Police Journal Online
September 2003
Volume 84 Number 8


"serving the protectors"
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Platform: PC

In this exciting World War II strategy game, you command large operations involving hundreds of Soviet Russian, German and western Allied units, and develop tactical skills in historically accurate battles all around the globe.

Blitzkrieg offers the player an array of features:

  • Three exciting campaigns with 21 challenging missions.
  • More than 150 types of vehicles and machinery, such as Sherman, T34 and Tiger tanks.
  • More than 40 types of infantry on every side.
  • Large units such as trains, coastal artillery and anti-aircraft artillery.

You can choose to play on any side with specialized weapons. You can bring the enemy’s position to a halt with strategic tank and air assaults.

You have the ability to build bridges, dig trenches, drive jeeps, lay mines and call for air support (fighters, bombers, reconnaissance and paratroopers).

All landscape objects are destructible and any enemy equipment you capture can be immediately used.

As your units gain experience, you can upgrade them and obtain access to the latest warfare technology. As you gain experience, you find that you command more effectively.

The 3D landscapes, the variety of adverse weather conditions (heat, cold, rain and mist) and cinematic records of actual World War II battles help create a particularly authentic atmosphere.

James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
Platform: PS2, GameCube, Xbox,

Live out your wildest fantasies as super spy James Bond 007 in this action-packed mission-based adventure.

Once again, a criminal mastermind is plotting to bring the world’s greatest nations to their knees.

Monty Norman’s famous Bond theme gets you into the right mood. The authoritative “M” – who sounds just like Judi Dench – gives you an extensive briefing before each mission.

You are dispatched to a variety of locations, including Hong Kong, the Swiss Alps, Romania and a deep-sea oil rig atop a secret underwater base, to contend with devious villains and dangerous henchmen or to encounter the stunning Bond girls.

In order to save the world, you are equipped with:

  • High-tech weaponry, such as the Wolfram P2K, rocket-launcher, sniper rifle and assault rifle.
  • State-of-the-art gadgets, such as the Q-Grappling-Claw, the Q-Jetpack and the Q-Laser.
  • Exotic fast cars, such as the Aston Martin DB5, BMW 750iL, and BMW Z8.

The game allows you to play at three difficulty levels, earning various awards which can give you access to new weapons and technology.

There are 12 action-packed missions, including intense first-person action, white-knuckle driving levels, and support for up to four-player split-screen multiplayer action.

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Platform: PC, Xbox, PlayStation

In Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, you can create your own dinosaur theme park or tackle 12 intense missions that will pit your skills against dinosaurs and the forces of nature.

Super-detailed 3D environments, multiple cameras and gameplay modes all add up to an extraordinary gaming experience.

A powerful, yet user-friendly, world-building engine allows you to build and manage your ultimate Jurassic Park.

First, you access nine secret excavation sites where you hunt for prehistoric fossils and amber – your source of dinosaur DNA. Then, with revolutionary genetic technology and with the aid of your expert staff, you can swiftly reconstruct dinosaur DNA from 25 species of dinosaur – from menacing carnivores to gentle herbivores.

The brilliantly conceived AI lets you watch the fascinating interaction among your resurrected dinosaurs as they hunt, fight, feed and display flocking behaviour.

You can create a range of exciting attractions for your visitors – hidden viewing domes, balloon tours and safaris – and test your skills with 12 intense missions, including stopping a dinosaur rampage by taking command of a Ranger Chopper or rescuing stranded park visitors.

You can alter your dinosaurs’ moods and behaviour by administering chemical mixtures brewed in the dino-vet lab. But be careful, in case the wrong mixture leads to disaster!

Star Trek: Elite Force II
Platform: PC

Star Trek: Elite Force II is a worthy successor to the first Elite Force game.

This new game offers not only good phaser-powered 3D combat with a variety of familiar enemies, but also some new sophisticated features and various puzzles.

In addition to single-player campaigns, there are multiplayer modes, including Action Hero (one player against all the rest), Bomb Diffusion (two teams trying to destroy each other’s base), Capture the Flag and Disintegration.

To recreate an authentic Trekkie atmosphere, the gameplay is interspersed with scripted sequences.

In this game, the elite Hazard Team from the Star Trek: Voyager television series is recruited for new duties by none other than the USS Enterprise’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard (voice-over courtesy of Patrick Stewart) and sent to investigate the fate of a derelict spacecraft, the USS Dallas.

Once aboard, the team finds that the gravity has been switched off, corpses are floating everywhere, and there is a huge gash in the ship’s hull.

Another mission sees you responding to a distress call from a space station belonging to an alien race called the Attrexians. Most of the Dallas crew have beamed aboard her. Your job is to dock in the space station’s shuttle bay while fending off attacks from hostile aliens.



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