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Release date: 12 March 2007
EXCLUSIVE REPORT
PlayStation 3
Everything you need to know about Sony’s new games machine
V
ideogames have come a long
way since the likes of Space
Invaders, Donkey Kong and
Pac-Man wobbled onto our screens
almost 30 years ago. Today’s
sophisticated titles offer photorealistic
graphics, surround sound and
the ability to play against opponents from
around the world. Incredibly, almost
26 million people in the UK regularly play
videogames and the average age of a
gamesplayer is a rather grown-up 28. With
these statistics in mind, we decided the launch
of the most powerful games system ever – the
PlayStation 3 – merited a special report all of
its own. So if you want to know all about Sony’s
latest bit of electronics wizardry, read on...
What is it?
The PlayStation 3 is Sony’s powerful new
games console and is the Japanese giant’s
answer to the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft’s
Xbox 360. It will be released in the UK on Friday,
23 March. It’s been available in the US and Japan
since last November but due to a shortage of
parts its European launch was delayed.
How much will it cost me?
£425. This might seem like a lot but
Sony actually loses money on every
PlayStation 3 it sells. The company hasn’t taken
leave of its senses, though – profits come from
software sales with games costing £39-£49.
While those outside Europe can buy a cheaper
version of the machine that doesn’t feature a
60Gb hard drive, only the top-spec version will
be available in the UK at launch. However, since
you’ll need the drive to download content from
Sony’s PS3 store there’s not much point buying
the cut-down model anyway.
What can it do?
Essentially it’s a games machine with
multimedia capabilities. Sony hopes the
PS3 will replace many of your other electronic
gadgets – such as a stereo and DVD player – and
become an entertainment hub in your front
room. You can use it to download and play
movies and games, listen to MP3s, store and
browse all your digital pictures and surf the net.
PS3
LAUNCH
Special
Why do I need one?
The PlayStation has been the number one
best-selling games machine since it
launched in 1995. That means the PlayStation 3
will have more support from more game
developers than any other next-generation
console. It also comes with a Blu-Ray disc player.
Blu-Ray discs can store up to 50 gigabytes of
information compared to a maximum of 8.5
gigabytes afforded to ordinary DVDs. This is not
The PlayStation 3 is the world’s most powerful
games system as well as the most expensive

only essential for the new generation of datahungry
games – Resistance: Fall of Man uses up
around 20Gb of disc space, for instance – but
also makes the PlayStation 3 compatible with
the new high definition Blu-Ray film format.
Blu-Ray could well become the new standard for
home cinema but a standalone Blu-Ray player
could set you back over £500. PS3s sold in the
UK come with a free copy of Casino Royale.
What are the launch games like?
The starting line-up of games isn’t that
inspiring and, while there are excellent
titles like the beautiful shooter Resistance: Fall of
Man and the deliciously muddy racer that is
Motorstorm, there won’t be anything that could
be considered essential until the end of the year
with the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of
the Patriots.
Are there any PS3 exclusive games?
Exclusives are currently jumping the
PS3 ship at an alarming rate with Devil
May Cry 4 already confirmed for an Xbox 360
release while Virtua Fighter 5 will be available for
Microsoft’s console a few months after its debut
on PlayStation 3. Grand Theft Auto IV will also be
the first GTA game not to be exclusive to a
PlayStation and there are currently rumours,
denied by the game’s developer, that Metal Gear
Solid 4 will also be available for the 360.
Will it play my old PS2 games?
The UK model of the PS3 will be able to
play the majority of PSone and PS2 games
but there are few that won’t run. This is because
the PS3 available in the UK uses software to
emulate the old machines while PS3s sold in
Japan use a specialised chip. In better news, you
will be able to buy a PS3 game anywhere on the
planet and it will work on your PAL machine.
The same is true for Blu-Ray films too.
Is it better than a Wii?
You really can’t compare the two. The
Wii is essentially a GameCube in a new
box with a fancy new controller while the
PlayStation 3 is a true next-generation machine.
