ISSUE: 58Content
Regular Bits:
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Editorial (John Davison talks about the launch of the PS2's online service and why you should get with it come August)
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Demo Disc (Get some screen time in with Mister Mosquito, Aggressive Inline, Knockout Kings 2002, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, and World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars and more...)
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Input (Letters. You write them, we read them. Sometimes we even answer them.)
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Clish MacLaver's Gossip Gossip (Rumors
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P.S. (Caption contest, an AIM Bot chit-chat script, OPM's new game title generator, and not-so-serious talk about this new-fangled "online" deal)
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Next Issue: Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, a post-E3 wrap-up, playable demo of Stuntman, a Kingdom Hearts video, and more!
Spin:
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Lords of the Rings: EA and Universal are bringing game adaptations of your favorite fantasy series.
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I Hear Famous People: Square's got some A-list voice talent for Kingdom Hearts, including Haley Joel Osment, Hayden Panettiere, and David Gallagher.
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Thug Life: Is True Crime poised to take over Grand Theft Auto's territory?
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Zoe's World: Guest columnist Zoe Flower discusses the woes of being a gamer with a summer birthday when every game developer on the planet aims for a winter release.
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Summer Movie Games: Zoe might lament the lack of solid summer gaming entertainment, but Hollywood's a top choice when it comes to producing licensed material thanks to films like Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, The Sum of All Fears, Minority Report, Reign of Fire, and Men In Black.
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Dream Cast: OPM fills out a cast list for a fictitious film based on Hot Shots Golf 3.
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.hack//Infection: Bandai's real world/computer world hybrid fusion RPG is coming soon!
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Only In Japan: Aku Daikan ("Evil Magistrate") sees you playing the bad guy, trying to defend yourself from mobs of angry peasants by trapping the hell out of your enormous estate, a-la Tecmo's Deception.
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DVD Reviews: Since the PS2 can play DVDs, John Scalzi gets to write a movie review column for a video game magazine. OK then.
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Top 10 Charts: Bestselling titles for PS1 and PS2, what's hot in Japan, and the editors' choices for top ten "decent" PSone movie games.
Cover Feature:
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Connect and Conquer: Turn your living room into a world-wide battleground with online-enabled games like...
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ATV Offroad Fury 2
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EverQuest Online Adventures
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Final Fantasy XI
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Frequency
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Madden NFL 2003
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My Street
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NBA 2K3
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NFL 2K3
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SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs
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TimeSplitters 2
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Tribes: Aerial Assault
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Twisted Metal: Black Online
Previews:
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
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Devil May Cry 2
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Soccer Mania
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Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven
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Rygar
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Batman: Dark Tomorrow
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Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
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Primal
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Blade 2 (released as Blade II)
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Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
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Monopoly Party
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WWE Smackdown! - Shut Your Mouth
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X-Men: Next Dimension
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Enclave (cancelled on PS2)
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Ratchet & Clank
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X-Men: Wolverine's Revenge (released as X2: Wolverine's Revenge)
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Dr. Muto
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Robot Alchemic Drive
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Tiny Toons: Defenders of the Loonyverse (cancelled)
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Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
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NASCAR Heat 2: Road to the Championship
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Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma
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Pro Race Driver
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Freekstyle
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The Getaway
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Madden NFL 2003
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Red Faction 2
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Dual Hearts
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World War II: Prisoner of War (released as Prisoner of War)
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII
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Galerians 2 (released as Galerians: Ash)
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Ninja Assault
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Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon
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Alter Echo
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Superman: Shadow of Apokolips
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Total Immersion Racing
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WWE Crush Hour
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MLB Slugfest 20-03
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Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
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Shinobi
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The Simpsons Skateboarding
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Antz Extreme Racing
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NCAA Football 2003
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Twin Caliber (Europe-only)
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Desperate Situation Zone (released in Japan as Zettai Zetsumei Toshi; released in US as Disaster Report)
