Game Informer Issue 177

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: What A Year It Was (Andy McNamara discusses how developers in 2007 produced so many high-quality games)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Manhunt 2 Mod Furor (Outrage emerged after hackers uncover AO footage in Manhunt 2)
• Down For the Count (EA closes down EA Chicago, responsible for the Fight Night series)
• id Forms Mobile/Handheld Division (Interview with John Carmack about id's new division)
• Wrecking Havok (Article that looks at the history of the Havok physics engine)
• Gamers (Spotlight on David Walsh, member of team Final Boss, who won Major League Gaming's national title for Halo 2 in 2004, 2005 and 2007)
• XBOX live is Five (Microsoft announces several original-XBOX games to be available for download)
• Building Up To Something (A look at LEGO and its growing place in the video game business)
• Mobile Home (Interview with Martin Dunsby, president of Vollee that aims to bring console and PC games to mobile phones)
• The Art of Star Trek Online (Interview with Greg Fallace, art director, and Ryan Dening, lead concept artist, about the art of Star Trek Online)
• Interview: Yannis Mallat (Interview with the CEO of Ubisoft Montreal)
• Classic GI (Interview with Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of Space Invaders)

The Top 50 Games of 2007: (Game Informer's picks for the 50 best games to come out in 2007)

• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)
• Rogue Galaxy (PS2)
• Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (PSP)
• Crackdown (360)
• Supreme Commander (PC)
• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (PS3, 360, PC0
• God of War II (PS2)
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (360, Wii, PS2, PC, DS, PSP)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles (PS3, 360, PC)
• Super Paper Mario (Wii)
• The Lord of the Rings Online:; Shadows on Angmar (PC)
• Odin Sphere (PS2)
• Forza Motorsports 2 (360)
• Tomb Raider Anniversary (360, Wii, PS2, PSP)
• Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (PC)
• The Darkness (PS3, 360)
• Picross DS (DS)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (PS2)
• BioShock (360, PC)
• Blue Dragon (360)
• Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms (PC)
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
• Stuntman: ignition (PS3, 360, PS2)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (PS3, 360, PC)
• NHL 08 (PS3, 360)
• Heavenly Sword (360)
• World in Conflict (PC)
• Skate (PS3, 360)
• Halo 3 (360)
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC)
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
• Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP)
• Project Gotham Racing 4 (360)
• Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (PC)
• The Orange Box (PS3, 360, PC)
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (360)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations (DS)
• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS3, 360, Wii, PS2)
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
• Hellgate: London (PC)
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, 360, PC)
• Assassin's Creed (PS3, 360)
• Contra 4 (DS)
• Crysis (PC)
• Geometry Wars Galaxies (Wii)
• Super Mario galaxy (Wii)
• Mass Effect (360)
• Rock Band (Ps3, 360)
• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
• Unreal Tournament 3 (PC)

Cover Story: Tiberium (PS3, 360, PC)(Extensive first-look at Ea's new first-person shooter set in the universe of famous real-time strategy series Command & Conquer)

Previews:

• Frontlines: Fuel of War (PS3, 360, PC)
• The Last Remnant (PS3, 360)
• EndWar (PS3, 360)
• No More Heroes (Wii)
• Turok (PS3, 360, PC)
• Burnout Paradise (PS3, 360)
• Legendary: The Box (PS3, 360, PC)
• Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom (360, PC)
• Lost (PS3, 360, PC)
• Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3)
• Iron Man (PS3, 360)
• Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Rock Band (PS3, 360)
• Beowulf (PS3, 360, PC)
• Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3, 360)
• MX vs. ATV Unleashed (PS3, 360)

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• F.E.A.R. Files
• Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action

PlayStation 3 Review:

• Time Crisis 4

Nintendo Wii Reviews:

• Super Mario Galaxy
• Smarty Pants
• Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
• Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
• Soulcalibur Legends
• Ghost Squad
• Battalion Wars 2

PC Reviews:

• Crysis
• SimCity Societies
• Gears of War
• Empire Earth III
• Universe at War: Earth Assault
• Hellgate: London
• Tabula Rasa
• Fury

Nintendo DS Reviews:

• Contra 4
• LifeSigns: Surgical Unit

PSP Review:

• Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command

Quickie Reviews (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• Viva Pinata: Party Animals (360)
• Bee Movie Game (360)
• Endless Ocean (Wii)
• Trauma Center: New Blood (Wii)
• Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (Wii)
• Dancing with the Stars (Wii)
• Jenga (Wii)
• Master of Illusion (DS)
• Nanostray 2 (DS)
• Orcs & Elves (DS)

Secret Access (Cheat Codes and Strategies):

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, 360, PC)
• NBA 2K5 (PS3, 360, PS2)
• Medal of Honor Airborne (360)
• Thrillville: Off the Rails (360)
• Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
• The Orange Box - Portal (360)
• Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (PS2)

Retro Reviews:

• Road Rash (3DO)
• Doomsday Warrior (SNES)
• Final Fight CD (Sega CD)