Does it out perform the Xbox 360?
Even if you’re using your PS3 with a
standard television the difference in visual
quality between the two machines is
pronounced. Games that occasionally slow
down on the 360 – like the excellent adventure
Oblivion – run much more smoothly on the PS3.
The 360 is built from standard components
common to PCs while the PS3 utilises Cell
microchip technology that represents cutting
edge speed and performance.
Do I need a fancy television?
In a word: yes. While it is possible to
connect the PlayStation 3 to a standard
cathode-ray TV you’re not going to see the
benefit of a 1080p high-definition movie or
game unless you have a high-definition telly that
can handle that resolution. The Xbox 360 can
only output images at up to 1080i, which means
it has to create images by interlacing lines of
pixels, hence the ‘i’, while the PS3 can output
progressive images meaning it puts out an
entire image at once thus making for a far
sharper picture. You’ll also need an HDMI cable
and a TV compatible with HDMI to get the
best from the machine.
PlayStation 3 Launch game line-up
Resistance: Fall of Man £39.99
Every new console needs at least one standout game to justify investment in
the hardware. While the original Xbox had the superlative Halo, the PS3 has
this resoundingly solid first-person shooter. Resistance takes the standard
background texture of a war torn 20th century, replaces Nazis with an
invading race of mutant super-humans and keeps the run-and-gun action
non-stop as you slay your way through a battle-ravaged England in 1951.
The sci-fi setting provides an excellent counter to the stale realism you’ll
find in war games such as Call of Duty 3 and there’s a vast array of genuinely
inventive weaponry at your disposal as you take on the alien hordes.
However, while the game’s single-player mode is a little predictable at times,
it’s the breathtaking 40-player online modes that make this the PS3’s musthave
title. A definite system seller.
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Motorstorm £39.99
If you’re looking for a fast and brutal off-road racer that as much
fun to watch as it is to play, then the draw-dropping violent ballet
of Motorstorm is for you. Drivers compete over a series of 21 races, set in
the boulder-strewn desert of Monument Valley. While vehicle selection is
restricted to a handful of trucks, buggies, rally cars, motorbikes and 4x4s, the
game’s frighteningly realistic physics model records every bump and rock on
the course, each one capable of tearing your car apart or forcing you into a
violent collision or multi-car pile-up.
Sadly, the pathetic level of single-player options (limited to just one
championship) makes Motorstorm feel like the first act in something grander.
The racing, however, could not feel more exciting and energetic and is
constantly punctuated with terrifyingly beautiful vehicular carnage. A 12-
Call of Duty 3 £49.99
It was always a matter of time
before shooters set in World
War Two started to feel overly
familiar, but this follow up to one
of the Xbox 360’s greatest early
achievements practically volunteers
itself as an explanation of what’s
starting to grate. Battles are flush
with soldiers, death and historical
detail, but combat feels mechanical
and claustrophobic as you trot
along from A to B, kill Jerry with
the ease of Rambo and witness
hilariously awful dialogue and
accents straight out
of ‘Allo ‘Allo.
Marvel Ultimate
Alliance £49.99
There’s no doubt that it’s the
presence of famous comic book
characters like Spider-Man, Iron
Man and Captain America that
really helps make this such an
enjoyable romp. Although billed
as a four-player action-oriented
RPG, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is
essentially a story-driven beat-
’em-up that draws much of its
inspiration from the Marvel
universe. It’s not drastically nextgeneration
but it is a heck of a lot
of fun.
