Game Informer Issue 166

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Confusion (Andy McNamara discusses the cloudy future of the new consoles and the games being developed for them)
  
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
  
• Interview: Jack Tretton (Interview with the president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America)
  
• Sega Captures Alien (Sega signs deal to publish two games based on the Alien franchise, one from Gearbox and another from Obsidian)
  
• Top Ten: XBOX 360 Achievements
  
• Next Gen Design Scorecard (GI rates the designs of the three next-gen consoles)
  
• Pete Wanat’s School of Licensed Games (Advice from the producer responsible for such hits as The Thing and The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay on how to do licensed games right)
  
• The System Launch Breakdown (Article on the NPD figures for the holiday season)
  
• The Rebuilding Years (A look at the decline in quality of EA’s sports games)
  
• Gamer on the Street (GI interviews gamers to find their reactions to the PS3 and Wii launch)
  
• Interview: Gabe Newell (Interview with the founder and managing director of Valve Software)
  
• Classic GI (Top 10 Dreamcast games)
  

Cover Story: Blue Dragon (360)(As part of Microsoft’s push to expand its appeal in Japan, it will publish new rpg collaboration between famous manga artist Akira Toriyama, the creator of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi and the fames composer for Final Fantasy, Nobuo Uematsu)

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (360, PC)(After the closing of founding studio Westwood Studios, the Los Angeles team of EA is set to bring the legendary RTS series back in a big way and which will also land on the XBOX 360)

Previews:

• Halo 3 (360)
  
• Lair (PS3)
  
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles (360, PC)
  
• Frontlines: Fuel of War (360, PC)
  
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
  
• BlackSite: Area 51 (PS3)
  
• Hour of Victory (360)
  
• Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3, 360)
  
• TMNT (360, Wii, PS2, GC, PC)
  
• MotorStorm (PS3)
  
• Shining Force EXA (PS2)
  
• The Darkness (PS3, 360)
  
• Eternal Sonata (360)
  
• Supreme Commander (PC)
  
• 300: March to Glory (PSP)
  
• SSX Blur (Wii)
  
• No More Heroes (Wii)
  
• The Sims (Wii)
  

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Eragon (360, PS2, XBOX)
  
• Ant Bully (Wii, PS2, GC, PC)
  

PlayStation 3 Review:

• Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
  

PlayStation 2 Review:

• Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia
  

Nintendo Wii Review:

• Super Swing Golf
  

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
  
• NCAA 07 March Madness
  
• College Hoops 2K7
  

PC Reviews:

• The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II – The Rise of the Witch-King
  
• Heroes of Annihilated Empires
  
• Gothic 3
  
• Heroes of Might & Magic V: Hammers of Fate
  

PSP Reviews:

• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
  
• Star Wars: Lethal Alliance
  

Game Boy Advance Review:

• Yggdra Union
  

Nintendo DS Review:

• Kirby Squeak Squad
  

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• NFL Street 3 (PS2)
  
• The Sopranos: Road to Respect (PS2)
  
• Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (Wii)
  
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (Wii)
  
• Konductra (DS)
  
• Brain Boost: Beta Wave/Gamma Wave (DS)
  
• Warhammer: Battle For Atluma (PSP)
  
• Mortal Kombat: Unchained (PSP)
  
• Sonic Rivals (PSP)
  

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• Rainbow Six: Vegas (360)
  
• Guitar Hero II (PS2)
  
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (PS3, 360, Wii, PS2, XBOX, PSP)
  
• Superman Returns (360)
  

Retro Reviews:

• Ape Escape (PS)
  
• Rayman (PS)
  
• Quiz & Dragons (Arcade)