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ROT cay ae ea Reseed Rares Rea eens Buea ae46 Games of 2003 ‘Anew year is now well and truly upon us. In best PCPP tradition, we bring you 50 of our top picks for the year ahead. Will they all make it to our shelves in 2003, or will slippage ‘once again be the true victor? 1 a : a PowerPlay Disc # fat Guide #85 le might be the leanest month games t doesn’t mean the cover pphat phat phat!PowerPlay) APRIL 2003 I W ey) SSUE 6: EV Rea ETE UlscKy Ce eee hr tied seg OME T TIT) c ene es See etd Ciecarg { x ’ p- 1 ae 5 — 90 6 ” ISP PowerTest ADSL is here for all at last. We put 10 ISPs to the test to find which most richly deserves your monthly dollars | GAME NEWS News from all quarters of the globe 16 Virtual Vancouver 18 Worms 30 les thei uti el fe! isnoting sacred? 17 Phantom 20 Monopoly on horizon Oh ook, yetanother console 24 Games Chaser 18 Men of Valor: Vietnam 26. Tech Chaser The bandwagon s uly rling 28 Charts The shape of games to come 40 Angel of Darkness Lara Crothas retuned to our serens after ong hiatus Despite the ambiguoes lend of TRE, she's nt dead after but ready to take ona secret cu an evi art caller an even a new assistan 46 Games of 2003 Tes yea oe el yop ties, release dates that reso seth they are ‘more aicon tan fact. an ne fortheyear ahead! of The most authoritative reviews around Freelancer Wevaites fouryears Weallhad ur theories abcuthow pefety awesome thisgame was going tobe We expected 3 freeform dynamic universe Were we lisoppoined? Find out! 72 Unreal 2 80. Praetorians Yes well here's enothergamewe've The fistRome-flavoured RTS of 2003) been wating yearsfor The futsreot 82 Projet Nomads Sor just another bacter? Where aremy shrooms? 76. Splinter Cell 84 War & Peace Where's my B&buton gamepad? Adepressng Rusian novell 7B Giz 85. Post Mortem Moe riper le ton! no. prerendered BET 90 The silicon state ofthe art 90. ISP Powerrest 96 Hotware ADSLis now reaisteformany gamers. _Allthelatesthardvare, gadgets and Which sence right foryou? peripheral reviewed 98. Diamond Pro 2070SB 102 The Beast R22 monitor with Flatscreen and The timate PC gamer’ ig lack Sign mevp now! 104 Setup Ceo 2] IyourPCs ling, DrSt wil put ih 8 Inbox SUBSCRIBE [RY4 12 First Looks 30. Columns 36. Subscribe and win 86. Multiplayer Report Save upto 456 off your Favourite 108 Oracle ‘magazine! And win aback 2 M2 ise Guide ‘moniter om Mitsubishi pp sison we Twas nthe ke was transi screen mayer and spin the ener of percussive discipline ‘ee Sm YC ‘As games cst the best part, ‘of 10 dollars a are far from indestructible, ket rete backup oles This hasbeen aff late de ant-prating ntiaves. my 2x howe erates castors whenever | ry to py praacted Cs. 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And she lets he children near you? ‘Wow man yove already streets ahead of theres of 1s poor sap, ut to Ipusiness think the most important thing 0 remember he that ‘computer games have ‘iolent themes because iolence is central lt of humanity: our games are the way they are because cpy-potection will fenerate mone specie {nerest in how to ive wi it acantng 1 the la the law stating vou are permite eet «backup ‘opy) and the more interest, the more articles well write, ‘Thanks forthe heals up thongh, TT have chat with ‘ur Setup gar an see ii Isnt dime fora feature. 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The closest thing we have to Australia heroic ideals in Aussie shows re the great survivor heres Ike Noly Cragin Rat Prot Fence or the ste prisoners In Chang The orignal Stat Trek had a major character raat every popate catinent, except furs, when ying to show a unified word of te future, Obviewsly, the dont eed shark handlers Ie guar, insane crepes or cantankerous media moguls in pater space The X-Men ke StarTrek, hada global las ‘one oftheir carga cont, wth member rom ‘every eotnent excep stall ely sucks Since the XMen spent dozens of ses hiding in he Outback while they were preening oe dean fact the only vaguely active Avstaan Marvel Gomis characters ate the Kangrwo and Boomerang, Duh of whom area ame ts the su mean, give me a break! Storm Is from Africa bat she’s not known as Lon Gintor Swahili Lase, hats a humourlessecieney Nazi auite the opie, he's ‘one ofthe wise crackers ofthe iru whos now a pest. The ‘ost poplar Manis ataly Cnadian bt Wolverine 98 far rom the pte Canadian So where are the col sharaces that ust appen 0 represent astral? se aly that hard tocame up wth them? dust a (bad) taste ‘We hve an impressive film industry, and out ames development hist sretehes hick to the fits, Beyond that our SAS go though raining tat ‘would make Navy SEALS blanc, our ommication technology fs worl-as, our Dogenetes research is impressive and we have 2 ‘wou tation of adventurers an physica ype, Srey tha gives us some scone Furthermore, Charles Kingsford Sith de Ny his pane in kak oraligatr skin, The Don dd sou in thongs tetween mates and Cathy Freeman an Aste Wonder-waran with a penchnt for proweative Mag, desnt have ther pastere all ‘ver er eostune We don have t go overboard ‘ith Asta Nasu ‘One game that kt the ingredients igh, and Incidentally he only example can put my ager fn was Ratbag’s Pomerlide, Not ony dl the game feature a state of the at xame engin, i aso stood ‘ut fom the er in lnk ad fel You could lost taste herd dust. Ask the developers and they ell you tel oes was on making the best racing game they coul= I }ust happened to Keep reminding peopl of Mad Max Sore many ofthe tracks ha stints ironed into them bt tras moe dan tha, the game taped in an Australian fel. 