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player online mode is a welcome addition for the UK release, too. H H H H H
Tiger Woods
PGA Tour 07 £39.99
Tony Hawk’s
Project 8 £39.99
The most successful skateboarding
games franchise in the world still
manages to find new ways to make
travelling on a wheeled plank of
wood exciting. Its new ‘Nail The
Trick’ mode provides a mesmerising
close-up of Tony’s legs and
skateboard so you can kick, flip and
spin your board with artistic aplomb
as gravity pulls you ever closer
toward the pavement. H H H H H
Ridge Racer 7 £39.99
Ignoring the punishments of reality,
Ridge Racer 7 lets you slide a vast
collection of high-performance
roadsters around the corners of
22 demanding race tracks, all at
over 200mph. With an almost
indestructible car at your disposal,
you’re free to focus on your ability
to perform powerslides, earn nitrous
boosts and climb a steep learning
curve as you seek to shave seconds
off your lap times. H H H H H
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Like every other game in the series,
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 has
been buffed to shiny perfection.
The game’s 12 courses have
been lovingly recreated in nearphotorealistic
splendour and the
motion captured movements of
Tiger and his golfing buddies is
uncanny in its verisimilitude.
Indeed, so great has been the
attention lavished on every single
aspect of this game that even
individual blades of grass are visible
in the rough.
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THE UK’S NUMBER ONE VIDEOGAMES COLUMN
Gears of War
Price: £49.99 | Formats: Xbox 360 | Rating: BBFC 18
n THIS PUNISHING TACTICAL blaster pits you
against a race of subterranean-dwelling aliens intent
on wiping out humanity. Equipped with arms like a
barbarian’s thighs, no neck and a fearsome array of
sci-fi weaponry, it’s up to you and an optional
buddy to outflank the enemy, destroy
their network of underground
tunnels and save the planet. Unlike
most other shooters, though,
Gears of War doesn’t encourage
trigger-happy bravado. Instead,
it expects you to either work
with your artificially intelligent
squad members or another
player via a split-screen
mode or Xbox Live.
This element of
cooperation is vital
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if you want to stay alive for more than 10 seconds.
The planet’s surface is crawling with thousands of
bug-eyed monsters and the only way to survive is for
you and your men to out-manoeuvre the enemy.
Working as a team, you soon become engaged in a
city-wide game of cat-and-mouse. If you can see a
pillar, burnt-out vehicle or pile of rubble then
chances are you’re best off hiding behind it, only
popping out to let a burst of ammunition shred into
the enemy.
In single-player mode the game is engaging
enough, but Gears of War really excels as a buddy
game. You’re constantly scavenging for extra bullets,
screaming out for assistance and rushing to revive a
fallen comrade as the enemy relentlessly zero in on
your position. It’s pulp sci-fi at its best and the
videogame equivalent of a Paul Verhoeven film.
The Xbox 360 celebrates its first birthday this
month and it really couldn’t have hoped for a better
present. Gears of War is simply breath-taking and a
terrific advert for high-definition widescreen gaming.
RATING H H H H H
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
Price: £34.99 | Formats: PSP | Rating PEGI 12+
n This is the first Ace Combat title to hit
the PSP and, as with the series as a
whole, the onus is on the art of dog
fighting rather than simulating actual
flight. There’s no need to read a manual
or even know how to land or take off
since simplicity is the key to Deception’s
success and it’s as picturesque on
handheld as it ever has been on the
PlayStation. Squint and you’ll be fooled
in thinking that you’re watching actual
video of warplanes in combat, but real
dog fighting was never as dramatic as
what’s on offer here.
Tony Hawk’s Project 8
Price: £29.99 | Formats: Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2 | Rating: PEGI 12+
n Skateboarding isn’t just the preserve of
spotty youths showing off in front of their
mates in dimly lit car parks. It’s also a
thriving multi-billion dollar sport with its
own pro-level leagues. One of the
world’s best-known pro skaters is Tony
Hawk who, despite advancing years
(he’s now an ancient 38), is still on top of
his game and continues to lend his name
to the most successful skateboarding
videogame franchise ever. Eight games
in, a billion dollars earned and,
amazingly, the Tony Hawk’s series
still manages to find new ways to
make travelling on a wheeled
plank of wood exciting.
