi Soft is tweaking some of the game's niggling ﬂaws, in the Xbox version the take-a-hostage move is
worse than useless, and on certain levels the

checkpoint-based save system leads to leg-crossing

YOU'VE PLAYED THE OTHER' VERSION THEN? Yes, and vety good it is, too. Standout moments include

SPLINTER CELL had us worried about

inﬁltrating the CIA's headquarters at Langiey and trailing a target around a tangerine-coloured oil rig Wonder where they got that from? The lighting effects
are genuinely gobsmacking and. crucially these

how those fancy lighting effects and snazzy vision ﬁlters would look on PS2, but these ﬁrst shots are very promising indeed.
W H AT W E W A N T Hide-and-seel( W H AT Y O U WA t ^ Evil Overlord W H AT T H E Y WA h J T

screens suggest that they've been recreated perfectly for PS2. The best gadget has to be the sticky shocker - a taser-style device which delivers an incapacitating
jolt of electricity. Preferably to the plums, WHATS NEW IN THE PS2 GAME, THEN? We re promised new cinematics and special DVD features, but the big news Is the inclusion of an extra level

Ttie ﬁrst AAA Tom

gameplay, but without the brainscouring frustration and cut-scenes, •^ilTORNi .

caused a stink when

he said, Tﬁis game

Clancy game, and for
Sam Hsher to

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replace Snaiie as the

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PRIDE FC The game of the most violent sport in the world'. Ulp.
PRIDE Fa THATS A FUNNY TITLE. Pride isnt tunny in the slightest. In fact It's veiy serious. The sport Is absoiuteiy huge in Japan (as big as WWE) and the Toi^o Dome is regularly packed with over 70,000 fans baying for blood. After aii, there are only two rules in Pride ﬁghting: no eye
gouging and no biows to the private parts. Ouch. Each of

reversals and holds. From there you can either beat them into submission, giving their red health bar a battering or
go for a painful hold, which will diminish their biue

stamina bar if the pair shrink away to nothing you're a winner While there are token blood splashes (including a
great blood-on-the-lens trick] it's a shame that there's no facial damage on the characters, a feature that's so

the ﬁghters Is an expert in a speciﬁc ﬁghting genre so this Is the oniy piace you're going to see karate versus boxing and wrestling versus judo.
BIG SHOW The

brutally evident in the real sport. The new WWE, then?
Dont bet against it. □ DG

game land real-life event) are as OTT as any WWE bout.

SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED. HOW DO THE

FIGHTERS DIFFER? The PS2 game alms to capture ail of the violent action, featuring ali the moves and ﬁghters. Unlike some ﬁghting games, your choice of character reaiiy does make a difference A judo ﬁghter wiii come into his own If you can get your opponent on the mat via a grapple move. From there you can try for ail kinds of pins and hoids. However; a kickboxer will want to keep his distance and stay on his feet - before kicking you in the

i n i o n

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; PRIDE FC is looking great a ﬁght sim that I blends wrestling and conventional ﬁghting
I to create something new. It's only the

i sport's low proﬁle that could handicap
its success over here.
W H AT W E W A N T W H AT Y O U W A N T W H AT T H E Y W A N T

REALITY TV The game characters are lased on real Pride ﬁghters. It's just a hame you havent heard of them. Yet.

face with them.

I To feel a real * difference between

I To make a great \ m C'mon, we know youVe got opinions of' game of a great

i the ﬁghters and not SO rrs BASICALLY TEKKEN CROSSED WTTH WWE?
rely on button

your own. Dont be sport If only It was
shy Get on the
i forums now!

Precisely in fact, the buttons (two punches, two kicks] are
exactly the same as Tekken but simultaneous button

J mashing to win.
1 HOT OR NOT? FRIGID tEPID

as popular over here ^ as It Is in Japan...

pushes wiii allow you to grab your opponent for pins.

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FIGHTERS STYLE RLE

Just OS in WWE all these ﬁgtters are genuine exact recreations of the real thing. Unlike WWE tﬁcy really do try to kill each other...

DON FRYE: WRESTUNG

WANDERLEI SILVA: MUAY THAI

ANTONIO NOGUEIRA: JIU JITSU

S E M M Y S C H I LT: K I C K B O X I N G

HEATH HERRING: WRESTUNG

A heavyweight ﬁghter whose prime skill Is face-smashing punches. The key to defeating this man mountain Is to get
him on the mat Then break his arms.

The champ, nicknamed The Axe Muttierer. While prtmarily a Muay Ttial kickboxer, his punch power and Judo skills make him a great all-tounder.

Another all-iounder who matches any Pride ﬁghter for power but who's an expert on the mat and usually wins via
an excruciating submission hold

A kickboxer, v»ho at six foot ten, has been known to ﬁnish grapple-hungry opponents by kicking them In the head every time they ty to get near him.

This WWE-style showman has a different haircut for every bout He currently Isn't looking too pretty thanks to having his face punched off recently.

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LAST SEEN?

A regular denizen of these pages, Devil May Cry 2
featured in last month's monitor when we took a

Previously featuring in Spy, we also treated you to some screens in OPS2#25's Update.

lingering lool< at Dante's new partner Lucia,

Despite the title, It's not about cloning Phil Collins, You'd know that if you'd read our news piece back in Spy, OPS2#29.

In OPS2#27 we displayed the ﬁrst screens of the caped crusader's game.

It's a hearty ﬁrst hello to the
American version of the UK's

poindexter festival Robot Wors,

WHAT'S NEW?

We recently went hands-on with the lovely lass and, as expected, her attacks are based on martial arts, throwing daggers and slashing away
with her swords.

We've just gone hands-on with
the Nazi-demon FPS and it

After a few hours with the

Here are some new screens

looks to be every bit the fast, smooth and stylish shooter we were hoping for.

"Lookit maw, I done made me a dinosauri" sIm we're quietly pleased. Keeping punters and dinos happy land separate) is
harder than it looks.

for you to peruse. As you can see, there will be plenty of different areas to explore In Gotham City.

We've had a chance to get our spanners out and build our own $500 pedal-bin
terminator Ladles and

gentlemen, behold! Sir Rtzalot!

ANYTHING ELSE?

In her Devil state, Lucia transforms into what can only be described as a big white, angry kestrel. Gameplay is laigely as expected but there's genuine divergence between
the two characters' adventures.

Sadly, because they want to
concentrate their efforts on the

main game, there will be no popular multiplayer options here. Id Is considering a new game for online, though.

If your party's not going too well, one good way to let off some steam Is to pilot the ranger helicopter and use the sniper riﬂe on your attractions. Sedatives only, of course.

Nothing playable yet, but with Kenji Terada [Final Fantasy l-lllj on board, we're looking forward to faithful plot characters and immersive gameplay

Let's face It, American nerds
seem a bit mote exotic than

their UK counterparts, and this does feel more polished than Robot Wars. That said, does anyone really, honestly care? We'll see soon enough.

This one's looking cooler than a liquid nitrogen bed bath. You can expect an in-depth report
next month.

We'll be going back In with more detailed impressions
next issue.

We'll be trying to do a better job than John Hammond in the veiy next Monitor

Kemco are bat-tling away, trying to get us hands-on with
this adventure from the

dari<est of all superiienDes. For a full brieﬁng and some screens attempt to Inﬁltrate
www.actlvlslon.com.

We'll be bringing you a iwlew of Battle Bats just as soon as THQ ﬁnishes tinkering with it in the backstage arena

Clips of Dante and Lucia In
action can be found at

vTOW.capcom.co.jp/devil2

Check out his Rain Storm

There's not a great deal out there just yet, but uk.playstatlon.com has a brief
preview.

Check out the summary and
fabulous artwork over at

Tighten your nuts and log on to wv™;,battlebots,com, the
Web site for the US show. You'll also ﬁnd Information

www.kemcogamescom.

move - it's poetry in motion.
The number of the beast Is 28... of March,

on the game there. Invading shops everywhere in the middle of next year Munching tourists this March, Prepare yourself for moody crime ﬁghting on 4 March, Prepare to 'activate' on 21 February,

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SOCOM. We're still getting to grips with the big online title but we're neariy ready to take you all back behind enemy lines again. Talking of stealthy killing we're hearing nothing but good things about Tenchu: Wrath
Of Heaven. Guess what? We

LAST SEEN?

We ﬁrst laid eyes on this
futuristic adventure back In

We've been keeping an eye
on this from behind the sofa.

Spy, OPS2#27,

Last time we dared to peek
out was for last Issue's 2003

Planet Midway's bizarre bofﬁn was ﬁrst spotted back In last issue's Spy

We roll out Konami's very own skating game for the ﬁrst time.

preview feature.

W H AT S
NEW?

Here are some nev» screens for you. WeVe had a quick play and the group combat sections are really coming together weii.

Here are some screens you

might not have seen yet. It's all pretty dark and foreboding still. Not a ﬂuffy bunny in sight.

Getting to grips with Muto is an Interesting affair Morphing between forms and collecting DNA Is colourful piatfonn fun.
There are a few minor Issues

A ﬁrst play of this Hawk-a-like reveals good looks that hide a problematic control system
and levels that could beneﬁt

should be able to bring you the ﬁrst proper look very soon. We actually did have time for Devil May Cry 2 this issue as you'll see here. But brace yourself for a proper hands-on - and maybe even a review very soon.

ftxim a little more imagination.

with lively camera angles.
The character of Max looks

ANYTHING
ELSE?

Look closely and you'll see
that Heather has a torch attached to her as she moves

pretty faithful to actress Jessica Alba, Which Is a good thing. She also has a Stealth mode for some really nice
silent kills.

around in the gloom. Great for fear-enhancing running about,
no doubt.

Once he's got enough DNA, Muto is able to morph Into any of ﬁve creatures from a spider to a gorilla. Each have special abilities to help him get the Job done.

The 'evolution' part comes through the use of unique goals for each skater as well must be defeated. Oh, and Solid Snake is one of many
unlockable characters.

as certain boss characters that

Plus, expect more on Enter The Matrix, Rayman 3, Whirl Tour and anything else that was pushed off the desk
in a dranken moment of mad

SCREENS

passion Dont ask...
OUT ON A UMB Next

month we'll tell you about Rayman's latest adventure.

t;

W H AT S
N E X n

Hopefully, we'll have a more in-depth look at this dark beat'em-up adventure In the next
issue of 0PS2.

We're a little way off getting
our hands on this. But rest

With a little bit of luck, we'll
be able to review this manic

assured we'll be at the front of the queue.

caper next time.

We'll keep an eye on this one to see if it can toe the line with THPS4. Wouldn't hold your breath though.

For all the release dates of

the latest games, head back to page 27 now!

A N Y m i N G ON THE NET?

Plenty on the TV show at www,darkangeltheserles,com. Keep checking uk.playstatlon.com for game updates.
This is rumoured to be

There's some new information

at vsrww.konami.co.jp right now.

vww.midwaygames.com will help you get your head around this quirky little number.

Check it out at www.konaml.

com/evolutionskate along with their other fort:hcoming
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Evolution Snowboarding.
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BURNtvEJTHE mCMGHTOL
Riding in the slipstream of tlie untouchable Vice City comes RockstaKs slick,
illegal street racer Midnight Club II - complete with impressive online
elements. So how long will it be before we see GTA Online?
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■ STREETS OF RAGE

When the list of software publishers partnering with Sony for online gaming in

impression that you're pushing a weighty metal machine
around its corners. Sufﬁce to say that MCH is now-

Challenge strangers to i Illegal 150 mph road rai online via your PS2.

Europe was ﬁrst announced two months
ago and Take 2 was one of those mentioned, we all knew what it signiﬁed.
Take 2 meant Rockstar, and Rockstar

unrecognisable from its predecessor in this respect. "The game deﬁnitely shies away from simulation handhng,"
admits MClts Senior Product Manager Corey Wade, "but this time we built the real physics in there ﬁrst, then

meant GTA. GTA Online? The very idea makes us giddy

exaggerated them to get the full excitement of pulling 180°
turns without spinning off the road every time." game on PS2 was studied
in depth. We looked at the motorbike racing games, for instance, and realised
the devotion to realistic

with excitement. But give those Rockstar guys a chance they've only just ﬁnished Vice City, and any game featuring online components could take years to develop properly. It's impressive then, that Rockstar already has an online-compatible game ready to unveil. Midnight Club // a sequel to Angel Studio's (now Rockstar San Diego's) underwhelming PS2 launch title inspired by the world of illegal street racing - may not at ﬁrst seem like an earthshattering prospect. But the difference in quality between this game and the original is vast, and the online feature is totally compelling. When the Network Adaptor is released in May, Midnight Club //will already be on sale (it's currently slated for 21 February) and will therefore become
the ﬁrst onhne racing game on PS2 in Europe.

PR Director Jeff Castenada continues, "Every racing
JEFF CASTENADA, ROCKSIAR

handling in a lot of cases

just made the games really
hard to get into,"

''FREEDOM IS NOW AN ATTITUI STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH ROCKSTAR. WE DIDNT WANT i RACER THAT JUST WENT AROUND IN CIRCLES"

Surely some of the best examples of approachable but satisfying vehicle handling are Rockstar's own GTA games' "Yeah, GTA and Midnight Club II share a lot of similar
ideals, but there was no real crossover between the two

The disappointment with the original Midnight Club was the car handling. We didn't expect Gran Turismo, but
even the arcadiest of arcade racers needs to give the

development studios," explains Castenada. "1 guess the major difference is that MCII is a pure racing game. The
cities have been designed for full-on speed."

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As In GTA bikes provide a
extra dimension to the

petrol-guzzling action.

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Street racing is only iilegai for reasons of your own safety, y'know.

PINK SUPS AND PROPS
White you're playing MidnigM Club II online, real iilegai street races are burning up the
streets worldwide.

Midnight Club II may seem like the stuff of pure
ﬁction, but from Auckland to Houston, and from

Tokyo to San Diego, communities of speedhungry petrol heads and hangers-on have emerged. Their driving ambition? To modify
street legal cars into nitra-fuelled, chromegleaming pocket rockets, and to race them

fall by the wayside until the best two face-off in a ﬁnal showdown. Naturally the police are always trying to stop these race meetings but the racers are organised, with look-outs positioned around the race 'strip'. A sighting of the cops is greeted with the call "popo popoi"
and within seconds, an area ﬁlled with scores

during the small hours on deserted city streets
for respect and kudos. The rules are simple. Pairs of drivers line up and bets are placed Sometimes a driver

m DIESEL POWER Midnight
Club II was almost the

will wager their pink slips (ownership papers! on the outcome of the race. Once the signal is given, competitors accelerate to speeds of over 150 mph down a quarter-mile straight lined by
spectators and other drivers. Most races last no

ofﬁcial game of The Fast
And The Furious movie.

more than 15 seconds, and one by one, drivers

of cars and hundreds of people can be cleared. If you've seen the VIn Diesel testosterone fest The Fast And The Furious you will already be aware of Hollywood's take on the street race phenomenon. It's Interesting to note that the ﬁlm's producers approached Rockstar to see if the publisher/developer would be interested in making a game tie-in. Rockstar declined - it was already working on a little street racing
franchise of its owi..

Perhaps a better comparison is with Criterion's Burnout

series. Both games require you to mix it up with ordinary
road users, providing a similar sense of constant risk and panic. Both games eschew licensed car models in order to give you spectacular crashes. MCIls hyper-speed nitro bursts are very familiar. And while Burnout 2 remains arguably the more sophisticated racer, it doesn't have short cuts, or pedestrians, or motorbikes, or more than 75 races, or a Race Editor mode or an online option. "Our priority was to make a game with more freedom

than others in its genre, which is obviously now an attitude
strongly associated with Rockstar," says Castenada. "We didn't want a game that just went around in circles."

MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Although MCIh main Career mode doesn't have a story as such attached, you're propelled from race to race by a series of unsavoury characters who challenge you to prove
your racing muscle. Each driver has their own distinct

personality, ﬂeshed out with the knowing humour of GTA. Action begins in LA and moves to the narrow and hilly streets of Paris before concluding on Tokyo's neon-soaked highways. The majority of the Career mode's races are based on completing checkpoints and beating opponents to the ﬁnish line, but the inventive race lavouts - jumps, bridges, tunnels, short cuts - always keep things interesting
The number of opponents varies between one and

seven, and further spice is added to the challenge when
you're forced to use speciﬁc vehicles - a motorbike has its

advantages when racing against cars, such as the abihty to take ultra-narrow short cuts, but your fragility means that you're always a target for the more aggressive driver. And believe us, the AI opponents don't pussyfoot around. The\often seem more intent on blocking your racing line or ramming you off the road than actually ﬁnishing ﬁrst "We've implemented what we believe is unique 'rail branching' technology," explains Wade. Essentially
; this means that any AI driver, when faced with

a fork in the path, can take any route at any time. The aim is to deny you the option of before overtaking on the ﬁnal sttaight However, strong proﬁles for the .AI opponents will prevent their choices from being entirely randomised. "The cut-scenes introducing the
following the fastest driver around the course

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characters are really strong. We want players to feel like they are racing against drivers with a lot of personality."
Another variation on the theme is demonstrated when

as it is in any other online PS2 game we've played; that is, very easy indeed. Once connected to the network, all
you need to do is select an option from an in-game menu and choose the race that you'd like to join. In the case of 0PS2^s exclusive online playtest, we are connected via broadband to players in another part of Rockstar's New York ofﬁce and to some at the development studio which is

MidnigM Club II.

Wade calls up a race that requires you to hit a number of checkpoints - but in no particular order. Cue a furious scramble where accurate map-reading skills and discovery of short cuts are as important as nifty driving, and where

GTAIII and GTA: Mce City have turned Rockstar into one of th world's leading publishers, whi

opponents disorientate you by ﬂying past in the opposite direction, prompting nerve-shredding collisions Inevitably, the cops get wind of your illegal gatherings, providing an
additional Hot Pursutf-style element to some challenges.

TALE OF THREE CITIES
Rockstar estimates that there are about 80 miles of road in

each of the game's three cities (not including short cuts),
and when combined with all the additional modes, it

three time zones away in San Diego. So although MCI/s AI is impressive, there are some traits you just can't program. Our human opponents mock our rookie driving and ignorance of the maps by riding in our slipstream and then overtaking on two wheels, inviting us to ram them before dodging out of the way, or even teaming up to form a roadblock on tricky corners. All that's missing is a 'ﬂip the bird' option, although you can call up a keyboard and tap
out some trash talk.

the cutting-edge nature of its games and sassy mariieting campaigns have positioned th company at ttie forefront of th lifestyle gaming revolution. A new game from Rocltstar is nc more anticipated than David
Seaman's international

retirement, particularly if it

contains the letters G, T and A News on an expansion to the GTA series Is guarded by annies of cracl< troops, but th; hasnt stopped the mmour mi

from spinning lil<e a dementec child's top. Favourite speculati

makes you reahse what a huge game this is shaping up to
be. A superb and simple-to-use Race Editor allows you to call up a map of each city and place checkpoints

■ POUSHED CHROME

These game screens are a little touched-up - we'll bring you our own grabs
next issue.

anywhere you choose. Rockstar fully expects committed players to be able to build courses that equal those in the Career mode for thrilling intensity, and you'll be able to race your creations against A1 opponents, in multiplayer,
and hopefully against all-comers onhne. The split-screen multiplayer option supports two

It's an exhilarating experience, and when all opponents are equally matched, you can imagine that things could get very serious. Wade talks about the idea of generating reputations online, whereby players can post proﬁles and set up racing leagues to decide who is the "biggest badass" Exactly how this works is still all yet to be decided for
MC/I, but Wade agrees that some form of communication

at ttie moment is that the ne> GTA will be set in the cily of'S

Andreas', loosely based on Ljo; Angeles This logical conclusic
Is based on the three cities In

the very ﬁrst Grand Theft Autc for PSone being called Liberty City, Vice City and, yes, San
Andreas. And as GTAIII was sei

in the present day and Vice C in the Eighties, GTA Son
Andreas will be set In the

players, while i.Link will allow you to connect two consoles together, supporting up to four players. However, the real
excitement is contained in Rockstar's decision to take MCII

beyond simply racing against other players is crucial to accentuating the advantage of online gaming "Online racing will catch on slowly, but as soon as word gets around about how easy it is and how much more fun
it is, there's no stopping it," concludes Wade. "It's a

Seventies, right? You can

imagine Rockstar going to tov in a world of afros, ﬂares and

boogie, boogie nights.

online. Not only are there very few racing games conﬁrmed to go online as yet, but the proposed ability to play courses of your own creation across the Net, as well as additional goofy multiplayer modes such as Capture The Flag and Bomb Tag makes AlCIl one of the most complete online offerings on PS2 to date. The whole culture of illegal street racing is based around laying down the gauntlet; the idea of going online and squaring up to complete strangers perfectly replicates the real-hfe spontaneity of the scene. "Online is a natural progression," says Wade. "It's where all
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no-brainer for game developers. It'll get to the point where if you can't get your racing game online, you're shooting yourself in the foot. If we can do it in an open city and you
can't do it on a track, it's like 'get your act together!'"

However, Rockstar North has a non-GTA prolect on Its hands ﬁrst, currently codenamed Project Manhunt And as well as releasing sequ

to Max Payne Ifrom Remedy
Entertainment) and State Of

It seems that the whole possibility of online play has inﬂuenced Rockstar's view of game development, which is clearly going to make for some exciting times ahead. "Playing Midnight Club U online has affected how the single-player game has been tuned, as far as course design
and Al is concerned." So, will having Midnight Club II
online inﬂuence future Rockstar titles? "Sure. We have

Emergency (VIS), Rockstar is reportedly planning a videogame based on cult Ne\ York gang movie The Worrion and a crucial inspiration for
GTAIII. You'll read news on all these titles in 0PS2 ﬁrst

known to be a long-time favourite of the Houser broth;

''CTAin GAVE EVERY PLAYER A THAT CONCEPT ONLINE... THE POSSIBILITIES ARE LIMITLESS"

UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. NOW TAKE

racing games are going to eventually. It's a very pure form of competition - you know the person you're racing against is real." Starting an online game of MC// is as easy

some pretty insane titles coming up over the next year or Uvo. All of our games are trying to give people more
freedom, and there's so much more freedom in an online

game. The freedom inherent in GTAIII gave every player a unique experience. Now take that concept online,. the
possibilities are limitless." □

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Who should be the face of PlayStation 2, the mascot for a gaming generation? In the
most exciting election since Blair swept to power, make sure your
vote counts.
" Cigar smoke clouds the air. Brandy glasses clink. A nervous o u g h c otutting mes fro m Vimto-guzzling one end of the room, "Ur n, a ninja an t ? "4 / "cAudible "A superhero frog?'Yawns. "A

Wisecracking fox? A boy with magic trousers? A Spanish electrician? - f~ ~ ~ "

A rabbit playing a banjo?" A trapdoor beneath the boardroom table ^ ^ I
clicks open. Ttiere's a howl, followed by a faint splash. It's all been done before. -4—1—

Deciding upon a mascot to represent a console Is tricky business. They've got to ^ — — be loveable, recognisable, represent your machine's attitude and aspirations, while at the same time appeal to as wide a range of people as possible. Slapping shades '

on a cute character and calling them 'cool' isn't enough - market-sawy gamers wil ^ZZ_ZZZZ~
tear them to shreds. But mascots can be essential to a console's-success - the great ' Z _ Z Z ZI
MegaDrive/SNES war of the mid-Nineties would've been nothing without crude, felt-tip reader drawings of Sonic ripping Mario's head off adorning every mag's letters page. ^ Then Sony .came along and evetything changed. PSone didn't need a companydeﬁned ﬁgurehead - it had edgy ads, cool games, the Chemical Brothers and the most T ~

recognisable'set of buttons ever produced. Even so, third-party candidates emerged from „ Z _ Z Z I the natural selection process. Crash Bandicoot charmed platform purists with his cheesy Z Z _ I
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grin and conventional crate-smashing, but the real star was Lara Croft. Not conventionally
cute', but she deﬁned what was cool about PlayStation in a new style of game. That was then; but console wars are looming again. So what deﬁnes a good mascot? Tricky. Console loyalty goes without saying - Snake is undeniably the pinnacle of mullet- -

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sporting chic, but should his imminent appearance on other formats put him out of the ^ : I
running? The instant recognition factor is also a big consideration - If you can work out who \

the character is supposed to be from a four-year-old's doodle, something's gone right. > - m m m m " " ' S i l i c a

Equally importantly, this means the mascot's image gets everywhere, from shameless — merchandise to sweaty actors stuffed into foam costumes at the Tokyo Games Show. ~

at different things? Mario looks as comfortable in a kart or on a golf course as he does ,
ricocheting off enemies' heads. Tommy 'GW Vercetd might swing a mean nine-iron, but not in a nice way Ultimately, though, the most important test of a mascot's character is the quality of

Another factor to take into account is the character's cross-genre appeal. Can they excel t"

their game. Y ou could have the hippest samurai marmoset ever created, but if he Jumps like a
three-legged moose, you're ﬁnished.

So, now it's over you, the gaming public. Who do you think is ﬁt to lead the PlayStation charge? Ty The Tasmanian Tiger? Frogger? Hmm. In the interests of voter turnout, we've decided to present the case for our top ten candidates - but If you really think the Army Men can cut it don't hesitate to use the form over the page and write in to let us know why

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DAISTTE
PlayStation 2 career summary; Devil May Cry I0PS2# 14, 9/101 Devil May Cry 2 (Release date: 7 March) Background: Of the PS2 death-maestro pretenders - Gungrave, Shinobi - Dante's the original and best S^iish Action, a genre Invented' by Res) supremo Shinji Miltami, is set to get even better in DMC2, with the demon Pi ﬂinging out hoilow-tipped death from both hands like a John Woo-trained majorette. Japanese character design - front-sviept hair, huge leather jacket, svKord - doesn't get lost thanks to his, um, redness. The downside? The cheesiest one-liners ^ you'll hear outside a Schwarzenneger retrospective.
"Flock off, feather face"? If he's going to be a serious candidate for PS2 mascot he's going

to have to get a decent scriptwriter

R AT C H E T A N D C L A N K
PlayStation 2 career summary: Ratchet <6 C/onk (OPS2#26, 9/10) Background; It's difﬁcult to pull off a genuinely funny platform game, but Clank's deadpan asides have provided more than one tea-through-the-nose moment in the 0PS2 ofﬁce Ratchet's less intrinsically funny, but together they're the current holders of the PS2 platform crown, an honour that tends to be closely associated with automatic mascot status. They've also heralded a return to non-Lynchian offbeat Sony advertising - seen that Jackoss-styie Morpho-o-Ray ad? No doubt as to who the men upstairs are backing. The rough child doodle test proves trickier - what exactly is Ratchet? And apart from the big ears and ^
eoseles, what do vou recognise about him? Nope, if we're

LARA CROFT
PlayStation 2 career summary: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness (Release date: February) Background; The campaign veteran, Those hotpants, those twin handguns and that tight-ﬁtting vest give Ms Croft an advantage with the male demographic that her RSPCA-goadIng approach to endangered species leaves virtually undented. Several classic games, a book by Douglas Coupland, a terrible ﬁlm (one more on the horizon) and a lucrative Lucozade sponsorship deal mean that she's one of the few gaming icons your mum might recognise. The only problem Is her longevity - Core has kept Interest up with a series of pretty, real-life Laras, a near-death experience and constant tweaks to those famous breasts (They're bigger! They're smaller! They're slightly less triangular!). But her sixth outing needs more than a second playable character to stop the game feeling over-familiar.

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TOMMY VERCETTl
PlayStation 2 career summary: GTA: Vice City (OPS2#27,10/10) Background; Superﬁcially speaking, new boy Tommy is the anti-mascot - constant wardrobeswaps and a generlcaliy stubbly face could lose voter recognition. He's hardly a positive role model for the mainstream media, and it's difﬁcult to see him ﬂicking the Vs on a lunchbox. On the other hand, he also embodies most things PS2 - style, charm, that do-anything-and-sod-theconsequences attitude - and he's In one of Its best games ever. He's also riding the wave of the current Eighties revival, He's the gamer's equivalent of John Prescott - handy with his ﬁsts and keen on ﬂash cars. Tlie only possible problem is the sequel factor; if Rockstar makes another GTA its likely to be set in a different era and city again. But since everyone In the world seems to have bought Vice City, that hardly matters. Hang on to Ray Liotta's number, Mr Kutaragi.

MARK HAMMOND
PlayStation 2 career summary; The Getowpy (OPS2#28,9/10) Background: Geezah! China! Slaaag! Yes, it's the homicidal ~ yet somehow ru^edty appealing - anti-hero of The Getaway, as seen on TV, in Warner Village Leicester Square and in, um, a Loaded fashion shoot. There's no doubt that Sony is putting its full marketing clout behind Mark Hammond's bashed-up boat race and he's got the added clout of actually being a real-life bloke In what's sure to be a landmark
game. A major problem, though: He kills about three hundred coppers/mates/

gangsters during the game, which wont endear him to your Mum. Mind you, all the London rendering Is now ﬁnally complete, so if Sony do want him as the long-term ﬁzzog of PS2, it shouldn't take another three hundred years to complete a sequel.

JAK AND DAXTER
PlayStation 2 career summary: Jok And Daxten The Precursor Legacy (0PS2# 15, 9/10} Jok & Daxter 2 (TBCj Background: Already gearing up for their second instalment, strong-but-silent ladles' man Jak and furjy wise guy Daxter nearly captured the mascot crown last Christmas. They'll have to pull off something special to beat their wrench-wielding opposition (Ratchet and Clank) but that shouldn't be too difﬁcult, thanks to the engine-swapping alliance between developers
Naughty Dog and Insomniac. Their next game is due out at the end

of 2003, and is already set to be the platforming must-have. And
in case you were wondering, Daxter Is an Ottsel - a cross between a weasel and an otter - but there's no denying his classic Disneyesque design and

enemy-clouting appeal. i, ^

PA R A P PA T H E R A P P E R
PlayStation 2 career summary: PaRappa The Rapper 2 \0PS2»n 7/101

Background: Kick! Punch! It's all In the mind! PaRappa's a pure PSone original, with trippy visuals, bizarre fairytale logic and inspired lyrics making the leap from repetitive BemanI game to cult classic, PaRappa Is Instantly recognisable and sparsely designed, putting him forward as the perfect candidate for all ages. Ttie ears say 'loveable' but the beanie says 'cool', making him a popular candidate for grafﬁti artists around London. All that, and he's got a supporting cast that Includes a karate-practising tracksult-wearing onion. Who sings love songs. Genius. Rnally, he's the embodiment of the can't-be-bothered generation - sod all that running, bouncing on things and collecting coins, let's lay dovjn some vocals and chat up a sunﬂower A strong contender

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Exrr POLU
We asked gamers on the uk.playstation.com forums who they thought should be the unofﬁcial PS2 mascot. Here's an early indication of who the nation favours..
"Mascots dont mean

much any more in the business. The Nil(e ticit, the Ferrari horse thing,
the Malboro logo all
mean more than a

"I think we've overlooked a certain

sleeper hit here. Yorda and Ico from the

only game that has come close to
"PaRappa The Rapper! He's in an original game, celebrates all types of scenes (rapping,

showing us what the Third Place is." moby

corporate mascot.*^
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"I guess the logo's enough
of a mascot already!"
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skateboariling, basketball, breakdancin^, he's got his
own TV series (in Japan) and he's Sony exclusive. What more could you
w a n t ? " M AT T C H E T

"It should be the

AIBO dog that

appears on all the Sony adverts.'
SiUCONX

"Doesn't Sony have some

weird mascot in Japan (Toro)?
How about tﬁe TlmeSplltters 2 monltey?" agent47

"I think one mascot will dc

The Rapper" knight

it all and that's PaRappa

"Forget this lot, Spyro is the best!"

'The mulleted wonder. Snake!"
B O W M A N

"I think the Linux

penguin (from the PS2 Linux Kit) should be
Sony's new mascot."
CHEECHSTYLER

"It w/ould be cool to have

PlayStation 2 career summary: TimeSplitters 2 (OPS2#25,10/10] Background: Fluﬂy, tiny, but somehow not all that cute. The vacant eyes, ﬁxed expressions and the fact that they're usually packing a plasma riﬂe means there's something scary about the TimeSplitters 2 monkeys. Still, they're the default mascots of one of the most consistently brilliant games on PS2, despite the fact that actually using them constitutes cheating and leaves you open to accusations of being 'spanked'. Eldos even went as far as creating the ﬁctional Monkey Assist agency, sending (presumably! underpaid students in chimp suits to photo
opportunities outside the House Of Commons, And, of course, the potential for spin-offs is absolutely huge - monkey tennis, anyone? Okay..

''ft must surely be Crash or Spyro. They started on the PlayStation and have carried
on to PS2 no matter what

Daxter as the mascot." LAZLOW

other platforms they've appeared on." GAMERSTU

"I think it could be tlie..
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er... PlayStation symbol."

I CAST YOUR VOTE
So, we've had our say Who do you think should be elected PS2 mascot?
Do you think Rayman has no place in the hustings? Maybe you think Solid Snake's cross-platform sneaking should deny him entry Into the fray Then again, you may have a soft spot for the waify charms of 'Vorda from Ico. Or perhaps the vety real Tony Hawk Is the fella who best represents the past, present and future of PS2. We want you to vote using the handy slip below, or by emailing [email protected], marking your email '1 Vote For xxx' (replace xxx with your character of choice] giving the reason why you've backed your chosen character And if you support the eventual winning candidate, your name will be put into an upturned voting box and a winner, chosen at random, will receive a selection of PS2 games. So use your vote wisely The polls are now openl

THE PS2 MASCOT ELECTION
□ MR TOMMY VERCETTI □ M E S S R S R AT C H E T A N D C L A N K □ MR SOLID SNAKE □ MS LARA CROFT □ M R R AY M A N Please tjive a reason for your choice:

Please mark a single vote against the name of your preferred candidate.
□ M R PA R A P PA T R A P P E R □ MR A MONKEY □ MESSRS JAK AND DAXTER □ MR MARK HAMMOND □ MR DANTE DMC

SOUD SNAKE
PlayStation 2 career summary: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty |OPS2#17.10/101 MGS2: Substance IReleased date: Apriij Background: Well, It was always going to happen. They tried to replace him with a blond-hained muppet, they cast all sorts of aspersions on what he does with posters in lockers, and they wont change that haircut, but Snake Is still one of the coolest characters In gaming history. After an all-too-brief appearance in Sons Of Liberty, Snake is set to take centre stage in Snake Tales, the newest part of MGS2: Substance. He chokes guattis, he hides in boxes, he ﬂirts with the ladles via the magic of Codec - he's the rough 'n' tumble action hero we'd all like to be. Maybe this Is the reason why, despite his well documented moonlighting on other platforms, we can't bring ourselves to block Snake's nomination. Come what may. Snake's home Is PlayStation 2. What's more, there's even a parent-pleasing moral behind his gruff exterior - smoke, and your
health goes down. Classic.

Would you like to nominate a new candidate not listed above Instead? If so, please give their name and a reason for your nomination.
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V2M is Short for Voice 2 Music, it's a brand new feature for

Music 3 that should make this version the most user friendly yet. It makes use of a plug-and-play USB sampler similar to the one available to buy with M7VMG2. The idea is simplicity itself Tim Wright explains, "We thought, "how about if you could Just sing la la la and the software knew which notes you had sung and could play it back to you as, say, a piano?'
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kick off. Even more jaw dropping is that the majority of their cuts were forged using a PSone and a copy of Music 2000. We spoke with Motley about Music and making it happen.
So, how's life treating you at the moment?

I can't complain. After doing the tour with De La Soul - which was off tha heezy for sheezy! - I've been concentrating on
recording new material and preparing for a trip to the US.

■ WHISTLE m Turn your voice Into a stored meiody.