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But what do we see when we look out aver the vista af 2003? 4 Tineup of genre busting, ground breaking mega tiles? A tres breeze heady with the scent of now Ideas? A firestorm of innovation? Or ust another bunch af sequels? T mean, chek I aut Doms, Deus tx 2, Black & White 2, Star Trek Fite Free 2, Unreal 2, Tropica 2 ete et Noone is denying the desire of many people to revisit thelr favourite game worlds in newer, more challenging forms hut are we going 0 far? Our wn Channel Nine recently conducted a revealing forum with new anti-drought lobby Young Liberals Against Urination, allawing these new Australian erues to vent thee true Feelings onthe curtent state ofthe xames industry. Many were completely bemised and taught they were thereto do an a for Planet Ark's el conservative opposite number, Planet Cash Machine, however some of them had een oft thelr medication ong enough to make afew Tueld camments questioning the wisdom of ‘erent industry practices ‘We could have Thief Ill: The One Tel Disaster where you're a disgruntled One Tel shareholder ut for revenge against Jodee Rich and his odorous cohorts Imagine this! ‘The general ehust ofthe comments concerned {he lak of Imagination when develaping allow Up es snd the opporsnities that are blog ios to realy make a difference in the gaming ornmunts Indeed game sequels have the power to reach out beyond the bedroon/home tfc, toning the lives of everyone around {hem Not Just as Rollo cash cows for yupple fame pushers aching with etousy over thelr Fiva' fourteen speed ho ty hts reveling twnows ino the soul of ann Instead of just moe ofthe same with some tw lve why hot bw hed onal ur soi is instead? Tnstead of ust Tle I we could have Ther UL The One Te sisaster where he player act asa disgruntled One Tel shareholder ot for revenge against fee Rl and his odorous Cohorts This third person cton/stelth game ‘would feature cutting edge 3D graphics capable a displaying One Tels extravagant ase In fine det. Zoom right in and read Picasso's Signature onthe palitings hanging in the Janitor’ supply rom, Or ust walk around and Inarvel at he fully bump mapped textures on [32 PCP UELS OF DESIRE The Guerrilla Gamer the 200 moter high waterfall cascading down the inside of One Tel HO. A waterfall hat Finishes ap in small lake onthe ground floor ‘complete with a mation captured fay of ‘endangered hump back whales and an entre Inuit village transported glo by Igloo from Alaska during the boom period ofthe ate 90. Someny? Vi give ye comedy! Then there's Neverwinter Nights 2 Axis of Ei, anal now adventure Int the hear of darkness Ist chen the people of Neverwinter were returning t thee mostly normal Hives new threat emerges from the east The might” Kim Jong Ia demon God from ancient legend, threatens to lend his very neat dress amy bn a rampage In search of rare luxuries such 3s food and laundry detergent, Can yout party Unearth the legendary maze Prkchop and use itto tre long I's horde to their doom tn time? For not ony do you have one Demon to dal frit bu thee. Fur sks il be used tthe Timi when Saddam unleashes his weapons of ‘mass destrcton upon the wals offi Neverwinter However the al ew character {las of Weapons Inspector il be avaiable to unter anything Saddam can thaw at yo Send him into Saddans camp and wateh the demon’ henchmen scurry ta hie all he incriminating evidence, rendering the weapons tscless, Completing th Axis of Evil re the tight Mula of Iran, povestal wizards Capable of reaching int the lives he inary eins of Neverwinter, fring them to perfor unnatural sets upon thie vestork, Femnate warriors il oof part valu feninst the mad mullahs who ate helpless ‘Sens thee charms, Female watts eth Taste and me don't get on And would we all be ter fF with Something like Faleon 5: Friendly ire on ou wish ist in Falcon 5: Friendly fie yu play fut the carer of Frank Sect, US store lat Sind top gun, Frank int known throughout the Service as Friendly Fre Feank for nothing While your frends and coplts are ot there making the world a safer place your fob is hunt dow aolated econ teams orwand Observers and spectal forces advisors nd punish them for being so follh as to not Expect an alack fom an areal (hat looks ust like one of thei own. These small and tosignfiant eams ae wally from allod Counties too gay to ve the US thee fll Stpport and o deserve tobe punished fr their Tac of commitment Players will automaticaly then the gene has recorded a minimum of 300 Conrad Canadian Kil Can even | go too far? Finally how could the yea’ ine up of new tes be complete without Ghost Recon 2: Movie Madness, Developers Red Storm have taken one ‘ofthe mast hing and suceessful hostage rescue operations of ecen limes, the Moscow Theatre Siege, and ereated a stunning fist petson action game that captures al the fxeltement and dara of Uh fated Chechen gunmen hive taken 700 hostages inside 4 Moseow theatre and are demanding cheaper ‘acess to broadband internet, 0 meter high Statue of Wiliam Shatner placed inthe central Square in Groszny and the immediate, levied Cremation af Greg Narman, wide selection of herve gasses and other chemical agents will be a Sour disposal to succesfully complete the ‘operation. Advanced AI wl allow the Chechen funmen to evade these attacks on higher levels tf dificult; however pints wil still be avanded for disabling hostages so there's no nee to be picky. Adding unepecd depth to the game see "he friends and relatives of he hostages who ill round outside the theatre and must occasionally be tranqullsed and even ‘accidentally backed ‘very a ory a keep them quiet, ‘What a top year it would be if we Mad these to took forward to alas well just have to make do ‘with what the industry doles out ous, bo hum, The Guerrilla Gamer is 2 veteran PC games Journalist whose grating soapboxcike rants are really starting to stretch our patience. 