Game Informer Issue 131

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Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Earth-Shattering! (Andy McNamara announces the inclusion of a multiplatform review section to their magazine to streamline the reviews section)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Kronos Closes Doors (Developer of Fear Effect: Inferno shuts down after failing to find a publisher for the game)
• Nintendo's Dual Screen Handheld (Nintendo's new handheld to include two screens)
• Sony Makes Another Getaway (Sony announces sequel to commercially successful The Getaway)
• EA Signs Pair (EA to publish Burnout and Time Splitters games)
• Ghost In A PS2 Shell (PS2 to get tie-in game to anime film Ghost in the Shell)
• New Console at CES (PC-based console ApeXtreme announced by VIA Technologies and Apex Digital)
• FF VII: Advent Children Detail Emerge (First details about the plot of upcoming movie)
• Classic GI (Interview with Don Daglow, who has worked on games ranging from the Intellivision to the tie-on game for The Two Towers)

Cover Story: Resident Evil 4 & Killer 7 (GC)(A look at Killer 7 and Resident Evil 4, the last two games of the "Capcom 5" due to be released on the Nintendo Gamecube)

The Movies (PS2, XBOX, GC, PC)(A look at the new game from Peter Molyneux's Lionhead Studios, where gamers take the reings in making their own movies)

Shellshock: Nam '67 (PS2, XBOX, PC)(A look at Eidos' new third-person shooter set during the Vietnam War)

Who Will Be This Year's Sultan of Swat? (GI looks at the upcoming roster of baseball titles set to compete against each other and how they stack up to the competition)

Previews:

• The Punisher (PS2, XBOX)
• Red Dead Revolver (PS2)
• Star Wars: Republic Commando (XBOX, PC)
• Silent Hill 4: The Room (PS2, XBOX)
• Tales of Symphonia (GC)
• Nanobreaker (PS2)
• Transformers Armada: Prelude to Energon (PS2)
• Neo Contra (PS2)
• Battlefield Vietnam (PC)
• Far Cry (XBOX, PC)
• Plague of Darkness (PS2, XBOX)
• Fight Night 2004 (PS2, XBOX)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• MX unleashed (PS2, XBOX)
• NFL Street (PS2, GC, XBOX)
• Worms 3D (PS2, XBOX, GC, PC)

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• Rise to Honor
• Drakengard
• Lifeline
• Mafia
• Onimusha Blade Warriors
• Nightshade
• Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm
• R-Type Final

Gamecube Reviews:

• Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
• Pokemon Colosseum

PC Reviews:

• Delta Force - Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre
• Spellforce: The Order of Dawn
• Northland

Game Boy Advance Reviews:

• Megaman Battle Chip Challenge
• Mission Impossible: Operation Surma
• Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu
• The King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood

Quickie Reviews (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• Wrath Unleashed (PS2)
• Sonic Heroes (PS2)
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX (PS2)
• Firefighter F.D. 18 (PS2)
• Cy Girls (PS2)

Secret Access (Cheat Codes):

• NFL Street (PS2)
• Rise to Honor (PS2)
• Spy Hunter 2 (PS2)
• The Sims: Bustin' Out (PS2, XBOX)
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (PS2)
• Champions of Norrath: Realms of EverQuest (PS2)
• Kya: Dark Lineage (PS2)
• Gladius (XBOX)
• Links 2004 (XBOX)
• Star Wars: Jedi Academy (XBOX)
• Armed & Dangerous (XBOX)
• Secret Weapons Over Normandy (XBOX)
• NHL Rivals 2005 (XBOX)
• Top Gear Rally (GBA)
• Yu-Gi-OH!: The Sacred Cards (GBA)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (GBA)
• The Sims: Superstar (PC)

Classic Reviews:

• Power Instinct (SNES)
• Cool Boarders (PS)
• Chakan: The Forever Man (Game Gear)
• Wolfenstein 3D (Jaguar)