February 2003 Volume 84 Number 1 "serving the protectors"
Edited By John Ballantyne

AFL Live 2003

Format PC/PS2

This new AFL simulation product is ideal for all AFL fans.

It is easy to play and allows you to live every bone-crunching tackle, every freak goal and every huge grab in front of a packed, screaming grandstand.

The pace is fast and furious as you play with all 16 AFL clubs and all AFL players, going head to head, round by round, in the ultimate quest for an AFL premiership.

Features include:

• All the AFL teams and players (based on playing lists for the start of the 2002 season).
• 1 – 4 players for Xbox, 1 – 2 players for PlayStation®2.
• Day and night, wet and dry weather conditions.
• All the guernseys, including both home and away versions.
• Games played in five states across Australia in six different, realistic football stadiums.
• Your club song played as your team runs out through the team banners.
• Animated crowds with banners, club colours and genuine atmospheric sounds.
• Game modes, including Season, Finals and Quick Play.

The game is action-packed but fun and easy to learn.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
Format: GameCube

Godzilla smashes his way into a goliath-sized battle while destroying entire cities as he encounters other gigantic monsters from classic Japanese sci-fi movies.

In this game, players take control of the world’s most devastating monsters, including Godzilla, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Gigan, Mechagodzilla and more in the fight to become king of the monsters.

This game can be played in several one-player modes, including Adventure, Survival, and the ever-entertaining Destruction Mode, in which an entire city must be destroyed while you survive oncoming army attacks.

In multiplayer game mode, up to four players can simultaneously wreak havoc Godzilla-style.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee accurately portrays the look and feel of classic monster movies from Japan’s world-renowned Toho Studios.

Human armies come at you with their usual puny weapons, such as tanks, helicopters and high-tech laser beams.

Meantime, in true Godzilla style, you lay waste to entire cities such as Tokyo, Seattle, Los Angeles and London.

Each city is dotted with fully interactive landmarks, so you can demolish Seattle’s Space Needle or go for a dip in San Francisco Bay.

Monsters fly across five city blocks before crashing into a skyscraper, bridges fall, cars are crushed, and monsters hop on one foot when their toes get stepped on.

During this monster mayhem, you can grapple, pick up buildings, use energy beams and throw your opponents into petrol tankers, bridges and other man-made structures for devastating results.

Starmageddon: Project Earth
Format: PC

Starmageddon is a next-generation 3D deep space strategy game in which you command fleets of giant spaceships and wage war with hordes of alien ships.

The space battles look and feel authentic, and the good storyline gives the player an exciting roller-coaster full of action and exploding planets.

Movement control is the standard for most 3D shooters: mouse plus keyboard combo. This makes it easy to control your ships, move the camera and enjoy the panorama.

With an easy-to-follow story, the player quickly settles in and feels at home with this game.

Engine sound effects add to the game’s realism.

Background music changes depending on the mood of the game: exploration and building are accompanied by beautiful, evocative tunes, while the battles have energetic, adrenaline-pumping themes (different for player or enemy attacks).

Stronghold Crusader
Format: PC

In this highly engrossing successor to the popular Stronghold, you can lead the European quest to reclaim the Holy Land from the infidels or defend the Middle East from the Christians.

Players relive the heroic battles of the historical Crusades of the 11th and 12th centuries.

With a desert backdrop set during a time both of chivalry and brutality, Stronghold Crusader puts you in the role of either the daring and courageous English king, Richard the Lionheart, or the cunning and formidable leader of the Arabian armies, Saladin.

Experience ruthless medieval combat in a hostile land where assassins silently slay their victims, horse archers combine deadly accuracy with frightening speed, and common slaves can shift the balance of power.

Storm enemy barricades with over 25 units, including Arabian swordsmen, Teutonic knights and grenadiers.

Using men, war engines and siege weaponry, you can battle up to eight computer and human lords in multiplayer skirmish mode via a network or over the Internet.

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