January 2002 Volume 83 Number 1 "serving the protectors"
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
Edited By John Ballantyne

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
Format: PC Windows

The destiny of a galaxy hangs in the balance and you’re in command.

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds lets you lead the armies of Star Wars to victory in intense, real-time strategy clashes.

Set against a backdrop of the entire Star Wars saga, this epic game enables you to enter the fray and help determine the final outcome of the Galactic Civil War.

The conflicts involve six key civilizations: Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Wookies, Gungans, Royal Naboo and Trade Federation.

In this game, you can:

• Wage your campaign over land, sea and air with over 300 different units and structures in single-player campaigns, skirmishes and multiplayer battles.
• Experience a wide variety of combat arenas extending from interstellar asteroids and aerial encounters to submerged cities and ground battles.
• Deploy vast legions of units into battle – up to 200 per side – with units that can include bounty hunters, Jedi Knights, stormtroopers, X-wings, AT-ATs, snowspeeders, AT-STs, Wookie Kas tanks and droids.
• Manage your resources and integrate the power of upgradable technology into your strategy.
• Use the scenario editor to create custom single- or multiplayer battlegrounds with virtually any Star Wars units and settings.

Paris-Dakar Rally
Format: PlayStation 2

This race pits over 400 drivers against each other in a gruelling 17-day race over 6,500 miles from Paris to Dakar, in Senegal, West Africa.

Competitors race four classes of vehicles – buggies, 4WDs, motorbikes and quads – each having different handling properties.

The game takes you on journeys across North Africa to Egypt through the toughest terrain and conditions, including jungles, savannahs and sand dunes.

You encounter major hazards, such as rocks damaging your vehicle.

In the course of this great race, you have to decide whether you should stop to repair often, or else persist in the competition, only stopping to repair when your vehicle is on the verge of falling apart.

Now available on PlayStation 2 and coming soon for PC.

Time Crisis II
Format: PlayStation 2

This is one of the most satisfying instant arcade games – exciting, action-packed and easy to master.

It has been described as the perfect pick-up-and-replay game.

You get to play a tough cop on patrol with his partner, waging a relentless battle with crime bosses.

You have to keep your eye on the main game and make sure that you don’t accidentally shoot your partner, as he tends to bob up unexpectedly from time to time.

The game is best enjoyed with a PlayStation 2 light gun. There is also an excellent two-player mode, which is best played with two weapons.

Web Sites for Holiday Activities

South Australian Maritime Museum
126 Lipson St, Port Adelaide
www.history.sa.gov.au/samm/samm.htm

This is one of SA’s finest museums, set in the heart of historic Port Adelaide.

You climb aboard a full-size replica ketch, and hear the realistic sound effects of wind, waves and gulls.

In the basement of the museum, you can view replicas of the dank and grim living conditions which early European settlers experienced on their long and perilous voyages to Oz.

While you’re in the immigrant mood, key a name into one of the computers and find out on which ship your ancestors came to SA.

As well as enjoying the museum, you can visit three floating exhibits and climb Port Adelaide’s famous lighthouse for a spectacular panoramic view of Adelaide.

Recently opened at the museum is a display, Action Stations: The Navy and South Australia – a new permanent exhibition exploring the roles South Australians have played in the Navy from colonial days through to the 21st century.

National Railway Museum
Lipson St, Port Adelaide
http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au

This is Australia’s top railway attraction and a must for railway enthusiasts.

The former Port Dock Station Railway Museum – now refurbished and recently rechristened the National Railway Museum – houses the largest undercover collection of steam and diesel locomotives, passenger carriages and freight vehicles in Australia.

Included are some of the magnificent locomotives and carriages that operated such famous and historic trains as the Trans-Australian, the Ghan, and the Tea and Sugar train.

The museum gives a historical overview of the Commonwealth Railways and the crucial role they played in connecting up our vast continent and forming the nation.

Discover for yourself why this railway museum is acclaimed as the leading one in Australia and one of the top 10 worldwide.

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