1s clear that a lfetime of squatting In front of acathode ray tube mechanically repeating the same simple movements over and over has given him a patsed and distorted concept of "comedy". You should have seen this article before we edited it! Sheesh!eM yes lS ANiIME|COLLECTOR fs ayA CELEBRATION OF CELER Stuart Calvin wil soon be sch. Te Eto tas promised me a dalla for every "what do upgrade first" eter I eceve ia my monthly roura of Setup. IFT ke something ‘ot statisties eau lean sate tnhy there isn ¢ ice belkcurve {istration of CPU speeds among tears of Seu (ae 104, go st by yours {cal In terme of you fois who sil run Celeons,der's not just a couple fouls that skew the daa, here's a Celeron community the Sie ofa small rican ation liv to cuerent, and emerging eehnoogy: just cant belleve te numberof readers out there running processors slower tht my dig ‘wate, Hat hey, what the ell deste his ‘column tall the Celerun users out there, and et the est of you know exactly what an ance, ‘overcomplicate, nasty mess the word of Celeron realy Renember AMD's Duron? twas the ‘equivalent of Celeron, eut-down version ofthe ‘Athlon ene, with less cache memory which made ietheoretcaily much eheaper to bul and thus sell However, the emergence ofthe Athlon Thunderbint andthe associated deop in Athlon prices mado the Duron kind ofa wast of efor, as 2 1.2GHz Duron wis un about $25 cheaper that a similarly clocked Athlon Celeron onthe oer hand just Kees gong and song, wlth more revisions, more desig and ‘more pin configurations than, i seems, anyother (CPU available to home users, So let's take «look First up Let me set the mood here by saying that gaming ‘oma late model Celeron fs not bad a all, We Know that Celerons a just nipple-eippted Pentiuns, The silicon water that makes a Ps also makes a Celeron. So, with the advent ofthe 3GHz PA, would you actually buy a Celeron these days? You heteha because we're looking at 4 400MIIz Front Side Bus with a pin layout the Same as a Pentium 4 Which means fasta PA ‘parade ence the bank account has recharged) It the focking arms, pek out the Celery ad replace with chunky PA. Then switeh on ‘machine, Couldn't be ease A Celeron Is @ good S600 the eas of a new PC: "keep a couple of older PCs around the place So can Soe how new games run with varying Aogeoes of grunt have a fe Gelerons among the Pentium, but the smallest aby of alls 2 533M rig running 512M of PCO RAMI in Wing8SE viewed through an ageing INT2 M4 all plugged into a basle Soyo motherboard. Let Imo bear: this box is no fun, especialy in ‘ead to 3D games. It is even no fun with an UGeforeed M400 instead ofthe TNT? and inthe halycoded DOS shell that scaled Windows 98, 1 would have to upgrade the CPU to even get Neverwinter Nights t load Back to the future Want to replace your old Celeron wth a eheap (250) GHz motel? Wel, i going o sere sou, ‘eae bugeter, nt a sort, sharp motherboard ‘aro by eonounding you with brat ets ust ‘en you thousht sae open your ease and ‘Shop tend, Ud some serious reading. not ping near VRM Spectction Design Requirements (wich is ow Sou fry 2 new, faster chipn an oder motherboard), don't want {ouch on stf ke eC0 and 0 stepping or internal slit planes fr Ve. Truly these ao problems fr okier bards and older chips and no tne deserves the bur numbing explanations tout them. But wil say this: since the operating ‘voltage of Celerans changes dramatically acconng o what sped CPU yo go fr programmable Voltage ID regulators are requir fo you don't zap your new chip nstanlyo rye ‘ver ine. im ne going nee memory “ompatility or chipset support except to say that an upd fo and ol faano owen Cetera ig a e-fangled Celeron rg Is glo to involves new maherboaed and new temery preferably DDK or PCI33/150 RAM if you move From 66M FSB to 100M ‘Obviously yor thotberboard chipset wil ini orgie you pga in mast instances. Aft of arly: motel Celeron owners wl stil hav the Intel "HOBX AGP Set (dani was sweet and stable its time) which supports both 66M and 100M FSR speeds, ECC RAM and some legacy stuff such {519A fhe sot format fro sundeads and ‘modems Later Celeons ule a least he Inte 410 oF 5 chipsets, Mader Ceerons and Ps ‘are the same motherboard technology and this inhy you might omsier buying one should your huge not srt to S80 just or yur CPU Put aside your shame As sai eat, her's now nothing tery ‘rong witha fast Celeron and my aly pays {ule happily at AGH ona Shite Bester shit an GeForeed M40, rer is 5 Bod a 2175-933 on an nel BISEP metherbard However, you area have Celeron and vant toupgrate with tne minimum of cst, yur upgrade path mu by the prolferaion of Coer eran with diferent requirements The iterations tthe Celeron cath counted on wo bans, Sul quely rao of sing to cage he {tenes To the neo Turkey nthe ta {hen atv ane and aod ee and There are thre proces echnolose: 025miron (2004 339M} 0 eon (566 7662) and O.1Smerom (LOA? 26H) there ae Four package