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The Insider FPS Apr/May 2005 - Cold Winter
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Cold Winter™ Trailer

SWAT® 4 Sweepstakes
 
New F.E.A.R.™ Art
 
Men of Valor™ Q&A
 
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2. SWAT® 4
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3. Chronicles of Riddick™:
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4. Cold Winter™
trailer

 
5. SWAT® 4
trailer

 
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The Insider FPS Feb/Mar 2005 - SWAT 4
Can't wait to play Cold Winter™? Well, here's your chance! Sign-up to get a copy of the single-player demo and an issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine for free!

Witness the depth and action of this PlayStation® 2 shooter in the new Cold Winter trailer.

A real spy never goes on a mission without a briefing. Do a background check on one of the characters in the game before it comes out! Watch and learn the story of Grey Wings with this series of cinematic trailers.

Enter the Cold Winter "Ultimate Spy" Sweepstakes for your chance to win a spy kit from EyeSpy Magazine, a T-Mobile Sidekick® II, and a copy of Cold Winter!
 
Platform: PlayStation 2 Buy it Site Trailer Sweeps
Available: 5/10/2005
Sweepstakes
Train for SWAT® 4 in Las Vegas
SWAT 4 SWAT® 4 is all about realistic SWAT tactics. To help you master these techniques Sierra Entertainment is sending one lucky winner and a guest to Las Vegas for SWAT training with the pros at Front Sight Resort, The World’s Premier Resort for Self Defense Training and Personal Safety Training. The runners-up will get a GamerLounge™ wireless router (DGL-4300) from D-Link™.

Enter for your chance to win airfare, lodging, transportation, meals, and tuition to Front Site!

 
Platform: PC Buy It Site Trailer Demo Sweeps
Available: Out Now!
Featured Game
The Art of F.E.A.R.™
As a member of F.E.A.R.™ (First Encounter Assault and Recon), you are armed with experimental high-tech weaponry and given full executive authority to end a crisis by any means necessary. You are the final option. And it is your job to protect the masses from the unexplainable. The supernatural. The evil they don't know exists.

See what F.E.A.R. looks like in these concept to render comparisons:

Mapes Concept Mapes Render Krige Concept Krige Render
 
Platform: PC Buy it Site Trailer Sweeps
Available: 6/7/2005
Featured Game
Black Hawk Down® Ups the Ante
Black Hawk Down Thrust into the middle of a brutal conflict, your skills as a Special Forces Operator are texted to the max. Delta Force® - Black Hawk Down® allows you to carry out intense single-player missions based on real life events, or challenge others in the largest online games ever on consoles - up to 50 players on Xbox® Live™ and up to 32 players throught PlayStation® 2 online capability!
 
Pre-order your copy of Delta Force - Black Hawk Down today!
 
Platform: PS2, Xbox Buy it Site
Available: 5/17/2005
Q & A
Behind the Scenes: Men of Valor™
Men of Valor Vietnam is a well documented war, with stories of heroism and self sacrifice. The gameplay possibilities of which couldn't be ignored for long.

How many different weapons are found in the game?
The game contains 21 different types of weapons. The development team was able to handle and photograph the majority of the weapons seen in the game to ensure they are modeled and textured accurately. The team even had to remove some specific details because the lawyers thought they were too accurate!

How many characters are in the game?
There are 13 individually modeled friendly characters that the player interacts with. There are 12 separate enemy models, each with a unique uniform and model, and backpacks, ammo boxes, hats, helmets, and other equipment can be attached to any model, creating a great deal of enemy diversity.

How many lines of dialogue are in Men of Valor?
There are well over 10,000 lines of dialogue in the game, many more than any other competing historical FPS. One of the highlights of the game is the battle chatter system, that dynamically alters what each of the in game characters say depending on what is going on in the game. American Marines and their Vietnamese foes will yell for help when they’re pinned down, shriek in pain when they’re shot, provide angry war cries when they charge an adversary. The lines are random, so they will not repeat lines over and over again. Each character in the game has over 200 lines of unique battle lines that are randomly chosen based upon their current behaviors. Based upon their research, developer 2015 chose to make the dialogue authentic, so the dialogue is gritty and realistic, but is true to life.

How many lines of computer code make up the game?
Over 750,000 lines of code in over 8,000 files make up Men of Valor. The game was written primarily in C++ computer language.

How long will it take the average gamer to finish Men of Valor?
It will take the average gamer 20 to 25 hours to finish Men of Valor. In addition to the single-player game, the multiplayer maps and cooperative mode will provide many more hours of gameplay.

Platform: Xbox, PC Buy it Site Trailer Demo
Available: Out Now!
Flashback
An Assassin in H.A.R.M.'s Service
Contract J.A.C.K. Title: Contract J.A.C.K.
Release: November 11, 2003
Developer: Monolith Productions

Although it was the third installment in the series, Contract J.A.C.K.™ was the official prequel to GameSpy's 2002 PC Game of the Year, No One Lives Forever™ 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way™. As rugged anti-hero John Jack, gamers weren't Just Another Contract Killer, they were the man hired to take down superspy Cate Archer and UNITY. Find out more about all the games in the No One Lives Forever series at NOLFgirl.com.

Score your copy of the action-packed Contract J.A.C.K. at the VU Games Store for just $9.99!
Platform: PC Buy it Site Trailer Demo
Available: Out Now!
Newsworthy
Download the Riddick™ Demo
Here's your chance to try to escape. Download the The Chronicles of Riddick™: Escape from Butcher Bay - Developer's Cut demo, and take control of the most wanted man in the universe.
 
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New Delta Force® Now Available
Delta Force®: Xtreme™ is now available! Graphically enhanced and developed with NovaLogic's latest game engine, Delta Force: Xtreme not only enhances a proven winner, but adds to it, offering seasoned Delta Force fanatics and FPS fans new to the franchise, a fresh prospective on the game that broke the mold in modern combat FPS games.
 
Get your copy of Delta Force: Xtreme at the VU Games Store for just $19.99!
 
 

 
 
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