Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 160

Contents

Editorial

Letters

Press Start: Microsoft Launches Xbox Live, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (Xbox, PS2), Square announces it’s first GameCube and Game Boy Advance titles, Doom III coming to Xbox, TimeSplitters 2 for PS2 will not have online play, Afterthoughts on Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube) and Kingdoms Hearts (PS2), Celebrity Gamer with actor Bruce Campbell, EGM’s Handy Guide to Halo-ween costumes, Play it LARGE! (Guide to the best gaming televisions), All Work and All Play (story on Game Testers), Project Gotham Racing 2 (Xbox) to arrive in 2004,    Lunar Legend (Game Boy Advance), Quartermann’s Game News & Gossip, Charts July 2002, Coming Soon

Previews:

·         Devil May Cry 2 (PS2)

·         Red Faction II (PS2)

·         WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth (PS2)

·         Contra: Shattered Soldier (PS2)

·         BMX XXX (PS2)

·         Disaster Report (PS2)

·         Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (PS2)

·         Ratchet & Clank (PS2)

·         Suikoden III (PS2)

·         Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (PS2)

·         Fighter Maker 2 (PS2)

·         Dr. Muto (PS2)

·         Metroid Prime (GameCube)

·         James Bond 007: Nightfire (GameCube)

·         Mario Party 4 (GameCube)

·         Star Wars: The Clone Wars (GameCube)

·         Batman: Dark Tomorrow (GameCube)

·         Evolution Worlds (GameCube)

·         Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (GameCube)

·         The Legend of Zelda (GameCube, released as The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)

·         Cubivore (GameCube, released as Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest)

·         NBA 2K3 (GameCube)

·         Swingerz Golf (GameCube)

·         Steel Battalion (Xbox)

·         Blinx: The Time Sweeper (Xbox)

·         Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Xbox)

·         Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon (Xbox)

·         Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Xbox)

·         Brute Force (Xbox)

·         Metroid Fusion (Game Boy Advance)

·         Kirby (Game Boy Advance, released as Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land)

·         DOOM II (Game Boy Advance)

·         Tomb Raider (Game Boy Advance, released as Lara Croft - Tomb Raider: The Prophecy)

Halo 2 (Xbox) feature

The 20 Greatest Moments in Console Gaming

25 Reasons Why You’ll Love Vice City, and 5 Reasons Why You Won’t

Reviews:

·         Grandia Xtreme (PS2)

·         Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon (PS2)

·         Robotech: Battlecry (PS2)

·         NASCAR Thunder 2003 (PS2)

·         Wild Arms 3 (PS2)

·         Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2)

·         Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus (PS2)

·         The Thing (PS2)

·         Tribes: Aerial Assault (PS2)

·         Turok: Evolution (PS2)

·         NFL Blitz 20-03 (PS2)

·         Summoner 2 (PS2)

·         Sub Rebellion (PS2)

·         NASCAR Thunder 2003 (Xbox)

·         Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (Xbox)

·         Phantom Crash (Xbox)

·         Prisoner of War (Xbox)

·         Robotech: Battlecry (Xbox)

·         The Terminator: Dawn of Fate (Xbox)

·         Turok: Evolution (Xbox)

·         Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (GameCube)

·         4x4 EVO 2 (GameCube)

·         Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (GameCube)

·         NASCAR Thunder 2003 (GameCube)

·         Star Fox Adventures (GameCube)

Tricks of the Trade:

·         Turok: Evolution (PS2, GameCube, Xbox)

·         Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube)

·         Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Xbox)

·         Animal Crossing (GameCube)

·         Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)

·         Street Hoops (PS2)

·         Beach Spikers (GameCube)

·         Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX 2 (PS2)

·         Midnight Club: Street Racing (PS2)

·         Smuggler’s Run (GameCube)

·         Run Like Hell (PS2)

·         Animal Crossing (GameCube)

·         Super Monkey Ball 2 (GameCube)

·         Spyro (Game Boy Advance)

·         Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (Game Boy Advance)

·         Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)

·         Commandos 2 (PS2, Xbox)

·         Prisoner of War (Xbox)

·         Dead to Rights (Xbox)

·         Enclave (Xbox)

·         Armored Core 3 (PS2)

·         Star Fox Adventures (GameCube)

Final Word

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