Game Informer Issue 189

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Game Informer 2.009 (Andy McNamara discusses the new MMO Connect feature, which will serve to give a continuous look at the MMO landscape)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Experiencing the New XBOX (Microsoft unveils the brand-new dashboard with personal avatars that can be customized)
• A Day in the Life (Harmonix and MTV to produce a Beatles-based Rock Band)
• Top Ten: Lines in Gaming
• Is Everyone For All-Play? (EA 'All-Play' branded Wii sports titles still struggle to find success)
• Afterwords (Dene Carter, design director at Lionhead Studios, answers question about Fable II
• Impusle (A look at downloadable titles Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Savage Moon and A Kingdom for Keflings)
• What Games are Made Of (Behinds-the-scenes tidbits about Endwar, Fable 2, Fallout 3 and Saints Row 2)
• Gamers (Spotlight on gamers Irek Drabek and Chris Flinn, who co-managed team Dream Killers in EA's NHL 09)
• The First GTA IV Download is Here (Rockstar announces the first DLC, The Lost and the Damned, to be available February 17)
• Achievement Dos and Dont's (GI lists what Achievements should and should not do)
• MMO Report (A look at the next expansion for World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King)
• Interview: Glen Schofield (Interview with the VP and general manager of EA Redwood Shores Studio)
• Classic GI (The Top 25 Gamecube Games)

Cover Story: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)(An extensive look at Naughty Dog's follow-up to the smash hit Uncharted: Drakes Fortune)

Guitar Hero: Metallica (A look at the new, Metallica-focused, entry in the Guitar Hero series, including interview with Metallica's Lars Ulrich)

Previews:

• Skate 2 (PS3, 360)
• Street Fighter IV (PS3, 360, PC)
• Dirt 2 (PS3, 360)
• Alpha Protocol (PS3, 360)
• Killzone 2 (PS3)*
• Edge of Twilight (PS3, 360)
• Flower, Sun, and Rain (DS)
• Elemental: War of Magic (PC)
• Fragile (Wii)
• The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces (Wii)
• Ready 2 Rumble Revolution (Wii)
• Splatterhouse (PS3, 360)
• Tenchu 4: Shadow Assassins (Wii)
• Ghostbusters (PS3, 360, Wii, DS)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, 360, PC)
• Prince of Persia (PS3, 360)
• Legendary (PS3, 360, PC)
• Quantum of Solace (PS3, 360)
• Shaun White Snowboarding (PS3, 360)
• Sonic Unleashed (PS3, 360, Wii)
• Tomb Raider Underworld (PS3, 360)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (PS3, 360)
• NCAA Basketball 09 (PS3, 360)

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• Left 4 Dead
• You're In The Movies

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• Persona 4
• Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories

Wii Reviews:

• Animal Crossing: City Folk
• Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Lightsaber Duels
• Skate It
• Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party

PC Reviews:

• Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
• Sacred 2: Fallen Angel

Nintendo DS Reviews:

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Jedi Alliance
• Cradle of Rome

Quickie Reviews (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• Alone in The Dark: Inferno (PS3)
• The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (PS3, 360, Wii)
• Scene It? Box Office Smash (360)
• Lips (360)
• Naruto: The Broken Bond (360)
• Ten Pin Alley 2 (Wii)
• Carnival Games MiniGolf (Wii)
• Cooking Mama World Kitchen (Wii)
• Castlevania: Judgement (Wii)
• Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades (DS)
• Robocalypse (DS)

Secret Access (Cheat Codes and Strategies):

• Gears of War 2 (360)
• Dead Space (PS3, 360)
• LEGO Batman (PS3, 360, Wii, PS2, PC)

Retro Reviews:

• Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Superheroes (DC)
• Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (PC)
• Mega Man X6 (PS)

*Killzone 2 is incorrectly listed in the magazine as being available for PlayStation 3, XBOX 360 and PC