Official U.S. Playstation Magazine Issue 11

Departments:

Editorial (Wataru Maruyama considers replacing the entire staff with E3 Booth Babes)
Letters (Fans write, OUSPSM responds)
PlayStation News (The DualShock controller is on the way, the monthly Top 20 list, and software Coming Soon)
g.e.a.r. (Tote your system in style with these goodies)
Demo Disc (What's on this issue's disc? Maybe some Tekken 3? How about some Metal Gear Solid too!)
Review Recap (Missed some of the recent reviews? These capsulized quick-takes can help!)
Trick Archive (Missed a recent issue? Don't miss out on these recapped tricks!)
Next Month (September brings a special birthday issue on the PlayStation, and a new demo disc packed with playable demos of Spyro the Dragon, Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, WWF War Zone, The Unholy War, S.C.A.R.S., and some non-interactive videos too)

Features:

Metal Gear Solid: a post-E3 look at the must-buy product of Fall, 1998
E3 Aftermath - Highlights from other non-MGS stuff the staff witnessed.
Tomb Raider III - Lara's baaaack!
NFL Xtreme - 989 Studios drops their own arcade-style football game to rival Midway's. How does it stack up?
Vigilante 8 Strategy - Level maps and tips to help you dominate the new car combat contender from the team behind the first two Twisted Metal titles.

Previews:

Metal Gear Solid
Cool Boarders 3
Silent Hill
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Test Drive 5
Heart of Darkness
Ninja: Shadow of Darkness
Tomb Raider III
007: Tomorrow Never Dies
Brave Fencer Musashi
G. Darius
Thrill Kill
Colony Wars: Vengeance
Deception 2: Castle of Deception (released as Kagero: Deception II)
Duke Nukem: Time to Kill
NBA Tonight (released as ESPN NBA 2Night for PS2 and Dreamcast)
Dead in the Water
Tales of Destiny
International Rally Championship
Wild 9
Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within
Asteroids
Dragon Seeds
Kensei: Sacred Fist
Centipede
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (cancelled for PS1; later released on GBC, PC, and Nintendo 64)
Gex 3
Bloodshot (cancelled)
Circuit Breakers
Trap Gunner
Bomberman World
Brigandine
The Fifth Element
Tenchu (released as Tenchu: Stealth Assassins)
Twisted Metal 3
Jeff Gordon Racing
T'ai Fu (released as T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger)
Bass Landing
NFL GameDay 99
X-Men (released as X-Men: Mutant Academy)
The Diabolical Adventures of Tobu (cancelled)

International Previews:

Reviews:

Road Rash 3D (3/5 discs)
NFL Xtreme (2/5 discs)
Tomba! (4/5 discs)
Elemental Gearbolt (4/5 discs)
Mortal Kombat 4 (3.5/5 discs)
International Superstar Soccer '98 (4.5/5 discs)
Sentinel Returns (2/5 discs)
N2O: Nitrous Oxide (2/5 discs)
VR Baseball 99 (3.5/5 discs)
Risk (4/5 discs)
Fox Sports Pro Golf '99 (2/5 discs)
Turbo Prop Racing (4/5 discs)
Pocket Fighter (4/5 discs)
Fox Sports Soccer '99 (2.5/5 discs)

Tricks of the Trade:

Ads (in order of appearance):

Turbo Prop Racing
Wild 9
DBZ: Dead Ball Zone
Duke Nukem: Time to Kill
Expert Gamer magazine ad
Dead or Alive
Ninja: Shadow of Darkness
Jersey Devil
Azure Dreams
Heart of Darkness
Thunder Force V: Perfect System
Elemental Gearbolt
Tomba
Thrill Kill (unreleased)
Akuji the Heartless
O.D.T.
The Granstream Saga
Intensor gaming chair
S.C.A.R.S.
NFL Xtreme
NFL Xtreme $10 off coupon from Sears
Newman/Haas Racing
Crime Killer
Circuit Breakers
Alps gamepad for PS1
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Retaliation
Alien Resurrection
WWF War Zone (PS1/N64)
VideoGames.com ad
Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling
The Unholy War
Jeremy McGrath Supercross 98
Adidas Power Soccer 98
Pocket Fighter
1-900-PRE-VIEW phone line
N2O: Nitrous Oxide
Eidos multi-ad: Tomb Raider III / Ninja: Shadow of Darkness / Omikron: The Nomad Soul / Fighting Force 64

Interesting Stuff:

There's a tribute to actor and voice-over artist Phil Hartman's passing on page 24.
The teaser poster for the Tomb Raider movie has shown up in theaters. There's a small picture of it on page 25.
Football (Soccer) games dominate the charts in both the UK and Japan. North American gamers, on the other hand, couldn't care less. Baseball and basketball games are the big sellers this month.
Proofreader alert! In the Silent Hill preview, we learn the game's foggy environments are for atmosphere, not due to system "kimitations".
Between pages 50 and 51, there's a special sheet of 4 Ninja: Shadow of Darkness postcards bound into the magazine.
The preview for Brave Fencer Musashi includes a sidebar explaining who the real Miyamoto Musashi was.
The ad for Alien Resurrection says it's coming this Fall, but it wasn't actually released for another two years.
Gunnm is the Japanese title for the anime we know in the US as Battle Angel Alita.
Doki Doki Pretty League was based on the movie A League of Their Own, which was re-titled Pretty League for its Japanese release. The game has you managing an all-female baseball team.
Searching the S.T.A.R.S. desk in Resident Evil 2 fifty times to find that cringe-worthy picture of Rebecca Chambers' head Photoshopped onto some poor Japanese teenager's body has to be one of the weirdest Easter Eggs in PS1 history.

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