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Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
Reviews:
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Medal of Honor: Frontline (5/5)
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2002 FIFA World Cup (4/5)
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Britney's Dance Beat (4/5)
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Global Touring Challenge: Africa (2.5/5)
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Lethal Skies (3/5)
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Test Drive (3.5/5)
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Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing (1/5)
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Scooby-Doo: Night of 100 Frights (3/5)
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Shifters (1/5)
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Sky Gunner (3.5/5)
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UFC Throwdown (2.5/5)
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C-12: Final Resistance (2.5/5)
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2002 FIFA World Cup (4/5)
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Big Bass Fishing (0.5/5)
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Kickboxing (1/5)
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Power Play: Sports Trivia (2/5)
Replay (cheats, strategies, and other stuff):
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Dark Cloud
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Gran Turismo 3: A-spec
-
Hot Shots Golf 3
-
Medal of Honor: Frontline
-
Sled Storm
-
Spider-Man
-
Grand Theft Auto 2
-
The Italian Job
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Pirates: Legend of Black Kat
-
WipeOut Fusion
-
All-Star Baseball 2003
-
Final Fantasy X
-
Grand Theft Auto III
-
Knockout Kings 2002
-
Max Payne
-
State of Emergency
-
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002
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Triple Play 2002
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Virtua Fighter 4
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Army Men: Team Assault
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Bowling
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High Heat Baseball 2003
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Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
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Digimon Rumble Arena
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Driver 2
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Gran Turismo 2
-
Grand Theft Auto
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Grand Theft Auto 2
-
IHRA Drag Racing
-
Twisted Metal: Black
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ATV Offroad Fury
-
Onimusha: Warlords
-
Red Faction
-
Motocross Mania
-
SSX Tricky
-
Army Men RTS
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SpongeBob SquarePants
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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
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Drakan: The Ancients' Gate
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Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
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King's Field: The Ancient City
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Shadow Hearts
Ads (in order of appearance):
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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
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The Terminator: Dawn of Fate
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Legion: The Legend of Excalibur
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Talib Kweli for Marc Ecko apparel
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Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights
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Medal of Honor: Frontline
-
Fire Blade
-
Barbarian
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Space Race
-
David Beckham Soccer
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Endgame
-
Onimusha 2
-
MLB SlugFest 20-03
-
Gundam Battle Assault 2
-
MX Superfly (with $10 rebate offer from Tang)
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Lethal Skies
-
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
-
EBGames.com ad
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The Italian Job
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Barbarian ($5 off coupon from Sears)
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Delta Force: Urban Warfare
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"R" Zone Arcade Challenge (Toys 'R' Us)
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Headhunter
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Downforce
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Intec gaming products
-
Digimon World 3
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SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs w/ Hollywood Video 'Rent one game, get one free' coupon.
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Global Touring Challenge: Africa
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Sky Gunner
-
Freekstyle
-
Britney's Dance Beat
Interesting Stuff:
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Female gamers were not having any of last issue's "How To Score With Women" article. Angie wrote in with her own hilarious suggestions for a reverse of the article, while Jennifer Roesch's screed asked if she was reading a gaming magazine or "Dating For Dummies meets YT".
-
There's always some extra crap bundled away on those OPM discs, making them interesting for more than just videos or demo versions of games. Last month's disc (June 2002) included the bonus content "Uplink" for the PS2 version of Half-Life, along with the codes necessary to get it to work. You need an actual copy of the game to boot, but a simple cheat code entry will let you disc swap and enjoy the non-canonical scenario.
-
By May of 2002, Sony had pushed 30,000,000 PlayStation 2 units to market world-wide. Impressive!
-
The show had been off the air for 12 years, but the voice actors for Tiny Toons were back in the studio to do their thing for the upcoming Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Looniverse, a 2D beat 'em up featuring Babs, Buster, and Montana Max which seems too good to be true. So naturally it was cancelled.
-
John Scalzi pens a very intelligent critique of a judge who handed down a ruling that films were worth of First Amendment protection, while video games were not.
-
Page 36 features a short write-up on an upcoming Konami release about a pair of female spies (one a ninja, the other a hacker) called "Cool Girl". If it sounds familiar, that's because "Cool Girl" was its Japanese title. Its US localization was known as Cy Girls.
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One of Clish MacLaver's bits and bobs involves studio Criterion Games working on a so-called "Halo killer". Considering Criterion was known for developing racing titles like the Burnout franchise, this seems like an odd choice. However, four years later in 2006, they released Black. It's a great FPS, but it doesn't seem quite fair to promote it as "killing" a game which had already been out for five years and received a sequel.
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The only good feature reviewer Todd Zuniga could find with regards to Mike Tyson's Heavyweight Boxing is: "The ring girls have jiggly boobs." Apparently the developers of Big Bass Fishing thought the same, as that's all Joe Rybicki could talk about too.
