December 2001 Volume 82 Number 12 "serving the protectors"
AirBlade

AirBlade
Format: PlayStation 2

This exciting new boarding game gives you the unique opportunity to defy gravity and skate through the sky.

AirBlade is a next-generation boarding game. It surpasses previous games which have limited players to a select number of conventional moves.

Combining an underground street culture feel with silky-smooth graphics, AirBlade is much more than just a skating game. Plot- and mission-based, it is an action-adventure movie where you play the hero.

Your best friend – Oscar, a scientific genius – has just invented a prototype hoverboard which is propelled by energy from gravitational fields.

But oil-based business interests don’t like the idea of this alternative energy source putting them out of business, so they kidnap Oscar!

It’s up to you – with the help of your hacker friend, Kat – to free Oscar from the clutches of the bad guys with the snappy suits and expense accounts. And while you’re about it, you can pull off the coolest, most challenging, gravity-defying stunts you’ve ever seen in your life.

AirBlade is a pick up and play game – it’s accessible for everyone, including beginners.

You can pull amazing stunts – swing from lamp posts, grind along handrails and weave your way in, out and even over lines of traffic, knock down enemies, and generally scare the daylights out of the general public.

As you progress through the game, the capabilities of the board continually increase, allowing you to pull more and more spectacular tricks.

There are ten game modes in all: five single-player, four two-player and even a party-play mode for those messy late-night post-clubbing sessions.

This is Soccer 2002
Format: PlayStation 2

This game is the first outing of Team Soho’s highly acclaimed series on PlayStation 2 and delivers a highly realistic and exciting soccer experience.

Over 200 world soccer stars have been recreated in accurate detail allowing for fully animated facial expression, while enhanced motion capabilities deliver more fluid movement.

Not only that, the game captures the unique atmosphere of an international soccer tournament. Rival sets of supporters sing, chant, wave banners, set off flares or slump with head in hands.

The chants, songs and crowd reactions, of course, vary depending on the location and nationality of the crowd, injecting both realism and passion into the game.

This is Soccer 2002 features:

• Over 320 club and international teams.
• 33 different competitions.
• Over 5,000 “real” players, each with his own individual stats.
• Genuine TV-style presentation.
• Realistic changing weather.
• Up to eight players at one time.

Web Sites for Holiday Activities

The Investigator Science & Technology Centre
Cnr Rose Tce and Goodwood Rd
(next to Wayville Showground)
www.investigator.org.au

The Investigator is always a good weekend or holiday stop for the whole family to explore the latest frontiers of science and technology in a fun-filled environment.

Have you ever found mathematics too boring for words?

The MathAmazing exhibition – on display until January 28 – will change your mind. It is full of entertaining interactive displays.

• Experience a rotating space station with a crew of astronauts.
• Try your skills on the Time of Flight exhibit, where visitors get to pitch a ball into a radar that times the flight of their best efforts.
• Play on a pool table, where you can’t help but pocket the ball.
• Construct a bridge without glue or nails.

Also showing is the Waste Matters! exhibition on the intriguing science of recycling and the importance of waste management. (Every Australian produces on average 60kg of waste per month). Hosting this exhibition are Captain Disposal and his dog, Scraps.

South Australian Museum
North Tce, Adelaide
www.samuseum.sa.gov.au

Currently showing is the exhibition, A Gap in Nature, which tells the tragic story of the loss of 103 of Earth’s most extraordinary creatures over the past 500 years.

This breathtaking exhibition, in words and pictures, documents extinct creatures like the dodo, the moa, the Tasmanian Thylacine, and the massive Steller’s sea cow (eight metres long and weighing 10 tonnes).

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