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April 9th:COMPETITION: New April DVD comp…
While our on/off break is taking longer than expected, this update willtake in a new competition as well as a catch-up on DVDs and Games that havecome in recently as well as singles of note in the charts.
The new competition online is as follows:
- Life on Mars Series 2 (DVD)
CHARTS: Catch-up to date with the best and worst singles of the past few weeks…
Not a full chart run-down yet, but a catch-up on what we’ve missed from thepast few weeks as to what was worth a listen and what was a complete wasteof plastic (or a download if that’s your music method of choice).
Check out themusic chart analysis pagewhich is online now.
The release dates for singles and albums will continue when normal serviceresumes in due course.
New DVDs and games out now and soon: The Warriors on Sony PSP…
First in this round-up this week is The Warriors (£29.99, Rockstar), which is out nowon Sony PSP.
New York, 1979. A battle on the streets. The armies of the night number 60,000 strong, and tonight they’reall after The Warriors a street gang wrongly accused of killing a rival gang leader. The Warriors mustmake their way from one end of New York to their turf on the other side of the city. All that standsbetween The Warriors and their survival are 20 miles and thousands of street gang members.
The army of gangs owns the streets and there’s no turning back, they must fight for their lives andlearn the meaning of loyalty as danger and uncertainty emerge from the city night.
Features include:
- Story Mission- Play as all the members of the Warriors through the events leading up to and including the film.
- Side Missions- Engage in bone crunching side missions including Turf Invasion (attacking rival gang territory) and Robbin’ Hood (earn cash for various members of the local community)
- Rumble Mode- versus multiplayer in which you can play as any character from any gang featured in the game and challenge your friends to all out brawls in numerous arena based environments.
- Armies of the Night- The side-scrolling homage to the arcade brawlers of old, now fully unlocked from the beginning.
- Cooperative and versus multiplayer via Wi-Fi available in all game modes.
- Play as 9 different Warriors with a huge range of visceral fighting styles and deadly combos.
- Incredibly varied gameplay including spray paint tagging and numerous side missions and objectives.
- Control your gang members using warchief commands including commands to ‘Destroy Everything’ and ‘Watch Your Back’..
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Sid Meier’s Pirates on Sony PSP…
Out now is Sid Meier’s Pirates on the Sony PSP from Take 2 Interactive (£29.99).
Sid Meier debuts on the PSP with his award-winning adventure/strategy game, Sid Meier’s Pirates!
Take on the role of a Pirate Captain to amass fortune and fame and seize your rightful place as one ofthe most revered and feared pirates in history. There is a whole cast of interesting and dangerouscharacters to meet, mysteries to solve, exotic island destinations to discover, and powerful alliancesto forge.
Duel, battle (on land and sea), dance, sneak, and hunt your way to unimaginable riches! Each time youplay you create a new and exciting adventure, so the replayability is limitless!
Click on the packshot for further info.
Test Drive Unlimited drives onto the PS2…
In Test Drive Unlimited on the PS2 (£29.99, Atari), which is out now,live the dream car lifestyle with the most unique and innovative on and offline racing gameplay on thebiggest network of roads ever realised on PlayStation 2, fully streaming with no loading times. Withthe ability for thousands to play online simultaneously, gamers take part 8 player races or go fora drive on over 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads, passing by any number of other players on the way.
Visit exclusive dealerships to purchase new cars or simply take them for a spin. Collect and trade rareperformance parts and customize each car to make it one-of-a-kind. Winning races, challenges, missions andtournaments earns credits which can be used to purchase new cars, rare performance parts, clothes,apparel, homes and garages. Test Drive Unlimited is racing reinvented.
Click on the packshot for further info.
Bullet Witch flies onto the Xbox 360…
In Bullet Witch on the Xbox 360 (£39.99, Atari),developed by Japan-based Cavia, this game is set on a bleak planet earth in the year 2013 with humankind on the brink of extinction and hideous demons creating a tidal wave of destruction and havoc. All hopeof mankinds survival rests with Alicia, a beautiful witch blessed with magical skills and a swifttrigger finger.
Players must guide Alicia in her heroic quest to prevent the decimation of mankind by wielding fearsomeweaponry and using her unusual and spectacular powers to manipulate natural phenomena in her environment.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories arrives on the PS2…
Out now is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the PS2 (£19.99, Rockstar).
Vice City, 1984. Opportunity abounds in a city emerging from the swamps, its growth fueled by the violentpower struggle in a lucrative drugs trade. Construction is everywhere as a shining metropolis rises fromfoundations of crime and betrayal. As a soldier, Vic Vance has always protected his dysfunctional family,his country, himself.
