Game Informer Issue 147

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: The Wide World of E3 (Andy McNamara gives his impressions on this year’s E3)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• E3 2005 (Overview on all the news and game announcements from this years’ E3, including information on Sony’s newly-announced PlayStation 3 and includes interviews with Sony’s Kaz Hirai, and Microsoft’s Shane Kim)
• Snake Set for PS3 (Hideo Kojima announces Metal Gear Solid 4 for PS3)
• Still Hard Boiled (Midway announces new game partnership with director John Woo)
• Actors Strike Threatens Industry (A look at possible effects on the game industry due to a recent labor strike in Hollywood)
• Interview: Carl Yanokwski (Interview with chairman and CEO of Majesco)
• Classic GI (History of handheld gaming)

Cover Story: Gun (360, PS2, XBOX, GC, PC)(Known for its work on Spider-Man games and the Tony Hawk series, Neversoft now branches out with new game that will take players into the wild west, an area that has seen little exploration from the industry)

Prince of Persia 3 (Feature that looks at all the work that took place in order to produce the E3 demo of the 3rd Prince of Persia game)

Previews:

• Peter Jackson’s King Kong (360, PS2, XBOX, GC)
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC)
• Dead or Alive 4 (360)
• Spore (PC)
• Bully (PS2, XBOX)
• Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (PC)
• Black (PS2, XBOX)
• Call of Duty 2 (360, PC)
• Okami (PS2)
• Need for Speed Most Wanted (360, PS2, XBOX, GC, PC, GBA, DS, PSP)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360, PC)
• Perfect Dark Zero (360)
• F.E.A.R. (PC)
• Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland (360, PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Prey (360, PC)
• SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs (PS2)
• Unreal Tournament 2007 (PC)
• The Con (PSP)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2)
• Project Gotham Racing 3 (360)
• Dead Rising (360)
• Starcraft Ghost (Ps2, XBOX, GC)
• Far Cry Instincts (XBOX)
• Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (Ps2, XBOX, PC)
• Metal Gear Acid 2 (PSP)
• Mario and Luigi 2 (DS)
• Tabula Rasa (PC)
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Destroy All Humans (PS2, XBOX)
• Killer 7 (PS2, GC)
• Juiced (PS2, XBOX)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (PS2, XBOX)
• Medal of Honor: European Assault (PS2, XBOX)

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• Flipnic: Ultimate Pinball
• Colosseum: Road to Freedom
• Samurai Western
• Arc the Lad: End of Darkness

Gamecube Review:

• Donkey Konga 2

XBOX Review:

• Advent Rising

PC Reviews:

• Guild Wars
• Dungeon Lords
• Trackmania Sunrise

Game Boy Advance Review:

• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

PSP Reviews:

• NBA Street Showdown
• Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms X (PS2)
• Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir (PS2)
• MVP Baseball (PSP)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (DS)
• Pokemon Emerald (GBA)

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• Psychonauts (PS2, XBOX, PC)
• Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (PS2, XBOX)
• Robotech Invasion (PS2, XBOX)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (PS2, XBOX)
• GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (PS2)
• FIFA Street (XBOX)
• Twisted Metal: Head-On (PSP)

Retro Reviews:

• Out of This World (SNES)
• Wild 9 (PS)
• Startropics (NES)