GamesTM Issue 106

[prinnysquad]

Cover is double - Darkness II on the 'front', Homefront on the 'back'

Reviews
Dead Space 2 - 360/PS3/PC - 10
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - DS - 7
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - PC - 9
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together - PSP - 8
Raskulls - 360 - 6
Mindjack - 360/PS3 - 4
Lord of Arcana - PSP - 7
Killzone 3 - PS3 - 7
Beat Sketcher - PS3 - 7
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - DS - 8
Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! - PSP - 8
Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Force - 360 - 7
Hard Corps: Uprising - 360/PS3 - 8
Edna and Harvey: The Breakout - PC - 6
Mario Sports Mix - Wii - 7
Back to the Future: It's About Time - Mac/PC/ipad/PS3 - 7
Rush'n Attack: Ex-Patriot - 360/PS3 - 4
Deathsmiles - 360 - 8

Previews
Portal 2
Homefront
Silent Hill: Downpour
Disgaea 4
Uncharted 3
Retro City Rampage
and others.

Features
- The Darkness II
- A Winner Is Them - article on the most influential and important people in the industry.
- Deadly Intent - Interview with Hidetaka Suehiro, creator of Deadly Premonition.
- Borked Britain - A look at the faltering UK games industry.
- Ninja Theory - A chat with Team Ninja about the future.
- The Novel Game - A feature on/chats with videogame novel authors.

Retro
- Behind the Scenes - The Gabriel Knight Trilogy
- Collector's Corner - Dungeons and Dragons Collection
- Year in Review - 1976
- 8-Bit Poetry - A look at the developer creativity.

[Junko]

Sony's great golden calf Killzone 3 - a 7 OOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFF

[Family Fry]

I am SO buying this issue for this.
Behind the Scenes - The Gabriel Knight Trilogy.
A 10 for Dead Space 2 is a bit faptastic
Also 6 for Edna and Harvey: The Breakout will have a gander when I pick up the mag.

[MisterBubbles]

Sony's great golden calf Killzone 3 - a 7 OOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFF

Yes the name dont start with a H or a C plus its a PS3 game, enough said.

[cavalcade]

Yes the name dont start with a H or a C plus its a PS3 game, enough said.

Or it's worth a 7. Apart from dedicated PS3 magazines, every preview I've read has been very lukewarm.

[MisterBubbles]

Plus take ( all ) reviews with a pinch of salt, im the best reviewer of games.

[Sketcz]

Interview with Hidetaka Suehiro, creator of Deadly Premonition.

Excellent!

[BaronSqwelch]

10 for Dead Space 2? Was there a disk 3 I missed?

[Neon Ignition]

I wanna read this just for the previews, though I agree, a 10 for Dead Space 2 is too high

[fuse]

Another good review for Hard Corps, exciting stuff - really cannot wait for that. Good to see Death Smiles get a good score too! They gave 999 the same score as I did on the site, but I think we may disagree on Virtual On Force

Will probably buy this for the SWERY interview.

[rmoxon]

I said in the first play thread that I would have given Dead space 2 a 10 if it wasnt for the final chapter.

Maybe they didnt play the end of it....

[Neon Ignition]

Wouldn't surprise me, it was either them or Edge that last year mentioned the conditions imposed on them when it comes to reviewing sometimes where they're all bunched in a room for 5 hours and that's their lot

[rmoxon]

Wouldn't surprise me, it was either them or Edge that last year mentioned the conditions imposed on them when it comes to reviewing sometimes where they're all bunched in a room for 5 hours and that's their lot

Thinking about it that does explain some of the weird scores from both magazines over recent times, for example they only gave Darksiders a 6, that took about 5 hours to actualy get going.

Its still quite ridculous if true though

[EvilBoris]

or not, it's only the odd high profile title like the Halo and COD games that get reviewed that way. Ones with silly embargos

[Daragon]

Sounds like Russian....sorry, rush n' attack is a bit of a damp squib.

Hardly surprising.