While Project 8
controls much like
previous games in
the series, with
the player using
Up to four players can compete in
the skies over four PSPs and a Wi-Fi
connection, so not only is the game on
a visual par with its big cousin
predecessors it features the largest
multiplayer modes of all of them.
There’s also a number of team-based
and cooperative modes in addition to
basic dogfighting and a branching
mission structure for those players who
prefer to fly solo. So, while the game
can be beaten in less than three hours,
there’s plenty to keep you coming back
for more. RATING H H H H H
a combination of buttons to pull off a
series of tricks for points, it adds the
amazing ‘Nail The Trick’ mode. Pressing
both analogue sticks down pulls you into
a slow-motion view with each stick
governing a leg so you can kick, flip and
spin your board with artistic aplomb as
gravity pulls you toward the pavement.
You’re in direct control of the greatest
skateboarding video ever made,
constantly rewarded for your skill and
ballet-like grace. RATING H H H H H
Release date: 13 November 2006
Cheat
zone
PS2
The Getaway:
Black Monday
DOUBLE HEALTH
For double your
health press 8,
8, 4, 4, 6, 6,
O, O, 2 during
the introduction
sequence and
before the main
menu.
GC
Def Jam:
Fight for NY
100 REWARD POINTS
Go to the cheat
menu and unlock
100 reward points
by entering either
GetStuff,
TheSource,
NewJack, Duckets
or Crooklyn.
XBOX
Need for Speed:
Carbon
EXTRA MONEY
To get extra money
go to the main
menu and press 2,
8, 4, 2, 6, 8, X
then B.

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THE UK’S NUMBER ONE VIDEOGAMES COLUMN
Canis Canem Edit
Price: £34.99
Formats: PS2 | Rating: BBFC 15
n Despite months of controversy and moral
grandstanding, Bully (to give the game its former
name) is no more violent than an episode of Grange
Hill or any number of other stylised representations of
school days past or present. It’s definitely not a “bully
simulator” or Satan’s latest trick to get decent kids to
thump each other as some would have you believe. In
truth, it’s an intricately constructed and refreshingly
moral action adventure that will make you remember
giving or receiving dead arms with a perverse chuckle.
You play Jimmy Hopkins, a mischievous juvenile
who is sent to Bullworth Academy by his parents, a
preparatory school for troublesome teenagers. Like
any kid in a new school, Jimmy’s first lesson is to
survive and, as with all fictional houses of learning,
most of the action takes place outside the classroom.
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Jimmy’s overall goal is to rise to the top of the
school’s twisted hierarchy over the course of an
academic year. He won’t get there by victimising the
weak and defenceless, but rather by taking part in
the sort of boarding school mischief celebrated in
novels, films and comic books for decades. Kids are
splattered with eggs, races run for the attention of
girls and fights executed with classic playground
moves and fought for honour rather than spite.
And while you have free rein to get up to all sorts
of schoolboy pranks such as letting off stink bombs,
scrawling graffiti and taping “kick-me” signs onto
the backs of unsuspecting pupils, you’ve also got to
attend classes and detentions.
Canis Canem Edit (dog eat dog) is an engaging,
all-encompassing experience that gives you the
freedom to play out your schoolboy fantasies in a
free-roaming environment packed with sub-missions
and bonus games. It’s all stitched together with a
level of intelligence and humour envied by everything
else on the shelves.
RATING H H H H H
FIFA 07
Price: £49.99
Formats: Xbox 360 | Rating: PEGI 3+
n With all the gloss and sheen of a
footballer’s wife, FIFA 07 on the Xbox
360 is every bit as gorgeous as the
beautiful game it seeks to imitate. With
accurate depictions of players and real
names for all the top teams, the level of
verisimilitude is staggering. However,
they say beauty is only skin deep and, at
its heart, this latest incarnation of FIFA is
still a bit of a cheap tart.
Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Price: £49.99 | Formats: Xbox 360 | Rating PEGI 3+
n The Pro Evo series has always been
the footy game of choice amongst those
who can master its intricate controls,
but it has never matched FIFA’s level of
official sponsorship and goals-in-a-barrel
gameplay. Here you can learn the skill
required to shift formation during play,
bring another player to the ball and
time countless other tricks that you
can pull off in real matches, but there
are still few Premiership teams (only
While it’s the only football title
available for the 360 that offers
graphics that don’t look like they’re
just running on a beefed-up
PlayStation 2, it’s still a flawed (if
enjoyable) kickabout. FIFA now gives
you the option of playing with Pro Evo’s
more complex controls, but it still
flatters by making scoring patronisingly
simple. Players move with greater
fluidity and grace than before, but the
game has more in common with an
arcade title than a true simulation.
RATING H H H H H
Manchester United and Arsenal make
an appearance) and, despite featuring all
the major European teams and players,
Wayne Rooney looks more like a pale
imitation of a Neanderthal raised on a
diet of crisps and burgers than a
professional athlete. It’s not the prettiest
next-generation sports game,
but below the surface are
greater depths and personality
than anything the opposition
has ever
brought to the
pitch. If FIFA is
the beautiful
game then this
is still the more
worthwhile and
approachable
game next door.
RATING H H H H H
Release date: 23 October 2006
Cheat
zone
PS2
Scarface: The
World Is Yours
full health
Activate Tony’s
mobile phone
and enter MEDIK
as a code to get
full health.
XBOX
Oddworld:
Stranger’s Wrath
gain invincibility
Plug in a second
controller during
play, then remove
it and press X, X,
Y, Y, B, B, A,
A on controller
one and you should
hear a guitar. Now
press X, Y, A, B,
X, Y to gain
invincibility in this
epic shooter with
a twist.
PSP
Splinter Cell
Essentials
unlock bonus mission
Hold down
ß and press
4, 6, 4, 6, 4
at the bonus
mission screen and
repeat the code to
unlock the next
bonus mission.

Release date: 4 December 2006
The UK’s Number One Videogames COLUMN
the top five
Games OF 2006
With a new year beckoning, it’s time to look back over the past twelve months of
videogame releases, put them all into a giant pan and apply the heat of critique.
Dead Rising
XBOX 360 £39.99
best
for
ZOMBIES
» set in a shopping mall
crammed full of 50,000 bloodthirsty
zombies, Dead Rising is a homage
to George A Romero’s zombie classic
Dawn of the Dead movie. You play Frank
West, a hot-shot photographer, looking
for the perfect picture while trying to stay
alive amidst all the carnage. Almost
anything in the mall’s many stores can be
used as a weapon, including the usual
chainsaws, guns and bats as well as more
esoteric killing apparatus such as pot
plants, fire extinguishers, dumb bells,
lawnmowers, golf clubs and frying pans.
The replay value is huge, the incidental
humour effortlessly integrated with a
genuine sense of impending doom and
the violence relentless.
LEGO Star Wars II:
The Original Trilogy
PS2 | Xbox | X 360 | PC | GC £39.99
» The millions of kids who grew up
making X-Wing Fighters out of studded
plastic bricks get a game they can play
with their own offspring. All the key
scenes from the first three films have
been recreated with an obsessive eye
for detail so, while the actual game is
little more than a two-player stroll
backed up with blasters, lightsabres and
the power of the Force, the result is a
tightly constructed experience that is
far more than a check list of famous
locations and characters.
Whether you’re flying
LEGO Snowspeeders
against LEGO
AT-ATs
or screaming
down the
Deathstar’s
trench racing
toward the
ventilation shaft,
you’re smiling at
the undeniable
cuteness of it all.
best
for
kids
Tekken:
Dark Resurrection
PSP £39.99
game
of the
year
» This massive martial arts saga sucks every ounce of power from
the PSP and spits it out with so much style and depth that the end result
is a game that’s even better than the arcade original. With the action
spread across 19 different locations, there are 34 playable characters to
choose from – including a robotic samurai and a boxing kangaroo – and
a full roster of fighting styles and plenty of fancy new moves.