Click the red button on the sampling screen and, after a metronome counts you in, you can record up to eight bars of melody. Music 3 instantly recognises the pitch and length of the notes you whistled, hummed, sang or played, allowing you to repeat them using any riff In the software's extensive library. So even if you don't know a semibreve from a semi detached, tuming the tune In your head into a melody on the screen will be child's play And the USB sampler's uses don't end with V2ivt. it can also be used to sample more conventionally from any source with a line-out. Vinyl, MinlDIsc, CD - you name it, you can 'borrow' riffs from It. But using V2M will necessitate buying a separate sampler, right? Wrong, if Jester has anything to do with It. The developer is currently working with a trio of manufacturers to produce a bundled sampler that's small enough to ﬁt into the game box's Memory Card slot! Now there's progress.

Tell us how you started out making music.
I started putting tracks together early '99 using Music on PSone. I'd been a DJ for a few years, and loved music,

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especially hip-hop, so I knew the type of music I wanted to create inside out! Music was cooi but I grew bored of using
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People couldn't believe I had written the tracks on a

PlayStation, and thought the tracks must have been produced in a studio! Once I had these heavy tracks down,
1 laced the vocals by running the track and recording my

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vocals live, straight to MinlDIsc. What do you like most about using the Music software?
Music allows you to import, chop and shape any sample in seconds! Shucks, I could probably make me a whole track

from scratch In ten minutes! Don't hold me to that, though! How did you get from PSone to supporting De La Soul?
It wasn't a simple step like that! I'd been playing Music

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The Instrument Editor isn't something most people will need early on. Why? Well, the fact that Music 3 will contain 16,000 discrete instrument samples (compare that to MTVMG2's 9,000) spread over the genres of pop, trance, garage, rap, indie and nu metal, straight from the box, may give you a clue. Cutting edge synth riffs, brass, guitars, six categories of hi-hats, monkeys, bees (yes, really]... Chances are, if you want it in yourtracK Jester has put a microphone in front of it and pressed 'record'. Vocals, generally perceived as a rare weak point in MTVMG2, have also been totally revamped. Instead of recording random phrases. Jester wrote and recorded a handful of original songs for each of Music 3's styles and only then cut up the vocals Into separate samples. Let's suppose one of those 16,000 samples isn't quite
what you want. All you have to do is open up Music 3's

2000 for the best part of the New Year through to April when I saw an advert for the BBC's talent showcase I got through to the ﬁnal ﬁve acts and got airplay on Galaxy 102, Keyl03, RadiolXtra, Radiol, performed live on air from the
Trafford centre and was featured on Channel 4's 4Music All of which lead to getting the respect and proﬁle needed to

support such an act as De La Soul! Gaspl Is it true that you've had some interest from the States?
We thought, we can either release the tracks independently, on a smaller scale - as So Solid started out - or we can go to America, where they know how to play the game! Hmm, hard

decision... Not! We pushed the product stateside and got a very good response One of the main responses was from a big New
York hip-hop Producer, Lee Stone, whose credits include De La Soul, Pharoahe Monch, Scarface, Busta Rhymes to name a few.

Any last message for the readers of 0PS2? Yeah! If you see a ﬂyer for a gig come and check me out. All the music you'll hear started out in a PlayStation! Come see what you can do! Peacel www.sijpermotleyland.com

Instrument Editor Here you can tinker with an individual sample's length and volume, reverse It, add ﬁlters and echo, then adapt the source sound to your liking.
AMPl£ SAMPLES Music 3

will contain 16,000 samples.

m YOU GOT1A HAVE SOUL Motley and crew hang out with the mighty De La Soul. Could this be you next?

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When approaching Music 3, the developer noticed that there was a signiﬁcant minority of emails and letters from people suggesting that it should dump the Video Mixer feature introduced in MTVMG2 altogether Tim Wright tell us, There were two camps. One said, 'It's all squares, spinning blocks. Really pass6 and early Nineties. Don't bother' The other camp were the Tm not even interested in videos. 1 just want to write music' types. Their logic was, if you get rid of the video, all that memory is freed up to do music. Which, sadly, is not the case because the way the PS2 is built means that you video and sound memory are separate." Jester's ingenious technology has answered this latter camp in style, allowing gamers to turn off Music 3's ﬁve video tract^s entirely But the developer wasn't happy to leave things there. Jester wanted to create a new Video iviixer that would not only satisfy people who are fed up with ageing acid visuals but attract
new converts, too.
.

So out go the real-time generated graphics of earlier Music installments and in come around 700 streaming DVD clips and

snippets of pre-rendered CGI. Using Music 3's Video Mixer you can
edit individual clips before laying them down over four separate video channels and then tinker with the whole lot using an additional effects channel. Want to trigger an effect at a certain beat? You can. Want to overlay text? You can. Cant be bothered to make your own video? Music 3 will look at a track you've created, identify patterns such as choruses, intros and verses, and tailor make a video speciﬁcally for It

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'skins' from all kinds of sources.

software has many 'skins' but just one, well-designed layout.

teak dash. We've got one with natural leaves going up the side, and a glowing neon one. There's even a skin that's really plain. It's like black granite."

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REMIX CELEBRTTY TRACKS
Ever since the original Music game hit the PSone back in 1998 there's been no shortage of professional artists i<een to see their tracks appear on subsequent titles in the series, ripe for sonic dissection and remixing by eager gamers. Naturally, Music 3 continues this tradition. Jester has signed a deal with Perfecto Records which sees Paul Oakenfold's Starry Eyed Surprise and Timo iviaas's Help Me heading up a list of nine 'celeb' tracks that are being recreated from the original studio masters. Want to hear Doves' Pounding with added accordions? Just drag over the appropriate riff and Music 3 will automatically adjust its key to ﬁt in perfectly... well, as perfectly as accordions can ﬁt anywhere. You'll also be able to create a video for, say, StarryEyed Surprise, featuring video clips sourced from its ofﬁcial proma And Just in case Oakey's a bit modern for your musical tastes. Jester has showcased its new orchestral samples by pnDducing an uncannily faithful classical piece for you to tinker with as well. Nice.

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So what's next for Jester and the Music series? Without

doubt, the PS2 Network Adaptor and Hard Disc Drive hint at tantalising opportunities. Tim Wright tells us, "In the future, it would be great to be able to write your owr songs, save them to the hard drive and then, when

you're playing Gran Turismo 5 or whatever, you could
have your own music in the background. A proper onlin( community would be great, too. Hints and tips, downloadable samples, uploadable samples, interviews
with DJs or artists who've contributed tracks. And we

could have preferred content on there as well. You coulc

pay ﬁve pence for a sample that's been created by
Orbital or The Chemical Brothers. You have Starry Eyed

Surprise on Music 3, so maybe you could go online and
Paul Oakenfold has created another 30 riffs that you cat download. Special offers... anything that will encourage c Music community." □

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I Games are mostly a visual experience.

Getting the best out of your PlayStation 2 Is about hooking It up to a decent TV with the best AV cable you can. But what about

I sound? Many gamers are happy to put up
with their TVs weedy, bullt-ln speaker Okay, so some people have hooked their PS2s up to a hl-ﬂ using an optical cable for proper stereo and extra volume. But you can push your PS2's sound much further Remember the last time you went to the cinema and the sound rushed at you from all directions? V(/ell, you can get that from your PS2 If you connect It to a home cinema system.
Welcome to the world of surnDund sound,

WIRED FOR SOUND
A home cinema system basically consists of a receiver unit which takes the audio output of your console and
processes It Into sumjund sound. This is funnelled out to

ﬁve speakers around your room (see Perfect Placement) and a subwoofer, which provides the bass. Traditionally, these kind of systems have been for serious home cinema buffs to watch their DVDs with, but they've recently come down In price. You can now get a decent home cinema system for around £200. The benefits are obvious. Not only do you get to enjoy surround sound while watching DVDs on your PS2, but - thanks to an ever Increasing number of developers optimising their titles to take advantage of the technology - you can experience surround sound gaming, too. See System Playtest for OPS^s ﬁve of the best'. Besides cost, another thing that's put many PS2 owners off buying a surround sound system is the number of different technologies that are available. You'll be pleased to hear that they're not too confusing after all - there are only three that you need to know about Dolby Digital, DTS and Dolby Pro Logic II (see Glossary). With many home cinema systems supporting all three fonmats. It's not as Intimidating as it used to be. You need the same ﬁve-speaker setup for each, regardless. An Increasing number of big PS2 games have some form of surround sound support. Including the likes of Burnout 2, GTA: Vice City, WRC II Extreme, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and SSX Tricky. Once upon a time, developers simply weren't given the budget to put surround sound In their games. That's changing. "Dolby Pro Logic II should now be standard across all AAA titles," reckons Stephen Root, Criterion's Head Of Audio. Criterion's software division is doing Its bit by including Dolby technology In Its Renderware development tools, making It easier for developers to include surround sound In their games.

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A U D I O S L AV E
D O L B Y D I G I TA L

The three surround sound technologies explained.
Surround sound format that produces ﬁve separate audio channels: right, left, centre, left surround and right surround, plus an extra bass-only channel for your subwoofer. Full surround sound, in other words. However, using it takes loads of processor power that would otherwise be assigned to other parts of a game engine. For this reason, its use on PS2 Is generally restricted to non-interactive cut-scenes. A rival technology to Dolby Digital, with similar roots in the cinema world, DTS can be used for in-game sound without taking lots of processing power away from other parts of a game engine. Although it's featured in fewer games than Dolby Pro Logic II, it's recently been utilised In big titles such as 6TA- Vice City and SSX Tricky.
DOLBY PRO LOGIC II

A much more processor-friendly version of Dolby Digital, which is why it's used for in-game surround sound on PS2. It allows developers to encode ﬁve audio channels into a regular stereo signal. A Pro Logic II software decoder then extracts this Into ﬁve channels again, giving you simulated surround sound. This ,,

is the most popular surround sound format for PS2. ';A

Enough about the technology. What does surround sound add to your gaming? For most titles it's pureiy an
atmosphere thing. Deveiopers are constantly striving to create more immersive games, and surround sound is a

RIK EDE, DTS CONSUUANT

UNREAL TOURNAMENT YOU COULD HEAR SOMEONE

COMING UP BEHIND YOU, SPIN
AROUND AND SHOOT THEM"
you'd be able to hear someone coming up behind you, and you could then spin around and shoot them," says audio expert and DTS Consultant Rik Ede. It's going to be even more of an advantage once online PS2 gaming kicks off. Imagine playing TimeSplitters 3 with surround sound. If your opponents don't have it, you'll be able to track them by listening to the direction their gunﬁre is coming from, but no-one will be able to creep up on you. Your foes will be toast, and they probably won't even know why Rik Ede also hopes developers will make more use of
surround sound in solo games in the future. "When you

you walk around the room, there's a big thud coming from the subwoofer at a particular point in the ﬂoor I trap door, and there's your way out, yet you can't acti see it. Developers are already playing around with the
kinds of ideas."

major new string to their bow/s. it can be as simple as hearing a car you've Just overtal^en recede into the distance behind you, or being engulfed by the roar of the
crowd in a virtual football stadium.

It sounds great, but not much fun for gamers whc
don't want to fork out for a ﬁve-speaker home cinem

Surround sound sucks you into a game, enveloping

system. Don't worry - Dolby has a couple of new technologies up its sleeve that could help. The ﬁrst is

you in sound and making you forget the outside world.
Close your eyes and you're In Vice City, not sitting in your

Dolby Headphone, which provides surround sound in
set of ear-cans. The ﬁrst of these headphones will be

living room playing a game. "It enables you to capture the ears of the player by enveloping them with 350" sound," says Root, who is backed up by Dolby's games guru Jack Buser "It really delivers a cinematic experience, which is what a lot of games are going for these days. It can be a very powerful thing emotionally, drawing players inside a
game." Sometimes, surround sound has an impact on the

later this year 'You buy this little headphone unit, plu the optical cable from your PS2 into it and away you
says Buser

Meanwhile, Dolby is also working on a technologj called Virtual Speakers, which uses ﬁendishly comple audio bouncing technology to get surround sound oi
two normal stereo hi-ﬁ speakers. This might not mak

gameplay itself. Think ﬁrst-person shooters, for example. "Ideally, when you play the likes of Unreal Tournament

start to get audio cues in the game, it'll get really exciting," he says. "Imagine you're playing a game and you're stuck in a room with no obvious way out, but as

any difference to PS2 gaming, but could be a built-in
feature on the next generation of consoles. Watch listen to - this space.

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SYSTEM PLAYTEST

0PS2 recommends ﬁve home cinema systems that will
give you perfect PS2 surround sound.
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SPEAKER SYSTEM (£150)

A Dolby-only system, designed speciﬁcally for PS2 gamers wanting to get surround sound. Although It won't compete with true home cinema systems, It's more than adequate for your gaming needs, producing a full sound that swiris around your ears In
stunning fashion.

You can tweak its settings to match your room (few people have the perfect environment for surround sound, so this Is useful) and fashion hounds will appreciate the choice between grey and black
speaker grilis. Cool stuff, w w w. 4 g a m e r s . n e t

SPECTRAV1DE0 SOUNDSTATION 5.1 (£200)
Besides home cinema systems from companies lilie Sony and JVC, a few games hardware companies have started offering surround sound systems for PS2. Spectravideo's is certainiy impressive, aithough It can oniy handie Doiby Digitai and Doiby Pro Logic. The speai^ers are a manageabie size and provide a decent sound for games, and ail the cables have been colour-coded, making It simple to set up too. And like the Sony system, you get a bunch of wail ﬁttings so you can position the speakers exactly where you want them in your living room.
w w w. s p e c t r a v i d e o . c o . u k

SONY HTBEl HOME CINEMA SYSTEM (£280)
SCEE might not sell an ofﬁcial surround-sound setup, but arm of the company? Sony Is one of the most trusted home cinema brands around, and its HTBEl system shows why. its ﬁve speakers are absolutely tiny, yet manage to produce a hefty sound nonetheless. We would say they're the Bonnie Langford of the home cinema world, If that didn't sound like an Insult The system can handie Doiby Digitai, DTS and Dolby Pro Logic 11, so will cope with whatever games you throw at it And you even get adjustable wail, ceiling and shelf mounts. Bargain.
w w w. s o n y. c o . u k why not go for a system from the consumer electronics

J. JVC TH-A5R DIGITAL CINEMA SYSTEM (£350)

'n / This home cinema system costs a bit more, but you're ^ - getting an ail-in system with a DVD player for your money
turn the volume down.

We like the mirrored front and slinky electric blue lighting. Happily, it sounds as good as it looks, and even works well when you Besides handling Dolby Digital and DTS, the receiver is also something of an all-rounder It's able to play DVDs and CDs, as well as CD-Rs and CD-RWs, if you've, ahem, burned some of your favourite l«IP3s onto a disc. Oh, and it's an FM/AM tuner, too. www.jvc.co.uk

^r-l denon avr-1603 receiver/elac cinema 1 speaker SYSTEM (£700, in total)

^Y o u d o n t 'j u s tn e e dt ol o o ka ta li n o n es y s t e m sf o rP S 2 surround sound. Pay a little more to mix and match and
you could get something like this. The receiver is Denon's AVR-1603, which provides high-end home cinema for £300, including support for DTS, Doiby Digitai and Doiby Pro Logic 11. Denon's more expensive kit Is what real hi-ﬁ and home cinema buffs swear by so you're in good
company

Meanwhile, the speakers are from German ﬁrm Eiac. The ﬁve

surround speakers are tiny sliver things that stiii pack a great sonic punch, while the subwoofer is teeth-rattllngiy good for bass. Ifeu might baulk at the Idea of paying £400 for a set of speakers, but believe us, you're getting plenty of value for your money.
www.denon.co.uk

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PERFECT PLACEMEtSTT
How to set up your speakers for great
surround sound. CENTRE SPEAKER Place this above or directly below your TV set CENTRE SPEAKER

this speaker Is often used for character speech
and sound effects, which need to sound iike

they're coming out of your TV.
RIGHT AND LEFT FRONT SPEAKERS Place these as far apart as possible, to create a

truly cinematic surround effect.
LEFT SURROUND AND RIGHT SURROUND SPEAKERS

These need to go behind you, to the right and left, ideaily, they should be the same distance apart as the right and left front speakers, to
create an accurate surround effect. SUBWOOFER

Can go anywhere In the room, so try a few places to see how it sounds. You'li know It's right when your teeth start rattling..

LEFT SURROUND SPEAKER

LISTEN AND LEARN
What else can your PS2 do with
surround sound?

So which titles will allow you to get the most out of
Dolby surround sound gaming? The games you can buy now that support Dolby surround
sound gaming...

LOOK HEAR!

Hook your PS2 up to a home cinema system and you can play DVDs as God Intended. Practically every DVD release comes with a Dolby Digital or DTS soundtrack. It's also great for live music DVDs - we've recently been blistering
our ears to the 5.1 mix of Iron Maiden's Rock In Rio.

IPLIi: Dolby Pro tjogic 2, S: Dolby Surround)
Airblade Armored Blood Burnout Defender Core 2: 2; Omen Point Another Age 2 Of Impact S S S PLII PLII

Talking of music, record labels are getting interested
In a new album format called DVD-Audio, which Involves

releasing albums mixed for surround sound. You need a dedicated DVD-Audio disc player to get the full monty, but
some DVD-Audio albums Include additional surround

Dynasty
Extreme-G F1 RFA

Warriors
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sound mixes that can be played using your PS2, You'll need to visit a sizeable record stone to ﬁnd them, though.

RFA 2002 Worid Final Fantasy FreekStyie Kelly Slater's Pro
Klonoa 2: Lunatea's

Cup X Surfer
Veil

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Knockout

Kings

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Madden NFL Madden NFL Matt Hoffman's Pro Medal of Honor Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons

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The

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Clank

Rayman RC
Run Sled

Revolution Revenge Pro
Uke Storm Holl

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Sly Spider-Man
Soul

Raccoon
Reaver 2

PLii PUI
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Star Star Street

Wars: Wars:

Bounty Jedi Hoops
Dawn Of Bouncer

Hunter Starﬁghter
Fate

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PLII S

J l i i t

Te r m i n a t o r : The

To n y To n y
1\irok Twisted

Hawk's Hawk's

Pro Pro

Skater Skater
Black

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Evolution Metal:

Wipeout
Vexx

Fusion

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Armored Dr Core Muto 3 PLII PLII

Evolution Final Jurassic SOCOM:
Tribes:

Snowboarding Fantasy XI Parit: Project Genesis US Navy SEALs
Aerial Assault

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your nasgins mum isn't easy. So it's
time to spread your winss as a Sim on PlayStation 2. You'll need to ﬁnd a job and a new place to live, so why not make it a bachelor pad and

ﬁnd your soul-mate while you're at it?
Arm yourself with the arsenal you'll need to succeed: a strip poker table, a nice stereo, and if you make it to - level ﬁve, the all-powerful 'Love Tub'. " Play head-to-head or go solo in the
level based mission and unlock new

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items and other goodies. And look out for the Monkey Butler who'll pander to your every whim. Create and control your
ist of characters in The Sims^"*" on

PlayStation 2. It's what your thumbs are for.

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I Highly recommended I Impressive and enjoyable I Ideal for fans of the genre
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This Valentine's Day. Andys object of affection is going to be ttie
winsome Sophie Matceau. He wants to give lier an orchid and a "big fat pearl necldace," Nice man.

Ryan will be wtiispering sweet
nothings into his wife's ear on

cang^AlffeenHc^ng game.

for aiy PS2 owner

to satisV-

Valentine's day. He'll also be taking time out to give his -ﬁlthy mistress Pro Em 2 a ttiorougir going over,"

Unbeknownst to his glrlfHend, Tim is sending Satah Whatmore a dozen red roses and a copy of Wee City in an attempt to corrupt the fragrant Geortie popstret.

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Sexy half-demon goth rock chick guns for the Lara vote.
So, you're a no-nonsense, survivor-type, twenty-something orptian street-gal with a the point-to-point action at the heart of an everunfolding plot with plenty of solid characters. After the fantastic opening cinematic, the new

prime catch of a boyfriend who's lead singer
In a Nine Inch Nails-style buzzsaw rock

V V ^ p 'R M iA t G jA M E . C O M
60HZ MODE: YES WIDESCREEN: YES

band. Sadly, his name isn't Zak or Randy It's
Lewis Still... the gigs are sell-outs, the A&R men are

ethereal Jen meets her story guide, a stunted gargoyle
called Scree - the straightman who does his best to explain everything while Jen attempts to take in all the craziness that's bestowed upon her ("I ain't ever been an astral projection before!"]. She's the reluctant messiah who does all the ﬁghting, while Scree - at ﬁrst - does
little more than talk.

SURROUND SOUND: YES

snifﬁng, and the future looks rosy After a gig one night, you're both pestered by a
typical obsessive fan. What is a little unusual and

■ BACK STORY
Conceived back In 1999, Primal

storted devetop/7)e/)t in early
2000. Primal is Studio

Combr/dge's ﬂfst PS2 game, but its PSone credentials are pretty
sharp - MedlEvil and C12: Rnal

disturbing, though, is how the autograph-jockey suddenly rises up into a ﬂaming hulk and mutates into a gigantic lizard-monster with spikes on its back Next thing you know, you're standing over a hospital bed looking down at yourself And who's that small, funny-looking guy in
the corner?

The game progresses through four realms in the

parallel world of Oblivion. Each realm is ruled by either the forces of order or chaos, and something major is
messing up the balance. The ﬁrst, Solum, has an air of Scandinavian gloom - it's eternally night and the action

Resistance. Next up is Ghost
Hunter /n mid-2003.

PRIMAL FEAR
From the top, Primal is an unusual game because it wears its linear nature with pride. Most games that claim to be deep and fantastical can seem a little desperate to be as complex and open-ended as possible - go anywhere, do anything, anytime. But the Primal designers have devised their story line and they're sticking to it... or rather, you are. In a way it's refreshingly old-skool - hit an obstacle, ﬁgure out a way to get past it, move on to
the next obstacle. It's not what you'd expect, but at least

revolves around a quest to ﬁnd the son of a king who's railing against tradition and refusing to relinquish power
The puzzles are nice and basic at ﬁrst (ﬁnd the torch to

light the way see How To...] and most of the challenge is
focused on deeper exploration.

Realm two, Aquis, is, mostly an Atlantis-style
underwater zone. In this realm, an underwater race, the Undine, are facing pollution because their water ﬁlters

have stopped working As the pollution takes hold, they are mutating into an evil form which is vying for power.

■ Expect bumper coveruge on the site in the run up
to Primal's rehase.

it's honest and, more importantly succeeds in staging

In Aetha, the problem is more universal - greed. A |
dandyish race of aristocrat vampires are, literally sucking

■ FINISH HIMI> Mortal Kombot-

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style gore in PrimaL

■ SWORD AND THE STONE When trouble nears its ugly head. Scree reverts to a stone gargoyle and Jen ﬁghts the good ﬁght.

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"I AINT EVER

BEEN AN ASTRAL PROJECTION

m CHAOS ENGINE The ordet of the Primal Universe is under threat.

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m VALUY GIRL Jen is

an unwitting heroine who goes from ﬂal(y to
kick-ass in no time.

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MADE OF STONE
Being of the animated concrete persuasion. Scree has a few tricks up his stony sleeve.

Climbing wate...

Using the strategically

tl

scattered (odestones for extra energf...

statues which open doors.

k the blood from the peasants by use of a grotesque machine. You have to destroy the machine, which isn't as
easy as it sounds; the vampires' method of self-

fourth and ﬁnal realm, Voica, comes around, the story-fog
begins to clear. Tﬁis level is run by the most powerful of the chaos demons, who appear as amorphous,
Terminator 2-style liquid metal creatures. Jen must ﬁght for the forces of the order boss (the

sustenance renders them immortal, so they're understandably reluctant to give it up. By the time the

grumpy, earnest old Scree and ﬂighty, sceptical Jen, who's really quite hard, actually While some of the conversation is a bit forced and clunky (there's a bizarre moment when Scree gets angry and Jen goes into a little sulk) it's their

'work-together' dynamic that sustains the entire game.

JEN-ETIC MUTATION
Although you can take control of either character. Scree is best for navigating a route through the levels while the action slightly favours you being in charge of Jen. At ﬁrst, it's just a case of trotting around in a photogenic, Lara like fashion (only less of the wiggle and not quite so topheavy). The game is carefully designed to factor in extra abilities and power-ups, with timely pop-ups matching the techniques to the incoming situation. Mostly, this revolves around Jen, as she acquires separate 'demon' forms which are needed for the speciﬁc challenges of
each realm. She can perform the usual necessaries like

'lady' Arella) to vanquish evil and restore all of the general
pleasantness in the world. And, in the end, you might also
ﬁnd out what happened to i^wis, and what all that

business with the shapeshifting stalker was all about. Plot-wise, then, it's pick-and-mix stuff - a bumper bag
of fantasy-by-numbers (bits of The Matrix, Lord Of The

Rings... Just name your 'unlikely Chosen One' plot). What
WING AND A SCARE Waking up from a coma, Jen ﬁnds that

the hospital consultant isnt quite what she'd expected.

separates Primal from similarly themed games is -

however kooky and off-key - the interplay between

hopping around the scenery, squeezing through gaps.

DEVIL WOMAN
Sassy and streetwise she may be, but Jen soon has

to ﬁnd head space for
some pretty ethereal advancements.

J -

In standard fonii. Jen can hold

her own against the baser, more
earthly beasties, but as she

absorbs energy from Scree, she
takes on different forms and powers with each naahi...

Her gauntlets acquire ﬂesbshteddlng claws, and she takes on the sblllly to leap up to
higher spots.

Once Sees has rtnmpnﬁ fon^through mil brought back the power. Jen
can satm underwater and acqaltes te^«les - the closest

Jen gains a tIme-warp ability damned uteful In some of the puzzle mechanics and in combat

By this time, a muscular, golden, metallic Jen Is battling against
her darker side. She has two

witli the more agile beasties. She also acquires a highly ﬁghteous
eneigy whip.

thiiig to a long-range wapon.

eneigy-based swortjs with devastating combo attacks and ﬁnishing moves.

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GET JEN THROUGH THE M A L K A I C AV E
Jen and Scree must

#

work together in order
to achieve certain tasks. They make a

good team.

The game's ﬁrst real puzzle Is a rudimentary intno to Primafs main Ico-lnﬂuenced gamepiay theme - splitting up In order to get back together again.

Scree spots the Malkal lurking In a dark passage and, reassuringly, explains that their fetid stomachs are panging for sweet half-breed ﬂesh lie, you).

Scree toddles on through the cave and out the other side. Further on, he ﬁnds a ﬂaming torch.

N o tb e r g lp c a lt u i a i^ yM a k la p ia a la tb e l,

Back In the cave, Scnee lights a ﬁre In the
centre and the Malkal back off. Jen can

now go through without being chewted.

shufﬂing and shimmying aiong ledges and has the
muscle to cope with most hostile creatures.

Scree might be a bit squat and surly, but he has his uses. Walk straight up to a ﬂat stone wall or a sheer drop,
and he'll crawl onto the vertical surface, Spider-Man-style.

There's nothing hugely ground-breaking about Primal, but the individual parts have been so well crafted that the game, as a whole, feels a little more special and compulsive when compared to Its distant game cousins
There's a lot of traipsing around, punctuated by

The point-of-view then switches giddily to make the
vertical surface temporarily horizontal (better for camera

explosions of brutality, but the characters are less
abstract and more likeable than those in games like

SCREE IF YOU WANNA GO FASTER There are times whei

being a stone gargoyle can be a distinct advantage.

angles) and, at the end of the climb, he does a dinky little
forward somersault.

Devil May Cry. And yes, Primal revolves around a lightly
dressed lady, but there's none of Tomb Raldei's teenage

Scree's power-ups don't affect his physical form, but he's often the key to any geographical obstacles. Scattered around the realms are life-giving lodestones, from which he can absorb energy. For some otherwise

delight in the female form and, because of a wellconceived hub structure, gamepiay is sharper and more immersive than Lara's sluggish fumblings around anonymous temples.

impassable doors, he can convert the stones' energy into
a force-ﬁeld to inhabit a nearby statue which acts as a

NEED A RIFT?
As any good game designer knows, the bigger the play area, the more crucial the issue of instantaneously hopping from point to point. Here, the solution Is 'Rift Gates' - warp points which, once activated, allow Jen and
Scree to skip around freely The ﬁrst time you encounter

key to open the door It's a fairly cumbersome process, but it doesn't happen that often and it's a damn sight
more interesting than using a key or pressing a button

and trying to guess which distant passage it might
have opened.

PRIMAL SCREE-M
Jen and Scree work well Individually, but they work well

a Rift Gate, though, you'll need both characters to be together; each must stand at opposite ends and crank up the power Firing up the gates can feel like a slightly
unnecessary diversion, but
it's worth the hassle for the

WORLDS OF PAIN Primai's four kingdoms each have a distinctive population, climate and perils.

together, too - either directly (using dual brute-force to lift objects, open stubborn doors, etc] or more laterally with one using their individual talent to beat a path for the other Early on in the game, for example, there's a
river which Scree can get ahead of by climbing down a

YES, PRIMAL REVOLVES AROUND A
DEUGHT IN THE FEMALE FORM

drudgery It takes out of some of the broader, fetchand-carry puzzles. The graphics are

UGIVTLY DRESSED LADY , BUT THERE'S
NONE OF TOMB RAIDEfTS TEENAGE

steep well and going underground. Once on the other
side, he can push over a weakened tree to act as a

makeshift bridge for Jen to join him. Most of the time, when the Primal going gets a little vague, Jen can often
take advantage of the waypoint structure by asking Scree for a hint as to the nature of the next goal.

astounding - lush textures, high-concept hybrid beasties and fantastically convincing natural details such as water torrents and swaying leaves. Both main characters look
and move like a dream, and are modelled well around

their personalities; Scree lopes and shambles, while Jen

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■ FEEDING TIME „ Nice or nasly? Now, what do you think?
■ ARMY OF ONE Jen s

past reveals a disturbing family trait. Demonism.

SOOY MINinES
Primal instincts. The ﬁrst hour... 00:10 Big ﬁlling-loosening
blast of ultrasound

accompanying the Dolby Pro Logic logo.
00:30 Intro credits, ;

Including reassuringly
exotic names like Andreas Katsulls.

01:30 The opening movie
soars over a suspension

bridge, MGS2-style. . Camera ﬂies slap-bang Into a stone gargoyle on a high building which
jumps down to a side

alley Camera polnt-ofvlew is some kind of

ﬂying monster. 07^0 Inside a dingy rock
club, the camera reveals

' f
■ ARM-OURED

CORE "Pretty groovy for a pair of metal
doodads."

a tall golem thing with shiny eyes He stands in the crowd staring at the band's lead singer Back In the dressing-room, the
singer - Lewis - meets

his girlfriend. Jen.
lOﬂO Outside, the tall

golem thing punches off
the bouncer's head and

mutates Into a spiky ﬂaming beastle.
12ﬂ0 At the hospital, Jen's spirit steps out of her 'corporeal form' and

meets a kooky garjoyle
guy named Scree

Together, they step out of the physical realm Into Oblivion. Scree explains about the two primal
forces that rule the wortd

- the 'lady' Arella, and a
demon called Abaddon

She Is good, he is bad. 2200 Seamlessly the
cut-scene ends and the

game kicks In. Controlling Jen feels distinctly Lataesque. Not so much

emphasis on exaggerated
posture or vital stats.

30:00 They meet Chronos,
an overlord who sits on a

big machine, regulating

calmly saunters. But, as with most high-proﬁle games, there are one or two efforts to make It appeal to all people which don't quite work as well as they could. In a probable nod to all-round accessibility, the combat system can feel a little shallow. As you move
from safety to danger the standard-Issue hand-rawkin' music replaces the ethereal ambience, and Jen kicks

the order/chaos balance. Jen notices that her

customary end-of-realm battle with a big, ilberenhanced boss demands a

GRAPHICS ARE

mix of all the ﬁghting thrusts and feints honed previously
In the area.

ASTOUNDING - BOTH CHARACTERS LOOK AND MOVE UKE A DREAM

strange tattoo (designed by LewisI is a feature of
the Oblivion dteor.

3500 In the kingdom of Solum. It's eternal night. The king Is refusing to
perfom) the traditional

Into Battle mode. You hold down m to tatiget your
opponents and hack and slash away with combinations

of the other buttons. It's hardly an exact science, particularly during a multiple attack Most of the time, the bad guys politely attack one at a time, in the style of
a martial arts movie, but some of the nastier monsters

This is epic stuff which takes itself seriously enough to be a turn-on for hardcore fantasy fans, but manages to be open and Intuitive enough for more casual gamers. It's hardly a pacey action-packed romp, but it's
thoroughly absorbing Give Just a few hours to Primal

self-sacriﬁce at the peak of his power. Somehow, Jen is to help ﬁght the
forces of chaos and restore order, while

wearing a fIgure-huggIng halter-neck top. SOKX) Back to the game,
and the ﬁrst puzzle

think nothing of moving In two or three at a time. Maybe the point is to keep the combat unpredictable and
chaotic, but it could have been less abstract with the

and watch the plot start to sizzle - you'll be surprised how hard it Is to walk away □ Andy Lowe

Realise the Importance of
COME GET SOME Demonic Jen is deadlier than teamwork as Scree helps Jen to get past the evil Malkal. Jen makes It unharmed. Let the forces

her regular, human form.

of chaos-battllng begin. Why we'd buy it - Deep, dark and huge - Btoad, intuitive puzzles
- Very nasty monsters Why we'd leave It

help of a clearer, outline-targeting system.
The scope of the combat broadens as Jen moves

- Vague sense of being - Not a game triat gets along witti natural ligﬁt - WTiere's the mini-gun?
unfaithful to Ms Croft

through each realm and each respective demon form (see Devil Woman). Most of the standard grunt creatures can be easily dispatched without any extra powers, but It's pointless to try and take on the realm-speciﬁc
demons (time-bending wraiths, multi-tentacled undenwater mutants) without the extra boost of Jen's

Graphics Gotgeous. Slinky ctiaracters, near-edible textures
Sound

All sparine and Doibv-dramatic Decent acting Simple fun Combat a teeny bit simplistic

Gatneplay

enhanced form. In Aetha, the vampire creatures can bend time and seem to move far too quickly to surround you. But once the area's demon form Is absorbed, Jen's
enhanced speed of movement Is more than a match. Still, the monsters' Al gets trickier in each level and the

Lifespan I Huge and linear The save-anvwhere option is ptioM^r^
A ﬁnely crafted adventure which reveals

Its depths gradually, unfolding at a pace to suit even the most fantasy-challenged.

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PUBLISHER: EA DEVELOPER: EDGE OF REAinV/MAXIS PRICE; £39.99 PLAYERS 1-2

OUT: 21 FEBRUARY
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60HZ MODE: NO
WIDESCREEN: NO

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pnDgress up the property ladder you'll need to perfonn
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area that exists somewhere between work

online In the US, but this Is th ﬁrst time the franchise has

appeared an a console.

and home. Here, the only thing that matters Is play. It's a world of white picket fences, rustling net curtains and Illicit romance. Contrary to what you've been led to believe, there aren't

hugely refreshing experience. Our main concern was how the mouse/keyboard control scheme would translate to Dual Shock, and the answer Is; superbly

Everything is laid out in grid formation, and using the right analogue stick you can zoom with Steadicam
smoothness and make the entire house pirouette

any talking ducks in suits... just pert starlets and a hot
tub bubbling with possibilities. Say hello to The Sims, best-selling PC series ever and a gaming phenomenon

through 360°. Selecting objects and actions is easy enough, thanks to the pointer device (a glowing beam of light) which shows exactly what you're aiming at. Just
click on an item and a pop-up menu lists the

that continues to defy lazy categorisation (the live-'emup, anyone?) It's cerebral without being particularly deep
and there's action of a sort, but it certainly won't test

interactions which your Sim can perform. The visuals look solid and remarkably sharp, and you can toggle the
walls on or oﬂ' to see what's happening. Subtle use of

your reﬂexes. It's a strategy game for Peeping Toms. A digital popularity contest. Hell, at times it doesn't even
feel like a game at all.