types: SEPP (266 400M), PPGA (6004-535 MI, FC-PGA (5334-1 10M) and FC GAZ (900-2200), Interestingly, nil deseibes the FC PGA2 CPU trim 1 70GHe as jus 47% pln package types within al package types there are two diferent pin-out forms (370 plas up to L40GHe and 478 pins from 1.7OGH thee are three bs speeds at 6¢/100/400 Mz Tere are four *A" versions with 256K of L2 cache run on ‘wo diferent bus spo (6/100MF2), the rest tn a 120K L2 cache but two Celeron have no L2 ache (266 ad 300). The PPG process uses & nck plated copper et slug ontop ofthe processor, the FC-PGA has no bln heat fmcloration while the FCPGA2 Incorporates an Integrate Heat Spreaer (HS). [suspect the IS also prevents us from crushing the CPU care with heatsink fn combo, Thee are two processes a LOGE (13aeron/1Bmlero) as well as two aiferent L2 eahe sizes the "A" made has 250K), The ast THz Celeron was the 766M The lst IONE Celeron runs at LAOGHz, there ate no L30/ 6062 models a the 706 model rns qua pumped at SOOM FSB spec ou don get S112 under L70GHz which fs why [remember is quit pumped). And rest. Bluh bluh? So which isthe one forthe modern gamer without the bucks for 2 Wall the 1. 7GH erly ‘hea ad you can spend the change on atop ‘hell Hyper Threaded, S3BMil2 FS supported Pa ‘motherbaard (the 8430 or 845CE chipset ‘After some toth fry vis, raldng the am fara it of bihay money ifs dead easy to further upgrade to 4 SMI FSU CPU hike 8 Po 220GHz0F 2408, justin time for ho pre- Chrismas rash of new games. And yes, Doom 3 ‘wil probly be among them thai for Doom 5, you not toe sing up $1000 fora ext stneration, Direct 2.0 vena Ts i posile to upgrade t another Celeron, perhaps double the spd and sve some money? Yes course, but the aimate bang depends on the motherboard, he IOS and specifically the ‘hipset Celeron snot he devil.’ just one of hove il et piss with the ho pokers that slab, tah, stab ou in the eyes, Seriously hough, Celeron ia goo etn for budget conscious ‘mers who lac confidence in AMD for whatever reason, Try Celery tay. It helps you see Inthe dark And you know wha that Means. 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His a , Yr i hing dynamic to eaey ae a A comprehensive look at 50 top anticipated titles for the year, Collated by George Soropos (ur eighth year as Australia’s leading PC gaming tagazine couldnt have begun any less uspciousy, with the PlayStationa tush with Cchrstmas-lavoured success and outseling PC ‘games by 856, But fear not, for asthe next twelve pages reveal, there are some super tasty titles on the way for 2003. Constant readers wil ofcourse Fecognise a few ofthese titles trom our 2002 preview way back in PCPPH7O - that’s right, even 'S months later some ofthese developers sil haven't shipped thei hugely overdue games. And ves, Duke Nukem Forever isin this roundup, ‘though more from a sense ofthe essential aosuraity fife than because we were able to report any actual new information. But there is a reenshot you may rot have seen. if you were living under a rock. cave. Anyway, fom tls ft should beat least 10 games you can salvate year why, <4rooled al over this roundup, wy not write to CPP and demand larger and more in-depth previews for your favourite games? Who knows, we might even istenBLACK & WHITE 2 At last your giant zebra will be good for sometmission after mission to nek the Breet ut of shape, spa Mi natal ye prcharact as be ai ie nce andPerea Pome oe 203 Peed Perens ri rey cere Peano aimee Perea roe nioestmnsen mcr) CALL OF THE CTHULHU: DARK CORNERS OF THE EARTH P Lovecra's seminal hortor sleeping celestial being whe feature a permanent on-screen is were way abead of hele telepaie dreams inspire cts nerf To assess hth the player Hime and form a ty of work and ghastly deeds Innsmouth isin ait ot the characte’ today's masters af hor elon draconan arganizationstainet amo pavers must open the and im than any others ith the blond ofthe tanocent and evalver chamber to count the seve. 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Horrific monsters and thr the gat aon 0 ‘orth watching fr. reall evens versely afet the eng able oak them a find Call of Cen - Dark Corners nity, and tefl nt of he Earth I etn the 1920 1 comaltons ke Iso get them to follow and perform Private eye fack Walters, un phrenia are cats defending. tacking aark secret nestled within the rtreate through et, keeping wath and decaying fishing vl om of groin mi sn err aang suprise ti ofthe coDEUS EX 2: THE INVISIBLE WARC ae eee rguably THE most anticipated than just snarl and Controversially Do wens poner nile John Carmack hd ia studio sounds will add SPERM Ye Won’s Door do pus he fear mucho he anos ie much er Somer ms Se win wath Pony coer eeeDRAGON EMPIRES realist) word ‘at only sth work! dynamie itis alive Seagulls lack around ots, butters dri overDREDD VS DEATH ‘Developer: Rebellion Ml Publisher: Vivend M Availabe: 04 Reed We knew he was going to say that cree pine ret , eansn ks wrote the and erp, breaking ith game deve Ping the acai Hong Kong One ofthe oo! hing bot this the events nthe game an Inthe same universe trough the ENTER THE MATRIX Lc ‘tan events te ln ba that they do, nate Wo the wordt ick them in the eye! mes Ce Tay ber eee peeeiryLAXIES <7STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC ith hei army ofl ith ‘iets takes players way, man Faning rm the fama new nludng Tatooine, th la of Kerib, the el femy on Dantooine an nok homeworld of Ks coral pensar pets fy Ce) aber actin ‘oe ayI's