Game Informer Issue 167

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Why Isn’t There Anything I Like? (Andy McNamara discusses the unreliability of video game peripherals)
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• A Continuing Controversy (Article on the lasting effects of the Columbine massacre in the wake of the dropping of Super Columbine Massacre RPG from the Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Contest)
• The 360 in the Living Room (Microsoft announces new features for their console)
• Top Ten: Most Wanted Songs in Guitar Hero III
• Year of the Gamecock (Feature on new publisher, includes overview on announced games)
• Shrouded in Sadness (A look at new survival horror game for the Wii)
• Interview: Alex Rigopulos (Interview with the president and CEO of Harmonix)
• Classic GI (History of Rareware)

Cover Story: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3, 360)(Extensive look at LucasArts’ new Star Wars title, which will give players control over the Force in ways that have never been done before and which will explore the events between Episodes III and IV)

Conan (PS3, 360)(A look at THQ’s new title based upon the popular Conan the Barbarian franchise that looks to bring the bloody world to life by taking a cue from Sony’s popular God of War series)

Previews:

• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (360)
• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (PS3, 360, PC)
• God of War II (PS2)
• Frontlines: Fuel of War (PS3, 360, PC)
• Heavenly Sword (PS3)
• Guitar Hero II (360)
• Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (PSP)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (PC)
• Rainbow Six Vegas: Player’s Pack (360)
• Dawn of Mana (PS2)
• Virtua Tennis (PS3, 360)
• Formula One Championship Edition (PS3)
• Harker (PS3, 360)
• Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia (360)
• Turok (PS3, 360)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Def Jam: Icon (PS3, 360)
• Major League Baseball 2K7 (PS3, 360)
• NBA Street Homecourt (PS3, 360)
• Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 (360, PS2)
• Battlestations: Midway (360, PC)

PlayStation 3 Review:

• Virtua Fighter 5

PlayStation 2 Reviews:

• MVP 07 NCAA Baseball
• Ghost Rider

Nintendo Wii Reviews:

• WarioWare: Smooth Moves
• Far Cry Vengeance

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• Crackdown
• Bullet Witch

PC Review:

• Maelstrom

Nintendo DS Reviews:

• Diddy Kong Racing
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215

PSP Review:

• Valhalla Knights

Quickie Reviews (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Arthur and the Invisibles (PS2)
• The Shield (PS2)
• The Legend of Heroes III: Song of the Ocean (PSP)
• Monster Kingdom Jewel Summoner (PSP)

Secret Access (Cheat codes and strategy guides):

• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (360)
• Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam (Wii)
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (PS3. 360, Wii, PS2, XBOX)

Retro Reviews:

• The Simpsons Wrestling (PS)
• Spider-Man (PS)
• F-Zero (SNES)