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Hey, it's not about who you are, it's what you own. Display your
new-found wealth

conspicuously with these luxury items. Some also
have additional self-

improving qualities.

LIBRI Dl REGINA BOOKCASE

Boost your cooking or

mechanical skills with a good
book, Remember books, kids? Papery things with words?

PERSPIRACTION EXECUTIVE

TREADMILL Check out those

buns. Working out Is the only way to get Into shape and boost your
body points - crucial for the

more physical career paths.

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CHARIS MASTER VANITY TABLE

You're so vain, you probably think this paragraph is about you. This PS2-exclusive item allows you to change a Sim's appearance mid-game. Practising speeches In front of normal mirrors also helps
your charisma.

▶ Making sure your Sims are happy at any given time involves an incredibly complex balancing act. Each character's mood is governed by eight different
criteria: Hunger; Hygiene. Energy, Social, Comfort,

repetitive tasks is that it will become

mundane and repetitive. Once things start to go south, turning them around can prove tricky.
At one point we even had to call Mum over to

Bladder Fun and Room. Let too many of the gauges
slip into the red and your Sim w/ill become so

help out. Ultimately, imposing conditions on what's
essentially a non-linear gameplay dynamic takes a lot of

depressed they won't be able to perform any of the
activities which boost their stat points (see Status

the fun out of it Sure, you can speed the passage of time
up by pressing gd, but each task seems to take an ice

Symbols). And if you really let things slide, the poor little blighters end up living in squalor, crying like
CHUCK MATEWEa CHESS SET

age to complete and frustration sets in quickly when it
feels like you're Just treading water.

babies and regularly wetting themselves. Which brings us to our main gripe with the Get A Ufe mode:

Playing chess is fun, sociable Irealiy) and Improves your Sim's logic ability. We suggest using the
Luzhin defence.

there simply aren't enough hours in the day.
Ttying to keep all the meters ticking over while

FAMILY FORTUNES
That's the bad news out of the way Once you've trudged through the ﬁrst Get A Ufe level the main Play The Sims mode opens up, and it's every bit as hypnotic as its PC
parent. Here you can create an entire family of Sims (see Simstars: The Rivals) and either move them into an
■ NOTHING BUT NET Playing basketball boosts your Body stats, even though the girls
cant throw for toffee.

also completing the preset objectives is like spinning plates in a stiff breeze. It's aggravating and doesn't seem to be properly balanced, which is odd, given the supposedly casual target audience. Of course the danger with a game based on performing mundane.

existing home, or design and furnish your own from scratch. Even if you'd rather neck strychnine shooters

jROLL CAUS I M S TA R S ; THE RIVALS
The Create-A-Sim

option is quite thorough, if not as comprehensive as we hoped. Check out our fantasy
threesome...

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liberal attitude to

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time to start ﬂirting in earnest.

love: provided they

get on well enough,
characters of the
same sex can even

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Sophie and Holly settle

down for the ni^t.

be persuaded to snog - as long as you put in plenty of groundwork.

TALK You cant expect to just go for the lunge straight away, try a

GIFT Now try a spot of bl^ery.
Giving gifts will cost you money, but if life has taught us anything
are suckers for expensive - and It hasnt - it's that women

little smooth talking ﬁrst. Make

Once the object of your affection seems Interested go for a good
strong grope... sorry, hug

KISS By now the happy couple's rielatlonship meter should be approaching the hundred percent mark. Now It's just a matter of leaning In for the kill and - yes full-on tongues!

smashing blouse..."

presents, Just as well, really

I TAKE ME HOME Poor old Sophie gets left on the shelf.

■ CRT MYSELF BUND Sophie weeps as romance blossoms.

than watch an episode of Changing Rooms, the house building aspect of the game is strangely therapeutic. We spent hours trying to make histoty-deﬁning decisions about decor, seating arrangements and whether we should splash out on a luxury bed or keep saving for the

essentially a polygonal goldﬁsh bowl. The perfect example is when your Sim starts playing electric guitar At ﬁrst she
can only noodle away atonally, but with a bit of practice she plays prciper riffe, graduating to some Satriani-style solos as her housemates dance their approval.

TWO'S C O M PA N Yi
New to this PS2 m
version are several

giant plasma TV. Again, The controls are satisfyingly
simple to use, and you can drop into the buy/build menu at any point to create extensions or buy additional items. Our only real complaint about this area of the game is that despite the large number of items - several of which are exclusive to PS2 - you soon start craving even more variety. The PC game supports a huge online community, where fans create new furniture and ﬂooring for each
other to download. Next time around, network

LOVE IT OR HATE IT..
Hopefully you're intrigued, but if not, you probably already
know The Sims isn't for you. It's the gaming equivalent of Marmlte; people will adore and despise it for exactly the
■ AGE OF AQUARIUS
Remember to feed the ﬁsh.

same reasons If you're an old romantic, or Just like the idea of controlling when people go to the loo, this is a

two-player Bonus modes. Again they're unlocked by playing Get A Life, and you have to compete to become more rich and popular than your friends. Just like in the real world.

must buy But if getting dressed in the morning already seems a big task, you should steer clear. □ Tim Clark

compatibility is an absolute must.

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So what makes the Play The Sims mode so much better than Get A Life? After all, they essentially involve

THESIMS
Why we'd buy it - Original, hugely compulsive - A slick package loaded with
extras

,
Why we'd leave it - Boring at times and v«ont suit - No gunplay whatsoevei: Some
mistake, surely? - Hell Is other people
all tastes

First one to make three new friends at the party

gets to jump In the hot tub.
You can scupper your mate's chances by spreading vile rumours.

repeating exactly the same tasks ad nauseam. Beyond
the occasional ﬁre or burglary, nothing that could be described as exciting happens... ever And yet with the mission-based restrictions removed, the game becomes

gamepiay

- Looks and feels very polished

mesmerising and obsessional. Whole (real) days pass as you try to scrape together enough cash to buy a leather
sofa or a new fridge, and you realise Tyler Durden was

Graphics
Sound

Clean design and genuinelv funny animations Cute jingles, gibberish speech and annoying muz; Real love/hate stuff but we're deﬁnitely fans Potentially limitless, provided your interest holds u

Gamepiay
Life span

right: eventually the things you own really do start owning
you. Contnalling several Sims at once means there's always something to do, and you learn to make them multi-task so one cooks dinner while the others clean. But it's still hard to nail the appeal of staring at what is

Some of you wont see what all the fuss M v is about. But TTie Sims is an innovative, ■
engtx)ssing and life-afﬁmiing game.

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SOS: THERMAL ESCAPE

S CRAWL TO BE KIND Falling masonry isnt the only stuff you've got to avoid in tiie game...
■ HEADS UP Cut-scenes aren't great, but they do effectively introduce new objectives on your path to safety

■ M A K I N G A S P U S H Yo u d o n ' t

have to personalise your makeshift raft but we felt the snazzy ﬂame motif helped.
■ BUSTED Broken vehicles litter

the streets, some of which supply essential paths through the debris.

Grtg: Nm m'r* li trtibU. Ita|rb« m
ma't kft rtiatftd. If *• Mk« it
Wa rumble, but quakes can also
occur without any warning at all.

th« C*atr«l

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SOS: THE FINAL ESCAPE
Good vibrations with the ﬁrst earthquaiie sun/ival sim.
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For some time, videogame developers have drawn inspiration from the world of movies to come up with ideas to impress us. Quite apart from titles like Metal Gear Solid 2, which

Equally needless to say, the plot thickens, and before you know it, you're not Just saving your own skin, you're also helping others to safety and uncovering a web of deceit
and treachery. In terms of gameplay, there are certain parallels that

actually seem to want to be movies, we've seen games
based on everything from the zombie-infested B-movie

■ BACK STORY
Japonese developer Irem is best

(Res/dent Evil, etc] to the gadget-ﬁlled spy thriller (007 in... Agent Under Rns). Japanese gamers have even got their own videogame version of the high-school teen
romance genre thanks to Konami's Tokimeki Memorial.

can be drawn with survival horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. In order to get off the island alive you need to use objects (which can be found among the

debrisj to achieve a variety of challenging tasks ranging
from navigating treacherous ﬂood waters to cracking safes. Consequently, your backpack quickly becomes full of apparently useless knick-knacks, and guessing which
ones will ultimately prove indispensable is an essential

known for producing seminal side-scroiling shoot-'em-up,
R-Type. in recent years, its output has been rather less Impressive, but Zettai Zetsumel

But there still hasn't been a decent game based on that
staple of bank holiday TV schedules, the disaster movie.
U n t i l n o w.

Toshi (as It was called In Japan! proved attractive enough to
arouse the Interest of several

Japanese developer, Irem, has ﬁnally seen sense and decided to place gamers in deadly peril from climatic
catastrophe in the interests of entertainment. Set in the

Western publishers. In the end,
Agetec won out

near future, SOS; The Final Escape casts you in the role of a fresh-faced young Journalist, Keith Miyamoto, eagerly travelling to the idyllic Capital Island to take up a new post Needless to say before you can reach your
destination, a series of earthquakes reduce the man-

feat of Judgement. In terms of the range and design of these tasks, the game outshines its survival horror rivals, offering a satisfyingly cerebral challenge.
But it's not Just the quality of the puzzles that sets the game apart from the competition. Indeed, the most interesting thing about it is not that it takes place in a rubble-strewn, post-quake
city setting, but rather the fact that there's no combat

WAV I N G N O T D R O W N I N G

Even in spite of his huge backpack our hero proves adept in watery situations.

made city to fragments of its former self, and you're charged with ﬁnding a way to reach a rescue party.

IREM HAS niMALLY SEEN SENSE AND DECIDED TO PLACE GAMERS IN DEADLY PERIL FROM CUMATIC CATASTROPHE

TOP SECRET t
SHOW ME T H E WAY

TOGO
HOME
It's not all doom and
COMPASS

gloom. SOS includes a collectible range of colourful compasses.

KING'S

C O M PA S S

R-9

This is your basic, common-or-

garden variety, with a big red
arrow pointing north.

A gem-encrusted bad-boy of a compass. This Is the real bling
bling deal.

U M B R E U A

ANGEL

Inspired by Irem's best-known title, R-Type, R-9 adds a little

sci-ﬂ chic to proceedings.

Appropriately enough, this compass also serees as a lucky
chami to ward off bad weather

If you're in a collapsing city, you'll probably be wanting your
own guardian angel...

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DRESSED FOR SUCCESS
You might be sttvnded on a quake-hit island, but that's no excuse not to look your best

GLOVES

SUNGLASSES

COOL GLASSES

These protect your hands from chaﬁng if you're hanging from a ledge. We think you'll agree that they also complement any outﬁt

Ostensibly to protect your eyes from bright lights, these natty shades are a satisfactory fashion statement.

Combine these with the King's Compass

and you'll be turning heads wherever you go. Well, you would, if there were any to turn.,.

SEARCHING FOR CLUES Despite the threat of danger, Keith's

Journalistic instinct unearths a nefarious web of fraudulence.
■ mUJNG DOWN Keep your wits about you - buildings will often collapse without warning.
HARD H AT

w
UMBRELLA COWBOY H AT

More functional than fashionable, unless

you're going for the YMCA look Combined
with Cool Glasses it makes a statement

Not really an item of clothing, more a means of protecting your other ﬁne
threads from rain damage.

Another dubious offering from the hat

wardrobe, but let's face it, in the wake of an earthquake, beggars can't be choosers.

■ VERTIGO >t)u1l find yourself suspended over several sheer drops throughout the game.

V, • ^ /
■ GROUND LEVEL Helping other stranded citizens is all in a day's work for your everyday hero.

>
■ SPLASHDOWN That'll be a dead end

then, we suppose.

to speak of. Like all the best disaster movies, the ultimate pleasure of playing SOS: The Final Escape Is not down to explicit violence but rather the threat of calamity. It's a brave move by Irem, and one that works well. This results In a totally different gameplay tempo one that's more languorous and thoughtful than a lot of other PlayStation 2 titles. While death might not come at the hands of a bralnthlrsty zombie, it's still a possibility. Earthquakes are

and confusing conversations are the order of the day here - so unnecessary and so very frustrating. It's always admirable when a developer dares to do something a little different, and Irem has clearly achieved its aim. It's a measure of the game's success that It still remains enjoyable despite its deﬁciencies - and there are a number of nice touches to compensate, even If a lot of them are a bit Incongruous for a disaster zone. At one point, for example, you need to construct a raft, but

preceded by a distant, growing rumble, but they can just
as likely occur without warning, resulting in either Injury

If you can ﬁnd some paint nearby, you can also
customise It with your own ﬂoral or ﬂame design. Slightly less frivolous perhaps Is that your character's clothes gradually take on a more dishevelled appearance as you escape one quake after another A nice touch. Granted, this Is hardly groundbreaking, but allied to a
rrs GETTING HOT IN HERE As any good survivalist knows,

or death - you need to be on your toes to avoid falling
debris and reach safe ground. Adding to the tension, you also need a constant supply of water Sources of drinking water, which also serve as save points In the game, are

keeping close to the ground helps avoid potentially lethal fumi

fairly generously positioned but It doesn't pay to take
anything for granted. The major drawback of the game Is a standard

wholly original concept It's satisfying stuff. SOS offers a gentler-paced alternative to high-octane thrills for the
more patient gamer, but has enough nerve-bltlng tension to keep everybody happy □ David McCarthy SOS: THE FINAL ESCAPE
Why we'd buy it: Why we'd leave it - it iaci<s visual polish
- The controis and menus are a bit untidy

problem among other survival (horror) games; namely
that some players will Invariably get stuck on one or more of the game's tasks or puzzles. But, In general, the tasks In SOS; The Final Escape are well signposted, and

though they require a degree of lateral thinking, they're
hardly unfair A more signiﬁcant issue Is that the game lacks polish. Though the concept Is solid, the game's

- A welcome change from

shooting things - We've aiways wanted to be in a
disaster movie

graphics leave a lot to be desired. They do a good job of conveying the sense of scale and the eerily deserted
atmosphere of Capital Island's streets, but character models aren't very detailed at all, and cut-scenes are universally poor. Equally, the Interface is Incredibly untidy. Your character feels sluggish, and navigating through menus
is hard work thanks to unattractive fonts and unintuitive

- i^isuteiy pace proves relaxing Graphics
Sound

Hardly cutting edge, but get the job done ^
Tranquil siiences punctuated by distant rumbling UFE CYCLE It's not just about avoiding falling buildings, SOS also offers a brief cycling section to enliven proceedings.

Gameplay Lifespan

Despite the lack of polish, SOS still shines
and shows that there's more to

videogames than just shooting stuff.

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interface design. And the translation from the original Japanese game Is laughably poor Histrionic voice-acting

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SniRWARS: THE CLX>NE WARS
A quality Star Wars gome, or Just onother Jedi mind trick?
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Think back to Attack Of The Clones and try to
remember what it was that stood out most in

You take control of either Mace Windu, Annakin Skywalker or Obi Wan Kenobi (sorry, no Yodal and head the Republic army as it battles Count Dooku and the

your mind. The slushy, handy-hoidy romance bit? The giadiator-styie arena battle? No, it was scrotum-faced Yoda going all Bruce Lee wasn't it? Second place though, and much more suitable for

naughty 'Remnant' forces. Deftly subverted by the
frenetic on-screen action, the plot concerns evil

gaming purposes, had to be some of the most satisfying sci-ﬁ battle scenes ever So, rather predictably, carrying
on where the last merchandise-doused Star Wars movie left off, lumbers a battleﬁeld bruiser which takes a little
licence with its licence.

■ BACK STORY
Pandem/c Studios is a beach-

based Californian developer that Is deeply rooted In futuristic warfare gaming,
having created the Battlezone series. Pandemic has had to push Itself In the direction of

pensioner Dooku's search for an ancient Sith weapon with which he can destroy the Republic. It's up to the Jedi to sort it out, apparently by blowing up everything in sight. Your search for the Sith weapon will lead you to several planets including Rhen Var, an icy world where
most of the more interesting action takes place. The snowy environment on this wintry planet is a ﬁne

mech and ﬂight sIm territory In order to bring the heavily
armoured destruction of The Clone Wars to life.

Rather than the real-time strategy game The Clone Wars could so easily have become, this immediately struck us as a hovering version of Star Wars: Starﬁghter
Initially, the Campaign missions are a familiar series of aggressive attacks, escorting transports, timed levels and

example of the game's potential for making large-scale
warfare come to life.
m HAPPY VAL1£Y Stuck in a

defensive missions. The usual array of weaponry, health
pick-ups and power-ups are all present, too. Your

Clone Wors isn't Just a simple tank battler; though. You get to control Speeder Bikes, STAPs (ﬂying robots]. Walkers, Gunships and even ride strange beasts in the
Wookie levels. There are also on-foot missions and

large canyon, these troops
are vulnerable

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reserved. Used under authorization. LucasArts and the LucasArts logo are trademarks of

mission objectives help to mop up what's left of the climactic Geonosis battle from the movie but the game
moves the story forward and allows the real Clone Wars narrative to begin.

Lucasﬁlm Ltd. Star Wars Boun^ Hunter Is a trademark of Lucas Licensing Ltd.

while this adds variety to the Jedi gamepiay the third-person light saber

THE VIDEOGAME MOVES THE STORY FORWARD AND ALLOWS THE REAL CLONE WARS NARRATIVE TO BEGIN

a
VEHICULAR A c n v n Y
Big tanks, droids and a few surprises, too.
S TA P M A A R U

Seen these in the movies? Belt it through the forests on one of them to escape explosions.

Ride a dinosaur with massive guns on its back. Not the best vehicle, but quite cute.

WALKER

The prototype AT-ST is one of the best things In the game.
A total powerhouse.

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Recreate the end of Attack Of The Clones In this snowy scene a ship's gone down Transports full of Jedl and turrets are Well, they had to have a speeder bike with this search and destroy ﬂying and Remnant forces are rushing towards everywhere. Spilt time between clearing section In here. Race after droid patrols mission. Blow them to smithereens! you. Destroy them ail. the way ahead and partying tank attacks. before they can report back

ﬁghts leave much to be desired as there's no real beat-'em-up element - the engine that's used for tanks is the same one that's applied to people. In fact, one of the game's greatest ﬂaws is Its lack of variety, leaving it feeling clumsy and surprisingly uninspired.
The vehicular action is frenzied and fun, but we encountered minor slow-down when too much is

available options, comprising the usual mix of skills from deathmatch to defend-the-ﬂag disciplines. Base building and defence in the Conquest mode is a particularly nice feature that sees you controlling outposts and building
defensive turrets - it adds an extra element to the

happening on-screen at once. Despite this, as everything explodes around you, you truly feel like you're in a massive ruck in a galaxy far, far away However, It's a shame that the developer hasn't really concentrated on distinguishing each element - rather than giving you several truly addictive styles of gameplay, your attention

missions, but lacks the wow factor of the major battles. The co-op play in Academy mode has you and a friend defend against waves of enemies, but really only serves to make you think how much better it would have been

if you could play the whole game co-operatively What
would be more fun than having a friend help out

defending the rear of a convoy rather than some terrible
NPC whining about how they're taking damage and not

is just shifted between the different vehicles
Another problem with The Clone Wars is that, even though you can issue basic commands like 'Regroup' or

helping you at all? Jedl Starﬁghter allowed you to play all
its story missions co-operatively This game looks great and plays in a satisfyingly destructive way but, unfortunately. It lacks the depth or sense of command that would give the player some sense of achievement amongst the carnage. While it is a brave battler, Star Wars: The Clone Wars is another in a long line of franchise games that impresses, but doesn't quite deliver on its promise. □ Mark Wyatt SmR WARS: THE
Why we'd buy ib Why we'd leave it - Only offers one style of play
- Lack of command and strategy - We wanted to play as Yoda and slash kneecaps Rain, snow and heat effects, plus great explosions Laser blasts and John Barry's rousing score Samey as hell, but immersive nonetheless Solid multiplayer, but the campaign's over too soon
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SNOW PROBLEMO Protect these transports at all costs. And for God's sake, try not to crash into them.

'Attack' to your units la maximum of two) there's no real
sense of orchestrating a battle strategy. For all the lively

shooting action, there are still times when the game feels
like 'a few clone scufﬂes' rather than a full-on war

Surprise boss battleships at the end of some levels help matters, but there's often no hope of deploying any tactic other than 'keep on dying until something works'. As the game progresses you'll notice battles becoming more drawn out and intense. While it's good that Pandemic ups the ante and keeps us on our toes, there's no real progression. Even when, later on, we have to battle ﬁerce spirits which guard the tomb of a fallen Jedl, you simply shoot the ghosts' tombs to kill them. It's

- Fantastic Stor laser battles - Great looks, instinctive controls - Massive scale and multiple
v/orlds to visit

merely a different ﬂavour of the standard attack-anddodge gameplay that lurks beneath the Star Wars paint

Graphics
Sound

job. With no explorative element we're left following
direct orders rather than giving them. While there are undoubtedly real high points - the Geonosis and Thule battle missions, for example - there are also troughs like the obligatory speeder bike chase to swallow. Thank Lucas then for the Multiplayer modes. There's

Gameplay Life span

One for the Star Wars collectors, and a

great batdeﬁeld game in its own right.
Shallow, but still worth investigation.

a good variety of one-on-one combat in the variety of

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SILENT SCOPE 3
Right, how do we put this sensitively in the light of recent events... The ability to pick off enemies in videogames from a safe distance - like you can in MGS2, Medal Of Honor, GTA: Vice City and, of course, the Silent Scope series - is undeniably satisfying It's okay, you're not a psycho, it's perfectly normal. It's a videogame. As a ﬂaxen-haired member of the Special Operations

Warning: this game could get you a record at the FBI.
example. "My muscles are as hard as steel," he rasps, looking for ail the worid like a fat Pat Roach. The second game - Silent Scope 3 proper - is similar, but on completing the ﬁrst mission you can chose which

■ BACK STORY
First appearing as a

gimmick arcade unit back
in 1999, the original Silent

Scope had a whopping
great piastic gun attached

to It. 7)7/s lent the game a satisfying authenticity that
the PS2 port sorely lacked. Silent Scope 2; Fatal

of the remaining six sections to play through, each with
its own difﬁculty rating Unsurprisingly the whole experience feels rather familiar - aim, ﬁre, cause premature death, move on to next target. The game looks unﬁnished, too - menu screens are basic and the game's introductory cut-scenes are part:iculariy low-rent with the SOG operatives uttering the same old military spiel before each mission, it'll wind you up no end. if we're to believe the insight Silent Scope 3 gives us of a sniper's lot, it's a cold, soulless existence devoid of any kind of reward bar a bloodied corpse viewed through a telescopic lens. This was once a sordid arcade blast, but with the sniper weapon now featuring in every other PS2 combat title - and being used a lot better than it is

Judgement was re/eosed the following year with the
option of a two-player link up in arcade and console versions, but with minimal

changes to the gameplay

Group (that's SOG for short) you have to do an awrful lot of shooting - mainly from the tops of buildings, hanging out of helicopters, from the back of moving boats and,
in one section of the game, underwater. The SOG's missions are all motivated by terrorists who insist on

taking over important government buildings and trying
to kill the President, but quite why the terrorists are so
riled is unclear

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept,
there's very little to grasp. You're presented with an
m TOP SOGS Mission

brieﬁngs are provided by these guys.

on-rails system of movement (similar to that of a lightgun title] and, at various junctures, you're required to snipe targets that appear in your ﬁeld of vision. Holding down
m allows you to take aim, and letting it go brings up the crosshairs for pinpoint accuracy In this new, updated version, targets aren't restricted to human beings. In some sections of the game you'll be called upon to hit ammunition, barrels of ﬂammable liquid or helicopter rotor blades, it's a vague attempt by the developer to widen the narrow scope of the series. Siient Scope 3 is actually two separate games in one.

here - we can't help but feel that one-weapon games are
becoming outdated, □ George Walter
siLBhrr
Why we'd buy it Why we'd leave it - Shooting people Is cruel

- To gorge on the sight of blood
and shattered bone

- Its a tried and tested Ibnnula - We dent own eittier of the

- Looking very dated
- Repetitve and short-lived

and barbaric

ottier games In the series Graphics
Sound

Marginally better ttian the previous Instalment
Inappropriate synth pop and gun cracks Below standard. WeVe defended it for fer too long Vbu can complete it in a few hour^

The ﬁrst is identical to the arcade game Siient Scope Ex and follows a branching story line. The player decides
which route to take and this culminates in a ﬁnal

Lifespan

When arcade games were better than

showdown inﬁltrating the terrorists' base on an oil rig
The showpiece for each stage is the 'boss' character

console games we were happy to have
this. Now it's just substandard.

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They're the most emban-assingly rubbish crims you'll
ever meet Take the bare-chested Russian ivankov for

SURELY THEY^ JUST STUCK A [3 ' O N n ?
New gameplay skews add 'depth' to SS3. You now have to actually think a little bit before ﬁring your weapon.

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■ BIKER GROVE Take to the air

on a bike in Konami's blistering,
if somewhat erratic shooter.

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SHATTERED SOLDIER Elderly shoot-'em-up makes an exhausting journey to PS2.
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We V 1991. We V it because it was the golden

formula of the 2D side-scrolling shooter - resulting in a
game that feels both dated and shallow. Now, the ﬁrst thing we have to get clear is that this isnt a tirade against 2D games. There have been some

V age of home console games. The era when
the SNES and MegaDrive ruled the living room and when every game was genre

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deﬁning and original. Bollocks. Our nostalgia-loving
generation forgets one thing about games from this

decent 2D games on PS2 in the past (think Capcom Vs
SNK 2 or Guilty Gear X) and that perspective can still

period: they were good because we played them through
the ﬁlter of youthful exuberance and because we knew

no better Sometimes it should stay that way Giving old
■ BACK STORY
Konam/'s Contra series began back in 1988 on the NES. Since then there have been over 20 iterations on every format fmm

offer different gameplaying experiences. Yet, sadly, the balance in Contra: Shattered Soldier is poorly judged and there are too many annoyances that get in the way
of overall enjoyment.

classics a makeover is akin to digital necrophilia. It's certainly the case with Konami's attempt to resurrect its
once respected Contra brand.

The Contra games have always demanded lightningfast reﬂexes and quick thinking from the player, and this
PS2 version is no different. However; the main ﬂaw with

it's been ten long years since the last pnDper Contra game iContra III: The Alien Wars} was released on the

Game Boy to PSone. Although
Contra 111: Alien Wars is often

cited as the best in the series, it hasn't stood the test of time
all that well.

SNES and we were hoping that KonamI might have done
something a bit special with the franchise for this

this kind of old-skool design is that you die, and die
repeatedly It's impossible to get through a section of

the game, never mind a level, on your ﬁrst attempt
without losing all your lives and going right back to the beginning. Misguided retro-heads will try to convince you that this is what separates the hardcore from the
■ G O B A U J S n c Yo u c a n

128-bit version. After all, Capcom successfully brought Ghosts'N Goblins kicking and screaming Into the 21st
Century with its excellent Maximo, so we thought it was safe enough to have hopes for Contra: Shattered Soldier

casual gamer But let's face it, memory test gaming isn't
hardcore, it's just irritating

Unfortunately, the developer decided to stick to the rigid

even cling on to missiles to defeat the big bosses.

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But watch out for fts fearsome appendages. Vtou will also need to concentrate Are on these side guns to ensure
you get some time to shoot its weak spot

RNISH HIM!
Who's the daddy?
The bigger they ate, the harter they fall. Each boss has
an Achilles heel. Shoot this mechanical freak on its

central power crystals to drain Its energy.

Jumping over bullets whiie ﬁring is also a good tactic for success here. Keep plugging away and you'll eventually t>e greeted with the site of Its explosive destruction.

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Hit Ratft
TTre Contra weapon
triumvirate.

Automatic Machine Gun

This Witt be the weapon you
use most it Is vei^atile, fast and deals with most

enemies, Chatge up a shot
and you will unleash a spray of bullets across the screen.

OLD FLAME Use the ﬂame thrower on organic creatures.

Flame Thrower

Great for attacldng ﬂying
creatures and enemies with

shields. Its range Is short so you'll ﬁnd you use it least

out of all the weapons, ■■■

SLEDGING The snow levels may look picturesque but the enemies are unfair and unremitting.

FIRESIARTER If you keep plugging away at certain vehicles they will explode and take out your foes.

HALITOSIS Donl get too close to this dragon's breath, it hasnt used Usterine for thousands of years.

Grenade Launcher

l^werful but slower than

the automatic machine gun. Charge It up and you'll ﬁre
several missiles Into one

target Great for some of the
boss battles.

T H O S E W H O W E R E G O O D AT REMEMBERING THEIR TIMES TA B L E S W I L L T H R I V E I N T H E S E B U L L E T- S T R E W N C O N D I T I O N S

Konami has relieved a little

frustration by giving the player the option to begin on any
one of four levels: Train,

continues. But play through on Easy and you get 99 continues! There's no midway point, no happy medium. Those who persevere will also ﬁnd the experience short lived. Once you've memorised the attack patterns of the enemies on each level, you will get through the game in a long weekend. It's hardly much of a return for your
£40 investment.

Fortress, City and Sea-bed. Unfortunately, all four levels must be completed before
others are unlocked. Fact is, the Contra formula hasn't

stood the test of time. Levels consist of shooting several kamikaze enemies before you encounter a mini boss. Find its Achilles heel, destroy it, then take on another set of kamikaze enemies before confronting another boss, and so on. It's fast and furious, but hardly enthralling. Some tactical nuance is added by allow/ing your warrior to swap between three types of weapon: an automatic machine gun, a grenade launcher and a ﬂame thrower - ra can be used to lock your weapon into ﬁring angles to concentrate your bullets on one area. You can also tap and hold the @ button to charge up a special attack which differs depending on the weapon you're using However, in the midst of the frantic battles, this often proves unworkable.

On a more positive note. Contra: Shattered Soldier does have a two-player Co-operative mode that is a lot of fun. With double the ﬁrepower the game feels a lot
fairer and much more balanced. It's almost as if Konami

originally designed the game to be played by two people. Watching as the mighty bosses disappear into giant balls of ﬂame can be very satisfying, and even more so when you achieve your goal with the assistance of a friend. As a budget release this would be recommended, especially for those of you who hanker after some oldskool shoot-'em-up action. But Contra: Shattered Soldier pales into insigniﬁcance next to the magniﬁcence of more comprehensive titles like TimeSplitters 2 and GTA: Vice City. □ Mark Walbank CONTRA: SHATTBtED
Why we'd buy it
happy - To keep misty-eyed retro-heads

SOLDIER OF MISFORTUNE
Such decision making could have made Shattered Soldier a bit special, but there are too many peripheral annoyances to spoil the action. Lasers will suddenly ﬂair up into ﬁreballs engulﬁng your hero, or a grenade will come out of nowhere to kill you without warning While the heart-pounding action can verge on the exciting, there are too many moments that insist on trial-anderror gaming. You simply can't play through the game relying on quick reﬂexes and intuition. Success depends on nothing more than good memory skills. Those who were good at remembering their times tables will probably thrive in these harsh bullet-strewn conditions. The balance is all wrong, too. Play through the game on the Normal setting and you get three lives and three

Why we'd leave it
can be

- Proves how tired old fomiats

- Splendid Two-player mode
- Humungous bosses

- Crushingly unfair in places
- Not worth £40

Graphics Distinctive style. Excellent explosions
Sound

Some good eifects but nothing inspiring Incessant, repetitive gaming A long weekend for the dedicated

Gameptoy Lifespan

An ageing formula that was never going to compete with the big boys. Shattered Soldier is surviving on past glories.

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WILD ARMS 3

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W I L D A R M S 3 The most unconvincing Western since Back To The Future
Final Fantasy may be one of the most successful game brands in the history of
RPGs, but with its success comes a curse.

You see, in attempting to better it, other RPGs
have to emuiate it to an extent in order to seduce FFs

you're out on the plains, roaming around for places to go, you dont just see a town and go there. No, instead you have to repeatedly press @ to emit search waves to cause previously invisible locations to suddenly grow out of the ground. Utterly pointless. Hijacking the current, eel-shaded wagon trail. Wild Arms 3's look is bold, bright and trendy although if you squint through the intentionally jagged lines and Dame Barbara Cartland colour palette, you'll notice little distinction between this and past Wild Arms games beyond the apparent panache. And sadly, the same goes for pretty much everything else. For its crimes though. Wild Amis 3 does get some elements right - like the ability to save at any time and the way in which you can opt to skip some of the mundane, randomly generated battles - but the whole experience is largely forgettable. This RPG requires the sacriﬁce of a lot of time and it's Just not worth the effort. Not wild, but 'armless enough. Ha... oh. □ Ryan Butt

devoted subjects. And, for the most part, that cloning
WEIRD WEST All

ff ^ hell breaks loose...
■ BACK STORY
First released on PSone in 1998, Wild Arms was largely acclaimed by RPG fanatics
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process extends to that bloody awrful turn-based combat system which shuns the use of lightning reﬂexes and spontaneous decision making in favour of 'polite' pummelling whereby you take it in turns with your enemy to dish out devastation. Wild Arms 3 is guilty of imposing such rage restrictions and plenty more crimes besides. In keeping with the 'drifter' theme of earlier games (nomad warriors who go about gathering treasure, helping or hindering others they encounter) WA3 sets it against a bizarre Wild West backdrop. The game begins on a train which is transporting a heavily guarded mystety object. Four very different warriors are suddenly brought together as they pounce on this object in unison (only to discover that it has already been stolen by a ﬁfth party). Each of the four characters have very different backgrounds and the ﬁrst part of the game involves playing through a prologue mission for each one. It's an effective means of learning their motives and testing their prowess on the turn-based battle ﬁelds before the game proper kicks off in lavish, Hollywood Western style as the party of four embark on a quest to retrieve the object. Sadly though, the story line - arguably the most important aspect of any RPG - is thinner than cigarette paper and never even remotely threatens to captivate. It simply plods along, forgets itself, goes off on a tangent and then returns,
dazed and confused.

who Instantly took to its
familiar battle system and

engaging puzzles having completed FFVII a few
months earlier It never

enjoyed the global success of Square's all-conquering opus, but many fans saw It
as a close second.

A R M S 3 why we'd buy it - We ttiink dragons in the Wiid
West is a great idea Why we'd leave it
of the devil

- Tum-based ﬁghting is the work
- Ttie story line is less believable

- it's iBftestiingiy easy to get into
- "Ocls all ttie RPG boxes

than Jeffrey Archer
- Not ﬁt to lick fFJfs Blltzballs

Graptics Pretty cel-stiades, but many locations are over-used
Sound

Disappointing TTie tempo Is ﬁne but it lacks quality Fmstratngly repetitive battles and not much else

Gameplay

Life span I A long and winding road you wont want to tread Unless you enjoy really long ﬁlms devoid of a plausible plot, we doubt you'll go
wild over this one.

Aside from the rotten battle system, other naff features of the previous games make an unwelcome return, like the pointless 'searching' for towns. When

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B AT T L E S TAT I O N S
Thm-bosed battle

systems tend to be complicated affairs that only speccy types with strange-shaped dice
can understand. But

Wild Arms 3's system is refreshingly easy to get into. Once you're locked in combat, you have ﬁve options. Here's what they do.

FORCE ABIUTY Special powers

ITEMS You can quickly access items, such as healing aids, that will help you out In the midst of battle. Using something constitutes your turn, though.

which are fuelled by Force Points
iFPsJ accumulated In the cun^nt

battle. These can bolster your
attack power or summon Guardians to unleash magic.

ARCANA This is' your magic. By invoking Mediums Ithey supposedly dwell in all living things) you can summon their skills at any time provided you

GUARD Used to reduce damage

SHOOT Simple really - ﬁre your weapon at the designated target

from enemy attacks (if one of your party is close to death) and also as an opportunity to reload

your weapon. Again, this have enough FPs to cover the bill! constitutes a turn.

