Game Informer Issue 206

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: In Defense of the Game Manual (Andy McNamara discusses the need of paper manuals in games)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• The Evolution of Success (Article that looks at how sequels have fared this generation)
• Hold The Line (Step-by-step guide on how to save all party members at the end of Mass Effect 2)
• Afterwords: Splinter Cell: Conviction (Questions answered by creative director Maxime Beland)
• Top Ten: Annoying Enemies
• Lone Star Gaming (Overview on the developers who call Austin, Texas home)
• Impulse (A look at downloadable titles Limbo, Puzzle Quest 2 and Rush’N Attack: Ex-Patriot)
• All Ages (Jeff Cork discusses the unnecessary need of the gaming community to try and convert other to the hobby)
• The (Pixel) Art of Scott Pilgrim (Interview with Paul Roberson, who oversaw the pixel art for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World)
• Massive (A look at the next MMO from Square Enix, Final Fantasy XIV)
• Game Regulation Across the Pacific (A look at efforts in Australia to get an R18+ rating)
• Gamer (Spotlight on Rikki Evans, the first player to reach level 50 in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 without boosting)
• West & Zampella Star Respawn Entertainment (Former heads of Infinity Ward found new studio)
• Interview: Michael Gallagher (Interview with the president of the Entertainment Software Association)
• Classic GI (A look back at the year 1998)

Cover Story: Gears of War 3 (360)(It has been a long, hard fought battle and humanity is now on the brinks of complete annihilation. Epic Games now takes players through the last act of Marcus Fenix’s story as he and the remaining CoG soldiers struggle to survive as a new threat arises against both them and the Locust)

LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)(Having created an icon with their Sackboy character and giving players unprecedented freedom to create, Media Molecule now looks to up the ante with their follow-up to their commercial hit LittleBigPlanet)

Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (PS3, 360)(Having been dormant for years, but still retaining huge popularity in the community, Marvel and Capcom team up once again to pit their champions against one another with both new and retuning characters)

Fallout: New Vegas (PS3, 360, PC)(Although responsible for bringing the Fallout franchise back to life with Fallout 3, Bethesda has decided not to push out an new game yet, instead giving the opportunity to Obsidian Entertainment to craft their own and give players the chance to explore Sin City in the wake of the nuclear apocalypse)

Previews:

• Halo: Reach (360)
• Shaun White Skateboarding (PS3, 360, PC)
• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (PS3, 360)
• Crysis 2 (PS3, 360, PC)
• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (PC)
• Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (PS3, 360, PC)
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (PC)
• Green Day: Rock Band (PS3, 360, Wii)
• Conduit 2 (Wii)
• Madden NFL 11 (PS3, 360)
• NCAA Football 11 (PS3, 360)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 (PS3, 360, Wii)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Red Dead Redemption (PS3, 360)
• Lost Planet 2 (PS3, 360)
• Split Second (PS3, 360)
• Skate 3 (PS3, 360)
• Iron Man 2 (PS3, 360)

PlayStation 3 Review:

• ModNation Racers

XBOX 360 Review:

• Alan Wake

Wii Reviews:

• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Monster Hunter Tri
• Trauma Team

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Final Fight: Double Impact (PS3, 360)
• Dead to Rights: Retribution (PS3, 360)
• Attack of the Movies 3D (360, Wii)
• Dead or Alive: Paradise (PSP)
• Pirates Plundarrr (Wii)