One bad decision later and that job is about to get much harder. Kicked out onto the streets of a citytorn between glamour and gluttony, Vic is faced with a stark choice – build an empire or be crushed.
A review of the PSP versioncan be found here.
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Satan sets strange events afoot on DVD…
Out now is Satan from Tartan (£19.99).
Vincent Cassel (LA HAINE) plays a psychotic groundskeeper who welcomes in the daughter of his employee aftershe has enjoyed a hard night of partying with her friends (whom she also brings along). After Cassel’scharacter spooks the visitors with a tale about Satan things really get spooky as strange events startto beset the house.
Extras include bonus footage, deleted scenes and featurettes including Vampire, a short featuring MonicaBelluci.
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The Bigas Luna Collection on DVD…
Out now The Bigas Luna Collection on DVD from Tartan (£34.99).
This is a box set of four titles from revolutionary Spanish director Bigas Luna: The Ages of Lulu, Jamon Jamon,Golden Balls and The Tit and the Moon, all in anamorphic widescreen.
Extras include an interview with Bigas Luna plus documentaries including “Ages of Lulu at the BBFC” andproduction notes.
Click on the packshot for further info.
Four new DVDs from Silver Vision and FightDVD…
First of the four is Pride 30 – Fully Loaded (£17.99, released April 16th), running for 206 minutes and the matches include Mirko CroCop Filipovic vs. Josh Barnett,Ken Shamrock vs. Kazushi Sakuraba, Makoto Takimoto vs. Dong Sik Yoon andSergei Kharitonov vs. Fabricio Werdum.
Next, UFC 65 – Bad Intentions (£17.99, out now) runs for 171 minutes and contains theUFC Welterweight Championship: Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre, plusUFC Heavyweight Championship matches including Tim Sylvia vs. Jeff Monson,Alessio Sakara vs. Drew McFedries and Frank Mir vs. Brandon Vera.
Armageddon 2006 (£17.99, out now) features a number of different matches such as theLast Ride Match: Undertaker vs. Mr. Kennedy, the Cruiserweight Championship: Gregory Helms vs. Jimmy Wang Yang,and the United States Championship with Chris Benoit vs. Chavo Guerrero and Boogeyman vs. Miz, runningfor 186 minutes in total.
Finally, New Year’s Revolution 2007 (£17.99, released April 16th) is the last titleto be featured today and runs for 182 minutes, containing matches such as theWWE Championship: John Cena vs. Umaga, World Tag Team Championship: Rated-RKO vs. D-Generation X,Steel Cage Match for the Intercontinental Championship: Jeff Hardy vs. Johnny Nitro andWomens Championship: Mickie James vs. Victoria.
Click on the packshots to purchase these titles on Amazon.
Go back in time with Ancient Wars: Sparta on the PC…
Out on April 20th is Ancient Wars: Sparta for the PC DVD-ROM (£29.99, Eidos).
Ancient Wars: Sparta is based on the history of the ancient ages and their main nations. Spartans, Persiansand Egyptians are fighting for influence around Asia Minor, Europe and North Africa. Following historicalevents, the action takes place with different campaigns for all three races. Sparta represents 3D strategyin real time with the newly developed Ancient Wars Engine (AWE), where the player will have to use eachnation’s powers to be superior over other competitors and build up a dominant culture and civilisation.
The main emphasis is on large-scaled battles and complex tactical manoeuvres. Players can strategicallyequip soldiers with weapons of choice. Warriors can be equipped with weapons and shields, can be put onhorses or on chariots and be given special abilities. The player can collect abandoned weapons afterbattles or import powerful weapons from other cultures to build special units. Fire, Wind etc. willeffect the whole environment. Cities can be upgraded and turned to fortresses, workers gather resourcesto ensure a safe economy. Ancient Wars: Sparta offers RTS fans all their favourite gameplay with a vastvariety of new features and innovative options.
Click on the packshot for further info.
Japanese puzzle genius with Gunpey on the Sony PSP…
Out now is Gunpey on the Sony PSP (£29.99, Atari).
The original concept developed by video game legend Gunpei Yokoi, comes to life on the PSP. Re-imagined bythe creative minds at Q Entertainment, Gunpey delivers an addictive puzzle game experience, combinedwith exciting music and visuals for the ultimate game on the go. The player’s objective is simple – oris it?
Various line angles climb up the screen over five panels, and you must connect all the lines overthe five panels, filling the screen from left to right. If an incomplete line reaches the top of thescreen, the game is over.
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Go to the War Front on PC DVD-ROM…
Out now is War Front: Turning Point on the PC (£34.99, Atari).