been a long road from Space Invaders to Splinter Cell. Jere Lawrence takes a nostalgic look at the key developments in gaming hardware, suming Uimetin, Fm rusty ok cee with false tet, walking stick, It there was ever leson tearm fom the was the game known s Pong, named so fanda whole bunch of realy welt eos ‘ast numbers expat inventors serns reas "pong was the st the ball made aout what hoa be time wold eta you have bale when hing the et and els css hy Foro ok Somethin, no matter how insignificant you name "pn png” wa ale ken. how tall began. The orgs of vieogamng thinks patent regen copy Once aa ona arn very consol every Do whatever kes ely make mi cil development as eth In 1958 physicist Wily Higibotham Mer Bally Map ‘my fce pressed un gant the shop winds ried that vistors ta BronhavensNatonal Bushnell, ever the oe o ge Up, sel pO tvshing cul be mine, Fat Caco saratres were bore. HedecMed 0 ing machine ns lel ba calle An tothe Att ST om NES t SNES, from invent an intractve ale tennis ike game Cpe bat 10080 to 386 Sk twas there thatdlsplaed on an osclloscope. A year within two aus th evolution of ming has Tater he even improves the game ‘vec he test eon sucha big pat of my iff ramatcally by tspaying tana 1-nch unit be down thinking about whit fl the unde of ‘nonltor but believing be hi invented WhyThe reason techno gadgets were the st invent in nything sigan didn pte the device. we simple he ‘rein ming oy. An ater Taian years ter wit the lp of ec box was atime, or few times anya, Lame up Danes, Nolan Bushnel stared th fede vith Chow the path of my own whist! memery nove ATARI Bushnell ied AI Alcrn but was on its ytPerhaps one of he ae using myths in ‘ampitr gaming lore ws ha ir Nishiki, the programmer Spc Inveders fom vide tery of ark ca to rep the a! ltr toes, andthe are weve sey sl played was bor, ‘Nope the above paragraph snot trv at all tt mae tc once pad Imagine "You Sinclair’ in 199 a ok. The re inspiration fr Spice Invaders may oy tuys staan, tains that med frm lt eh cross re fern i Seren but above your tank allot or dc and ever style lay. you desttoyed the fame mee challenging, Howeve, this mes inthe wsme’s cn, un de the at that programming raster tess hn en ‘developed yet Aste number of sprites on the sre dine, "he cent conte of the game ‘as abl to uate te grahies faster. Thetfre faster aliens Perhaps thsi one some to make S300 million in amazingly pope nga hat. there was ani shortage unl te ‘qiruple. Another es han tices abnt ive andar and rast realy very Inter sty ght Mas snl, blag of oy the market the Atari 260, “The whole rnc ta he Xa level. revi ‘soles tht oly payed o Inanswe, the Ale 2600 Video ‘With Dh unique alin lsh ha teterminaton to give their ‘hey been demain or the ely of ground breaking wth to joysticks, tenga gers could be hancleapped ins thelr seapable opponent imaaive flo th fame conversion would ch Aowuinng the fist eve license State Invaders forthe hoeUnless you have six busted ones in the Te joystick was a malnstay of er) the nly availa input device, Simpl bnutetfoctie, the ary Joysticks we tase on hv far the stick away the centre point -a short distance equals from centre equals faster movement, But the st joysticks werent kets all and just simply real the dtetion the he fiat commercially aval Joystick, the Atart CX-40 (mode fort 2600 bt aso compatibe with tae and Comisre computer) was actualy feel mistress. remember these Foyaticks well but twas no lave afi these tle demons ould nic er pal. The joystick had a major design Fault an ltcgh te cecal be held ‘our thumb apres the fire button was ‘ult painfal fer ony a few minute {Contrast tls othe RSLs ‘ergonomically designed Forte Fewack Joysticks of tay and you can se that in ‘rections meant that he developers Biv ‘ul start thinking beyond games where you ony maved Ft or ight {Space Invaders or up and down (Pong. This new found treo ed The erty eight tothe is action adventure game Alert se Swordquest, writen by master all had something in aside 4y was the developer games. These computers were th famo 2 Stilo Nar 40/00/44 ‘hee ta doa Pacman converston ommodore 64 and I forthe 2400, Caiing he ated the Cot actualy h Producing crappy that could and even though the graphic sch system were diferent It ha his CPU that powered he iton his pleniflthere were two other aspects he motivation These mic computers hat were tha Fordoing this? Manklly, his Feta he st tht mimable and anyone with the THE ORIGINS OF SONY Originally calles te Tokyo Compan ater witnessing an Americar-mage tape recorder, A Morita (one ofthe orginal founders) his country to gon 1952, Morita ana is ertne bua ony just managed to ‘rom Bal Labs called "They then use thelt newly squires rights to invent the Worle fist ronsetor rao. & massive success in Japan buka and nr hw games worked nother facto ha ssured the 6502, oF rately, the computers it poweret Ii Ata nas any, Ths were th daysof garage ‘oul tke unt the project was fins ames back then dnt neces come inconvenient shrinentapWHERE DO THEY GET THESE NAMES FROM? te arok? Hat Not inthe games Bis. ‘Aaci was very American company witha very Japanese name but was 2 fascination with the anclent Japanese game of strategy, Go. Atari, besiges the name ofthe eeatest vd company fo ever exist Is also the feaulatent Japanese term in Go for "Check Bushnall chose the name boeause the pinches of Go, that ot ‘used the ist tno letters of "servicemen games! to create the ‘Japenese sounding wordy 5 ween 1982 an 1984 