Game Informer Issue 207

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Features:

• Letter From the Editor: 3D Glasses Go Out of Focus in the Home (Andy McNamara discusses 3D gaming and the long road it has before it reached mass consumption)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Bungie Teams With Activision (Bungies announces publishing partnership with Activision)
• Insomniac Goes Multiplatform (Insomniac announces partnership with EA for their first-ever multiplatform title)
• Jurassic Park Comes Alive (Telltale Games to create episodic game for Jurassic Park)
• Pirates of the Caribbean Hits the High Seas (Propaganda Games announces new PoC game not tied to any of the movies)
• Constructing an Icon (Interview with Lorin Wood on the creation of ClapTrap)
• Top Ten: Console Games That Get Content Creation Right
• All Ages (A look at two websites with browser-based games appropriate for young children)
• Afterwords: Alan Wake (Questions answered by writer Sam Lake)
• Error: Gaming’s Strangest Glitches (Article where developers details some of the strangest glitches they encountered during a game’s development)
• Impusle (A look at downloadable titles Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shank and DeathSpank)
• Gamer (Spotlight Wade McGilberry, who won $1 million for being the first to pitch a perfect game in Major League Baseball 2K10)
• Interview: Jenova Chen (Interview with co-founder and creative director of That Game Company)
• Directing Scott Pilgrim (Interview with Edgar Wright, director of the movie adaptation of popular comic Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
• Classic GI (Spotlight on the Dreamcast’s Virtual Memory Unit)

The Great Debate (Feature that tries to answer the question of whether video games are art by giving GI’s picks for eight games that support the notion that they are. The games chosen are: Shadow of the Colossus, Mass effect 2, Heavy Rain, Braid, Super Mario Bros., LittleBigPlanet and BioShock)

Cover Story: Infamous 2 (PS3)(Having created a compelling superhero game with its first Infamous title, Suck Punch moves forward with a sequel that will not only serve as an excellent follow-up, but one that will completely blow away its previous effort)

Previews:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3, 360, PC)
• Killzone 3 (PS3)
• XCOM (360, PC)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PS3, 360, PC)
• True Crime (PS3, 360, PC)
• Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (PS3, 360)
• Madden NFL 11 (PS3, 360)
• NHL 11 (PS3, 360)
• Lost in Shadow (Wii)
• Tron: Evolution (PS3, 360, PC)
• The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (PS3, 360, PC)
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (PS3, 360)
• Bodycount (PS3, 360)
• APB (PC)
• God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
• Two Worlds II (PS3, 360, PC)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (PS3, 360, PC, Wii, DS)
• The Sims 3 (PS3, 360, Wii, DS)
• NBA Elite 11 (PS3, 360)
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (PS3, 360)
• Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Alpha Protocol (PS3, 360)
• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (PS3, 360)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Nier (PS3, 360)
• UFC Undisputed 2010 (PS3, 360)
• Blur (PS3, 360, PC)
• Backbreaker (PS3, 360)
• Green Day: Rock Band (PS3, 360, Wii)

PlayStation 3 Review:

• Joe Danger

Wii Reviews:

• Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Prince and Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Wii)
• What Did I Do To Deserve This My Lord!? 2 (PSP)
• Pure Futbol (PS3, 360)
• The Sims 3: Ambitions (PC)
• Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow (DS)
• Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper (360)
• Rocket Knight (PS3, 360, PC)
• Dementium II (DS)