Control-wise, things are simple enough. A combination of the PSP’s
four buttons control each character’s movements with some of the
trickier fighting combos involving either the D-pad or the analogue
stick. Mastering each character’s repertoire of moves can be quite
fiddly at first, but putting together a particularly tricky combo and
watching your opponent go flying is hugely rewarding. There’s an
impressive number of fighting options too, ranging
from one-on-one, two-round encounters
against computer controlled opponents,
to team battles, time attacks, dojo
leagues and ranked tournaments. Best
of all, though, is the versus mode which
lets two players compete over an ad hoc
connection. Add to this the ability to
‘record’ your fighting style and
offer your ‘ghost’ for others to
download and play against, and
you can see why TDR has been
hailed as the best beat-’em-up on
any platform.
Guitar Hero II
PS2 £39.99
» This near perfect
celebration of the power of rock
music just never gets dull. For
your money you get a copy of
the game and a small plastic
Gibson SG electric guitar. It has
no strings, but instead features
five coloured fret buttons,
a switch placed where
you’d expect to strum
and a whammy bar. As
you play a song the
screen shows a close
up of a guitar’s neck.
Coloured circles fall
down from top to bottom
and before they fall off the screen you
hold down the same coloured buttons
on your Gibson and strum the switch.
Get your timing wrong and you’ll get a
clunk, get it right and you’ll sound like
you’re performing live with Nirvana, The
Rolling Stones or Van Halen. There are
64 tracks to choose from, a mixture of
cover versions and original recordings.
Medieval 2: Total War
PC £39.99
» Breathtaking in its scale and
ambition, Medieval 2’s blend of turnbased
strategy and visceral, real-time
action is the most mesmerising
recreation of medieval warfare ever
created. Spanning five centuries of
conflict, the game begins by placing you
in control of a European superpower.
The majority of your time is spent
lording your authority over a main map,
building up cities and recruiting units
much like you would if playing a
complicated board game. You can
spend days agonising over your
economic and military budgets, forging
alliances and brokering
deals, but the real-time
battles are the true
powerplay. More than
10,000 individual units can
come to blows in the heat of battle.
These engagements are played out in
real-time and give the game its true
awe-inspiring majesty.

Release date: 9 October 2006
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Scarface:
The World Is Yours
Price: £34.99 | Formats: PS2, Xbox, PC | Rating: BBFC 18
Brian de Palma’s seminal
gangster flick was always
ripe for translation into a
videogame. Set in a
cocaine-drenched Miami of the early
eighties, its machine-gun attitude
and violent set-pieces were perfectly
suited to make the transition from
cineplex to games console.
Scarface: The World Is Yours
opens with the original film’s
climactic shoot-out between Tony
Montana, a one man Cuban
crimewave, and Sosa’s henchmen.
However, in a revisionist twist of epic
proportions, the game’s developers
decided to ignore the last page of
Oliver Stone’s award-winning
screenplay and have Montana
escape the carnage to live and fight
another day.
With this central conceit in place,
Montana flees his mansion and,
months later, sets out to rebuild his
underworld empire. With little
money, few friends and no drugs to
sell, it’s up to you to help him in his
quest to regain control of Miami’s
game
week
of the
drugs trade. In no time at all, you’ll be
building up a network of drug dealers,
smuggling contraband, laundering
money and battling rival gangs and
cops in a free-roaming world similar
to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (itself a
tribute to the original Scarface film).
In many respects, it’s a much more
cohesive gaming experience than
Vice City. You’re motivated by revenge
and events don’t seem to unfold at
random as in other games of this
genre. There’s a definite urgency and
structure underpinning the many
gunfights, car chases, drug deals and
chainsaw slayings.
Admittedly, much of the action is
highly reminiscent of a GTA game, but
there is a sprinkling of new ideas.