When your bullets run out you will continue ﬁghting with your ﬁsts, unless you opt to 'Guard'

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HOT WHEELS VELOCfTY X
It may be hot, but it's not ready to trot.
As popular as Hot Wheels may be in the playground at the moment, Velocity X only offers lukewarm appeal. As predictable and tepid as a Westlife ballad, you'll ﬁnd no surprises here. The usual arcade-style quick-ﬁx multiplayer rubs tyres with a solo Adventure mode which has you racing around a crude, futuristic metropolis in search of ever more garish pick-ups and unlockable cars. However in this demanding post-GTA world, simple racing just isn't enough. Which is why Beyond Dreams has endeavoured to crank up the funometer with an arsenal of weaponry, a selection of stunts and a garage full of cars that wouldn't look that out of place on
Southend sea front.

Velocity X is a moribund affair, as violently average as a
Va u x h a l l N o v a .

Of course, that's not always a bad thing - lots of people we know own Vauxhall Novas - but you're unlikely to see much action behind the wheel of one. If you're the kind of person who rates Ferraris above Fords, or Driver above Driven, you won't want to get into THQ's new set of wheels. Be they hot or not. □ Cat Channon

Success in the main game modes will earn you more cars, tracks and weapons, which can then be used in both the single-player game and the game's two multiplayer modes. Despite the interesting physics (driving up walls, etc) and aforementioned goodies.

Graphics
Sound

Gameplay

Life span

Ve/oc(^X is worth a punt, but only if can pick It up cheap in the January sales.

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COUNTRY

4x4

Evo 2's tracks are huge and can feel a little long-winded.

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■ THE GRATING WIDE OPEN

jg. With the sound of, er, trucks.

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Ironically, the game would be better for being less open.

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Hold on to your mudﬂaps, we're going off-rood.
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Somewhere out there, in a place they call the country', people don't Just use bull bar
reinforced 4x4 behemoths to take the kids to

But will you want to bother? Alas, handling is surprisingly woolly and light. Narrow race checkpoints make off-road corner-cutting a frustrating gamble rather than a source of pleasure. And call us ﬁckle but 4x4s Jus aren't very attractive, so the incentive to get the cash for a top-of-the-range GMC ﬂatbed isn't really that great. There certainly are worse racing games out there, and at £20 you do get a lot of substance for your money, but ultimately, 4x4 Evo 2 is scuppered by a lack of spark in those gameplay plugs. □ Paul FItzpatrick

school or to nip off to Waitrose for luxury bombay mix. In 'the country' they actually tear-arse over hills and through rivers in their monster vehicles. Yknow, actually go 'off-road'. 4x4 Evo 2 is a racing game for these types, and for anyone who thinks a track is only a suggested route to victory. The game features over 150 off-road vehicles from nine American and Japanese manufacturers including Dodge, Jeep, Toyota and Chevrolet. Cash won during races can be used to buy a bigger 4x4 or upgrade your chunky monster with a wealth of performance-enhancing parts. And once you've got your vehicle kitted out, there's no shortage of places to try out your off-road skills. Aside from Time AttacK Quick Race and Free Roam modes you'll ﬁnd 56 separate championships to tackle on 40 courses worldwide. There is, to put it another way a hell of a lot of off-road action to steam through.

Why we'd buy it

- We're hardcore 4x4 car fans

Why we'd leave it
racing games

- We like more thrills with our

Off-road racing that lacks va-va-voom. Pletity of
features but thrills arent ■ li.'J-J.t'.M BE on the list

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m HULK-A-HERO Lucozade>hued

L£GENDS OF WRESTUNG II

Hulk puts the cod liver oil to use.

GRUrfT "You're supposed to... nngh... be... oww... pretending!"

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LEGENDS OF W RESTUNG II Time to see the Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks showdown again.
Pick any wrestler you can remember who
appeared on kiddies' luncliboxes in the

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Acclaim's WWF

Legends Of Wrestling II uses a similar [[| grappling system to

m BACK STORY Released a year on from
the original Legends Of Wrestling, Acclaim's new hall-of-iame wrestling game offers more oldtimers than ever to choose

There's a wealth of wrestlers, but not a tremendous amount of moves. Most ﬁghters share pretty similar grappling moves, twist-your-arm submission holds and ﬁnishers. Another gripe is frustrating load times - you have to wait between your grand entrance and the actual
match while the characters themselves have a cartoon

Warzone titles. 1
There's still no nipple

Nineties and chances are, they're in this game. Legends Of Wrestling It is buiit on the premise that you don't have to hark back to Giant Haystacks for a siice of wrestiing nostalgia. With 65 grappling greats like Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant and Legion Of Doom you'll be spoilt for choice. Choose wisely though, and consult somebody with wrestling knowledge - Acclaim hasn't just included the ones your Mum would recognise. Anybody who's been following wrestling since the days before its Sky One prime time slot will be familiar with featured Eighties stars like Bruno Sammartino and Superstar Billy Graham. There are so many antiques on the roster you half expect David Dickenson to appear in a sub-game. You won't ﬁnd another box-'em-up so stuffed with vintage bruisers without dusting off your SNES. But this time, your choice of brawler shapes more than Just the colour of his trunks. The wrestlers in LOWII have been given more than a passing nod to their physical traits: Andre The Giant stomps realistically around the ring while Rowdy Roddy Piper hops from rope to rope. Each ﬁghter has his own
signature entrance, taunts and moves, while a

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from. But Is that enough to keep the fans cheering?

like quality akin to the WWF ﬁgures of the early Nineties,

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but at least (unusually for a wrestling game] they bleed
and take noticeable damage to the face. Another frustration lies in the inability to cue up your moves. You have to wait for the appropriate animation before your button bashes will have any effect, making it impossible for you to chain moves together in advance. There's also a noticeable delay between hitting a button and dishing out pain - the gameplay feels about as responsive as Yokozuna after a mug of Horiicks. If you're more RAW than Wrestlemania II, then Legends of Wrestling ii probably isnt for you. But if you reckon wrestling is due a retrospective tip of the hat, this is well worth considering □ Ian Harris
During a struggle, the pace

slows down a little and your
controls are hijacked by a

system of sliding meters.
You must stop them at ttie right place, U

iE-n«
You can reverse moves that are performed on you - a

WRESfUNGH why we'd buy it
Why we'd leave it

trick that's almost entire^;
down to rudimentary timing

r a t h e rt h a ns k i l. |

- Wrestling nostalga

- Dozens of prize ﬁghters
- Big Daddy vs WW0

- Slows down wWi several players
- Better wrestling games available - Characters look plastic

structured, story-led Career mode reﬂects wrestling's soap-opera grudges and feuds. The Career mode accurately reﬂects the way American Wrestling was divided up in the midEighties. You can legdrop your way through the WWF (Northeast], AWA (Midwest] and Mid-Atlantic

Graphics
Sound

2D crov»d and action-figure characters Onginai entrance music and nu-skooi metal Cage, ladder and blood action Lots of wrestlets and plenty of places to take 'em

Gameplay Lifespan

Wrestling (Southeast]. It's all very exciting but
Legends Of Wrestling II takes it for granted that you actually care about these things. Yes, it is a great wrestling retrospective, but it's not the greatest game ever to step into the ring

Nostalgia aside, there are better wrestling
games out there, WWE SmackDown! Shut Ybur Mouth puts this ﬁrmly in its place.

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GRAND PRIX CHALUENGE 3^22'-''

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GRAND PRIX CHALLENGE
As Formula One declines into over-negulated predictability, it seems that the only way you're likely to see a remotely interesting race is via your PS2. Long gone are the heydays of high speed crashes, reckless overtaking and anything but a Ferrari ﬁnish. Thank God for consoles and the ability to turn a parade lap into a physics-defying, 20-car pile-up. This latest FIA-licensed offering, developed by Infogrames' Melbourne House (of Le Mans 24 Hours

In a saturated market this has got no chance of pole position.
even managing to overshadow the wholly unsuitable guitar soundtrack that accompanies races. Qualifying, warm-up and practice races are laudable inclusions, but are liable to be overlooked by the need for some instant action, and even then, the most famous courses (such as Monaco] are locked at ﬁrst GPC isn't the pits, but anyone expecting the epitome of formula fun would be wise to exhaust other options ﬁrst. Try looking elsewhere for your high-speed thrills (except TV on a Sunday afternoon). □ Cat Channon
LAP OF LUXURY Good-

looking arcade action, but there are better options
out there.

fame), certainly looks as glamorous as the real thing,
with a gorgeously glossy graphical grid. There are enough
set-up and race options to keep even the most ardent of

F1 fans happy too, all of which are easily accessible via interactive pit-stops which let you make last-minute
twfeaks mid-race.

CHAL1ENK3E
Why we'd buy it the real thing

- Ifs far more interesting than

Why we'd leave it - inddiy handling and average action

Grand Prix Challenge is certainly worthy of its licence, but sadly lets itself down with dodgy handling that veers between over-sensitivity and slu^ishness. Despite some superior Ai and an options grandstand packed to capacity with difﬁculty settings, car tweaks and game modes, the handling limits your interest -

^ GPC of fers a huge variety
Pily about the handling.

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DiSNETS DONALD DUCK PK
Get the orange souce ready, this duck's ripe for plucking.
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QUACKING UP Donald adds nothing new to the platform stable.

Jones (vicious streaK uncontrollable temper).
And here In Donald Duck PK we see the

pretty cool for Disney And although we're fast tiring of lazy eel-shaded graphics, PK does at least look the part. You could argue that this game is really aimed at younger kids, and is therefore supposed to demonstrate simple, forgiving gameplay, but this really is about as simple as it gets. Yet it's the tots who will be most upset by the game's other glaring fault - that Donald Duck sounds nothing like, well, Donald Duck. Not all it's quacked up to be? Cheers. □ Stuart Dredge

world's most famous webbed bird saving the world from a nefarious alien race called the Evnanians How? By leaping around a bunch of eel-shaded sci-ﬁ platforms shooting aliens and rescuing the scientists they've taken hostage. He's guided by a supercomputer called One, who also supplies various gadgets to help you out.
There are six scientists to rescue on each level. When

SURROUND SOUND NO

you ﬁnd a room containing one, a countdown starts. If it reaches zero, they're whisked back to the Evronlan mothership, forcing you to retum. This won't happen much as the levels are way too easy. There are only a few different enemies in the game, and their attack patterns are far too predictable. You'll breeze through in no time However, there are some nice stealthy touches as you creep around searchlights with the odd top-comer camera angle. It's hardly Metal Gear Solid 2, but still

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4x4s handle like they're sitting on air pockets.
PLAYING CATCH-UP Make a minor error

J the opposition leave you standing.

M A S TO R A L LY E
Far from a master of its art.
V Jaunt from Paris to Moscow but doomed to
remain far less famous than the more

The real Master Rallye is a gruelling 5,000km

feUlH prestigious Paris-Dakar rally . Unfortunately this
PS2 adaptation isn't likely to change anything There are better rally games everywhere, for fans of the sport. WRC looks much nicer; Colin McRae handles much better, and that's pretty much the end of the stoty as far as Master Rallye's chances go. Not that the game is all that bad. It's just that it's as uninspiring as you'd expect any rally game with ﬂoaty physics and stop-dead collision detection to be. Wrap the car around a trackside object and you'll have to stick it In
reverse, which would be realistic If it wasn't for the lack of

game is a good inclusion. There's also freedom to take short cuts, although in most areas this amounts to cutting corners rather than devising new routes. The tracks are wider than they need to be, so it's possible to weave about a bit and drive on the grass If you dare. However, intentionally or otherwise, leaving the track at certain points can result in your car becoming trapped behind a wall half a mile down the naad. Which probably wouldn't happen to a driver in the real race. □ Martin KItts

PUBLISHER: MICROIDS DEVELOPER: STEEL MONKEYS PRICE: £29.99 PLAYERS: 1-2 O U T: N O W WEB SITE: W W W. M A S T E R - R A L LY E . C O M 60HZ MODE: NO WIDESCREEN: NO SURROUND SOUND: NO PERIPHERALS; STEERING WHEEL

D A M A G E U M I T K n O N Yo u ' d

think this would hurt your vehicle, but the paintwork stays intact.

visible damage. Instead of deformable cars, the designers have gone for a set of indicators that turn red as the vehicle approaches its date with the scrapheap.
Under the hood, the usual bunch of tweakable

Graphics
Sound

More rallying, with

^ nothing to make it stand

Gameplay Life span

out from the massed ranks of the competition.

settings await anyone prepared to mess with preset gear ratios and so on, while the split-screen two-player option

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■ GET TRICKY

OIlie off the ramp
for combo tricks.

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To Late KickfKp
Combo!

■ S K AT E R B O y

Krusty
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PUBLISHER: EA DEVELOPER: FOX INTERACnVE PRICE: £29.99 P L AY E R S : 1 - 2 O U T: N O W W E B S f T E : W W W. E A . C O M 60HZ MODE: NO WIDESCREEN; NO SURROUND SOUND: NO

THE SIMPSONS: S K AT E B O A R D I N G The Simpsons. Is there anything that they can't do?
With a huge, global brand like The Simpsons, 20th Century Fox would be foolish not to turn It Into a videogame. But what kind of game? Think, Homer, think... "OK, brain. You don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's get through this thing and then I can continue killing you with beer." Come on Into a series of challenges. In Timed Trick Contests you compete against the clock to pack In as many big pointscoring moves as possible. The main mode, however. Is

EYE ON SPRINGRELO
The game's Tour
mode offers the chance to skate around ten different

■ BACK STORY
The Simpsons Is a brand In

search of a game to do It justice So far, Fox
Interactive has cranked out

areas. "Springﬁeld, Springﬁeld it's a helluva town, the schoolyard's up and the shopping
mall's down..."

a Crazy Taxi driving game frhe Simpsons: Road RageJ and a WWE-sty/e grappler [The Simpsons: WrestiingJ.
We can only hope that
there is no room for

the Skatefest - ten sprawling levels of skating action ranging from Burns' Mansion to Itchy & Scratchy Land.
Each one plays host to various objectives which must be completed before you can advance. Veteran boarders will know the drill: collect letters to complete a word, grab spinning bonuses within a time limit, all while nosegrinding tall-grabbing and Seo'-ﬂlpping Featuring digitised quips and thnswaway lines appropriate to the character you've chosen. The Simpsons: SI(ateboarding certainly punches all the right

brain... Hang on a minute. It's obvious! Why not make
every type of game? "I am so smart! S-M-R-T..."Later, somewhere in the Fox Interactive factory, Professor FrInk ﬁres up the giant Gameblender 3000 and ﬁshes around for an Ingredient. Ttie Simpsons and... and... Skateboarding It's an obvious brand extension. Bart Simpson Is synonymous with a skateboard after all.

Splinter Simpsons, Pro Evolution Simpsons or and God forbid, the Inevitable Simpsons platfonver...

The game kicks off at

Springﬁeld Elementary
with sarcastic Ibut

grammatically cornectl
commentaiy provided by Principal Seymour Skinner Catch the truant kids and test your tricking skills in

So having whisked the Springﬁeld ﬁve together with Crazy Taxi [The Simpsons: Road Roge] and with faked ﬁghting (The Simpsons: WrestlingI, The
Simpsons: SI<ateboairling takes Homer, Bart, Chief Wiggum et al Into the land of Tony Hawk So should you expect a shallow Imitation of THPS4, with a ramp-

fan buttons. But there Is some poor collision and lip
detection, disappointing level design and none of the smooth feel of a dedicated boarding title. To Fox, we echo Homer's own words: 'You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson Is, never try." □ Dean Evans

timed points tests.

llttered Springﬁeld, all-too-slmpllstic gameplay and
chunky graphics? Frankly, yes. The hook is the beloved Fox cartoon, not a decent skateboarding title. Boarding regulars will recognise the features. There are two main game modes: Tour and Multlplayer Initially, only Homer, Bart, Lisa and Marge are available as
Why we'd buy it the yellow devils -Captures the feel of the
cartoon. Just

SKAIEBOAraXNG - We just cant ^ enough of
Why we'd leave it

- Poor quality, fmstratjng skating - Limited gameplay
- Slu^sh controls and rather chunky 3D

As your boarding improves,
the ievels become harder.

The basic gameplay chase characters, coliect letters to fonn a word, ﬁnd a certain number of

playable characters. Springﬁeld residents (Chief Wiggum,
Professor FrInk, Krusty The Clown, Nelson and Otto] become unlocked as you progress. Each character Is
Graphics
Sound Reminiscent

of ttie bulbous visuals of Homer3

Good Simps ons voice-overs, but a bit repetitive Simplistic Tc nv Hawk's boatding with poorer controls Ten huge ie\ els, hidden boards and skaters

rated in ﬁve skill categories: speed, turns, Jumps, grabs
and grinds. Pull off tricks, earn cash, then spend It In a virtual shop in order to improve these stats. In the Tour mode, there are several sub-options. A

Gameplay Life span

objects - remains constant, but the grinding jumping, ﬂipping opportunities
require more skiii.

A game that may lure in both Simpsons and skateboarding farIS with its cartoon- H WA coated ramp-jumpIng, Donl be fooled.

Skillz School tutorial will help newcomers get to grips with the controls (easy-to-grasp, but sluggish) and Is spilt

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Press the ® to hit the ball. Really?
PUBUSHER: MIDAS DEVELOPER: MAGICAL C O M PA N Y LT D PRICE: £19.99 P L AY E R S : 1 - 4 O U T: N O W WEB SITE:

GO GO GOLF
There's something to be said for making

Whose bright ide< was this turl<ey?

A double bogey for the worst golf sim on PS2.
games as simple as possible to play. For evety nimble-thumbed Joypad Jock there must be hundreds of people who don't have the time or the patience to learn tricky controls and complicated rules. But Go Go Go/f takes simplicity to a ridiculous extreme, and is consequently less involving than the kind of thing you can play on a cheap digital watch. There really is nothing to it. Nothing at all. You can't select your club. You can't even aim with the one you're

terrible golf sim, with all the features locked out, or something somebody knocked up in a few days using
the PS2 Linux kit.

The graphics are fuzzy and indistinct. The mufﬂed
voice samples sound like they were recorded on a bad connection over a long distance phone line. With Tiger Woods 2003 offering everything from arcade ease of us to hardcore sim challenge, there's no way in the world
Go Go Go/f can survive. □ Martin Kitts

DECISION TIME

60HZ MODE: NO WIDESCREEN: NO

Slightly left, slightly right, or straight down the middle?

SURROUND SOUND: NO

COOL? Just Ipok i

given. You can't choose different types of shot, or control the power level when you hit the ball. All you can do is pick one of three preset paths for the ball to follow, then
press ® twice when your golfer swings the club past a

GO GO GOLF Why we'd buy it - It's easy to play Stupidly easy Why we'd leave ic
- ITS not a proper game

couple of markers. If you timed it right, the ball will land
where it's supposed to, otherwise it might fall slightly
short or wide.

Graphics IJ Tliat
Sound Gameplay

this game even exists shows how far

PS2 has penetrated the
non-gaming market.

Having spent the minute or two it takes to master this, we searched the menus for some sign of an actual

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TOKYO ROAD RACE
Low-rent Ridge Racer for losers.
Making a racing game is easy. But making a good racing game? Now that's hard. As a conversion of the coin-op Battle Gear 2, Tokyo
Road Race is more than faithful to its source
PUBLISHER: MIDAS DEVELOPER: TAOO
PRICE: £19.99

FASItSTJAP!
ftmiliar motors,

fanta^lacetracks.

But the appeal of Tokyo Road Race is short-lived. There are only two featured game modes (Arcade and Free
Run), the gameplay doesn't stretch beyond simplistic checkpoint-based driving, and there's no careerorientated challenge beyond racing and re-racing courses to improve your times and scores. Don't let curiosity get the better of you. This Is

PLAYERS: 1 (I.UNK COMPATIBL£)
OUT: NOW
WEB SITE: WWW.GAMESARENA.COM

60HZ MODE: NO
WIDESCREEN: NO SURROUND SOUND; NO

code. It looks and feels like an arcade port, with graphics reminiscent of Daytona and Ridge Rocer-style handling And while Tokyo Road Race's landscapes lack the fully-

textured graphics of GTS: A-Spec, they are bright and
bold, and its production car models are perfectly shiny However, If the deﬁnition of a good racing game goes

ultimately shallow and unrewarding At £19.99 it might
sound like a bargain, but remember, you can pick up the magnificent GTS for the same price. □ Dean Evans YD ROAD RACE
why we'd buy it Arcade port of half-decent
coin-op Graphics
Sound

■ TIME EXTENDED! The 3D detail isn't bad, bu

we've come to expect bet

beyond decent visuals and requires enough modes, depth
and varied playability to keep gamers hooked, then this bargain bin title fails on all counts.
m NO FRILLS THRILLS? A world of shaiiow arcade

You could argue that there's plenty of room alongside
the more technical racers for a more lightweight, fun

Why we'd leave it - Simplistic racing and no real
sense of speed ■ CHECKPOINT!

racing at your ﬁngertips.

addition. Tokyo Road Race features over ten courses and
a mix of circuit-based tracks and A-to-B sprints. You can

also pick a recognisable roadster from one of six Japanese manufacturers: Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mazda and Subaru - the cars, from the Mazda MX-5 to the Nissan Skyline, are all authentically recreated.

Gameplay
Ufe

Find the arcade game. Play it once. Save yourself £18.99.

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Will and Tommy Lee are summoned to the diary room to be told today's task.

Men In Black Some planet. Same story. Same jokes. New scum.
RLM: After a ﬁve-year gap the suited-and-booted sci-ﬁ investigators are bacl< in black. And such is the overfamlliarily of this belated sequel, it's like they've never

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been away. Jay (Will Smith] Is now MIB's top dog but when
alien menace Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle) threatens the existence of the planet, he needs the help of his retired partner agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) who must be deneuralysed and thrust back into action. From there on in it's business as usual. Director Barty Sonnenfeld clearly loath to tinker with a winning formula since the ﬁrst ﬁlm made $100 billion. Following exactly the same pattern as the original - a bit of investigation, some big action set-pieces, a healthy sprinkling of comedy, throw in some quirky ETs and a ﬁnal encounter with the boss alien and Bob's yer uncle - it's almost as if the Hollywood blockbuster is regressing to the level of most videogame sequels; just improve the visuals, introduce the odd new character and hope nobody notices it's basically the same product. Fair enough. Men In Black II is never less than
watchable and the double act of the exuberant Smith and

%
Director

■ HOW DO I LOOK? Simon Cowell's dress sense starts to

make its presence felt within the alien community.

Bany Sonnenfeld Starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Hynn Boyle, Rip Tom, Rosarlo Dawson, Johnny Knoxvllle, Tony
Shalhoub Distributor C o l u m b i a Tr i S t a r

EXTRA! EXTRA!

The MIB TV'aining Video is one of the most bizarre DVD supplements we've ever encountered A spoof tutorial explaining how to spot celebrities who are aliens in disguise, which stars do you think the producers of this big budget US blockbuster chose to Mature? That's right, Vernon Kay, Caprice and dear old Richard Madeley. ft's almost like we imagined the entire thing...

Out 27Januaiy
Price £24.99 Extras Director's

cynical Jones still provides plenty of odd couple laughs. But when the script is such a tired retread of the original, the duo are ﬁghting a losing battle. 5/10
EXTRAS: Once you get past the tiresome menu

commentary. Alien Broadcast; MIB Training Video; Tal<e 2: i-ooping MIB II; Design
in Motion: The ljDoi< Of MIS H; Rick Baker:

p.. (vi
Vernon Kay Caprice Is the multi-careered plastic

Aiien Maker; Frank the Pug; Jeff the Worm;
Serleena: Allen Esoterica: TTie Steiiar

animations you're presented with a host of featurettes, the best of which focus on the work of make-up maestro Rick Baker and composer Danny Elfman. There's an infectious Blooper Reel with Will Smith corpsing frequently and even making old stone-face Tommy Lee Jones crack a smile. We also get an alternate ending Barry Sonnenfeld's commentary and a video for Will Smith's title song 6/10 VERDICT: Devotees of the original looking for more of the

Sounds Of MIB Ih, Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman In Space feoturettes. Blooper Reel; Serleena Animotic Sequence; Multi-Angle Scene
Deconstructions;

Alternate Ending;
Music Video. Tmllers.

same will be happy enough. Anyone hoping for something
extra will be sorely disappointed. □ LH

Apparently, the big-toothed Bolton lad's love of octopuses
hides the fact that he is actually an alien octopus.

Richard Madeley
The Partridge-alilie witters on
a b o u t h i s d i s b e l i e f I n E Ts b e f o r e

Yank a| A 'superniodel', b| An
undercover l(itten-eating alien

Laugh? You must be squiddlng.

monster, c| A truly desperate
Z-list non-celebrity?

being revealed as a hairy-faced alien beastie. Somebody stop
him. Please.

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RLM: The rise and fall of iviadchester as seen Director Michael Wlntertottom/Stanlng Stere doogan, Lennle Jomes, Paddy ConsW/ne, Andy Serkis, Sean Honis, Danny Cunningham, John Sfmm/Distributor Path^/Out 21 January/Price £19.99

■ H DVD AND MUSIC CONTRIBUTORS: LEE HART. HIDEO KOJIMA, SAM RICHARDS, MARK

Recommended viewing for your PlayStation 2 cinema sysU
i NISH, CUSH, BANC The fake Happy Mond. twist some melons, m

the scene, the movie's second half spirals hilariously out of control like a drug-fuelled Shaun Ryder As vibrant, tragic and funny as the era itself, 24 Hour Party People captures the spirit of Factory to startling effect. 8/10 EXTRAS: Some quality gear here. First up are two commentaries: a wry effort by Tony Wilson and a second featuring Coogan with Producer Andrew Eaton. There's a proﬁle of
Director Michael Winterbottom,

tiirough the eyes of
Granada news reporter,

and professional pretentious twat, Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan). By day he reports on midgets washing elephants, by night he manages Factory Records and the Hacienda,
and works with Joy Division, New

Order and the Happy Mondays. Despite the focus on Wilson, as the man himself says, "It's not about me, it's about the music." And it's the music that truly drives the ﬁlm. Split Into two distinct halves, it begins with the story of Joy Division and reﬂects the drive and intensity of Ian Curtis. Then once the Happy Mondays enter

interviews with key people from the era, and 24 mostly great deleted scenes. Finally, Wilson quizzes graphic artist Peter Saville about his innovative designs for Factory. 7/10 VERDICT: A great British ﬁlm celebrating a golden period in British
culture. Nice one. □ LH

So you've matched the movie, now ﬁnd out what really happened... From The fbctoiy Floor is a cracking video commentary witti fve Factory folk - including Peter Hock IJoy Division/New Order) and iviartin rvloscrop (A Certain Ratiol - plus journo Miranda Sawyer watching ttie ﬁlm and discussing ttie tmtli
betiind ttie events depicted As Hooky says; "iviost

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■ NUMBERS GAME

Something doesn't quite add up when two students plan the perfect murder.

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Director Neil Marshaff/Starring Seon Pertwee, Kevin McKIdd, Darren Morﬁtt, L/am Cunn/nghom/Distributor Poth^/Out 17 FebruaryA^rice £17.99 FILM: When six squaddies go on a routine training mission to a remote Scottish woodland, they end up being hunted by a pack of vicious werewolves and trapped In an isolated farmhouse What follows is an entertaining Night Of The Living Dead meets Ginger Snaps British horror romp that, while hamstrung by budget restrictions and a

Dog Soldiers

Murder By Numbers Director Bartet Schroeder/Starrlng Sandra Bullocl<, Ben Chaplin, Michael
Pitt, Ryan Gosling/Distributor Warner Home Video/Out Now/Prtce £15.99 HLM: in a straight pinch from Hitchcock's Rope, two gifted high school students attempt to commit the perfect murder Just to see if they can get away with it. But with homicide detective Sandra Bullock on their trail (and doing her best Clarice Starling impression) they're playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. A passable thriller cobbled together with ideas taken from numerous superior Aims, this never rises above the distinctly average. 5/10 EXTRAS; There's a fairly interesting commentary by Director Barbet Schroeder and his Editor Ljee Percy but nowt else apart from the trailer Where's the input from the lovely Sandy? 3/10 VERDICT: is this the bit where we label It a Crime Thriller By
Numbers? Yes It Is. □ LH

Richard E Grant and Paul McGann are out-of-work

actors escaping their druggy
Sixties London

AUEN
WHAT TREATS IN STORE? You'll ﬁnd

squalor by holidaying in a
rundown Lake

District cottage with saucy Uncle Monty. A genuine comedy cult
classic with

clumsy script, succeeds on the sheer gusto of the performances
and its inventive approach to lycanthrope carnage. 7/10

log written by Ash the android to his superiors. Here he gives Information about the various lifecyles of the alier that the ship has come across, before they take one back to Earth. WHERE IS rr? in the Special Features menu, press until you come to a highlighted pool of acid. Press Enter t

extras galore, as
director Bruce Robinson reveals some of the real

go to an info screen about the iifecyc
of the infamous xenomorph.
SEND US YOUR EASTER EGGS

EXTKAS: A great boozed-up commentary with Director Neil
iviarshail and his cast. Pius a decent Making Of, deleted scenes,

storyboards and one of Marshall's early short ﬁlms. 7/10 ground-breaking but It is good B-movie fun. □ 1J1

Spotted a DVD bonus, have you? Then (
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VERDICT: A werewolf ﬂick with teeth (plus yellow eyesl. it isnt

people who inspired the ﬁlm.

know where and how you found It.

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ARGENTINA STTICHED US UP In the World Cup, hairspray coupled with big red glasses was the fashion of the day and Chernobyl blew up. Luckily we could still bask in the safety of a truly great year for popular cinema. Flashy escapism made strange bedfellows with some dark and harsh reality Join us, won't yoi.. k PLATOON was one of the really big box ofﬁce hits

^ in 1986. Oliver Stone's dark tale of lost innocence in

Singles
DltBctor Comemn Crowe/Stanlng Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Matt Dillon, Kyra Secfgw/c)(,/Diai1bijtor Warner Home Wdeo/Out Now/Price £12.99

B war had some truly mesmerising scenes of

H destruction, as well as the line, "It's been a lovely
M f *klng war" Not so lovely though was one of the ﬁrst

=singles Before hitting the big time with Jerry Mogu/re,

W ﬁlms to expose small town America's dark underbelly David Lynch's BLUE VELVET. Dennis Hopper's terrifying, dmg-addled villainy as Frank Black will live on as the stuff of our nightmares. Talking of nightmares, who didn't have a tentative peek under their bed after watching ALIENS? The actionmeets-horror ﬁlm was the year's big sci-ﬁ spectacular and turned Its tense prequel into two hours of blood-soaked panic. If it was escapism you were after how about a Frenchman pretending to be Scottish? HIGHLANDER had strange accents and immortal people chopping each others' heads off with big swords. Great action and a Queen soundtrack - now surely it doesn't get more Eighties than that... Apart from perhaps Kurt Russell's mullet in BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. This tongue-in-cheek romp through Chinese myth coming to life in modern America spawned one of Russell's ﬁnest roles yet. Subsequent viewlngs prove that it's comedy gold. But if such goofy kung fu doesn't sway you, perhaps high-ﬂying action in
TOP GUN will. Macho as all hell, like it or loath It, it's

PLATOON

BIG TTtOUBLE IN
LT T T L E C H I N A

A special edition,
Oliver Stone takes us back to his Vietnam

ex-Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe speciaiised in iow-i^ey romantic comedies iii^e this 1992 offering

The marvellous

-/Ji Iot " apartment among biocl( six trying friends to sort out intheir the messy same iove
— lives to a soundtraci^ of Peari Jam, Soundganden et ai. As always with Crowe, the characters are beiievabie and the dialogue strikes a successful balance between snappy and sappy, but Singles never tugs at the funny bone or heartstrings quite like the Director's best ﬁlms. Almost Famous and Say Anything. 6/10 EXTRAS: Just two extremely pretentious deleted scenes and the original theatrical trailer. 2/10 VERDICT; Likeable but unremarkable grunge-era comedy. □ LH

JfBm set around Seattie's grunge scene. Bridget Fonda

Special Edition takes us right back
with Russell and

nightmare with
bunkers full of

extras including a documentary.
BLUE V E LV E T

John Carpenter's commentary and
tons of deleted

scenes. Buy it!
TOP GUN

Dennis Hopper's special interview
on one of his best characters makes this a real must-

Sweaty men, fast pianes and no
extra features.

have for Lynch or Hopper fans.

SHOW ME THE MUMMY

Eastwood reminds people he's not really the forgive and forget' type...

DVDS YOU MUST OWN THIS IS SPINAL 1AP Follow the ageing
Director Clint Eostwood/Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harrls/Distrlbutor Warner Home Wdeo/Dut Now/Price £19.99

perhaps the most American ﬁlm of them all. For more considered offerings why not try MANHUNTER? A small hit at the time, it was Michael Mann's superior
Miami Wce-esque incarnation of Hannibal Lecter Watch it

ALIENS

it's the remastered version, with 17 minutes of
DOWN BY LAW

before you see Red Dragon, please. Also spending time in
the cells was Jim Jarmusch's black and white

Unforgiven: Special Edition

restored footage. Plus it's bursting
with behind-the-

rockers on a ﬁnal

FILM: Retired outlaw William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is lured away from his farm and his kids for one last pay day: a contract to kill a cowpoke who knifed a whore in Nebraska. Once there, Munny is confronted by evil sheriff Little Bill (Gene Hackman) and his own demons at the bottom of a whiskey bottle. At once a hymn to the mythic status of the gunﬂghter and a powerful examination of the price of killing Unforgiven is a classic of the genre and probably the last great Western we'll see. 9/10 EXTRAS: A dry but extremely informative commentary by Clint's biographer Richard Schickel, and the iatter's supert) documentary Eostwood On Eastwood. Plus three featurettes including new interviews with all the principals and on-set footage. 7/10 VERDICT: An elegaic, revisionist Western masterpiece. Buy it. □ LH

tour as they turn it up to 11, build a tiny rubbish Stonehenge and end up playing a jazz Odyssey at a puppet show. It's
not a real

breakthrough ﬁlm DOWN BY LAW in which three very different souls are locked up together and strange comedy ensues. □ iviw
■ CHINESE WHISPERS

scenes footage.
HIGHLANDER

Nothing extra on the DVD, but what do you expect? Down By Law was
one of Jarmusch's ﬁrst ﬁlms. And

There can be only one - only one
extra feature that

Eh, iuv, have you seen
Kurt Russell's bamet?

documentary, of
course - it's a

rockumentary. Loads of great 'lost' footage
includes a stoned chauffeur and the conclusion that

is. Well, okay then, two if you include the gallery and the trailers. Woah, steady on there.

frankly it's worthy of Its place on the performance of
Tom Waits alone.

monkeys never
swear Rock on.

NEXT MOINTTH
IQ^I VCRs had just been I invented, but who had
any time for those car-sized bits of kit? We could still watch such great crime ﬁlms as Shaft, The French Connection, Dirty Harry and Get Carter. More in the very next issue.

ALSO RELEASED THIS MONTH... Kate & Leopold iBuena Vlsta/£17.99)/T1ie Crow; Special Edition (Entertainment In Vldeo/£19.991/Niiie Queens (0pdmum/E19.99|/Dinnef Rush (Path6/£ 19.99]/ Kung Pow: Enter The Fist |Fox/£1799|/A Fish Called Wanda: Special Edition (t^GM/E19.99)/WWE Unforgiven 2002 (Silver Vlsion/£17.99l

106 PlayStation.? OFFICIRL mRERZINE-UK

Last month, the Metal Gear guru looked at the inﬂuence of North By Northwest on his game's design. This time, he explains how he monkeyed around with messages from a 1968 sci-ﬁ classic.