This game is the first “Science-Fiction/World War II” RTS title that combines resource gathering, armybuilding, base construction and a full-fledged with an intuitive interface and accessible tactical combat.
In an alternative universe Adolf Hitler is successfully assassinated during World War 2. But Evil BreadsEvil and the events that follow on bring more evil to the world. Great Britain is occupied; and the Wartakes a dramatic change.
The Nazi War machine is unchallenged and develops highly sophisticated weapons while the Americans, whoelse, lay silently constructing weapons of there own to launch the a massive offensive to liberate Britain.Play as Colonel Lynch and defeat in the Nazis in the New Battle of Britain. Contact the German resistanceand investigate just who is behind the Nazi regime. Is it the Russians, the Chinese or is Fuhrer still alive?
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Play ball with Everybody’s Tennis on the PS2…
Out this Friday is Everybody’s Tennis on the Sony PS2 (£29.99, Sony).
A cartoony, great piece of entertainment, make the most of Challenge Mode and Training to master controlsand tennis technique and establish your own play style. Use those skills when you play versus matches,and think of the CPU players as your warm-up.
Meanwhile practise doubles formation and polish your teamwork to get the most enjoyment out ofteam versus matches.
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A Woman in Winter is out today from Tartan on DVD…
Out today is A Woman in Winter from Tartan (£19.99),and stars Jason Flemyng, Julie Gayet and Brian Cox.
Gothic ghost story set against the gloomy backdrop of Edinburgh’s spires and closes.
Michael (Jamie Sives) is a young astronomer heavily involved in experiments to break down the barriersbetween space and time. A chance encounter with a pretty young French photographer, Caroline (Julie Gayet),develops into an obsessive love affair. Michael, though the claustrophobic nature of his work, haslost touch with reality and his mental state begins to crumble.
He is soon locked in a mental struggle to discover whether he is actually a ghost or whether it is Carolinewho has already passed to another dimension.
Extras include a making-of documentary, a director’s commentary plus a storyboard featurette and productionnotes.
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Ghosts spooks it out onto DVD from Tartan…
Out today is Ghosts on DVD from Tartan (£19.99).
Ghosts is a Nick Broomfield-directed dramatisation of the story of 23 Chinese illegal immigrants lost inMorecambe bay in 2004.
Ai Quin (Ai Quin Lin), a young Chinese girl from a rural area, pays $25,000 to people smugglers to bebrought to the UK in hopes of supporting her family back home. However, rather than a land of milk andhoney, she finds the UK offers her only a series of menial, disastrously paid jobs in food preparationfor large supermarket chains and a cramped, dingy hovel of a home she must share with eleven others inthe same boat.
Finally, they’re sent to work picking cockles illegally in the dangerous tidal waters of Morecambe bayby night, under brutally grasping gang bosses. By using untrained actors, many of whom are former illegalimmigrants themselves, Broomfield lends a chillingly real documentary feel to this portrayal of theinhumanity being meted out on a large fraction of an estimated 3 million illegal workers in the UK today.
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Lead 300 Spartan warriors into battle in 300: March to Glory on Sony PSP…
Out now is 300: March to Glory for the Sony PSP (£29.99, Eidos).
Live the epic adventure inspired by the powerful graphic novel and film, 300. As King Leonidas, you willlead 300 Spartan warriors in a heroic fight to the death against Xerxes’ massive Persian army. The oddsare impossible, but through strategy, bravery, and skill you can save all of Greece and change history forever.
480 B.C.
Xerxes has come to the Hot Gates. Xerxes, the God-King of Persia, the Devourer of Nations. Allwho stood in his path now kneel as slaves, licking the blood from his sandals as he treads upon the corpsesof countless kings. But now, we few stand against him – against a horde of men and beasts so massive itshakes the earth with its march. Our King Leonidas wavers not.
The steady breathing of three hundred boys at his back&ready to die for him without a moment’s pause everyone of us ready to die. A thousand nations descend upon tiny Greece, ready to snuff out the world’s onehope for reason and justice. Snorting, snarling desert beasts, howling barbarians, armies from everycorner of the Persian Empire, all amassed in this one place, sworn to make slaves of the only free men theworld has ever known. We, the sons of Sparta.
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April 3rd:COMPETITION ANSWERS: March comps…
Thanks to the respective PR companies for these comps which have now closed.The winners will be notified shortly and the answers are as follows:
- Saw 2 Director’s Cut (DVD): The bad guy in the series is Jigsaw.
- Tremors 1-4 Attack Pack Boxset (DVD): The star in Hollow Man is Kevin Bacon.
- Surface Season 1 and Revelations Season 1 (DVD): The David Lynch movie is Lost Highway.
Check back for more competitions soon.
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