Regular Bits:
- Editorial (John Davison talks about the launch of the PS2's online service and why you should get with it come August)
- Demo Disc (Get some screen time in with Mister Mosquito, Aggressive Inline, Knockout Kings 2002, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, and World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars and more...)
- Input (Letters. You write them, we read them. Sometimes we even answer them.)
- Clish MacLaver's Gossip Gossip (Rumors
- P.S. (Caption contest, an AIM Bot chit-chat script, OPM's new game title generator, and not-so-serious talk about this new-fangled "online" deal)
- Next Issue: Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, a post-E3 wrap-up, playable demo of Stuntman, a Kingdom Hearts video, and more!
Spin:
- Lords of the Rings: EA and Universal are bringing game adaptations of your favorite fantasy series.
- I Hear Famous People: Square's got some A-list voice talent for Kingdom Hearts, including Haley Joel Osment, Hayden Panettiere, and David Gallagher.
- Thug Life: Is True Crime poised to take over Grand Theft Auto's territory?
- Zoe's World: Guest columnist Zoe Flower discusses the woes of being a gamer with a summer birthday when every game developer on the planet aims for a winter release.
- Summer Movie Games: Zoe might lament the lack of solid summer gaming entertainment, but Hollywood's a top choice when it comes to producing licensed material thanks to films like Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, The Sum of All Fears, Minority Report, Reign of Fire, and Men In Black.
- Dream Cast: OPM fills out a cast list for a fictitious film based on Hot Shots Golf 3.
- .hack//Infection: Bandai's real world/computer world hybrid fusion RPG is coming soon!
- Only In Japan: Aku Daikan ("Evil Magistrate") sees you playing the bad guy, trying to defend yourself from mobs of angry peasants by trapping the hell out of your enormous estate, a-la Tecmo's Deception.
- DVD Reviews: Since the PS2 can play DVDs, John Scalzi gets to write a movie review column for a video game magazine. OK then.
- Top 10 Charts: Bestselling titles for PS1 and PS2, what's hot in Japan, and the editors' choices for top ten "decent" PSone movie games.
Cover Feature:
-
Connect and Conquer: Turn your living room into a world-wide battleground with online-enabled games like...
- ATV Offroad Fury 2
- EverQuest Online Adventures
- Final Fantasy XI
- Frequency
- Madden NFL 2003
- My Street
- NBA 2K3
- NFL 2K3
- SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs
- TimeSplitters 2
- Tribes: Aerial Assault
- Twisted Metal: Black Online
Previews:
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
- Devil May Cry 2
- Soccer Mania
- Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven
- Rygar
- Batman: Dark Tomorrow
- Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
- Primal
- Blade 2 (released as Blade II)
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
- Monopoly Party
- WWE Smackdown! - Shut Your Mouth
- X-Men: Next Dimension
- Enclave (cancelled on PS2)
- Ratchet & Clank
- X-Men: Wolverine's Revenge (released as X2: Wolverine's Revenge)
- Dr. Muto
- Robot Alchemic Drive
- Tiny Toons: Defenders of the Loonyverse (cancelled)
- Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
- NASCAR Heat 2: Road to the Championship
- Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma
- Pro Race Driver
- Freekstyle
- The Getaway
- Madden NFL 2003
- Red Faction 2
- Dual Hearts
- World War II: Prisoner of War (released as Prisoner of War)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII
- Galerians 2 (released as Galerians: Ash)
- Ninja Assault
- Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon
- Alter Echo
- Superman: Shadow of Apokolips
- Total Immersion Racing
- WWE Crush Hour
- MLB Slugfest 20-03
- Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
- Shinobi
- The Simpsons Skateboarding
- Antz Extreme Racing
- NCAA Football 2003
- Twin Caliber (Europe-only)
- Desperate Situation Zone (released in Japan as Zettai Zetsumei Toshi; released in US as Disaster Report)
- Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
Reviews:
- Medal of Honor: Frontline (5/5)
- 2002 FIFA World Cup (4/5)
- Britney's Dance Beat (4/5)
- Global Touring Challenge: Africa (2.5/5)
- Lethal Skies (3/5)
- Test Drive (3.5/5)
- Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing (1/5)
- Scooby-Doo: Night of 100 Frights (3/5)