Planet Of The Apes
MONKEY BUSINESS Humans soon discover that

PHOTD: KOBAL COLLECnON/20TH CENTUF

swinging from branches isn't ail it's cracked up to be.

the mystery of the missing link between humans and monkeys' this ﬁlm dealt with themes critical of society, Including racial problems, alongside the anti-war and anti-nuke message. Trading the positions of the apes an
humans well depicts today's society. While being

entertainment, It really makes you think a lot - Just wha
sci-ﬁ ﬁlms are potentially capable of doing Warnings to

our society and the future can be caricatured easily In
sci-ﬁ. What If a world war starts? What if nukes are usee

What If apes rule the world? The imagination resulting from the exaggerating of the 'if gives us the opportunity
to think about ourselves.

The most captivating aspect of Apes Is deﬁnitely th then-remarkable ape make-up. The ﬁlm could have
turned Into a B-movIe, but the creation of very ﬁne

make-up ensured that the potential freak ﬁlm was
elevated to an 'A' entertainment masterpiece. The ape

make-up Is ﬁne and ﬂexible enough to allow the
audience to notice and follow the facial expressions of the actors underneath - there were no masks. If It had been done with CG as now, attractive characters such ; ZIra and Cornelius would not have emerged.

The ﬁlm makes great use of both the subjective
camera (to make main character Taylor and the audlen

as one) and the objective camera. It shows us what gre ﬁlming is about: control of the camera and information quantity. For example, when the astronauts roll down a
hill, after their spaceship crashes, the subjective camer

is used to make you feel like you are rolling down as w And then the objective camera ﬁlms, from a distance, tl men walking the desert to show how minute they are ii
contrast to nature. It Is this distance that creates a seni

of virtual presence and makes everything work effective
Another element that plays a big role In this ﬁlm Is

speech: the apes can speak, the humans cannot. This 'hierarchy of speech' not only shows the Inversion of power but also of Intelligence and civilization.
I'm sure the creators did a lot of thinking about ho to continue the series. The same apes that escape Ean

Planet Of The Apes
Director Fmnklin J Shaffner/Starring Charlton Hestoa Roddy McDowaH Kim Hunter, Jeff Burton/ Music Jerry Goldsmith/Extras Main Menu Audio and Animation, Stills gallery. Theatrical trailers/ Distributor Fax Home Entertainment/ Price £15.99 A S C m S P E C TA C U L A R

Planet Of The Apes became a global mega hit, a sci-ﬁ milestone, and later a whole series. I'm sure you remember Tim Burton's

re-imagination of the ﬁlm last year Although I was happy to see apes ^ la Rick Baker (the original's make-up artist) the ﬁlm itself did not turn me
on. The 1968 version was much more shocking.

To win a DVD of Planet Of the

Apes and a copy
of Metal Gear

before the explosion are sent back to Earth and have t escape from a situation totally opposite. The talking ch ape Caesar grows up, lives through Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes and creates the foundation for a planet of the apes in the future. These are great ideas
which I'm sure have Inﬂuenced series such as Star M/o
and Terminator

and one of the genre's most Inﬂuential ﬂims, Ttie original
ﬁlm follows the fortunes of

Solid 2 signed by Hideo Kojima, tell
us the name of the book on which Planet Of

astronaut George Taylor (the ﬂawless Charlton Heston)
when he crashes his

Originally, Apes was a ﬁlm about running away. The title of the third ﬁlm Escape From The... speaks for itself. In the ﬁrst ﬁlm, Taylor (Charlton Heston] runs from the

After all I have said, sharp readers have probably noticed the similarities between Apes and MGS in terrr

apes. In Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, Brent (James
Franclscus) does the same. However, in Escape apes
Cornelius and ZIra run from humans. Then in Conquest

The Apes is based. Send your
answers to:

spacecraft on a strange planet, 2000 years in the future He's soon captured by the

Monkey Business Compo either by
email or to the usual address.

planet's dominant species -a society of Intelligent, talking apes who enslave dumb
humans for their own purposes. This role reversal Is striking and the movie examines society's ills, such as racial and generational conﬂict brilliantly before reaching its famously shocking conclusion. And hey - you'll never guess where the pianet is... Okay then, maybe you will.

the apes stop running and choose to ﬁght humans.

Finally In Battle, the apes ﬁght to coexist with humans.
The series transforms from 'run' to ﬁght for liberation' to 'movement toward peace'. The anti-war and anti-nuke theme throughout converges perfectly. The switching of positions of humans and apes is

Normal compo rules apply (see page 146|.

of the creator's message. Many players of MGS2 say th the game is too preachy But as a citizen of the only country in the worid against which the atomic bomb w used, I was strongly Inﬂuenced by Apes' anti-nuke message. So now that we cannot expect movies from Hollywood to confront these issues any more, I would 1 to keep the anti-war and anti-nuke message alive, at
least with MGS. The current entertainment Industry is

marketing-orientated, focusing on products that that w
sell well but without a message. What is the future of children who use such products as their textbooks? Wl
is there to come? □

what make Apes great. However, the high evaluations of
this ﬁlm are not limited to scl-ﬁ fans - It encompasses

deep themes that transcend the sci-ﬁ realm, cleverly mixing historical and social Issues of the time Into an
entertainment ﬁlm. In addition to sci-ﬁ settings such as

*Metal Gear Solid 2; Sons Of Liberty and Planet Of The

Apes are available from game and DVD stores now.

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coming
In John Woo's WWII drama

so
unbreakable radio codes...

WINDIAiKERS [10 Feb|, Nicolas Cage does pensive/whispering rather than manlc/shouty as a US Marine protecting Navajo Indians whose native tongue Is used for

Anyone who enjoys attractive ladles talking dirty will be
Interested in the Cameron Diaz

It's entertaining B-movIe shocks and laughs all round as David Anquette and a bunch of equally
cheap C-llst actors take on a toviin full of EIGKT l£GGEO FREAKS

Oscar-wlnning perfonrtance ~

and Billy Bob Thornton's Oscarworthy performance - In

Hicksville USA... Rnally, ROADKIU (24 Feb) offers tense Due/-style
thrills as a truck driver terrorises F^ul Walker, Steve Zahn and

gross-out comedy THE SWEETEST THING 110 Feb/...

|17 Feb|... Witness Halle Berry's

MONSTER'S BAH. (17 Febl, a powerful, moving examination of the death penally and racism In

Leelee Sobleski w/hen they drive
across country..

Spider-Man
Tobey Maguire is Peter Parker the school swot turned spandexed superhero after a nasty nip from a geneticaiiy modiﬁed arachnid. His web-spinning ways come in rather handy for battiing Wiiiem Dafoe's mean Green Gobiin.

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Ricl^ Getvais's hiiariously accurate insight into the dmdgery of daiiy ofﬁce iife is a wonderfui thing What mal<es this mocl<umentary so compuisive is that weVe aii been there, sharing every awi<ward siience in squimiing anticipation.

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Tlie Fsint Danse Macabre (City Slang)
WHO? The Faint are one of hundreds of HIGHUGHTS: Cure LOWUGKTS: Weaker

US bands coming your way this year convinced that the/re
British and its 1981

basslines, robot rhythms and a hint of eyeiiner combine to
make Your Retro Career Melted a

tunes sound like eariy
Duran Duran b-sides

VERDICT: Scarily fashionable, but the
new wave hustle Is

or the work of goth chancers who've just discovered synths probably close to the
actual truth.

outside. No bad thing
in our book.

being done better elsewhere. Hang tight for Hie Rapture's
album later this

spookiiy danceabie
prospect.

Spring 7/10

Johnny iviarr And The Healers BoomsiangiGuti
WHO? Legendary guitarist with seminal Eighties ﬂouncers Itie
HIGHUGHTS: Slim

LOWUGHTS: Pretty
much the whole

V E R D I C T: I n c u r a b l e

pickings. Down On The Corner Is pleasant enough, although it does sound exactly
like "me Charlatans.

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a
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BLOOD BRANDS

Smiths. But without his

album is a stinking retro muso sh*theap.
Ttilnk Kula Shaker

enigmatic frontman, Marr has foolishly
decided to form the new Seahorses.

1 Mormi

Apart from that, well, Its abject stuff.

trading tired riffs with Ocean Colour Scene,
in hell. Oh. its bad.

Smiths fan? Then you'll be salivating over Morrlssey's comeback, Booms/ang, on the other hand. Is a wretched soiling of a ﬁne legacy 2/10

m

Heii Is For Heroes The Neon Handshake [Chfysalls]
WHO? Shaggy, stoutly
unfashionable HIGHUGHTS: The LOWUGHTS: All V E R D I C T: F u l l m a r k s

breathless soul-baring
of I Can Climb Mountains and D/sconnector makes most so-called 'emo' rock bands sound like Bon Jovi.

traces of style,
innovation and transcendence have been traded in at the

Britrock ﬁve-piece. If you like Idlewlld and
Hundred Reasons...

for effort, but man
can't live on bread alone. Hell Is For

Heroes offer plenty of ﬁbre, but not enough
ﬂavour 6/10

temple of the 'real'. The result? Things can get really, really dull.

Massive Attack lOOth Window (Virgin)
WHO? Famously miserable Bristol sound originators, now down to the bare bones of Robert '3D' Del Naja, presumably after other remaining member Daddy G smiled too much.
HIGHUGHTS: Well, it ain't disco. Think Mezzanine's most paranoid moments LOWUGHTS: Sinead O'Connor's smug vocals are no substitute for Liz

Asian Dub Foundation Enemy Of The Enemy (Virgin)
WHO? Fourth album

HIGHUGHTS: Heavy
on the ﬂuid Asian

LX>WUGHTS: Rock

Frazer or Tracey Thorn on the rather pompous Prayer For England.
VERDICT: Massive Attack's most

from staunchly polltical dub/rock/ Jungle/kitchen sink
collective. Produced

rtiythms, 19 Rebe/llons and Dhol Rinse prove
that less can be more

guitars combine with spacey dub bass and
dated drum 'n' bass

V E R D I C T: Yo u c a n t fault the ethics or the

attitude, but an hour of ADFs hectoring lyrics and worthy
musical fusion and

by legendary dub scientist, Adrian
Sherwood.

for ADF, but the funky simplicity of Punjabi
MC has them licked.

In an unappetising musical swamp. Plus
Sinead O'Connor's

here again. Great

you'll be screaming
for Girls Aloud. 5/10

introspective album yet, a reﬂection of
its undemocratic creation and the

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electronic harshness and Arabic

rejection of the usual hop-hip inﬂuences. But as long as you're not expecting Unﬁnished Sympathy, 100th Window is an edgy classic. 8/10

ON THE OPS2 STEREO Hot Hot Heat Make Up The Breakdown (Sub

Popl/Peanut Butter Wolf Badmeanlnggood
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A gangster really is only as good as his getaway car..

What's that thick smell

pervading the HardCore

section this month? It's pure
testosterone. It's possibly the

blokiest month yet with crook
and cop missions cracked in

our Getawoy walkthrough and
more tips on Vice City. Plus
there are some suave
■ BUS STOP The bus Is

slow but It'll take on any car
and come out unscathed.

NightFire tips and even Jango
Fett gets a few pointers In Bounty Hunter.

There are precisely 64 different makes and models of cars in The Getaway. Naif tﬁe fun of piaying the game is trying them all out. We

won't iist the faults and virtues of every car for
fear of turning into Jeremy Ciarl<son - but
here's a few hints.

The tougher vehicies - buses, taxis, vans and Range Rovers - might take an awrfui lot of damage, but they also have terribie acceieration

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damage. Their only saving grace Is being able to get through tight gaps and drive on smaller pavements. Anything sporty is deﬁnitely worth nicking. The sports cars have
top acceleration and

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The Saab 900 or Alfa Romeo 154

UERDICT
"A compelling trawl through London's criminal underworld. Certainly the most cinematic experience yet on PS2."
Graphics
Sound

are deﬁnitely worth looking
out for.

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Gameplay 0g|i^I»l
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HRRDCOR
DRIVING SKILLS
They never taught you this at driving school...
GETTING AWAY

Police and gangsters trying to stop your car aiways use the same metlnods. if a car is driving towards you on the other side of the road, it wiii swerve in front of you to stop your car Siam on the braises, then drive around them, or anticipate which way they're going to go, and drive the other way They'ii be left trying to straighten up. Put your foot down and you'll lose the tail no problem. When they're behind you, they will pull up alongside and nudge your car sideways, eventually stopping it. Slam on your brakes to make them sail past you. It will take them valuable seconds to get back on track. Weaving through trafﬁc on the wrong side of

the road is risky, but try it and you'll soon hear the sound of knackered police sirens dying behind you.
CAR DAMAGE

out for stingers at police road blocks - it's far better to hit one of the police cars than drive over a stinger and lose most of your speed.
U N WA N T E D AT T E N T I O N

Watch out if smoke starts to come from the engine of your car You'll have a limited time to get out before the engine blows completely, bringing your car to a halt. The amount of time you've got depends on the type of car Worse still, if you have another accident in a smoking car, it might burst into ﬂames. It is possible to escape from a burning car, but you need to get out very quickly. Driving over a police stinger will cause your car to slow down to a crawl or even stop completely. Look

If you want to avoid police attention, you'll have to stick
to the highway code. So strangely enough, hitting other cars, driving on pavements and running over

pedestrians are big no-nos. Driving the wrong way down
a one way street or on a roundabout, nicking a car or running around with your gun un-holstered will also send the sirens into a frenzy. Although points on your licence would be the least of your worries.

WEAPONS
Forget blades, knuckle dusters and baseball bats, the gangsters terrorising London's streets today come tooled up with something a little bit more fatal.
GLOCK 17

STPEEIWISE
You won't get far as a gangster in this seedy underworld without the right attitude.

The weapon that both characters always have tucked in their inside pockets. It might be basic, but it's very effective. The Glock is one of the best guns to use on enemies in the distance and it's deadly up close, too. It'll take about three bullets to put someone down, but it ﬁres shots in quick succession. Clips last for ages and there's always

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ARRESTING PEOPLE

Always use stealtti to peer
into rooms and around

plenty of ammo lying around. With twin Clocks,
there'll be no stopping you.

SHOTGUNS (SAWN OFF SHOTGUN AND
COMBAT SEMI-AUTOMATIC SHOTGUN) Creat for close combat - the Sawn-Off Shotgun in

corners. You'll get a head start on anyone who's lurking. Try taking a lucky shot if someone's In your line of ﬁre. Otherwise, the best course of action is Jumping out and ﬁring, then ducking back. If anyone runs at you, get ready with a pistol whip.

Gangsters aren't too bothered about hostages. Grab a civilian and they'll probably laugh then shoot you both. The police, however, back right off at the sight of a convicted criminal with a gun to some poor person's head. Keep the hostage between you and the police at all times or they will
waste you.

When playing as DC Frank Carter, you have the pleasure of being able to arrest
criminals. You don't have to -

R E G A I N I N G H E A LT H Don't underestimate how

many times you can heal yourself Even In the thick of gun battle, run off and hide
somewhere and there's a

no one wiii mind if you just
shoot them all - but in the

stealth levels, arresting is better To make an arrest you need to sneak up on your target - they'll shoot if they see you coming

good chance you'll get away with resting - the bad guys don't aiways follow. Standing
still for 30 seconds is better

than playing the whole level through again.

particular will kill outright anyone nearby but if you're up against several baddies, they'll be all over you in the time it take to re-load this beast. Both
the Sawn-Off and Semi-Automatic Shotguns are
useless at a distance. AK-47S ASSAULT RIFLE

PA R T O N E : M A R K H A M M O N D

MISSION 01
THE FRIGHTENER ■ The chase to the warehouse

Kill the two gangsters in the next room from the doorway then enter the room and kill one who appears near the exploding canisters. Go around the corner and
lean around the next corner - there are two men to kill in the corridor Finally, enter the next room and you'll
meet Charlie.

A great all round weapon. Perfect for spraying
bullets around if you're up against loads of people. Also effective at a distance. Only problem is, it runs out of Ammo pretty quickly, so don't hold that trigger down any longer than you have to.
HECKLER & KOCH MP5-A5 SUB-MACHINE GUN

Go after the red Rover 75. Don't lose sight of it

for any longer than 45 seconds consecutively or you'll lose the mission. Follow the car's indicators if
you're not sure which way it has gone.
■ The shootout in the warehouse

MISSION 02
BURNING BRIDGES

The MPS is much like the Assault Riﬂe, only better

At the warehouse, get your gun at the ready Don't let the

r ■ Set the Republic restaurant alight Follow the car's indicators to the Republic restaurant. Kill the guy stood outside and

This weapon's quite difﬁcult to come by - but you'll usually ﬁnd it during riots. Being a sub-machine gun, it's rapid ﬁring and more effective than anything else at killing loads of enemies up close,
but not so good at a distance. Get yourself twin
MP5s and the world is yours!
■ M A S S A S S A U LT G e t

ﬁrst two men see you. Use stealth by the doorway and
shoot them from here. Enter the yard and immediately

anyone else who runs to help, then shoot anyone who 1
armed in the restaurant on your left. Go up the stairs.

walk right. Follow the fence around the perimeter of the yard until you reach two skips, and shoot the two gangsters by the door Collect the Assault Riﬂe from one
of them. Enter the warehouse and quickly go left. Lean out from behind the crates and pick off the gangsters stood around the warehouse. Watch out for a guy who runs from one of the rooms on the left. Go through the

There are a couple of people on the way up to shoot. If you get injured, lean against the wall to recover before
continuing. Kill the people in the next restaurant area tc

your left and get the Shotgun. Continue up the stairs to an open door and stand to the left of it. Lean in and kll as many of the gangsters in this room as possible usinj
the Shotgun. Enter the room and walk right. Lean around the nex wall to kill the remaining people. When you shoot them

massacring with an Assault
Riﬂe. Just mind the crates.

doorway at the top of the steps to pick up another
Assault Riﬂe.

Continue carefully around the warehouse until you reach the doorway that leads to the next part of the warehouse. Kill the gangster walking up and down from

your bullets will shatter the torches on the wall behind. Make sure they all blow up and the ﬁre alarm sounds
before you make your escape. ■ Lose the cops and get out of Soho

the safety of the doorway, then walk through the nearest gap in the crates until it ends. Walk right and lean
around the corner by the pillar to kill another gangster Check out the rest of the warehouse. There should be

By now, the police will have arrived outside. Leg it back
down the stairs, shoot any police ofﬁcers that are direc

one more person to kill. Exit through the open door on
the far wall and walk up the stairs. There's one gangster
to kill on the way up.

in the way, then get into one of the police cars and get
the hell out of there. Once you've lost the police tail, thi
mission will end.

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A R T A P P R E C I AT I O N

part of the mission must be completed In the Lexus Jake can't go running around in search of a new car The police will be after you In a big way Just keep driving even if you make it to the warehouse with four blown lyres and three police cars behind you, you'll still
complete the mission. It's one of the wonders of

■ Find the drug-filled statue in the basement of the art gallety Follow the car's Indicators to the gallery. Your Journey won't be quite so easy now you've upset a few people. Keep your gun bolstered when you enter the art gallery, and walk left towards the stairs. As soon as you start to walk up them, the Triads stood around at the bottom will whip out their guns and start shooting, so be ready for them. Walk up the stairs and kill the Triads that are stood through the open doorway in front of you, then enter the next part of the gallery. Now, the Triads will start to come thick and fast. When entering each new section of the gallety, check all is clear ﬁrst by leaning around the corner, then roll across the room, minimising the risk of being hit. You'll get opportunities to regain health, but be on your guard - it's likely you'll be interrupted while standing still. Go down the stairs. There are a couple of Triads at the bottom. Enter the doorway on your left, shoot the guy stood on the stairs, then go down to the basement. Look around the right corner at the bottom of the stairs - there are two men hiding behind the boxes. Either entice them out with a gunshot and kill them from here, or roll over to where they are. As you go to cross the basement, some Triads might run down the stairs behind you. Hug the wall before proceeding to the main part of the basement. There are around ten Triads ahead, some with Assault Riﬂes. Kill them from this position, then collect one of their riﬂes. Continue forwards, there should only be one or two Triads left to kill. The statue is on a crate around the corner to your right. ■ Meet Charlie in the Spotted Dog pub

■ TAKE THAT Try to shoot the bad guys, not the customers. Oh, what the

videogaming that police forget so fast!

MISSION 05
TAXI FOR MR CHAI7 ■ Sneal( back into Charlie's office

Wait for the guy stood In front of you to move, then enter the next part of the warehouse. Walk right and follow the perimeter of the warehouse. Pistol whip the guy with his back to you who Is blocking the door that you need to go through. Run straight into the alcove on the far side of the next room to avoid detection by the gangster who walks down the stairs. Go up the stairs and stay next to the doorway until Charlie and his mates leave the room - you'll see two leave, then one more will walk through. Go through the open door, into the ofﬁce then run

MISSION 07
H LT H Y B U S I N E S S

■ Find the telephone repair van in

B Grosvenor Place
Grab one of the gangster's cars parked outside the yard and get moving - the police are on their way It's quite a long drive to the telephone repair van. so try to keep a low proﬁle with the police. There will also be gangsters trying to gun you down along the way Get into the van once you reach It

through the next doorway into the next ofﬁce. Pistol whip
the guy stood inside with his back to you. Exit this ofﬁce

and walk left and through the next door Walk right and
enter the open door in front of you. The other door in
this room leads to Charlie's ofﬁce.

■ Drive Johnny Chai to the Slu Fung in Chinatown Follow the car's indicators to Chinatown. Try to avoid

■ Eliminate the real telephone repair van and get to
Snowhill Police Station

confrontation with gangs and the police, but it's likely that the Soho gang will be after you along the way Don't
smash up the car with Johnny in it. At your destination, keep driving until the cut-scene kicks in.

Head to the police station. When Mark says, "Right then,
you've had it," he's spotted the other BT van. Either ram the van until it stops, or force it to stop by blocking its path. The driver will get out Run him over and make sure he's dead. You have a time limit to take out the van, and to get to the police station. ■ Find a gun and kill Inspector McCormack Once inside the police station, follow the policeman to the room with the telephone wires and wait until he leaves. Follow the signs to the ﬁrst ﬂoor, and the evidence room. Collect the Handgun from the ﬂoor, leave the room and turn right Inspector McCormack will be talking to a police ofﬁcer with a gun. Wait for them to

The Triads will be after you, but they're not too hard to
shake off if you put the pedal to the metal. It's hard not

MISSION 06
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN

to break the law when you're ﬂeeing angry Triads with
guns, but try not to do anything illegal in front of the

■ Lure the TKads back to Holywell Street The Triads will chase you relentlessly Don't bother driving slowly to let them keep up. Every time one of their cars is destroyed,

police or they'll rather unfairly come after you as well.

MISSION 04
AIDING AND ABETTING

another will join the chase. Drive as quickly as you can.
Follow the car's indicators to Holywell Street and when you get there, your objective will change. ■ Survive the gun battle between the THads and
the Yardies

yWH ■ Drive Eyebrows to stop the prison van Get to the police station within the time limit.
Avoid a police tail on the way or the next part
of the mission will be much trickier You must

_walk away then follow them - but make sure they ^ dont spot you.
In the computer room, walk left and

Go In the yard through the entrance marked Durrant

\ follow the wall to the exit, avoiding being
sighted by the police ofﬁcer stood in here. The Inspector will enter the Serious Fraud Squad ofﬁce. Don't
follow him

complete this mission In the Lexus that you start in, for
reasons that become clear later on, so don't smash the car up. Don't stop when your hazard lights ﬂash - the

and Taylor Shoot the guy stood with his back to you and grab his Automatic Riﬂe. Enter the yard and
go right. Roll to avoid taking too much damage. Now hide behind the trailer
with MAERSK written on it. From a safe

prison van will drive away and you must go after It.
Your car automatically slows down while the ambush occurs. Once it's over, you can go after the prison van and get ramming Get alongside the van and drive into the side of it, rather than shunting it from behind. Once the van starts smoking, it slows down so ﬁnish it off. ■ Deliver Jake and Eyebrows to the warehouse

distance, shoot the exploding canister next to it. This wise precaution will
make sure no one else shoots it later

and kills you. The Triads and Yardies
will start to shoot each other

Once business has been taken care of, you need to drive Jake and Eyebrows back to the warehouse. Again, this
■ APPLES AND PEARS

Lie low in this position and if anyone comes around the trailer and starts shooting
you, press CD to auto aim

Sort out anyone lurking at the top of stairs or else they'll sort you.

quickly and shoot them. Keep your head down for a while, then once the bullets stop ﬂying lean around one side of the trailer, then the other, and take down anyone still standing from this safe position. Make sure you get all the gangsters stood in the windows of the building. Now
run into the rubbish room and kill the Yardie stood in

there. To complete the mission, exit the yard the
same way you came in.

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in here - instead, waik past tlie door he entered through

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M I S S I O N 11
THE PRODIGAL SON

and go right. Wait for him to exit through the other door
Now foliow him down the stairs and through severai corridors. Don't shoot him untii he stops inside a room, outside of the interview room. He'ii tal<e quite a few hits
and he's armed.

The cops'll be after you for this, make no mistake.

■ Escape from the basement with Yasmin
Yasmin starts off with a gun but you don't ha'
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one of the people she kills. Make your way tc the stairs - there are loads of people to shoot but

■ Getaway with Yasmin from the Police Station in this section, you need to exit the poiice station. Head
for the bacl< door, foiiowing the exit signs. Ignore Yasmin

Yasmin's help makes it easier Up In the warehouse, gangsters will come at you from behind the crates. Tty

grab an Assault Riﬂe to make things easier Head for th
open door and get into a car outside with Yasmin. Again, the police will be desperate to catch up with you. Keep your foot down and smash through the centi
of the road blocks to avoid the stingers. Keep weaving YanJie crackhouse is more tricky - it takes ages to get there and there are gangsters who will give chase at certain points along the way You need to drive as fast as you can - most of the route is one straight road. Change cars if your tyres are blown or the car starts smoking. The Yardie crackhouse is at the end of a terrace of houses. Walk around the side to get to the back door
■ Get the cash in the Yardie crackhouse

teiling you to be quicl< - you can take as much time as you need for this section. When you reach the Speciai
Forces Ofﬁcers, hang back untii the smoke from their smoke bombs has cieared. After shooting them, nick their Assauit Riﬂes to make things easier iviake sure you don't shoot Yasmin accidentaliy - the feisty cow wiii

through the trafﬁc and try to make the police cars eras Jump out when you reach Charlie's plush mansion.
■ Avoid the electronic traps and find Alex

shoot you back, so make sure you protect her If she
dies, it's mission over

Rest if you need to aiong the way When you reach the yard at the rear of the poiice station, the gates wiii
start to close. Shoot the yellow motor to stop them

closing, nick a car and drive out. If you fail to hit the
motor, Yasmin will say that you'll have to take the front door. More police ofﬁcers will appear and some new doors will be open. Follow the signs to reception and the front entrance if you dare.
■ Find Charlie's depot

There are a couple of goons guarding the back door, so
take care of them. Rest now if you're injured at all. Enter the back door The kitchen should be clear Kill the two

Take the only door from the living room and sidestep past the laser beams. Take the door on the left to the kitchen and kill the guy armed with a meat cleaver Go through the open door, kill the two men, then go throui the archways. Follow the rooms to some stairs that are guarded by laser beams. Sidestep past the beams. If they are broken, poisonous gas will leak from the walls You may be able to survive it if you can run away and
rest somewhere.

Take a police van if you can - it's tougher than the car

people sat in the living room to your right, then go up
the stairs. Walt at the top of the stairs and use auto aim

Go up the stairs and shoot anyone you can see outside on the patio. Walk outside - one more man wi

and you're going to have a lot of cops on your tail. You can change cars if you need to along the way Follow the
indicators to Charlie's depot.

be out there to your right. Leg it through either door, tt
roll underneath the beams that block your way into th(

to ﬁnd a guy stood in one of the rooms. Then kill the girl
who runs at you.

hallway Kill the gangsters who appear from the side
rooms. Go up the stairs and through the door on your

Go through the hole in the wall that leads to the

MISSION 08
A TOUCH OF CLASS

■ Get to the Touch Of Class nightclub ■ with Yasmin Follow the car's indicators to the nightclub. The streets are crawling with police cars, but

house next door and kill the guy stood at the bottom of the stairs and the girl who runs from one of the rooms. Go down the stairs and grab an Automatic Riﬂe from the
kitchen. Take the stairs on this side to the second ﬂoor

right. Laser beams will appear after you've gone throuj
Go into the next room and roll underneath the ﬁrst sel

beams to your left. Turn right and roll under the beam: by the blue vase. Sidestep past the last set of beams.
Exit the room and go up the stairs. Enter the only

There should be a few more people about to kill. At the

in your new car they won't recognise you. Try to keep it that way by not attracting any attention to yourself.
■ Find Uyla the exotic dancer in the club Enter the club and get your gun at the ready. Walk down the stairs and kill the gangsters in the club from the

top is a hole to get back into the original house. Kill the guy stood at the top of the stairs and anyone else who
comes out of the surrounding rooms. The money is in the room directly opposite you and there's only one person guarding it.

room that you can and sidestep past the beams on yc right. Roll under the next set. Walk around the snookei table, roll under these beams and leave the room. In tl
next room, roll under the beam to your left, hug the w

by the door and side step to the door Roll under the beams blocking the door Exit the next room and kill tl
men who walk down the stairs. Walk up the stairs and

MISSION 10
A C AT I N A B A G

doorway Yasmin will help you. When you enter the club more gangsters will walk out from the bar side of the
club. Kill the guy stood in the room behind the bar to get an Assault Riﬂe. Take the only other open door in the club - to the ladies changing room - kill the gangsters inside and if all the bad guys have been shot down, a
cut-scene will kick in.

■ Exchange the money with Charlie ■ Now everyone's after you. The depot isn't too ® police road blocks

don't try to get past the beams at the top. Walk aroum to the right and you'll see a corridor which has an ope
door at the end.

Go through the door and stop immediately Roll
underneath the beams that have appeared. Wait in thf bedroom until a man walks into the room through the other door and shoot him. Roll under the next set of

along the way Drive through the centre of the
road blocks to avoid the stingers that have been laid
across the road.

beams Exit through the bathroom. In this room, roll ■ Escape from the Bethnal crew and go after Jake
As soon as the level starts, turn around and run behind the crates at the back of the room, then roll over to the
section beneath the ladders. Roll across to the next

MISSION 09
THE COWGIRL AND THE CASH

■ Drop Yasmin at Charlie's house in Mayfair.

under the horizontal beams in front of you, turn left 9( and walk down the room. Roll under the laser again fr the other side. Exit the room and head up more stairs

■ Find the Yardie crackhouse

The rooms up here are safe - go into the one directly
front of you.

1^2^ Dropping of fY asmin is quite straightforward.
driving, so they won't give chase unless you do

section under the ladders, then run over to the Shamsung

Again, the police are unaware of the car you're

something to draw attention to yourself Driving to the
■ ROAD RAGE Resist the

crate. From this position, you'll be able to clear a path for yourself for most of the way Make sure you kill the gangsters up high on the platfonns. Keep leaning around
the sides of the crates and killing whoever you can see.

MISSION 12
ABOARD THE SOL VITA ■ Drive to the Sol Vita

urge to hit pedestrians, as they'll slow you down.

Try shooting the ammunition dumps to take out several bad guys at once. You need to kill Sparky, who is the bald gang member He'll be walking around. He's tough to kill, but once you've wasted him, Jake will shout out that you've killed Sparky, then he'll run onto the
balcony Roll between the crates so that if anyone is

Quickly grab a car If you walk right, there ai usually a couple of decent cars driving dow
the road. This is a tricky drive - the boat is

miles away You should be able to avoid attention for ﬁrst part of it, but once the gangsters spot you, you'll
have to be very careful. ■ Shootout at the Cargo Ship

lurking they're less likely to hit you. More people will
come out of doors on the ﬁrst ﬂoor

Once it's clear, go up the stairs to the balcony and through the open door There might still be a few people
left on the ﬂoor who shoot at you. Keep rolling and you'll minimise the damage that you take. You can take a rest in one of these rooms. Walk down the stairs, through the door at the bod:om and through the door by the desk.

Use the gangplank to climb aboard the ship. Shoot yc way to the back of the ship, using crates for cover Ga entry into the boathouse and head down Into the eng
room. Yasmin will guard the top. Go down the steep stairs and into the ship. Turn right out of the engine room. Shoot everyone in your path and head for the front of the ship. Before you reach the far set of stair;

Keep walking through the rooms and you'll reach Jake.

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^ turn left into a room full of crates. A crate will fall directly In front of you - Harry is controlling a crane and trying to
crush you with boxes. Watching out for the falling crates, head towards the balcony on your left. Go up the stairs and across the other side. Go down the steps and turn right back into the crate room. Watching out for the forklift, shoot Harry on the balcony. Once he's dead, Mark's Journey is over But the game's not ﬁnished yet now you get to play as Frank Carter Your Pistol is the best distance weapon. The Assault

Riﬂe is also effective at a distance, but the Shotgun is next to useless for shooting criminals this far away Once this group is dead, head down the next ramp. Again, use the walls to hide behind and kill all of the gang members stood around the car further down the car park. Once they're dead, go down the stairs that are on your left. Go to the ﬁrst exit you reach and start shooting the people
out in the car park. Uniformed ofﬁcers will come down the stairs behind you to help.

PART TWO: FRANK CARTER MISSION 13
THE BARGAIN BASEMENT ■ Arrest Jake in the brothel
■ PRIVATE DANCER The

Once all the bad guys are dead, go down the ramp
and take out more gang members on the far side of the car park. Now, walk down the next ramp. Cross this car park level carefully as cars will screech past. Stick near

gi^s weren't banking on
this kind of action.

the wall. There should Just be a couple of gang members
on this level. Walk down the next ramp. There are loads more gangsters to shoot down. Once you're down to the ﬁnal person, uniformed ofﬁcers will come and arrest him.

Run into the brothel, then go straight and

When you're in-between the crates, you're safe.

follow the corridor left. Joe will run up the
stairs to your right and they will collapse beneath him. Follow the corridor until you reach some

stairs. Several bad guys will shoot at you along the way Now head up the stairs and enter the doorv/ay on your left. Shoot the man in here, then leave the same way you
came in.

Always wait until the machinery has Just passed you before moving. Don't make any rash moves - the camera angle means you can't see if a bit of machinery is about to hit you. If you ﬁnd yourself in a position where you're about to be run over, using stealth should ensure you
don't get hit. There will be a few Yardies In between the

MISSION 17
ESCORT DUTY

Opposite the stairs is a hole in the ﬂoor Sidestep to get to the other side, then go left. Shoot the guys in the corridor Keep following the corridor - about halfway down, someone will shoot through the wall and start ﬁring at you. Keep walking towards a string of red lights.
Again, sidestep past the gap in the ﬂoor On the other side you'll meet up with Joe. Go up the stairs and turn right, then left. Some

crates with you, so stay on your guard. When you reach the side of the yard with no machinery, you Just need to
get across in one piece.

B out the gang member in the Range Rover iSSﬂ This is quite tricky . As soon as the police car
has gone up in ﬂames, stamp on the accelerator and go after the black Range Rover Don't waste time with gentle bumps from behind - it'll Just

■ Protect the prison van convoy by taking

There are still quite a few Yardies hanging about. Check around each corner before proceeding, watch
your back and remember to rest if you get injured. It's best to check out the yard to make sure no one else is lurking, before proceeding to the car park area, so no one can sneak up behind you. When you reach the car park, uniformed ofﬁcers will Join you. Help them take care of the remaining Yardies, then walk over to the parked white van on the far side of the car park. The
suspects are sat inside.

speed him up, slow you down and hardly cause him any
damage at all. Keep the accelerator pressed down and use the

hand brake for cornering Once you've caught up with
him, pull up alongside and try to shunt him into a wall. As soon as smoke starts coming out of his car, he'll start

armed ofﬁcers will Join you. Polish off the group of
gangsters at the end of the corridor and follow the

corridor to another gap in the ﬂoor Inch your way
across it and go left. Jake is in a room down here. Let
the armed ofﬁcers arrest him.

to slow down. Then you can keep ramming until the car
goes up in ﬂames. ■ Rejoin the prison van convoy Just follow your car's indicators to the prison van convoy If you write off your car, you can grab another Drive quickly as there is a time limit. Once you get near to the
van, the mission will end.

