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SILENT HILL:
HOMECOMING
>> Xbox 360, PS3
The new Silent Hill is more chilling
than ever and this edition of the
dread-filled survival horror is helped
by a much-improved combat
system. The creepy story has you
going to look for your missing
brother in your evil-corrupted home
town… Due December 26.
LEFT 4 DEAD
>> PC, Xbox 360
Four of you with limited weapons
against hundreds of zombies? Think
of a George A Romero movie with
frantic retreats through sewers, a
hospital, elevators and rooftops.
With intense co-op action, this firstperson
horror shooter is set to be
one of the more memorable games
of the year. Due November 21.
VELVET ASSASSIN
>> PC, Xbox 360
This gritty WW2 stealth-action game
tells the story of a real-life heroine,
British Intelligence agent Violette
Szabo. Between fevered dreams,
you’ll sneak up on enemies and
pull the pins from the grenades on
their belts and infiltrate camps to
slip cyanide to your own men before
they talk… Due November 28.
GuItar hErO: WOrlD tOur
Don’t just rock – record and storm the charts! ROCK
Yes, it’s the first game in the Guitar Hero series
to feature drum and microphone controllers
for percussion and vocal parts – but that’s
not all! Guitar Hero: World Tour is also the
first band-in-a-box game that lets you write your
own songs. This is done via an incredibly deep Music
Creator. We say deep, but it’s as deep as you like,
really. You can get totally obsessed with detail and
production or just chuck together a tune in a few
minutes – the choice is yours! In any case, a handy
tutorial takes you through every step of the process.
Once you’ve created a song, you can upload
it to the GHTunes website, where the Guitar Hero
The big news about this year’s version of
PES is that Konami has wrestled the UEFA
Champions League licence from EA, slotting
the competition into the game as a new
Tournament mode. What’s more, Konami has also
done deals with the likes of Liverpool, Manchester
United, Madrid and Barcelona, so now in the game
you’ll see the names, faces and official kit of some
of the best teams in the world. It all means that PES,
already the most realistic soccer sim, is now catching
up with the FIFA series in the glamour stakes too.
Graphically, the game is an improvement on last
year and the front end has also been revamped to
community can play and then rate your
efforts. This means you’ll have dozens
of new songs to play and your music
really could make you famous!
As if that’s not enough for you, the
GHTunes website is also fully searchable by
genre, artist and user name, so if there’s a
tune on it you like, you can simply go online,
find it, download it and play it. Rock on!
Format: Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii
Release date: November 14
Publisher: Activision
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PES signs Liverpool, Man United and the Champions League! MATCH
INCOMING! Resident Evil regular, bad guy Albert Wesker, will be making an appearance in the eagerly-anticipated Resident Evil 5…
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make it easier to navigate and nicer to look at. The
Teamvision AI system that was introduced last year
has been subtly tweaked too – players now won’t
pass to a team-mate in a bad position, encouraging
you to make intelligent runs.
There are nice little touches like that everywhere
and to cap it all off, online multiplayer games – which
were a little disappointing in the last release – have
now been expanded to include a total of four players.
Format: PS3, PS2, PSP Wii, PC, Xbox 360
Release date: Out now (Wii: due spring 2009)
Publisher: Konami