Game Informer Issue 210

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Features:

 

• Letter From the Editor: Some Games Should Never Die (Andy McNamara discusses the need to update the old classics so that gamers even today will be able to play them)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Enemy of the State (Article on the Supreme Courts hearings on legislating the sale of video games to minors)
• Gamescom 2010 (GI’s report on the news and announcements from Germany’s annual convention)
• Excelsior! (Interview with comic book legend Stan Lee)
• Mass Effect 2 Coming to PS3 (BioWare announces that Mass Effect sequel will no longer be XBOX 360 exclusive)
• The Tech Test (Survey that looks at the current opinions of gaming tech)
• Building The Perfect Controller (GI’s pick for the features needed to make the perfect controller)
• The Verdict on Move (Review for Sony’s new motion controller and a look at the five of the launch titles)
• Afterwords: Madden NFL 11 (Questions answered by creative director Ian Cummings)
• Massive (A look at the current status of City of Heroes, first released in 2004)
• Top Ten: Games Within Games
• Impulse (A look at downloadable titles Costume Quest, Retro City Rampage, Rock of Ages and Red Faction Battlegrounds)
• Interview: Christophe Balestra and Evan Wells (Interview with the co-presidents of Naughty Dog)

Cover Story: BioShock Infinite (PS3, 360, PC)(Having crafted one of the greatest titles of the generation, Ken Levine and his team at Irrational now attempt to do the same again, taking player out of the underwater city of Rapture and throwing them into the turmoil of Columbia, a city that soar high above the clouds)

Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3, 360, PC)(With Call of Duty becoming an annual franchise, in now falls onto Treyarch to maintain the momentum established by Infinity Ward with their move to the modern era)

Put The Controller Down (Feature that looks at Microsoft’s upcoming motion control peripheral and it’s potential capabilities)

Previews:

• Fallout: New Vegas (PS3, 360, PC)
• Dead Space 2 (PS3, 360)
• Rock Band 3 (PS3, 360)
• Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One (PS3)
• Warhammer 40,0000: Space Marine (PS3, 360, PC)
• Crysis 2 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom (PS3, 360)
• Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)
• Diablo III (PC)
• Ace Combat Assault Horizon (PS3, 360)
• The Sims Medieval (PC, Mac)
• The Last Story (Wii)
• Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (DS)
• Def Jam Rapstar (PS3, 360)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• NHL 11 (PS3, 360)
• Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (PS3, 360)
• Mafia II (PS3, 360, PC)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (PS3, 360)
• Shank (PS3, 360)
• Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (PS3, 360)
• Front Mission Evolved (PS3, 360, PC)
• Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley (PS3, 360)

XBOX 360 Review:

• Halo: Reach

Wii Reviews:

• Metroid: Other M
• Batman: The Brave And The Bold

PC Review:

• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

PSP Review:

• Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• R.U.S.E. (PS3, 360, PC)
• Dead Rising: Case Zero (360)
• Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs (DS)
• HAWX 2 (PS3, 360)
• NHL 2K11 (Wii)
• NHL Slapshot (Wii)