Official U.S. Playstation Magazine Issue 53

Editorial

Contents

Demo Disc: Playable demos of:  Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Dynasty Warriors 3, Final Fantasy X, Half-Life, Okage: Shadow King, SSX Tricky, & Thunderstrike: Operation Phoenix.

Videos of Batman: Vengeance, Grandia 2, Jade Cocoon 2, Splashdown, & Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3.

Input: (Letters)

Spin: Sony delays launch of PS2 online, Lord of the Rings movies games coming, Square leaving the movie business after Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within bombs, Home Theater for any budget, Metal Gear Solid 2, State of Emergency, Army Men: RTS, Sports for non-sports gamers, PlayStation Aptitude Test, False Starts, Forgotten Gems, Britney’s Dance Beat, Rez-olute (feature on Sega video game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi), Gossip Gossip, PlayStation Year 4, Sound Station (music reviews), Bookmarks (various websites), DVD News/reviews, Hollywood Banter, Top 10 Charts

Previews:

·         Final Fantasy XI

·         Blade II

·         X-Men: Next Dimension

·         Spider-Man (released as Spider-Man: The Movie)

·         EOE: Eve of Extinction

·         ESPN Winter X Games: Snocross (released as ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding 2002)

·         Star Wars: Racer Revenge

·         Dropship (released as Dropship: United Peace Force)

·         Salt Lake 2002

·         Freekstyle

·         Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction

·         Timesplitters 2

·         Pac-Man Fever

·         ESPN International Winter Sports 2002

·         Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter

·         Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002

·         Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII

·         Soul Calibur 2

·         UFC: Throwdown

·         Woody Woodpecker: Escape from Buzz Buzzard Park

·         Tekken 4

PS1 Previews:

·         Dragon Warrior IV (Japan only release as Dragon Quest IV)

Behind the Fantasy: Feature on Final Fantasy X

Reviews:

·         Final Fantasy X

·         Airblade

·         Draken: The Ancients’ Gates

·         ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding 2002

·         Forever Kingdom

·         Frogger: The Great Quest

·         Gitaroo-Man

·         Grandia II

·         Jade Cocoon 2

·         Jeremy McGrath Supercross World

·         Legends of Wrestling

·         MotoGP2

·         Namco Museum

·         NCAA March Madness 2002

·         Max Payne

·         NFL GameDay 2002

·         PaRappa the Rapper 2

·         NBA 2K2

·         Paris-Dakar Rally

·         Rez

·         Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

·         Tsugunai: Atonement

·         Wave Rally

·         Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land

·         World Tour Soccer 2002

·         Atari Anniversary Edition Redux (PlayStation)

·         Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth (PlayStation)

·         Mega Man X6 (PlayStation)

·         IHRA Drag Racing (PlayStation)

·         NBA Live 2002 (PlayStation)

·         Putter Golf (PlayStation)

·         Tennis (PlayStation)

·         Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PlayStation)

Top Secrets (Tricks & Strategies):

·         NHL Hitz 20-02

·         Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3

·         Grand Theft Auto III

·         Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

·         NBA Live 2002

·         Madden NFL 2002

·         Ace Combat 04

·         Devil May Cry

·         Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance

·         Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex

·         SSX Tricky

·         Soul Reaver 2

·         Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder

·         Shadow Hearts

·         Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (PlayStation)

·         Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PlayStation)

·         Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (PlayStation)

·         Syphon Filter 3 (PlayStation)

·         Madden NFL 2002 (PlayStation)

·         Driver 2 (PlayStation)

·         NBA Live 2002 (PlayStation)

·         Dragon Warrior VII (PlayStation)

·         Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation)

PS: Fun with URLs, Guilty Pleasures (Stuff we love to do in games – though we probably shouldn’t)  

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