Game Informer Issue 132

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Old School (Andy McNamara discusses his love for the old-school classics)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Halo 2 Shooting To Kill (Bungie announces it will ship in 2004 and provides first screenshots of multiplayer)
• New Mortal Kombat Causes Fatalities (Midway divulges some new details on the next Mortal Kombat game)
• Uru Live Dropped (Online features of Uru: Ages Beyond Mist to be dropped)
• GoldenEye Sequel Surfaces (EA to develop and publish sequel to classic FPS GoldenEye)
• Criterion Covert Ops (Developer of Burnout to develop new convert counter-terrorism game titled Black)
• 9 Out of 10 Dentists Recommend The Jaguar (Unsold Atari jaguar consoles converted into dental cameras by Imagin Systems Corporation)
• New Free Radical Shooter In Sight (Free Radical to develop new shooter called Second Sight)
• Classic GI (A look at the efforts to revive the adventure genre)

Cover Story: Jak 3 and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (PS2)(Double cover feature that looks at two sequels to beloved PlayStation franchises Jak and Ratchet & Clank, both of which are the third entry in their respective series)

Game Infacer (GI’s annual April Fools parody feature with fake news and reviews)

Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity (PS2, XBOX)(A look at the next entry in the Crash Bandicoot franchise, this time being places into the hands of Traveller’s Tale)

Previews:

• God of War (PS2)
• MechAssault 2 (XBOX)
• Shadow of Rome (PS2)
• World of Warcraft (PC)
• Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (PS2)
• Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
• Thief: Deadly Shadows (XBOX, PC)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)
• Mercenaries (PS2, XBOX)
• Killzone (PS2)
• Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Monster Hunter (PS2)
• Hot Shots Golf Fore! (PS2)
• Burnout 3 (PS2, XBOX)
• La Pucelle: Tactics (PS2)
• Tribes: Vengeance (PC)
• Mega Man X: Command Mission (PS2, GC)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Fight Night 2004 (PS2, XBOX)
• MTX: Mototrax (PS2, XBOX)
• The Suffering (PS2, XBOX)
• Pitfall Harry (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• All-Star Baseball 2005 (PS2, XBOX)
• ESPN Major League Baseball (PS2, XBOX)
• MVP Baseball 2004 (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Alias (PS2, XBOX)

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• MLB 2005
• Rainbow Six 3
• Naval Ops: Commander
• Crimson Sea 2

Gamecube Reviews:

• Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
• WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games
• Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution
• Custom Robo

XBOX Reviews:

• Ninja Gaiden
• Breakdown
• Unreal II: The Awakening
• Tenchu: Return From Darkness
• Colin McRae Rally 4

PC Reviews:

• Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
• Syberia II
• Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc

Game Boy Advance Review:

• Pitfall: The Lost Expedition

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Auto Modellista (XBOX)
• Star Trek: Shattered Universe (XBOX)
• Dead Man’s Hand (XBOX)
• A Sound Of Thunder (GBA)
• Sonic Battle (GBA)
• Ice Nine (GBA)

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Blowout (PS2, XBOX)
• MVP Baseball 2004 (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Gladius (PS2, GC)
• Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II (PS2, XBOX)
• I-Ninja (PS2, GC)
• R-Type Final (PS2)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (PS2)
• Nightshade (PS2)

Retro Reviews:

• Skeleton Warriors (PS)
• Super Castlevania IV (SNES)
• Heavy Metal: Geomatrix (DC)
• The Death and Return of Superman (SNES)