Game Informer Issue 150

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: A Sign of the Times (Andy McNamara discusses the announced launch prices for the XBOX 360)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• XBOX 360 Pricing Set (Microsoft announces the prices and contents to the two SKUs for the XBOX 360)
• Gun Gets Its Man! (Voice actors announced for Neversoft’s western shooter)
• Hand to Hand Combat (Article that looks at the DS/PSP handheld war)
• The Architect of Doom (Interview with John Carmack)
• Challenging the Video Game Violence Connection (Article that looks the evidence that confirms and refutes the connection between violence and video games)
• Interview: Dave Jaffe (Interview with the creative director at Sony Santa Monica Studios)
• Classic GI (History of Unlockable Games)
  

Cover Story: Crackdown (360)(Extensive look at the new open-world game from Real Time Worlds that hopes to bring something new to the open-world genre)

Prey (360, PC)(Having been first imagined in 1995 and spending years in development hell, Human Head Studios looks to finally release the gravity-defying, portal hopping first person shooter)

Previews:

• Call of Duty 2 (360, PC)
• The Warriors (PS2)
• Project Gotham Racing 3 (360)
• Suikoden Tactics (PS2)
• Condemned: Criminal Origins (360, PC)
• Resident Evil 4 (PS2)
• Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
• Grandia III (PS2)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2)
• Driver: Parallel Lines (PS2, XBOX)
• Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler’s Green (XBOX, PC)
• Wild Arms 4 (PS2)
• Without Warning (PS2, XBOX)
• Shining Force Neo (PS2)
• Lunar: Dragon Song (DS)
• Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS)
• Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble (GC, PSP)
• Aeon Flux (PS2, XBOX)
• X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse (PS2, XBOX, GC)
  

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Burnout Revenge (PS2, XBOX)
• NASCAR 06: Total Team Control (PS2, XBOX)
• Spartan: Total Warrior (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (PS2, XBOX)
• The Suffering: Ties That Bind (PS2, XBOX)
• Indigo Prophecy (PS2, XBOX, PC)
• Heroes of the Pacific (PS2, XBOX)
• Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Evil Dead Regeneration (PS2, XBOX)
• Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (PS2, XBOX)
  

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• Shadow of the Colossus
• Radiata Stories
• We Love Katamari
• S.L.A.I.
• Genji: Dawn of the Samurai
  

Gamecube Reviews:

• Battalion Wars
• Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life
• WWE Day of Reckoning 2
  

XBOX Reviews:

• Ninja Gaiden Black
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike
• Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes
  

PC Reviews:

• Dungeon Siege II
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault
• Myst V: End of Ages
• Fable: The Lost Chapters
• The Sims 2: Nightlife
  

PSP Reviews:

• Gripshift
• PoPoLoCrois
• Frantix
• MediEvil Resurrection
  

Nintendo DS Reviews:

• Lost In Blue
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife
  

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• 187 Ride or Die (PS2, XBOX)
• Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck Me Harder! (PS2, XBOX)
• Midway Arcade Treasures 3 (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Tak: The Great Juju Challenge (PS2, XBOX)
• FIFA Soccer 06 (PS2, XBOX, GC)
• Urban Reign (PS2)
• Legend of Kay (PS2)
• Dynasty Warriors 5 (XBOX)
• Tecmo Classic Arcade (XBOX)
• Rebelstar Tactical Command (GBA)
• Burnout Legends (PSP)
  

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• Genji: Dawn of the Samurai (PS2)
• Shark Tale (PS2)
• Ys: The Ark of Napishtim (PS2)
• Archer Maclean’s Mercury (PSP)
• NCAA 06 Football (PS2, XBOX)
• Heroes of the Pacific (PS2, XBOX, PC)
• Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (PS2, XBOX)
  

Retro Reviews:

• Wetrix (N64)
• Nightmare Creatures (PS)
• Typing of the Dead (DC)