Game Informer Issue 249

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: The Tie-Breaker (Andy McNamara discusses the role of critical opinion and how, ultimately, it's the reader's decision on what games and systems to support)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• The New Generation Is Now (Extensive overview and review of the PS4 and XBOX One)
• Old and Shiny (A look at the games available on both the last-gen and next-gen systems)
• Afterwords (Interview with Davey Wreden, creator of The Stanley Parable)
• Game Hijackings (Ben Reeves looks at games that took major inspiration from other games)
• Impulse (A look at the expansion to the Kickstarter-funded Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall)
• Top Ten: New Yorks
• The Art of Endings (A look at the process of creating a proper, fulfilling end to a game)
• Gamer (Interview with Michael Thomasson,who holds the Guinness world record for "largest collection of video games")
• Interview: Eric Hirshberg (Interview with the president and CEO of Activision Publishing)

Cover Story: Destiny (PS4, PS3, XBOX One, 360)(Extensive look behind Destiny, the first non-Halo game from developer Bungie that looks to evolve the FPS genre)

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (An extensive preview of Retro Studios' upcoming DK game set for the Wii U)

Previews:

• Infamous: Second Son (PS4)
• Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (XBOX One, 360)
• Project Spark (XBOX One, 360, PC)
• Kingdom Hearts III (PS4, XBOX One)
• Heroes of the Storm (PC, Mac)
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (PS3, 360)
• EverQuest Next Landmark (PC)
• World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor (PC, Mac)
• Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (PS3, 360, Vita)
• Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars (Vita, 3DS)
• Professor Layton And the Azran Legacy (3DS)
• Bravely Default: Flying Fairy (3DS)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Need For Speed: Rivals (PS4, XBOX One)
• BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 1 (PS3, 360, PC)
• NBA 2K14 (PS4, XBOX One)
• NBA Live 14 (PS4, XBOX One)
• Contrast (PS4, PS3, 360, PC)

PlayStation 4 Reviews:

• Knack
• Killzone: Shadow Fall
• Resogun
• Super Motherload*

XBOX One Review:

• Dead Rising 3
• Forza Motorsports 5
• Ryse: Son of Rome
• Killer Instinct
• Lococycle
• Crimson Dragon

PlayStation 3 Review:

• Ratchet & Clank: Into The Nexus

PC Review:

• Path of Exile

Wii U Review:

• Super Mario 3D World

PlayStation Vita Review:

• Tearaway

The Score (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• Powerstar Golf (XBOX One)
• Zoo Tycoon (XBOX One)
• Warframe (PS4)
• Deadfall Adventures (360)
• Mario Party: Island Tour (3DS)

*The review of Super Motherload is incorrectly listed for the XBOX One when it is actually for the PS4)