Full Auto 2: Battlelines

Gamerzines, the site behind the free magazines for Xbox 360, PC games, PSP and DS, has launched its free PlayStation 3 magazine to co-incide with the UK launch of the console. As with other Gamerzines, the magazine is written by professional games journalists and offered for free in a digital format. All that is required is Adobe Reader 8 on a PC. The magazine is enhanced with videos and multimedia that play on the pages themselves. Issue 1 is available for download immediately and covers every single European launch game, as well as lengthy preview feature highlighting their pick of the top 20 games still to come on the PS3 this year. The magazine is to publish a new issue for free every month from launch, to match the other existing Gamerzines for other platforms.

December 1, 2006 - Today SEGA announced that Full Auto 2: Battlelines for the PS3 has officially gone gold, and is ready to be manufactured and distributed to stores across North America. The sequel to the Xbox 360 game developed by Pseudo Interactive, Full Auto 2 features fast cars outfitted with destructive weaponry. In Full Auto 2: Battlelines, players are plunged into the middle of Meridian City as its once-pleasant districts are transformed by automotive destruction. The game features destructible environments and dynamically changing track conditions. Players can choose from over 25 vehicles, all of which are customizable with the game's 20 explosive weapons. The game also introduces a new Arena Mode featuring team play, as well as five different multiplayer modes including Gladiator, Cat & Mouse, and Base Assault. Full Auto 2 for the PS3 is slated for release on December 12 of this year, and will retail for a suggested price of $59.95.

Despite previous plans to release Full Auto 2: Battlelines as a day and date launch title with the PlayStation 3, SEGA of America has retracted that notion and confirmed with IGN that it has pushed the game back by several weeks. Here's what the company's official spokesperson had to say: The release of Full Auto 2: Battlelines for the PS3 is on track for a holiday 2006 release, commented the SEGA's rep. This highly anticipated award-winning combat racing title is setting the bar on the PS3 with an intense multiplayer mode that enables up to eight gamers to play head-to-head online. SEGA is targeting an early December ship date. Other than what was stated above, SEGA didn't provide any additional particulars regarding Full Auto 2's release. Popular online retailers Gamestop and EB Games, however, list Battlelines as appearing on December 12.

Gearing up for its launch-day release on the PS3, Full Auto 2: Battlelines is set to improve upon the original game previously released on the Xbox 360 in every way, one of which being some great licensed music. Just this week Sega has announced the game's official soundtrack, and we are here to report the full song lineup....

The official in-game soundtrack to Full Auto 2: Battlelines has been unveiled. Pseudo Interactive, the developers of the game, have taken licensed music and implemented it in such a way that each main rival that players battle against will have a dedicated song. Not only that, but each dedicated song will become increasingly louder the closer players get to their rival.

Monday 23 October 2006 Proving that a picture can say a thousand physics and particle-effect buzzwords, new screens of Full Auto 2: Battlelines, the PS3-only sequel to the Xbox 360-only original, have crashed on to our images tab. It's hard to fault Battlelines for ticking all the expected videogame boxes - cars, guns, explosions - and then scribbling over the boxes with doodles of cars with guns, exploding. If there are subtle ways to show off the power of PS3, you won't find them here; it's

