Game Informer Issue 113

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: The Leading Edge (Andy McNamara discusses the magazine reaching the milestone of being the largest circulating video game magazine in the nation)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Sneak Peek At Midway’s 2003 Lineup (New games from Midway include Freestyle: MetalX, Gladiator: Crimson Reign and Nitrocity)
• EA Big’s Newest Ride (New title from EA Big announced, racing title Shox)
• Sega Hungry; Wants to Eat (Sega in the market to purchase other companies, though no target is named)
• Rock’s Got Spy Hunter Movie Cookin’ (Dwayne Johnson to star in Spy Hunter movie)
• The last Strike: Onimusha 3 (Quick teaser for third game at the end of Onimusha 2: Samurai Destiny)
• Jedi Knight II’s Force Flows to XBOX, GC (Jedi Knight II gets XBOX and GC ports)
• Sony’s First-Party Price Cut (Sony slashes the price of first-party titles to $39.99)
• XBOX II Launch Date Set? (Executives state next XBOX to appear in 2006)
• Classic GI (Interview with Mark Turmell, who worked on the popular NBA Jam)

Cover Story: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2)(After shaking the gaming world with the open-world expanse of Grand Theft Auto III, Rockstar now sends players back to the 80s, filled with neon, drugs and all the sins that comes with affluence)

Online Gaming: The Battle For the Final Frontier (Article that looks at all three of the current consoles and the various online strategies of each and some of the games that will have online capabilities)

Previews:

• B.C. (XBOX)
• Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2)
• Gungrave (PS2)
• Resident Evil 0 (GC)
• Unlimited Saga (PS2)
• Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (PS2)
• Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Rally Fusion: race of Champions (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• X-Men: Next Dimension (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Super Monkey Ball 2 (GC)
• Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire (GBA)
• Legaia 2: Duel Saga (PS2)
• Haven: Call of the King (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• BloodRayne (PS2, XBOX, GC, PC)
• Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (XBOX, PC)
• Rocky (PS2, XBOX, GC)

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs
• Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny
• Madden NFl 2003
• NFL 2K3
• NFL GameDay 2003
• Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX 2
• Armored Core 3
• Tennis 2K2

Gamecube Reviews:

• Super Mario Sunshine
• Aggressive Inline
• Smuggler’s Run: Warzones
• Beach Spikers
• Freekstyle

XBOX Reviews:

• Dead to Rights
• Soccer Slam
• NFL Fever 2003
• Madden NFL 2003
• NFL 2K3

PC Reviews:

• WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos
• Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
• Austerlitz: Napoleon’s Greatest Victory

Game Boy Advance Review:

• Street Fighter Alpha 3

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• LEGO Soccer Mania (PS2)
• GTC Africa (PS2)
• Men in Black II: Alien Escape (PS2)
• Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction (PS2)
• Street Hoops (PS2, XBOX)
• Gravity Games Bike: Street, Vert, Dirt (PS2)
• Twisted Metal: Black Online (PS2)
• NFL 2K3 (GC)
• MX Superfly (GC)
• Madden NFL 2003 (GC)
• Aggressive Inline (XBOX)
• Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon (XBOX)
• WTA Tour Tennis (GBA)
• Aero the Acrobat (GBA)
• Earthworm Jim 2 (GBA)

Play To Perfection (Strategy guide for Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny on the PlayStation 2)

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• MLB Slugfest 2003 (PS2)
• The Mark of Kri (PS2)
• Men In Black II: Alien Escape (PS2)
• Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing (PS2, XBOX)
• Scooby Doo: Night of 100 Frights (PS2)
• Barbarian (PS2)
• Freekstyle (PS2)
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII (PS2)
• Stuntman (PS2)
• Splashdown (XBOX)
• Hunter: The Reckoning (XBOX)
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (XBOX)
• Outlaw Golf (XBOX)
• Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (GC)
• RedCard 2003 (GC)
• MX Superfly (GC)
• Bomberman Generations (GC)
• WWE Wrestlemania X8 (GC)
• WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (PC)
• Grand Theft Auto III (PC)

 

 

• Stuntman (PS2)
• Barbarian (PS2)
• Men in Black: Alien Escape (PS2)
• Sky Gunner (PS2)
• Gravity Games Bike: Street, Vert, Dirt (PS2)
• Pinball of the Dead (GBA)

Retro Reviews:

• Mighty Final Fight (NES)
• 4 In 1 Funpak Volume II (GB)
• Plok (SNES)
• Eternal Champions (Sega CD)

Classic Strategy (Listings of all the Kill Frenzy missions in Grand Theft Auto III, includes a map of each area and points out the location)