July
13, 2005
Pilot Down:
Behind Enemy Lines
Author: Nick
Haywood
"Played
from a third person perspective, Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines
uses an interesting mix of shooter and RPG elements with a fair
bit of sneaky stealth stuff thrown in too. There’s an inventory
system in place for storing and using items you find on your travels
and performing certain tasks gains you experience points which
can be used to increase Bill’s health and endurance."
Read
the full review here
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in the News
Destroy All
Humans – X-Box
Author: Nick
Haywood
"Despite
developer’s efforts, it’s rare for attempts at humour
to work within video games, but Pandemic and THQ are having a
good crack with potential weapons of mass mirth such as the Zap-O-Matic
and the delightfully named Anal Probe both backed up with a brilliant
bit of back story that puts many of the tired and jaded plots
from other shooters to shame."
Read
the full review here
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in the News
Wrestlemania
21 - X-Box
Author: Nick
Haywood
"All
of this build up, whilst looking good and getting you into the
over the top American style showmanship, only serves to let you
down badly when you start playing the game. The problem, and it’s
a big problem, is that Wrestlemania 21 just doesn’t play
a good game."
Read
the full review here
July
8, 2005
New Brian Lara
International Cricket Video Released Today
Released today
- a new video for Brian Lara International Cricket
2005, highlighting the fantastic bowling action.
Showing off
everything a bowler can throw at a batsman, you can see
how much damage you can wreak against your opponents - or how
much
damage they can wreak against you.
Wickets smashed,
stunning caught and bowled dismissals, sledging,
lbws, clean-bowling batsmen, slip catches - it's all in Brian
Lara
International Cricket 2005 and all in the video!
Download
it now
Can't wait
to download it? Watch
it in the Codemasters videobox
Watch out
for more videos in the next few weeks as we build up to the
launch of the game - ships 21 July on PC-DVD.
Pre-Order
Now
The PC demo
is still available to download
Brian Lara
International Cricket 2005 - the best catch of the summer!
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SiN Episodes
Coming To Source
Author: Nick
Haywood
"When
Sin was released way back in 1998 it was soon dwarfed by Valve’s
Half Life which not only raised the bar for FPS games, but took
the bar, painted it a different colour, stuck it up on the roof
and took everyone else’s ladders away. But times change
and Ritual’s latest effort proves that close collaboration
with an old competitor can reap rewards."
Read
the full review here
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in the News
Halo 3, set
for a PS3 clash
Author: Nick
Haywood
"In an
interview in Time magazine, none other than Mr Microsoft, Bill
Gates, revealed that they are planning to launch Halo 3 on the
X360 as close as possible to Sony’s launch of the PS3."
Read
the full review here
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in the News
XFX Gear Gamepad
Author: Nick
Haywood
"XFX
have certainly got the style, dressing their gamepads up in black
rubber and finishing them off in silver, but are they any good?
We test out both the wired and wireless flavours of XFX's new
peripherals and see how they hold up against those stalwart gamepad
favourites from Logitech and Microsoft."
Read
the full review here
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Bet On Soldier
Author: Nick
Haywood
"The
basic thrust of the game is that there’s been a war raging
for the last 80 years and no-one is too sure why it kicked off
anymore. But 80 years of warring takes its toll and the battle
has developed into a war between two rival giant federations,
who treat the war like a business (as these future things invariably
do). Having used up their stock of standard soldiers, the war
is fought using mercenaries and to keep the masses happy, the
battles between rival mercenaries has been turned into a game
show."
Read
the full review here
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in the News
Halo 2 Map
pack hits the shelves
Author: Nick
Haywood
"The
pack is the first true expansion pack for any console game, featuring
nine new multiplayer maps that will add fresh action to Halo 2
combat. The Map Pack also includes an update that improves the
multiplayer game by implementing cheating countermeasures and
tweaks to the weapons to further balance Halo 2's arsenal. The
retail Map Pack also includes all prior Live updates to save gamers
time and to ensure the best possible multiplayer experience for
offline players as well."
Read
the full review here
July
6, 2005
Cyberathlete
Extreme Summer Championship 2005 Kicks Off in Texas
"Over
7,000 Gamers from 60 Countries will Compete for $200,000 in Cash
Prizes
LOS ANGELES
- July 6, 2005 - Cyberathlete® Professional League (CPL)'s
Dallas-based annual game tournament and LAN event will take place
Wednesday, July 6 through Sunday, July 10, 2005, at the new Gaylord
Texan Resort, in Grapevine, Texas. Title sponsor Intel Corporation
is joined by NVIDIA, Hitachi and CompUSA to provide support to
the longest running professional-gaming tournament and LAN event.
Thanks to
its primary sponsor Intel and co-sponsor NVIDIA, the Dallas CPL
competition boasts a huge bevy of cash prizes. More than $200,000
is at stake in the official competitions for Counter-Strike: Source,
Counter-Strike (version 1.6), Day of Defeat, WarCraft III and
Halo 2. The CPL World Tour competitors will play Painkiller (version
1.64) in a one-versus-one deathmatch format.
More information
on the event is located at http://www.thecpl.com/summer2005/
About
the CPL
Launched June 26, 1997, the Cyberathlete® Professional League
(CPL) is
the world's first video game sports league. The global leader
in professional
computer game competitions, the CPL has hosted final tournaments
on five
continents and official qualifying tournaments in more than 50
countries.
Over the past eight years, the CPL has hosted 35 international
main events with a total attendance of 45,000 gamers and has awarded
more than $2,000,000 in prizes."
Read
the full review here
July
5, 2005
Juiced
Author: Nick
Haywood
"Juiced
has to be the first racer I’ve played where the game mechanics
work against you to stop you actually racing! You’ll spend
most of your time flicking through the calendar looking for races
you can attend and then looking to see if you can actually drive…
and even then you have to think carefully about whether you can
afford it after the race is over. Where’s the fun in that?
It might be worth it if the races were any fun, but with the AI
winning nearly every collision, losing you reputation points and
costing you in repairs and with car handling that makes my wife’s
J plate Rover 214 feel nimble and sporty, I just see no reason
to bother with Juiced, especially if you’ve got either of
the Need For Speed: Underground games."
Read
the full review here
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XFX Gear Gaming
Headset
Author: Nick
Haywood
"Halfway
down the speaker cord is the inline control box with a volume
wheel but then there’s this little switch giving you the
options of off, normal and max… And it’s in this little
switch that the headset comes alive, literally. Flick that switch
and the headset starts to rumble in response to the bass sounds
within the game."
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the full review here
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San Andreas
pc-Bust that crazy shi*t replay contest
"Whether
you've made it all the way through Las Venturas,
are spending hours on end perfecting your stunt jumps over the
hills of San Fierro, or even if you're still taking your time
idly wilding out in the streets of Los Santos
– anyone who's passed time in the state of San Andreas knows
there's a hell of a lot of trouble you can get into.
We want to
see exactly what you're capable of.
Send us your
most jaw-dropping bit of 30 second gameplay using the Replay feature
of the PC edition of
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
With three categories of competition each based on the major greater-metropolitan-areas
of the state: Los Santos (including Red County), San Fierro (including
Whetstone and Flint County), and Las Venturas (including Tierra
Robada and
Bone County) – the entrant who submits the replay we deem
to be the most spectacular, creative and entertaining in each
category will win:
