Official U.S. Playstation Magazine Issue 6

Editorial

Contents

News: Interplay picks up Heart of Darkness game, Lunar Silver Star Story, Cardinal Syn release date pushed back to June, NFL GameDay ’98 becomes best selling football game of all time, Square’s shooter Einhander gets a NA release, Final Fantasy VII figures will release in NA, Character “Gon” added to Tekken 3 on PlayStation, Mega Man Neo renamed to Mega Man Nova for NA release (would change again to Mega Man Legends for final release)

Letters

PlayStation Top 20

Demo Disc: Bloody Roar, Monster Rancher, Shipwreckers, NBA ShootOut 98, SaGa Frontier, Alundra, Mega Man Neo

Previews:

·         NCAA March Madness '98

·         Gran Turismo

·         Diablo

·         Grand Theft Auto

·         SaGa Frontier

·         Crime Killer

·         Rascal

·         ReBoot

·         Newman/Haas Racing

International: Ore! Tomba (released in NA as Tomba!), Critical Blow (Japan only release), DamDam StompLand (Japan only release)

Games You’ll Never Play (Japanese games that will never be released in the West, and they were right for the majority of the games):

·         Battle Arena Nitoushinden

·         Macross Digital Mission VF-X

·         Choro Q 2

·         Gundam The Battle Master

·         Bastard!! Utsuro Naru Kamigami no Utsuwa

·         Fighting Illusion: K-1 Revenge (released in NA as K-1 Revenge)

·         Zero Divide 2: The Secret Wish (released in Europe, but no NA release)

·         Imadoki no Vampire: Bloody Bride

·         Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (eventually released in 2011 in NA as a digital download)

·         Fighter’s Impact

·         Final Fantasy IV (eventually released in 2001 in NA as part of Final Fantasy Chronicles)

·         Asuka 120% Excellent BURNING Fest. EXCELLENT

·         RockMan Battle & Chase (released in Europe as Mega Man Battle & Chase, but no NA release)

·         Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling: Toukon Retsuden 2

·         Gamera 2000

·         Tobal 2

Reviews:

·         Resident Evil 2

·         Riven: The Sequel to Mist

·         Skullmonkeys

·         Bloody Roar

·         Point Blank

·         Klonea

·         Auto Destruct

·         Nagano Winter Olympics '98

·         Punky Skunk

·         X-Men: Children of the Atom

OPM Guide to 1998

Alundra Strategy Part 2

Final Fantasy Tactics Strategy

Tricks of the Trade:

·         Cart World Series

·         Dragon Ball GT Final Bout

·         Courier Crisis

·         Nuclear Strike

·         One

·         Monster Rancher

·         NBA Live ‘98

·         Shipwreckers

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