

Replay – Revisiting Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and MX Unleashed, reader reviews for Cricket 2004 and Forbidden Siren, cheats for Driv3r, Samurai Warriors, Van Helsing, Shrek 2, Hyper Street Fighter 2: Anniversary Edition and The X Files: Resist or Serve, and a Spider-Man 2 walkthrough. This month, Kirsten bemoans the trend of games going darker for the sequel. She’s Got Game – A column from Kirsten Kearney from the perspective of female gamers. This month, The Shield, a tie-in game for the US cop drama. Happy 50th Birthday OPS2! – To celebrate the 50 issues milestone, George Walter takes a look back at the previous 49 issues, and also names some of his favourite (7, 20, 31, 33, 42, 45) and least favourite (18, 24, 26, 32, 39, 41, 43) covers.įunny Nicknames – This month, if the staff were wrestlers, what would their ring name be?Ĭould Be a Classic – An original non-sequel gets some focus. We’ve been playing the real Gran Turismo 4 and, boy, are you wrong – Gran Turismo 4 You’ve played GT3 for a hundred hours, maybe you’ve even sprinted through GT4 Prologue, the recent taster for the new game, and you think you know what’s coming: more, lots more, of the same. You’ve known the Gran Turismo series from the beginning. Why, yes, Stacy, I do like that shirt…” – WWE Smackdown VS Rawĭestroy All Humans! But first… let’s probe the cows – Destroy All Humans! Instead of the usual team, this feature has four readers chosen by OPS2 to test the game. “This is the game I’ve been waiting for my whole life” – Killzone. See you for the exclusive Killzone review on Thursday, 9 September. So we won’t be stopping too much to look back, but over on page 105 Gorgeous George – the only one who’s been here for every single issue – does take you through the last four-odd years of OPS2s. With San Andreas, Killzone, Black Monday, GT4 and Snake Eater this is going to be a barnstorming end of year – the biggest ever seen, in fact. We’re reaching maturity just as the PS2 hits its stride. Which, after 50 issues, is exactly where we are right now, except without the sexual overtones. What you want to be is in your prime: old enough to know what goes where and young enough to still be able to put it there without breaking anything. And when you’re old you’re, well, old, and that’s no fun at all. When you’re young you want to be older, so you can be independent and buy your own booze instead of nicking it from your dad, eat McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner and be able to touch women without having to run away after. Ageing well is a tricky thing, just have a look at any of the too-many pictures of me in this mag and you’ll see what I mean.
