Game Informer Issue 144

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: And The Video Game Roller Coaster Rides On… (Andy McNamara discusses the onslaught of high-profile games releasing in the next few months)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Generation Next (Article that analyzes the information surrounding the three next-generation consoles)
• The Brutal Ballad of Fangus (New Oddworld game announced)
• Microsoft and the Mistwalker (Microsoft signs deal for RPGs on the next XBOX)
• Interview: Robert Garriott (Interview with the president of NCSoft America)
• Classic GI (Overview of the Legend of Zelda series)

Cover Story: From Russia With Love (PS2, XBOX, GC)(Extensive look at the next Bond game from EA)

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

SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs (PS2)(A look at the next entry in Zipper Interactive’s much-beloved military action shooter series)

Previews:

• Without Warning (PS2, XBOX)
• The Godfather (XBOX 2, PS2, XBOX, PC)
• Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (PS2, XBOX)
• Sid Meier’s Civilization IV (PC)
• Jaws (PS2, XBOX, PC)
• L.A. Rush (PS2, XBOX)
• Killer 7 (PS2, GC)
• Cold Winter (PS2)
• Obscure (PS2, XBOX, PC)
• Haunting Ground (PS2)
• Advent Rising (XBOX, PC)
• Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball (GC)
• Rise & Fall: Civilizations At War (PC)
• Radiata Stories (PS2)
• Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance (PS2, XBOX)
• Casltevania: Curse of Darkness (PS2)
• Arc the Lad: End of Darkness (PS2)
• Stolen (PS2, XBOX, PC)
• FlatOut (PS2, XBOX, PC)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (XBOX, PC)
• TimeSplitters Future Perfect (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• MX vs. ATV Unleashed (PS2, XBOX)
• Project Snowblind (PS2, XBOX)
• FIFA Street (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Red Ninja: End of Honor (PS2, XBOX)
• Constantine (PS2, XBOX)

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• God of War
• Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
• Tekken 5
• Resident Evil Outbreak File #2
• Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
• Sega Classic Collection
• MLB 2006
• World Tour Soccer 2006

Gamecube Reviews:

• Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
• Star Fox Assault
• Mortal Kombat: Deception

XBOX Reviews:

• Doom 3
• Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict

PC Reviews:

• Act of War – Direct Action
• The Sims 2 University
• Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich

Nintendo DS Review:

• WarioWare Touched!

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Playboy: The Mansion (PS2, XBOX, PC)
• Super Monkey Ball Deluxe (PS2, XBOX)
• Worms: Forts Under Siege (PS2, XBOX)
• Scrapland (XBOX)
• Still Life (XBOX)
• Top Gear RPM Tuning (XBOX)
• Super Army War (GBA)
• Zoo Keeper (DS)
• X-Men Legends (N-Gage)

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath (XBOX)
• ESPN NBA 2K5 (PS2, XBOX)
• ESPN NHL 2K5 (PS2, XBOX)
• Killzone (PS2)
• The Sims: Bustin’ Out (PS2)
• Armed & Dangerous (XBOX)
• World Championship Poker (GBA)
• RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (PC)
• Devil May Cry 3 (PS2)
• Champions: Return to Arms (PS2)

Retro Reviews:

• Deadly Towers (NES)
• Vectorman (Genesis)
• Castlevania III: Dracula’s Cruse (NES)