■ Rush Joe to the UL£ Hospital You have to drive Joe to the hospital within the time

MISSION 15
DISTURBANCE IN SOHO

limit. Try to get over how strange it is to be on the right
side of the law with the police helping you! Get into one of the police cars and wait for Joe to climb in. Follow your indicators and the police that have stopped the trafﬁc along the way for you. Make sure your sirens are on so other cars will get out of your way Drive ﬂat out on the long, straight road and you should make the time limit without a problem. Don't crash the car - Joe won't

B Drive to the restaurant at top speed. Y ou have
quite a tight time limit to meet. The car that you start: off in is nice and fast, so try not to

■ Quell the riot outside the restaurant

crash it. Don't use your sirens now that you've upset a few people. As breaking the law attracted the police when you were Mark, being the law attracts the thugs and you'll be shot at and rammed. Use the pavements if
the trafﬁc is heavy. Once at the riot, head for the smoking police car

MISSION 18
THE VIGILANTE

■ Rescue the rookie cops from the Yardies

^^B Follow the car's indicators to the Y ardie drug factory. The entrance to the building is down
an alley, guarded by one of the gang members.

follow you Into another car Pull up outside the hospital
entrance to ﬁnish the mission.

Shoot him and proceed down the alley shooting the
other Yardies that are down here. Go up the stairs and be ready to take on four or ﬁve Yardies who come out of the room at the top. Rest if you need to, then enter the room and kill the remaining three or so who are hidden

MISSION 14
SHOW SOME REMORSE

Help the uniformed ofﬁcers kill the thugs shooting at you from further up the road. Keep moving forwards,
returning to a shop doorway to rest if you need to. Make sure you grab the Assault Riﬂes and Shotguns that will start to litter the ground. Once these thugs are dead, some silver cars will turn up and a few more people will get out and start shooting Kill them, then walk up to

■ Arrest the Yardie ringleaders Take a drive over to the depot - very

straightforward. Use your siren to get through the trafﬁc faster At the depot, shoot as many
of the gang members as you can and take down the sniper stood on the crate. As you can see, you need to

behind loads of dodgy plants. Shoot the turnstiles if you fancy stopping the music. Exit the room and go up the
next ﬂight of stairs.
Look around the corner into the next room. It looks a bit like a science lesson in there. Take out the Yardies

their cars and a police car, followed by more gangster
cars, will arrive.

cross the yard without being hit by any moving machinery. If you take it slowly this is quite easy

The last gangsters that get out of these cars are tough to kill and armed with powerful guns. Get into one

of the silver cars and drive as fast as you can into them As they'll be shooting at your car you'll only get two or three chances to drive back and forth. When your car
starts smoking, it's time to jump out and ﬁnish off anyone still standing

fram the safety of the doorway Retreat down the stairs to rest if you get hurt. Your bullets will start a ﬁre. Finish off everyone in the room and wait for the ﬁre to settle.

Walk through the doorway and you'll ﬁnd the rookie cops.

MISSION 19
S TA L K I N G M C C O R M A C K

MISSION 16 yww PAINTING THE TOWN RED the Yardies B ■ stop the gang war between
and the Triads in the NCP car park Chinatown is Just around the corner Drive to

B Exit the drug factory the way that you came in.
Shoot the two Yardies blocking the exit, then pick off the remaining people ﬁghting in the yard. When the police arrive, it should be safe to exit the yard. There will be a couple of people to shoot in the street. Find a car and head for the police station. Once your hazard lights ﬂash, McCormack will drive out of the police station car park. If you don't see him. Just follow your indicators until you catch up. He's in a

■ Tailing McCormack

the street where the gangs are ﬁghting Drive up it until
your hazard lights start ﬂashing. Get out, run towards the
■ VIOLENT? Too right. Next you'll have to drive the body to Chinatown.

NCP car park and shoot the gang members by the entrance. Walk down the ramp - there are loads of gang
members in the car park at the bottom. Roll when out in the open and use cars and walls for cover

red Vectra. Your hazards will ﬂash if you get too close to him, then he'll spot you and the mission will end. Keep

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following him. Try to keep him in sight - you'll fail the mission if you lose sight of him for 45 consecutive seconds. Once you reach the depot, wait for him to exit the car and walk inside before following him. ■ Follow McCormack. Sneak into Charlie's Depot
Take the door behind the desk, then the one to the

MISSION 21
THE JOLSON niES

Follow the car's indicators to the Sol Vita.

■ Sneak into the basement and find Charlie

H The warehouse is Just a short drive away When
you get there, look around the corner to see two people talking. When one of them walks away, run behind the other, by his car, and either pistol whip or arrest him - depending on how generous you' feel. Enter the building and walk up the stairs behind the man stood with his back to you. Wait in Stealth mode by the next doorway for the three men talking to walk away - one will walk straight past you through this doonway Go down the steps and hide behind the nearest package. Wait for the two men to walk away, then go through the
nearest door Two more are stood on the other side to

When you get there, climb aboard. Pistol whip tl ﬁrst guy standing with his back to you, then nick hi Assault Riﬂe. Not surprisingly, the rest of the gangst onboard will soon spot you and make it clear that; presence on board Is most unwelcome. Use the cn
to duck behind and don't run out in the open. Keej

warehouse. Wait behind the crate to the right of IvicCormack and the other guy until they walk away. Follow behind them at a safe distance and when you reach a brick wall, walk around to the left and go around the crate. Walk around one side of the crates and peer
around the corner

resting if you get injured. If you're struggling, try run left along the boat. Just shooting anyone who is din in your way They won't all follow and surround you here. Once they're all dead, go through the doorwaj you'll catch up with Jake.
Shoot at him and he'll run around the corner Fi

You should see two people talking When they walk away, you'll see McCormack and his mate through some crates. Leg it towards them and stop at the largest piece of cargo. Sidestep around this to the left, checking the coast is clear, then run underneath the left platform on the far side of the room. Creep up on the two guys with guns. Now you're in, start shooting. Take out the three guys in this area, then move back towards the entrance and go up the stairs to the balcony. There won't be many people left, so don't worry about checking everywhere.

him up the stairs. At the top there are a couple of r stood on the far side and a couple more will come
the stairs. There's also someone in the kitchen. Res

your right, facing away - wait for them to walk off. Follow the one in a blue top until you reach some lighter coloured boxes. Wait here and peer around the corner You should be able to see the man in the blue top stood at the top of the stairs to the basement facing away from you, there's a man in a grey suit next to him and a bald man looking in your direction in the distance. Wait for the moving crate to drop down in front of the
bald man, then run to the next crate. Move around the

you need to before going up the next ﬂight of steps out on to the balcony and walk around it. A couple guys will come towards you and Jake will make off crane. Run back down the stairs and go to the fron the boat, where you'll catch up with Jake on the cr Make sure you're on full health before you go u| there. He's tough to kill - Just standing still and ﬁrir see you dead. Try to arm yourself with something n powerful than the Pistol and keep rolling. After you'' taken a few hits, running back down the steps and resting will ensure he's the ﬁrst to die.

crates until you're in a position to sneak up behind the man at the top of the stairs and pistol whip or arrest
him. The other man has walked into the basement. Move

back where you can see the bald man and wait until he walks away before legging it into the basement.
Wait at the bottom and look around the corner - two

MISSION 24
LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY

men will be stood talking. Wait for them to walk away and move around the wall so you can see them again. Wait while they both stand still - the furthest one away is blocking the doorway that you need to go through.
RIOT CONTROL On

■ Escape from the cargo ship You now have only three minutes to get ol ship before it blows up. Run down the stai straight down the corridor You'll have to si and shoot a few people along the way. Go up the sta the top of the corridor and head into the loading are down the stairs and head for the door on the right o room. There are two or three gangsters you'll have to on the way through this room. A couple have Shotgu will do you a lot of damage if you Just try running pa Now run down the corridor towards the engine If you're injured to the point of not being able to rui for ten seconds or so here, but no longer than that you'll run out of time. Go into the engine room and the two people there, and the one stood up on the level. Run up the stairs to the deck Finally, run left out onto the deck and your ﬁnal mission is complete. You've ﬁnished the game. Congratulations!

Eventually, he'll move to Join the other guy watching TV. Run across the room and through the archway as fast as you possibly can.

right side of the law, help to stop these thugs.

MISSION 22
D Race to the hospital. Find Joe Get to the hospital within the time limit - it's not too tough. Just try to get into a fast car You're not going to the A&E - the building you want is before that. Once inside, you have another time limit in which to ﬁnd Joe, so take the stairs to the second ﬂoor and go straight to the private rooms. Joe will be in the last one on the left with the police guard outside.
MEET MARK HAMMOND

■ Escape from the warehouse

B Shoot the guy walking down the stairs, then go
up the stairs and leg it left to the crates. There are loads of gangsters to kill and if you stay out in the open, you'll be shot down within seconds. Use the boxes for cover and look around the edge before moving forwards. Shoot as many people as you
can from behind the crates. Leave the warehouse the

MISSION 20
I DO THE WORLD A FAVOUR

way you came in. Shoot the few people outside, then Jump into one of the cars and escape. ■ Follow Jake to the depot and sneak inside. Drive quickly to the depot - you've got a time limit. Gangsters will be after you in cars - Just use the usual tactics to shake them off. You'll be able to change cars if they do too much damage to yours, but if you change too many times you'll run out of time. Back at the depot, wait for the two bad guys to move away then take the main entrance into reception. Follow the guy going upstairs into the meeting room and arrest him. Go into the main loading area and down the stairs. Once the faster guy moves away, arrest the slower one. Peer around the corner and you'll see one of the many gang members heading towards you. Quickly run back and stay out of sight. Once he's gone, head in the direction the faster guy went, sticking close to the middle of the loading area. When you reach the rear of the vehicles and people, the mission will end.

I Save Joe and secure the hospital

I Stand in the doorway of Joe's room. Down the I corridor to your right wil be several members
of the Bethnal gang Shoot them all and uniformed police ofﬁcers will arrive. One will stay on guard outside Joe's room so you're safe to leave him. Go right down the corridor and walk around the hospital, shooting all the gangsters, including Big Walter Check the wards and all the corridors. Armed police ofﬁcers will help you. Once all the gangsters are dead, your mission objective will change. ■ Go to the lock up in Scoresby Street Follow the car's indicators to the lock up. You'll notice a nice welcoming party of a few gangsters in cars as you approach it, so when you get out of the car, make sure you're ready for a gun battle. ■ Find the files in the lock up Peer around the corner before entering the lock up. You should be able to kill three or more gangsters from this position. Now run into the lock up and take out the remaining gangsters. Go to the doorway to the right of the car and shoot the guy on the other side before proceeding. Stand in the doorway and lean around again to kill the other two people in here. Enter the room and watch your back - others might follow you in. To complete the mission, kill the guy in the far corner and walk up to his body to ﬁnd the ﬁles.

MISSION 23
SHOWDOWN wrm jake

yWW ■ Find Jake onboard the cargo ship and

H stop him in his tracks

First things ﬁrst, so shoot any gangsters in your way, then run out of the depot and get into the
nearest car Even more people will turn up in cars, so

you need to make your escape quickly, before you ﬁnd yourself hopelessly outnumbered by cop-killing bad guys.

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GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE aTY Part Two of our exhaustive Vice City guide
expiains the essential property missions.
LOVE FIST MISSIONS LOVE JUICE
The rock band wants the ingredients of a
special cocktaii and it's up to you to ﬁnd it. First things ﬁrst. Grab a fast bike, the PCJ is the way down to your ﬁrst safe house at the bottom of

nicked. Get to the Ammunation that's hiding
the bike and nick a PCJ 600. Now head

down the road nearest the store. Use the stairs facing the store to Jump onto the roof. Snipe the guards on the roof then take a long run up to pick up speed. Leave the roof via the two sets of stairs and kill anyone who attacks you. Take the bike and drive it back up the sets of stairs you entered the area from. Jump off the roof on
the bike and drive to the bar to complete the mission.
Reward; $4,000

PROPERTY MISSIONS
Ocean Drive. This should give the band enough time to diffuse the bomb and to make things easier, there aren't any real obstmctions in your way so you wont slow down.
After the drama's over deliver the band to the concert. Reward: $8,000
THE PRINT WORKS

Cost: $70,000

SPILLING THE BEANS
I After buying the old print works and having a chat with the old fella about money get in the
cab and head to the Malibu. The guy there

the one to go for Get to the pink biip and honk the horn. The dealer will come out and take your
money without handing over the merchandise. Sort him

BIKER MISSIONS

out. The good thing about following on a motorcycle is
you can ﬁre ahead of you, so hold back a little and ﬁre away One or two direct hits is enough to drop him off

ALLOY WHEELS OF STEEL
I bar Follo w the spade icon on the map to the biker You have to convince the bikers you're I Grab one of the bikes parked outside and line
yourself up about 20 feet back from the start line. We're

I mentions the docks, so head to the blip on
the radar The boat where the shipping master is located is heavily guanjed, so take it slow and steady Auto-aim with m as you walk through the ship. A Shotgun is the best weapon to use. Get the info and your wanted level
increases. If you need Health, there's some under the gangway so nab it and drive back to the printworks.
Reward: $2,000

his bike. Collect the money and the phone will ring
requesting some 'company' for the band. Drive to the

worthy of their company, so a race is set up.

blip to pick up the hooker You've got to high tail it back
to the band as they're on stage soon, so weave in and

out of the trafﬁc and go as fast as possible. If you're still
on the PCJ, push forward slightly to lower wind resistance and improve your speed. Reward; $2,000

gonna cheat lit is our Job after all!) so simply blast your
way through the pink start grid and ﬁre at the other

PSYCHO KILLER
Lx)ve Fist are being stalked by a dodgy

racers before you get there. The race will start and you'll already have a healthy lead because of the speedy run up you took. The trick during the race is to blast along the straights at full whack, but slow down as you get to
the corners and handbrake turn into them. One trick that

HIT THE COURIER
You need some aimable weapons - the PSG and Sniper Riﬂe are perfect - and a fast car Also make sure you're maxed out in Armour
and Health. You must take out the courier with

character Get in the limo and drive to the pink blip on the map. Here's where it gets tricky. One of the fans will kill a security guard then
get in a car and drive off. You have to follow him and ram him with the limo. He's a very neat driver, so the

works is pushing forward on the bike so you duck and lower wind resistance. It gives you an extra speed boost
the other racers don't possess... the dumb asses! Hunch

over your bike on the initial straight and you're sorted.
You can ram the other racers, but don't attempt to attack them in any other way or the race is over You

the counterfeit plates then steal the plates. Head to the pink blip on the radar The yellow one is the position of the courier First, take out the sniper and the car tyres the PSG or the Sniper Riﬂe are great for this. Carry on ﬁring into the bodyguards until the courier sets

best way to get him is to not follow too close, and use the moments he collides with other cars as your hit points. Use the left and right look buttons when he gets
out of sight as he doesn't appear on the radar Ram him

can also cheat in an even more dastardly way. When
you're hunting for a bike, head down to the industrial

1 down. With popped tyres, her
[ vehicle is much slower, so ram it
until it explodes. She'll escape, but ) she's no match for you in a car Grab the plates from her body and speed back to the printers.

and follow him far enough and he'll get out the car Now it's simply a matter of gunning him down or running him
over The choice is yours.
Reward: $4,000

area at the south end of the city and grab a huge truck and park it in front of the two riders on the right
when they are on the start line. Steal the third one's bike (eliminating him from the race) and drive off. The

truck will block their way and leave you free and clear
Reward: $1,000

' Reward: $5,000

MESSING WITH THE MAN
IY ou have two minutes to ﬁll up your chaos I the world they're not to be
messed with. First you want to stock
up on Rockets and Grenades or

meter to maximum. Why? Well, quite simply the bikers want to show

Molotov Cocktails. Make sure you're wearing Armour and have full Health as well. To be honest,
there's no real mission here ■ LOVE FIST Amazing
the kind of music that

it's all about killing as many people and blowing up as many cars as you can, and generally wreaking as much havoc as humanly possible. And there's a simple trick that'll give you an ultra-easy chance to win
this one - blow one car

can earn you a gold disc.

PUBLICITY TOUR
yWM Lj oso ve they Rst are l terri ﬁed the psycho er,r H enlissti t you to drivof e them aroundstal to k thei
gig Unfortunately when you get in the car you realise there's a bomb attached. If you
slow down too much it'll explode. It takes the band a while

up and ﬁre at it continually
The chaos meter will rise

even though the car is already beaten up. Neat!
Reward: $2,000

to defuse the bomb, so drive to the left straight away and
head for the ﬁrst island. You can follow the main road all

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CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
I Not really a mission, but once you purchase
the boatyard you get to race the boats around
the docks collecting the packages. Try not to

THE SHOOTIST
I This one Is easy If you're calm. Get to the blip
on the map and go through the back of the
Ammunation to talk to Phil. He'll challenge yo

1 turn too hard In the boats or you'l lose control.
Keep pumping and letting go of the accelerator to keep
an even keel and generally treat your boat with respect.
Reward: $1,000 PORN EMPIRE Cost; $60,000
■ B L A C K M A I L S U N D AY

1 to a shooting contest. In the ﬁrst round the
easiest way to beat him Is to line up a shot where all
three dummies are In a straight line. Constant ﬁring ove that area will take them out. The second round is even easier Smooth movement of the stick works best, as

long as you don't move It diagonally The third section 1: more pot luck, but If you're good enough you should have the score wrapped up by the time you get here.
Reward: $2,000

RECRUITMENT DRIVE
I Buying the porn empire costs a hefty whack of money, but the rewards are Interesting and fun.
Your ﬁrst mission is to grab some lovely ladles

This isnt Tommy sniping, it's a long range camera.

THE DRIVER

I for the business. Follow the ﬁrst blip to Candy

KAUFMANN CAB'S VIP
Your ﬁrst duty Is to pick the VIP up from ■ Starfish Island. Hop in a cab and floor It - you only have a minute. Follow the blip, and beep the horn when you're In the marker Another cabbie shows up and steals the fare, so you have to make him pay He drives pretty straight, so ram him as much as possible. Keep It up and the fare will hop cabs Into yours. You now have to get him to the airport with
the attention of the other cabbie. Use lots of short cuts

The hardest mission in the game, but follow ■ our lead. Meet the driver outside the Mallbu.
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Suxxx. When her pimp drives up, try and shoot some of his tyres. Ignore his thugs and give chase. Keep ramming and shooting his car until It explodes, then return to Candy Drive to the next blip on the map to collect
Mercedes, another performer. She's In the pizza place.

you. The race Is a large loop through the
streets of Vice City, but his car's fast and yours Isn't.

From there you only have to deliver them to the studio
to ﬁnish the mission. Reward: $1000

Add the police chasing the pair of you and you're In for a sticky ride, so cheat - before you accept the mission park a Comet or Cheetah near the Police Station, Just a the bridge, near where you start. When you start, ram and drive-by shoot him until you get to this point, then switch to the fast car Now you're on even terms. Both
cars corner brilliantly so keep tight and fast to win.
Reward: $3,000

DILDO DODO
You've got a movie to advertise, and the only r way is to take to the skies and drop the ﬁlers.
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studios and there's a Skimmer waiting - It's a

through alleys - the area Is full of them, so you should
lose him. Then it's an easy drive to the airport.
Reward: $1,000

THE JOB
The gang's all set, so tool up and wheel out.
■ Get In the taxi and follow the blip to the ban across town. Enter the bank and be calm.

FRIENDLY RIVALRY
You have to destroy three rival cabs patrolling

seaplane, so get yourself airborne. The best way to do
this task Is to start at the very north point, above the dirtbike track and work your way down and back In a

the city. Two things make this easy: First, you
don't need to use a cab If you don't want to -

huge loop. As soon as you activate the ﬁrst checkpoint
the next one Is made clear Follow that to the next point

as soon as you see a better car just hijack It.
Second, as soon as the violence begins, the other cabbies will drive straight towards you - no dodging here. Use this to your advantage, by parking your car across the front of theirs and shooting their engines, drive-by style.
Reward: $2,000

Head upstairs and don't shoot until the security guards show up. Head to the second ﬂoor and
the vault. Leave Cam there and search for the manager

until you loop around from the airport over the docks.
Follow the highway back up and the mission is over

who's cowering in a room on the ﬁrst ﬂoor He'll follow
without the need for violence. Once the vault's sorted, i

Don't zig-zag with the plane - take it slow and easy,
following as natural a loop as possible.
Reward: $2,000

MARTHA'S MUGSHOT
You have to tall Candy to her Congressman

CABAGEDDON
I Mercedes wants you to pay her a visit, but
unfortunately the rival cab ﬁrm are still on

to the lobby where the SWAT team are about to show l Use the Magnum - It's a speedy one-shot kill. Auto-aln every SWAT guy and you'll easily kill them. Head outsldi and watch your getaway driver get mown down. Again, auto-target the SWAT guys nearest the taxi and hop In.
Reverse to the road and follow the blip to the nearest

boyfriend's hotel and snap the pair In an
intimate rendezvous. The thing to remember here is to ignore the advice on screen. Our method Is much easier and safer Once Candy leaves the studio head to the back and get In the chopper It's

Pay And Spray Once sprayed. Just drive to the blip. The
Mallbu asset Is unlocked. Reward: $50,000

I sound the horn in the purple area. Mercedes
won't show, but the entire staff of the rival cabs will.
Drive Into the b-ball marked garage in the corner of the

your tall. Follow the blip to the docks and

FINAL MISSIONS

a very handy machine and you shouldn't have any trouble controlling it. Follow Candy's llmo to the hotel. Instead of getting out of the chopper and running into
the hotel, land the chopper on the front awning of the

area. Here, either the car gets rigged with a bomb and you can escape and detonate It, or It will be protected by all the other cabs trying to grind It. When the timer
runs out the head cab will turn up. Stay on foot and run

CAP THE COLLECTOR
When you arrive at the print works the old ■ geezer has been roughed up. Sonny Forelli I; responsible, and he's come to collect on the proﬁt. All the properties you've garnered are
risk from his tax collectors. On the map the red blip

hotel. This gives you the opportunity to take a pic
without the risk of being shot. Snap them three times

behind the concrete pillars. Use either a Sniper Riﬂe,
PSG or Rocket Launcher to take him out. Reward; $3,000
THE MAUBU

then ﬂy back to the ﬁlm studio. If you did this In a car, your massive wanted level would really make It hard, but
In a chopper it's very easy.
Reward: $4,000

Cost: $120,000

G-SPOTLIGHT
This Is a fun but infuriating mission. You have to make several Insane Jumps with the aim of accessing a spotlight on a roof. The

NO ESCAPE yWW Y ou have a safe to bust Into, but ﬁrst you

represents the property at risk. Head to the boathouse and take out the thugs on bikes by ramming them. Pic up the Rocket Launcher You're now basically chasing 1 red blip all over town. The collectors are tough, but the
Rocket Launcher soon has them begging for mercy
Reward: $30,000

have to break the safe breaker out of Jail. Follow the map to the yellow blip. Park a fast car outside the police station. Inside the police

KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSI
Head to your mansion on Starﬁsh Island fo
the ﬁnal mission. The mob are coming and

spotlight will be used to project a picture of Candy's ample breasts to advertise the movie. Nab the security guard's bike and follow the blip to the ﬁrst Jump. The best advice throughout all the Jumps Is to start early
In the afternoon and to get as long a run up as possible

In every Jump. Be honest with your capabilities - never take a jump when it feels like you're under-powering
towards it. When you've completed this mission, you've also successfully completed the Porn Studio asset.
Reward: $4,000 KAUFMANN CABS Cost: $40,000

station, head left Into the locker room and collect the uniform. Follow the high blip to the keycard then the lower blip to the basement where the cells are. Let Cam out and protect him. A Shotgun Is good, as It's Instant death for anyone In your way Get to the car and drive as fast as possible to the blip to get the car resprayed.
The route has a few small alleys, so use them. Once the

they're not happy Protect the safe, shootlnj 15 or so goons who attack. Use the Shotgu or Magnum, keep swapping the auto-aim quickly, and they'll fall. Next up Is Lance. Chase him to the roof top and grab the adrenaline pill to Improve reaction speec
Aim for the barrels to take out groups of guys at once

car Is sprayed the wanted level drops and you're free to
deliver Cam to his home. Reward: $1000

Lance Is tough, so keep moving, but he'll die as easily
the others. Back in the mansion. Sonny shows up. Use

your desk as cover and auto-aim Into the thugs until you kill Sonny When he's dead, the game's beateni

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The girls. The gadgets. You know his name, now play the game.

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We reveal how to get past those hair-pulling stumbling blocks. GTA: VICE CITY
QUESTION: I managed

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to complete the Cop
Land mission, and felt

very smug for alMut
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realised that the

H AV E N : C A U . OF THE KING Another stunning platformer hits PS2. But it's more than
just ledge-leaping skills you need.
SHOOTING, DRIVING AND FLYING
Here's a quick rundown on how to operate them all.
s DEATH RACE You'll

Tarbrush Cafe, which I
so completely

destroyed, was one of the 15 stores that you
can rob. Have I

completely screwed
up my chance of

Throughout the adventure you'll get to take control of all sorts of craft, from quad bikes to gliders.

getting 100%
completion? Yes you have. Sony to say it, but there's no way you can get 100% completion without

be Haven a great time racing Quads.

GUN CONTROL
If you wanna survive long enough to get down and ditty with some Bond babes, be prepared...
RELOAD OFTEN

robbing all 15 stores, so we hope you've got a
previous save game you
can use,

You'll come up against enemy ﬁre frequently and often unexpectedly. Always be ready to ﬁght by making sure you're clip's always full. Try checking the alternate ﬁring mode of your weapons too, certain situations demand different ﬁring modes.
CIRCLE STRAFE

QUESTION: rve got to a point where I'm not sure where to go next. I concentrated on the main plot missions for

Diaz and Cortez, and
I Ve b e e n t o l d t h a t F v e

completed the

'Protection Ring Asset'.
What now? Yo u ' v e d o n e a n

The classic tip for ﬁrst-person shooters. Master this and you've got it cracked. Sidestep around an opponent while keeping them ﬁrmly in your sights By the time they've got a clear shot, you've got them pegged.
BLOW UP BARRELS

Important chunk of the

game, but the next step Is to buy two properties.
The Mallbu Club (for $120,000, located in... well, surely you remember?) and the

SHOOTING At various points you'll take control of gun turrets. The controls are very straightforward - just aim and shoot - but there are a few things to remember
Attackers tend to follow set

DRIVING You get to drive Quad Racers on the land and Speedboats on the water When driving the Quad Racers just go for It. They handle
well and corner fast. Just

Print Works Ifor $70,000,
located northeast of

Escobar Airport). You
must complete the missions for these two
assets to continue Ttiere are ottier side missions

Not just dotted around Indiscriminately oh no. They can be blown up to take down multiple enemies in one hit. Not only do you save on your ammo, but it means you can get through the level quicker, topping up your bonuses as you go.
SURRENDER

available you're having trouble raising the
necessary capital.

Sneak up behind enemies and poke your gun In
their back They'll drop their weapon (and maybe

patterns so try to learn these as quickly as possible. Take out only the missiles and enemies that are heading straight for you and Ignore the others. If a big enemy has a hot spot that needs shooting keep going for It. The principal here Is very simple: the faster you take out the hotspots, the quicker the enemy is defeated. So go for It.

remember, because they're so fast and sensitive. If you're chasing a target or going up a thin ramp it's all too easy to either miss the target or steer off course so kill that speed to keep your accuracy good. When using speedboats, the only thing to remember Is that they can
travel over small areas of land

without losing too much speed. This helps to avoid torpedos too.

F LY I N G The gliders look hi-tech, but they're just like the hang gliders we have here on Earth, to be honest. When landing kill your speed by pulling back and lifting the nose of the craft upwards. Aircraft and spacecraft require different sets of skills so you're on your own here Isorry, but you really ought to put in a bit of work, you know). All we'll say Is that In combat situations, always keep one eye on the radar to keep track of the enemies and don't forget to use those m and m buttons to roil away from attacks. Chocks away!

more) and put their hands up. You get extra bonus
points for doing it and a weapon with a full clip sorted secret agent-slyle.
USE YOURZOOM

POTTY TIME
The weird thing about Haven's universe is that anything useful seems to come in a pot. But there's more than one type of pot and not all of them give up their contents easily.
REGULAR POTS Regular pots are easy peasy. Just break 'em any way you like and then grab all the goodies. EXPLODING POTS. These are a pain and come In various types. Some explode when touched, others ﬁzz for a few seconds before exploding. Trouble is, they can often destroy the goodies hiding in adjacent regular pots so always break open the regular pots ﬁrst. POTS WITH SPIKES Pots with spikes are no big deal so long as you approach them carefully. If there are spikes around the side, break them open by stomping down on them. Alternatively, If there are spikes on top, use your Mag Bali
from the side.

It's hard to control the sniper riﬂe at full magniﬁcation. Try using only half so you can move to your target more quickly and accurately

HOT SHOTS
White-hot blasts of tippage for instant expertise.
BOND MOVES

FLAMING POTS These can only be broken open by a Shield Dragon so go ﬁnd a ﬁre pot, break it open carefully to get the Dragon and then activate your shield lit is charged. Isn't it?| to guide it to the ﬂaming pot.

Extra points are awarded in NightFire for pulling off dashing Bond-style stunts and moves.

STTLE GURU
M U LT I P L E R O U T E S

There ar« so many game styles in Haven it's hard to know where to start. But we can show you <
few of the basics to get you started... GRIND RAILS You'll ﬁnd the ﬁrst of these green glowing overiiead rails to the left of your start point In Virescent Village. Make sure you go over there and practice your grinding. It's easy to fall off mid-grind so get the hang of It here and save yourself lots of grief. POWER-UPS It's tempting just to grab every power-up as soon as you ﬁnd It. Don't. Energy Is at a premium In some sections so If you ﬁnd a power-up and your energy isn't
too low, leave It then come back

There are often two or three ways to ﬁnd your way
around the missions. Look for alternate routes and

otherwise It's always better to
avoid conﬂict.

you're likely to come across more Bond Moves.
SMOKE GRENADES

You can see through Smoke Grenades by using the night vision on your x-ray specs. Use a Grenade to bewilder multiple opponents then pick them off.
007 BONUSES

to it when you really need it.

IF POSSIBLE, RUN
Many of the enemies, especially the guards, don't attack unless you're In close range. Where possible, avoid conﬂict. If enemies attack or give chase then you'll have to engage them.

USE THE BLASTER Some parts of the game require you to use the arm blaster in
First-Person mode. It's also

Replay a mission after collecting a Gold Medal to collect the 007 Bonuses. This is the only way to earn a Platinum Medal and gain a maximum score.

useful for picking off enemies at a distance though, so try recharging the blaster and clearing enemies with It. This will save you the task of having to go
Into close combat.

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you get the medals and keep grinding.
Jump onto the platform with the

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you, but you can see the precise moment they
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white side then jump onto the platform with the orange side. There's be a big ring.
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Very diddy and very dull Amy Men helicopter game Avoid
REVIEWED OPS2#09/OVERALL 02

ARMY MEN: GREEN ROGUE
On-raiis AM shooter - and one of the worst games weVe seen.
REVIEWED OPS2#08/OVERAU.01

I Pacey ninja-ﬂavoured adventure wtth oodles of chopsocky action.
I REVIEWED OPS2#05/OVERAU. 06

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Solid Sega truck racer, but 18 wheels arent always better...
REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERALL 06

ARMY MEN: RTS
Real-time strategy and Amiy Men together at last!
REVIEWED OPS2#22/OVERAll 06/*DVD#23

Given to games
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impressive 8/10.
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'ARMY MEN: SARGE'S HEROES 2
Third-person action adventure - for Army Men obsesslves only.
REVIEWED OPS2#07/OVERALL 03
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■ACE COMBAT: DISTANT THUNDER
^Namco's cult PSone combat ﬂight sim now looking sweet on PSZ
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ATLANTIS III: THE NEW WORLD
Tedious ﬁrst-person adventure. Think Myst minus the fun. Exactly.
REVIEWED OPS2#20/OVERAa 02

where we ran a

!AGE of empires II: THE AGE OF KINGS
I Beardy feudal real-time strate© title from the makers of (ssh) Xbox.

playable demo. ATV OFFROAD
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REVIEWED OPS2#10/OVERALL 06

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rA TV2: QUAD POWER RACING
^ Average quad bike racer with some innovative elements.

IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 * 2 9 / O V E R A a0 5 / « ) V D # 3 0
'AUTO MODELUSTA
SiicK playable eel-shaded racer Lack of online play lets It down.
REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAa 07

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I A L L S T A RB A S E B A L L2 0 0 2 I Acclaim bag a stat-fuelled home mn with this deep baseball sim.
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IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 2 3 / O V E R A U .0 6
BASS STRIKE
Um, ﬁshing on PlayStation 2? One for bass aﬁcionados only
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JA L L S T A RB A S E S A a2 0 0 3 :F E A T U R I N GD E R E KJ E T E R JR A n d a n o t h e rO h o m e o n i f o r A lS iAt a r7 -n o ww t h ia d d e dD e r e k ) ^ E V I E W E D P S 2 # 2 0 / O V E R t l0
IALONE IN THE DARK: THE NEW NIGHTMARE
I TT ie orignal sunrfval horror game loses out to Res/ in its comeback. IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 1 3 / O V E R A a0 6

BATMAN VENGEANCE
Action adventure based on PC's 'dark deco' cartoon.

1. PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2

REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERALL 06

^ALPINE RACER 3

JT r u y le x e c r a b e ls W e 'm u p ,N o tﬁ tt oc e la nS S S <T h c k f js s n o w b o o t s ,
REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAa 03/«)VD#27

Class, strength and pace... the complete player Henry.

W BA TTLE ENGINE AQUILA
Blowing things up In a big transformer Big tank action.
REVIEWED OPS2#29/OVERALL 07/*DVD#2»

■ANTZ EXTREME RACING
Ttghtly scripted movie inspires lacklustre multipiayer racer Why?

IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 2 5 / O V E R A l i0 4
vAPE ESCAPE 2 I Cheel^ monkQ'S, but is there enou^ variety for everyone?

Back in prime form after a slightly lean
spell. Zola.

[BIG MUTHA TRUCKERS jT r u c k n i gt r a d n i ga n dﬁ g h n t i gn io n eg a m e ?T e nf o u r
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'BLADE II

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[R E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 2 7 / O V E R A U .0 5
BLOOD OMEN 2
Arcade-tinged horror adventure for vampire lovers everywhere
REVIEWED OPS2*20/OVERAiJ. 06

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New boy in town

building a big reputation. Rooney.

BLOODY ROAR 3
Erm, Tekken meets Thundercots? Fur ﬂies In this gory beat-'em-up, Inconsistent, but occasionally inspired. Di Canio

IW / p E o u tm e e t sat o f tS / e dS t o r m ;p a ly sg r e a t ,o lo k st e rb ie l REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERAa 07

IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 0 9 / O V E R A a0 6 'IBMX Indies' bitXXX s can do nothing to spice up this limp biking biscuit.
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lARMORED CORE 2; ANOTHER AGE
1 f^ore of the same, but deﬁnitely better than its predecessors.
▶ REVIEWED OPS2#23/OVERALL 07

Bringing the

beautiful game into
disrepute. Keane.

