Game Informer Issue 203

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Decisions That Matter (Andy McNamara discusses how the choices in the original Mass Effect will affect what happens in the sequel)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Missing In Action? (A look at some of the franchises that have not had a recent entry)
• Honored Indies (A look at the top games from the Independent Games Festival)
• Dimensional Dilemma? (Article on 3D in gaming and whether it will catch on with consumers)
• Exploring The Meaning Of Your Favorite Character’s Name (A look at the origins of some popular character’s names)
• Afterwords: Bayonetta (Questions answered by director Hideki Kamiya)
• All Ages (Grading the parental controls of each current-gen console)
• Impulse (A look at downloadable titles Toy Soldiers, Scrap Metal, Risk: Factions and Rage of the Gladiator)
• Top Ten: FPS Multiplayer Maps
• Is Duke Really Dead? (Article that examines the closing of 3D Realms and what that means to Duke Nukem)
• Massive (A look at the new Star Trek MMO from Cryptic Studios)
• Interview: Shuhei Yoshida (Interview with the senior vice president of product development for Sony Online Entertainment)
• Classic GI (History of film noir in gaming)

Cover Story: L.A. Noire (PS3, 360)(Extensive look at the new detective noire game from Team Bondi and Rockstar that takes facial capture technology to the make level in order to build in-game characters with movements far more life-like than have ever appeared in gaming before)

Previews:

• God of War III (PS3)
• Nier (PS3, 360)
• Brink (PS3, 360, PC)
• Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP)
• LEGO Universe (PC)
• Lost Planet 2 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (PC)
• Red Steel 2 (Wii)
• Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening (PS3, 360, PC)
• Metro 2033 (360, PC)
• Split Second (PS3, 360)
• Super Street Fighter IV (PS3, 360)
• Mega Man 10 (PS3, 360, Wii)
• Major League Baseball 2K10 (PS3, 360, Wii, PC)
• MLB 10: The Show (PS3)
• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (PS3, 360)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Mass Effect 2 (360, PC)
• BioShock 2 (PS3, 360)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3, 360)
• Dante’s Inferno (PS3, 360)
• Aliens vs. Predator (PS3, 360)
• Puzzle Chronicles (DS, PSP)

PlayStation 3 Reviews:

• Final Fantasy XIII*
• White Knight Chronicles
• Heavy Rain

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• Tropico 3
• Blood Bowl

PC Review:

• Divinity II: Ego Draconis

Wii Review:

• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Nintendo DS Reviews:

• Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
• Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

PSP Review:

• Lunar: Silver Star Harmony

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond (PS3, 360)
• Divinity II: Ego Draconis (360)
• Star Ocean: The Last Hope – International (PS3)
• Data East Arcade Classics (Wii)

*Due to circumstances beyond their control, the XBOX 360 version was unable to be reviewed.