PC Games Volume 5 Number 4

Departments: 

• Editor's Note (Letter from the editor)
• PCGAMES.EXE (What's on that CD-ROM this month)
• Games.net (PC Games is now part of the Games.net family!)
• Incoming! (Reader letters)
• Gamewire:
  - Slippery Shooters: Why some FPS titles keep slipping release dates.
• Bookmark This! (Websites the editors like)
• The Player: To Be A Game Reviewer, Part II (Reader-submitted reviews, critiqued by Steve Klett)
• The Opponent: People Are Strange (The gaming community's obsession with nude codes and other assorted perversions)
• Face-Off (What Good Are Bad-Guy Games?)
• End Game (Level packs, add-ons, bundles, and other stuff for your favorite software which might be worth your time)

Features: 

• Check Six, Nine, Twelve... (The PC Games staff dishes out enough flight sim tips to take you straight to the Danger Zone)
• TA: Core Contingency (George T. Chronis takes a look at the newest expansion for Total Annihilation with a little help from developer Cavedog Studios)
• Easter Eggs (Shane Mooney reveals the gags hidden in your favorite games)
• Weasel's Watch (Erase Yourself in Quake II with the Eraser bot AI upgrade)
• PC Games "Greatest Games of All Time" Contestl

Reviews: (Game title (letter grade A - F))

• Worms 2 (A)
• Grand Theft Auto (C+)
• Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith (B)
• Nightmare Creatures (B+)
• X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse (B-)
• Croc (B-)
• Pandemonium 2 (B-)
• Frogger (B+)
• Tanarus (B+)
• Descent to Undermountain (C-)
• Front Page Sports: Ski Racing (B-)
• Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons (A-)
• Civ II: Fantastic Worlds (B+)
• Caesar's Palace (C)
• Hades' Challenge (B+)
• Microshaft Winblows 98 (B)
• Pictionary (C+)
• SCUD: Industrial Evolution (C-)
• Jet Moto (C)

Strategy & Tactics: The first section you turned to, you cheating wanker!

• Excalibur 2555 A.D.
• F-22 Raptor
• FIFA '98
• Diablo: Hellfire
• Nightmare Creatures
• Pandemonium 2
• SCUD: Industrial Evolution
• Test Drive 4
• Grand Theft Auto
• JSF: Joint Strike Fighter

Technobabble: 

• The K6 Alternative (Is AMD's competing CPU worth considering?)
• S.O.S. (Hardware/Software troubleshooting)
• Hardware Reviews:
  - SyQuest SparQ 1GB storage drive
  - Number Nine Revolution 3D card
  - Techmedia 3DZoneMaster controller
  - InterAct Cyclone 3D joystick
  - InterAct 3D Program Pad controller
  - Mediatrix Audiotrix 3D-XG sound card

Ads: 

• Unreal
• Dune 2000
• Flesh Feast
• 3Dfx Vooooo 2 video cards
• Gunmetal
• Age of Empires
• Deathtrap Dungeon
• Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies
• Diamond Monster 3D II video card
• HappyPuppy.com website
• Star Wars: Rebellion
• Myth: The Fallen Lords
• Sanitarium
• Hard Ball 6
• Lords of Magic
• Descent: Freespace
• Terra Victus
• Creative Labs Blaster Voodoo 2 sound/video card
• M1 Tank Platoon II
• Mindspring internet service provider
• Armor Command
• Army Men
• Burnout Championship Drag Racing
• Falcon Mach V PCs
• Air Warrior II
• Liberation Day
• Aliens Online
• Forsaken
• Battlezone
• ATI XpertPlay video cards
• Semper Fi
• Extreme Tactics
• MPlayer online network
• NRI Schools Computer Learning Center
• PC Games subscription ad
• US Navy enlistment ad
• Dominion
• Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo video card

Notable Stuff: 

• PC-themed magazines seem to have the worst ads-to-content ratios outside of the fashion industry. This one is no exception. I get that advertising pays the bills around the office, but come on!
• The ad for Forsaken is a racier version of the one which ran in console magazines of the time.
• According to "Bookmark This!", there once was a Diablo II fan-site run by a fellow using the handle 'Poop'. Today, it no longer exists. Part of me is fine with this.
• PC Games helpfully provides the Quake II Eraser bot install on their CD-ROM. Easiest way to commit digital suicide yet!