B [ R T IBritney N E Y S D A N C E E A T dance mat-compatible trtie. • Mrs goes Bemani in B this decent
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f BURNOUT BRONZE I Hard as hell arcade-style racer , but so very , very rewarding.
. REVIEWED OPS2#13/OVERAL1 08/*[lVD#15

Blistering, buxom 3D beat-'em-up with an emphasis on tactics
REVIEWED OPS2#02/OVERALL 07/«DVD#06

jB U R N O U T2 :P O N I TO FM IP A C Tb o rn z e
? Four-wheel skid frenzy that positively encourages dangerous driving

i REVIEWED OPS2#26/OVERALL 08/*DVD#26

D ( E F E N D E R
DEUSEX

Bghtles revamp that's all alien blasting and 3D ﬂying
REVIEWED ORS2#29/OVERAiJ. 06

I B U U T G Y LM A R A T N IS : Z O O M O R D O O M
REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAL103

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A cartoon licence! Oh, It's another insipid racer Who'd of tﬁought?

JM u t il g e n r eh y b r d it h a tb r e a k sn e wg r o u n df o rt h eP S 2I T S .
I REVIEWED OPS2#20/OVERAll 09

CAPCOM

VS

SNK

2

bronze

Sublime 2D beat-'em-up from two arcade masters of yore.
REVIEWED OPS2#15/OVERAll 08

ID E V I LM A YC R Ys w is
Ultra-cool survival horror romp from master arcadesters Capcom.
REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERALL 09

CART FURY CHAMPIONSHIP RACING
Fun arcade-ﬂavoured cart (as In US carts) racer, but a touch erratic. REVIEWED OPS2#10/OVERAiJ. 06

CASPER: SPIRIT DIMENSIONS
Kiddy-targeted cartoon piatfonner that sadly fails to impress.
REVIEWED OPS2#20/OVERALL 04

N D O IS T A L K E R
REVIEWED REVIEWED

Enjoyable dino-obliterating iightgun actioner laced with power-ups.
OPS2#24/OVERALL 07

I DISNEY'S DINOSAUR

Dull platform adventure spin-off of a dull Disney movie,

r REVIEWED OPS2#03/OVERAll 04

C A I S T L E W E E N C F iF Y C S R I
COLIN

DISNEY'S STITCH: EXPERIMENT 626
So-so collect-'n'-shoot-'em-up plagued with nasty camera issues.
OPS2#25/OVERAll 04/«DVD#25

Short-lived spooky platformer that's aimed squarely at the nippers.
REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAll 04

I CENTRE COURT : HARDHITTER II C h e a p a s c h i p s , a r c a d e s t y l et e n n i ss i m-b u tI T sn oS m o s hC o u r t REVIEWED OPS2#17/OVERALL 04

DNA
Bloody manga-styled adventure with gene warfare at Its heart.
REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERAll 06

iC R IC U SM A X M IU S :C H A R O I TW A R S
IR E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 2 3 O /V E R A U .0 6

DONALD DUCK: QUACK ATTACK
I Cartoon platformer aimed at the kids'. Pity the kids
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1 Like Ben Hur? Like Gladiator? Uke the idea of a chariot racer? Y es!

lDOWNFORCE

Helicopter adventure from Japan that's well worth a look.
REVIEWED OPS2#10/OVERALL 06

I Surprisingly fun spin on F1 racing - think Cart Fury , but better

^R E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 2 1 / O V E R A U . 0 6 / » D V D # 2 4
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R A L LY

The Scot hits PS2 with sublime handling and tasty visuals Intact

JiSa REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 09/«)VD#27
COMMANDOS 2: MEN OF COURAGE bronze
Excellent WWII real-time strategy, with sublime attention to detail.

D IR A G O N B A L LZ :b u d o k a i
REVIEWED OPS2#29/OVERA1106 REVIEWED 0PS2#03/OVERALL 02

Alien ﬁlters ﬁght aliens in this entertaining cartoony treat

I D R A G O N S 'L A I R 1 'Choose-a-path' adventure that should've stayed in tiie Eighties...
DRAGON'S LAIR II: TIMEWARP
All the fun of the original Dragon's Lair (but a whole lot worse).
REVIEWED OPS2#03/OVERALL 01

P H l| R E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 2 1 O /V E R A 1 J .0 8
C O N F L I C T: D E S E R T S T O R M b r o n z e
"mird-person shooter with superb team-based dynamics.
REVIEWED OPS2#24/OVERALL 08/*OVD#24
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'DRAKAN: THE ANCIENTS' GATES
Medieval action adventure with added Lara clone appeal,
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1W a b ra s e de rm a it les a r te tg yn ih tes ^ eo fC o m m o n d&C o q i r u e . r
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CRASH BANDICOOT: THE WRATH OF CORTEX
A change of developer for the unofﬁcial PSone mascot
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DRIVEN
Disappointing racing game from the disappointing Sly Stallone ﬁlm.
REVIEWED OPS2#i5/OVERALl 04/»IIVD#13

CRASHED
Smash-'em-up auto action drives us to despair Very average.
REVIEWED OPS2#26/OVERAU. 05/«I>VD#30

DRIVING EMOTION Tl'PE-S
Distinctly unemotional racer from Finai Fantasy people. Square.
REVIEWED OPS2#05/OVERALL 04

CRAZY TAXI
gpr? Thrills apien^ in this visually glltchy but fun Dreamcast port
REVIEWED OPS2#07/OVERAll 08

■ DROPSHIP: UNITED PEACE FORCE
Futuristic air/tank/jeep combat sim with gripping scenarios,

j REVIEWED OPS2#16/OVERAa08/«DVD#15
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CRICKET

2002

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EA Sports gives the gentleman's game a gently addictive PS2 spin.
REVIEWED OPS2#15/OVERALL 08

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DARK CLOUD
RPG meets 3D real-time strateg/ In this enthralling Japanese title.
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DYNASTY WARRIORS 3 bronze
KOEI Improves Its cult strategy battler In every way. Do try this.
REVIEWED OPS2#19/OVERALL 08/«DVD#18 ECCO "mE DOLPHIN: DEFENDER OF THE FUTURE

■dark SUMMIT
SSX meets Tfte X ﬁles in a novel but motley sports-adventurB.
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DAVE MIRRA FREESWLE BMX 2
Solid BMX Sim with a suitably gnariy array of tricks and jumps.
REVIEWED OPS2#12/OVERAU. 07

New Age dolphin adventure that's a lot more fun than it sounds.
REVIEWED OPS2#16/OVERAa 08/«DVD#16

TiT DAVID BECKHAM SOCCER

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EGGO MANIA
Insipid TetrJs-lnsplred puzzler that's not even a bad yolk. Sorry.
REVIEWED OPS2#25/OVERALL 04/*DVD#29

IFI RACING CHAMRONSHIP ^
Laudable attention to detail, but a lot less fun than Its rivals.
REVIEWED OPS2#06/OVERAL105

■GLOBAL TOURING CHALLENGE: AFRICA

m I[p e r s v s e iT O C Ao c l n e h t a s fo n y le l td o w mb y s tIs h o t a r t c k s .
REVIEWED 0PS2#14/0VERAIL 07/»DVD#15

FANTAVISION_
M/ssl/e Command with ﬁreworks (strange as that sounds).
REVIEWED OPS2#01/OVERAIL07

•GODAI: ELEMENTAL FORCE
I ■ Tedious third-person martial arts beat-'em-up. 'Go die', Indeed.

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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE SOCCER
Easily one of tiie worst footy sIms ever to grace PS2.
REVIEWED OPS2#10/OVERAL102

INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR SOCCER
Good, but not the ISS of PSone fame - tjy Pro Evolution Soccer.
REVIEWED OPS2#01/OVERAll 08/»DVD#01

IR E V E IW E DO R S 2 # 1 8 O /V E R A L L0 2 * D /V D # 1 8
GRADIUS III & IV
Cult arcade shooter gets an insensittvely slow PS2 port
REVIEWED OPS2;^01/OVERALL 02

FERRARI F355 CHALLENGE |
Good, if ﬁddly, driving sim featuring Ferrari's super sexy baby.
REVIEWED OPS2#26/OVERALl 07/*DVD#26

FIFA 2001

GRANDIA II
Likably huge but disturbingly ugly RPG game.
REVIEWED OPS2#20/OVERAll 05

^ I 'P r e m i e rL e a g u eg r a p h i c s ,T l ir t iD i v i s i o ng a m e p l a y * , REVIEWED ORS2#02/OVERALL06
a FIFA 2002 IW ell reinvented but a deﬁnite goal down to Konami's Pro Evo.

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IRON ACES 2: BIRDS OF PREY _
Weak ﬂight sim in wrtiich you ﬂy your way through aviation history.
REVIEWED OPS2#18/OVERAU. 04

ISS2
Enjoyable arcade footy game for those who like it 'chunk/.
REVIEWED OPS2#20/OVERALL 07

■ GRAND THEFT AUTO III bronze
Nothing else on the shelves is quite as sick or fun. Buy this now,
I REVIEWED OPS2#13/OVERAU. 08

JADE COCOON 2
Pok6mon-for-kiduits RPG wtth a neat Japanese twist.
REVIEWED OPS2#19/OVERALL 07

JR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 1 4 / O V E R A L L0 7 / # I > V D # 1 6
rRFA2003 BRONZE ft A welcome retum to form from EA's once-dominant footy franchise.

G R A N D T H E F T A U T O : V I C E C I Ti ^ g o l d
Rampantiy immoral, utterty essential and why you bought a PS2.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 10

mmrnt JAK AND DAXTER: IHE PRECURSOR LEGACY Great free-roaming piatfonrrer from the makers of Crash. •
REVIEWED OPS2#15/OVERAll 09/#OVD#15

IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 2 7 / O V E R A L 10 8 / « D V D # 2 9

^^RNAL FANTASY X ^ __bronze.
From Square, the best-lool<ing and most challenging RPG on PS2.
REVIEWED OPS2#20/OVERAU. 08/«DVD#20

GRAN TURISMO 3: A-SPEC SS-ver
FactJ GT3 Is the greatest driving game In the worid. >t)u need this
REVIEWED 0PS2#09/OVERALL09/*DVD#0S

A j5M E S B O N D 0 0 7 N I .A G E N TU N D E RF R IE Thriling ﬂrst-person shooter with added driving levels.
REVIEWED ORS2#15/OVERAL108

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A/rwoff fans unite! A helicopter combat game for coin-op jock^
REVIEWED OPS2#22/OVERAa 07/*OVD#23

GRAN TURISMO CONCEPT: 2002 7DKY0-GENEVA Gran Turfsmo Uta Buy this as an addition to, not instead of, GT3.
REVIEWED OPS2#23/OVERAU. 06

JAMES BOND 007: NIGHTFIRE
Technically impressive but slightly soulless outing for the suave spy
REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAll 07

FORMULA ONE 2001 bronze"
: Debut Formula One sim from W/pEouf pioneers Studio Liverpool,
REVIEWED OPS2#07/OVERALL 08/M)VD#09

G U I LT C
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X

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■* J E R E M YM c G R A T H S ' S U P E R C R O S SW O R L D
f Weak motocross game that lacks realism, thrills, speed, etc. etc...
REVIEWED OPS2#16/OVERAL103

The start of a new wave of ballistic next-gen 2D ﬁghters
OPS2#16/OVERALL 08

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2002

bronze

;GUMBALL 3000
Unremittingly dire driving game centring on rich kid racers.

'JET ION GP
Almost surreally poor WipEout clone. For masochists only.
REVIEWED OPS2#21/OVERAll 01

» Comprehensive spin on F1 racing but not a huge leap from 2001.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 08/»I)VD#29

IR E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 2 7 O /V E R A L L0 3

JF R A N KH E R B E R T SD U N E Poor sci-ﬁ action adventure for hanjcore beards only.
IR E V I E W E D0 P S 2 # 2 0 / O V E R A U .0 3

G | Manga-styled U N G R A V E shooter with points awarded for stylish slaughter jR E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 2 7 O /V E R A U .0 7
GUN GRIFFON BLAZE
A chunky robo-shooter for hardcore mech/manga fans.
REVIEWED OPS2#03/OVERAU. 07

JET SKI RIDERS
Great water effects, race action and 'ofﬁcial' jet skis. Hmm.
REVIEWED OPS2#15/OVERALL 06

' JONNY MOSELY MAD TRIX
L Tony Howk's-styie tilcks on skis. Offers nothing new,

F R IE A K O U T

Gorgeous cartoon adventure from cult developer Treasure.
REVIEWED OPS2#12/OVERAa 07

f REVIEWED OPS2#18/OVERALL 04

SFREEKSTi'LE
SSX Tricky meets motocross in EA Sports BIG's arcade stunt racer. , REVIEWED OPS2#23/OVERALL 06

JHALF-UFE
The superi) PC FPS arrives on PS2 in majestic fomi.
REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERAU. 09/«DVD#18

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" KELL Y SLA TER'S PRO SURFER
i Passable, if uninspired surf fun. Oh, and Kelly's a bloke., he says.
REVIEWED OPS2#26/OVERAll 06

iF R E Q U E N C Yb r o n z e
REVIEWED OPS2#21/OVERAU. 08/«OVD#21

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS Pre-pubescent v^zardry fun in the haiis of Hogwarts.
REVIEWED OPS2#29/OVERAlJ. 07

KENGO: MASTER OF BUSHIDO
Remember PSone ninja ﬁghter Bush/do Blade?
REVIEWED OPS2#07/OVERAi± 06

Totally hypnotic rhythm action game for gamere and clubbers alike.

f FROGGER: THE GREA T QUEST

H AV E N : C A L L O F T H E K I N G b r o n z e
Genre-busting mix of action v\rtth an abundance of gameplay s^es
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 08/«)VD#27

4 Look, theyVe remade arcade classic Frogger In 3DI Idiots.

KESSEN
3D real-time strategy set in feudal Japan. Gorgeous cut-scenes.

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IR E V E IW E DO P S 2 ^ 0 ;4 O /V E R A U .0 7
■ KESSEN II
[ Everyttiing gets a generous polish in this rewarding strategy sequel.
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:j Horse racing comes to PS2 in this cuit Japanese title
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HEADHUNTER 1. Daisy Duck
2. The Dirty Harry vs Meto/ Gear SoUd in ttiis futuristic stealth adventure. REVIEWED OPS2#16/OVERA1107/«DVD#16

Murcidago
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bronze

KINGDOM

HEARTS

bronze

Ultra-inwntive and rewarding cartoon hetrJing 3D adventure,
REVIEWED OPS2#18/OVERAU. 08/MVD#ia

Disney partners with Square for the ultra-cute RPG crossover.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 08

!g-surfers
P Shameless WipEout clone, saved a powerful global track editor.
REVIEWED OPS2#13/OVERAU. 07/«)VD#lS

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• HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC
Awful adventure that loses all its appeal in the port from PC,
REVIEWED OPS2#08/OVERAll 03

KING'S FIELD: THE ANCIENT C\Vf
Below standard RPG. U)oK go buy Rnoi Rjrtasy X instead.
REVIEWED OPS2#23/OVERAU. 03

5. Splinter Ceﬂ
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GAUNTLET; DARK LEGACY
Overly simple RPG that's a pale imitation of its coin-op ancestor.
REVIEWED OPS2#08/OVERAa 05/»OVD#lO

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Coogan

'H IT T M A N2 :S L IE N TA S S A S S N Iv . t s r j
Contract killing's the pme. Stealth or six-shooter? Its your choice
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HOLOGRAM TIME TRAVELLER
The ﬁrst - and hopefully the last - '0/10' score for a PS2 'game',
REVIEWED OPS2#03/OVERAtl 00

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KNIGHT RIDER
Hasselhoff and car arrive on PS2, and are at least a decade late,
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 04

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KNOCKOUT KINGS 2001
A competent, if a touch sluggish, boxing sim from EA Sports.
REVIEWED 0PS2#05/OVERAU. 06

P G I TA R O O M A N b r o n z e A PaRappa meets Van Halen in this guitar-piaying cartoon adventure.
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KNOCKOUT KINGS 2002
The latest EA Sports boxing sim (and way better than the last one).
REVIEWED OPS2#19/DVERALL 07

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Top rhythm action that's become a bit of a cult hit.

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Animation-quality graphics elevate this popular platfonner
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^JSAL T LAKE 2002 Winter Olympics game lacking in variety, fun and depth,
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REVIEWED OPS2#17/OVERAU. 07/»DVD#17

I PARIS-DAKAR RALLY
Multiple vehicles or not, this rally sim does little to inspire.
REVIEWED OPS2#13/OVERALL 05

PENNY RACERS

IA half-baked and underfed Gran T urisma Avoid, 'reviewed OPS2#14/OVERALL 04
PETER PAN: RETURN TO NEVER LAND
Cartoon-based platformer that never grew up.
REVIEWED 0PS2#19/OVERAU.02/*OVD#21

R C iR E V E N G E P R O ^R CS P O R T SC O P T E RC H A L L E N G E
An eminently avoidable kart racer. REVIEWED ORS2?t02/OVERAU. 03 REVIEWED OPS2#26/OVERAL1 04

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remote control helicopters con be fun. No. really. It can. Um.

5S E G AS O C C E RS L A M
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■READY 2 RUMBLE; ROUND 2
j| Man.rellous, arcade-based cartoon boxing title.

I SHADOW HEARTS I Extremely enjoyable RPG imported from Japan, fR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 1 9 / O V E R A J i.0 7

IR E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 0 1 O /V E R A U .0 7

PIRATES: THE LEGEND OF BLACK KAT
An action RPG with unique pirate battles, but little to treasure. REVIEWED OPS2#19/OVERAi± 03

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j RED FACTION bronze
j Clever ﬁrst-person shooter that melds Meto/ Gear with T otal Recall.

j H A D O W M A N :2 E 0 N D C O M I N G IS Go(y action adventure with aC horror comic book lean.
IR E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 1 8 O /V E R A L L0 7
' SHADOW OF MEMORIES bronze Ii n t e li g e n tﬂ l m l ca d v e n t u r ef r o mK o n a m iw f t has e r p e n t i n ep l o t IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 t 0 '5 / O V E R A L L0 8
SHAUN PALMER'S PRO SNOWBOARDER
Good, but lacks the speed to recreate the thrills of the real thing,
REVIEWED OPS2#15/OVERAL106/M>VD#16

POLAROID PETE J Certiﬁably insane side-scrolling cartoon photographer sim. Ahem.

^R E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 1 6 / O V E R A U0 7
POUCE 24/7
Ughtgun-esque cop shoot-'em-up that can utilise a Webcam.
REVIEWED OPS2#17/OVERALL 05

IR E V I E W E D0 P S 2 # 0 8 / O V E R A L L0 8
RED FACTION II bronze
More anti-authort^ action but this time It's set on Earth.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERAa 08/M)VD#26

POOLMASTER
Realistic but dull pool sim. Ysu're better off playing tﬁe real ttiing
REVIEWED OPS2#02/OVERA1105

REIGN OF RRE
Apocalyptic shooter with dragon ﬂying and bu^ riding
REVIEWED 0PS2*28/0VERAli 07/*DVD#27

SHIFTERS
An Intriguing RPG premise is throttled by Inept execution. Avoid.
REVIEWED OPS2#25/OVERAU.03

PORTAL RUNNER
Army Men spin-off platfonmer starring a tired Lara wannabe.
REVIEWED OPS2#13/OVERALL 05/»DVD#12

RESIDENT EVIL CODE: VERONICA X saw
Curious about all this survival horror lark? Then play this classic
REVIEWED OPS2#10/OVERAIL 09

* Flashy , rally-based racer vtrtiich attempts to innovate,

SHOX

| jR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 2 7 / O V E R A a0 5
SILENT HILL 2 SONZE
One of iJie most atmospheric and frightening adventures on PS2.
REVIEWED OPS2#13/OVERAa 08/»DVD#14

POWERPUFF GIRLS: RELISH RAMPAGE
Cute and cartoony alright but lacks any gameplay depth.
REVIEWED OPS2#2g/OVERAU. 04

RESIDENT EVIL SURVIVOR 2 CODE; VERONICA PSONE P I AYA Original PlayStation
show stoppers, still Poor iightgun spin-off from Capcom's survival horror series. Avoid.
REVIEWED 0PS2#18/0VERAa 04

PRISONER OF WAR
Stealthy, tense WWII 3D adventure set in a prisoner of war camp.
REVIEWED ORS2#22/OVERALL 07

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REVIEWED OPS2#16/OVERAll 09/«DVD#17

S I LV E R

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SCOPE

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S^'s psychedelic gem boasts superb visuals and gameplay

Slick shooting gallery-style pme where you pick off the bad guys.
REVIEWED OPS2#01/OVERAll 08

well worth a punt

'PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER SILVER
I Update of FSone's /SS Pro £vo/utton. Ttie best PS2 foo^ game yet
REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERALL 09/#DVD#16
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RIDGE RACER V
PS2 update of the popular arcade racer
REVIEWED OPS2#01/OVERAa 07

SILENT SCOPE 2
Konami's sniper sim gets an update, but usurped by Time Crisis 2.
REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERAa 07/»DVD#13

P R O E V O L U T I O N S O C C E R 2 S I LV E R
^ Tweaked to perfection, the best fooly game Just got even better.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 09/»DVD#29

RIDING SPIRITS
Slightly ﬂawed motortike sim. GT3 on two wheels wannabe,
REVIEWED ORS2#26/OVERAll 07

SILPHEED: THE LOST PLANET
Tedious top-down shooter Get R-Type on PSone instead.
REVIEWED OPS2'#03/OVERA1103

PROJECT

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Complex FPS/adventure from the clever folk behind Tomb Raider.

Engaging mech strata set In an alternative post-WWII world.
REVIEWED OPS2#07/OVERALI 08

^ REVIEWED OPS2#12/OVERALL08/#DVD#15 PROJECT ZERO bronze

'SIR ALEX FERGUSON'S PLAYER MANAGER 2002 ! I Solid footy management sim featuring the cheery United supremo. \R E V I E W E DO P S 2 « 1 2 / O V E R A L L0 6

compelling i^easons
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ROBOTECH: BATTLECRY
S/tent Hill in space, and all the exciting bits locked in the airlock
REVIEWED OPS2*28/ OVERALL 04

Genuinely disturbing survival horror dripping with menace.
REVIEWED OPS2#24/OVERALL 08/«OVD#23

bargain-priced copy
of this excellent

"f=^SKY ODYSSEY IG e n t l eb u ta d d i c t i v em i s s i o n b a s e dﬂ i g h ts i m .

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I REVIEWED 0PS2#06/OVERAli 08/«DVD#07

platform adventure

PRO RALLY 2002
Playable enough rally title, but no Colin McRae or WRC.
REVIEWED OPS2#21/OVERAU. 05

for your PS2. Rrstly,
given that Spyro's PS2 debut, Enter The Dragonﬂy

ROBOT WARLORDS
Poor and clunky mech shooter, outranked by its chunkier rivals.
REVIEWED 0PS2»06/OVERAa 04

[ S K YS U R F E R 3 Jump out of a plane and surf the skies on a board (but badly),
^ REVIEWED OPS2^04/OVERAU. 03

PRYZM CHAPTER ONE: THE DARK UNICORN
If the name doesnt put you off, the abject RPG gameplay should.
REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAU. 02

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ROBOT WARS: ARENAS OF DESTRUCTION
Just think how good this TV spin-off could'w been...
REVIEWED 0PS2#14/0VERAU. 05/#OVD#17

• Slick tennis sim that breaks the Sega/Namco stranglehold,
REVIEWED OFS2#23/OVERAa07

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BRONZE

Fast, smooth, violent... This ﬁrst-person shooter is one of the best. REVIEWED OPS2#06/OVERALL 09

Boxing sim, faithfully based on the Italian Stallion's career
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Of The Dragon Is the last of Spyrt)'s
adventures to have

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RUGBY

bronze

Sumptuous platformer. Quite simply, an absolute joy to explore.
REVIEWED OPS2#26/OVERALL 09/M>VD#26

been developed by
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fSL Y RACCOON

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RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
Fast-paced, playable rally racer with good use of 'Ghost' mode.
REVIEWED OPS2#22/OVERAL107/MVD#20

I RUMBLE RACING bronze

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a supremely playable platformer made by a quality developer. To the local Games Exchange! Now!

IL a c k u ls t r eV I k I n gs a ls h e 'm u p ,c r y n i go u tf o rm o r eb o lo da n dﬁ r a
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RAYMAN M
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REVIEWED: OPS2#15/OVERAU. 06/»DVD«13

^ US Spin on the mech genre ends up rusting on the scrapheap.
REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAU.05

SMUGGLER'S RUN 2: HOSTILE TERRITORIES
Rockstar's frantic mission-based racer gets a solid makeover.
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jI Superb V - on R AL L Y 3 speeds to PS2a m PSone, the V -Ral fy brand withm true st yle.
IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 2 2 / O V E R A U .0 8 / # ) lV D # 2 8

Shabby literary adventure that lacks the showmanship of tts rival,
REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAU. 04

IIW A C K YR A C E SS T A R R N Iyour GD A S T A R D L Y A N DM m iL E Y Cei-shaded kart racer with all fave cartoon characters,
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
EA's movie tie-ln gives hack 'n' slash a next-gen makeover.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 08 BRONZE

I T O N Y H A W K S 'skate P R O S A T E R3 u m i ' Essential online-enabled sim that' sK almost perfect toa play.
* REVIEWED OPS2#15/OVERALl 09

3W AL T DISNETS JUNGLE BOOK GROOVE P AR T i'
J Fun Beotman/o-style dance mat game with Disney appeal.

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THE MUMMY RETURNS
Action-adventure based on the by-the-numbers Hollywood romp.
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JTONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 4
» REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAa 09

■ WARRIORS OF MIGHT AND MAGIC
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REVIEWED OPS2#07/OVERALL 03/#DVD#07

! Another year, another essential tWe from the Hawkman.

THE SCORPION KING: RISE OF AKKADIAN
Movie cash-in with few features - unless you fancy The Rock
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 04

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^ WAY OF THE SAMURAI I Dismal, often tedious BushWo Blade wannabe. Utteriy avoidable. IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 2 6 / O V E R A L L0 5

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The best ﬁshing game on PS2. Which Isnt saylr^ much...

i REVIEWED OPS2#20/OVERALL05

THE SHADOW OF ZORRO
Stealth-based adventure for die-hard fans of el Zorro only.
REVIEWED OPS2#18/OVERALL 03

TOP GUN
Below average ﬂi^ sim with bonus archaic licence attached.
REVIEWED OPS2#14/OVERALL04/*OVD#15

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I Off-road buggy racing game that's okay for a spin or three.

I S c a r y a n m iD a t o in o f T a r r a n t a n d e a ^ q u e s t o in sm a k ef o rad u lg a m e . IR E V I E W E :O P S 2 ) ^ 1 5 / O V E R A a0 4

THE SIMPSONS; ROAD RAGE i Shameless Crazy T axi rip-off, but with Homer sat behind the v»rtieei.
* REVIEWED: OPS2#15/OVERAL106
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TOTAL IMMERSION RACING
Solid, if slightly unspectacular racer with aggressive Ai.
REVIEWED OPS2#29/OVERALl 06

IR E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 0 1 O /V E R A L L0 6 « /D V D # 0 1
■ WIPEOUT FUSION $i« i Get this! Cult future hoverjet racer and the best W/pEoutyet. IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 1 6 / O V E R A L l0 9 / « O V D # 1 4
WOODY WOODPECKER: ESCAPE FROI^ BUZZ BUZZARD'S PARK

THE SUM OF ALL FEARS
Repetitive gameplay dictates this squad-based shooter.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 05

TTRANSWORLD SURF
Limited surf sim with some nice wave physics.

^R E V I E W E DO R S 2 # 2 3 / O V E R A l0 6
TREASURE PLANET
Treasure Island meets Disney In this nipper-friendly platform romp.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERALL 06/M)VD#28

ITHE TERMINATOR: DAWN OF FATE
Toe-curiingly inadequate ﬁlm tie-in. Ciunkier than Amie rapping.
REVIEWED: OPS2#26/OVERALL 04

I Dull cartoon platform adventure aimed at kids. Stop this evil!

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Dino-obllterating mayhem manned dodgy Al and controls,
REVIEWED 0PS2#25/OVERALL06

Top-class survival horror meets John Carpenter's ET nasty. Superb.

IR E V E IW E DO R S 2 # 2 5 O /V E R A L L0 9
iTHE WEAKEST LINK I Quiz show cash-in. W atch It on "TV Instead.

TWIN CAUBER
Ttie appearance of twin shooters falls to redeem this abject effort F REVIEWED 0PS2#26/OVERALL03/»OVD#27

1R E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 1 4 O /V E R A U .0 4

I n 'A T H I SI SF O O T B A L Le 2 0 0 2 If f' j revamped and utt erl y pl a yabl addi tion to a revived series.
IM REVIEWED OPS2#12/OVERALL07/«DVD#X2

T H E M !E P A R K W O R D L
REVIEWED

TWISTED METAL BLACK
Superb multlplayer car batder set on a wartom planet, REVIEWED OPS2#12/OVERAa 08/«)VD#16

BRONZE

Take on the role of a theme park tycoon in this excellent God sim.
OPS2#03/OVERAU.07

I W O R L D C H A M O P N IS P H IS N O O K E R 2 0 o e n z r s W i O R D L D E S T R U O C N T I E L A G U E T ; H U N D E R A T N K S ( W O R L DD E S T R U C T O I NL E A G U E :W A R J E T Z
Detailed and Incredibly playable snooker sim.
REVIEWED 0PS2#11/0VERALL 08/»DVD#11

Fun arcade tank sim wrtth an ace four-player Deathmatch mode
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'WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 2001 sm
An immersive driving sim for novices and experts alike-

tR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # i 4 / O V E R A L L0 9 / « D V D # 1 4

^THIS IS FOOTBALL 2003

UEFA CHALLENGE
Sadly, everything that could go wrong in a football game Is here,

^ Respectable latest instalment in the fest-improving footy series.
R E V I E W E D O P S 2 # 2 6 / O V E R A 11 0 7 / « ) V D # 2 5

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[R E V E IW E DO P S 2 # 1 9 O /V E R A U .0 8

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ITHUNDERHAWK; OPERATION PHOENIX

■S ^ T I G E RW O O D SP G AT O U R2 0 0 1 Authentic but fun golf sim from the big cat himself.
REVIEWED OPS2#06/OVERALL 06

'B ia r v ee a t m tp t o te b n lda c r a d ea n dm s in Is h t ic h o p p e ra b e s lt r
REVIEWED OPS2#12/OVERALL 07/*OVD#15

jWRC II EXTREME siw I Evolution Studios steps up a gear with this tnjly realistic rally sim.
I REVIEWED OPS2#27/ OVERALL 09/»OVD#27

UFC: THROWDOWN
No-holds-barred scufﬂing comes to PS2. Effective, but no classic
REVIEWED OPS2#26/OVERALL 06

^■WRECKLESS: THE Y AKUZA MISSIONS Hurtle around Hong Kong In this car-based action title.
REVIEWED OPS2#27/OVERAll 07

G T I !E RW O O D SP G A T O U R2 0 0 2
> REVIEWED OPS2#19/OVERAU. 07/«OVD#21 REVIEWED OPS2#28/OVERAtl08/*DVD#30

UNREAL
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TOURNAMENT

WONZE

^~WTA TOUR TENNIS
If this game was a tennis player; it'd be a British woman. Awful.
REVIEWED OPS2#2e/OVERALl 04

Tiger's game is stiii the best, thanks to Its analogue control ^em.

A gofy ﬁrst-person shooter that's only now showing Its age,
OPS2#04/OVERALL 08

TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 2003 bsonze
Gorgeous courses. Innovative controls. A great golf sim.

VAMPIRE NIGHT
Demonic Iightgun shoot-'em-up - think Time Cris/s with vampires.
REVIEWED OPS2#19/OVERALL06/»OVD#19

■ WWE SMACKDOWN! 'JUST BRING IT!'
I Fun and realistic representation of the fuli-on WWE experience.
REVIEWED ORS2#13/OVERAL1 08/»OVD#14 BRONZE

ITIME CRISIS 2 BRONZE I Namco's coot arcade ightgun game gets a graphical polish for PS2. IR E V I E W E DO P S 2 # 1 3 / O V E R A L 1 0 8 / * O V D # 1 3
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P VICTORIOUS BOXERS
I Stoty-based manga boxing title tiiat sadly lacks tﬁe killer blow.
REVIEWED OPS2#n/OVERALL04

I W W ES M A C K D O W N !S H U TY O U RM O U T H I Siick, supple wrestilng titie with commendable attention to detail.
P REVIEWED OPS2#26/OVERAL108/«DVD#26/#30 BRONZE

VIRTUA COP: ELITE EDITION
Fun, fest and frantic ﬁrst-person shooter - now out on Platinum. REVIEWED OPS2#01/OVERAa 09

Was once great, but only for antique hunters this time around.
REVIEWED OPS2#29/OVERAa 05

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Another dimension to the X-Men? Nope, more beat-'em-up action.

As Vital to PS2 as your central nervous system is to your brain.
REVIEWED OPS2#25/OVERAU. 10/*iyVD#25

Complex yet fast-moving beat-'em-up that rewards the patient
REVIEWED 0PS2#19/OVERAU.08

X jT S Q U A D I eam-based third-person shootej; superseded by Project Eden.
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k REVIEWED 0PS2#06/OVERAll 09/*OVI>#O6

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p Almost indistinguishable from the DC version. But if aint broke..
REVIEWED 0PS2#28/OVERALL08

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After huge anticipation, no surprise to set Tlie Getaway topping the charts this month. This game's going to be causing
media waves for months to come.

<D5 2 5 The Simpsons Skateboarding
FIFA 2003

7 3 7 James Bond 007: Nightﬁre

8 31 1II Star W ars: Bounty Hunter
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
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Spyro: Enter The Dragonﬂy
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Medal Of Honor: Frontline

18 ^y^Grand Theft Auto III
Drive of your life
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season kicks off in Monte Carlo this month.

• Lording it up

19 3 1 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 20 Rocl^
*0PS2 Chorts in association with WHSmith

One of the biggest ﬁlms ever spawns one Rings: The TWo Towers is without
doubt the better of the two hobblt-based

of the best licences on PS2. Lord Of TIm

WTi Smith

videogame adventures.

A BIT LIKE THIS MONTH'S CHART JUST WITH DIFFERENT NUMBERS ON THE END OFTHE GAME NAMES...

IT LOOKS AS IF PUTFORMERS ARE THE FAVOURED GENRE OF

NOVEMBER'S TOP GAMES FROM THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO TIP THE BLOODY BARMAN.

SAMANTHA COOK, TRURO.

Grand Theft Auto III
And it's still in &ie charts today.

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1 loved him on PSone,"

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Sit down. Shut up. Wrestle,

X So can you really ﬂy to Disneyland? W

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Annual chart entry for the Hawkman.
James Bond 007 In... Agent Under Ftre

Bond never lets you down.
Pro Evolution Soccer

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'The weapons are amazing"

Hie previous greatest footy slm ever VWVE SmackDownl 'Just Bring IB' Lycra and canvas In perfect harmony

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site every Riday for a

"Like MGS but eel-shaded."

roundup of the week's new releases.

5

The IjOfd Of The Rings: The Two Towei Beards also big Stateside. .

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□FFICIRL mHBHZINE-UK PlayStation.E 12

Pl^yStationjE guide TO...
■ PRO EVOLimON

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SOCCER 2 Unquestionably the best a fan can get.

PlayStation 2

Pro Evo Soccer 2
KONAMI/KONAMITVD

No-one understands our beautiful game like Konami and this latest compelling slice of footle pie takes us one step closer to net-ripping niA^ana. With its think-like-a-footballer' gameplay, intuitive controls and unrivalled longevity, this would have probably got a '10' - If it werent for the hours worth of editing you've got to put in to get all the names and likenesses spot on. "One of the year's essential purchases. Sheer football genius," 0PS2#27

The games that'll have you chanting from
the terraces in unison - and a few that'll

have you lobbing piss bottles on the pitch.
Oh how we'd all love to be

■

I

would evolve into the sports games of today. But w^ith the advent of 3D representation, made possible by machines such as the PSone, the graphics have become more lifelike, the controls more complex and the satisfaction of unleashing a 'screamef into the top comer, sinking an eagle on a par four hole or kicking up some chalk dust with a stern backhand passing shot
more intense.

