Game Informer Issue 159

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Shock And Awe (Andy McNamara discusses Sony’s announcement of the PS3’s price and its impact on the upcoming console war)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• E3 2006 (GI’s coverage of 2006’s E3, includes interviews from Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo, Shane Kim of Microsoft and Kaz Hirai of Sony)
• Bringing Star Wars Into the Future (LucasArts announces new Star Wars game that will utilize the power of next-gen systems to give players greater control over the Force)
• “id Software Never Wound Up Doing A Fantasy Game” (Interview with John Carmack on his new mobile game, Orcs & Elves)
• Interview: Hideo Kojima (Interview with the studio head and namesake of Kojima Productions)
• Classic GI (Excerpt from Dead Takahashi’s book, The XBOX 360 Uncloaked)

Cover Story: Need For Speed: Carbon (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, XBOX, PSP)(Extensive look at the first next-gen Need For Speed game from EA and how it will attempt to reinvent the franchise)

The E3 Hot 50: (GI’s picks for the top 50 games shown off at this years’ E3)

• Gears of War (360)
• Spore (PC)
• Mass Effect (360)
• Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
• Halo 3 (360)
• Assassin’s Creed (PS3)
• BioShock (360, PC)
• Crysis (PC)
• Supreme Commander (PC)
• God of War II (PS2)
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii, GC)
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII (PS3)
• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PS3)
• Enemy Territories: Quake Wars (PC)
• Heavenly Sword (PS3)
• Guitar Hero II (PS2)
• Hellgate: London (PC)
• John Woo Presents Stranglehold (PS3, 360)
• Unreal Tournament 2007 (PS3, PC)
• Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
• Prey (360, PC)
• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (360)
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (PC)
• Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)
• Super Paper Mario (GC)
• Army of Two (360, PS3)
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
• Frontlines: Fuel of War (360, PS3, PC)
• Rainbow Six: Vegas (PS3)
• Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (360, PS3, PC)
• Warhawk (PS3)
• Red Steel (Wii)
• Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS)
• Turok (360, PS3)
• F.E.A.R. (360)
• Crackdown (360)
• Splinter Cell Double Agent (360, PS2, XBOX, GC, PC)
• Naughty Dog Project (PS3)
• Saint’s Row (360)
• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP)
• Tony Hawk Project 8 (PS3, 360, PS2, XBOX)
• The Club (360, PS3)
• Company of Heroes (PC)
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, XBOX, PSP, PC)
• Just Cause (360, PS2, XBOX, PC)
• Indiana Jones (PS3, 360)
• Alone in the Dark (360)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• X-Men: The Official Game (360, PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Urban Chaos: Riot Response (PS2, XBOX)
• The Da Vinci Code (PS2, XBOX)

XBOX 360 Review:

• Table Tennis

PC Reviews:

• Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
• SiN Episodes: Emergence
• Heroes of Might & Magic V

Nintendo DS Review:

• New Super Mario Bros.

PSP Review:

• Tomb Raider: Legend

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Gallop Racer 2006 (PS2)
• Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (PS2)
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PS2)
• Moto GP ’06 (360)
• Hitman: Blood Money (360)
• Paradise (PC)
• Darwinia (PC)
• The Legend of Heroes II (PSP)
• Lemmings (PSP)

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (PC)
• Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (PS2, XBOX)
• X-Men: The Official Game (360, PS2, XBOX)
• Rumble Roses XX (360)
• Black (PS2, XBOX)

Retro Reviews:

• Thousand Arms (PS)
• Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi (PS)
• R-Types (PS)