Game Informer Issue 160

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: My Moment in the Fourth Dimension (Andy McNamara discusses his experiences with the Nintendo and Sony’s motion controls)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Inside Industry Minds (GI polls developers on their feelings on the next-gen consoles)
• EA’s New Mythic Age (EA buys developer Mythic Entertainment)
• The Ratings Game (Article on the ESRB and the recent controversy initially stemming from Grand Theft Auto’s ‘Hot Coffee’ scandal, includes interview with Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB)
• The Evolution of A Face (Interview with Casey Hudson, project director on Mass Effect, on how a character goes from concept sketches to an in-game NPC)
• Immersion Jumps Into Next Gen (Immersion announces new advancement in its rumble technology)
• Top Ten: Design Trends
• And the Winner Is… Wii! (Results of Game Critics’ ‘Best of E3 2006’ awards)
• Ditching Dailies, Bypassing the Establishment, and Telling Your Story (Article that looks at the history of machinima, movies created using a real-time, 3D environment)
• Debate: Are Licensed Games Good For the Industry? (Debate between Jeremy Zoss and Adam Biessener)
• Interview: Jason Hall (Interview with the senior vice president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Classic GI (History of Kid Icarus)

Cover Story: Kane & Lynch (360, PC)(In-depth look at the new co-op action game from Io Interactive that looks to pair up two criminals in a fragile alliance between a psychopath and a killer)

Turok (PS3, 360)(Having gone dormant since Turok: Evolution, Propaganda Games aims to wipe the slate clean and bring the Turok franchise back into the limelight)

Previews:

• The Darkness (360, PS3)
• NHL 07 (360)
• Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2)
• Battlefield 2142 (PC)
• MotorStorm (PS3)
• Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom (PS3)
• Ninety-Nine Nights (360)
• Shadowrun (360, PC)
• Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra (PS2)
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
• Elebits (Wii)
• Madden NFL 07 (PS3, 360, Wii, PS2, XBOX, GC, PC)
• Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (PC)
• CivCity: Rome (PC)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Prey (360, PC)
• NCAA Football 07 (PS2, XBOX)
• Jaws Unleashed (PS2, XBOX)
• NFL head Coach (PS2, XBOX, PC)

PlayStation 2 Review:

• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II
• Chromehounds
• NCAA Football 07

PC Reviews:

• Rise & Fall: Civilizations At War
• Half-Life 2: Episode One
• Titan Quest

Nintendo DS Review:

• Big Brain Academy

PSP Reviews:

• Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
• Astonishia Story
• Def Jam Fight For NY: The Takeover

Game Boy Advance Review:

• Summon Night: Swordcraft Story

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• MLB SlugFest 2006 (PS2, XBOX)
• Cars (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow (PS2)
• Micro Machines V4 (PS2)
• Point Blank DS (DS)
• Magnetica (DS)
• Blade Dancer (PSP)
• Race Driver 2006 (PSP)
• Juiced Eliminator (PSP)
• Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar/Cybeast Falzar (GBA)
• Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation (GBA)

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• Titan Quest (PC)
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PS2)
• Cars (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Urban Chaos: Riot Response (PS2, XBOX)

Retro Reviews:

• Blackthorne (SNES)
• Majesty (PC)
• SimAnt (SNES)