Wayne Rooney. Young, gifted and with the Royal Mint on emergency standby just to
ensure that all the cash that'll soon be

■ BEFORE PRO EVO Doesnt

look much like the real players.

winging its way into his bank account doesn't spark an economical crash. But for every 'Roonaldo', there's a young scamp slogging his guts out down the playing ﬁeld with his pushy Pa pacing the sidelines 'encouraging' him to strive towards that elusive Premier League dream. If he had any sense he'd have given up long ago, knowing that all dreams of sporting triumph can now be
achieved from the comfort of the sofa.

T^er Wbods PGA
1bur2003
EASP0R13

Golf? An 'essential' purchase? You bet, because
you've just got to stand back and admire the

Which leads us to where we stand

today in the sports genre's lavish stadia. Over the next two pages you'll ﬁnd our essential guide to the euphoric highs and the crushing lows of the PS2's highly populated locker room. And if you cant make up for a misspent youth with this lot, you should consider becoming a
Buddhist, mate! □ RB

■ AFTER PRO EVO You really believe England can win the Worid Cup.

When Pong (in essence, the world's ﬁrst sports game) was released back in
the Seventies, few would have dared to

incredible lengths EA Sports has gone to in order to make this game enjoyable for fans and frowners alike. With a fantastic control system and masses of modes and courses to enjoy, this is the perfect companion to Pro Evo 2 that helps relieve the stress in the run-up to match day "A truly great golf slm that is easily the best
around..." OPS2#27

Imagine how a basic bat 'n' bail program

128 PlayStation.2 OFFICIRL fTlHGRZINE-UK

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At last - a FIFA game worthy of the licence and after getting pummeiled off the pitch by Pro Evo's devastating debut iast season, the EA boys have cieariy put in the hours on the training pitch to ensure that the lost ground is made up. Not as showboaty, with more onus placed on intelligent build up play and, of course, it's got all the right names and kit designs in there Have it! "Fully licensed fooiy you should feel no shame in buying," 0PS2#27

NHL 2003
EA SPORIS/EA CANADA

ISS2
KONAI^I/KONAMI OSA

Beckham
Soccer
Compare this to Pro Evo 2 and you can almost feel the heat coming from Rage's cheeks. Whereas Konami carefully studied Becks' movements and crafted them respectfully into its game. Rage didnt see ﬁt to do much homework at all and casually shat this steaming one out! "Superstar endorsements often disguise a crap game," 0PS2#22 Also...
For another classic example of when promising licences go bad, see Roy Keane's World League Soccer. And the
less said about Sven's contributions to

It's hard to believe that ten years ago, EA's hockey game was the only sports game worth playing The fall from grace may have occurred as technology forced the gameplay
mechanics to become more

complicated, but for anyone even remotely interested in pucking
around on the Ice, the series still

With football simulation safety tucked away in the onion bag Konami, for some inexplicable reason still feels the urge to take FIFA on at its own arcade game. Why? Leave it alone, son. This mindless punt-a-thon may look nice and play competently enough, but its mere existence just
serves to confuse matters. ISS is

slaps a wicked shot into its
opponent's net.

dead. Ijong live Pro Evo! "With Pro Evo on the block, who

"The action is as fast and furious
asever..."0PS2#26

needs a new kid?" OPS2#20

Also...

PlayStation E

For the sport of Kings, giddy-up with G1 Jockey. Or, for crappy compendiums you
can't lick Salt Lake 2002 For the full-on

hairdryer treatment, though, cower in front of Sir Alex's Player Manager 2002

console games the better

P S D N E R LT E R N RT I V E S

Anna's Smash C o u r t Te n n i s
i F T f i r r i T T r i » F > T f ) l Ta y
Super-deformed characters, coke bottles for racquets and gameplay Inﬁnitely more sophisticated than the tripped-out visuals would suggest. Surely, enjoying a four-player grudge
match between Heihachi Mishlma,

Smash Court Te n n i s
SCEE^MCO

NBA Live
2003
EASPORTS/EA CANADA

Reiko Nagase, Richard Miller iTIme
Crisis bloke) and Pac-Man is what

Namco's 'ace' tennis series appears

The NBA Jam-generated mass
appeal of basketball games seems to have died a death as the market is now dominated by more serious rim

to have undergone a humour bypass op since joining the PS2 circuit, but the instantly-graspable gameplay and sheer brilliance shines through. Rivalled only by Virtua Tennis 2, this is still the daddy in our eyes.
"Without doubt tﬁe deﬁnitive PS2 tennis experience," 0PS2#21

PlayStation®

your PS2's backwards compatibility was designed for?

rockers. That's no bad thing, though, as EA's lanky dunk-fest is a much more accomplished crowd-pleaser "Superbly balanced and laced with innovative touches," OPS2#29 Also...
For managerial stress, buy some beta blockers in preparation for LMA Manager 2003 or, if you're Just plain batty, get pitching for All Star Baseball 2003.

" R FA ? r r s F O R I D I O T S W H O N E V E R P L AY P R O P E R V I D E O G A M E S " We asked forvm fanatics which gomes they score with. Aha! It's the revenge of the great
Pro Evolution Soccer vs RFA

w
Next montﬁ;

sophisticated Sim and a few
have berated Konami for

Also...
No prizes for guessing that Madden is stﬂl the man in the gridiron stal<es - checl< out his NFL 2003 for conﬁrmation. Also, stump up the cash for Cricket 2002.

debate and, for once, the contest seems quite ﬁnely balanced. Some of you have applauded the lengths EA has gone to in order to make up the ground on Konami's inﬁnitely more

seemingly mshing out Pro Evo 2 |0ranges013, anyone?) But with many just huriing insults FIFA's way, it seems wonying for EA that many hardcore fans havent even played it.

Fighting games. Email your favourites to [email protected]

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Every Issue, Ofﬁcial PlayStation 2 Magazine brings you something no other rnagazJne can pbyable demos. Offering exclusive
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missions, our playable DVD allows you try the very latest re2 games before you buy, often
weeks and even months before

you this demo (without anyone getting
arrested) we have removed all the
blood from this version of Mortal

Kombot The full game has an 18 certiﬁcate and features gore and carnage that would obviously give 17-year-olds nightmares That said, our demo does feature
all the moves and action for two

-v

' V,

release. Why risk your
hard-eamed cash on

a £40 game when you
can try It out on our covermounted DVD?
From Gran Turtsmo 3

playable characters in Arcade mode
and there's a raft of non-selectable

i
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>1",«

and MGS2to VmeSplitters 2 and Final Fantasy X, weVe

ﬁghters to spar against In a variety of locations from the game. Also worthy of attention Is the excellent Training mode included in the demo. Notice that the characters' moves change dramatically as you press m to change stance. Regular checking with the In-game moves list will keep you on the right track, and make you near invincible when you buy the full game.

always featured playable demos of the games that matter. Throw In top-quallly video footage of the
hits of the future and Ofﬁcio/ PlayStation 2

THE CONTROLS P D-pad Movement
0 Kickl @ Punch 1 ® Punch 2 @ Kick 2
en Ta u n t Block OB

Magazine's playable
DVD Is the best

bargain on the newsagent's shelves.

■ BLOOD BANK We've removed

the gore for your gaming pleasure.

m Change stance

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To enjoy this DVD, load It up on your
PS2, then scroll

1 1
B A f t ' Q U A n — -u' ' —SAP SHoa

between games and rolling demos using
ﬁe ,4, and f keys.
To s e l e c t w i t h i n a

section, use and

Press ® to start your demo choice. You may have to reset your PS2 after some demos. If you
experience any

▶d a iC lU 't C isingle round

Complete our demo fchoosing a ﬁghter and winning four complete two-round bouts] without losing a

prDblems, press reset
to reload the demo. To get you started, here's the special

move for Scorpion's famous spear throw: Back, Forwards. @. This will
stun your opponent and bring you face-to-face.

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dia

M0R1AL K O M B A T: D E A D

ALUANCE : If you're going to
master Mofto/

Kombat: Deadly

Alliance you're goinj
to have to learn son

special moves. Paus

the game, choose tt
Move List and learn

THE COiyfTROLS
L-stick Movement

rrs BEEN A LONG TIME coming but we're proud to unleash our WNE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth demo upon you. Featuring two ﬁghters from the game, you can engage in two different types of match - including a full-on table, ladders and

the three bottom ; moves In eveiy
stance. Now beat th

® Run @ Reverse @ Grapple ® Attack
IB Lay the SmackDown

chairs' bout laka TLC], Enter Exhibition mode (the only mode available in this demo as the others are teaslngly obscured) then choose Single for a normal match-up or press t and choose
Special to ﬁnd the selectable TLC match. Next choose from Brock Lesner or Triple H and set your

3 ,
']
] ] ] ] ] 7

game using only these combos.

character's SmackDown meter (ie, how long it takes before he's able to - ahem - lay the SmackDown on his opponentl. Now grapple away and hit that m button at the chosen moment to
perform your character signature move.

WWE SMACKDOWN! SHUT YOUR MOUTH

■%

Go for a TLC match,

choose Triple H and pull off that stylish
SmackDown move

through a table - wi Brock Lesner laying
It, of course. ■ ■ ■ ■

PlayStation.S

OUR COVER GAME this month is a

gothic horror adventure, but one which fortunately, doesnt take itself too seriously.
First choose either the 50 or PRIMAL

r

.

.'Is-

^

60Hz mode at the demo's Start. If

P ^our TV can handle It we
recommend 60Hz mode for a full ^me and full speed.
' PUBLISH^: SCEE '
GAME TYPE: ACTION/ ADVENTURE OUT NOW

Can you discover each of the game's
glowing power orbs

and make it though
to the demo's
conclusion? No mea

^ur demo features a lengthy -i

^ilSode from the game and has

extensive built-in training. Simply " ■

feat given the amou of enemy action yet
be receiving as you

PLWERSr 1

follow the captions at the bottom . of the screen to learn the controls.

journey further Into
the demo.

Inrgame character Scree will
keep you on the right track too, leading you from objective to

objective while explaining the ﬁner
points of the game's plot and as

you go. D|ve in, explore an^dlscovei

Primo/ fo^ you rself. .......

fV

1 p

JJTsaeff^oKlef

■m

THE CONTROLS ^
/ L-stick Movement

® Switch target
IB Left attack

@ Attack mode \
m Spinning attack

■ EVEN MORE DQAOTBEMS OVER THE mGi

^ m Reposition camera/Block
IB Right attack

It's often worth j
each out In turn.

^between the multiple enemies (press ( I rather than taking
you won't be attacked from behind.

-J

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ON THE DVD

PlayStationd

lyFlEiL;

PUBUSHER: SCEE GAME TYPE:

ITS A^ffR OF STEALTH, sneakiness and stealing. You are the sly
raccoon of the title in a game that features a unique graphics style

■ NO ENTKY Sly's
world is not that

S LY R A C C O O N

RLfﬂTORMER

We want you to defeat every boss baddte you
come across. It's

puPtow

a n dm o r et h a nai ^ g a m e p l a yI n n o v a t i o n sa l o n gt h ew a y ,t o o .

ﬁiendiy a plao^

tempting land easier) to dodge their attacks
and run by, but we

A competition begins the demo (If you're connected to the Internet then why not ^ involved?) then you're into the game itself. Keep an ear and eye out for progress updates from Bentley via your
communicator, as yoii Journey deeper into the level. As this demo is

demand that you get
up close and take them out

from the early stages of the game you wont ﬁnd anything too steanuous on the ﬁnger or brain.

(grips with the game's controls and devices on the, too. I^ertaln to

*feur objective Is to reach the level's end, of course, and to get to

leave you wanting more. ^ ^

■ MGS WHO? The

codec Is veiy familiar.

TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 2003

THE
® @

cornnoLS

Getting a par on the
four holes on offer Is a good score. What

L-strck Movement R-sUck Move camera

Jump Attack

really Impresses is a
birdle on all four

m/in Scope

Make sure you use

that ball spin feature
to Its maximum effect.

Cant get at what you want? Let the level's baddies destroy scenery

lii|* for you, allowing you to pick up the formerly unreachable items.

NBA LIVE 2003 We want victory - you must be at least four points clear of your EYE OF THE TIGER Inside the mind of the

opponent (whichever team you choose) by
the time the demo

world's best golfer. EVEN IF YOU ABSOLUTELY despise the game of golf, we guarantee that you will thoroughly enjoy the amazing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003. it's so good that EA has put together this demo to prove it to all you non-believers. We've brought you four fully playable
PRETTY But she's

has ﬁnished.

S PA C E QHAI^EL
not here for long.

S PA C E C H A N N E L 5 PA R T 2

Merely getting through
to the end of the

demo Is enough for
this one. Let's face It,

you've either got
rhythm action or you haven't

holes lifted straight from the game. So if you fancy a taster; step into Tiger's shoes and hit the greens. And as if that wasn't enough there's also the excellent Player's Club fantasy level, which involves golf as you've never
seen it before.

a
PUBUSHER; SCEE GAME TYPE: RHYTWM ACTION O U T: N / A

r

t

YOU NOW HAVE IN YOUR possession a bit of an

2

exclusive At the time of writing SCEE has decided not to release this excellent rhythm action game in the UK So, unless you've got a Japanese PS2 and a good
import shop near you, this may be your only opportunity to play it. Ever It's a simple and ioveabie little game that not only

SWINGTIME The settings are

has highly distinctive graphic and an amazing
simplicity of control style, it features a few excellent

PLAYERS: 1 (FULL GAME 1-2) ATV2: QUAD
POWER RACING Knock down at least

tunes, too. And it's disturbingly fun to play Simply
watch the moves performed by your enemies then repeat them with your character, Uiala, the micro-skirted TV reporter Keep this up for long enough and they'll be destroyed.

THE CONTROLS
D-pad Directions

three of your fellow
racers for maximum

boost earnings, then
use this extra power to propel you straight to victory.

® ®

Chu Key

I ^Tap m during the backswing to Increase your power then tap id during the ball's ^ﬂight along with a left stick direction to put spin on the ball.

I ^ all about the music. Remember the sequences listen the track and * i ^ It's repeat the rhythm as well as pressing the right then buttons Intoorder to win.

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TO EA'S ﬁercely ■— laL. accurate basketball sIm.
' want to piay for by sliding
' controller and using Choose which team you

)-pad. We've giving you the choice of two top teams: either the LA
Lakers or the New York Mats.

ATVIS OFF-ROAD RACING that comes with sharp handling. The controls will take a bit of getting used to
but that's what this demo is for We have two modes

The on-screen controls (at the bottom of the screen) wlli keep you on the right track through the menus but It's
PUBLISHER: EA GAME TYPE: BASKETBALL SIM O U T: N O W P L AY E R S : 1 - 8

lis that progresses you through the menus - so stop hammering ®! Before the game actually starts you're given the option of adjusting the skill ievel of gameplay (to match your abilities) and choosing the camera angie you prefer, though this can be changed mid-game by pressing S; too.

on offer: A Single Race or a Training mode. Choose your rider, get on your quad bike and hit the track It's possible to earn valuable boosts by performing tricks

or by kicking one of your fellow racers off their bike
and stealing their boost In the process.

A counter (bottom left) shows you how much time
you have remaining before the demo times out, but you'll surely win the race before that?

m
PUBUSHER: ACCIAIM GAME TYPE: RACING O U T: N O W

THE CONTROLS
Offensive:

Defensive; L-stick Movement

THE CONTROLS
L-stick Steer/Lean fonwards
and back

L-stick Movement R-stick EA freestyle control

PLAYERS: 1 (FULL GAME 1-2)

R-stick EA freestyle control
D-pad Quick plays m Face up/Box out
IS Direct switch/Last man

D-pad Quick piays
m Backdown

ws
back

R-stick Accelerate/Brake D-pad: Steer/Lean forwards
and back

IB Direct pass/Fast break
m Turbo

tB Alley OOP

CD Turbo C D Ta k e c h a r g e

(g) Pass @ Crossover ® Spin Move @ Slioot •E Pause
H Call timeout

® Switch piayers @ Steal ® Block/Rebound @ Ta k e c h a r g e K Pause
H! Intentional foul

® Accelerate @ Brake/Reverse ® Look back @ Boost
m Bicycle fs Change camera CD Preload springs
CD Kick

S:

Pause

I STUNT BIKE Defeat gravity

I on four chunky wheels.

1 I ^Use all the game's extensive controls - noticing that they alter function depending ' ' ^on whether you're In possession of the ball or not

Take the time to perform stunts off every incline and jump. That way you'll earn plenty of boost to let rip in a dash for the ﬁnish line.

To i n < l a m ; y ' s

^

i

IN MOST DRIVING GAMES avoiding the Other cars Is a good idea. Not so with Crashed First of all move down to 'OK' and select It to get the demo going. Now choose your

name (or make do with the 'Player T Identity on offer] and
you're into the thick of it There are Multi-Tag and Free-For-AII events inside,

ITS DEBATABLE QUITE HOW MUCH of the game programming Tom Clancy does himself but when It comes to steady-paced army games of realism and
stealth, he's the master This demo mission taken from the game has four

selectable by pressing and to choose your track (the two tracks on offer being home to the two events). And
before selecting your car why not press t and i on the D-pad to choose a paint Job? In the Multi-Tag game you
PUBUSHER: RAGE GAME T/PE RACING OUT NOW

clear objectives: To take out the Initial camp and the soldiers lurking around the tents; to secure the caves;
to return to the start point; and ﬁnally to go back and

must hit every other vehicle in the arena before the timer
runs out, whereas In Free-For-AII points are earned for

PLAYERS: 1 (FULL GAIVIE 1-2)

impacts with other cars - ﬁrst to the points iimit (or In this demo, the person with the highest score) wins. Simple.

PUBLISHER: UBI SOFT GAME TYPE FPS 0 L ; T: T B C

klil Papashvlli. Remember you can only ﬁnd and kill Papashvill once all the other troops have been killed. It may take an age to get used to all the controls (experimentation Is the best option) but the scanner at
the bottom of the screen will at least keep you on the right track

PLAYERS: 1 (FULL GAME 1-2)

Keep an eye out for other cars whizzing past in the middle distance. You'll often have to begin your turns to meet them while they're off-screen.

Take out each soldier in turn and never reveal yourself to a group of enemies. Work your way from target to target taking them out from a great distance.

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There's no mulleted trash here, Just glimpses of the PlayStation 2's future in video form.
Where are we going to put all your letters
and emails

concerning our DVD?

Why not right here? When I play some of your demos my joypad doesn't seem
to vraric it's a (make

of joypad deleted to prevent possible legal action! and it
seems to work ﬁne

with my other games. What's up?
Graham Flatman,

ALPINE RACER 3
You've seen a video. You've

APE ESCAPE 2
Despite being lengthy, lavishly produced and packed with In-game action, this trailer simply can't express the variety
and sheer-inventiveness on

WAR OF THE 2
MONSTERS !
More of those warring | monsters, and, as you can nicely, with plenty of destructible scenery.

Mtddlesborough
Our DVD is

manufactured by Sony and is rigorously

even tasted a playable demo. But Namco and Sony want to bring you more. This polished
videodrome shows off the

see, the game Is shap ng up ^
I

tested by the same
people who test every

single PS2 game
before it's released.

game to perfection. As to how It plays we'll stick with SSX

offer In the full game. Ape Escape 2 Is a hundred games
in one.

They use a Sony Dual
Shock 2, the best

ZOE: THE 2ND RUNNER
In order to celebrate and publicise the arrival of Hideo Kojima's

Tric/q'thanks.

joypad you can get for
your PS2 - so good In

fact that Wiey Included
one in the box with

robo-sequel [this being his part-time job when he's not Metal Geor-lngl we've an Impressive anime cartoon constructed from
ZOEZs action sequences.

your console. Cheaper pads take short cuts and may mean that
certain games don't

function correctly. If
you're experiencing

any problems plug your Dual Shock 2
back In and things

should be okay.
i dont like having to

turn off my PS2 every time I want to change demos. Sort
it out!

ByroiiStingity45, via
email

We have, Byron. Ages ago. You'll usually ﬁnd that pressing ^ and H together will quit you out from demos without a 'Quit' option, and return you to the
main menu.

r O - a i l i n ' ^ i Ti n O l THE MARK OF KRI
This video update ﬁlls in a little more of the plot and features a lot more in-game footage in order to tempt those searching for a little
combat-orientated action/

LMA MANAGER 2003
Yes, the boys have done good. Pretty much exactly the same as they did last year In fact and this video merely highlights what a decent game LMA always was. If you want the latest season update, the game Is out now. A short land rather abrupt] teaser Introducing the Idea of Judge Dredd stomping about Inside your PS2. As for In-game footage you'll Just have to wait but we suspect that a more forthcoming trailer Is on the way

exploration. You know who
you are.

GTA: VICE CITY
We know you're almost certainly knee-deep In the ﬁnished

game by now (and If you're not, why not?) but we couldn't resist
running this goiigeously evocative vignette featuring three tracks from the game's million-doliar soundtrack

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played a Pro Evo game before so I rented it there and then. Your magazine is very accurate in its reviews and ratings of most games... but not this one. Why is there so much hype about Pro Evo? Some of the players don't even have
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and too easy to score. Plus there are only 40 clubs and they don't have real names either Apart from the replays, it is entirely crap. This Is Football and FIFA are much better How can you justify rating this game so highly? Matthew Ward, Caddington. Matthew, do you realise that what you're saying is tantamount to blasphemy? Okay so Pro Evo 2 doesn't have many club teams. Okay so the made-up player names are daft Okay so the
commentary is a farce But in all other respects, Pro Evo 2 hits the back of the

Internet for Vice City, I thought to myself, "How do they get images like that?" Some of the camera angles shown are impossible in the game and, in some ways, this is misleading a person's view of the game content. Could you please tell me how the heck companies make those screenshots because they often make a game look better than it really is. Cheers guys!
Ian Martin, via email

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length and clarity.

When we take screenshots of a game, we utilise a special software program
that allows us to connect our PS2 to a

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PC and grab stills from a window that appears on the desktop. This is what we do for all of our reviews and we can only show you what we actually play However, in Monitor/preview pieces we often dont have access to the game code ourselves and we have to rely on screenshots provided by the software company Obviously less scrupulous developers do occasionally take this opportunity to touch up' screenshots, or

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attempt to pass off replay screens as in-game While most screenshots offer a good indication of how the game looks, it's always best to wait for our reviews before you make a ﬁnal judgement THE 'G' WORD After buying 0PS2#28 and playing the brilliant demo of The Getaway I felt the need to get In touch. I was very surprised by the amount of bad language - in
particular, the 'P word - on the demo. As

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net every single time. What's more, Konami has promised to rectify all its
presentational faults in the next iteration

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a parent of a 12-year-old boy I was even more surprised to ﬁnd that there was no warning of this on the packaging of the mag or the demo. I am not a prude, nor am I against games with adult content but I feel that a warning would have helped some parents who I'm sure don't check the content of the disc. The age rating on the disc was 15, which is surely
a mistake - shouldn't it have been an 18

PS2 AGAINST TERRORISM On 24 November 2000, PS2 became a part of my consolography Consequently, I made the inevitable transition from

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Issue 56 of my long-running collection of PSone mags to OPS2#01 - and I've got every issue since. I have witnessed not only the
evolution of PS2, but also the evolution of the magazine. 0PS2

I bou^t pro evo
2 a n d F I FA 2 0 0 3 a r ^

has chronicled the PS2's prodigious rise in, well, everything
Admittedly 2001 was more of a prototype year for Sony - a technical ﬂamboyancy if you like. Whereas 2002 demonstrated what the wonder

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machine Is truly capable of. We are not solely speaking in terms of graphical ﬁnesse
here, but also in terms of scope and innovation.

OPS2#27 demonstrates that the variety in terms of genre and the quality of titles
within each genre Is becoming ever more expansive. That issue also sees the third

HAWK ONUNE

Tony just couldn't
wait for the ofﬁcial

to coincide with the game itself? I'm sure this is going to be a problem in the future as games become more adult-orientated. Next time you have adult content on your disc, could you make it clearer in order to alert parents to anything that they would feel
unsuitable for their children? D Roberts, Wrexham

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THE WORLD Stop the war! Play games instead!

perfect score awarded In 2002 in the form of GTk Vice City - a game that will most probably culminate as the bestselling game of all time. Consequently it's Inevitable that perfect scores will make way for more perfect scores. Just what point am I trying to make? PS2 has dwarfed the very little
competition it supposedly had and has seamlessly wormed its way into the homes of many fortunate people. From here, Sony can concentrate on its

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not ﬁghting in this era of decadence, terrorism and warfare. Samuele Lodate, London

We're as concerned as you about children viewing unsuitable content You must have missed the 15+ rating logo and the words, "WARNING! The Getaway demo contains strong language," situated right next to the game logo on the front on the magazine's bog, and repeated again
on the demo disc box There's not much
more we can do!

Simply for the glorious pretentiousness of your eulogy of all
things PlayStation 2, Samuele, there can be no competition for

this month's Star Letter Can online PS2 gaming really unite the
world, solve the Palestine conﬂict, make trade fair; prevent war in Iraq, ﬁnd Osama Bin Laden and stop Robbie Williams from ever

We don't feel that our magazine is aimed at children which is why we're happy to run 15+ content on
our demo disc and feature 18-rated

releasing another record? Of course not, Samuele's just overdone it with the Christmas sherry But while the PS2 isnt necessarily equipped to campaign against war and famine in the global community it is a lot of fun to play and it should be even more fun to play online. Yes, you heard, PlayStation 2 is fun! Not that you'd know it from all the
'Handbag!' contenders we received this month. Sometimes, we could all do with a bit of what Samuele's drinking.

games such as GTA: Vice City and The Getaway so prominently - but we'll always advertise any mature content, and if necessary, apply the BBFC ratings which prevent people under a certain age from actually buying the magazine.

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Strong language itself Is not enough for a game to be rated 18, and The Getaway demo was passed with a voluntary 15+ rating by the Video Standards Council. EH! GRINGO! While staring at my impressive stack of your magazines last night I noticed that on the side of OPS2#27 was printed the phrase, "you have leetle bitty cajones?" This is also repeated In your stunning review inside, but did you check to see if you had the correct word? As pointed out by my Spanish teacher last week, the word "cajone" means "cardboard box". She said that the word I was looking for, as probably in your case too, is "cojones". Unless, of course, that dodgy Cuban Is questioning the size of our good old storage containers? Rickki, Jersey As our Cuban friends would say "mea culpa." Er, t/iot's If they were spealdng Italian... ONLINE OVERSIGHT Your recent review of Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 (OPS2#28| left me disappointed. I previously owned THPS3 and loved the Innovative use of online play in the ﬁrst online PS2 game ever But your THPS4
review does not even mention the Online mode.

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SAMPLE CREDITS I have heard about a USB sampler
available for PS2 that can be used with MTV i^usic Generator 2. Where can I get

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S3V that hitroan 2 is the ftutts nuts.

one, how much do they cost and how best can they be used? Chris Frost, Peterborough The sampler can be purchased for £19.99 from the e-shop at www.codemasters.com (the UK section!. You'll be able to sample limited segments of tuneage from a CD, turntable, microphone, keyboard or anything you can plug Into it See page 64 for exciting news on Music 3. PLATINUM ROGUES Yesterday, I popped Into my local games store to see if there were any bargain games on offer and I saw that SSX Tricky was on sale for a whopping £40. That's still full price! Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
and Jak And Daxter came out at the

Everything i like in 3 9316/ blood/
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still £40 too! Why aren't these games out on Platinum? They must have sold enough copies by now. Are the companies who produce these games just greedy liars? Thomas Smith, Royston In the case of SSX Tricky, it simply hasn't sold enough copies (250,000 across Europe! to qualify for Platinum status.
Sad but true. However, It's not

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Should The

Getaway demo
have been rated 18 or censored?

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same time as SSX Tricky (Christmas 2001) and they're now both on Platinum
for £20. Now I'm sure that SSX Tricky Is a

aonkey friends! Just bought
G TA U C ; s e e u i n a couple of years luhen i i bored of it.., AdZ/ Kerit : ; IﬁJTS so SPECIAL BOUT ONimJSHA 2?

compulsory for a game to 'go Platinum' just because it's reached a certain sales target Most companies jump at the chance to remarket their games at a cheaper price point because they can Invigorate ﬂagging sales, but GTAIII's sales have just never ﬂagged! If consumers are still prepared to pay full price for a game. It doesn't make
economic sense to reduce it

better-selling game than these two..
It's the same situation with the

After buying THPS4 (having recently

got broadband) I bought a Llnksys USB
ethernet modem for £20 on eBay

bestselling game of 2001, Grand Theft Auto III. Usually, a game like this would be on Platinum by now, but no. GTAIII Is

plugged it in to my PS2 and within minutes I was playing with seven other people with superb quality via my NTL
512k connection. I couldn't believe how

&si My mates dogs
butt looks like Tidus off FFX. HadJonrio

easy It was, plus you have the ability to download land upload) custom levels! I was staggered. These excellent online features, offered by no other PS2 game as yet, were left out of the review. With the SCEE online press release detailing exciting online prcijects Included
in the same issue as the THPS4 review, I

grrr. la gona slip a xenoiHDrph
into EA's ofﬁces as

handbag!

Ooh, back in the knife drawer, Mr Sharp!
MAG NAG What the hell? This has to be the worst magazine I've ever read. I don't know were to begin as every page was ﬁlled to the rim with totally unfunny bullsh't, but here's a start: a news article stated that there never was a gaming ban In Greece, regardless of every other magazine conﬁrming It, before the Greek authorities overturned It. And, because you were last, you "conﬁrm" it as nothing more than a rumour Translation: you lost the race and you'll hope to God that the thick readers will believe It. Also, whats with the new design crap? It's like ﬂicking

a
'Ifyou get a letter
featured here, you'ﬂ soon

pmishnent 4 earning
colonial narines.

■ TA R R N I E I S TA N N E R I was skimming through OPS2t22 the other day and
took another look at the Interview with EA's Tarrnie Williams. I almost

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THUNDER ^ DOOM a AY E R o r S U E . b e n : t»o» ratch«t+ clank is excellent! Ta k e t h a t s u p « ^ «ario sunshine! G TA v c i s b e t a than eat in turnips ttiiv D,J Danny HcD, Ive almost f i n i shd it, Cant beat that Hilary King in dat race, p.s-hail King

looks like ﬂippin'
Tanner from the

am surprised that you have not Included a special feature about how people at home can play online now. After all, when the ofﬁcial adaptor comes out, I'll still be popping down to my games store to pick one up, and the USB modem will be going back to eBay I really feel there's a lot of confusion regarding PS2 online the more Information, the better

through a ﬁve-year-old's textbook ﬁlled with cruddy doodles of
stickmen, ﬁlling every possible gap with total crap. And to think that Super Play came from this magazine house. Anthony, via email Ouch, that hurts! First off, the Greek 'gaming ban' story. The lesson here is not to believe everything you read in 'other" magazines. There was no ban on videogames In Greece, just a

Driver games! It's face-slappingiy funny Sam 'Mogcey' Moggan, Birmingham Daft but true. Keep 'em coming...

Tom Kiss, Brighton This was deﬁnitely an oversight on our part. Although the number of gamers playing THPS4 online is very limited (underlined by Activislon's decision not to

UidJ, Paul Vicario. S hah^fﬂ i rule

slightly vague ruling that was misreparted by lazy publications
who are happy to copy all their news stories from the Internet

dis to»n! fear iy

gang of hoieboys
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Why do we know better? Because we're the only mag that 1
bothered to do some proper reporting and telephone the Greek Embassy for the truth. Also, sorry that our new exciting, vibrant design is too lowbrow for your Intellectual needs, but ■
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promote this feature of the game at aill
It's still a really impressive bonus to a great game. Tom's letter does an excellent job of summarising the

^ Mov over- (»gs2, vice city rules!
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Has It got anything to do with that elephant by an chance? 2. How do you perform the Misty Flip
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Codes will unlock

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1. Certainly. Just enter the following codes as your name and then press m, ®, @ to activate them.

Jason Holt, Salisbury 1. It has everything to do with the elephant Spine transfer onto the roof of the Koala Cafe building next to Stumpy the elephant then jump back off, carefully aiming to land on Stumpy's head If your aim is accurate and you hold ® as you land, you should frighten the beast sufﬁciently into charging through the zoo and demolishing the door to the Aquarium, 2. When you start the challenge, quickly build up your special meter and then approach the edge of the pink bowl directly in front of the hut As you speed up the edge of the bowl, press 1", followed by ® to perform a Boneless. This should give you that extra bit of

Harry Potter And
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second day of school, go to the Quidditch practice

initially (and a ?' will appear In the hub at the bottom of the screen) but as you progress through the game, your AI character will become ready to learn the more complex stuff. When you've taught your drone all the moves in the manual, go and train them in Arcade mode. Observe their progress, pressing @ to reward them if they do something good (like a powerful combo or a reversal) and ® if they do bad (like repeating a
useless move that leaves them wide

and complete the training with a 'B'
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With your new sticK you can now ﬂy anywhere
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open to a counter strike). Make sure you only press these buttons when your
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the roof

during the day Next! Phil Mackey Is having trouble accessing the
secret area In The Jowai Resort in Ratchet & Clank

when their opponent Is ﬂoored, otherwise they'll look at you for a couple of seconds and be a sitting duck to opposing attacks. You can then go back to sparring and teach them combos, but
remember to teach them one move at a

You have to go
around the side of the ﬁrst island and dive under the water - there is an underwater

Old Movie Style Screen OLDTV 1. Call me stupid, but can I play DVD movies from other countries on my PAL PS2? I know It's designed for the PAL Region |2), but with other stand-alone DVD players you can Input pokes to

time before stringing them all together 1.1 need some help in The Getaway
First of all, how do I to beat the Triad

bypass the regional lockout, and play
whatever you want, Matthew Sutton, Exeter 1. 'Poke? Cor - spot the Eighties child! No, unfortunately there Is no way to bypass the regional lockout on your PS2 by inputting codes. However; there are various gizmos on the market (though not ofﬁcial productsi which plug Into your PS2, to play multi-region discs. Ask at your local games store for details, 1. In your mag review It stated that Pro Evolution Soccer 2 supports 60Hz and widescreen, but I can't ﬁnd the options for them. Help?
Steve, via email 1. Mery sorry Steve, but the sheer

4. Certainly Just go to the Options screen from the main menu, select 'Cheats' and enter any of the following codes. Remember, though, you will have to pause the game once you're In it, go to Options and then toggle the codes in the 'Cheats' menu before they will work.
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passage to it
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island, but you'll
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gangs on the underground ﬂoor? 2. Secondly, I have heard that there are secret vehicles in the game. How do I
unlock them?

Pack for this (and preferably the 02 Mask and a pretty decent weapon, too), God, is that
the time? Must

Jason Pitts, Stockport 1. To defeat the Triads, use the hug-thewall-and-jump-out manoeuvre, if this doesn't work, there are some gas canisters at the point where all the gang members emerge from - shoot the canisters and you should take them all
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have a quick question regarding the game discs, I got two games with the machine at Christmas, but when I ﬂip
them over, one Is blue and the other

starting point Head west past Marble Arch and onto Bayswater Road (use the map supplied with the game for road names). Follow Bayswater Road west as far as the game will allow, then turn left at the blockade onto the Hyde Park Inner Road (the Hyde Park Inner Road U-bends back around to travel through the centre of Hyde Park at this point). At the back of the U-bend is an open gate - go through it Parked by a mansion, you'll ﬁnd a Nissan Skyline GTR and a TVR. □

silver Why's that then? Mark Sibley, Portsmouth 1. You've Just discovered the most visible difference between CD game discs Ibluej and DVD game discs (silver}. More data
can be stored on DVDs, but both formats

excitement of actually getting to play the game meant that we got it wrong, Alas, there are no 60Hz or widescreen options.
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you open the Aquarium In the Zoo level?

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