- Shifters (1/5)
- Sky Gunner (3.5/5)
- UFC Throwdown (2.5/5)
- C-12: Final Resistance (2.5/5)
- 2002 FIFA World Cup (4/5)
- Big Bass Fishing (0.5/5)
- Kickboxing (1/5)
- Power Play: Sports Trivia (2/5)
Replay (cheats, strategies, and other stuff):
- Dark Cloud
- Gran Turismo 3: A-spec
- Hot Shots Golf 3
- Medal of Honor: Frontline
- Sled Storm
- Spider-Man
- Grand Theft Auto 2
- The Italian Job
- Pirates: Legend of Black Kat
- WipeOut Fusion
- All-Star Baseball 2003
- Final Fantasy X
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Knockout Kings 2002
- Max Payne
- State of Emergency
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002
- Triple Play 2002
- Virtua Fighter 4
- Army Men: Team Assault
- Bowling
- High Heat Baseball 2003
- Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
- Digimon Rumble Arena
- Driver 2
- Gran Turismo 2
- Grand Theft Auto
- Grand Theft Auto 2
- IHRA Drag Racing
- Twisted Metal: Black
- ATV Offroad Fury
- Onimusha: Warlords
- Red Faction
- Motocross Mania
- SSX Tricky
- Army Men RTS
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
- Drakan: The Ancients' Gate
- Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
- King's Field: The Ancient City
- Shadow Hearts
Ads (in order of appearance):
- Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
- The Terminator: Dawn of Fate
- Legion: The Legend of Excalibur
- Talib Kweli for Marc Ecko apparel
- Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights
- Medal of Honor: Frontline
- Fire Blade
- Barbarian
- Space Race
- David Beckham Soccer
- Endgame
- Onimusha 2
- MLB SlugFest 20-03
- Gundam Battle Assault 2
- MX Superfly (with $10 rebate offer from Tang)
- Lethal Skies
- Commandos 2: Men of Courage
- EBGames.com ad
- The Italian Job
- Barbarian ($5 off coupon from Sears)
- Delta Force: Urban Warfare
- "R" Zone Arcade Challenge (Toys 'R' Us)
- Headhunter
- Downforce
- Intec gaming products
- Digimon World 3
- SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs w/ Hollywood Video 'Rent one game, get one free' coupon.
- Global Touring Challenge: Africa
- Sky Gunner
- Freekstyle
- Britney's Dance Beat
Interesting Stuff:
-
Female gamers were not having any of last issue's "How To Score With Women" article. Angie wrote in with her own hilarious suggestions for a reverse of the article, while Jennifer Roesch's screed asked if she was reading a gaming magazine or "Dating For Dummies meets YT".
- There's always some extra crap bundled away on those OPM discs, making them interesting for more than just videos or demo versions of games. Last month's disc (June 2002) included the bonus content "Uplink" for the PS2 version of Half-Life, along with the codes necessary to get it to work. You need an actual copy of the game to boot, but a simple cheat code entry will let you disc swap and enjoy the non-canonical scenario.
- By May of 2002, Sony had pushed 30,000,000 PlayStation 2 units to market world-wide. Impressive!
- The show had been off the air for 12 years, but the voice actors for Tiny Toons were back in the studio to do their thing for the upcoming Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Looniverse, a 2D beat 'em up featuring Babs, Buster, and Montana Max which seems too good to be true. So naturally it was cancelled.
- John Scalzi pens a very intelligent critique of a judge who handed down a ruling that films were worth of First Amendment protection, while video games were not.
- Page 36 features a short write-up on an upcoming Konami release about a pair of female spies (one a ninja, the other a hacker) called "Cool Girl". If it sounds familiar, that's because "Cool Girl" was its Japanese title. Its US localization was known as Cy Girls.
- One of Clish MacLaver's bits and bobs involves studio Criterion Games working on a so-called "Halo killer". Considering Criterion was known for developing racing titles like the Burnout franchise, this seems like an odd choice. However, four years later in 2006, they released Black. It's a great FPS, but it doesn't seem quite fair to promote it as "killing" a game which had already been out for five years and received a sequel.
- The only good feature reviewer Todd Zuniga could find with regards to Mike Tyson's Heavyweight Boxing is: "The ring girls have jiggly boobs." Apparently the developers of Big Bass Fishing thought the same, as that's all Joe Rybicki could talk about too.
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