The PS3 could launch with 24 titles and Wii with 30 titles according to new documents detailing the two companies' plans. PlayStation 3 Resistance: Fall of Man - Sony Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom - Sony Genji: Days of the Blade - Sony Gran Turismo HD - Sony NBA 07 - Sony Call of Duty 3 - Activision (600,000) Marvel Ultimate Alliance - Activision (300,000) Tony Hawk's Project 8 - Activision (300,000) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Bethesda Softworks Fight Night 3 - Electronic Arts (400,000) Madden NFL 07 - Electronic Arts (700,000) NBA Live 07 - Electronic Arts (500,000) Need for Speed Carbon - Electronic Arts (800,000) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - Electronic Arts (400,000) Mobile Suit Gundam: Target In Sight - Namco Bandai Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Namco Bandai Ridge Racer 7 - Namco Bandai Full Auto 2: Battlelines - Sega Sonic the Hedgehog - Sega NBA 2K7 - Take-Two Interactive (400,000) NHL 2K7 - Take-Two Interactive (200,000) Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII - Ubisoft Rainbow Six: Vegas - Ubisoft F.E.A.R. - Vivendi NINTENDO Wii Wii Sports (bundled with hardware) - Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Nintendo Excite Truck - Nintendo Call of Duty 3 - Activision (200,000) Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Activision (200,000) Rapala Tournament Fishing ¿ Activision (50,000) Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam - Activision (300,000) World Series of Poker - Activision (50,000) Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 - Atari (200,000) Trauma Center: Second Opinion - Atlus Madden NFL 07 - Electronic Arts (500,000) Need for Speed: Carbon - Electronic Arts (500,000) Elebits - Konami The Ant Bully - Midway m (100,000) The Grim Adventure...

The producer for PS3 launch title Full Auto 2: Battlelines has discussed PS3's still-mysterious online network, noting that Full Auto 2 will not be supporting achievements or stat-tracking over Sony's "I Can't Believe it's Not Xbox Live!"-style service. Producer Mike Gallo revealed during an Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine podcast that stat tracking will be handled by Gamespy - which he seems to be more familiar with than the PlayStation Network itself. "We use Gamespy as part of our back

German game site www.gameguide.nl posted today the ultimate list of 160 game tittles in production for the ps3. Within the 160 tittles ,95 of them will be ps3 exclusive . (TBA = To Be Announced ) List of ps3 games in development: 2K Games/Take-Two/Rockstar - College Hoops 2K7 ~Visual Concepts, TBA~ - The Darkness ~Starbreeze, 2007~ - Grand Theft Auto 4 ~Rockstar North, Q4 2007~ - NHL 2K7 ~Visual Concepts, TBA~ - NBA 2K7 ~Visual Concepts, TBA~ - Red Dead Revolver 2 ~Rockstar North, TBA~ Activision - Call of Duty 3 ~Infinity Ward, Launch~ - Marvel: Ultimate Alliance ~Raven, Launch~ - Spider-Man 3 ~Treyarch, Q2 2007~ - Tony Hawk's Project 8 ~Neversoft, Launch~ Atari - Alone in the Dark 5 ~Eden Studios, TBA~ Atlus - Shin Megami Tensei 4 ~Atlus R&D1, TBA~ Beuna Vista - Turok ~Propaganda, TBA~ Capcom - Devil May Cry 4 ~Capcom Studio 1, Q4 2007~ - Monster Hunter 3 ~Capcom Studio 1, 2008~ - Resident Evil 5 ~Capcom Studio 4, Q4 2007~ ~ - Untitled ~Action~ ~TBD, TBA~ Codemasters - DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road ~In-house, 2007~ D3 Publisher - Dark Sector ~Digital Extremes, TBA~ Eidos - Untitled ~Action~ ~TBD, TBA~ Electronic Arts - Army of Two ~EA Montreal, TBA~ - Battlefield: Bad Company ~DICE, 2007~ - Def Jam 3 ~EA Chicago, 2007~ - Fight Night Round 3 ~EA Chicago, Q4 2006~ - Half Life 2: Complete Pack ~Valve/EA, Q1 2007~ - Lord of the Rings: The White Council ~EA Redwood Shores, Q4 2007~ - Madden NFL 07 ~Tiburon, Q4 2006~ - Medal of Honor: Airborne ~EALA, 2007~ - NBA Live 07 ~EA Canada, Q4 2006~ - NBA Street Vol. 4 ~EA Canada, 2007~ - Need for Speed: Carbon ~EA Black Box, Q4 2006~ - Skate ~EA Black Box, 2007~ - Tiger Woo...

Fans of vehicular mayhem take note: Full Auto 2: Battlelines is racing onto the PS3 with both guns blazing. But is this next-gen sequel destined to be a lemon or a cherry?