Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 197

Contents

Staff

Letters

Press Start: Separate. But Equal? (Comparing the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP), Brain Press (How gaming builds your mental muscle), EGM International, Doom-O-Rama (looking at the upcoming Doom movie), The Warriors (PS2, Xbox), Online this month, Sales Charts, Phat Camp (looking at video game creation camp), Overheard, Take this job: Product Manager, Penny Arcade Expo ’05, Countdown to 200: The Top 10 Worst EGM covers, The Rumor Mill, The Hot 10, Coming Soon

Cover Story: Xbox 360 Day 1

Xbox 360: The Games:

·         Perfect Dark Zero

·         Project Gotham Racing 3

·         Call of Duty 2

·         The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

·         Dead or Alive 4

·         Condemned: Criminal Origins

·         Gun

·         Peter Jackson’s King Kong

·         Need for Speed Most Wanted

·         Frame City Killer

·         Kameo: Elements of Power

·         Quake 4

·         Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland

·         Madden NFL 06

Review Crew:

·         Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (PlayStation 2, Xbox)

·         Indigo Prophecy (PlayStation 2, Xbox)

·         Evil Dead Regeneration (PlayStation 2, Xbox)

·         NBA 2K6 (PlayStation 2, Xbox)

·         NBA Live 06 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube)

·         NCAA March Madness 06 (PlayStation 2, Xbox)

·         Burnout Revenge (PlayStation 2, Xbox)

·         Spartan: Total Warrior (PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube)

·         Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube)

·         The Suffering: Ties That Bind (PlayStation 2, Xbox)

·         Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube)

·         Shadow of the Colossus (PlayStation 2)

·         Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (PlayStation 2)

·         We () Katamari (PlayStation 2)

·         Genji: Dawn of the Samurai (PlayStation 2)

·         Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (PlayStation 2)

·         Devil Kings (PlayStation 2)

·         Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes (Xbox)

·         Far Cry Instincts (Xbox)

·         Battalion Wars (GameCube)

·         Burnout Legends (PSP)

·         Virtua Tennis: World Tour (PSP)

·         Madden NFL 06 (PSP)

·         Popolocrois (PSP)

·         Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS)

·         Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS)

·         Trauma Center: Under the Knife (DS)

·         Lost in Blue (DS)

·         Lunar: Dragon Song (DS)

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