Game Informer Issue 177

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: What A Year It Was (Andy McNamara discusses how developers in 2007 produced so many high-quality games)
  
• Dear GI (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
  
• Manhunt 2 Mod Furor (Outrage emerged after hackers uncover AO footage in Manhunt 2)
  
• Down For the Count (EA closes down EA Chicago, responsible for the Fight Night series)
  
• id Forms Mobile/Handheld Division (Interview with John Carmack about id's new division)
  
• Wrecking Havok (Article that looks at the history of the Havok physics engine)
  
• Gamers (Spotlight on David Walsh, member of team Final Boss, who won Major League Gaming's national title for Halo 2 in 2004, 2005 and 2007)
  
• XBOX live is Five (Microsoft announces several original-XBOX games to be available for download)
  
• Building Up To Something (A look at LEGO and its growing place in the video game business)
  
• Mobile Home (Interview with Martin Dunsby, president of Vollee that aims to bring console and PC games to mobile phones)
  
• The Art of Star Trek Online (Interview with Greg Fallace, art director, and Ryan Dening, lead concept artist, about the art of Star Trek Online)
  
• Interview: Yannis Mallat (Interview with the CEO of Ubisoft Montreal)
  
• Classic GI (Interview with Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of Space Invaders)
  

The Top 50 Games of 2007: (Game Informer's picks for the 50 best games to come out in 2007)

• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)
  
• Rogue Galaxy (PS2)
  
• Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (PSP)
  
• Crackdown (360)
  
• Supreme Commander (PC)
  
• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (PS3, 360, PC0
  
• God of War II (PS2)
  
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (360, Wii, PS2, PC, DS, PSP)
  
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• Super Paper Mario (Wii)
  
• The Lord of the Rings Online:; Shadows on Angmar (PC)
  
• Odin Sphere (PS2)
  
• Forza Motorsports 2 (360)
  
• Tomb Raider Anniversary (360, Wii, PS2, PSP)
  
• Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (PC)
  
• The Darkness (PS3, 360)
  
• Picross DS (DS)
  
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (PS2)
  
• BioShock (360, PC)
  
• Blue Dragon (360)
  
• Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms (PC)
  
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
  
• Stuntman: ignition (PS3, 360, PS2)
  
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• NHL 08 (PS3, 360)
  
• Heavenly Sword (360)
  
• World in Conflict (PC)
  
• Skate (PS3, 360)
  
• Halo 3 (360)
  
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC)
  
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
  
• Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP)
  
• Project Gotham Racing 4 (360)
  
• Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (PC)
  
• The Orange Box (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (360)
  
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations (DS)
  
• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS3, 360, Wii, PS2)
  
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
  
• Hellgate: London (PC)
  
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• Assassin's Creed (PS3, 360)
  
• Contra 4 (DS)
  
• Crysis (PC)
  
• Geometry Wars Galaxies (Wii)
  
• Super Mario galaxy (Wii)
  
• Mass Effect (360)
  
• Rock Band (Ps3, 360)
  
• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
  
• Unreal Tournament 3 (PC)
  

Cover Story: Tiberium (PS3, 360, PC)(Extensive first-look at Ea's new first-person shooter set in the universe of famous real-time strategy series Command & Conquer)

Previews:

• Frontlines: Fuel of War (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• The Last Remnant (PS3, 360)
  
• EndWar (PS3, 360)
  
• No More Heroes (Wii)
  
• Turok (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• Burnout Paradise (PS3, 360)
  
• Legendary: The Box (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom (360, PC)
  
• Lost (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3)
  
• Iron Man (PS3, 360)
  
• Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
  
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)
  

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Rock Band (PS3, 360)
  
• Beowulf (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3, 360)
  
• MX vs. ATV Unleashed (PS3, 360)
  

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• F.E.A.R. Files
  
• Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action
  

PlayStation 3 Review:

• Time Crisis 4
  

Nintendo Wii Reviews:

• Super Mario Galaxy
  
• Smarty Pants
  
• Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
  
• Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
  
• Soulcalibur Legends
  
• Ghost Squad
  
• Battalion Wars 2
  

PC Reviews:

• Crysis
  
• SimCity Societies
  
• Gears of War
  
• Empire Earth III
  
• Universe at War: Earth Assault
  
• Hellgate: London
  
• Tabula Rasa
  
• Fury
  

Nintendo DS Reviews:

• Contra 4
  
• LifeSigns: Surgical Unit
  

PSP Review:

• Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command
  

Quickie Reviews (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• Viva Pinata: Party Animals (360)
  
• Bee Movie Game (360)
  
• Endless Ocean (Wii)
  
• Trauma Center: New Blood (Wii)
  
• Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (Wii)
  
• Dancing with the Stars (Wii)
  
• Jenga (Wii)
  
• Master of Illusion (DS)
  
• Nanostray 2 (DS)
  
• Orcs & Elves (DS)
  

Secret Access (Cheat Codes and Strategies):

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, 360, PC)
  
• NBA 2K5 (PS3, 360, PS2)
  
• Medal of Honor Airborne (360)
  
• Thrillville: Off the Rails (360)
  
• Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
  
• The Orange Box - Portal (360)
  
• Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (PS2)
  

Retro Reviews:

• Road Rash (3DO)
  
• Doomsday Warrior (SNES)
  
• Final Fight CD (Sega CD)