a slump in veo ‘mole and me sles hal eames fecorng the srt ideo rash Arthowgh given the smal leo the ins it wa a te melodramatic eer titasacrach the golden dys of sales fexcengexpetatians were ove est typing heii the story of ET: Extra Terrestrial for Ate 200 Ignorant be promoted like ation igre: the mor You mat the more you sel Unfortunately, they acy made more ET eatries than there were At 260 consoles onthe are Asa res we ar ef with he baldozes ploughing hundreds of osans (of ET earsintoa New Mex lanl a eas ust ter this te that Nintendo, 2 tradngear company, decided to hat (o presumably go home) on its new videgames Eyste which elle the Famicom, Retin is the Niner Enertainment Stem, the company psd it ha in the West Retr concerned abo ck ste ‘videogame sales eye the new Nitendo oming system cutout remit Soepdal and Insist hat Nintendo ares © Duy back ll unpurehased inventor: ‘Meeting geo sucess with a limited market release ofthe NES in New Yor, ‘intend ce to take the sstem othe American ple, Te anit ship han area conversion of Super Maro Brothers and became an instant hts hundreds a thousands an eventaly millon of Spawning point ofa new era In the arte days of computing lel wast tall making ‘he kinds aps fetta of oer CPL manufactures lah ints XT chips hwy got faster (tom I 10M) Motorola was moving nto ares of {Git peessing and ISC (Reduced Instruction Set Comparer tchnolgy whlch used less power an ess heat than tel CISC (Complex Instrcton St Crmputer) ress heh an stil CISC tay The maj compsnies wn use the 6000 chip to bud computer were once again Ata, Appa Common The machines ta estar the dB000 wer the Aart ST, Apple Macnts and Commodore Ami, Sporting an Ince 320K of memory an tier & 360 or 720K 35° Nop disk dive the Commodore and Aart compaters wert lead he way in next-generation ‘ming. Appl, which previ ad a plethora of games salah he Ile plato was moving a ore business ocused direction and development ded up. ut ‘othe Ala and Amiga gaming tse, In rg infec the Aart and Cmmadore it computers ai goin diferent directions. AS an Aca ‘devo never wanted to ada ea the time the Amiga ‘asa eter miter and in terms of graphs an sod repent the mist ane mexocmpterof te er The Alar ST es ceraly na slouch nthe graphs Toco oma pate of 52, the Amiga oul use 32 calor froma pete of 4096, Worse for tar as tha ts stl a dsplay more colors using rstering techniques {a main of 512 rom 512) se ge mons a Doctor paver and substqenty Yas usolss or games The Amiga however had specialised HAN (ol and Meas) Rarvare that wes to use 4096 fm 4096 Caloars vith eny very sal overead Where the Atal ad the advantage though was in regard to muse With Guo btn MIDI (Mil Tnsirument Digital Interac) ports tallow ito recive sal end data to proessloalsyesizers andthe best ‘Notaton software athe ine (Cus, Notte the Ate ST was pickup by professional mass and sos flower he word, Suddenly the ST es ne ofthe mos ‘vanced sequencers avalae and musians started © txperiment wth anew ste of syntheses, ‘omptrised muse that woul! ater beled Techno he Amiga on the other band yas response for ng ome amaring high cle ligt sud ‘enhance games tution such a Shadow ofthe Beast and Blond Moves. tally, de Amiga with ts numerous ‘Seite raps motes (HAM) chsly resembles the PC of lay with thelr sound cards and 3D seca households tack to purchase the neve console Highly nf, Nintendo nt only managed to suctessully reignite the fateing ‘klecgame market ala managed wo kp that "eos th the Super NES (SNES). Aone Stage inte elves the word went Mari ray Ninteny Mar era, sicker, neh Lanes, ‘eto! bags ad ther ch things, Like a Holywood star ora bcibuster movie, Nintendo ‘nas gen the entire pase tetmentEIGHTIES EQUALS INNOVATION Ite s0 very ce story that there was a very eal corporate "enemies" coming together Interfaces such as USB and IEEEI394 (Firewire). But Inthe early days of imcro-computing, techno 1 sound cand abit 0 "dota the Adi bythe company ofthe ts8 MIDI device th sound infrnation ashe nes ofthe mus, dhe SoundBlaster vane ena on only ale olay Wahi frequency madulated MID msle Te cand ear expason, spl sound fects Ahoveopers That ws ” . erly fang ‘eupe sma fo rare. What mad the So ose hen ey at these thatthe PC ofthe late 80s and early 9s hd quiehy eanght ap and then he vids abilities fon, But i would tk 3) card. allosing multimedia system capable ofour ‘Snfack the'ion inthe mouth and Very he shall bite you on the arse a ea Aldhough the PlayStation’s R3000 RISC With PC CPUs, was the custom 3 TNENTIONS Daphne in al er Laser ask gay. Using a massive number of tracks on the Latersis «correct push of he Joystick led to suecers while an (eetuaty | HDD) these devies have haa major Influence on video gars. PatcuriIn trader times where Hard Disks have the ast tread Speed connectivity f the Internet ‘ nine “Awe thought twas only sel for Windows One acronym sums'THE|BES ly SAILING-GAME/EXPERIENCE EVER) !, CYB LITYT DRA Sah Ws Shr 2 yen tana ee ere ate abe i ao mgt nial St 28 mara saps =IN-REVIEW THE MOST AUTHORATIVE REVIEWS AROUND 66 Freelancer 72 Unreal2 76 Splinter Cell ici Praetorians Project Nomads War & Peace Post Mortem PP 65/Freelancer The day the revolution died vt suddenty on 3D game, 20 world rman at Pals ite wih neo he eaest, most fn inet vr seen a auniverse that has sto gal poe Iie, with ships freying here and ther the sly me i appolnmaents of what seems ko at Commander ven, Privateer was once criticised for =:-"'=\ not being like Elite. Well