Most notable of these is a system
where you can charm cops and
dealers and can gain bonuses for
mocking enemies before you blow
them away. The game’s voice work is
also laudable, especially that by
Andre Sogliuzzo, who could fool
Pacino’s own mother into thinking it
was him.
RATING H H H H H
Myst
Price: £24.99 | Formats: PSP | Rating: PEGI 3+
n In its time this ten-yearold
puzzle game was so
popular it racked up sales of
more than six million and
spawned numerous novels
and comic books. It’s now so
dated it’s as technologically
impressive as a digital watch,
but its fiendish puzzles and
dream-like ambience remain.
The game sees you
marooned on a deserted
island after finding a
mysterious book. With no
instructions or explanation
and no-one else in sight, you
have to point-and-click your
way around the island and
work out what is going on and
find a means of escape.
n The fantastical wild
West theme of previous
games in the series has been
downplayed in favour of a
more futuristic setting. It’s all
so much window-dressing,
though, because Wild Arms 4
is mince and potatoes in roleplaying
form and every bogstandard
cliché you can think
of has been shoe-horned into
the game.
You play teenage every-kid
Jude Maverick who must
gather together a bunch of
like-minded chums to help
save the world. The story is
trite, but it’s worth persevering
with because of the game’s
excellent turn-based combat
n You know this is going
to be awful before you even
load it up. It’s Ecco the
Dolphin with teeth and the
only jaws to watch out for are
yours, hitting the floor.
You take control of a great
white shark stalking the
waters around a seaside town
and eating anyone who gets in
your way – often to quite
horrific effect. Jaws’ razor
sharp teeth are capable of
inflicting some seriously
realistic damage and can rip
swimmers apart in seconds.
There’s also some sort of
environmental message
hidden away in the game,
which results in you having to
hurl exploding barrels at oil
Myst’s picture-postcard
graphics, slow-burn
storytelling and simple-tonear-impossible
puzzles will
appeal to gamers who want
something more cerebral than
a first-person shooter or
football sim. And despite its
age, the game still manages
to make a genuine emotional
connection. RATING H H H H H
Wild ARMS 4
Price: £34.99 | Formats: PS2 | Rating: PEGI 3+
system. It’s a killing zone of
seven interlocking hexagonal
shapes and makes for a much
more tactical battlefront than
previous incarnations.
A steady flow of puzzles and
rewards keeps things moving
along, but the story and
characters are often banal
cutouts of better ideas in
finer games. RATING H H H H H
Jaws Unleashed
Price: £29.99 | Formats: PS2, Xbox | Rating: PEGI 16+
platforms and attack anyone
who is polluting the ocean.
There are plenty of side
missions which test your
navigation and puzzle-solving
abilities, but there’s no
escaping the fact that this is
the gaming equivalent of the
risible Jaws 4 without the
benefit of Michael Cain’s
ham impersonation.
RATING H H H H H
Cheat
zone
XBOX
Call Of Duty 2
Never Die
Having a little trouble
completing your mission in
one piece? For a spot of
invincibility, while on the
Chapter Select screen hold
down both triggers and tap:
y, x, B, A, y, x, B, A.
PS2
Guitar Hero
FULL TRACK LISTING
Press yellow, orange,
blue, blue, orange, yellow,
yellow at the start screen
to access the game’s full
track listing and prepare
to rock.
PSP
GRAND THEFT AUTO:
Liberty City Stories
Cash Injection
Need a bit of a boost to
your finances? Enter the
following button
combination during
gameplay to pad out your
wallet to the tune of 250
big ones: 4, 6, T, 4,
6, O, 4, 6.
PS2
LEGO Star Wars II:
The Original Trilogy
PLAY SECRET Bounty
Hunter missions
Purchase Dengar, 4LOM,
IG-88, Bossk, Greedo and
Boba Fett at the Cantina
and go to the door marked
with Jabba the Hutt’s icon.