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Computer Games Issue 139

ISSUE: 139Content

Features:

  • Sim-Ply Monumental: A look inside the phenomenon that is The Sims, including its history, and a look at its future in the form of The Sims Online. Serious hardcore gamers may hate this series, but should they? If Drew Carey loves it, can it be all bad? Read the article and find out.
  • Deflowered Virgins: We send four fresh-faced, innocent, and inexperienced gamers into the wilds of EverQuestDark Age of CamelotUltima Online, and Asheron's Call, and they all report back wiser, and more experienced than before. A touching story of player killing and leveling.
  • Afterlife: Brett Todd hasn't seen anything capable of hooking four deadbeat students for months at a stretch the way Wolfenstein 3D did to him back in the day, Gas Powered Games wants to help you build your own Dungeon Siege levels using their "Siege Editor" game tool, and fan remakes are breathing new life into some of gaming's most dearly departed classic titles.

Departments:

  • Upfront: Steve Bauman has some choice words for Congress when it comes to their attempts to restrict Fair Use by means of the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA).
  • Hardware: Jason Cross rants about games these days being too hard, answers some write-in questions from readers, then assembles "the greatest gaming PC ever made" with the help of some parts from Alienware.
  • Rebound (letters): All sorts of incoherent weirdness this issue.
  • Road to Nowhere: Cindy Yans reports on a very...bizarre...meeting with Running With Scissors head Vince Desi in the hopes of scoring a demo of the forthcoming Postal 2. Things do not go as planned.
  • Inside the Sausage Factory: Phil Steinmeyer has worked out the perfect plan to remain fully fed and hydrated at the Game Developer's Conference without paying for any of it.
  • Three Finger Salute: 'Voice activated commands' is just one of several things Tom Chick will not participate with in order to play your game.

CD-ROM: Some free wallpapers, and demos galore for:

  • Pro Race Driver
  • Freedom Force
  • Diggles: The Myth of Fenris
  • Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
  • Arx Fatalis
  • Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs
  • Space Empires IV Gold
  • Virtual-U

Newswire (industry news): The 2002 Game Developer's Conference points towards some new changes, Unreal 2 is going to be a single-player only affair, Ron Gilbert is off making his own games like Moop & Dreadly in The Treasure of Bing Bong Island, a spotlight on The All-Seeing Eye shareware, and what three members of the games industry are currently playing.

Previews:

  • Asheron's Call 2
  • Delta Green (canceled)
  • Star Trek: Starfleet Command III
  • Silent Storm
  • Aliens vs. Predator 2: Primal Hunt
  • EverQuest: The Planes of Power
  • Lineage II

Reviews:

  • Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (4.5/5; Editor's Choice)
  • Freedom Force (4.5/5; Editor's Choice)
  • Warlords Battlecry II (5/5; Editor's Choice)
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 (4/5)
  • Destroyer Command (3/5)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2/5)
  • High Heat Baseball 2003 (3.5/5)
  • Out of the Park Baseball 4 (4.5/5; Editor's Choice)
  • Car Tycoon (1/5)
  • Dungeon Siege (4.5/5; Editor's Choice)

Ads (in order of appearance):

  • O.R.B.: Off-World Resource Base
  • Neverwinter Nights
  • Warlords Battlecry II
  • Icewind Dale II
  • WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos
  • Syberia
  • Dungeon Siege
  • IGI-2: Covert Strike
  • IL-2 Sturmovik
  • Thompson Education Direct
  • GenCon 2002
  • Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
  • Legion
  • Computer Games subscription card
  • Unreal Tournament 2003
  • G.I. Combat
  • Grand Theft Auto III
  • Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
  • Carnivores: Cityscape
  • Gore
  • Asimov's Science Fiction website
  • EarthLink DSL service
  • Chips & Bits
  • Savage (released as Savage: The Battle for Newerth)
  • SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer soundcard / INSPiRE 5.1 5300 surround sound system

Notable Stuff:

  • When asked what games he's currently playing, Todd McFarland (He-Who-Created-Spawn) replied that he's "more of a comic book and sports guy." But did toss out that his kids play Nintendo from time to time. Mick Skolnick, by contrast, is preparing to shell out the cash for a PS2 so he can play Ico. The only one of the three who is actually playing a computer game is Harvey Smith of Ion Storm Austin, who is neck-deep in Baldur's Gate II.
  • Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is the top-selling PC game at time of publication.
  • The canceled Delta Green was based on a pen-and-paper expansion to the Call of Cthulhu RPG. The magazine describes it as H.P. Lovecraft crossed with X-Com.
  • The ad for Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, showing a very pissed off Kyle Katarn 'keying' a long line across a wall in the Jedi Temple always made me laugh.
  • "Sim-Ply Monumental" is a great read from a historical perspective, well worth the purchase price of the magazine at thirteen pages long. 
  • The final sticker price for Jason Cross's ultimate gaming rig? $23,017 ($33349.52 when adjusted for inflation to 2019 numbers). Yikes!!
  • I don't think I've ever seen five games receive the "Editor's Choice" award in the same magazine before.
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    Title: Computer Games Issue 139
    Month: June
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Strategy Plus Inc.
    Editor: Steve Bauman
    Pages: 102
    Price: - Unknown -
    Country: United States
    Language: English
    Votes: 0

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