Game Informer Issue 163

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Color Me Impressed (Andy McNamara discusses his impressions on the PlayStation 3’s hardware)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Nintendo Wii Gets Date & Details (Nintendo announces the release date for its Wii console)
• Tokyo Game Show 2006 (GI’s report on all the news and announcements out of Tokyo Game Show)
• PS3 Launch Numbers Axed (Sony announces that less than 500,000 consoles will be shipped for launch in North America)
• Top 10: Cult Classics of the 21st Century
• Make Your Own Damn Game! (Article on Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio software, which allows anyone to program games)
• Anatomy of a Game: Gears of War (A look at some of the inspiration for the game)
• The Art of God of War II (Interview with Charlie Wen, visual development director for GoW II)
• Interview: Kelly Flock (Interview with the executive vice president of publishing at THQ)
• Classic GI (History of Black Isle Studios)

Cover Story: Dark Sector (PS3, 360)(Extensive look at the first next-generation game ever announced, which has undergone a complete overhaul since its first announcement)

Previews:

• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PS3)
• Guitar Hero II (360, PS2)
• Stranglehold (360, PS3)
• Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 (360)
• Burnout 5 (PS3, 360)
• Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (PC)
• Dirt: Colin McRae Off-Road (PS3, 360, PC)
• Medieval II: Total War (PC)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (PS3, 360)
• Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (PC)
• Civil War (360, PS2, PC)
• Tony Hawk’s Project 8 (PS3, 360, PSP, XBOX, PS2)
• Def Jam (PS3, 360)
• Final Fantasy III (DS)
• GT Pro Series (Wii)
• Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Wii)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Scarface: The World is Yours (PS2, XBOX)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (360, PS2, XBOX, PC)
• Destroy All Humans 2 (PS2, XBOX)

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• Final Fantasy XII
• God Hand
• NBA 07

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• Test Drive Unlimited
• NBA 2K7

PC Review:

• Battlefield 2142

Gamecube Review:

• Baten Kaitos Origins

Nintendo DS Reviews:

• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
• Children of Mana
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis
• Magical Starsign

PSP Reviews:

• Every Extend Extra
• Killzone: Liberation
• Death Jr. 2: Root of Evil
• Gangs of London

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• NBA Live 07 (PS2, XBOX)
• The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• NBA 2K7 (PS2, XBOX)
• Samurai Warriors 2 (360, PS2)
• Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run (PS2, XBOX)
• The Fast and the Furious (PS2)
• Tales of the Abyss (PS2)
• WTF (PSP)
• Scurge: Hive (DS)
• Power Stone Collection (PSP)
• Bounty Hounds (PSP)
• The Godfather: Mob Wars (PSP)
• 50 Cent Bulletproof: G Unit Edition (PSP)
• Touch Detective (DS)
• Spectral Souls (PSP)

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (360, PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Saints Row (360)

Retro Reviews:

• Banjo-Kazooie (N64)
• Destrega (PS)
• Planescape: Torment (PC)