Freelancer is not enough like Privateer ‘man sin lehave anh hat works bilan but is almost he evi ation nthe ny apanes, orale of Se eee edsce cruiser onthe Liberty an stem) He's anous that on injured ma COS they one dy maybe bie fo ator pope uenneenrariy peer eaaien yy 1[ ad 1 money. Meanie am anenormous individual stekesbggressively and drops [Mystere ships appear fom nowhere blow up the the bit in slow motion, cbevinven, ONrailstancer? ‘refulyoked Awesome! thinks the p Cee eee eres Corer enearen Per retin) ee er ae ar | Puna Smoking man io hinder me! Let’ go the unlikely name of nko Zane. Ten i's int the mss, in sch way’ as wil be Trent has no ship. falar to any veteran of space rar Hels Instead aming Hy, shoot, land Fore a ake job i Privateer from a Livery fabulous hips and °)REV EV travel ounlock Is 3 and Uke Privat to sie randering the glany after having a Dag i gts ie ocr Tet ssn ram ar ro beteneernonttets PRURMPOTN SES tng ssoresotmnsons un eee ea eT eas itopeboterer aca mebrcont ea ent tea Porro ai mene eater MOUSE FLIGHT eesPut simply, the game does not do what it has promised to do - it does not offer freedom trading in a dynamic universe respectively. Oly enough ike et and ght co Privateer Put ‘weapons informal simply the game enagh, there Is n ship status dsp ‘hoes not do what beyond a heavy smite shield promises -itdoes armour and weapon charge indicator in trading in Informatie also inte, restited to Aynamic universe. Instead offers set shield and armour information beneath flies soy-based missions peppered the dtecton Indicator atthe edge ofthe ‘nth moment of relative teedom where Sktscorcpedsin RATS eg s PS aT So what does it do right? Te woud therfore be easy a slag France bias a broken promise an acishing nf our years of wating However, the game can stl be evardingit approche wih an ope nd and desire forsome tht ace tasdacton Frain oases very henly on combat Is posible to buy and fy freighters, but the mort of hi are fehtrs, bess all ofthe rancom ‘As mentioned inthe opening paragephs, he Prelancer intra is bn ofthe lesnest and most prety Certainly one of the best pace shooter ners evr t's clean, open and very funciona. We mentioned nour inal Beta "epithe interface does ely fee ikea sim, as the leans lean mare toward the Windows Pls! style instead of he at, ndestate iennarpay the ml. However, th suggestion that the player isincontol of clan rts the consumer eve cone system. Like ar, the eutopt system has pins for Aproac, Doek and Formation, although its vastly caslrto ‘a's at nes arane cockpit. "here are ls to MED nthe bon PP 69HUD when a shipis arse, or onthe when tis in ve. There's ‘ls noraaror canner of any type which an make same sweat sts Aitin al isan extemely Tea interface tha has had ll heft trimmed ft during the year developmen eee AC time, sich asin the afore mentioned onsered to len, bt by and large it Funetions extremely wel and makes the a t- E escaping Bretonis at last. Note the [70 PcPP Nebula Effects Plus! The dei vew has ben discussed at length in gr lat two previews ofthis it ‘ick and easy inventory athe ofthe weapons, hull integrity and fener damage ng the graph ofthe ship, ft his his no naire ee arenes sigh. Beyond the ship, Froslancer is 8 me, but not the graphical seat drab, espedally ter exposure t Allinall the ship design s sper to that 3 seen In Privateer, but does’ que each he generic nebula dy he as Shine ote origin Enemy craft are Capital stipe ae highly detailed and) tag varity in rat and observation de ever, the have lange ydroponi domes, lke SystemGHOSTS OF SILLIWOOD ns ee) eee canst Deal ‘Anhony Foran SSR eleUnreal 2 A little less Unreal, a lot more standard FPS Peed ‘come tothe next nthe highly mtcpated Unreal series, We've nov abot this game for more than a year, we've soon daran of sereens, peered a Tuzzy lores gameplay movies and Speculatd,speclated,speuiae Alda is your fist officer and about the from her pas that wil be revealed ater Finally after much confusion at ros normal member of the ere We, Tsal fs the ship's engineer ais ‘irersttincioes alipayer(sxeporberverdealsalfcupcothing raphe ring ye weapon and 4Unvel2 dest revotuonse the,” fvmreealing nore han'they sould, begining he ue a] ‘regard to the story. Not that there's throughout the game but S {iit etre abt Ura nse ieee Sten Cr ‘tock standard First Person Shooter. ‘anyone harmed, e Isaak joined the TCA to rd iaone Des "leans eto Intriguing plot pies 2 Milking ge mae neresting isthe Some ind of "can ino try hat ey ges tml Nein the lt {Sued om marine nd pa no era ih he ‘hoteran Coon Asbor ar the Tek ing sy aly deepak Docomes quite Interesting because set back at authority forbsting me down type, bat sa hora in tho tue senge of the word as unite a broken THE ARSENAL ‘team. Each NPC story which reflects thelr ‘character and tore Interesting fame than just bing thrown sequently nto Test described 5a dystunctional family he crew ‘iering snd that are slowly tnvelled the fame progressesInteresting, because your character hard-nosed “going to get back at authority for busting me down” type, for onceep to rece tat nfm eee send in ‘he marines : acy inthe game you establish that one tf your avatars goals to be reinstated ‘of amme, or even if they ast reloading and il use that mome inthe tind of 3D Space Invaders. Berra or nse capi) wth both ene ning sa | can crawl faster than this capo fetal theta eae The fst and begs problom with this il defintely affect you In element. for example you use ‘25 you pound onthe keyboard ‘Surprise another hig element of ation to get anynhere within comb and being "sucked in" by Graphicsfeature enough geometry to diferentiat DON'T PLAY WITH an YOURSELF! The missions you embark on are less lonely than in other FPSs as there’s always plenty of dialogue Sting wth AX 20 apart ae wl as PP 75]Splinter CellLLgas A PC game where you really need an Xbox controller to play? f Fisher of men Sen Eater jump a Walls and then re upon unsuspecdng, hel your ew Funk it aThere is no doubt that this game will sell well, but many its features we've seen before, albeit not in quite so polished a package system. Without ny gamepad suport players are eft with a Sophisticated include Standard WASD ps mouse set which can prove idly even with mroexposie "he jump buton move rom the Backspace whch fs where twas picks an diferent Inomvesieny located inthe ero) othe Shi ke Whi ameras whi ean be she’s moves can be performed inuivel atthe touch fred ono walls and an tal a ese frm, In Splinter Cal there ical cable used to peck under doors an ges ik re for ‘onl becmesaaale when the sation ‘eure itwould ave een ew Dave deidng when o rey on te fara and al auites n Splinter Cl im avin he bythe truck but many the the short amber of ‘ssons hough ofmuliplyer Cree ee ois hurts, Derek Lee PP 77 |1Gi2 Even more mindless slaughter for your PC ‘Moatng pac to hve been There's 's no other spy lik Sons std fr nrnatonal ted ey ie we Init) does succeed as er, David Jones, even his {ely pommy accent), but ultimately the Cae sae nd pin i % E iz 3s Tom Clancy Seine Ton real ht expends hen ea mis of 1 new 1 should have avoided long-term parking. ‘wih allows the Easy to play Canro i ite simple, and sticks to the ae trod an ee WASD key ambit fr . movement, with varie e Whatever yourmentit, fhe fact eneins alternate recycles Trough the te of See rn ce) ona rs Peart ‘amet sieea or na 78 PCPPTHE RUSSIANS ARE Ty eee eee A variety of weapons Cn the ip sie, allows a evel of ‘ nat aval Gast lap over ares Most notably, Izy) another- be compared to almost every als the player o pick yp enemy ‘ther FPS shooter ou thee tall bolls weapons, which has never been an option in down toa ite that Va pleasant ino Seer rr the Caney gumes (UU Sot clams thata many other games, wit a serap of real eet op agent would never exchange eriginality thrown in though it his on vpn foran enemys, has they ACH machine piso, assault Spr Rie and SPAS-12 * Wicior Webster hae but oe ante Se More hapless fish eaters See ed PP 79]Praetorians When in Rome, be an isometric RTS ulus Caesar was once quote as Saying "you mus break te aw, do only to seize power: nal ober eases sbserve i” Leaving aside argument tha things havent changed all ha much in 2000 year, ls easy to why this mentality the Roman Emi as helght ‘ted the Mediterranea forthe st ‘nly time i story. 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But I'm 2 keen gamer and watt 19 minimise or avoid the Use ofthe page le Dew aten wwith others, used to run WingeSE Fine but rucenty pura [No matter how much physical RAM you have, XP (and 'NI/Win2K for that mater) always tises a pagelle whlch i by design Microsoft strongly recommends ‘that you don disable or delete the paging file In order t determine txacty what size pagefile You heed, you should monitor varlous ‘counters using PEREMON, In most ‘cases, however ve been able to dterve gener consensus on the defoult size Mlcroson says 3 times RAN and power ser ike thre times, Generally speaking, Your pagetie size should exceed dhe amon of RAS installed in your system. 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The former ds to bea ba driver, while the Tater represents Maky memory, an ‘overheating system, an inadequate poser supply, oF a actuating power souret Hardware that was fine in Winds may cause lockups ‘or crashes In Win2k/X? simply bocause i's borderline or the drivers ae different. Win2K and PPP 105 |‘your system is property detraged Although Tye come actoss afew (poorly writen) apps that function Poorly wih lange pail, you. ‘generally don't stiffer any soe af penalty for having more pagefile {than required. Af you're running MS Access with ig tales an ‘Rear 8KB per recor then a lgabyteof RAM Is fine. If ou use Sybase or Informix ot even Superstar products (he stupid powerful database apps) and you setting up around T6KB recon Youll defialtely need to spend ‘more ime tning and sizing Your box as it pertains o performance in general and paging in particular. Checkout Microsoft Knowledge Base Article- 308617 - HOW TO: Set Performance Options in Windows XP, though this sited In nature but youre not running a Server where you need toma processes to virtual memory. I you hhave more than 1GB RAM, you really shold se PEREMON 10 Aetermine the proper pagelile sie {or your system For the most part, the more apps you run Simultaneously, the greater your ping needs ae Hikey tobe Remember disk space i cheap. There are very, very few scenarios ‘where having large pagel fuse @prublem with your syste, but if your pagefte fs too smal, you not beable to map vinta Space tal forall running wl prevent you illsing yur installed physical memory. ut what kller COTS Ti running a big ‘monitor and fast video card in ‘WinXP. When 1 ry to selec the highest possible refresh rates or resolutions that are supported by ‘he monitor and video adaptor (GeForces 714600), the options don't Appear. 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